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Page Herald Town Buyer Sunday September 22 1991 News at a Glance Arthritis walker Abator Abbas Ali from Pakistan started his Arthritis Walk for Humanity on Sept3 in Niagara- Falls while visiting his daughter Mr Abbas a 70yearold grandfather with arthritis has sin ce walked his way through Halton Hills arid will complete a km walk across Ontario to raise funds for arthritis research Pictured left to right arthritis volunteer from Toronto Angus Brown Major Abbas AH and Hills area co ordinator for the Canadian Arthritis Society Kathleen Douglass Herald Photo Acton Dump Environmental disaster predicted by Halton Region Chairman the Herald Region will be facing an environmental disaster if the Ac ton dump proposal and the planned expansion of quarrying activity at the Acton quarry are allowed to go ahead says Peter Halton Region Chairman During a Regional Planning and Public Works Committee meeting Wednesday Chairman Pomeroy justified this alarming comment saying the two issues are m- The Acton quarry is located on both sides of Sideroad just south of Acton The quarrys owner United Aggregates is currently ex tracting aggregate from the site north of Sideroad However committee members learned Wed nesday the company in accordance with its quarry licence intends to quarry the site south of Sideroad As a member of a consortium of companies that comprise Milton- based Reclamation Systems In corporated RSI United Aggregates is also behind the Ac ton dump proposal The dump site is proposed for that part of the Ac ton quarry north of Sideroad 22 once the extraction operation is com pleted Calling the projects asinine Chairman Pomeroy said the Region Pete Pomeroy must do everything possible to prevent the proposals from going ahead No one should believe Acton and Georgetowns water supply wont be negatively impacted if quarry blasting is permitted next to a dump said the Chairman The quarry sits on top of the Amabel aquifer a major water source for the Halton Hills area Directing his attention to Regional lawyer Mark Meneray Chairman Pomeroy directed staff to determine what legal means Halton has available to prevent the projects from happening The direction came in the wake of a committee recommendation calling for the Niagara Escarpment Commission NEC and the province to review United Aggregates quarry licence Committee members expressed concern that the companys licence as it stands permits United Aggregates to quarry two recognized environmentally sen sitive areas on its property south of Sideroad 22 At the very leastthe province should prevent United Aggregates from quarrying these two recognized areas committee mem bers agreed The recommendation also calls for the NEC to determine if the companys quarrying activity com plies with the Niagara Escarpment Plan The recommendation will go before Regional Council for final approval this Wednesday- United Aggregates represen tative Brent Clarkson appeared before committee members to op pose the recommendation The recommendation should be rejected said Mr because the provinces Ministry of Natural Resources recognizes the companys licence as valid As well the MNR con siders the quarry active he said In response Milton Regional Councillor Bill Johnson said MNR is in bed with the aggregate in dustry always has been and always will be Prosperity predicted for Halton Hills business community Liberal Association fundraiser a potpourri of PC potshots ByBENDUMETT the Herald The population of Georgetown and surrounding area should be suf ficient by 2011 to support a major department store the likes of the Bay or Sears members of Hills Urban Area Study Ad visory Committee learned Tuesday The Towns marketing con sultant Scott Morgan told com mittee members if the greater Georgetown area reaches the ex pected population of in 20 years time then the area could sup port a subregional shopping cen tre Mr- Morgan defines a sub- regional shopping centre as one that includes a major department store The three major department stores in Ontario are the Bay Sears and said Mr Morgan Both Mr Morgan and committee chair Town Planning Director Ian Keith bent over backwards to stress final decisions concerning the Towns future commercial lan dscape rest solely with Hills Council The Towns Urban Area Study is meant to provide council with a plan outlining where different types of housing could be located in Georgetown and Acton as well as Police Beat Careless driver A Milton man was charged with careless driving by police Sept af ter he struck a hydro pole with his GMC van Police say the man was travelling north on Line south of 10 Sideroad when he left the road for unknown reasons and struck a hydro pole The Milton man wasnt injured in the accident Car collision An Acton womans car was severely damaged Friday when she with a convertible driven by a Utopia man Police say the Acton woman driving a 1988 Nissan had stopped for the amber light at Guelph St and Sinclair Avenue Police say the convertible driver stated he was unable to stop in time and struck the Nissan The convertible was lightly damaged Police charged the Utopia man with following too closely how the communitys commercial sectors could be expanded Mr Morgan pointed out the Town must find ways to encourage local residents to stay in Town to shop Currently 50 per cent of shoppers in Halton Hills leave the area to spend their money he said As a way of keeping people in Town and revitalizing Georgetowns downtown core Mayor Miller suggested a relatively large grocery store be located in this area This kind of store would draw other types of businesses to the location predicted the mayor It would appear this type of new thinking may be necessary if Georgetowns downtown core is to prosper in future Mr Morgan points oat Georgetowns downtown businesses suffer from a han dicap He did point out however businesses in Georgetowns down town core will experience a jump in sales as the the Communitys population increases Election declarations Two more local residents have declared their candidacy In the Nov municipal election Incumbent French- language trustee on the Catholic school board Ken Norman is seeking reelection while in cumbent Ward 2 Hydro Com missioner Murt Allison is also after another term in off Ice Contacted Wednesday Mr Nor man said he is seeking reelection to ensure School gets a new building by 1993 Thats when the lease on the schools current home the old School expires Mr Allison couldnt be reached for comment because he is away on vacation until the end of the month On Wednesday 200 supporters of the HaltonPeel Federal Liberal Association gathered in The Olde Hide House in Acton for a very successful fundraising din ner with Senator Michael KlrbyV Among those attending were pro vincial Liberal leadership can didates Steven Mahoney and David Ramsay Charles Beer Steven Offer and Greg Sobara sent their regrets The Senator predicated that Brian will not be leading the Progressive Conser vatives into the next election He knows that he will lose and he simply is not big enough to face up to that It will not make much difference anyway The Tories will finish 5th with and 5th without No policy change will turn this around According to Mr Kirby the government continues to make vital mistakes While Canadians are concerned about taxes the economy jobs and the environment the government is focussing on the constitution The substance of the constitutional proposal to be tabled in the House shortly will be minimal The process will be long drawn but a charade The Liberals take the view that the final decision should be made in a referendum Liberal leader Jean Chretien was the first politician to propose this The Conservatives are op posed to the idea They know that any proposal with name attached to it is dead The Liberal position remains that no transfer of powers from the Federal Government to the pro vinces should take place unless it is in the publics interest to do so On MP Garth Tuenr Senator Kirby com mented The only reason why Garth ran for Parliament is that he can now write a weekly col umn in more respectable newspapers As former business editor- of The Toronto Sun Garth Turner made a name for himself by writing about the need to reduce taxes and- leading a tax revolt to Ottawa As a Member of Parliament he has voted for every tax increase the government has pro posed according to Mr Kirby The evening was concluded with a lampoon written and per formed by former MPP Julian Reed titled Its time to get out of the Kitchen Brian Julian Reed is planning to run for the next Liberal nomination in HaltonPeel Quote of Hi you kids cant with toe guns Ill lake them away from you fatter in a Vancaipgr Feeding time Brother and sister duo of Jason eft and Katie Thomson enoy feeding the animals of the petting zoo at last weekends annual Acton Fall Fair Herald Photo