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Acton Froa Wednesday July 1980 First power pulses through one farmer apprehensive by Jennifer Burr Clarence and Wilma Coles don t like the idea of a Hydro line running smack through the middle of their acre farm on Highway so they have asked Ontario Hydro to purchase nil their property not just the acres forming Hydro easement The hearing with Hydro took place February 8 and Mr Coles expects to be receiving the results any day now Hearing results have been delayed by lack of report from one witness Effects of farming adjacent to a massive power line are yet to be felt the power only went on recently but Clarence doesn Region votes keep Halton By Jim Robinson There now appears little hope Milton can expect any assistance in its disagreements over regionalism from the rest of Regional Council In two separate votes Regional Council decided 15 to to keep Halton Region in tact and to restudy the question of which is to be discussed today at the Administration and Finance Com On the question of representation a number of changes suggested by the Bill 151 Committee had proposed no change in the number of councillors from each of the four member municipalities despite repeated attempts by Milton to increase its number on Regional Council from three to at least four Despite the double setback Milton Mayor Don Gordon and Councillor Bill Johnson say the very fact their requests were turned down is damning proof that Milton is not being treated as fairly as it should within the Halton Region frame work Goutousky who voted ta posturing and It was across grid taking favor of retaining Halton time to put the fate of into account the current Reoion said afterwards regionalism squarely cost of living at per he supports the idea of before a full council cent and compartog municipalities workng meeting boards for the common good At last Wednesday s under a regional form of Mr Bird said his government municpality is losing He said this did not in returning conflict with the fact he tax dollars to Halton this has attended several particularly want out The effects are an unknown quantity he Bays adding that farmers have had trouble with such lines in the States The Coles farm occupied by the family for years consists of Lot and both halves of Lot Esqueslng Township totalling 270 acres on the north side of H 7 between the Fourth and Fifth lines The foot portion of the hydro line bisects his property and comes within zoo feet of his fecdlot and barn Nearly head of beef cattle arc raised on the Coles farm Hydro crews were very careful about staying withing their own boundaries while laying the this spring Mr Coles points out He found planting crops around reels of wire a real Inconvenience and crews were very much In but they tried to It the unknown concerns Clarence is worried about They say we won know the power on he comments We re kind of in the dark However he d have qualms about putting his 150 and calves in the field under the volt lines He feels the easement area would have to be fenced off with a cattle pass through Mr Coles is also worried about winter feeding of the stock in a fcedlot 200 feet from the lines He also concerned about static on his steel bam roof Resale value of his farm is bound to be ted Mr Coles notes farms on the north section of the line have had their value depreciated by to percent Hydro have tried to reassure us they will deal with complaints we found Hydro la Is wesseasy to deal with and very But he Hydro Coles barn on his Highway farm He Is awaiting results of a Hydro hearing concerning his request for Ontario Hydro to purchase his entire acre is considerate enough to buy his whole farm The attitude of the Coles family is probably of a change in attitude by farmers towards Ontario Hydro operation through In the early stages of construction for the Bruce to Milton hydro corridor one Hydro official had manure dumped on his car surrounded by farmers angry at the tactics of the corporation at that time In contrast the Coles family found Ontario Hydro cooperative and eager to stay on good terms with them as they worked on const of the corridor through the last year Many rural dweller still resent the intrusion of the 737 towers which march 100 miles from the Bruce nuclear power station to the farm of Gardhouse near the urban area of Milton The line bisects the east west corridor which runs Pickering on Lake Ontario toNanUcokeonLakeErie house farm The concerns of farmers and other innd owners along the corridor have been voiced by the Interested Group ICG which proposed an independent study to determine whether the corridor was necessary They maintained the corridor should have followed an existing route from north of range vllle east to a spot north of Toronto However their appeals both to the Ontario Cabinet and the federal energy board were turned down A succession of Ontario energy ministers repeatedly maintained there was not enough time to institute an independent study It was not lost on the ICG that the ministers said this over six year period although they maintain a study could have been done in six months to a year A plea by farmers Retard and Walter Scott to the National Energy Board to stop the Bruce to Milton corridor because power from it would be exported to the United States without an export permit was lost The NEB contended the BruceMilton line is not an international line under their definition of the NEB Act With the last barriers lifted Ontario Hydro finished the corridor and power was turned on at a m Sunday on one circuit The other Monday Farmers along the route are sitting now with fingers crossed Ontario Hydro maintains that delay on the Bruce lo Milton corridor has bottled up needed power from Bruce and cost consumers tens of millions in dollars because expensive fossil fuels had to be used to generate clec The ICG points out Ontario has a power surplus and any extra power could only go to the S which Hydro ma In to Ins is not the Intention of the Bruce to Milton corridor NOW OPEN Market Jeanery SPECIALIZING IN BLUE JEANS LEATHERS MEN S LADIES FASHIONS 18 Mill St E Acton Teachers board still negotiating The Halton Separate School teachers team met with the Board on July de fining a number of items as issues of mutual agreement The teachers estimate their requested tired of all the increase at per cent The Halton board estl mates the teachers demands at per cent They have offered 7 per Other major items of school system negotiation are staff re- teachers have duction and the preached negotiations deferred salary leave with the view much can plan neltherof which are be done now to plnn for cost items contingencies that have occurred in other boards Although declining enrolment is not The staff reduction the separate tide is a formula that teachers say control fair should declining treatment of all em enrolment ever occur meetings of Milton Council regional review committee Although listed as a member of that committee he said he ha only attended as an Inter ted visitor The meeting at regional headquarters also saw a change of heart by Oak vllle Mayor Harry Barrett and Burlington Councillor Dave La Combe who prior to last Wednesday had both been highly critical of regionalism Mr Barrett in fact has been the leading proponent of a referendum on regional ism to be placed on the Oakvllle municipal ballot It would be the easiest thing in the world to opt out but to opt out is a cop out he said Mr Barrett said he could not support the motion by Mayor Bird to ask the Province to disband Region and let each municipality go its own way because that did not offer an alter native The Bird motion stemmed from a Regional Administration and Finance Committee two weeks ago today at which time Mr Bird said Continued on Page 6 tent PUMP PROBLEMS an to at Jet and piston pumps BOYES For Van Plumbing Needs BOYES PLUMBING fa 15198554232 MORE 10 off Man Woman CNMrans SUMMER SHOES PLUS 10 OFF Purees acton family shoe store IFSAVSHIB till 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