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THE GEORGETOWN GEMINI WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1996 NET PROCEEDS! Finn Poulstrup, president of the Georgetown Jr. A Raiders accepts a cheque for $6,000 from Del Beaumont, Ist Vice President of the Georgetown Hockey Heritage at Johnson and Associates, Thursday. Hockey Heritage's donation will allow the Raiders to buy ice time from the Town of Halton Hills. Poulstrup expressed his appreciation to Hockey Heritage for their help. From left: Steve Leach, secretary, Ron Starret, Treasurer, Poulstrup, Beaumont, Shel Lawr, 2nd Vice President, and Bob Tost, Director. (Jamie Harrison photo) a LACAC to visit Norval cemetery Members of Heritage Halton Hills (the former Local Ar- chitectural Conservation Ad- visory Committee, or LACAC) will take a walking tour of the Pioneer cemetery in Norval on Saturday after- noon. Members of the commit- tee want to get a better idea of MP Julian Reed's latest plans to build five houses on the property he owns that was formerly the McNabb cem- etery. Heritage Halton Hills chair Gail Rutherford saidthe com- mittee is concerned that there may be bodies buried on the site and they might be uncov- ered during excavation for the new houses. : "We requested that Reed do a study to identify if there are grave shafts and he did do that on part of the property, but we're concerned with a larger extent of it," Rutherford said. Although Reed claimed that there are no bodies bur- ied on certain parts of the property, some Norval resi- dents have told Heritage com- mittee members that grave stones marking burial spots were removed and vandal- ized so there may benomark- ings on some graves. Rutherford said although the committee has already done one walk-about on the gs 3s property, Reed reduced his plan by one lot so the com- mittee asked Reed to stake out the new plan and allow Heritage Halton Hills to tour the site again. Reed applied to the Prov- ince to have the cemetery de- commissioned and said all of the bodies had been moved to the Hillcrest cemetery in Norval. "Our concern is that there are still bodies there and we would like somebody on-site to observe when the excavat- ing is done, and if a grave is found that the work is stopped immediately," Rutherford said. -- Niblock Cs ! inl The Gem Loves Georgetown Georgetown Pool to remain open during negotiations BY FRANCES NIBLOCK The Georgetown Gemini The Halton Board of Educa- tion will not close the Geor- getown Indoor Pool as long as negotiations with the Town of Halton Hills continue to determine who will pay fu- ture maintenance costs. As part of its budget belt- tightening, the Board elimi- nated funding for the seven pools that it operates in schools in three Halton mu- nicipalities and announced that the pools would close September 1. A series of eight Board- Town meetings are sched- uled in the coming months to try to settle the issue of who will pay pool operating costs. The Town has the power to bring an injunction against the Board if it proceeds to close the pools because the Board has a legal contract to operate the pool. That con- tractsaidthatthe Board would pay the maintenance costs for "the life of the pools," and the Board claims that time is up. Although the Board wants the Town to share pool oper- ating costs, those costs have not been determined, al- though the Town's informa- tion is that it would cost Halton Hills in excess of $200,000 -- about a three per cent tax increase --to do their share. On Friday, the Town's Manager of Facilities, Paul Stover, declined to comment on the talks because the Board had asked for a gag order during negotiations. "We are hoping to reach a settlement," Stover said, ex- plaining that the negotiations would continue during the next two months with a staff report to Town councillors scheduled for November 11. ON THE DOTTED LINE: Author John McDonald signs copies of his book, . Halton Sketches Revisited, at Oxbow Books Saturday. A former town and regional councillor, he has chronicled the early history of what is now Halton Hills. (Jamie Harrison photo) New executive director for HSPC The Board of Director's of the Halton Social Plan- ning Council and Volunteer Centre announces the ap- pointment of their new ex- ecutive director, Dr. Joey Edwardh. Dr. Edwardh studied at Syracuse University in the Maxwell School of Citizen- ship and Public Affairs, where she earned her doctor- ate in Human Geography and a Certificate in Gerontology. Her career has been dedi- cated to work in the area of social and health services, social research, policy analy- sis and community develop- ment in Canada and interna- tionally. Dr. Edwardh brings to the Halton community experi- ence in a range of service, planning and advocacy or- ganizations, which include grass roots community or- ganizations, intermediate agencies of the voluntary sector, and the United Na- tions. She has written exten- sively on community devel- opment, productive aging, social issues, and social im- plications ofthe privatization of health and social services. Volunteerism in a number of community agencies marks her commitment to her com- munity. The Council believes that Dr. Edwardh's unique skill profile will contribute not only to the future develop- ment of the Council but also to its initiatives in strength- ening the social and economic fabric of Halton.