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Why is this girl smiling For the second year in a row the students at Acton High School had something to cheer about Susan Craig right played a major part Friday at the Halton girls basketball championships SeeCl In the gym Centennial rocks all night long See Page A3 Using those statistics farmer Peter Branch says we need more growth to prevent a loss of jobs m our community Statistics only cloud the issue See page A7 HOUSEHOLDER HILLS Letters to Santa Santas waiting Thats the word we received from the jolly old fellow himself Cor nered at the Georgetown Market place Santa told The Herald hes put his elves on overtime to make sure his factory is full of toys by Christmas Santa wishes his little friends Hills the very best He says hes ready to accept your cards and letters If you want to write Sant ad dress the letter Santa Claus co The Herald St Georgetown 3Z6 The Herald has agreed to publish Santas replies in the coming weeks before Christmas If you want to drop a letter in at the office we have a special Santa Mailbox just in side the door Man critically hurt An Acton man Is In critical condition at Hospital In Toronto after being found unconscious outside the Erin Country Inn with fractures and undetermined Internal injuries was found by friends who had been with him earlier in the evening Nov The Main Street South resident In Acton was taken to and Area Hospital after which he was transferred to Sunnybrook Hospital Cause of the injuries and circumstances surrounding the incident ere unknown at this time and police are asking anyone with any Information to coll the closest detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police Charged with robbery Alexander IB Is facing charges or robbery unlawful confinement assault with a weapon and breach of probation Charges Stem from an Incident last July when he and an unknown party ordered a pizza from Mamma Rose Pizza When the delivery man arrived he was threatened with a knife and forced into the vehicle The vehicle was driven to the Fourth Line and area where the driver was further assaulted and robbed of approximately The year old Acton victim was left on the side of the roadway after the men left the scene In the vehicle The former Acton resident was scheduled for a bail hearing Nov Killed instantly A three vehicle pileup on Highway killed a Brampton woman instantly when the car she was driving drifted from the westbound lane into the eastbound lane striking a van Thursday after Another vehicle travelling then struck the woman car about a kilometer west of Mississauga Road Norway trip dinner Council agreed Monday to shift Its Dec 10 meeting lo Dec to permit councillors to support a special fund raising smorgasbord dinner being sponsored to raise funds for two Acton hockey teams going to Norway over the Christmas vacation Coun Rick Bonnet told council Jack Tanner Table the restaurant In the Olde Hide House Is holding a smorgasbord dinner that evening with from every meal being donated to the Acton Minor Hockey Association trip fund The association is sending a midget and a bantam team to Norway on an exchange trip over the holidays and has run into fund raising Kinsmen trees About Christmas trees will arrive at the A and parking lot this week In preparation for sales which will start Saturday Dec 1 at a m The Georgetown Kinsmen are behind the sale which will sec top quality pine trees homeward bound for IS with Spruce and Balsam trees available for Newspaper of Halton Hills Established WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER Official Plan under scrutiny Herald Staff A modified Official Plan for Halton future development and land use came under scrutiny last week in a public meeting the towns council chambers The Official Plan is the framework for decisions on the towns growth It s based on cial guidelines as the province is responsible for land use planning Ontario Alter adopting it in October 1J82 the town accessor submitted its Offieial Plan to the province for or home occupations lottaM industries Last week suggested Will Niagara modifications Ministry of Municipal eurrenlly Affairs and Housing section on the In the towns escarpment is being document deferred in the Official These changes arc to Pi This Official Plan the province as is obsolete appropriate policies for viev of the new Hills Town Escarpment director Ian Mr Keith said Keilhsaid The towns scetion on The 150page revised the Niagara Escarpment document includes a was written on the basis page to the of policies Other stories Pg A3 The Officii Plans of farm lands is bun re written lus ins with the Mini sin or id the of Housing and the region It itticr than doing jib of the thought it v is belter to redo it Mr Keith said slates rea son ible to preserve prime soils is tube ind that detailed studies are required to prove lands ire suited to nun modification Ihe plan ltwn the power to enact la vs to limit or prevent the use of certain lands until necessary services and development can be achieved these holding bylaws arc to be applied to lands un si meed or undeveloped it Ihedntt of adopt ion of the plan The prefix will identify lands holding restriction Before taking off he holding bylaw there should be adequate servicing capacity avail able for any develop ment and the develop ment should satisfy ail other applicable policies of the Official Plan The Official Plan policy on form resi in the rural area is being deferred in order that it conform with the region plan The region policy is currently under The town s Official Plan conforms to the Regional Plan which was approved by the Minislr in 1980 plan The actual plan covers land use trans port a lion environment and utilities parks and recreation and housing Among some of the amendments ore that there be a specialty crop are within the cast half of Lots to 10 sue Concession 11 for purpose of all cultural activities In which have changed At the request of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing and the region the Official Plan reference to the Mineral Resource Pro lection Area in the town is being deferred Mr Keith said he had no objections to It being deleted 92 rooms close By ROBIN Herald Staff A recommendation carried at the Board or Education meeting Thursday has led to the closing of classrooms in the ele mentary school system A total of class rooms slated for closure arc In north area The board hopes to save around per classroom closure through heating lighting and janitorial services Hills trustee Dick Hovllt cited two Incidents in the north classrooms which were slated for closure were in use One of the classrooms being used half a diy for trench instruction and another used as a music room Mr Iluwitt asked for in amendment to the motion indicating that classrooms should be closed except for any rooms being used for instructional purposes Superintendent of Acton celebrated last Saturday on Main and to the float participants for the annual Santa Mill Streets as Santa Claus visisted for an old Claus parade Speyside Public School won the fashioned Christmas That was the theme given best float prize Acton youth 9 killed while riding his bike schools Jim Morrison outlined that principals in the affected schools knew last year which rooms were slated for closure and said he had gone over the process with principal involved The amendment was rejected and original motion was carried There is to be a report submitted to the board next October regarding further class closures Herald regional police arc investigating a fatal motor vehicle collision which killed a young Acton boy Nov Joseph Trimpcr was attempting to cross Queen Street near Churchill Road South on which time the collision occurred with the automobile operated by a 17 year old man The nine year old Churchill Road South resident was a Grade student at M Z Bennett Public School in Acton Although he had only attended the school for one full year after moving from the Bramp ton area principal Howard Allan said he was a popular child and well liked Mr Allan said Joseph wasn I overly keen on sports but one of his greatest interests were models He cited an dent last year when a teacher had given the boy a model as a reward ing gesture t lowers were sent by both students and teach at M Bennett and six teachers from the school attended the tunc on Friday at the Shoemaker Funeral Mrs Irlcne Andrews Joseph s language arts teacher said the boy was very pleasant and had an up and at it attitude Mrs Andrews said he was it ell liked and loved to read She also con firmed his interest In models and said he would talk to other children about them His afternoon teacher Dave Ma shinier said Joseph will be really missed children enjoyed being with him and said Joseph had a great sense of humor He was a very active student and would want finish one thing and go right on to the next He liked working with his hands In artwork and enjoyed a challenge he said Students in Joseph class were asked to write down their thoughts on Joseph and Mr Mash in said from Ihe writ the students appre ciated Joseph s sense of humor and thought of him as a friend ThL Guelph man has been charged with care less driving In the Acton High School Judy Thomson can only watch as an Aldershol player goes In the air Tor apparent two points Aldershol defeated Acton senior girls basketball tram in the semi finals played at Tuesday The lots eliminates Acton from further play but the team will be taking part In the On Federation of School Athletic Association OFSAA A senior girls champlonihlpt Dec In Guelph See story and photo Herald photo by Dan Ralph Toy drive in gear Herald Staff Thanks to the of Georgetown and all of their supporters every boy or girl should be receiving some toys Christmas Day The annual Kinettc toy drive has started and chairman Joanne Stiles is ready to receive donations from the community The originally began helping out in the early 1960s when the Kinsmen Rotary and I Ions Club organized a Christmas Welfare Fund Rama eventually took over duties of providing food hampers from the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 120 The name changed Good Neighbors Service The Kinetics helped Mrs Tlmpson by collecting lays for distribution on Christmas and until 1965 the service club repaired old toys Today the club still accepts good used toys but they prefcrnewones The demand has steadily gone up each year says Mrs Stiles who has worked on the toy drive for two years aided by Marncj Malcolmson post chairman for two Other who have devoted their time as chairman during the Christmas season arc Colleen Armstrong and Carol Pearson Anyone wanting to contribute can drop off los four locations around town Johnson Real The Herald Georgetown Post Office and Mrs Stiles 25 Heather Court have offered Iheir buildings us drop off locallons If you want more Information call Many people drop off toys for the younger kids often Forgetting about those over six years old or even the teenagers Mrs Stiles says Police to tape interrogations A two year trlai period will see the Police Force video taping interrogation Tfte pilot project which will be the first In CoilovJdeoUraiUrelriterrtgatkmprweecl- logt scheduled to begin July The project Is expected to develop an appreciation of the legal technical and practical problems of by the Federal Law Reform Hie project will be set up in with no cost to taxpayers Existing Will be used after ft six month training session operate the equipment and Sony will supply e free regional police Reform f and the Halloo Attorneys Office win form a committee which will be monitoring w project Only tre who have volunteered to be taped will be subject the project and ft believed taped will make court proceedings fatter cheaper and more ecurm Mushrooms for defence From the Ottawa Bureau of The Herald McadowglcnSkrowCanningUd of George town has won a fill federal contract to provide the defence department with canned mushrooms the department of supply and services has announced It was among the unclassified contracts worth or more than were awarded by the department to Canadians during the week ended Nov