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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Helton Hills Established 1866 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Street Georgetown Ontario PAUL J TAYLOR Publisher and General Manager Editor PHONE 877 BOBLIGHTBOURN Advertising Manager Rngiitaml Page l SECTION A HERALD Wednesday November Unchecked growth It s a situation where what a neighbor does even affects us all Unchecked growth In the City of Brampton might not be worrying residents of Hal ton Hills yet put future plans by that city may decide the type of community we five in years from now The Ontario Municipal Board is now hearing on Brampton plans to put housing and industry on 7000 acres of farmland The Official Plan calls for housing for people on acres of prime farmland bounded by 10 and 15 Sideroads Airport and Heart Lake Roads It will also consider plans for industrial development on farmland near McLaughlin Road and Highway 7 A farmland preservation group The Association of Peel People Evaluating Agricultural Land APPEAL says the land is too valuable To put industry and housing on and it should remain agricultural The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food OMAF opposes industrial and rural residential estate development but they have consented to a phased in housing development on acres Brampton needs to slowtheir appetite for developing land By growing so fast there isnt an opportunity to evaluate the problems that may be developing such as overcrowding traffic tieups and social upheaval As we sit on the doorstep to this development Georgetown must sit back and hope the OMB APPEAL and others will consider moderating Brampton push for expansion After all small can be beautiful A good neighbour Attend your local blood donor clinic Monday Nov at Holy Cross Church auditorium and become a good neighbour There is no substitute for blood The same way a car needs oil and gas to drive the human body needs blood to function properly In cases where an accident causes loss of blood the survival of the injured person depends on whether blood of the same type can be found and donated To ensure an adequate supply of blood and blood products for all hospitals in Canada the Canadian Red Cross society operates Blood Donor Clinics all across Canada The Blood Donor Service is under professional supervision The Georgetown District High School has been practising In earnest for their debut of the play Cametot to be seen at John Elliott Theatre starting Nov a For ticket call Knights in armor shine for Camelot along with producer producing the plays Herald Correspondent musical director Ralph suits of armour which Rehearsals and Unci preparations for the students and staff production of Camelot involved will be working are coming along very hard lor the next smoothly This high few weeks preparing to school musical play Is to their opening night be held at the John Probably one of the Elliott Nov Camelot is a play put on by the students from Mrs Joan Nipper Georgetown District Bethann Robin and six High School based on assistants have been working busily to and the Knights of The produce over two Round Table hundred for In charge of this this play years production are Simon is in y tor Yvonne charge of designing and office is consist of 22 paper moulds Along the above mention members of the cast and crew are also involved in making the costumes For the students in the school The price to see this production is IS for adults and S3 for senior citizens For hose outside the school wishing to buy tickets to Camelot the THIRTY YEARS Bill Leslie manager of the Theatre in Georgetown for the past two years has bought the theatre lease from National Theatres and starling Nov George town will be operated as an independent enterprise Wigo Television which has opera ted in the Cordaro since In own a few months ago Is planning a move to larger quarters across the street The first parents evening be held at Public School took place this week Rev Kenneth Richardson presently Anglican rector at Jarvis will become minister at Georgetown and Glen Williams In January Another new merchant Joins the Main Street fraternity this week when Stan Hutchinson opens the Modem Meat Market Giving good credit to the good workofthelrfoxhounds Jim and Jack Presswood and Bob bagged four red foxes Saturday afternoon In the Georgetown area The first meeting of the Institute Girls Club was held at the home of the leader Mrs Jesse McEnery FIFTEEN YEARS Chief Harley Lowe credited the good bunch of local teenagers or one of the quietest Hallow ens in years A account for designing outdoor lighting for baseball games In the park was withdrawn from council a accounts Monday when Em Hyde termed it exorbitant Cr Sandy Mackenzie told council on Monday that local teenagers were complaining about the towns antl loitering bylaw A fifty per cent cut in school board trustees fees from per year to 500 and the elimination of a mileage allowance was one of the first of many recommendations unanimously endorsed by Esqueslng council Mon day night Specially trainednurses take the following a review Of the Arm Testing and typing of the blood is handled by skilled technologists lured specifically for that purpose and aided by volun teers Ninety per cent of the people working with blood recruitment at local levels are volunteers The blood transfusion service depends entirely on the awareness of the public that their good will and generosity breeds the voluntary donors who give freely and willingly for the benefit of their neighbour Letter to the editor Remembering For four years the slaughter had gone on By RICHARD their comrades suffered and pictured God wondering why menlnnictedsuch For four long yean the slaughter pain f had gone on Men had poured in to the battlefields of France and Belgium poet and chaplain to console the bereaved remembered that God had shared this fragile human A right to travel There was a good deal of coverage In the Herald about lawsuit ing Mr Julian Reed and be the precedent else- It Is the concept of Right of Way that Is at stake here Rights of Way are established In the right to ravel the English law and the con Credit River through Is centuries old For example If a short Mr Reed obviously cut existed between has a very personal villages across private interest In this small land and It had been used section of river which he traditionally by the villa closed public access Right of Way and this Is the action was established and the which has drawn the landowner could not stop lawsuit people using the short Up to that moment the cut had been used from This Right of Way as far upstream as the was quite clear you Forks of the Credit down could simply go from one end to the other You had Until the case is settled no other rights You the public a right could not gather fire- travel the section from wood camp hunt fish the Dam to the Bridge Is In 11 private property limbo If the Right of Way Mr Reed a stretch of became obstructed by river Is Important to say a fallen tree or a him but It Is the effect landslide the right of that this case will have way Just continued on the public right to around the obstruction travel other rivers and In early Canada the lakes in Ontario that Is of only easy routes across far greater Interest country were found on United States and Germany to face one another and be killed Canadian missionaries to China came to supervise coolies who dug trenches and worried that the west For lonely graves along the country Christianity would no longer appeal to aide the east when the Chinese saw that It Where sleep those brave hearts who for did not prevent Europeans from others died slaughtering one another I life a union with the crucified Canadians had flocked or some- Finally an armistice was signed times been pushed to the colours It Later that morning In the last battle of was a patriotic duly and no one the war Sir Arthur Currle s Canadian wanted to seem unpatriotic Corp took Mons where the first Even the churches were roused German British conflict had taken it has been argued that when the government released place four years before these routes are very figures that suggested an unusually Some people questioned whether similar to the old high proportion of Anglicans In the Hie final battle was necessary Then Rights of Way enjoyed forces the Methodists redoubled their on the bow of the day of the by the English ardour in recruiting month of isiB an eerie silence Obstructions in a ThefiguresdidntreaUymeanUiat replaced the constant explosions the river such as rapids or a there were more Anglicans if a new dam are similar to the soldier didn know what religion he There was peace fallen tree and the right was the kindly recruiting sergeant The First World War was thought of way would Just go often just put down C of Church of to be Ihe war to end all wars People around them If the early England You had to know what you said the new weapons armaments Canadians had these were if you wanted to be listed under and poison gas were so terrible that rights they exist another category nations would not be so foolish as to Even livestock was recruited wage conflict again and the Herald contained ads placed by Just as some people today think the British commission who were to that the ihreat of nuclear annihilation visit Georgetown buying horses to is so awful that NATO or the Warsaw serve at the front Pact countries or the growing number For people who faced death of regimes that are learning the every day religion was Important technology of nuclear weapons will When they were left on own to go to somehow restrain themselves from church the usually stayed In using them barracks But when a church parade The Jewish people have a concept was called they turned out by the of peace of Shalom that recognizes The Independent Living Confer ence sponsored by the Ontario March of Dimes on October covered a great many areas of concern to individuals wilh handicaps I will share with you the Information derived from the workshops In several of my upcoming columns Sexuality In Human Relations touched on such aspects as meeting and dating dealing with the altitudes of family hi embers and as well as sexual functioning Personal experience were Shared by panelists Stokes a polio victim confined lo a wheelchair since childhood her husband Jim and Tony Aqulllna a paraplegic since age The discussion was moderated by Mel senior rehabilitation social worker at The disabled are no different than anyone else in their need for accept once understanding and love Their sexuality Is only part of the whole person and therefore it Is important to get to know them as human beings Often a relationship begins In a platonlc way with feelings that grow deeper time This was Illustrated today unless legislation is passed to remove them I hope that this shows that there are wider Issues at stake than the fate of a very small section of the Credit River Yours truly J M GrahamSmith PS I understand that Mr Reed has been exas perated by the garbage that he has bad to from his Is more than the absence of And though they grumbled at the conflict that it demands the presence idea they were glad they went of justice and goodwill however reluctantly The cenotaph In Remembrance But religion was more than Just Park and the plaques in some of the that was left there by church going Bill of Nerval older churches of the town record the trespassers I would who died a couple of weeks ago at the names of those who left their homes share bis feelings if age of used to talk about the vision here and were killed in action people dumped of angels he had seen in the Irenches They hoped for a world without trash In my backyard His experience was not unusual war but he has Men thought of ail their comrades urgency of that need Right suffered and wondered why God problem and must do what we can to Autumn Mood- Patience Strong I love the earth In Autumn mood Ihe misty dawns the golden noon I love the quiet evening hour Ihe glory of the harvest moon I love the last slow fading rose that lingers on the garden wall the mellow sun that seems to shed the light of blessing over all Old houses wrapped in crimson cloaks the stains of creepers on grey stone Woods of russet bronze and scarlet Leaves of every tint and tone Season of the golden hours with Whiter nigh and summer past Nature In her brightest garments clothes In beauty to the last May the final phase of life be like earth in Autumn moodrich with blessing and contentment full of peace and quietude For God mercies glad and grateful having neither doubts nor fears May I walk and see the beauty in the Autumn of my years Phillip Sykes son of Mr Ernest Sykes Stevens Crescent Is In a musical play with famous screen and stage star Dorothy Glen Taxi owner Verschuere and five of his employ donated a whole day pay to the Adult Rehabilitation Centre Industries Hornby TEN YEARS AGO Fire Prevention Month turned out to be the worst month in all of Georgetown history for frequency and loss The group of Norval ratepayers who opposed the closure of Norval Public School lost the last round of their fight Friday when William Chairman of the Ha I ton Board of Education refused to recon alder the reopening of the school The Georgetown water system may soon be extended to supply water to the village of but it could be The Acton Indoor pool is ready to open as soon as the ministry of health gives Its approval m writing FIVE YEARS AGOMayor Pele baa persuaded town council to postpone any development commit ments for land south of Georgetown despite charges that the move Is prelude to approval for the massive housing scheme of Focal Properties Ltd The front of Acton Restaurant will have to be sandblasted to remove the remains of thrown eggs from Hallowe en Yvonne Myleheam performed tea cup readings for a long line of eager customers Saturday at a bazaar and bake sale at St Johns Anglican Church In Stewarttown A Georgetown man Cal has been reunited after 34 years with Father Ted Roy a friend he served IwUi overseas during the Second World War The Rebel Cross Country team brought the regular season to a rousing finish on Saturday at the finals In Kingston five out of the six possible team titles Rob Wilson a member the Sunday Young Adult Bowling League also Its president rolled a 990 to take over the top place in the high triple flat category standing of the season in a film depicting two young people with cerebral palsy who fall In love fami ly and friends can have a consider able effect on how the person feels about their own sexual desires Often well meaning parents are over protect ive lest their child get hurt Prejudice exists among certain segments of society who may fee it is not the right of a disabled person to express love through marriage in a humorous fashion shared a personal experience An elderly woman approached her on the street while was holding her baby The woman remonstrated that It was a disgrace that should have a child Tony Indicated how easy it is lo feel that you are not a sexual being when confined to an institution such as a nursing home hospital or rehab centre Communication between couples the ability to explain what affects your happiness and learning the extent of your abilities are all vital to achieving and maintaining a rewarding relation ship For social workers who counsel the disabled it was stressed one must permit a person opportunity to discuss sex On Ihe other hand If the subject is of no concern it should not be Introduced by worker Where consiunatlon is physically impossible Mr recommen that couples seek assistive devices If so inclined that will aid them in achieving sexual satisfaction sponsoring lis second Bicentennial Essay Contest It Is open lo all adults who live within the boundaries of the former Township which includes such communities as Acton Georgetown Glen Willi and Stewarttown You are asked to share your stories contributing to history There are three categories Category 1 Early Memories of my Esqueslng Community Recollec tions of people and events that stand out in your memory Category History of a Group A history of a group or ion based in Township Category A Family History The story of your own family or one with which you are familiar where at least one member was a resident for some part of their life There is no limit to the length of the essays which are to be mailed to Esqueslng Historical Society Box Georgetown L7G4T1 postmark no later than Dec 31 Prizes for each category are 35 and country What is settled here will the rivers and lakes and of Way if one exists A few thought of all resolve it Crime Prevention Week UvtfX To celebrate Ontario a Historical Society Is Come to a Seniors Christmas Bazaar at Durham St Nov IT 12 noon 3pm Featured are crafts Cabbage Patch clothes bake table while elephant table and lucky draws Lunch Adults Children cents SiVMWswsS Prevention makes it harder for criminals Crime prevention officer Constable Dave Crawford readies a Halloa regional police display on crime prevention for a Nov awards and dinner right to be held In Hamilton The display will be used In seminar presented that day In conjunction with Crime Prevention Week Herald photo By ROBIN BAKEWEIX Herald Staff A lot of the crimes commuted are done because criminals are opportunists If you can reduce the you can reduce the chances of becoming a victim That a how crime pre vention officer Dave Crawford sums Up one of ihe aspects of his Job with Division In Halt on Thais it in a nut shell It just common sense he said By leaving a garage door open with a set of golf clubs or a in sight you are presenting the perfect opportunity for a I Hal crime Constable Crawford said Nov to 10 Is National Crime Prevention Week across Canada and Con stable Crawford spent some time explaining his job responsibilities and some tips In crime prevention with The Herald Constable Crawford feels his main function as crime prevention officer Is lo get the people in the ty aware of potential problems which may exist and help them protect themselves His duties involve speaking to various groups working on and checks shoplifting pre vention talks to stores and anything to do with crime prevention As far as a typical week goes Constable Crawford said there is not really such a thing One of the newer pro grams In the Halton area against crime Is called the business tele phone alert system An example of bow this service could be useful Is if there were a numb er of cheques stolen with a cheque writing machine Businesses would be contacted through the Chamber of Commerce in the area to be warned of possible fraudulent cheques Those busines ses contacted would then phone other bust and a pyramid type situation would arise hopefully inform a large area If a pharmacy drug store or medical centre was broken Into and a prescription pad was stolen the same system would come Into effect wilh druggists calling the police If anything suspicious should come their way Even If we dont apprehend the criminal if the system deters the criminal element the program has done Its job Constable Craw ford said A more program In Halloo Is the Neighborhood Watch in which neighbors look out for each other Con stable Crawford called this program a natur al aa neighbors usually watch out for each other anyway A pilot project Con stable Crawford and Division crime preven tion officer Bob cki are working on Involves a Neighbor hood Watch program for people In the rural areas He feels homes in the rural areas are more vulnerable because they are further apart One recommendation he suggests for rural residents Is for them to have a home security survey done on their residence Constable Crawford will go to the home and point out weak spots at the rest dence where a burglar might be able to gain entry He will show them how to increase secu rity on their homes through better doors locks and he securing or reinforcement of basement windows with bars or grills A lot of times a potential burglar will see bars or a grill on a window and will simply go on to an easier target he said The home survey Is free as a the operation I D program which Is another form of crime prevention offer ed by the police depart mont Individual articles can be inscribed the owner drivers license or social number which will In order for these types of programs to bo effective you need cooperation of the off cers road and the public If the public is not Involved the whole Idea Is being thrown out the window Constable Crawford said I