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BIO The Acton Free Press Wednesday May 1977 Council unveils Eramosa taxes 89 per cent hike Taxes in township are going up per cent Township ratepayers will have to fork over an extra more than last year The mill rate has Jumped 10 CIS mills Council unveiled its 1077 budget recently showing tax payers must come up with a total of to keep he township county schools conservation authority Rock and Mills going Last years total budget was 753 Taxes for general township pur poses total up 17 from last year budget totals while Mills will operate with a 7 budget in Watson told General operation of Rock wood will cost 106 Street lighting is budgeted for 524 and garbage pickup is ex pec ted to cost Eden Mills is expected to spend 3 on general alions Street lighting of the hamlet will cost while 126 has been budgeted for garbage collection Fire protection costs have gone up very when com pared with other hikes Last years fire budget totalled 28 756 and this years is Grand River Conservation Authority will up from 1976 Library costs have gone up to while the community centre budget has swelled from 6 in 1976 to this year Wellington County will receive from rate payers more than in 1976 takes the biggest chunk of the tax pic a total of 291 Last year education cost Eramosa ratepayers 778 Public elementary school levy is Up to 233 this year while separate school taxes have jumped to in 1977 Secondary school costs have jumped from in to this year The municipality will receive in grants from Queen Pork THE ENTIRE CAST OF the operetta The Happy Scarecrow arranges itself on stage at school The spring play went for two performances last week About 250 people were entertained with songs and dances The story is about a lonely scarecrow who is cursed by an evil witch Her speli is broken only after some kindly words are spoken to him by a doll A fairy helps cast off the spell with her wand Farmers and even crows return for a happy ending including the crowning of the scarecrow as king Teachers Glenda Benton and Kris Hannon snared piano duties while Donna White and Harriet Mitchell directed the rhythm band and speaking parts Meet the candidates at Brookville meeting Area Ratepayers Association is sponsoring the first meet t hecandidates meeting In this area next Wednesday evening May the executive announced this Organizers report the m meeting will be held in Hall starting it Candidates George Gray of the PC party Bill Johnson of the and incumbent Liberal MPP Julian Reed will speak and answer questions from the floor All arc welcome -4- 1K1 HRCA gives jobs to 54 students The idea is good but you should do it Member of Public Works Committee agreed a exclude tin and glass from municipal garbage pickups has some merit and could isms l in extending tin life of existing I sites in But even with ment rtluctint fora feasibility study lo see whether or nol the could be put into The proposil v by Milton Councillor Jim Watson Ik said Milton Council w that in its own but hi felt the project would be successful only if the other three municipalities timed in Committee in J wondered lion the bagt collectors unlit know if there wis and tin in a lrcen garbage baa Hills Councillor Pal wondered if there are markets for tin in Region budget Councillor Watson lol the councillors the were Irvine to build in problems Ik Milton Councillor Jim Kerr told the committee those questions could be answered inafcasibilitv study Burlington and J It lis ml the collection of cirl is an responsibility and if Milton wanted to tr it as pilot project Ihev do so without the region ou ean do it on your n don to lie lien We are looking it in Burlington and the idea does line merit but you kill il if you don something Conncll said Regional Hit Morrow said the Kit I is one and the iff at Hit region should look at it But no action wis liken and the staff was instructed lo conduct a Thtrt is some confusion Councillor Watsons refines seem to follow the line of thinking that was conveyed in a letter from Milton Clerk Campbell Thompson The clerks letter dealt with inclusion of funds in the budget for resource itson Ins intention v is for Milton Council to Hie leanest to consider controlled Hit area councils 1ft said if wenl wilhtheidta rtkuuiwould be involved bee it controls lindfill sites ind it would be for personnel at the to restrict lit of the Councillor Watson he would clarify the wording of the resolution it the local level try ontc to rtfjoml support for his proposal clerk did a poor job of Hit motion he Town share 1188005 Again this year the Region Conservation Authority will be actively Involved In the Ontario Government student em ployment program Under this program the Authority will be hiring in 54 high school and university students who will take part in a number of varied projects The work agenda will in Cant move Credit River Thou shall not move tht river the Credit Valley Conservation only Erie Leslie of Georgetown made cation recently to the Auth only to relocate a water course on his Sixth Line pro perty south of Terra executive turned down the application on the grounds the Imd has always been and no building would be allowed to go within the Mr Leslie has been ip- for of the land according to Authority planners but the severance wis originally disapproved by CVCA Severance was granted however subject to CVCA approval In order to make a building lot of the swamp land it is necessary to excavate a new creek route and add four feet of fill engineers explained Application was turned down by the executive and I go before the full only in June elude such tasks as rehabilitation work on the Grindstone Creek stream and roadside cleanup within the watershed the continuing construction or a boardwalk at Crawford and genral maintenance within the Authority owned parks In addition a number of students will be given specific studies and projects to work on These projects will in dude imimgementsludyof helping them gain an beaver at Hilton tails a insight into the operations of iri a Conservation Authority In the field of resource man a tht Authority s reservoirs mapping waterfowl banding and the surveying of all the Authority roads trails and parking lots In all the Authority is in tending to provide an en and productive imer for the students ment m Give yourself a break Drop in and see us for tha finest Chinese Food and Fish and Chips in Hills HOURS 10a pm Fri Sat m Sunday 12 Noon 8pm Tel 8532060 Reelect JULIAN REED HahonBurfington Bureaucracy lor Mean CI iowoiHo a Recovery System for Re odea now ihGovornmtnt J 1ooDDoollicHghCosflndDuplcaionof Ho to help roosrablsh an System Im Base Learn Liberal a Campagn Headquarter Committal Rooms 3359703 Georgetown Acton Milton shire of Region of tax Ins ir will be SI 188Xb members of Milton learned figures worried Councillor who noticed the Mills regional lev is SI Whj do we pay less thin II Hills he wondered Milton has just J two population in rthtion to in Hilton Mills Treasurer Don explained the levy is ised on assessment It s time we did something about equalized assessment said Councillor Itussell I owidiuk his promised for e but kitps getting dthyed Councillor wondered if council should ippcal to the Ireisiirir of to Me i north an big tax intrtists this irnis for the people of loronto II imilton to run through while town loses the taxes off those properties He reminded councillors in land frozen commission or belt loses its due It wis pointed out Milton i just nine per ttnt of regional percent Milton Hills per cent ind per cent submitted report showing how the regional lcv his inernsed government v is in IJ74 Increases from to ranjc from low of tl per cent in former ire lo high of per cent in ht pointed out Hit Milton urban residentnl taxpayer has id i per tent increase in he region levy in the four period LUCILLE COOKSLEY was one of the conven ers for the Queens Sit ver Jubilee tea held last Wednesday We Stock and Order McCALL STYLE SIMPLICITY PATTERNS 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