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Graduation time Bl Canada Day A 6 I Town complex reduced A3 BE Lifetime Sendee Guarantee Inquest recommends warning stop signs of a Herald Muff A bent stop sign pale was the focus of two Hills was held June at Milton Istrict Court Christine Wilcox and Man Robertson died March II at the Fifth Line and 15 intersection Pictures taken by the In constable of the Regional Police Blair Vmtlnner showed one of the stop signs on the Fifth Line turned away from traffic The pole had sharp twist in the base The sign was parallel to and not facing the Fifth Line traffic it was supposed to slop The fatal accident occurred when Christine Wilcox who was south bound on the Fifth Line drove by the turned stop sign Her car collided with the car in which Mary Robert son was a passenger and which was on 15 Constable Bryan Robertson Mrs Robert son son was driving the eastbound car Stephen Wingfleld was in car with Christine Wilcox He Is still on crutches from a leg broken in two places suffered during the accident Mary Robertson saw the Wilcox car coming and shouted to her son to brake but I was too close to the in tersection Mr Robertson testified He was driving miles per hour he said While in the witness box Stephen estimated the Wilcox was travelling miles per hour A person who witnessed the Wilcox vehicle Just before the accident testified the car was going at or above the speed limit Before the collision Mr Wingfleld said he and Miss Wilcox wire talk about a friend new bom child Between to 100 feet before the In Mr pointed out a friends house to Miss Wlfcox They glanced at It hesaid Christine A four member jury concluded the cause of the accident was that the southbound Wilcox vehicle failed to yield as stated In section 115 of the Highway Act This section states the driver on the left must yield to the one on the right The jury recommended stop war ning signs be placed on before Junctions wherever visibility for intersecting traffic is limited Dr Allistalr Macintosh presided over the inquest The purpose of the inquest is not to lay blame but discover the cause of the deaths and to make recommendations which prevent similar accidents Questions asked of witnesses the five lawyers present were about the condition of the stop sign Lawyers represented the Crown the Wilcox family the Robertson family the Town of Hills and Stephen Much of the discussion about the stop sign concerned Town of Halton Hills road grader working near the intersection the afternoon of accident Police photos show machinery tracks la to inches away from the sign post Con stable Vint inner said The Hills employee Bob Lindsay operating the grader testified he did not hit the sign post with grader or either of ils two blades If the blades had hit the sign they would have cut it off or bent It over Mr Lindsay said Norman McKay Is a road foreman for Region He testified grader could have twisted the sign if grader caught the side of the post Mr McKay passed the sign at 1 the day of Ihe accident The sign was in good shape he said The accident was at m the sumc Mr was working near tin intersection between I J 30 and i he testified Snow was milting and flooding was beginning Mr Lindsay was clearing the ditches of A mechanical engineer who specialties in the recreation of to determine the cause said he could not conclusively link the grader bent post Charles floss the engineer said trees along the roadwuy hindered Christine Wilcox view of the intersection Macintosh reported Christine Wilcox and Mary Robertson died from a combination of injuries seconds after the accident No alcohol was Involved the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established WEDNESDAY JULY 1986 nulla rutin r i OPEN I Hide House SUNDAYS ffiiniutoii It IIrfi Hi GO iIh ol 197 I the I Actons top citizen Tributes praise for Legion By Herald Staff A wise choice was the Ion Chamber of Commerce s lion of citizen of the year is called About GO people turned out da night to celebrate awarding of the honor to Branch 197 of Royal Canadian Legion It a very wise choice certainly the Chamber has marie for 1986 Regional Peter said Really an inslitu lion like legion in an com munity is one of the components of the heart of any community He commented on the of holding the citizen of the vcar rim ner Just before Canada and colled the liming of the tion Chairman the on politician to mark the occasion with an approving speech ind memonblha There wis good of I mi Kick It mum Hills lluss Miller am ilt Hurling Ml Don Hilton MI Oil Iclinik was represented Acton Ted Hilton The Aeton has been volved in many community and I know the is of its itimi Dun light said with pi from the It in sincere wish Mil will li It of sen ice vour Mr KniKhl letter from On the with km Hie 1io1 ml his ixicul till hi It Pn fluid P ten for pud to the Acton 1 ennui is will is in lefinn br inches id i A pi iqiii from the think the Acton For l itmiit pit I JUKI ly limine Ins Life in On it Their mam forms the pi nine i Although ikes MDs resign all hospital committees Herald Stair Georgetown doctors look another step in the escalating war against Hill Friday they considered themselves resigned from all hospital committees The decision resign was made Thursday morning at a meeting at tended by 18 local doctors who with the Georgetown District Memorial Hospital very body except one a I the meeting agreed lo resign Dr Don Train president of the medical staff at hospital said Dr Craig Browning was the sole opponent to move There is some disagree ment as what the best way of op posing itiBillW is of course Some doctors ire seeing emergen in their office some are work nig regular hours as they were before strike legislation lint tuns extra billing began others feel they be causing inconvenience lo their patients tr irintsud With the resignations hospital ad Brian Pollock is lefl with a difficult situation He must in form the government of the resign times and then it up lo the province deal with it as it sees fit rjnl expl lined The motion it view of Ik that in committee work in volunlarj and depends on eoontnlion between the staff committee meetings cut into mornings lunch hours or of flee hours Dr Trantsald We feel we have do something to protest and nut pressure on Trant said Its not gong to patient care in any w will still be looked after Georgetown doctor agreed He of Ihe board of representatives for the Ontario Chapter of the College of Family Physicians It s not in Ihe short term but 1 don see how it to keep the hospital functioning over the long term commit tee meetings mid The Herald these el there a lack of feci we can serve with several administrative the move puis the ipcutie abortion committee out commission as well Patients and their doctors will have to find mother hospital where the therapeutic abortion can be under 1 iken law a of three doctors must therapeutic in Ontario hospitals As fir is oilier snietmns there ire no plans it the moment of either the dep irtmenl or the hospital to Dr Print snd Our emergency will be Meet tlepir Ail Cabinet shuffle One less job for Jelinek surge in cancelled the president if the medical stuff said with Ihe situation assessed on day bda basis will be well so if were hoping to get those wisdom teeth got bit of a some of com nut ices doctors must participate in MP lost in Prime Minister llr Mulroncy s shuffle I week The politician lost one and kept til one asfdrascabinclpostmtsgii David Crombie is Die federal government s Secretary of State with responsibility for multicultunhsm taking the niullicuUurallsm portfolio Mr had shouldered Mr Jelinek kepi his title of Minister of fitness am itcur sport title Mr gave him following the IJH4 lection which swept the progressive conservatives into power He s Hilton PC Association president Doug old The Herald This Is his first love since 19HI Two portfolios were just loo lor Mr Jelinek Mr tissue Minister of minister on Ihe wee kind mil Mr Joliruk hid been given of choices for seals first choice is fitness As Tor Hi John In would lie Mr Mil rone Cheaper land the reason firm moves Mayor there as speculi however it he the ise the prime minister in changes to his parliament seen tines Mr Me Derm id is seen I the Minislerof It wis cheaper land in lint lured Acton s longtime employer Blow Press to Guclph Hills Mayor ftuss Miller says Ken Blow told me he was really upset with a couple of developers who were holding him for ransom when he tried to buy land on Mayor Miller told The Herald Apparently the were upwards of an aire The Mayor said the town was never approached with development applications or requests to change zoning on land by Blow Press They even approach me I phoned Ken nod I asked if there anything the town could do to keep them in town Mayor Miller said I was told he deal with the developers in town and anything the town had done The Perth Street firm employs about 25 and manufactures presses for metal stampings The move to later this year will close Acton plant Ken Blow declined to speak about the move The when con tactcd Tuesday Andy Blow is in the United States this week his father In the hills Busier hospital Visits to the emergency depart of Georgetown and District Hospital are up between and per cent said Brian Pollock acting administrator of the hospital Most of that increase is because local doctors are not seeing patients There are also pa coming from Brampton Mr Pollock said Outside of Hills visitors Brampton visitors arc the main source of the increase The most Brampton patients the hospital has seen in a day is Mr Pollock said exhibit An exhibition of paintings by Ken Danby Canadian artist and one of ihe finest realist painters In the world will hand in the Library Cultural Centre gallery In Georgetown from July to August The artist will attend the opening night gala on July 16 sponsored by the Friends of the Hills Libraries Tickets for this special event are priced at IS on sale at Acton and Georgetown libraries Victim in hospital Two Hills men were in lured in a single car accident on Tenth I at hideroad June If 45pm Gregory of Fifth in received minor injuries He was treated and reinsert from Georgetown and Memorial Hospital Stephen Kitchener of Main Street South in Acton suffered ma jor injuries and was transferred Toronto General Hospital where lie is in critical but stable No regional green Two things you can be sure of the new municipal complex One the building will be built with free iceess for the handicapped This was a request made of the town by ihe Handicapped Citizens Association of North This design access to the proposed building for those with physicoldiSiidv A second thing you can lie assured of Is that Ihe town com flex won I be regional green lie bright green thai makes administrative building in stand out The Municipally Owned Proper Committee Chairman Sheldon made these assurances last week to The Herald Put those green relief sunglasses seeks inj unction possible date set next week Berry appealing With milk and sugar that how Anna of likes her strawberries The youngster was out Saturday afternoon picking the ruby berries a Helvetia 1arm on line Georgetown photo Herald Slulf The Are i Association could be their concerns about Hills Can Coiiimillec recommeii to court as early as next week Lawyers of the Association and Halloo of will be with a court repnscn this week to scl a date said Kevin a member of the Speysidc Area Ratepayers Associa tion That court dale could be next week he said It will be In District The Speyside group is niost direct ly by School closing but they ire challenging all aspects of the eon committees report In a letter of intent dated June Wally the Hoards Director of Education the Speysidc group lawyer said the consolidation report is contrary to Education Act Ministerial Policy Board policy and Die rules of natural justice The Speysidc group wants stop consolidation process by getting an injunction If they achieve this in court the consolidation recommen would be reversed Things would be as they were before consolidation recommenda lions were approved and Wrigglesworlh would remain open The group states In letter of intent to Director that schools be kept open and operated in a manner consistent with the 198586 school year if injunction succeeds If there is an injunction and the decisions of consolidation- com mi lee are reversed some in the group would like to see the consolidation process attempted again Others believe there is no But if the consolidation process is attempted again the group would approve of a smaller study One of the problems they had with the study is that was loo large and involved loo many schools Mr said Support for the cause has should be no problem paying the lawyers fees which he expects to be between and parents are also in voived in the effort They ore contributing to fundraislng and slaying Informed through their represcnlalvc Mr said Once were In court I expect there will be more interest ho said To raise more money for the court case an outdoor barbecue and an auction are possible