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CIRCLE OF STEEL! Despite the threat or hur- ricane and driving rains, organizers estimate that over 4,000 people en- joyed the shows Friday and Sunday. Unfortunately Satur- day's ride had to be canceled due to poor weather conditions. (at right) Georgetown Fall Fair 1995 Ambassador, Meagan Malcolmson handed her title to the 1996 winner, Laura Lee Campbell. Campbell, 18, is a graduate of Georgetown District High School and plans to study to become achild and youth worker when she gacs to college next year. (bottom right) (Eve Martin photo, top, Jamie Harrison. photo, below) Courts, BY FRANCES NIBLOCK The Georgetown Gemini A proposed exemption, which could affect the future of United Aggregates Limit- ed's (UAL) Acton Quarry, were on both the court docket andthe Town Council agenda Monday. In a Milton court, dates were set to hear arguments in aprivate prosecution brought against UAL for quarrying without a required develop- ment permit. North Halton environmen- talist Rita Landry, with the help of the Sierra Legal Defense Fund, laid a private charge against UAL for con- travening the Niagara Escarp- ment Planning and Develop- ment Act (NEPDA), by not applying for the permit. The case will be heard ina Burlington court on Feb. 3 and4 and on Mar. 3 and4 and GEORGETO\ Ask about our House Order Plan! 'Let Us Help You with All Your Lighti 245 GUELPH ST. (HWY. 7), G' (Y\ 2 locations in Georgetown to serve you it will also be back on the docket to be spoken to at the Milton courthouse on Nov. 4 because the crown told the courtthatithadnotreviewed the matter as required in all private prosecutions. The court questioned whether a pre-trial hearing might narrow the issues and reduce thetrail time and sug- gested that both parties come back in November for an update. On the Council front, for the second time in less than aweek over 100 UAL work- ers jammed the council chambers to lend support to UAL' srequest thatthe Town not object to a proposed pro- vincial amendment that would exempt UAL from applying for the develop- ment permit that is at the centre of the court case. The proposed amend- ment to the NEPDA would exempt aggregate compa- nies licensed before 1975 from having to obtain a de- velopment permit. At the Council meeting, Dr. Len Landry (Rita Landry's husband) stressed that those in opposition to the proposed amendment do not want quarry workers to lose their jobs but said that UAL is linked with Recla- mation Systems Incorpo- rated (RSI), which has plans to turn a mined-out portion of the Acton quarry into a landfill site. "Until UAL eradicates that link with RSI, they are the enemy," Landry said as he questioned a rumoured deal which would have UAL and RSI abandon all plans for a dump in the quarry, if the Town, Region and envi- ronmental group and see Satellite ~~ TV Quality in oy io STORE Pret cts WED - FRI SUNDAY MON-TUES 9-6 9-9 SATURDAY 9-6 12-4 Council deal with quarry issue P.O.W.E.R. do not object to the NEPDA exemption. UALexecutive vice-presi- dent and chief operating of- ficer Bill Burkart again ap- pealed to Council not to op- pose the proposed NEPDA exemption, arguing that it would eliminate some of the duplication ofregulations that tie up the aggregate industry in red tape. Burkart argued that if the quarry is forced to apply fora development permit, which could take one year to do, UAL would have no choice but to move into phase three of the quarry, which is west of the Third Line and south of Regional Road 43, or shut down for a year with the loss of 200 jobs, 70 of them at the quarry. The Town has until Mon- day to comment on the pro- posed NEPDA exemption. In Real Estate, Performance: Counts For more on the '96 Georgetown Fall Fair, see Page 15 of The Gem