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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established WEDNESDAY MAY 1987 OPEN 1010 7 DAYS A theolde HouseJ Its the Dm to MD receives reasons for revocation The Georgetown doctor who had his hospital privileges revoked has- been given the reasons why the decision was made In an interview Tuesday Jack ford said he had something from the hospital board but that reasons given were very vague Ford was asked about his reaction the open hospital board meeting last week where a Hon of his supporters spoke on his behalf I think 1 feel the same way An Ontario Hospital Appeal Board hearing dale has not teen set however he said The doctor lawyer has filed the necessary papers and now the hospital must do the same he said Ford said for he time being the issue about patients being able to use the tab testing facilities Is resolved more or less None of his patients require any testing at the moment and he hasnt had Ihc opportunity to see whether other patients would be denied teyling privileges The obstetrician gynaecologist said hes had no choice but to refer his patients to other doctors It is the decision of his patients whether they want to sec a physician from Georgetown or another town he said the patients of Ford who arc opposing the hospital boards decision are writing letters Ministry of Health A letterwriting campaign to the Ministry will locus on concerns about quality of care at the hospital said Donna Robin Last week there were about four meetings with patients of Ford attending in Acton Georgetown and Brampton she said The mam reason for the meetings was to make sure the patients were being looked after properly she said One or the Items the patients are writing about lo the Ministry has tn do with the long wait to have a case heard at the Ontario Hospital Ap peal Board she said Joy of the Ontario Hospital Appeal Board said a hear ing date wont be set until the board meets at the end of May There Is no indication when the appeal hearing will begin because there are several other cases ahead Fords she said The Appeal Board has received a request for hearing from Fords lawyer The Georgetown District Memorial Hospital has days after the board receives the request in order to submit their pleadings she said Holding the fort With he onslaught spring comes many boats during the spring weekend weal While drop he hockey sticks to turn lu an sun top and Jason Wilson chose baseball soccer and rugby others lake up gardening playground behind M Bennett School I Many Hills resident tie seen scrubbing day Both dreg and Jason heir cars and a few could even be seen polishing Photo Brian MacLeod jl lie No rural road work cane The rural road- slated for repairs In the budget will get the work they councillors reaffirmed Monday night It wasnt without a tight that Coun Peter Norton made sure sur face treatment wasnt cancelled for a second year for Tenth Line north The problem Is the 1BH7 budget for rural road surface treatment repairs t enough to handle the new damages caused by he spring breakup IN THE fflfLLS The gift of life Give the gift of life and be a blood donor May there will be blood donor clinic In Georgetown at the Holy Cross Church Auditorium The clinic begins at 1 30 a and ends at There is a special need for donors who have negative and negative blood The blood dime has changed so lhal donors wont be moved as much as before There will be com bined bleeding and rest beds allowing longer exposure to lug staff and reduced space re- Chairmans low pay Heltons Regional Chairman is the lowest paid of six area Regions recent survey shows Peter Pomeroy is paid while the Regional chairman of York earns Waterloo Regional chairman Regional chairman Durham Regional chairman and Niagara Regional chairman When It to allowances for councillors is not at the bottom councillors cam while their counter parts in Niagara cam Waterloo 10970 Peel 17 Durham and York Father electrocuted A 26year old father who died at Varian Canada was Regional Police Larry was working in he Microwave Tube Department of Varian when he was discovered the floor at 20 He was pronounced dead a short later at Georgetown District Memorial Hospital The Ministry of Labour and Police are in the cause the dent Many the roads resurface treated in need repair again in town Operations Engineer Ted said Damage the road base severe last spring that until the road base is repaired pro blems will continue In hose areas The budget has 1GJ000 for surface treatment The town could use mother 30 for reconslruc and asphalt repairs to between Highway and Eighth Line In 10 from Sixth Line west and to from Ninth Line west St veral more rui roads need treatment and scarifying wiih costs estimated at They ire Fourth Line from Highway 7 to 17 from In Highway from me to Highway Tenth 1 me from to mli Ninth line from In Con federation lirsi Hue from I lei Mill Street and Sixth Line from Avenue to Side road 15 The town treasurer and engineer were asked by councillors find the necessary funds for these repairs the existing budget without dropping road repairs council had approved already Sheldon backed Norton In opposing the engineer proposal to shift road projects scheduled for 1987 to another ear The own spent more that 100 in rural road rcpairi last I was the worst spring breakup in years Mr said Acton must wait yet another year for water It took Georgetown years to get sufficient water anil Acton should he to wall at least another year and a half for water Itrglun spubllcworks director Hob Moore said the Region has hired a firm to do a preliminary design tor he Prospect Park welt in Acton and Is hoping o tune a prrllmlnarv certificate of approval the Ministry of he Environment in mini in There are circumstances that make that difficult Mr Moore said at Monday nights general committer meeting He didnt what they were a preliminary certificate of approval to operate a at Im Park is he hurdle for he right now he said Once hats the can hen undertake detailed design work and then apply for a certificate of approval Mr Moore ex plained s Planning Director noted he has given go ahead to lanvillr subdivision In Acton for units and its up to now and servicing to go Rash Mohammed salt Dump site opponents in high gear BRIAN Mac KOI Herald Staff POWER he group organized to fight a proposal to use Ihc limestone quarry south of Acton as a landfill has moved its cam poign Into high gear Its mandate is to develop an awareness of the residents of North to the problems of waste water pollution and the protection of their environment according to the POWER charier Regional Councillor Pam Sheldon on hand at a meeting April lo urge the group to take every step possible to fight the pro The of to do with waste is at crises proportions its an emergency Its a very very serious problem Coun Sheldon warned The 20odd members of lo write Waste Systems Limited the company set make he proposal for copies of he volumous document which pro vides the background material for the proposal They also intend to adapt exten sive mailing list in order to keep en vironment ministry officials in cluding Environment Minister James Bradley and other involved parties Informed of their ongoing struggle against trie dump site Perhaps he most extensive tool newsletters lo hose affected both directly and indirectly by the pro posed dump Sheldon said she wondered what former housing and tourism minister Claude was doing at a meeting with when the proposed site was discussed She believes there is movement behind the scones to make sure the Acton is up or cunsideralinn Sheldon lolit she only learned of the Impending pro one day before the preliminary She believes she was told of the proposal because lawyer Mitjuaig was about to make the proposal public the i Six feels was trying In cover because they knew I he proposal was lo become Itiirlinglon people knew Milton people knew hut told as What a way to treat us Sheldon said I can only assume they have the worst on strategy lo divide and in renlly looking at and Im wondering who known about this before us she Plan not yet reviewed Until Region receives formal application to put In a dump in the United Aggregates n Acton Regional stuff wont lie spending time on reviewing or commenting on Hie proposal Chief Administrative Of fleer Fleming decided last Members of the Regions and public works committee agreed to wait until a formal sub mission is received from the pro Regional staff have been told Shi el dings Incorporated has no in of Interfering with landfill selection process or of participating in the consolidated hearing on Halloas new landfill site which got underway yesterday Tuesday wants rehabilitate the United Aggregates quarry Into o private landfill and bus hired Waste Management Con of Milton undertake technical studies at the site Com cor recently put out a draft report on the site Mr Fleming said no formal ap plication has been made lo he Ministry the Environment cither by the Acton quarry pro poncnts Ministry and ap provals will lie required for the proposal to proceed member Kevin McGregor worried that the site in Acton could handle million tonnes of would be used by Toronlo In cause of a crisis si tun there onn Sheldon acknowledged the group concerns but suggested potential water pollution is the mam Hills supplies Ms residents with wafer from wells some eel be con laminated should the quarry be used She also inlends Inquire why a private company can make ap plication for dump under the En vironment Protect inn Act rcgulu lions when public groups must also apply under the Act which contains much more slringenl rules for seek a dump site My greatest is that re going tn Intervene at the hearings which began yesterday and say dont just look at Burlington and Milton look Hurling on and Milton and Sheldon said Some members doesnt loo log garbage as a solution Colin Sheldon said recycles approximately per tent of Its garbage but youre not going to get per cent of the mainstream garbage recycled POWER now intends to met I every Thursday Limehouse School lip Rail spill potential in town Herald Stall It in and II could happen here Did know the Canadian National Railways route brings over carloads of dangerous goods annually through Georgetown In comparison rains running carry very little dangerous Roods less than 100 carloads annually I ist week members of federal transportation of dangerous goods task force turned up at Region with a slide presentation on rail safety Formed in March the task forte told planning and public works committee the federal government wants the rail transpor tation or dangerous goods improved the Toronto area Dangerous goods are products us by manufacturers and even They include diesel I pi Mi tides solvents paint pro pane chlorine sulphuric acid and The most rail accident in volving dangerous goods was the train disaster of 1979 when a train derailed and forced the evacuation of residents because of a chemicals spill Rati undents involving dangerous goods have fortunately lain few 14 in Ontario between 1980 and lKIS according lo the task force statistics There were no deaths and only one injury caused by these ic iidents In comparison there were at leasl twice as many truck accidents in voKiiir dangerous goods tosk force figures show Willi one death and five people injured Rerouting the network is one of the being considered by the Insk four One of the rerouting alternatives for moving dangerous goods through the Greater Toronto area makes use of the existing CN York Subdivision immediately north of Metropolitan Toronto plus a new rail line approximately miles joining the Gall from a point east of Milton lo the llnlton Subdivision southeast of such that iraffn inn be readily diverted to the Mine To help existing built up aieis 11ns alternative would also look at pulling in approximately Safety efficiency first If railways were operating more and efficiently it wouldn mutter if they were downtown or on the outskirts of a lown pointed nut an councillor last week frtd Oliver wants safe efficient train service In He recognizes society needs dangerous goods and they must be transported With lo carloads of dangerous goods travelling cast and west through Region dally safety is a prime concern when it comes to transportation Hills Coun Sheldon wanted to know if he federal transportation of dangerous goods ask force was looking into the ques tion of whether safely is Jeopardized by removing railway personnel and replacing them with a Ron one of the consultants working with he task force said technical studies commissioned by the task force will be looking at are related issues Milton Mayor Gordon expressed concerns both alter native options being by the task force will be bringing more rail traffic carrying dangerous goods through Irwin managing director of IBI Group said the proposed con nection in Milton of ihe and CP lines wouldnt be In the town itself but outside it As it Is now no recommendations have been made yet about Milton routes he stressed There is Hide hard That is why weve engaged con sultants lo be able I produce the hard information lask force Harold Gilbert said Seven consulting firms have been commissioned to look at aspects of safe rail transportation of dangerous goods miles new line In the Parkway Licit passing north Cer tain sections would require trackage to provide the necessary capacity for carrying both CN and traffic and would re quire new connections to the major north south lines Constructing a new rail line along the Ontario Ifydro right of way mediately north of Finch Avenue wiih connections at the west and east ends and to the north south lines isn i being recommende for con sideration Ncal Irwin managing director of 1111 Group said The consultant said it would be dif ficult and expensive to put rail through ihese lands and that the federal government wouldnt hove gained anything from such a r because a lot of people Hydro corridor already A second alternative being con is construction of a new mil bypass line farther to the north away from the development areas of Toronto Although involving higher capital and operating costs this op tion would have different risk and impact Implications Milton Mayor Gordon ask n this was from the masses of people However the mayor also pointed out significant growth will be taking place over the next to 50 years in these areas and wanted know If thai has been taken intonccount Mr Irwin said the year looked makes a difference Were looking 1901 as a nearby future year and also 2011 sec difference that makes on risk he said Factors being used for comparing ihe alternate routes are risk to public safety natural environment community impacts impacts on shippers and industry in service levels and competitiveness rail vice and its and and overall costs involved like capital land and operating Seven consulting firms have been commissioned to work with federal task force Their studies are lo be completed by September The task force will reiurn to Region and the public for public input on the fin dings The report of Ihe task to the Minister of is ex pectedbv March Red Shield Appeal May is Red Shield Month and he Salvation Army Ac Ion proclaim lie Rum The Ann Is mounting Miller wan asked sign Ihe official Its annual campaign and In documentation Seen here with him Hilts the goal In Acton is hack row left Dave there will be n residential canvas lliinurary Red Shield Campaign In Georgetown here will be a mall- halmian and Wilson Per- out campaign Herald photo