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Page 1 SECTION A THE HERALD Ma Honesty earns patron s praise Two waitresses at a Georgetown restaurant Wendy Barb Wilkinson were praised for their honesty in returning a large sum of money left by a customer April All of Georgetown Main Street said ho realized the next day he had misplaced the cash and checked to sec if he w fa had found table and saved it In hopes the owner would claim it A new resident of Georgetown Mr was very impressed with honesty displayed by Wendy and Barb New nursing home A private development has presented the town with a proposal to build a nursing home- retirement lodge for senior citizens on Mountain view Road North it Georgetown Southrim Enterprises Ltd or Toronto Is seeking amend to Georgetown a official plan and the restricted area bylaw to construct a facility wh will Include a retirement lodge and a nursing home as well as an administration build ng The site is located on the cast side of Mountain view Road south of the Varian plant and north of the railway tracks The property Is currently zoned for Industrial use and the developers would like this changed to accommodate a retirement facility Caught in funding vise e province eleven per cent tilling on funding inmates for support service organizations like lUlton Helping lands an demand tor volunteer While senior and invalid shut In their home used to rely on support organization to hire household help celling puts a crimp on budget and volunteer arc needed for ucb window washing rag and furniture and the Installation of grab bars and wheelchair ramp Remember clients who have to go on waiting because of the cutback may lake chance do ing things around the house which tbey normally could become victim of serious accidents Please cad Glenlea reconstruction Advertisements will soon appear in The Herald announcing the town a plans to reconstruct part of Acton a Glenlea subdivision The port of the six phase reconstruction project replacingstormsewersandlmprov Ing drainage In the area begins In July on Road between Queen Street and Meadvale Road as well as the entire length of Mowbray Place The Mowbray storm sewer will be extended In addition road will be widened and resurfaced and a sidewalk Is planned for Road east side region will also be replacing some of Its sanitary sewer mains on Mowbray Place The work expected to be completed in September St Johns yard sale A homemade dinner for four Is being auctioned off SaturdayatlOam John United Church A dinner at someone home is Just one of several services and goodies up for bidding The church will also be having a yard sale bake sale and lunch Proceeds from spring fair will go for church work No vampires please The Georgetown Red Cross holds its spring blood donor clinic next Monday In the Holy Cross Church auditorium on Maple Avenue The Kinsmen Club of Georgetown originators of the service clubs Bucket of Blood com petit ion will again be challenging other clubs to donate than the Kinsmen The clinic is open from I to p Festival of Music May ThePecIChoralSociety Spring Festival of Music scheduled for May at Brampton Lester Pearson Theatre comes to the John Elliott Theatre in Georgetown May 15 at m Tickets are or S3 for seniors and students Also on the PCS Itinerary is a piano recital May at p m featuring pianist Andrew Dittgen and soprano Jane to be held at the Second Christian Reformed Church at Steele Avenue and McLaughlin Road Ticket are For tickets and Information call Sidetracked to library Georgetown Model Railroad Club brings tha clickclydQck of the old steam engines inside the Hal ton Hills Library Cultural Centre this Friday and Saturday Newly mobile club will have Its massive model railroad display set up for spectators to marvel at the intricate details of an exacting craft Trip through time The Agricultural Museum in Milton opens for its fourth season May until Oct 10 The site is an open door into Ontario a agricultural past affording a chance to stroll through restored buildings of various ages and marvel at the rustic machinery once popular on the farm Special events this year Include the annual Judging of the National Automobile Society of Canada June and tho Agricultural Hail of Fame unveiling ceremony June 13 and Ha Hon County Days July featuring a variety of live entertainment Call B7B8151 for more Information TRAVELOGUES 82 to make your holiday planning more fun May May 25 Europe Canadian West Coast HALTON HILLS SHOPPING CENTRE Refreshments Door Prizes to WELCOME Folk Ten strums up some good times The folk lea had fabulous fun last weekend as George town District High School hosted the tenth folk festival Among the to 300 people crowded into the high school a were about SO per entertaining the real w their original music and lyrics and their versions of popular folk songs 1 wrote to every school In the province Jim teacher and of the folk club I figure In any high school there enough talent around that needs a forum Young people from high Agincourt Scar borough Kitchener Burling on Drumbo West Boy and came together to lake port in the annual festival being hosted for eighth year by GDHS With the help of Mr the members of the folk club put together the Friday night and Saturday musical treats Folk popular as It used be Mr said arty and provides a creative outlet for kids While not a large selling Item can be done without piles or equipment small space music and It s got its spot he said Six Judges each with a musical background to their credit listened to the young people perform solo duet or in groups ratine them In each of these three classes In the solo class GDHS student Mike Dine came In first followed by schoolmate David Bootle Rudy of Kitchener came in third In the duet class Cheryl Hardy and Becky Bough man of won first place Thatcher and Peter Clarke Alumni of the folk club the two are now In university performing occasionally at Jack Tanner a Table In Acton Dave Mitchell of Kitchener also entertained over the weekend pleasing the crowd with songs criticizing the leal policies of the day a Merrill a recording artist who plays Ihe six and string dulcimer put on an hour long concert Friday night Playing harmony with Hie reverberator he demon his creativity in an original number Tho town performers were bllletted with par cnls much to the gratitude of Mr La it weekend marked the anniversary or high school folk festival In Ontario Held for the eighth year at Georgetown District High School people came from as far away Deep River and Ottawa take part among the duet entries were lento right second winner followed by GDIfSs David Bootle and Jill Cheryl Caldwell and Donna Nicholson of Ottawa came in third Among the groups the S group came in first The Karen Goodman group of Whitby came in second and GDHS Tempus which means time files came In third During the weekend there were guest appearances by former GDHS students and performers Edgar David and Jill or GDHS fifth winner Bowles and David Crosby or fourth prize winners Dave and Zlenchuk of Kitchener and first prise winners Cheryl Caldwell and Donna Nicholson of Ottawa Herald photo Census findings The Town of Hal too Ililli had a population of 10 at 1M1 federal was M and in Ml In Jane of last year there was a total of occupied private dwelling tor private households In the municipality In ma the figure was Strumming on the Georgetown District High School stage over the weekend was Dave of Kitchener The high school performed solo and also duet with Ilia performance came la fourth In the daet category Herald photo by With over taking part six Judges had a tough time selecting sl finalists Among the winners in the solo class were left to right first winner Mike Dine of second prise winner David Bootle of GDHS fourth wlaner Colleen Crtary of GDHS third fifth winner Marion of Drum bo and sixth price winner Lynn Veritceg of Trailer maker opens Acton plant Herald Special Although major Canadian automobile plants are cutting back and many smaller industries have failed as a result Caravan Trailer Rental Company Limited Is holding Its own well enough to set up a new plant In Acton The Canadianowned firm which also operates in the United States and leases transport type equipment It also manufactures Its own 15foot long trailers through Its subsidiary Trailer Rent Manu facturing Ltd The rm has been operating in Mlsslssauga for IS years said president Morgan When it changed Its operation It outgrew Its ooa square foot plant there and had to find a new location While the firm headquarters and service depot will remain on property It owns near Toronto Inter national Airport the original eight acres it owned was sold In December The square foot Acton plant Is only half the size of their old plant Mr Morgan said but it was designed for manufacturing and therefore has adequate space for the firms needs The company began moving Into the Commerce Court plant a couple of weeks ago and are already beginning to repair their own trailers for their rental fleet While the move may seem foolish to some in today a economy Mr Morgan is optimist enough to feel things will turn around ally and his firm will be ready then when things pick up There ore only employees in the plant but if things were running to capacity they be turning out three to four trailers daily and wing to people At times they used as many as people in their Mlsslssauga plant he They bought the plant local on from spring and auto motive parts manufacturer who went out of business earlier this year People from that firm as well as people laid off by the closing of an truck firm are beginning contact him look Mr Morgansald but they re premature Courtesy uclph Mercury WEEKLY PRIZES Provincial Tickets GRAND PRIZE Your Authoring- Dealer I FIRST LINE TELEVISION Sales Service ag St Acton little ovmo BLOOD DONOR CLINIC Open from 130 pm to 845 pm COMMUTERS COME RIGHT AFTER WORK BE A RED CROSS BLOOD DONOR at the Georgetown Kinsmen Club Clinic MONDAY MAY 10th at the HOLY CROSS CHURCH AUDITORIUM Maple Avenue Georgetown HEALTHY PERSONS 1 8 lo 65 an 1 year olds with written parental consent EACH time they donate are URGENTLY needed to give BLOOD HELP THE RED CROSS OBTAIN A SUFFICIENT SUPPL Y OF BLOOD AVOID evening waiting periods HOUSEWIVES attend the clinic In the afternoon preferably 3 to 30 p m TRANSPORTATION and BABYSITTING at the clinic available to donors II a ride Is needed phone Mrs Korean Mlehm 2697 or Mrs Flo Street On Clinic Day phone 877 JOIN THE CROWD BE A REGULAR BLOOD DONOR SERVICE CLUBS REMEMBER THE BUCKET OF BLOOD CHALLENGE AWARD PLEASE MAKE A NOTE OF CLINIC DAY MA 10TH ON YOUR CALENDARI Theres my mom and shes wearing the suit that Daddy and I got her last year for Mothers Day at teller Cage Daddy says that he likes it so much were going to get her another one this year Off Reg Prices Cage The Ladies Fashion Place in Downtown Georgetown SPRING SUITS Selected group of slack or skirt suits In spring shades Several fabrics styles SPRING 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