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Page IS YEAH END REVIEW Wednesday December IMi Accident with bus incites anger Committee pulls OUt Five public School students narrowly escaped injury Sept 16 after a gravel truck Into the aide of a school but van on the Fourth Line One the children had Jut gotten of the bus and daihed fat cover once be saw the gravel truck ap proaching The truck jack knifed and knocked the van which was stopped Into a ditch The incident prompted an angry reaction from Coun Sheldon who demanded a hidden driveway sign be put up September Mayor Run Miller kicked off his election campaign at the Cedar Sw ing Motel Sept Over people attended The Mayor took on Regional Coun Sheldon In the election Two consultants studies had the Acton landfill study group Ing accuracy In September Georgetown resident were told for the lint time that their drinking water supply will be affected by leaking from the proposed dump although the amount would be negligible And residents hotly disputed a consultants claim that property value of homes surrounding the site would go down only is per cent if the dump is built alto objected o the claim that only houses half a Almost IS people poured through the gates of the Georgetown Fall Fair the weekend of Sept HI The successful fair experienced a huge increase In attendance over the previous edition or his undying support of free trade in Sept with a cabinet post Mr McDennld was appointed Minister of State for Housing and Minister of State for International Trade by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney The appointment ended months of speculation and even speculation of retirement about Mr McDermld Rural residents bad some harsh words for town councillors Sept saying gravel trucks are running other motor vehicles off lbs road 1 want these gravel trucks off 17 the Fourth Fifth Line the Sixth line and Halton Road one resident said The town responded by recom mending the new council hire a tic consultant to study the truck traf 1c problem In Hills In a bid to curtail deficit spending the Children Aid Society an nounced It was cutting Infant adop tion service the but week In The CAS agreed to service the families on the Infant adoption waiting list but It said no more re quest would be accepted Douglas said that a walkout by members of the Acton landfill quarry group would not delay Reclamation Systems ultimate goal of opening a landfill site Committee members pulled out of a public Information process meeting at the Milton Lions Club The walkout caused the public In formation process demanded by the environmental assessment act to end a month early saldDr Committee members staged the walkout In protest to the way In which RSI la conducting the meetings and the type of Informa tion that Is coming from them said committee leader Barbara Hone thin SO and specialists split up into workshops to discuss a final report by the Group recommending a pipeline be brought up from Lake Ontario to ser vice Milton and the Highway 0l in dustrial corridor The multimillion dollar project was not to be In the works until early In the next century Hills coundllon said that such a pipeline could spell the end of much of the agricultural land in southern Hills because of the servicing and that It could lead to pressure from developers to build on October Regional Police frustrated Police reported many incidents of pellets being shot through windows and other objects in the past few later In the month Helton Regions Public Health nurses voted overwhelmingly to strike Oct according to Ontario Nurses Association Local dent Laura Cook The union was demanding an in crease In wages and benefits but Ms Cook would not say bow much of an Increase the members were seek news Water and sewer rates Increase only per cent In but the waste budget was to in crease to per cent The Increase In the solid waste budget was mainly due to tbe fact that was to be the first year exports 100 per cent of Its garbage This meant that taxpayers would have to pay a total of seven per cent more in utilities for roc year Director of tbe Board of Education Bob William told prin cipals to stop reciting tbe Lord Prayer following a government memorandum Sept I ve asked them to refrain from reciting the Lord Prayer In the In terim before a policy is reached said Mr Williams last week Until we have an opportunity to sort this out It means no prayers be said Mr Williams said the Board con sulted lawyers to determine an in terim decision before the Ministry of Education hands down a definite directive The Town of Halton Hills hired lawyer Roger Beaman to help in against the Acton landfill pro- Mr Beaman of the law firm Thompson Rogers will help guide the town through the complicated steps of tbe Environmental Assess ment process In the fight against tbe dump The next step was to be to hire an environmental specialist followed by consultants In the areas of needed study such as hydrology In the fight of Love York was at Georgetown School to tell people about the dangers of living next to a landfill site Ms Glbbs horrifying tale was the subject of a television movie The emotional and dynamic speech was followed by hearty applause She urged residents to make tbe fight against the landfill a political battle Prime Brian Mulroney chose to kick off his benefits Free Trade would bring for companies such a 1MB federal election campaign with a tour of Mold Mold Masters but turned a cold shoulder to members of Masters Ltd In Georgetown Mr Mulroney spoke on the Ihopresswhoshoweduplnmasslvenumben Inaction concerning the problems with heavy track traffic on Fourth Line and IT spurred Margaret a resident of the area to chastize Councillor Joe Hewitt before council Mrs was the mother of a boy who was narrowly missed by a gravel truck In a collision with a school bus containing five children on Fourth Line In September of lSBt In addition to tome concessions made by town council Mrs Bruton alio urged police to consider redeploying some officers Into the 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