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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1866 WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22 1984 Hot wax hearts GEORGETOWN Hot wax tales made Saturday at the car wash on Guelph Street will go to support the Canadian Heart Fund The manager of the station said cents of every dollar job will go to raise more money for heart and stroke research Lost year over 300 Canadian Car Wash Association outlets across Canada raised nearly 3t with their hot wax event gabfest GEORGETOWN The Optimist Club will be holding its annual oratorical contest for school children Feb in its clubhouse on Highway Topic for the year is My Responsibility Involvement and each will be represented J by one boy and one girl with speeches to be between four and five minutes in length Tom contest chairman wants applications In by Feb 25 Last year the Contest was so close the judges took minutes to pick a winner he said Winners will get Olympicstyle medals and certificates of participation Getting charter GEORGETOWN The Hilts broach or St John s Ambulance will be receiving its branch charter from the provincial council of the Order of St John in a special ceremony In the Legion Hall March at m The presentation will be made at the meeting of the chapter Wanna suck face Do you want to learn bow to suck face Or could you be an old poop If so the Georgetown Little Theatre has a deal for you At the end of April the group will be presenting Ernest Thompson engaging play On Golden Pond and auditions are taking place March The group is seeking a boy 12 14 to play the part of young Bill and since parental permission is needed parents are asked to contact producer Jill Evans before the end of February The play is being performed In the John Elliott Theatre No raise for roads GEORGETOWN The annual subsidy from the Ministry of Transportation and Communicatl for road construction in the town of Hills will not be going up this year despite rising construction costs Council learned Monday the province will pay the same amount as last years subsidy For road maintenance the town will get an increase of W from last year Eating properly If you re Horn reading your Herald and eating breakfast you might want to know that March Is Nutrition Month This year theme Food Facts And Fallaci deals with some of the misconceptions people tend to have about food because of how it promoted Nutrition Month was proclaimed by Hills council Monday night sawdust fire ACTON There was damage when a spark ignited sawdust in a bin at Hornby Box and Palette on Main Street North Friday The Hills fire department said the blaze erupted at a Nobody was hurt Car burned GEORGETOWN A 1070 Monte Carlo sustained ooo damage In a fire Friday night en Byron Street A fire department spokesman said cause of the fire was undetermined Lamp post arson GEORGETOWN Gas alight standard Friday night on Road South near Sargent Road and set on fire regional police an investigating the arson which caused damage Sparks after dark HORNBY Sparking hydro at the Hornby Community Centre brought out era Sunday right Fire chief Bill Cunningham said the wires were arcing and making contact with a tree Nobody hurt he said Truffle shuffle GLEN WILLIAMS Those remarkably pungent mornings may be coming to an end John McDonald said Monday the Meadowglen-Skrow- Mushroom plant in Glen Williams Is moving Its composting operation to a site south or Acton Odors from the process have left area residents holding their noses as they head for work Coun McDonald said only the composting process moving the mushroom plant will stay in Glen Williams The move will take a year No dropin GEORGETOWN The Ward council dropIn scheduled for tonight has been cancelled Councillors John McDonald Phil Carney and Finn Pouisfrup are at other meetings and can attend The meeting wilt be held next Wednesday at 30pm inRm Georgetown High School Youre never too old to learn Family Those broken resolution Youve been framed Books for St Francis SpscU Bring back our trains say Acton residents Staff Writer Actons Chamber of Commerce hopes market survey and public support will sway VIA Rail Canada Into rearranging its Ira schedule to add a stop in Acton Acton has been with train vice to and from Tor on or several But Chimbcr members who at a luneheon meeting Thursday sold the community of has enough ant the return of sties Thet inly A HELPING HAND FOR SCOUT AND GUIDE WEEK Throughout Halloa Hill hundreds of Cubs Beavers Scouts gathered to celebrate GuideScouting Week Feb know that Brownies are a helpful lot so It was no surprise when Elaine Baker seven of me Georgetown East Brownies offered to straighten Craig s sash Craig is with the 1st Glen Williams Scouts Former pastor returns to see mortgage hum It had to be a special event that brought former Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church priest Olger the Atlantic Ocean Thurs day Retired Holland since September the Georgetown pastor of years made a special journey lo attend a celebration Saturday at which the church mortgage was bumed Together with Bishop Anthony Rev helped Revs Dave Cote and Con Mohony celebrate a 7 m mass after which over parishioners stayed for the banquet and program in he Maple Avenue church half Built in the new and rectory completed during the time of Rev He was the last of the Capuchin friars led to the parish Arriving with Rev Otger Thursday was sister a fre quent visitor during his service In Georgetown Bishop has been administrator of the Hamilton diocese since the recent death of Bishop Paul Reding A formal appointment of bishop is pending by Pope John Paul Start early to get summer jobs While Canada economy is enjoying modest recovery students t expect employers to come knocking with offers of summer Jobs The message at the Canada Employment Centre which opens In Georgetown in weeks is that you II have to do your own legwork to find a Job And the earlier the better Supervisor Deborah Finegan said Monday the Centre had 900 post secondary and second students registered last year Sheep farmer sees watchdog as answer for council A Steeles Avenue sheep farmer wants council to appoint a watchdog committee to ward off packs of ravenous regional planners Peter Branch told council Monday he is concerned about three documents an amend ment to the regional Six hundred found full and part Centre staff visited businesses In the Georgetown area In encouraging them to hire summer dents By getting on earlier start on business visits they hope to reach many more com paniea this year Ms said SUBSIDIES Businesses are being introduced to a number of programs which offer wage subsidies for student help One is the federal government summer careeraccess program which alms to create careeroriented Jobs in the public private and non profit sectors OFMCP How red is red A Regional Police officer who drove through a red light Tuesday was hit by a car going through a green light is probably seeing red today He has been charged by his own police department in the dent The officer was east bound on Street 3D a m when he ran the light and was hit by northbound car on Mountain view Road Damage to the cruiser was estimated and to the other car at I people In Acton in tl 1940s and yet the si II here Aclon sod first the lack of service in at a I meet two weeks ago Council agreed support request by send a letter to VIA An Acton High School marketing class so d it v Ill conduct the market survey lo fore- east the demand for There are five pass trains each way passing through Acton daily but catch hem MELTING VIA Chamber members hope to meet with VIA a Is next month The survey plus of encouragement from residents will form part of a pro fessional approach to show VIA that it will not lose money by stopping in Acton Bonnet said Regular train service would be of great econo mic benefit to the Rick grabbed a VIA train schedule and donned a conductor cap last week to emphas the importance of returning passenger train service to Acton Mr Bonnet s idea has now gained the support of town council and the Aclon Chamber of Commerce He photo Help your clear the steps Bj Staff Writer Homeowners In Georgetown and area who have not kept their driveways and steps clean this winter may be in for a surprise from Canada Post The postman may just slap delivering that ma 1 if he feels he Is in danger or slipping and fall ng So far this w five letter carriers have fallen in Georgetown suffering back loot and knee injur sad Post Master Hal Belcher He said the worst con lions are where there is light snow over ice When carrying pounds of mail on you re not able defend yourself he said Mr Belcher said some staff members refused to del mall to homes with uncleared sidewalks and DAMAGES Blaze guts district home plan a report on rural development policy and on economics study all of which be believes will curb reasonable growth in the rural area here The plan amendment sets growth standards m m Merchants want trains returned It could encourage res dent la 1 and Indus growth in Acton boost property values in lie community and might even attract tourists on day tours he said The Chamber Mr Dawk ins said could draft and nt the which would be done by the students The results would be correlated a VIA Rail thai passenger service to Actons viable may only be the first hurdle Mr Dawklns said CN owns the land on which a station would be local at d it would have to endorse the Idea as well A family of four has been left homeless after a basement fire Monday damaged their rcsl Hills fire chief estimated damage to the Carroll home on Highway 7 across from the Cedar Spring Motel at He said Nancy Carroll and daughters Wendy IB and Judy were home at the time of the blaze but escaped un Injured Husband Doug had just left for work at 19 a m when Mrs Carroll heard the smoke detec tor go off At first she thought the small amount of smoke coming from the basement was from the wood burning furnace As the smoke Increased she roused her daught and left the house for help Chief Cunningham said Acton firefighters battled Hie until a with 15 men Damage to the home was extensive with one bedroom gutted and house contents da mag Going all to biases Hills Is off to a bad start in the fire department records Lost month here were calls Tor help seven more In the same period in 1983 Fires caused damages In January compared to for the month last year There were no deaths in the blazes last month nor were firefighters or members of the public Injured for villages and ers of homes and limits land severances More clay sounds OK to council A clay pit on has applied for a permit to expand and council has endorsed it The she uses eight acres for clay extract on and the owners are asking the Niagara Escarpment Commissi on for permission to use a further 32 acres tor the same purpose Clay from the pit if used for drainage tiles made at a plant in Ont Council said the operation should be completed in four phas es and that the land should be rehabilitated to cover the pit Extraction should be kept to a limit of year council The development poll cies recommend against Infilling vacant lots with houses The economic study is about the Almond Estates subdivision which the region tried unsuccessfully to slop lost year despite ell approval of the site at and Fifth Line Mr Branch said the region spent taxpayers money lo go against the wishes of the town What could be more asinine Last year the Ontario Municipal Board ruled in favor of the develop er and approved the subdivision proposal Council didnt adopt Mr Branch suggest on for a committee to watch the region plann ers but he invited to address those planners when they come to a future council meeting ACTON The Herald asked five merchants what they thought about efforts to return pass enger train service to Acton Betty Fudge The Book Nook I think Its a good idea It would help commuters and Toronto It would probably help property values in the area Jocqur BUI lage When my sisler uses it 1 1 to go to Georgetown to pick her up The trains would take only a min to stop here before they go on their way again Dot Jennings Act on Yam Barn 1 think it would be especially good for people who don Acton needs a boost and I think this would help Grace Robertson Robertson Flower Shoppo There the convenience of having a train going bock and forth to Toronto It would help many of us get down to the city to visit friends in the hosp itals Bread Basket Bakery If you worked In Toronto it would be easier lo get the train In Acton than drive to Georgetown or More people might come to Acton and that would be good for business HELEN JOCQUE DOT JENNINGS GRACE ROBERTSON