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BEST AVAILABLE COPY FREE DISTRIBUTION WEDNESDAY JUNE 1989 PAGES Ripe for the picking Its time tor those juicy red berries to be picked off vines once again and Brian Poth of Milton and Sabrlna of Umebouse arent wasting any time Andrews Acres was the setting for a United Way fandralslng event Sunday The berry festival Ice cream pony rides and other events Several farms Including An drews Helvetia Farms Charles Grelg Farm and Farms combined to raise well in excess of for tbe United Way chairperson Joan says The rabed Is a record for the annual event photo by DonnaKell Mayor should get raise committee says By DONNA KELL Herald Staff A citizens committee set up to review local councillors salaries has recommended the mayor of Halton Hills receive a pay increase of bringing his total wage up to over a year Town councillors heard these figures Monday night as Ross Knechtel chairman of the commit tee reviewing the town staff salaries filed a report The report suggested a monthly car allowance of 400 for the mayor and a salary increase of The mayor presently makes a year before adding the Regional salary of about a year Town councillors now being paid a year could be looking at in creases of each And Regional councillors currently receive a year on top of the town salary And the five member council suggested a monthly car allowance for councillors If approved the increases would take place over the next three years The figures were the product of research into what other municipalities paid their staffs said Mr Knechtel himself a former councillor But Coun Lil Bowman question ed Mr Knechtels sources As councillors I certainly do think we need the background informa tion Other municipalities wages are public knowledge she said But Mr Knechtel said I cant give it to you I cant give somebody elses salary But he encouraged councillors to find the figures themselves Georgetown Coun Ann Currie said the salary committee which included local residents Mr Knechtel Jo Lister Hartley Coles Bob Malcolmson and Fred Har rison should be trusted in recom mending town staff salaries We set this committee up we should be quite happy with not to query them to death on their sources she said But Mayor Russ Miller said he also wondered where the figures came from He said he expected a report to be included in this weeks town council agenda The mayor asked the towns treasurer to report on any budget implications the salary hikes might mean for the town and any tax ramifications there might be Four people struck by lightning ByBENDUMMETT Herald Staff A Glen Williams man was struck by lightning while talking on the telephone and unplugging a kettle at the same time during Saturday nights storm Hills Fire Department of ficials say a man received burns to his mouth when lightning struck his Road house The man did not need to go to hospital Fire officials fay once the lightn ing struck it travelled through the houses wiring Although officials could not be specific they said the effects of the lightning strike also caused a small electrical fire the next day at the Wildwood Road home Two Hundred dollars in damage was caused when a plastic dryer vent in the house caught fire The also yictimied another Road This house covered in asphalt and gravel during the storm that wiped out over in town engineering work on the road Once again Road has been washed out said Hills Coun Joe Hewitt Monday Work was done on the road last year Estimated costs for the damage from the weekend rain storm range from to The rain simply washed out that work said town engineer Ted Drewlo Lightning also struck three other Hills people the day of the storm while they were standing near an and water outside a Lot 28 and Concession 7 area house Fire department of ficials say no one was seriously in jured as a result of the incident Several alarm activations made the other calls responded to by Continued on Page a