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Escapee still at large An Oakville man police consider dangerous is still at large after a escape from a police escort van in the village of Carlisle Tues day morning Robert Adams was being transported from the Hamilton Detention Centre to the Milton Court House Police are currently in vestigating two possible sightings of Mr Adams One occurred short after the escape when he was reportedly picked up while hitchik and taken to the York Street and Street area of Hamilton The other occurred Wednesday when he was reported ly spotted without a beard the area of Highway in Cambridge going local store Police describe Mr Adams as white 59 with reddishbrown hair and 200 lbs He had a beard and was wearing blue jeans and a light blue shirt at the time of the escape The man was shackled in hand cuffs and leg irons when he escaped Police say Mr Adams has a reputation of being able to escape from locked chains There were no police in the back of the van at the time of the escape police say Cartoon pulled from police magazine The quarterly Halton Regional Police magazine the Informer will be mailed out minus copies of an embarrassing cartoon drawn by Toronto Sun artist Donate Informer publisher Alex Chidley of Print Media Publishing Ltd in Kitchener said there were copies printed and ready to be mailed before the Regional Police Association pulled the plug on the Informer several weeks ago The cartoon on page of the magazine depicts an alien creature speaking with a police officer A person on the other end of the telephone with the officer is asking if the alien is unemployed in telligent and a visible minority The officer answers in the af firmative to all these questions and the voice on the other end of the phone says then hire him damn it Members of the police associa tion wanted the cartoon removed from the magazine We felt it could have caused some embar rass to the force and the police association said associa tion chairman Sgt Colin Vrooman Well be removing the cartoon thats causing some concern The editor of the Informer Con stable Louis would not comment on the magazines car toon The earliest the Informer which cost anywhere from to to print will be mailed to subscribers will be Aug 3 follow ing a police association executive meeting Aug 2 Barbecue fire Halton Hills Fire Department report a propane barbecue fire at a Gardiner Drive home in Georgetown early Tuesday even ing A loose connection at the barbecues tank was the reported cause In Business For Business GSS OFFICE SUPPLIES Georgetown Secretarial Services St Georgetown 8772282 8771 Florists Brighten Someones Day Send The FTD PickMeTJp Bouquet 8776901 Quelph St Georgetown NORTHVIEW CENTRE Watchtower finds water on its own property There is plenty of water to ser vice an expansion to the 172acre Bible and Tract Socie ty property in Georgetown a socie ty spokesman said Monday The Claude Werden said there is clearly a whole lot of water right on the Wat chtower property for an expand ed residential and institutional area the town says would mean 578 more people The application to use the property for building a new administrative centre and more residences was approved by town council but Halton Region is still studying the water supply on the Watchtower site near Highway 7 and Trafalgar Road A bylaw was passed Monday night at town council The town continues to hold the application until a decision is reached on whether or not to connect the Wat chtower property to municipal water Town planner Ian Keith said Thursday that a late Regional study on water in Georgetown is holding up the decision process on We look forward with some in terest to what this report is going to contain Mr Keith said Theres no objection to the land Use at but only to the water issue The Region told the Town of Hills not to approve the expansion until concerns about water were set tied The proposed addition of residents at Watchtower could be considered new development If the expansion is considered new development the bible society could have to wait in line for municipal water hike any new development in town would the Region said says it has done everything the town requested to speed up expansion approval A Watchtower report says the socie ty agreed to spend over on pipes a pumping station a sprinkler system a Regional water study and landscaping We are very anxious to get on with this project said Mr Werden Were simply looking for the shortest route to a building per mit He said Watchtower bad given both the town and Halton Region total cooperation TSO eyes Scotsdale Scotsdale Farm near Ballinafad could become the se cond home of the famed Toronto Symphony Orchestra The orchestra is looking for a summer place to practise that will be similar to the Tanglewood park the placeBostoo Symphony Orchestra calls home in the warm months The winter finds the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at Roy Thomson Hall Credit Valley Conservation Authority owns the property be queathed to the province by the Bennetts in the early 1980s The CVCA is now considering an ap plication by the orchestra to use the grounds for music practice If the orchestra decides it wants Scotsdale and the gives the goahead strains of or chestral music could fill Scotsdale by as early as next summer said CVCA general manager Vick Barron is a place the sym phony orchestra Is having a se cond look at Ms Barron said But she added that the orchestra if everything is approved will definitely not be here within the next couple of weeks FREE DISTRIBUTION SATURDAY JULY 29th PAGES The driver of this vehicle was taken to Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital with unknown in juries following a singlecar collision on Trafalgar Trafalgar Road crash Road just south ot in Halton Hills during Thursday afternoons storm Police say the driver seriously injured Herald photo Town approves council raises Although the mayor and town of Halton Hills could get salary increases as early as next August the mayor would be paid less than some Ontario mayors of towns with a population similar to Halton Hills A report released by a special salary review committee headed by former town councillor Ross Knechtel suggested the mayor of Halton Hills receive a raise and a month in expenses The mayor presently gets a year from the town He also gets paid a year for serving on Regional council But other mayors in Ontario are paid higher salaries for serving similar populations the salary review committee figures say The mayor of Milton a town with a 31000 population compared to the 35000 people in Halton Hills gets paid a year The Milton mayor does not receive travel allowance the report says The mayor of Newmarket with a population of 33000 gets paid a The mayor of Belleville makes a year to serve a population of almost The salary committee figures also show that the mayor in earns an annual salary of to serve that towns population of almost 34000 Acton Coun Gerald said he reluctantly supported the salary committees recommenda tion to pay the mayor more over three years In the future the mayors office will still be an underpaid office said I am reluc tantly supporting this salary package recommended by the salary committee over the next three years He favored giving the mayors office a raise all at once but he said he understood arguments for spreading the raise over three years Town councillors now get paid a year Those who serve as Regional councillors get an addi tional 16000 a year The salary review committee recommended a annual increase and a month for travel expenses The in creases were to be over a three- year period and introduced In May But town financial staff sug gested a monthly allowance for councillors Councillors asked that the package begin in Continued on Page2 RASPERS CLASSIC LIVE DJ EVERY FRIDAY mo COVER CORNER OF ST HWY MOUNT VIEW IM IimcIi pun 1 rack down Ihe IB 21 Really of Distinction Inc Realtor MEMBER BROKER IT 112 Main Sf S Georgetown Comer Church Main 8731881