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Bid to launch Neighborhood Watch in Acton Police local councillors and a citizen In with both the Acton Social Service and Information Centre and the Hal ton Safely Council are working together lo bring Neighborhood Hatch to Acton Neighborhood Vtattn is neighbors watch each other properties during times whcnbuTglanesarehkelv A police officer patrolling neighborhood may not recognize a stranger in yard but your neighbor would Last despite a significant decrease there were still burglaries in region into and 1 businesses as well as other buildings such as churches and schools Last Tuesday morning Regional Pol crime prevention officer for north Constable Scott met with Councillors Hick and Ross Knechtcl and citizen Pat Little to discuss Neighborhood Watch Councillor Dave Whiting was away on municipal business Mrs I to be reappointed to lUllon Council this year and while interviewed by the selection committee for appointments the subject Neighborhood Watch came up sal on thai committee and noted at the recent meeting that Mrs Little gets full for raising the subject and working to get launched said he is behind Neighborhood 100 per cent and Knechtel echoed his indorsement calling the program excellent noted Watch began resort for hall crime rapid increase It has been so successful that in so mi areas crime has been reduced as much as BO per cent The police success with Neigh in and Burlington and it is now being introduced in Milton until now observed there been much interest in of Hills urban areas It just neighbors taking cart neigh Knowing what kind I car drive hours work their movements And Acton be ideal for Neighborhood Watch small enough we could monitor the program if any ex pi a Watches are set up I 50 homes and for it to work at east per cent of the homes in must be participating in the sail will depend on public re sponse which areas of town Neighborhood Watch starts in Lake view Boms King ham and town all lend themselves bens broken Neighborhood Watch t of number of streets bach needs a block captain and time are called a block I hi blotk captain Is informed so he can pass on lo the Neighborhood Watch numbers The want Neighbor lood Watch blocks lo receive feedback on input give forci The first step in establishing Neighbor hood is for to talk it up in neighborhoods to see what kind of re ports then is and then call either the Acton Services and Information Centre at or Travel and give address phone number and an estimate support for program in their re i tint enough nanus of interested pie are collected in any area a meeting is arranged at a school in the area There are usual two meetings before the Neighbor hood Watch system is in operation In any area said they like to see Neighbor hood Watch operations tliroughout the town by June and said feasible He emphasized citizens must want to participate There are other benefits to Neighborhood Watch besides improved protection against crime It has brought neighborhoods Senior citizen fends off armed robber girl 13 An elderly Acton woman got Into a struggle with a 13 yearold female armed robber who had surprised her and another elder woman in a home on Poplar Ave evening Regional Police The two women were in the home at when the armed robber brandishing a knife and wearing a stocking mask demanded money and one woman struggled with the robber Keith Gregory Neither of the elderly women were in 13 yearold girl as well as a 15yearold were arrested and charged with robbery Monday Police say that the younger girl was already in the house No signs of forced entry were found according to Sergeant Gregory The 15 yearold was allegedly on the porch w hile the crime was taking place The robber escaped after the struggle food A press release issued by the police slates that neither of the elderly women wants to be identified Sergeant Gregory stated that the robber fled on foot and area police officers chased her for a short way but she eluded the of The juveniles are not related to the elderly women but arc known them police say The investigation is continuing The Ml METRO One Year Issue 34 Acton Wednesday March 1983 Pages Thin Kellar sentenced to life term The killer of a yearold Acton has been sentenced to life imprison ment with iligibilit for parole after 17 fcru Howard Kellar was sentenced in Ontnri Supreme Court Tuesday morning after plead ng guilty lo second degree murder in the slaying of Colleen Oates a Bower Ave mother of two children Chief Justice Gregory remarked that although Kellar will be eligible for parole his chances of release are slim with i effort a severe to rehabilitate himself If not re likely to spend the rest of your life as a number in an institution lod Kellar surrendered to police five days after the body of Mrs waS found stahbed and mutilated in her home on Oct 1961 Aecordmgtoevidcncepresentedhy Crown Attorney Jim Kellar had been drinking liquor and wine with Mrs her husband Kevin and a few friends throughout the afternoon and evening After the friends had left Mr Dales had gone to work in leaving his wife alone with Kellar A neighbor Susan Pat had joined them briefly during the evening evidently had made sexual advances to both women recounted evidence given at thcprelimmarvhearing Mrs Patterson left shortly alter midnight t j m Mrs telephoned her husband at work and old him she was afraid asking him to come home told his ife lo ask Kellar to leave and promised to call her back in 15 minutes According to Mrs was cutting a pizza the two had ordered when she was attacked and stabbed man times According to statements made police ripped the telephone cord from the wall before fleeing the house Kellar himself old police at the time of his arrest that hi was uncertain what had happened I knew she was hurt I panicked Oates concerned about the constant busy signal on the telephone line returned home at lam and found his wife body The two children one aged years and one infant were both in bed and unharmed Mrs had been stabbed about 50 chest abdomen and upper limbs Kellar had been released from Ontario Correctional Institute only a few weeks before Ihe slaying where he had been serving a term for indecent assault His previous record showed a number of con vie lions or common assault theft and possession of stolen property Psychologists and social workers had put Kellar behavior down to a problem abuse and low self esteem A doctor at the Workman Compensation Board Hospital in Toronto and a social Police probe towing in north senior police officer has been assigned in work with Regional Police ad ministrator Robin Hale to look into the problems of there not being a car compound in and vehicles being towed to Georgetown after accidents promised iw ice at Hills council Councillor Rick Bonnette raised the eonctrn and gave each member a copy of a letter from the owner of Hills Collision Thursday Peter Pomcroy brought problem to the attention of Police Commission He Mild he wanted to get the wheels mnv so some adjustments can be made in the police towing contract The mayor observed last time the contract was tendered twoli wing areas in north were welded together into on There have been questions about the Inside mer sports field maintenance and hydro More on pages Dave Hall received sentence for fait part In Ihrfl of case Turn lo page it rime was down In llallon last per cent Details on page The school board and polite budgets are per cent More on pages teachers are in a milium mood Mare page BT That for fee Telford See year Seepage Be fairness of this from business in and he has talked a number of ibout their concerns Without a pound in Aclon vehicles arc being taken to Georgetown after accidents and so Georgetown autobftdy shops get first crack at business or damaged vehicles must be lowed baek to Acton Police officers properly informing people of their rights at the accident scene w regird to the lowing of their vehicle he added has found there are some problems with the towing is being done forms seen don contain in formation such as when towing call came in and when the vehicle was picked up He said he like to see arrangements made for a second pound in the north for and area and suggested the person who now holds the contract a Georgetown towing firm may agree to changes Pomcroy noted he can provide details to Ihe police department about the problems Police Chief James Harding suggested a senior officer be assigned lo review the wholcsituationwlthtlalc how the tendering has been done In Ihe past how towing zones tLonllnurdonpagell who hid treated had strongly recommended treatment for Killar while he is at OCI in 1981 ment which he did receive cording to both and defence counsel ToomasOunapuu of Toronto Kellar had told investigating police lhat he had an problem I drink I another person he is reported to have told police pointed out that a psychologist at Mental Health Centre had judged could be rchibilitated under treatment suggested lhat after a period of and treatment could return the community at some future time Justice fc pointed out that the murder f Mrs is horrible killing She suffered 50 many of which were imposed following ihe death of this fortunate woman If it difficult to reconcile an attack of kind with person not in the category of an insnni person wonders he added lo Kellar what is w rong i system which lets you go at when all those in authority are recommending psychiatric treatment in a hospital Somewhere along society has failed you C tiling killing a vicious and callous and on a woman unprotected in own home Evans pointed oui lhal nature of the crime as well is i prisoner s demeanor will be taken ml a parole jury when for I not parole officer I m a sen tencing judge And unless there Is a drastic in pattern of behavior it will ever be released from was fast and furious between the and year tourney the Dirty working in Hi lit when the Regional Police brought their an nual Al volleyball tournament to Acton High School Friday night The event raised over for the Acton Cancer branch and had a great lime cheering on many Taxes on identical property are higher in Acton than Georgetown Taxes on identic industrial commercial residenli can be as as j per gher if the proper loe in sic id of Georgetown Monday night Hills general decided to deeply into proper assessment and tax reform through Section Section Also Councillor Ross who chaired a committee for the last council dealing with assessment rcf will work with treasurer Hay King to hate old report updated with new The aajwa I and parade al tailed It was a Beaver Scants down Mill St an the way lo the services Sunday atlrrtmoa for the parade of ever Sea and information which has become available Assessment and tax reform came up because a consultant hired by Frank Heller and Co with plants in Acton and Georgetown produced some shocking in formation about problems both in assess ments in Georgetown and Acton as well as Ihi tax equalization factors designed to make tax burden fairer Consultant Bob arm there told council lhal taxes on identical properties Of everything is equal such as the year a house or building was built and size etc areas much as per cent higher in Acton Ex plained another way if Acton and Georgetown were adjacent and the bound line ran down the middle of a street and houses were the same in size on both sides of had ihe same market value the houses on ihe side of street would be paying per cent more in taxes There are major discrepancies both with assessments In the two urban areas as well as the equalization factors CarruUiers explained If council opts for Section some assessments and taxes would rise slightly in Georgetown and drop drastically on some Acton properties but least then taxes on identical properties would be the same Looking at Heller a Wallace St plant the Acton the present realty tax is more because the plant is In Acton than it would be if It was in Georgetown In addition Heller spays about more in business taut When the equalization factors are applied the market value of the Hellers factory would be if was in Georgetown but is valued at l because It Is In Acton But Carruthers noted Hellers paid jusi for the factory so ihe assessment should really only be based on market value instead of Carruthers pointed out the equalization factor is supposed to balance out the ference in assessments between Acton and Georgetown but the equalization factor Is really doing the opposite Fred Dawkins of Heller observed last time Hills looked al assessment and tax reform Ihe majority of Ontario mun t opted for Section but lhal a changed now the majority have adopted the alternative system of assessment Dawkins explained Heller 1962 lax bill was percent of the purchase price of the plant Carruthers pointed to Hills own report which said there were terrible inequities In Assessments In Hills The consultant recalled the province froze assessments at 1970 levels the many discrepancies resulting from four different systems being used In what became Hills were locked in He questioned the accuracy of land values for assessment increases for Improvements provision for depreciation etc all factors in the assessments which were frozen 1970 levels Assessment valuations in Hills were on different year construction cost manuals and different criteria He also wondered If It would be legal for Halton HUh to adjust equalization factors somet the province has advised against because tbef rosea assessments are based on hybrid values different yean CaathMtedM