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The Acton Free Wed October May limit homes one bag a week Halton residents could find themselves restricted to ing only one bag of garbage per week collected during the municipal pickups That is one of the major recom in a nine point program to reduce solid waste in the region The pro posal was advanced by Oak vilie Councillor Terry Man- and it won the support of the region public works committee Wednesday It will go before Regional Council today The Initiative for the plan came from Councillor Man- who is not a works com it tee member In fact he has been a harsh critic of the committee dealings In the contentious landfill matter It was only through his quick talking and persistence that the committee even agreed to deal with his plan- even though it was recorded as an agenda item Nine steps The comprehensive plan in cludes nine steps The region would Endorse a ban on returnables Request area municipal to require separation of glass and tin for separate pickup from householders such material to be marketed by the region Request area municipal i ties to cooperate in reducing household collections to one bag per week by Jan 1 and that a joint education and instruction campaign be pre pared Undertake research to re duce industrial and com Official plan waste with regional Incentive to promote reduction recycling or reuse and challenge commerce through local Chambers of Commerce wilh a suitable in centive program Fee scale Develop a suitable sliding scale of rates for municipal waste received at regional sites in order to reduction Adopt a policy of its own operations methods which wil reduce waste and energy con sumption and maxim ire the use of recyled materials practical Have the staff develop a program In cooperation with area municipalities senior levels of government and appropriate outside agencies to implement the most effec program of solid waste reduction possible and prac Advertise its desire to ob tain proposals from the private sector for practical economic solutions to the pro blem of solid waste including management marketing re cycling and or conversion When Mr Mannell ap peared at the meeting he was told quite simply that the committee wouldn listen to the idea Hammer me there Chairman Jack Raft Is said We made a decision We re not going to deal with landfill or resource recovery at the committee level If you want you can take it to council and hammer me there Committee member Vern Public response pleases planners Regional planners are pleased with the response they are getting to the public participation program being held in connection with the of plan Planner Mohammed said work is continuing and he Is happy with the response The both received poor response Improve It Mr Mohammed told the committee that he and other staffers were examining the public participation program and seeking ways to improve It We are still getting i response we get Council vetoed plans for professional public participa Hon people early in the pro gram forcing committee and staff to develop a program that could be done with exist staffers and on a very limited budget assistance consultants or public nation experts Mr Mohammed said the response is greater than what other regions have ex He said Toronto had spent HO 000 and had two full time planners on the pro gram and Peel had three full lime people on the program Police get more money policemen will get an 6 per cent pay raise Tor 1976 instead of the 3 per cent Apple days Uniformed Beavers Cubs and Scouts will be selling apples in a twoday blitz of the town starting Friday The downtown will be covered Friday and then the next day they be knocking on doors Monies raised in the two- days will go towards the fin ishing of the new Scout Hall and the boys activities through the year wage hike they expected to receive when they tentatively settled their contract with Halton Police Commission in late August Thursday after receiving word back from the Inflation Board Police Association and the reached a final agreement police were entitled to an 8 per cent raise Instead of the 3 per cent which was agreed upon The Police Association asked the commission to spread the per cent over the 233 officers effected by the new 1976 contract Connell supported chairman Raft is I sick and tired of silting here for three hours and going through it all over again at council This is all area stuff The less they collect the less they pay Mr said We can this off We re in it with both feet committee member Bill Mason suggested We re not in collection Raftis said The upper tier has to show the leadership Mason con tended We even deal with this we said we Raftis continued Related The committee finally agreed to discuss the matter Mason said it had agreed to no longerdlscuss landfill sites in Committee but members had not discussed refusing to discuss related issues Mr Mannell told the com there is interest in re source recovery in the business world These are the guys that can make a buck on It He pointed out that private business could move more quickly than governments on the problem He said he could foresee a situation where refuse derived fuel could be sold to heat subdivisions Councillor and urged fellow committee members to view the matter with an open Just one a week Milton Mayor Anne Mac Arthur also supported the idea She suggested the councils should work lo make it fashionable to have just one bag of garbage per week If people look up and down the street and see they jusl have one bag they II try harder arc every so many things that can be done she said Councillor said he agreed that much of what was being recommended was fringing on area rcspons but he noted that the region had lo show the leadership Area councils will be asked to respond to llu idea separating garbage at the household and restricting garbage one bag per week Hills Councillor Ernie suggested the program would lead to the sale of more household torn post bins or larger garbage bags Clear way for Burton actor Richard Burton will be in Georgetown next Monday for the filming of in which he stars A portion of Main St will be blocked off and made to look like Acton England with ferenl cars and doubledecker buses The town fathers are just as anxious to see Richard Bur on as anyone else Monday night they granted B Productions the right to film on the downtown streets and temporarily close a port ion of Main Street for the filming of starring Richard Burton Councillor Mike Armstrong said he understood director Sydney is looking for a couple of bums for the movie and looked around Ihe council table for volunteers Fire chiefs fail in bylaw bid ITLL BE WORSE before Its belter thats Mill St The sidewalks were sliced through and Works dept getting tire repair machine time spent by a works em using the machine repairing tires will be Insig to the amount of work lime which Is lost when tires blow and a machine can I be used He suggested the town will also save money because new won have to be pur chased as often excavation began this week for new gas lines Paving will follow before long mm una Hills works com mitlee agreed at last week s meeting with engineer Robert Auslin suggestion thai time and money would be saved if Ihe town bought a tire repair machine The new machine called a tire bead breaker will tost and Austin lold on October Iht Commissioners vote against special week Energy Conservation Week is gnored by Ihe Acton Hydro Commission AI Thursday morning meeting of the group the secretary treasurer told member about the special week set aside from October November Ontario Hydro is idea due to ly Saving Time Promise to fix lights focusing of the lights at the tennis courts will be laken care of in the next two week facilities superintend Pat in told council s administration committee last Tuesday night said the problem had been brought lo his at the moit recent meeting between the town staff and Hills Tenni Association He said it wjs the best meeting the two parlies have had yel and the increased work put to he circuits at this time Chairman Wilf McEachern wondered what they could do about the week and thought putting an advertisement in local newspapers saying something about tion He was however against the idea The ad costs more than what people would be eon serving he reasoned Ted Tyler Sr said he thought the idea was foolish He compared it to Fire Pre vention Week and pointed out people should be preventing all year long not just for one week He said it was same with lion Week All decided unanimously not observe the week as It woul be loo costly THE ACTON FREE PRESS AulhorlxtaScond Clan Number 0515 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY NATIONALLY PROMINENT CASH and CARRY SOFT DRINK COMPANY REQUIRES A DEALEROPERATOR lor ACTON SMALL INVESTMENT REQUIRED APPLY IN WRITING TO MR JOHN M HALL POP SH0PPES TORONTO LTD 2571A Ontario STORE HOURS Open Mondays Tues Wed Sat 6pm Thurs 9pm em LADIES WEAR 113 MILL ST E ACTON 853 0041 FREE WEEKLY DRAW DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER XEvery Thursday October 7 21 28 at 700 1st Prize Choice of 2nd Prize One KITTEN Sweater WENDY LANE or RONDA BOY Outfit Value 30 Oct Winner 1st Prize Mrs Jackie 2nd Prize Mrs FILL OUT COUPON IN STORE NO PURCHASE NECESSARY GRAND ASSORTMENT OF FALL MERCHANDISE IN STOCK GOWNS DRESSES PANT SUITS SWEATERS SLACKS SKI OUTFITS BLOUSES Serving You In ACTON BOLTON FERGUS Fire chiefs Ken and Mick Holmes failed to get to first base In their attempt to persuade Hills Council a administration committee that the town needs a fire safety by law last Tuesday night had written the committee to say that work on the fire safety by law was at a point where legal advice Is required to interpret and apply provisions of the pro vincial statutes Existing by laws he explained are in effect in Ward based on the Notional Fire Code in 1963 and in Wards 3 and a page document dated 1938 dealing with open air fires He suggested a proposed fire safety by law would con solidate existing by lows Into one for the entire Town of Hills Councillor Roy Booth noted the proposed by law is more a preventive by law than specifically fire fighting He wondered who would admin it When replied that the fire department could do It Booth suggested they would need more than one full time person to do that Fire safety is definitely needed emphasized Booth I went along with hiring a fire safety officer but can t see that we need all this paper Councillor Morrow wondered why the National Fire Code of Canada Isn good enough if council adopted that How would things change if we had a fire safety by law asked Morrow I don foresee the need of a great document to do the job I not sold on it Ken admitted it sel he falls to get a lion when he makes recom to property owners Speaking from his lence in Ward l Acton Chief Holmes said everybody usually falls in line because if something is suggested for their good they go along with it However he added that there needs to be something with some teeth in It Councillor Booth 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