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YEAR END KEVIEW Thursday December Local supermarkets charged for opening Sundays Miracle Food Mart and A and P stores could face fines of each for opening their Georgetown stores last Sunday but they plan to open the stores again next Sunday Halton Regional Police laid charges against stores in Halton Sunday including the A and and Miracle Food Mart on Guelph Street scrutiny when a group calling itself the Fair Shopping Committee formed by A and P and Dominion the Oshawa Group Ltd and Miracle Food Mart and other grocery stores asked to be given a level playing field to compete with drug stores and fruit markets that are open Sundays decided to ignore over applications from retailers asking for Sunday shopping early November The Region chose in stead to petition the provincial government to take back for Sunday shopping regulations The issue was brought under Friends of Shawn McNeill gathered at the intersection of Guelph Street and Maple Avenue between 30 p and 30 a m on a Sunday night to hold a candle light vigil Shawn was killed when he was struck by a car at the in tersection last year The youths protested the slow court pro ceedings in the incident and they also protested drinking and ing The Town of Hills ed a proposed 1990 budget Nov that called for a municipal tax in crease of 12 6 per cent for urban residents to offset an expected in crease in waste disposal costs The proposed town budget asked for a tax collection of 7 6 million and million more for urban service charges Mary Ann Chapman of Stewart town will take over the position of general manager of the Hills Chamber of Commerce it was announced in mid November Mrs Chapman wilr take over from Doug who said he was stepping down to take a tioninrealestate The Halton Board of Education budget for could increase by per cent to about 250 million residents learned in November Inflation steady enrolment ad justing teaching salaries and carryover cost items from the previous years budget were listed as major reasons for the proposed increase November The 60year old arena in the Ac ton Community Centre could be torn down February 1991 and replaced with a spanking new million arena and seniors complex Halton Hills recreation and parks director Tom Shepard released a report Nov 20 that calls for replacement of the Acton arena located in Prospect Park with a new sq ft structure Two Acton firefighters suffered carbon monoxide poisoning while battling a fire that destroyed a house located at west of Highway in Acton at midnight Nov David Ford and Paul South were rushed by ambulance to Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital They were then transfer red to the Toronto General Hospital where they were treated and released The pair were over come by fumes coming from the running pump truck The fire destroyed the home of the Foster family causing about damage Halton Hills Mayor Miller announced Nov 21 that Fairy Lake now belongs to the Town of Halton Hills The man made lake in Acton was in the hands of Canada Packers Inc who own the Beard more Tannery property Hills Mayor Rust went to the Glen Williams Day service to respects to the town war dead Five firefighters were injured while battling a fire Wednesday that destroyed an Acton farmhouse and most of the two occupants belongings Dale Duncan and Don Martin were rushed to Georgetown hospital where they were treated for minor facial burns A flashover caused the bums David Leslie was also treated for facial burns at the hospital and Larry suffered carbon monoxide poisoning while operating one of the department pump trucks The fire caused an estimated to the house and occupants Alfred Pilgrim and Jack Evans were uninjured income earners who would feel the biteofthetax shesaid The proposed nine per cent federal tax on most goods and ser vices would kill business at the Georgetown Bowl and force the familyowned business to close after 29 years owner Rose said The 20lone bowling centre is us ed mostly by low and middle- Halton Hills resident Hugo fach became only the 2lst jockey ever to win races in November The 53year old jockey raced six yearold gelding Bold Presense at Greenwood racetrack in Toronto for the victory He then announced his retire ment from racing to head into the world of horse traini The Georgetown District High School Rebels senior boys volleyball team capped a perfect season in Halton League play Nov 14 by dropping Trafalgar High School in three straight games to claim the cham pionship Halton goes to court in an attempt to halt Sunday shopping Region legal depart will apply tomorrow for an Supreme Court against stores opening illegalh on Sundav presented trustees with a list of about books it approves and a procedure parents would follow if they object to the contents of a book mid January Halton Region s administration and finance committee passed a recommendation that Hudson s Bay Company stores which owns Zellers not be allowed to open Sundays A Hudson s Bay spokesman argued before Halton councillors that several smaller stores such as Shoppers Drug Mart open Sun days despite the fact they sell many of the same products the Bay sells Commuters waiting for GO sit to pick them up at Georgetown rail station when Via 39 am train is cancelled the morning of Jan will be left out the cold GO transit officials said the pro vincial crown corporation will not replace the lost Via routes Georgetown residents are split over the approval of a telephone line to Toronto Bell s local service manager Nancy said Dec that reactions to a survey on the line is mixed Halton police believe a group of teenagers are behind a rash of slashed tires smashed windshields and other forms of destruction causing just over damage to cars parked in the east end of Georgetown the weekend of Dec 10 The Roman Catholic Board of Education will soon decide whether students will be allowed to continue reading con troversial novels such as J D Sal ingers Catcher In The Rye in school The board senior staff Halton Regional Chairman Peter Pomeroy says the Acton quarry in Limehouse will not be named as a contingency site to host Metro Toronto s garbage Mr said the Milton site located on Highway and Britannia Road would likely be named as a contingency site must name a site by February to complete the re quirements for entry into the Greater Toronto Area authority a fiveRegion committee set up to deal with the long term waste pro blem in souther Ontano December The Georgetown Raiders dropped a pair of Central Ontario Junior B hockey league games this week leaving their 1989 record at three wins and 16 losses The Raiders dropped a sion to Burlington Cougars and a 105 game to Milton Merchants the following night The losses mired the team even deeper in the cellar of the leagues West Division Georgetown Sunny Acres Farms major midgets won both home games the weekend of Dec upp- Ing their County league record to 14 wins one tie and a loss The midgets defeated Streetsville 95 and Erin in two home 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