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A Vo turday, October 1 1992 24 pages SUNDAY BRUNCH 232 Guelph St., Georgetown 873-2254 Local success story Georgetown author Jill Metcalf signed copies of her first book, Spring Blossom, at Oxbow Books last week- end for MaryAnn Page and Josie Sargent. Metcalf sold Spring Blossom, a romance, to Berkley Publishing last year. The romance is the first of three that Metcalf has contracted to Berkley. Photo by Scott Augustus. ‘Your independent voice in Halton Hills’ 50 cents includes G.S.T. Clarification sought By Dianne Cornish The question of what constitutes trespassing will be fully discussed at Wednesday’s meeting of Halton | Region’s Planning and Public Works Committee. With the Ministry of Natural Resources’ (MNR’s) 1992 con- trolled deer hunt set to open in Halton, regional councillors on the committee have asked for more information about trespassing and policing during the hunting season. The request surfaced at last week’s committee meeting at the Regional Centre in Oakville when Milton councillor Barry Lee commented that anyone wanting to hunt on pri- vate property must first get permis- sion from the landowner or “it becomes a question of trespass.” However, an MNR representative at the meeting said trespassing doesn’t occur unless the landowner asks someone to leave the property or the land is posted with “No Trespassing” signs. The Trespass leeds “to be understood by pre Owners, hunters and agen- cies,” Paul Hill, lands supervisor with the MNR office in Oakville, ) told committee members. While Lee and other committee members appeared surprised by that interpretation of the Act, Hill’s com- ments were reinforced by Halton solicitor Mark Meneray who said: “The Act does put the onus on the property owner to post (signs on his _ |on trespassing laws or oak Peeper) $ not a right, mts and other committee mem- bers, including Burlington council- lors Joyce Savoline and Barry Quinn, expressed concern about the Trespass Act. It appears that hunters aren’t tres- passing until they’re caught on someone’s property where they’re not welcome, Lee obse1 “T have concerns about the Act. It’s the reverse of what it should be,” Savoline said, adding that she would like to think that “you're trespassing. if you’re not invited, not if you’re asked to leave.” Quinn simply quipped, “I don’t think I would want to be a landown- er approaching a couple of people with guns and asking them to leave my property.” To clarify the issue, the committee approved a suggestion by the Region’s planning and development commissioner Rash Mohammed that representatives of the MNR and Halton Regional Police Services attend Wednesday’s committee meeting to “address issues around the interpretation of the Trespass Act and their respective jurisdictions.” During earlier committee discus- sions about the upcoming controlled deer hunt, committee chairperson and Halton Hills councillor Marilyn Serjeantson said stricter penalties should be imposed on those who hunt in non <epilsied areas Town could save with leaf vacuum By Dianne Cornish If Halton Hills chooses to buy - leaf vacuum equipment, savings in Georgetown’s Park district, alone, » will be $4,000 annually, Edith Street resident Molly Monahan told a general committee meeting of council re-consider implementation of a new town-wide ieaf collection program which would discontinue bulk leaf pickup that has been vided to Park district residents for more than 20 years. A few months ago, council adopted an engineering department recommendation that all town resi- dents be required to bag their leaves in plastic bags and place them near the curb for pick-up. In past years, most town residents did just that (although clear bags are a new requirement). However, residents in the Park district, which borders downtown Georgetown and is filled with many mature trees, weren’t required in past years to bag their leaves. Instead, they raked them to the roadside, where town works crews picked them up during the fall months. Because there isn’t any money in the budget to purchase new leaf =e collection equipment this year, council has decided to live by its earlier décision that everyone bag their leaves in plastic bags and leave them at the curbside this fall. During 1993 budget deliberations, council will decide whether the town will buy or lease a leaf vacu- um for next fall. t Monday’s committee meeting, council received a report on leaf collection methods authored by the town’s manager of operations Ted Drewlo. The report was requested last month after Monahan asked that the present system of bulk leaf pick-up be maintained in the Park Continued on page 13 for income tax purposes. Former broker faces fraud charge A former Georgetown real estate broker has count of fraud and police “anticipate” more charges will be laid as they continue their investigation into the broker’s financial affairs. In August, police began an investigation into allegations that income tax deductions “in excess of $100,000” from real estate agent commis- sions was “never paid” to Revenue Canada. According to Halton Regional Police, the nine agents working for the company agreed to allow their broker — the former owner/operator of the company — to make deductions from their commission cheques According to police, a short time after income tax information from the company owned by the man Revenue Canada in April 1991, the federal bureau “found discrepancies” betwvet what the company and individual agents had filed on their tax ret “Tax authorities found the (bank) at representing the tax deductions on sales and the payments (by the agents) deemed to have been paid into it by the company had not been made,” police said. A 41-year-old Georgetown man was arrested October 2 and charged with one count of fraud. He appear in court Oct. 26. en charged with one BLUE SPRINGS GOEF CLUB Tee-off on the 'Turtle Lake' Championship Course from just $20. Reserved times are required. Call 853-0904. Dress code in effect.