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Behind the scenes at by ROBIN Herald Staff People are fairly care ful when it comes to money especially when millions of dollars are involved Such will be the case Thursday as Ontario weekly lottery comes to Georgetown A Montreal Trust will break the scaled box containing the lotte ry balls used In the draw and keep a cautious eye on proceedings The solid rubber lotte ry bails used the draw are not of your average variety With a quarter inch imprint displaying or letters the balls undergo regular testing at the Ontario Research Foundation to make sure each is identical to assure fairness The tests numbering six begin with a visual check of the balls The weight diameter volume and density are all checked and the resilience of each ball tested Immediately following the draw the Montreal Trust officer will return the balls to their box to make sure there is no tampering with them Ontario Lottery Cor poration lion officer Annette Taylor said three months preparation goes into each draw About people are involved with the pro ceedings from the OLC which includes the Glob al television crew Along with the hosts Dance and Greg Bercsford Mrs Taylor said there be ger supervisor draw officers and bait girl Vol Holding on hand The trucks start ing Georgetown ict High School Thurs day morning when the stage will be set up and on afternoon rehearsal will lake place A large satellite dish will be placed behind GDHS to transmit the live signal to the Global viewing audience The draw will begin at m after local entertainers have finished Mrs Taylor said communities experience I he most difficulty pre paring material used in a short documentary ling their area Chairman of the Wintario project with the Georgetown Kinsmen Bruce McLean confirm he helped accumulate about GO minutes of Infor far the minute production Mr McLean said he was quite surprised whin Wintario officials got in touch with him last with the propo for a draw in Georgetown They approached me personally How they got niy name I don know I put the proposition before club gained approval and ran with co every thing he said Mr McLean said that meant meeting with the and Global finding a locoti on co the seating and entertain and arranging for the St John attendants to be on Arrangements were also made for the nscss ion stand ushers ticket sales and outlets Tom Hewer organizer on the GDHS end of the function biggest problem he has encoun been the shuffl ing of classes within the school on the draw date Lunch room facilities must be removed and 000 individual seats set up for guests In the expected full house He said the television crew were at he school last week to finalize equipment positions and Bell Canada employees had done checks for their lines from the gym to the control trailer Dressing rooms have been set aside in the school for hosts and there has been no change In entertainment for the evening which includes the GDHS Band Debbie THson Edgar Thatcher Paul d and the Georgetown Alumni Choir Live and on television irom Georgetown District High School the 3Mtlh drawl Bruce McLean has been one of the major driving forces behind the Georgetown Kinsmen involve with tomorrow production Town- Countoy DRY CLEANING SAW DAY MY 8770387 HILLS SHOPPING CENTRE SECTION Designing his way to the big times GDMH Women expressed Daydreaming in class crest in his designs and designing clothes on Boogaloo has taken paper margins may have over a dozen of his its advantages if It opens designs for sale on avenues to career in consignment basis and the field have sold three in the From such a begin last two months Georgetown Ryan is presently tak Ryan Roberts is heading a pattern design in hat direction course during even The year old has at Sheridan College just had the satisfaction and plans to return to the of seeing several models fashion design course as display h designs at a full lime student In a show in Toronto s Royal couple of years York Hotel and has been HccreditsMrs Robins invited back for another of Georgetown Fabrics in the fall where ho is involved in a Organized by a group coed program through of clothing GDHS for his progress from the Spadina on In the field and his Road area in Toronto keen interest Ryan said for a first She really pushed me show it was a gave me an old sewing break machine and always The break came about me he said through a friend moth Ryan said a design will Barbara Young who come to him while watc owns a Torontobased television or Just modelling agency and sitting around From helped Ryan become in idea to design to finished volved product will take about Ryan said things have six to eight hours started to materialize for giving a jacket design as him In the past three an example months Models in Tor Some people call my onto ore interested in designs trendy because I him supplying clothes like to keep everything for shows a number of loose and long and really his designs are available comfortable but it dep- a Queen Street store ends on the mood I named Boogaloo and and the situation closer to home the said Ryan Robert models some of the he has created The 17 year old Georgetown District High School student says things have started for him In the past three months B THE HERALD Wednesday March Page 1 Fewer requests for welfare aid EGGSTRAORDINARY Itwasaneggitraordinaryfeat that Wednesday morning Anne Goodwill of In Georgetown manage to line up eight eggs on their end After to a channel television weatherman she discovered the earth was at an equinox It s the only time when eggs will stand on their ends Try It Around March the tun crosses the equator and day and night are everywhere equal length Herald photo For Halton Social Planning A budget shortfall without United Way By AM Herald staff Welfare cases arent expected to Increase over last year We feel it safe to say there will be a zero growth of actual numb ers of people in need of welfare although there II be growth in the the region social director Debbie Oak ley said last week A rale of per cent has been made Last year there were welfare cases with approximately or 27ptr cent from Hills he region In mo maintenance ion manager David arc said We noted an per cent decrease in 1984 over 1983 and so we budgeted for the same level of cose load In 1983 as In 1984 Mr So far this year there have been 802 welfare cases In January and In February with about 450 of them from Hills Last year the region spent on welfare with the provincial and federal governments ma king up the remainder of the million bill The region only pays per cent of the total Mr said wel fare cases peaked In 1983 when there was a 10 per cent increase In cas over 1981 costing the region The main reason for the recent dropping off in welfare cases was buted to a turnaround in the economy by Mr Those on welfare who were employable were able to find jobs and cross themselves off the welfare list he said Although we still have a difficult employ situation for youth 16 to and for people over Mr Szwarc said To try and help these groups the region is introducing two new pro grams to look at what arc barriers to em ploy Tor them and how con be over The regon Is referring these cases to other and following through with them Not having a United Way in Hills is causing problems for social services agencies that serve region Hills is the only municipality in the region without a United Way For organizations like the Social ing Council it means a shortfall In budget when it comes time to provide services in the The Planning Council gels money allocated to it by the United Way with the stipulation it be spent in The same applies with the Burlington and Milt on United Ways There are no such monies coming from Hills because there s no United Way set up in the nlty Planning Council pre sident David Ray com plained about the con on the groups spending to councillors last wick He asked for addition funds to make up this shortfall from the north If ultimately we can create a United then we can look forward to Ihc day the funding dollars request cd of this council Will actually decrease rather than increase Mr Ray said The Planning Council received its request for an additional towards forming a Halt on United Way Welfare cases last an average of 36 months Herald staff The average welfare case lasts between and six months and recipients either find a Job or qualify for other funding sources like old age security or disability pensions We re anticipating that our case loads won t Increase but so much depends on what happens In Ihc financial markets with the dollar and inflation rates which affects unemployment Mr Szwartc said If there a downturn In the economy the effect on social services is delayed hesaid People go on unemployment Insurance or to heirsovingsbeforelhey Mr Szwarc said The amount of money given by welfare depends on the shelter costs size of the family age of children and whether the individual la employable or not These factors and whether there is any other income that might be coming to the family are assessed before the welfare cheque is made out Museum needs million facelift Plans to spend mil lion to renovate Halton Museum or find a new home for It were made lost week Halton region fin once and administration committee put the million figure in their 1986 capital forecast re cognizing conditions l the best for pres historically slgni i cant artifacts at the existing museum build at Milton We know we have to do something about it Coun Carol Gooding said She noted the province requires certain stand aras be met by museums and that the musium needed work to comply with those standards So far the region I set any monty aside toward such a project but anticipates it will cost In 1988 The rest of Ihc funds arc to come from government subsidies Burlington Joan Lillle objected to naming figure in the region s five year capital forecast Maybe we should plug in something that more realistic so that 1 million docsn t become a target figure she sold Chief Administrator Officer Dennis Perlln said the project or the budget for it presented In the capital forecast t binding on regional council Regional treasurer Joe encouraged councillors to make the forecast to help In the region budget planning Tor the future It only being appro ved as a forecast You hove every right to change It when the re port comes in he reas sured Planning for the future is helped if we know what coming up has said to me that to fix up the existing facility to meet the frankly may not be that much less than a ew facility Mr Perl in said lies expecting It will be less but it could be very expensive is the museum director Small school war There s a small war going on Stewart town Senior Public School Student actors will be presenting their annual play April 10 and 11 at John Elliott Theatre larting at It called The Small War In Corridor A plot revolves around a battle of the sexes in a modern high school Tickets cost for adults and 50 for students For more information call 1637 fancy The Acton Y is offering a scries of quilting and workshops Each workshop is two days long and costs 18 Workshop topics will bo stain glass quilting curved seamed patchwork boderie perse and All workshops will be held on Tuesdays betwecn9 and m for more Information call 8531070 Herald quiz winner Robert Burnett wont be keeping his Herald quiz prize The teacher from McKenzie Smith Public School in Acton has other plans for his book Loyal She Remains Mr Burnett said the he entered the weekly quiz contest was to see if he could win the book for his school library playoff quiz he Association She scored eight out of ten Remains Is a history The prize was donated book about Ontario over by the Empire Loyalists the past ZOO years Honey Pot signup Honey Pot Nursery School in Acton is having an open house Friday from to 30 for Bring your child who 5 years old Activities and refreshments are provided The school Is located at 11 School Lane behind the 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