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The Acton Free Press Wed Dec 5 1973 Esquesing farewell township will honor its last council mem hers of boards and com and their staff at an Appreciation Night this day In St Albans hall Glen Williams There will be a banquet and dance A highlight will be the presentation of about appreciation certificates hand lettered by well known artist Dorothy Stone FIRST PRIZE WINNERS in Halton Fire Prevention Bureau s pos contest were Richard of Speyside School and Patty Jo Cutrara of Holy Cross Georgetown They re pictured with Fire Chiefs Holmes ot Acton and Ken of Georgetown and the desk pen set certifi tale and school trophy they received at the Bureau s awards banquet last week Fire prevention posters Brookville Bureau honors Estate poster artists Six winners or Fire Prevention Bureau 1973 fire prevention poster com petition were honored at an awards night In Milton last week Desk pen seta and of achievement were presented to Patty Jo of Georgetown and Richard of Speyside top boy and girl In the Bureaus 16th annual county wide contest for grade five students Their schools were presented with the insurance trophies PattyJo lives at Cresc Georgetown and is a student at Holy Cross Separate School Georgetown Richard lives on Seventh Line Georgetown and attends Speyside Public School Honorable mention winners were Monica and Dino Dal of Holy Rosary Separate School Of Milton Danielle Guiot of St Vincent Separate School in Oakville and Yves of Sacre Separate School Georgetown Each received a certificate of achievement and a sliver dollar Parents teachers The presentations were held at a dinner in their honor In Milton Fire Hall attended by about well wishers freighters from the five fire departments contest judges from Fire Depart ment municipal councillors parents and the top two winners teachers and principals attended Warden Mrs Anne MacArthur presented the pen set and certificate to Richard Norris Guest speaker Ron Weir Chinguacousy chief fire prevention officer presented PattyJos prizes Donald and John Cobum of Insurance presented the school trophies to principal of Holy Cross and principal Ron Howell Both winning entries will be entered In an all Ontario poster contest sponsored by the Ontario Association of Fire Chiefs Start early The children who entered this contest will be a lot more conscious of the dangers of fire In the future speaker Ron Weir told the audience He explained It was difficult to teach fire prevention to adults so firefighters do as much work as they can with children to Impress them of the need for fire prevention at an early age in the hope the knowledge will stay with them to adulthood Taking advantage of a captive audience of municipal government of he suggested politicians too often legis late by catastrophe I don t know what price you can put on a life but It cost much to imple ment strong by laws covering fire safety in your com he said You are dealing with people lives it snot Just a case of dollars he added Seen enough Weir said it was fortunate that It often takes a tragedy to make people more aware of the need for fire safety I have seen enough heartbreak to last a life time he said I would like all those who are careless with fire to look at the charred body of a child Milton Firefighter Jim Coulson chairman of Halton Fire Prevention Bureau chaired the dinner Other speakers included Chief J D Wilson of Mutual Aid co-ordin- RENT A CASCADE HOT WATER HEATER Juii IB Per TOWN OF HALTON HILLS Regional Municipality of Halton Appointment to Boards and Committees The Councilelect for the Town of Hills requests a written reply from residents In the area comprising the new Town of Hills who would be interested In being appointed to serve on one of the following boards or committees The HaHon Hilts Committee of Adjustment The Hilts burin Bom The Halton Hills Planning Subcommittee Interested residents should forward their replies to the un dersigned by December Pritchard Clerk Administrator Town of Halton Hills o Georgetown Municipal Building 36 Main Street North GEORGETOWN Ontario Regional police force Andress heads North Halton G BrOWn Teacher graduates get jobs Halton Regional Council named Garfield Brown as Regional Clerk and Dennis Camm as Regional Personnel Officer Mr Brown has been county clerk administrator for IB years and has been acting regional clerk for several months Mr Camm is now employed by the town of Ook Angie Bruyn graduated last month at the first convocation of Wilfred University formerly Waterloo Lutheran University where she majored in geography and sociology She ft presently teaching at Stewartlown Senior School Mrs De lives at Blvd Georgetown Shelsthedaughterof Mr and Mrs Kurt Eckerich of Acton Milton Police Chief Ray Andress has been named Staff Inspector for the nor thern district In Region That announcement was one of several made by the new Police Commission last week Floyd Schwantz present chief of police in Georgetown has been named staff In at the administration branch will assume responsibility for the man Georgetown Police Force and eventually his department will expand as the regional force replaces the present OPP detachment In Acton year career Staff Insp police career started In 1953 with the detachment of the OPP He was transferred to Among the occurrences Investigated by Milton OPP during the past week was a violation of the Game and Fish Act Two men were apprehended hunting rabbits Milton that year where he Stansbury lo in worked with first the charge of the municipal and then the Criminal Invest county detachment of OPP and In until law or the uniform In i960 he was named chief of the newly formed Milton George Moore of Police Department He has been In Milton for years and chief for 13 of those years Other appointments ded present Chief Fred Oliver as deputy chief and Burlington Deputy Chief Jack as regional deputy chief They will work under regional chief of police Ken of Burlington Inspector Wilson has been named staff inspector In the operations division Inspector Edward Heath In Oakville will head the division and has been promoted to super intendent Roy Taylor Allan Stan and Allan Terrell all Oakville Staff sergeants have also been promoted Roy Taylor moves to staff Burlington will be superin tendent of the Burlington Dis trict William Smith is staff Inspector Fred will be responsible for the uniform personnel and Sergeant James Currle will be inspector in charge of the Waller Southward of Oak was promoted from sergeant to staff sergeant responsible for all court officers In the region RAY In charge of north si POLLOCK AND CAMPBELL id Men a Eng W SI No proposal Estates this week presented Council with now plans for the housing development on the Line In the area of the Township Hall The size of lots has been Increased reducing the number of lots 100 to A company spokesman said the lots would all be about one acre He said the homes would be built with the high middle income people In mind The homes would sell for about he estimated Theplanscallforanllacre park and in all the project encompasses acres The project has been the subject of an hearing The hearing was adjourned several months ago and the board recommended a project with lower density The provincial government hod earlier suggested the project was premature and t be considered until government policy was clearly outlined for the area and his deputy Chief A E Clement of Milton Municipal re pre present Included Mayor Brian Best of Milton Reeve Tom Hill of and Councillors Roy Booth of Georgetown and Orvllle Chapman of Acton AY TO