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Personnel group The Georgetown Personnel Group would like to extend an In vitation to all businesses attend meetings It meets the fourth Thursday every month from 12 at the North Ha I ton Goir Club lower level banquet room Yearly membership is per company and any size of Corpora lion may loin Discussed are mutual problems such as hiring policies and wage structures At most meetings it has speakers covering topics such as human rights workers compensation government wage subsidies the Employment Standards Act safe ty programs high school coop pro grams employee morale absenteeism prevention and a host of other personnel related items It is a virv Informal group with executive or minute taking The members arc made up of person nel managers from large corpora lions and general managers from smaller ones If your company is Interested in Joining call Lois Elliott Custom Brokers Limited Wins contract Supply and Services Canada has announced Instrumentation Ser- icra Ltd will supply Scanroy systems to the Transport Department Ottawa Bureau Holiday hours The Canadian Red Cross Society Georgetown chapter will be closed to the public during the holiday season The Bed Cross office Is dosed from Dec until Jon For more information call 877 5253 Immunizations An clinic is held the second Tuesday of each month from 1 30 m at the health department Main Street South in Georgetown For an appointment call Whim By s wins The storefronts were judged Saturday and Whimsy was an the winner of the annual contest for the best decorated win dow in downtown Georgetown The runner ups were Oxbow Books tied with Georgetown General Store All Business Improvement Area members were eligible to enter contest The post winners were IBM Whimsy s Barber Jewellers Carols Hair and Beauty Salon New Levee Are you proud of your town Come on out then for an old style New Years Day Levee at the Hills Library and Cultural His Worship Mayor Miller and members of the Halton Hills Town Council Invite all citizens to a gathering from m at Halton Hills cultural centre Photo winners Photos submitted for the Halton Hills Tourism Committee photography contest will be on display at the towns library cultural centre Dec The winners will be presented with their prizes Dec at m The photos will be used to promote tourism in Halton Hills The theme of the photo contest was Autumn in Hills Yule services Special Christmas services will be held at Holy Cross Parish on Maple Avenue throughout the holidays On Christmas re a Family Moss will begin at which features the Children Pageant and 12 Midnight Mass will begin at 30 pm with Christmas carols There will be no a Mass on Christmas Day The first Mass with Children Pageant wilt be at a m There will also be a Mass at 12 noon Confessions are scheduled for these times on Saturday the from 30 a m until 30 p and following the p Mass until Confession Is also scheduled after the 30 m Mass until on Wednesday December on Thursday December fromZpm until 5 pm Stop smoking Is your New Year resolution to stop smoking The Lung Association Countdown program can help Countdown Is week course designed to help you understand your habit and stop smoking forever Courses start on January and January 18 1988 Daytime courses are also available For further In formation call the Lung Association at SECTION A HERALD Wednesday December IS 1987 Page Pupils return to smoking area Fashionable display Fashions put on a fashion show for men only at the North Golf and Country Club Dec ID The show featured various types of gifts for men to for Christmas Including Indira shots handbags and fashions One on In anticipation as opens a Christmas sur prise is left to right Margaret Vint Jessie Jacobs Pauline and Heather Herald photo Help the Christmas needy Good Neighbor Service Is In need of strong men cars and rucks and Christmas food for the needy The annual Georgetown Christmas charity drive is well underway says coordlnator Siena van Sorting this year will be done at Guelph Street Unit 37 near the ReMax building Volunteers are needed Dec is to help sort goods Dec to help pack gift baskets and Dec to deliver the gifts For more information call Donations for Good Neighbors can be dropped off at Drive in Georgetown To help Acton families In need of a hearty meal Christmas drop your canned goods money clothing or toys to 114 Mill Street in Acton Santa manages calls to 550 local pupils With the new ad in telephone the Georgetown Optimist Club and the Halton Hills Depart have pooled their to hook up a special telephone again this year to the North Pole Santo Claus himself has been over students in Hilton Hills in kindergarten and Gridt I day and today to lei them know they re on his Christ is list With elves working feverishly in the background Santo sometimes has in strain to hear what the children are saying but hi already knows names of family pels what the kids want for Christum thanks to special Intormition shut filled out by the students parents it various schools throughout Hills said well Liu Town supervisor of Eight rs from Op timist Club gathered togtthtr last night Tuesday and will It again tonight Dec to insure each student whose trims havi Tonights for parade Tonight the night for the parade of lights The Kinsmen annual tour of lights for senior citizens is ready to roll through the streets of Georgetown The service club members want to remind citizens to turn on your lights for the busloads of elderly who will participate In the event The seniors will be picked up In Travel ways buses and Act Van at designated pick up points At ap proximately 30 m the buses will meet the Marketplace The bus convoy will be tsenrted by the Regional Police as many streets as possible says pro ject chairman Dave Bradbury Afterwards the seniors will be Ski program A Jack Rabbit cross country ski program is being held for boys and girls ages at Park Jan 17 from and tin cost is The course consists six lessons each Sunday from January until February You can sign up for the program at the Town of Hills it ion Department or call filled out form has a clear and direct ne to tin North some t the kills even get inance to talk to the and Mrs Clous said Ms Powell The was first to Hilton Hills ago by ly the Tnvins Superintendent of He had seen the program work well in Cambridge so he gave the information to Town staff in ami Siinli personal calls hive become popular every year since then said Ms Powell You slid me f them a little con thiy the call is rim tin N rlh Pok Tliost lives hinting and in tht working hard In the toyshop help prove to the krds lint is miking the call By BRIAN Herald Staff Students at Georgetown District High School will soon have their smoking area back Smoking in GDHS was banned for students In February and their smoking area In the centre lyard was taken by the school Teachers however were allowed to smoke In the school in a designated area About 300 students protested the ban Oct wnen they organized a sit In on Highway closing the rood for over an hour The protest broke up when Barb Singleton agreed to tern vote to strike Workers at Curwood Packaging Ltd in Georgetown have voted In favor of strike action A spokesman Tor the Graphics Communications International Union Local sold the workers voted to tum down a contract offer by the company Dec They followed that with a vote to give the union a mandate to coll a strike The union which represents about 115 workers at the plant is negotiating its first contract since gaining certification In April The two sides have been bargain since mid- June and a Dec meeting with conciliator resulted in he contract offer The workers voted on Thursday The conciliator has called for another meeting between the two sides on Dec said Curwood President Barry Kedwcll Mr said the fact that a contract offer came out of Dec talks means there is some progress being made He Is still optimistic that a settle ment con reached without a strike No date has yet been set for a a union spokesman said Tht union Is reported be asking for more money no mandatory overtime no continental shifts and better benefits the night of lights brought to St Andrew United Church for a reception The entertainment Is being by Terry Champ and members of Georgetown Choral Society Refreshments are being provided and Clous will be on to present door to lucky in duals After sing songs and conversation buses will take the seniors hack to thtpick up points The Kinsmen club appreciates the help of local merchanls who provide gifts and refrcshm year after year said Mr porary lift smoking suspensions and set up a review of the school Ingpollcy The new policy is a result of weeks of meetings following ihe proper process Ms Singleton said in a let tertoThc Herald It Is our sincere hope that the lions of the students involved in the protest will not be seen by our students and community as having been rewarded by the decision to reinstate the smoking area Ms Singleton said in the letter Only students who are at least years old will be allowed to smoke in the central courtyard area and only if their parents sign a contract allow the student to smoke The school has now set up a committee consisting of several students and four advisory teachers said Ms Singleton That committee produced a dent expectations report which was circulated around the school Dec 14 said Susan Orchard a teacher on the advisory committee The Teachers met four times with a group of students to set rules and regulations of the reinstated area said Ms Orchard Students will help monitor the smoking area said Ms Singleton The students followed the process of reexamining the smoking Issue very well she said Ms Orchard thinks the students are anxious to help do their part to keep the smoking area The students dldn balk at the Fire calls Dec 12 p A motor dent was reported at Highways and The people had been removed from the car by the time the fire department arrived Dec A resuscita lion call at Gib North of A man with a self inflicted gunshot wound was given oxygen and the wound was covered until the ambulance arrived Dec II a A filse alarm set off the Centre by soldering repairs Dec a 47 p false at the ambulance station 17 St Dec to a resuscita Hon call at 25 cast of lie 1st Line Ambulance and firemen arrived simultaneously to find a woman in labor A boy was and mother anil son were taken to Milton hospital Dec 10 10 p A Hon call to i woman having chest pains Willow St Dec 11 Smoke in the basement was reported at St and a smouldering rag covered In linseed oil was discovered in cupboard Dec 11 Amoloroccl dent Church St In Acton The fire deportment washed down a gas spill Dec fl 30 pm chimney fire at Cameron St in Acton No damage was Dec 12 am false alarm wis reported at the building at 2 St Dec p A false alarm was reported at Holy Cross School on Ma pie St TRIO NOW AVAILABLE AT OUR MOOflE VHS MOVIE RENTALS KIDS CORNER FOR DAYCARE AND NURSERY SERVICES The following businesses will be pleased to serve you so give them a call School DAYCARE CENTRE For 18 months ti kindtigtrtsn toy Fmm Open am till a 8777310 Brampton 8462935 ass Idea of having their parents sign a smoking contract The students thought It was a feasible way of controlling students that are under she said The new smoking area will likely open Jan said Ms Orchard Student Council President Lisa Wallers who sat on the two commit tecs which reviewed smoking policy thinks the contracts are a good idea The school we arc I Id Is responsible for the students she said Only students who arc 10 or 17 years old have to have tlieir parents The student responsibilities con tract circulated around the school Dec 14 must In signed by everyone in the school Anyone caught in the courtyard smoking area who has not signed the student responsibilities contract will be violating the school rules Lisa admitted the student protest did get the school attention but they could have gotten atten tion In another 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