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georgetown herald 22 main slrl south georgetown ontario w c bhhn fvbikw age 4 thursday august 1 1968 editorial comment important decision coming a digest of the consultants report on th brumac land release elsewhere tn this usu is required heading for all pros ntiarci ownesv in gso3rtoa the report ordered by council when the brlimac firm offeree a lu np sum pay merit for release of a large building area r rhesouthern part of town nakei sever al recommendattons which town council is now studying inherent in their advice is that pros ent owners should not b burdened with ny capital costs which large scale build ing will entail and they suggest a nurn ber of defimje areas where council shbult seek protection such as water and sewage extensions council as was pointed out tn 1 re please read this despite an advertisement which the town inserts each time there it a pablic holiday there seems to b contusion n hse garbage pick up changes whicn the holiday necessitates readers will note this week that if their regular pick up day is monday gar bage will be picked up on tuesday next wee and if regular pick up day is tuesday it will be collected on wednes day on the tuesday following the july 1 holiday the regulations were particularly everyone can help georgetown s new street sweeper s doing a particularly good ob in the downtown business areas in disposing of the accumulation of rubbish which gathers long the gutters there- wetwowystbe pcwitt i cooperate first is for people to stop littari lg the streets with candy and gum wrappe cigarette box and disposable bottles there are trash cans placed at strategic intervals along th main thoroughfare if everyon uid theutwecouldroach the cent herald editorial is well aware such pftfalls and has past experience h draw upon in ensuring that those cond hadteeflwf tourcts posses sed the same experience georgetown to day wo6ld be in a much healthier finan cial position today we are fced with two facts that growth is inevitable in tlni pert pi the province and that when it comes wo must dea fairly with ratepayers and de velopvrs demanding wliat is require for protection whije not putting any onrteces iary scumbling blocks in a developer path t with the information grnrred from tlve consultants then should k- no diffi culry in arriving at a sens blc dec 01 ignored on mam strict most merchant rmi out huge depos is of garbage on the tuesday jtnd they sat on the street all da and night until wednesday this is an eye ore and a deterrent to business and is someth ng which ail nier chants should watch in future it hardly makes for an attractive sh6p ping sheet to have cuitomers wrnd the r way through an 0 on of refuse so remember merchants it s wed no 7 in a series the need to reassess by marshall lain ca arieww hie need to maintain level of assessed value in relation to market value la very important if our aaaeanmenta were to re main constant for years then they would become leas and less a related to market value in tieorsetown an aasesament of j 9000 five years ago represent- ed a house wttfa a market value of 14000 today that house is worth 20000 but u the assessment remains the same our ratio ofsasesament to market will have dropped sher meat fui aaust be inane urate this tear la tieorfetown and ell other sminlcapallues m hal ton oomady we ere umfertolnje a usad reastsesssmni pracram in order to ktese our assessments in line with rnuna market val ues of property when the ratepayers of ge- onetown receive their assess ment notices this year they will notice a siaeahje increase in land moment fct a ratepayer wishes io discuss this change we will be more than happy to ob lige bring em back alive up ii norval in my mind n home everyone has place they re nesday next week for your garbage pick fer to as home not necessarily not the usual tuesday h place where they now live or befe thev have lived for man ear hul a place thty rernrmbrr when t lvr- wef vttin and that left a fond memory rncraved another improvement would be for nrval uai known at thr merchants to do the r part by keeping v 0 mcnim named af their own section of the street neat and ter thr- first settlor in 18c0 j colonel james lcabfo u ir was thr colnel of the yoru most merchants sweep tl e r s iewa fonr at llu ha he of each morn ng into the road ust a the qurnton heights i iwlirve a norval boy remembers ph increases are not de signed to raise uxer but ra ther to maintain a levei of js sessment to aiarfcet value tn a municipality which is keorxaphicaliy close to george towbmthe miu rate continued td climb until- it reached 4147 per 1000 dollars of assessment in other words the assessments stayed at the same level for much loo joiuc a period of time this mtinkipalily has since a complete reasssv ment and the mill rate has drop ped drastically as i mentioned- in the open irtjf pars ra ph we must main tain our assessments with mar ket value if we did not then the null rate would continue to climb in order to pay the neces erty damage accidents propj sary bills o tun a municipaluy erty damage totalled 93740 a causes of accidents were den gerou dnving careless driving failed to signal and oesperen i ce of driver there were 5 char ee laid as a result of these ac cidents weekly opp report during the week of july 21 27 ojneers of north uafton pe- uchment ontario provincial police investigated i theft com- plalnt 3 reported breatkras 3 disturbances and 1 liquor in vestijration resulting in 1 pfcr son belne charged under the uquor control act a total of 12 accident were investigated mdudlng 1 fatal accident in which a person rid ing on the running board of a truck fell off and was run ov rby the same vehicle 4 in j jury accidents resulting in s persons being injured 7 prop hrsi oi a sprlfs hard to leave hard to dents then were jick ar nokl clarence buck harp in beaumont some of our teach era were k d wanning al berta mcnahb our means of transportation tn school was via the toronto suburban hail way in 1013 1 ma the victim of bad accident which resulted tn the ioas of the uf of my right arm and leg this slow ed me down somewhat how ever i penevered and main culated in 1018 and thence en lertd toronto university in 1910 graduated uth ha class of 24 and after a rourio at the pllrfr af r duration went to thr port aithur colle giate to teach in 10 i ac ccpled the liradshii of a do partment at the new colleal ate vocational ch ml in guelph where i sr ed for 27 years nd iream vteeprl hrtpal thru servm annl r ix year at john 1- ftn l i in owned the firm knoan as the i rcnembrr m racwi uwi pmltwn ijinl bri and hmlt warn or russell a teacher of n n hal i was a nnvnbttr of city rlwrt- the heart unfit us int the building and resuhnccsin if10lfu ihom trivr cauhcji for five years and wasj the service of od and exclude hsquesing 3n aiiniuacftiisv krrat rrrdlt lo f r an active member of numeroual nifin fro llp kingdom of hea lowtwhip an uell a ths inch ma t0 f m cnucation croupn in the citv of guelph ven tli a i ue totalh almam school and town hall in enr includinn the masinu waverly from the corrupt rtktonis of the iitown he married gatnerin- t recill uhen ue irove to ixuluv n til and hold a 32 uorld such jt card phvin miller of lamehnuv in 1b15 in georgetoun lujh schnol by de in the scottisl rile lancing phs and theatres thr htvciple church at i ver horse and cutter when r d moore consistory at hamilton sweeper has done its job the result chffthelt descendant of nlonel james u jhb u couru- n hit th s nw i i blow r qhl jan bck or evenlusly hnd soniwliere else gcortrlnun it wn nol uhlll lonr the street wouldn t it ba simpler wo lhal h- to take on extra m nu e and cjatner up nnna w lf v hsts trash because minv of the settler if each nerchant would ec to t tint hereabouts came iron er hit loolcd after h own i ttle area we centribulad by gualph reaideot a u laird a m laird during this period officers patrolled 10 002 imlea a total of 87 charges were laid and 97 warnings were issued tiere were 153 vehicles safety check ed 117 comoctions were regis t i ered in magietratea court happy poirlwhere a daily ilret-iuaep- wcuul kavttowt mjjitwialttdfaihaw n 1- tilj u- l i i t peter ijird iir07 iroit he ing would not be necessary arm tomethmg of which to be proud mleed s rrnt atuntlo hleh tp4 drlvr a recent amendment to the highway traffic act which 1 now in effect gives ontario ms gistratm discretionary power to suspend your drivers licence for a period up to 30 days if you are convicted of speeding 30 miles ptr hour or more ab ove the legal speed limit georgetown herald published by heme newspapers limited georgetown ontario wetter c huhn publisher garhald mcgttvray production superintendent terry uaxley aileen bradley news editor accountant valerie tost anna currle reporter frank aluuin advertising manager leslie clark dave hastings styles gluteal john iscclerments gear young business directory r um fuli inns tun and rot in attend nr inunten dauuhlcr- 4rwd- i tm aho in ehlve elflrr my mary blh nft ance unfindlv assnhli for mil former on november 27 hufi the sev an urruj pll r n vmpathi7r are we really much different en fo of the church uere ioij rphp s ifl jjike 1 14 mickenne in our attitude to life from the p georjte and sarah ken l nr n in rom 1 1 pioneers who settled here over a mrd jmtt hannah rar jlnn j is 1 century ago i hel peter and catherine akert and charity iamb together at least a partial answer to wlt the minuter they formu tn he cnntmu he uxs a re- there at that time veic iia andrews prcsbyteriin church politics and a and mildred xenneu k c of william 1 yon lindwv jean watson mildred 1 am particularly proud of a bewcv rill ijuson ind mai centennial merlal presented to colm coutls me bv the secretary of state one brother murrav ijird nl ireccntly onai is itill on the firm that when ralph ross took over ha tmen in our name for 1 i as principal some of the slu 1 continued on pag 5 that question can b found an the yellowed but beverthele well nrriterved page of the first minute book of the georgetown concregstional church dating back tn lb4d the church records give a vivid reflection of the ideau of life and worship of that time the book ua loaned lo the herald by jim lynns hurcn street who had receive it from his father the late thos i i yorn in order to help adjust kighn to a way of hfe one hun dred and thirty jeara ago it might be well to recall that by ww the little aettlement of ge ergetown carved out of the den a pine and maple forest of up per canada boasted two itore atd a bajus for church mem btrship and set it out in the minute rook as their onfes sion of aith and articles of discipline prospctive members had to solemnly pledge to abide by these standards of worship and behaviour which w couched in forthright terms it w not easy to et into tlw church applications were often kept on file for weeki during a sort of probationary period and ll ww kometimei equally hard to et nut of it in one instance a letter of dismissal was iram the whe of a paruhoncr but withheld front her husband lie cause of lnconsilent conduct practised by him before leaving stewarttown until the tiuttrr the convertible town is presto moose falls again as rrowrtous he mil road station in rarely xn pack ed a it wns for the filming of the nrrival and departure of a tram pictured are mem nnp owned by john siunptenj wah djuited by hun theilesir and one hy james young and a wbj titit foribcomlng hotel owned by mr mush m m tl their confehimn of raith dif it had just been ten vcars fw u f fa fa blur the first home leaders ket rt mnut u i 41ed in uhat was then called hungry hollow thejte pioneers uere the families oi marquis gotdenow sylvester garrison and george kennedy a couple nf vars later the barber rro then ketlltj here and it was after they started their woollen mill on the bank of the red it river in the building now c cupitd by neltacrafu lid that the community began to grow jvkvfailerihshiijjenl houses lantplacesmw busine houses and places wsk christened georgetown after george kennedy always one of the first con rem of the pioneers was to find a place where they could gather to worship in 1b45 the utile handful of loosgregatianaj hits were meeting in the house of their pastor the rev david powell it is in hi beautifully legible penmanship that the minute book begins at that first formal meeting of most churches today but their articles of dikelpiih de fine a way of life quite differ ent from iur modern mode when jolung tht church mem bers pledged that i we eonscieritiouily worsh ip god in secret at leau morn ing and evening and it u high ly proper that reading a portion of the word of god should con utitute a part of our private sdupttgod hiilii worship or god in ous famllii nhould be held twice or three times a day wbn a ultsble portion of the scriptures should be read with prayer and thinks givlngs be presented to god and if convenient a psalm or hymh be sling matt 6 fl psalm 55 17 dsnial 0 1j gen 3 22 34 deut 11 ib 2 that we h temperate in eating and drinking not glut tonous nor drunstards for sur feiting and dnaikmcia over- kmim- nts ok george- iowh a fsmllv taking a dav trip to toronto no jubi flv arlora awaiting their cue to be on camera r ven the youngent of hi lrmin miclieltt mac wwf mm wi her parents david and shirley mjrauie and lept chris tlna arid alfred gsfney for sitciidlng eiht ikuim tn tlve su mimic at mihk ralu or ns we likt to kmiw it getirue town ihiia in the hhd time the unit liss lilmid in torut town d0naldagat4i dc bio ensinieriklg spinal tiiuiapt 30 mill st gmnihwil ur kmlflm ell i77m0i c0rbett chiropractic clinic spinal x ray service available byapplntmnl u7u31 m mill st old m okica bawtageits i cuntslirt laimflurr lit mlllt s 166 guelph all wrk aw n pnmku walker cunie optometrists 13 mn st s llrmplon fhona 131u71 hour 0 l hi tn h ph ttueidty to siturdiy rridiy 0 w td 0 p w- feveulnj by appointment mcbairt and hulme ontaru lnj sjrvayra wlllawdala 322 35 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