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-877-5213- a FOBERT Rat Eststs Inc EXCELLENCE AWARD IN CUSTOMER RELATIONS Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1982 SALES LTD cnnu THE BEST A CAPITAL DEALT Were ver disap rate sa Official plan faces GARAs challenge CHRISTMAS SHOPPING MADE EASY She made It sound easy but the gold and cast sculptures by Norgrove of Toronto were the product of a fairly Intricate and delicate process using wax plaster and a variety of sculptor tools The proprietor of GEN Original Creations displayed her work at the Arts and Crafts of Georgetown annual exhibition Saturday alongside hand painted dolls created her sister Carol ELCrilMOEMRM Black ot Norva Ms Nor grove talent was obvious enough In the sculptures on display Including numerous miniatures processed for her by of Georgetown but additional proof was Inside her portfolio where she proudly showcased Mr Ho- Thru the little talking tea bag she created for Upton television ad campaign More photos page AG Herald photo by Paul Ministers son 27 gives mayor his first challenge in four years By CUIUS Herald A dark horse candidate riding in from Acton poses the first threat to Pete a mayoralty since he claimed the town top Job from Tom Hill in 197B We should be doing more to encourage and curb In town Glen Kenxle told The Herald Monday night Hours before nominal for the Nov a election closed Monday Mr Mc papers to the town office himself a candidate for mayor Mr a Mill Street Eos I Acton real dent suggested the town might consider tax grants to attract business He said he is familiar with the plight the unemployed and maintains that the town Jobless present a problem that needs to be com baited but has largely been overlooked SAVE LAND The son of popular Andy a former real dent of Acton and a past minister of the gi en Mckenzie ty Knox Presbyterian Church Mr McKenzie said he is also concerned with the fact that Acton is surrounded by land which may be protected for the aggregate industry This will thwart Acton hopes to expand he said and questions why local councillors haven the aggregate land issue much earlier than recent official plan meet and public hearings Why haven warned the irons about It Mr asked Someone local should have known about it and it should have been PETE brought up for debate a long time ago Yes I think local government has neglected According to local us here he said And enumerators SOB Halt here is where they should on Hills residents are dig Ible to vote in the Nov the tax dollars election in the Mr he is public school system and not intimidated by Mayor affiliated with the popularity separate school system throughout town TAX We rarely see him In Residents unable to Acton he maintained attend the Nov 8 election 1 11 bet If you took a poll can vote advance polls hero many people Oct m and know what ho at Acton Trinity looks like Maybe he Church the town s clerk been in power so long he office on Trafalgar Road losing his edge and not and the Main Street working as hard as ho Georgetown municipal should offices ALL THE CANDIDATES page CZ Town grew by 918 since 1981 census Hills population has increased by over people since the 1381 census was taken The 1382 census report released to councillors Monday night shows the town population as 918 more people than recorded the previ In Georgetown there are 17 residents while Ac I on has approximately people living within its urban boundaries Sur town ship has residents The largest single age group in town are real dents between 38 and years of age 2 There are more men in Hills than women but not much more The Just to make tare they can give you professional makeup Job for Hallo we Oct M members of Globe Productions held a special workshop Saturday at Knox Church la Georgetown where local stage performer and backstage worker About it makeup Barge Ml and organ tier Audrey Houston found out bow It dene The II be at Shoppers Drug Mart the Georgetown Marketplace Oct from a to m looking for patient customer For only they 11 transform you into a frightful ghoul a comical clown or a rnilsblngly beautiful Herald photon Herald Special John McDermld says politicians should be allowed to go on trips because it makes them more informed Mr McDermid Bramp ton Georgetown MP recently returned from a Progressive Conservative Party junket sponsored by the Canadian and Taiwan Chambers of Commerce It wasn funded by the federal government but Mr on to Portugal to attend NATO meetings last May had been That NATO visit was part of the Commonwealth Parliamentary on a group that has come under fire recently along with associations that have backed official visits to such places as Lanka Bahamas Fiji Au and most of the Western European nations Sources have labelled the trips useless but Mr maintained they allow to find out about other countries The DORSE Herald editor The Georgetown Area Ratepayers Association may be among opponents expected to challenge Hal ton Hills newly approved plan when It comes up for approval before the Ontario Municipal Board We re very disappoint with the plan GARA president Brian Bush told The Herald Monday There seems to be a lotal lack of rationality and no logical process behind it As outsiders who haven t been directly involved with its preparation it seems to us the politicians and planners Just decide what they want then hire consultants come up with thedeslrcd answers Mr Bush expressed s continuing frust ration over what he called town council a total failure to respond to any present ations by the association despite promises to the contrary Most recently GARA formally presented with a detailed res ponsc to the town urban area review last April and received the assurance of planning board chairman Mike Armstrong hat Its questions and concerns would be answered There has been no response whatever Mr Bush said Since the urban area review one of the key documents used in the preparation of the new off iclal plan now in region s hands flaws which perceived in it have become part of tha official plan he added Among the errors and was the target popubti A BUSH figure of As evi by last week council meetings Mr Bush said some council members are si unsure whether thai figure the actual number of residents or an figure which lakes industry into account Mr Bush also cited the Hills master parks plan and region continuing landfill site studies as further ex of municipal mis management Clearly a lot of these studies are a waste of mo icy hi commented they jusl add our tut burden Overall and especially with the official plan it stems to us thai the special interest groups that get all the attention Maybe they re the ones who have all the money or something I dont know but after all the council is here lo serve us the taxpayers and we believe they re just not doing a good Job of it Mr Bush noted that council seems to be gear up for a considerable opposition lo its new offic ial plan hiring legal ex puts to defend its policies before the Ontario pal Board GARA he said plans to scrutinize the new plan itself and prepare some sort of response for council Its own Involve ment in the hearings seems likely he said Inflation no match for taxes GARA If never really taken an interest In muni cipal politics the George town Area Ratepayers Association believes it has some Information that will change your mind Is organizing an all candidates meeting for sometime next week and hopes to spur public Interest in the issues ing the 1332 S3 council by first circulating some fairly Incisive statistics In four years GARA president Brian Bush told The Herald Ihu week region s tax levy has increased by more than 100 per The Hilton board at ion levy has shot up per cent despite dec in ing enrollment In the he said The Hal Ion Hills levy I risen per cent for urban residents and about 48 per cent for rural ratepayers D as they are Mr Bush added the fig urcs still don show the effects of water and sewer rales which together with tax levies keep the property owner paying out money at a far greater rate than current inflation GARA is deeply con the tics and hopes mem bers will Join In its quest lomng of council and school board incumbents and candidates at next week s meeting The meeting watch The Herald for time and place will also include GARA own session and Ihe annual election of Its executive Town may offer reward for cemetery vandalism Vandalism is so bad at Acton Ccmet cry that Mayor Pete Pom wants council to can posting a reward to catch the culprits who tore down gravestones using motomed vehicles Mayor told town council Monday night that It should consider drawing the reward from the town contingency Between and gravestones were dragged down In a recent binge of vandalism at the Its almost Impossible to deal with Mayor Pomeroy said short of g a six fool chain link fence around the com Council should also con locking the gates he added limiting the access lo ihe property This is the second or third time this has happ ened the mayor sold noting that the damage Is being done by vandals driving cars or trucks This vandalism is no longer acceptable he so Id really like to catch these people and have them pay the price But Mayor Pomeroy that without cltiun participation resolving Ihe vandalism at the cem will be next to possible Acton regional Coun Dave Whiting said that the Vandalism Committee has plans open a for Acton and Georgetown census reports that 17 residents are men while women number 113 In larger divisions the bulk of the town is between the ages of and years 9 residents ore between the ages of and 19 years infants to four year olds number and 316 residents re older than 66 years MPs travels useful McDermid says town MP said after Ihe Taiwan visit he discover the government was thwarted at every turn in its bid to sell goods to Canada Mr McDermid said he was in the Asian country for a week but had only a moming and an evening free time According lo reports out of Ottawa official dele gations spent about B Hon of a million budget on trips Tor a year period ending in March 1981 Of the 408 trips recorded b the government spous es went along on 163 of them But Mr McDermid said most of the wives are rcqu red to pay Ibur fares and are not financed through La payers funds Brampton Times ACTON WOMAN WITH PERSONS AWARD Chinas Chairman Mao has written that women hold up half the sky In Halloa a women lobby group want that forgotten The Women of Halloa Action Mot em ml WHAM held a dinner rattling Monday night In in honor of Person Day On the same dale the Privy Council In London England ruled that women were legally persons before the law and entitled to the same rights and privileges as men tarlier the Court of Canada had ruled they persons and said that according to the statute books no woman or Idiot was allowed vote Celebrating the forward step for women this week were left to right Joanne Dean Acton Social Information Centre Peggy political Laura and WHAM founding Kathy Mason Mr was honored by over women In attendance a the winner of WHAM first Persons Award Tke award recognizes her contributions the statu of women and hrr efforts to establish Women Place a shelter for battered women and their children More details la Weekend I Herald photo