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2 Tha Acton Ff Pross Wednesday July 12 Council unaminous Region approves plan to avoid garbage crisis Regional Council voted unanimously to support measures proposed by Burlington Mayor Mary ro aimed at finding an inter lm solution to the region pending garbage crisis The recommendation call for examination of Possible expansion- maximize use existing sites Use of NATCO lands in Highway 103 in Burlington Use of Milton Yards Site as i wi Temporary burning of selected materials The recommendition emu as a result of meetings with Mrs and region chairman Morrow with staff and consultants The motion is designed In stave off a crisis but still the door open for consideration of Milton site it mil ltd for a dump Conversely if council is iblc to buy enough time through parts or all recommendation could allow time to consider resource recovery and or alter sites I he Indies recommended the recommendation will eostuptoSJ WO the work to be finalized further unit drilling wuiUi Mr Munivt hoped i title be ill with id Unit ii of l is tot report hid i the Itoth and Oak to see the site Councillor Carl expanded because of pro- suggested local areas should of termination the taking the lead councils made separation at source pro- nerc 200 trims noted that people out there who need on while it was the local area s inswer responsibility to collect gar Milton Councillor Jim Wnt ie he felt the region should son raised the ire of Mrs seminars for the when he urged the re- officials to instill in moval of any mention of the teres in programs such as word interim in the recom the one in Hills He felt that by re He in II in ken to Site II mi lecept 1HH ll illerMulkiwichmieslioied wisdom if inistijitmt further wlti been ruled on bee in e of poor leccs Mrs Munri sucestod is i dnwl slu it counci presuppose problem was loo it to rule from m Hon the be just to the fate is garble dump there was no one in resource recovery il mid the extension of cur tut would be a w of iHw inf more time to Site improved Mrs Munro asked rbeton ilk what Mr 11 s would be todcil with lion but ii Archie supported he istid resi it be iffetttd il lie the move is like IMkvilk Councillor it snd he is moving the word interim it would remove even the vague reference to Site His failed We have attempted to put divisions of the past behind us make a sincere move to solve serious problem and now the dogs are at the gate trying to change the motion until nothing is left and we would be back where we with no solution in sight Mrs said the councillors them selves were surprised when the vote carried The landfill question Ins torn and divided the council for three years now ind even the most innocent of motions have been suspect in the eyes of one group of or the other 17 Sideroad issue still up in air The town is no doner to He said the half load limit solving the 17 season should have been controversy following a extended In the spring minute behindclosed doors because of the poor shape the meeting of Hills works rural roads were in committee Monday Bessey reminded Councillors who were he and other truckers supposed to hear some pay hefty licence fees and gas recommendations from taxes to the province and this I Councillor Mike Armstrong money Is supposed to come and engineer Robert Austin back to municipalities for regarding guidelines for road maintenance permit Issuance to drivers He pointed out complaining whose trucks weigh more residents built their homes on than 11 tons came up with no 17 Sideroad years after the recommendations to council trucks started using the road The Item has been passed on Councillor George to the next committee described s assess meeting in two weeks or the situation as ac Before going into camera curate the committee reviewed a He noted residents don letter from James Bessey mind the trucks using the an independent roads for local and Brampton trucker who said all the deliveries but object to loads blame t be laid on going to Toronto via 17 drivers He said many other truckers the Armstrong noted Fourth and Sideroad rcs and most drivers and council to find a solution use the two roads when making deliveries in George- J town or Brampton The committee is trying to In the letter said frame guidelines so own going through Acton to High staff knows who lo give way would add nearly special permits to once the 11 a month to truckers fuel ton load limit on the road goes bills into effect Suspicious fire is investigated suspicious Health Unit busy in schools 119 million worth of road work need Health Unit was busy working in schools throughout the region last year performing health assessments School nurses visited homes in Mill and Milton last year to discuss health problems with sludents and parents School staff handed over There is over Sit million worth of Hilton Hills roads in need of work either now or over the next five cording to lown engineer Robert This wis one of i number of facts about town roads brought out during a works committee discussion Monday Austin told the councillors the roads needs study done by a consulting firm re viewing the condition of all roads found ties in a number of roads He explained the study is done primarily for benefit of Queen Park which basis its financial on study Austin noted ill roads are broken down into categories based on mediate work need work needed in one to five years and work needed In six to ten years Provincial subsidy is based on the roads in the work needed low category and work needed in one to fiv years There is million worth of road reconstruction listed in the now and one to five years category Austin said adding the work is more long range than it appears on the surface He said if town had the money and the province approved the work it could be done tomorrow with government body picking up per cent of the But the town t have the money ind the province I approve spending that much rifht aw anyway Austin said What the list amounts to is what we need hut miLht never get in the way of road reconstruction he said Austin said the majority of the million would be spent on rural roads ilthough there is some semi urban roads without curbs and gutters and some urban roads which need work Austin said he work needed t that startling and while there is a lot to be done It could be worse Councillor Pat McKenzie is urging the condition of roads be examined and hard facing considered In light of hefty maintenance costs for gravel oil calcium and oilier treatments He told the committee the town staff has agreed to bring in a report on road conditions and the feasibility of hard surfacing but it won come In until September at the earliest Councillor Marilyn Ser suggested eillors need to know which roads cost the most in maintenance and which need to be brought up to standard She said she keeps hearing rumors that the controversial 17 Sideroad repeatedly pounded by heavy trucks eats up most of the main budget Austin said his department I have exact dollar figures for mainteance of specific roads although they do know which ones require the most work ind therefore cost the most He s id is costly but not is expensive is suggested flit low sud everyone knows some roads cost more thin others Hold art needed so councillors in mike and loik for w of reducing some nowhere close fmdiiit to hiving its roids all up to maintenance methods standard but then neither ire He predicted if residents inv other municipalities knew the road Pointing out town Ins counts on ro ids might support said he was id of some rur il roads so hard surficinf is the run money could opposed for high traffic volume ro ids The deficient slurcturc if ro ids which lack i proper base hue poor is to blame for the overspending its 1JH gnvel pitch budget ilreidv Councillor urged an in depth roids study noting if the town hid more facts figures it would have lever more monev out of the pro vince Ik snd own needs to know if it costs a certain to maintain 100 miles of rur roads but maybe just bad miles is up per cent of cost said such i study bring in more pro- adding Ministry of Transport ilion and upped the lown s grant iscd on 1J77 roads need and 1 iter spent urban road observed with in ire fiets in front of them even decide tu men ise ivel budget the roads need ind amount on it of id main the council wants will iy for Ik observed roids ivc been in this bee nisi some won keep long ind can be In some it s lit job to keep ruril roads warned the day is vhen lot will have to he spent on rural roads urban projects postponed or Mike Armstrong rejected claims m the past by vinous councillors Pit Patterson roids in as good shape as they were in when Hilton Hills was said find specific roads in worse today than five but there are many which are in much better condition now than in M concluded rural roads ire in better shape now in in i month ago Spray heads stolen from tannery field 54 worth of sprinkler heads were reported stolen from the Beard more Tannery fields south of the plant along student testing showed per cent of for their mention and lliosc tested had some kind of in health or development pro blem and treatment was pre scribed diphtheria and polio shots were given to GIG students in Hills Milton last year with mother 76 receiving measles and rubell vaccm Vision tests were ad ministered for pupils in Milton Hills ind received follow up exam tests were given to sludents in northern schools and 507 In the kindergarten screening program 17 vision defects were discovered and hearing problems out of pupils A ind two packs of gum were stolen last week from the confectionary building in Prospect Pirk Entry was gained into the building by prying open a large rear window Value of the theft is ACTON FIREFIGHTERS were called to a car fire in a lot off Road Thursday evening According to District Chief Bern Van Fleet the fire in the back seat of the auto was caused by a cigarette Police arrest eight after mail box spree Police scooped up some rowdies on charges of knocking over countryside mill boxes and dimagmg other private property Eight area men ranging in age from 17 years to years were arrested and after an investigation involving an number of police officers Most of the dam ige wis done on July a Sunday Many of the mail boxes were broken and knocked down on the iinc though addresses of iclimiaa up and down the and lines and elsewhere All those arrested are charged with all or some of the damage The vandals tried to burn one mail box twice once on the and on the Sunday Also in the damige list is an 1 planter which was turned over its flowers spilled also along same route an outdoor lamp was broken speed sign knocked over Three of those caught by police have Georgetown id dresses are from one from one from Glen Williams and one from ItRI Dillon invcstijiliM fin building it O0 ltd iec rd to Deputy fire chief Mr explained fire lit 11 tin liec he dim igc v lire slmc from WEDNESDAY JULY 12 5 30 The Bible View 6 Magazine Library 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