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Halton faces four options in dealing with housing issues Judging by the number of people who attended regional chairman Jack Housing in the Eighties workshop last Thursday many agree lhat within the regions policy making scope housing Issues have been large ly About ZOO people representing developers government and social service and consumer groups partici pated In the oneday event held in Burlingtons Holiday Inn The issues such as restrictions on new develop ment the role of the federal and provincial governments in the housing market and the need for certain types of housing to meet specific social conditions were debated in a series of three panel sessions Sum ma riling the comments made during the sessions moderator Peter Barnard a housing economist said the region has four choices In its approach to he housing Issue He told the audience that housing interest groups should consider the three Cs cooperation commitment and coordination The cooperation Mr Barnard said must exist among private developers the region and government agencies and ministries to build more and belter housing on the other hand should commit Itself financially or by coordinating programs to build up Halton a housing Inventory OPTIONS Mr the Option of doing nothing hoping that the housing problems will correct Itself under the status quo But there are three other more involved options far the region it could start research on Heltons housing problemsa housing study has already been proposed and is being reviewed by planning staff or the region could set housing objectives for itself and take a more critical look at regulations It has which are thwarting new housing development In a most active scenario Halton would plan budgets and staffing allot menu to get Involved with the housing Industry especially meeting the de mand for subsidized accommodation and housing for the physically and menially handicapped Peel regions Profit Housing Corp the audience was informed earl ier has been organizing new housing projects since 1978 working closely with the development Industry to ensure that Peels housing Inventory has something for just about every the regional administration is not insensitive to the housing needs of and anticipated that It would play a more Important role to assist our housing needs in the future Similar workshops he said may be sponsored by the region to deal with other social issues like childrens services needs and Haltons growing Housing issues of the eighties a series of articles by Chris body As an agency the region affiliated with the social services department It can take advantage of housing grants which may not be available to private sector Over ihe last five years the corporations projects have earned Peel more than million in new tax revenue and Its costs are not borne by taxpayers Mr commented as he brought the workshop to a close that elderly population Mr later told The Herald that Its likely will do a housing study within a year He said that enough regional councillors were at the workshop to make a commitment to thla first step in addressing the housing Issue One thing was made clear from the the regional administration and not the local municipalities is expected to ale any Intensive change in housing picture Hie message from the development Industry was clear at weeks bousing conference sponsored by regional chairman Jack If yea want more of these he region must be a little more flexible in helping new project get off the ground One businessman suggested hat a person within the regional administration might assist developers through the lengthy and discouraging subdivision approval process As many as different agencies are asked to comment on bousing proposals and some chose to force often difficult changes before they endorse plans I Herald photo 8775213 ERALD Home Newspaper of Hills Established 1 866 WEDNESDAY MARCH 1983 m FORD SALES LTD 8776928 Highway Georgetown Herald Stan Writer Although refusing to go to arbitration the board of education ac Monday morning an impasse in negotiations with lis elementary school teach ers Staffing for is the outstanding issue iding the two sides Teachers have been working without a con tract since September Negotiations have been especially long- winded with both sides having begun in February to settle an agree ment for the 198263 school year The board believes Its offer to I a teachers to be fair In ail respects es pecially in light of todays economy trustee and salary policy committee chairman Elaine said at a specially called press conference in ihe Burlington board offices Monday OFFER MADE Elementary teachers have been offered a nine per cent Increase retro active to September which Is the maximum allowed within the guide lines of the provincial governments inflation restraint act passed In December This offer pro vides a weighted average salary of for an elementary school teach er However salaries arent the stumbling block in the talks Staffing Is The Halton Elementary Teachers Association is looking for an additional X teachers for but the board la only willing to take on The additional 12 teachers HETA is bar gaining for would based on an average teachers salary and benefits cost the board an extra HETA president Robert said the cost for the year to the average ratepayer with a home assessed at would be ACCEPTABLE Wo consider it an acceptable figure he told reporters Monday The amount of money Im talking about Is reas onable and responsible However the board maintains it had a three- year agreement regard Ing staffing negotiated with In the Sept ember collective agreement We thought the Issue of staffing had been salv for three years Mrs said We were really surprised that the Issue arose at all It should not have been an Issue The collective agree ment provided for the addition of teachers In September and in September 1983 with the aim of reducing the pupil teacher from 20 9 to 1 by September 1983 is currently The board has said although the agreement Continued on page Armed robbery Two female juveniles were apprehended Monday and charged with robbery in connection with the armed robbery of two elderly Poplar Drive The two elderly women were confronted by a female thief In their Acton residence wearing a stocking mask and brandishing a knife Sunday night The thief demanded money from the women but fled the scene with only food stuffs when one of the women put up a struggle Halton regional police said Neither elderly lady was burl Police search ed the area for the Juveniles and a short foot ensued but the suspects eluded police Following an investigation a 13year old and a IS- year old girl were apprehended Theyll be appearing in juvenile court False name A Georgetown man who gave police a false name when stopped for a traffic offence was charged Saturday with obstructing police The man had been stopped on Miltons Friday himself falsely to regional police Women hospitalized A Georgetown woman was taken lo Georgetown Memorial Hospital by ambulance Feb following a twocar collision Joanne Emm minor Injuries In the damages accident A vehicle was westbound along Guelph Street near Durham Street in Georgetown and when It stopped for traffic was hit from the rear by a second car Service work sentence of Acton was sentenced Friday to hours of community service work Tor Ms part In the theft of worth of leather from Tannery last all Canaries burn Fifty canaries died Saturday morning In a fire on the Mushroom Growers property at The birds were raised as a hobby by MeadowGIen employee and were in a coop attached to Mr a mobile home Deputy fire chief Bob Hyde said there was an estimated damage In fire started duo to a faulty extension cord The coop was burned and there was some damage to the trailers siding and car port Pleads guilty to stabbing young mother BEST DEAL Is A CAPITAL Kellar gets life sentence for 1981 Acton murder Herald Writer Convicted of seconddegree murder in the stabbing death of Acton housewife Colleen Oates Eric Howard Kellar pleaded guilty and was sentenced Tuesday morning In Ontario Supreme Court to life imprisonment He is eligible for parole after years Mrs Oates22wasslabbeatodeathOct 221981 at her Bower Street residence The mother of two young children years and months old at the time was round by her husband Kevin then This Is a horrible Wll murderofMrs as an exhibit clearly cates the savagery of the attack Chief Justice Gregory Evans said Some SO wounds many of which apparently were following the death of this unfortunate woman I always find It difft cult reconcile an attack Crown Attorney said Mr Kellar received a sub stantial cheque from the Ontario Compensation board that day for a back injury suffered in on In dustrial accident At he invited Mr for a drink TogauV er they went to the liquor store returning to the The son was shining brightly Saturday as Mayor coordinator Kenneth campaign vicecbalrmsn Pete left Joined Red Cross Volunteers in Rose Marie public relations chairman Doris hoisting up the flag or Red Cross month at the towns Tretter and Mare sister Mcnlque and Peter Trafalgar offices Joining bun were left to right 4 donor and area captain Trevor Williams area PTR a stumbling block in teachers contract of this kind with a person residence who is not in the category their purchases of an Insane person he Two male friends of Mr said Oates dropped by with NOT INSANE homemade wine and the From psychiatric re- dri con until ports on Mr Kellar the judge said it was clear that Mr was not Insane but did suffer from a severe personality disorder and was addict ed to alcohol The reports dont indi cate you are psychotic Judgo Evans told Mr Kellar in his sentencing address We have a long history of emotional prob lems as far as you are concerned Mr has a crim inal record of break and enters and theft from his crown attorney James told the court In 1980 he was convicted of Indecent assault on a girl who suffered vaginal Injuries from the incident he said Mr Kellar served the maximum period of IS months and was released from the Ontario Correct Institute Oct Following his release Mr went to live with his suiter and her common law husband on Actons Bower Street He became acquainted with the because his relatives were friends of Ineirs Mr said RECEIVED CHEQUE Tracing the events leading to the Oct Mr Oates had to leave for work early In the evening The male friends left too Mr said the murder victim expressed some concern about being leftalOnewithMr to her husband but was appeased knowing the rcl lives were next door At p Mr Kellar invited a neighbor to join them Susan Patterson drank with them until midnight when she left Mr Kellar and Mrs alone REJECTED ADVANCES The Crown Attorney said modest sexual ad vances were made to wards both ladles and Ihoy were rejected A piua was ordered and at Mrs Oates phoned her husband at work In and asked to come home expressing concern about Mr being in the residence Mr Treleaven said Mr advised his wife to tell Mr Kellar to leave he said When he tried to call his wife a little later he got a busy signal Concerned Mr Oates came home at am to find a broken bread knife in the kitchen and his wife on the floor Mr said The post mortem report noted multiple stab wounds to the neck chest abdomen and limbs many of which were deep ly penetrating the Crown Attorney told the court Most of the major arter ies in the neck had been cut causing massive haemorrhaging he said Knife wounds had pene trated the abdominal cav ity cutting through the Intestines and there were knife wounds to the anus and vulva SO WOUNDS At least separate knife wounds were Identi fied lo the right shoulder the right lower abdomen and the left breast Mr sold Leaving the apartment after the stabbing Mr left Acton travel ing eventually lo Picker ing where he was arrest ed without Incident by and Durham reg ional police forces Oct Its hard to imagine a more vicious callous crime than that which you perpetrated on the young mother Chief Justice Evans said There was no evidence that tiiere was any excessive drink on page A3 A LIONS SHARE OF ACCOLADES It was a fine party Saturday night honoring Esme Balls years community contributions Hosted by the Georgetown Lions Club the do pretcntedMrs Ball with a plaque recognizing her as ClUien of the Year A quiet worker In community credited with starting up the girl guides she has been employed by the library for Mrs Ball was by left torigbt Lions Club president Ken and former girl guides Dawn Livingstone and June Lens far right Herald phote INSIDE Entertainment The fantasy world of Nurse Jane Goes to Ha waii lakes over John Elliott Theatre Play wright Allan mocks the garde set of urban Canada There were 1U photo graphs submitted at Photo Art 83 The juried art exhibit of local cam era buffs opens Its doors tonight Page A10 Day of prayer plans in Balllnafad qulltcrs set for weekly lessons Page Be Community Sports Rebels made off with Pee Championships PageB Opinion traffic danger faced by Georgetown school children Page As A Farmer differs on rural roads issue While acknowledging the forceful cry of out rage last week by a citizens group angered at the condition of a number of rural roads In town Steeles Avenue farmer Peter Branch appeared before the towns general committee Monday night to present another point of view before the public He urged committee members not to act haati in light of last weeks delegation of the Rural Roods Improvement committee which virtual ly demanded that the town repair tiro north eastern stretches or the Ninth and Tenth Lines as well as The towns current road policy In which it has tried to completely recon struct sections of at least one rural road a year has worked well Mr Branch noted and has avoided high tax Increases for the ratepayers Through the policy he said the town has main tained good road main tenance and maintained sensible taxes Chang ing this balanced approach of the polk might not have the de sired effects on road reconstruction In the rural area Mr Branch recalled lhat the town hard-eur- faced the Ninth Line about eight years ago to prepare for the Interna tional Plowing Match which was hosted here Because the road was done in haste Mr Branch argues the region which has since assumed responsibility for the route must continually repair It When be moved to the rural area he said he realised there no promise of better services and roads which be enjoyed In the city Gravel roads with their accompanying potholes may take some of the charms out of living in rural areas Mr Branch commented adding that rural life still has ad vantages over urban resi dency