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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), February 18, 1987, p. 8

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Town Country SAME DAY SERVICE MONDAY TO FRIDAY IN BY 10 OUT BY HILLS SHOPPING CENTRE LJtheHERALD SECTION Till- III- HAU in IBM For 30 Years Pollution worries over dump plan Reaction to the Idea of dumping spend to not having much on the landf filing proposal My first reaction was panic then maybe It just a then how are we going to handle if Helton Kills Mayor Buss Miller said My reaction was e re definitely against It we ve fought It before Although he known about it for a month the Mayor said he still t know much about It Until the town receives a proposal it s premature to act he said The Mayor recalled facing the same situation about 15 years ago before Regional government Bock in the township days there was a threat Metro garbage would be burled in Hat ton Hills In an area where there were a number of I be more receptive if It was an incinerator he admitted There has been discussion for an in In the north and the would definitely have been the spot to set it up Mayor Miller said he had some serious reservations about burying garbage In a quarry He said he knows the area well and there ore a lot of springs there The Mayor doesn t want the town a ground water polluted because of lenchate from a quarry dump If town council decides to oppose landfill in In the Acton quarry it could be a very costly fight Mayor Miller said The town would have to hire consultants to do environmental and an environmental to defend it at a pro vinci ally required environmental assessment bearing Milton has already spent in environmental studies to fight the Regional proposal to put a dump in Its agricultural belt the Mayor noted i A letter from provincial Environ Minister Jim Bradley to the town says the province won I allow industries to pollute ground water streams In the area Mayor Miller said If the town decides it won fight the proposal to put a landfill in Ac ton and decides it doesn want to million to fight it it can work on some hard nosed the applicant The town should then go for an air light agreement from the province and the developer guaranteeing there will be no pollution of the streams of ground water Major Miller said It should insist on free dumping for the town with the town to receive royalties on every tonne of garbage dumped at the landfill This would mean considerable saving for Halt on Hills which currently spends over half a million dollars annually to truck municipal wastes to thi Regional dump in Burl As well the town should negotiate for a reduced rati of dumping for Hills industries lie Mayor A local landfill operating under such conditions would have con benefits fur the town It would mean no lux inert for snow removal mid oilier pro jects and services tin town cm ford right now Mayor Miller s Wed to get something out of it if we re going hate all those trucks Ruing in there he said I still have mj doums whither they can engineer those things dumps so they re foolproof A committee should be set up the town to look into the proposal and what alternatives tin town Ins Town Coun Pirn Sheldon she heard about the I illinii proposal she was numb rhi whole thing is ludicrous she said Piter said he heard about tin idea via the grapevine a while ago I heard this Tuesday teb lot that the sere fait active still don t know whole lot about what they ve done Mr said was shaken up that at this late date there was another in the game He said he didn t know if the cant was going to come forward as an intervener in the Region s en vironmental assessment hi begins in May The Regional Chairman said Burl or Milton may ask the Acton applicant to Intervene with the argument that here another land fill site let take a look at it It could work as delay tactic in favor of these two municipalities who were finalists in the landfill site selection process The applicant may not be in In developing the site as a public landfill or hi could be ready to present evidence on his own behalf Mr Iomcraj postulated The Day After employee Mlchatl Clarke Handing beside what Is left of a accllon of the Mushroom Growers Ltd building destroyed by fire Damage of the lire at the plant on Highway just south of win estimated at by director of ope rail una Keith were called at S El The chimney on he boiler where toot built up and Ignited Is the suspected cause of he fire a report from the fire department states Sunday drivers no myth theyre possibly drunk Decision on dumpsite in about three months Herald Stiff There be a staff report on tin proposal to establish a dump in Ac ton Hal ton Regions chief ad officer CAO said That report is being put now for the Regions Solid Waste- Management Commit tic meeting next week John lemingsald It be up to councillors to decide What next As far as know it private proposal from a company that wants to operate a private landfill site not as an to s land fill site proposals Mr Filming told The Herald It s hard to say whether they will part of hearing at this point There is no landfill proposal before Ihi town or inlore yet A Toronto firm his been undine studies mi tin United ton Shielding lie i decision on li jo ihi id est a dump in Hit v ill In mid in months hits whin ticlpate- enough dnti will In in compiled to Mr says the is to ahead Hen ll firm will bring its proposal to first A of ippiuvah would In mid from tie Region tin Commission hi pro tUeli in nullum dun By AM PI- IH- IIIAN Herald Staff If thou gilt or Saturday were the mast dangerous times to bcour driving Hilton Police Const Blair Vintinncr says the most time to be out on the road is Sunday evening That when the traffic fatalities Involving alcohol happen 1isl there were motor Hal tun which someone died and per cent of them involved an unpaired driver Const Vint inner said If want to go get don do It then drive the con stable told about pcorle attending an presentation organized by Hills Against Drinking and Driving IIHADD last week The group was started up by Acton High School students who think drinking and driving should stop A number of the Traffic Bureau tons Is first on the scene when a fatal car crash oc curs He also the one who must wike un the and family of die traffic victim and tell the had news Its something he doing Usually it the Impaired driver who survives and the innocent ones who don t and he not the one who has to go to tin house and tell parents of the dtath of their loved one Const Vmtmnersaid hi Monday Tuesday or Wcelnes day evening one out of seven people you meet on the roid has been drinking or is impaired the stable said The odds go up to one our of five for Thursday and Saturday Sunday it of three Married and father of three ConM said it s too late to try change the drinking and driving of Ins generation Our t going to dump the young people who on going to ilnnge he They must it o drive The film I inn 1 can I Drive I can Die was by the constable as a movie made by people in the United Student Heather said it really hurts to lose a friend and il mokes teens realize they re not in destructible It can happen You really can die And when others try to console and say I know how you feel my grand mother passed away it isn I thi same Their grandmother had whole life she had children and grandchildren Heather 18 said In percent of alcohol related deaths the dead were under of age she You think the hell did this happen Heather said With all the given to dangers drinking and driving people I the excuse to say know Heather said I don want to be driving down the other side of the road and you re coming at me I don t want to get killed and don wint to hear any more about friends getting kill because it s not fair especially if it snot my fault she concluded Her older brother an ambulance driver with the Ambulance Service said he seen some terrible accidents in his first year on job David said il becomes very disheartening when you re tall to a scene and you know alcohol was involved Drivers hove to take the person with the greatest injury first to the hospital which may mean the Injured victim gets left at the seem while the ambulance speeds away with the drunk dm at hard o explain to the ami ly members of tin Mr ill collisions where they ripped limbs off people That film showed no si reaming no mother crying for diughtir there It something I hope vou never to experience With mi Inn ambulance service in up an at such in scene means others needing an ambulance for isons like a heart attack may to will minutes until an am from gets then s too he said Halton police crack down on truckers By Herald staff Truckers ore trying to get with overloaded trucks Regional found last week Out of 16 truckers stopped and checked during four list week charges were laid against KG of them Const Brad of the Traffic Bureau told The Along with being overweight there were oilier charges laid also charges for Improper tires and m secure loads the const said re ripping the roads down here Const said It a mess TakL a drive along Avenue The overloaded trucks priimnly trucks hauling 1c said noting nearly every other on the mad gravel truck Trucks found to be overweight hid between i to pounds cargo the said lh givin by police costs or their firm Some of the drivers deiHiiduif how much were had to unload tilt ir scales and ill for to tin ixtr wen stopped on Steele Avenue between Martin and in Milton a on Trafalgar ids Const Each driver knows how much let tin when he gels his- s a lot of room improvement when vou i tints coco pounds lit sud Monday of tankers stopped were chirked Word jround of tin police spot checks so I fewer were 1 ild Coast said The track li isn lightened the truckers just lightened their bid the police Truckers ire paid amount Ihcir Imd mil it s ti id van to lake on mo Inn Besides ripping up the nig driving for other the overloaded truths He iviir li slopping mil their weight inciuriii him li lurrcliloiigf isier I ve seen horrifying A contract with parents Acton parents and teenagers are urged to makr a contract with another a contract that should either one be loo impaired drive the other will pick Ihem pay for their transportation home Thais what members of Hills Against Drinking and Driving at Acton High School to see With over SO per cent traffic accidents Involving teenagers ami alcohol this threemember committee to hue frirnds In IH McMillan 17 and 17 handed out of a sample contract last week during a at the high school Fashionable lunch it the Terra Inn were Heather Burke of ill tiiliinii show at It fuitiirrd spring wear from i llinlirlli Icriihl plinln store manager s and ridaj she win also Ihe shop Soft n spring QUALITY IS JOB 1 IN EVERYTHING WE SELL AND SERVICE TRUCKS CAR OF THE WEEK All These Vehicles Include 1 Train Warranty for 6 Months or Km 1985 MUSTANG GT Air Stk No 9709 1985 LTD At t MUST it fif TEMPO i Mm 196SCEH7UHYLTa MARQUIS a CELEBRITY HI 19S4PDNT J t LTD it i im 13 WAGON 214 OB 19MCAPll5rf 19B3CIIUASS4 i 1903 T B9 19S3MUST t 4 198SDOOGEPU run CHEW 40 1984 DODGE RAM GO PICKUP 206 72 71 224 154 Monthly Payments Based on months 1 3 0 Down A Including TRUCK OF THE WEEK 1986 F1 50 6 Auto Slk No CAPITAL FORD SALES 361 St Georgetown 8731626

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