Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), June 17, 1971, p. 1

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Ads That Pay can place ad la The fleraldi pages or The where yea wffl Bad the resslts waat GEORGETOWN HERALD The Home Newspaper for Georgetown and District Printing Publishing The Georgetown Herald served Georgetown and district Publishers tor aver a century offering the best In One and Second Class Mall Registered Number 0943 Georgetown Ontario Thursday farm Return Postage Guaranteed per year Single Copy Price Fifteen Trudeau To Visit Halton Prime Minister Pierre Elliott will visit County next Tuesday as guest of Bud Whiting MP and and East Liberal Associations During his one and a half hour stay be will Arrive by helicopter at Oak vllle harbour at 10 Enter an boat and cruise towards Bronte Land at Bronte pier to greet the public Depart at noon by helicopter to Bramalea His visit Is part of a two day information tour of Peel and Toronto area federal ridings FREAK STORM BRUISES BALUNAFAD Township Will Foot Share Ski Project Over the objections of Reeve Tom Hill and Cr Wilfrid Les lie Esquesing council voted to raise their share of the cost of enlarging the ski facilities at Glen Eden Monday Region Conservation Authority estimated the cost at claiming ft would be paid at a year for five years and would be self sup porting through increased re venue Reeve Hill and Leslie also objected to the acquiring of 117 acres of valley and table land near the Queen Highway and the Bron te road at a cost of Council overruled them and voted to raise their of this cost also Hostile About Census Your in the Minority Less than half of one per cent of the people called on in Georgetown and district have had a hostile reaction to the dominion census according to district supervisor Doug ley of Georgetown He told The Herald Tuesday that his team of census re presentatives have the dome- tic census almost n per cent complete and the census just about SO per cent complete The agricultural form Is longer and more de tailed TRIVIAL We have bad good cooper ation from the public and what bad response we have had has been trivial Fendtey said He said he hopes to have the district census wrapped up some time Friday A lot of people hod heard about the long form and fear ed it but the census reps found when they went to pick the forms up that some people with the long forms thought they had the short one ley said DELAY He said that some residents who apparently trust the confidence of the census workers dropped their com pleted forms in the mail ad dressed to Ottawa He said these only end up with be postmaster who turns them to the district supervisor here The end result Is un necessary delay The completed forms are edited and compiled by the workers here and then to the Toronto region of fice CENSUS REPS Census representatives cull Continued on Page Town Students Will Walk or Pay to Ride Injuries Fatal for Young Drag Driver blown toppled and leaks appeared in roofs which had never leaked before during the but violent wind and rain storm The Rusts from the north east also brought damn his silo on the Ernie McEnery farm near the centre of the village No injuries were report A Richmond Hill youth has died in Toronto Western Hos pital two weeks after he injuries in on accident at Toronto International Just west of George town accident happened ing competitions June when his speeding dragster flew out of control on the Esquesing Township dragstrip and flipped over crushing his skull NOT NOTIFIED George died of a brain compression according gat Up by the elements late Sunday after noon la a freak windstorm which left the village and vicinity a little dishevelled One of the casualties was the giant which was uprooted behind the general store Improvement is Set Tender to ABC Construction will start witb- weeks as soon as Dep artment of Highways approval New Floor Better Ice in Arena Plans Work underway at arena update Its Ice making faculties and Install a new floor Ice making plant fa be ing Installed the back of the arena while new pipes are being laid to run under the floor A new Door made of ten rmo will vastly Improve the surface for the roller skating season which Is scheduled to begin July 9 The floor Is being installed by Dofoe Floor Company and the fee plant by Canadian Ice Machines Dancing Party Follows WorksGarageOpening The new Esquesing works was officially opened Friday night with a flair un common to such affairs There were refreshments for all with the public responding to the invitation to come plus the music of Bob and Corey for dancing Tha dancing went on till after midnight with not too many left lining tha walls ratepayers bad a chance to see where tbe IBS- was spent at they toured garage with over head crane tbe superlntend- office with green drapes end carpeting and the upstairs Inncfrfoom for the men SURGICAL The ribbon stretched serosa the opening separating the two halves of the garage was cut with veterinarian Dr Frank surgical scissors when no others could bo Or Is also Warden of Hal ton County Bruce Newington engineer for the Department of High ways Reeve Tom Hill deputy reeve Russell Miller and road superintendent Bud Snow took part In ribbon cutting NO DEBT During cer emonies Reeve Tom Bill In troduced the council reeve Russell Miller Howitt Wilfrid Leslie and Lea Coxe Bruce whose department for of this Don the who designed A J McCarthy who built it Warden Frank and mayor Bill Smith of Geor getown Warden Frank said the garage would bo tha envy of many municipalities partk when It was built with out Incurring any debt is received promised Horry Levy when council ac cepted a tender for rcconstrue Hon of Road S on Monday Armstrong Brothers Cons truction submitted the lowest of three bids for tho job No Grant for Fall Fair In Towns Budget Georgetown tax get makes no allowance for grant to Georgetown As Society which has been customary for many years Tho Society formerly called Esquesing Agricultural Society Is planning its annual show in October in the town fairgrounds Appearing at Mondays coun cil meeting to seek the grant Albert Hunter was told by Reeve Morrow councils finance chairman that no butt get has been allowed for the fair GREAT EXPENSE He said the town goes to considerable expense to prep are the grounds for the event and to up afterwards estimating this the area Deputy Arthur Speight sold he had objected most strenuously to Seating the fair board this way during the budget discussions Its on old established fair of only three in the said It is one day when people from oil over to town to visit I hope wo would extend the same courtesy to the board as in other years THOUGHT OF CHARGING Iteovo Morrow said that only tho fireworks display and the poppy day donation had been left in tho budget in answer to a query by the mayor We had even thought of is suing a permit to the fair board and charging them for use of tho park ho said Asked to comment Mr Hun tcr said fair board directors work hard and put a time Into preparations week before the fair and leave tho grounds In as good shape as they eon Last year a heavy rain more damage than usual OTHER GRANTS Augmenting gate receipts the fair gets a 500 grant from the county and a grant from township which has already been this year he Major Smith sold that the grant would bo further discus sed at a council committee meeting this Thursday Water Rationed Only If Long Drought Hits At present Water Com mission has no plans to intro duce the water restrictions In town this summer The five now In opera are producing four mil Hon gallons a day well over maximum consumption I thought the road chair any day last summer man would have the band out SIXTH WELL Joked Donna as Tie Connission warn there council speedily passed the would bo no choice but lo in tender motion Iroducc restrictions if real They have been beseiged long dry spell hit and con with complaints from area re- sumption went over the four In the predominantly million mark now subdivision which runs A sixth well is now being Girl Pipers Again At Lions Convention Often a feature of Lions Club convention Georgetown Girls Pipe again a delegation of local this time to Kingston on May to participate in parade The IB member bond with Diane Giles march in the Sunday parade be hind banner bearing Lions Following were Lionettcs In colourful Bavarian garb Fred and Mrs in a blue Cad iliac convertible and finally a float with thousands of tlons depicting the Lions Bav Ian beer ardens Mr lo Toronto coroner Dr K Baxter also suffered a broken leg and minor juries in the crash North Constab- Gary Connors said the Ice wero not notified of tbo ac cident until a week after it happened when OPP officers advised them call from Baxter to report death INVESTIGATION We haven yet decided what were going to do about this said Connors But If there Is another accident out there you can bo sure we learn of It ould not speculate whe ther the operators liable to any charges In the ease since the investigation Georgetown trustee Ernie found a one man fight and cast the only dissenting when Halton County Board of Education cancelled the sclool bus service for 375 of the students Georgetown high school Thursday night are the students the extreme cost end of town The board accepted an ad ministration recommendation that the per year be cancelled at the end of this month There is a possibility that a bus service could still be of with a small charge to students provided there are enough interested to just lfy it told The Her ald My big is that students will end up hitch ing to school along the ay ho said NO SIDEWALKS In his arguments for reten tion of the bus service referred to the mile walk feet of it without side walks for the furthest stud- An walk along Adjustment Committee Council Feud to be Aired In Camera Feuding over decisions mode has pointed out the lack of by tho Committee of Adjust without consultation with council and other boards coun cillors and committee memb ers will meet in camera to night at the council committee meeting Some weeks council launched an appeal against decision to allow on Ontario Street property owner Hunter to separate a number of building lots in an area not serviced by town water and sewers At the same time Mr Hun ter has appealed their decision which attached what he are too stringent regu to the separation The matter will be aired at on Ontario Municipal Board hearing FORWARD OPINIONS Monday council again voted to appeal a C of A decision lowing separation of a King Street property into three building lots And at the so mo meeting a motion passed to request the Committee to forward before making MorrowSiddaQ motion carried with Crs Hyde Levy and Sykes in opposition TOWN LEADERS lleevo Morrow said Dep artment of Municipal Affairs ordination between the mil tee and council and other boards Wo never seen a plan of tho east end plaza develop ho said Council taken any part in decisions Wero sup posed to be the town leaders and wo haven done a thing BAD TASTE Council supposed to directives to the Commit tec of Adjustment said Cr Hyde You have a meeting set up with them for discus sion and I think your motion Is in bad taste Nonsense said Our motion is in the public I don know what on at tho and I want to be able to tell resid cnts what happening Cr said that decis ions made by tho Committee or Adjustment have been less than satisfactory and she supports council right to give Hydro Dispute Short Circuits Over Salaries The ffrrLricci EI col Workers the Georgetown Co ion ha gone i conciliation The has Just been elected district for tl governor salary lilks The band members were to work in a bit of sight The la t In from the Hungry Hollow hill started on Princess Anno seeing Sir John A MacbcUeei plagued with dust and pot rate capacity of 2 mil house and Fort Henry commission expired at the end holes lion gallons a day during their stay In Kingston of March of this Highway Is half a mile shorter but with feet lacking sidewalks ASK COUNCIL Bodnar said Georgetown council will be approached ab out providing soma kind of for the students who will now have to walk from the cast end of town Emerson Lavender assist ant to the director of educat ion told the board the bus vice had been started several years ago by the former gctoun board because many students in southeast area which was then under con had to wade up to miles through mud and heavy construction with no sidewalks PARENTS WARNED Lavender said this construe tion has now been virtually completed sidewalks installed along at least one of maj or routes and the parents war ned last year that the board might cut the sendee for the coming year He said many students have been walking similar distances already without school buses including going to Blake- lock or end another In Burlington Was Under the Wire So Permit is Granted Esquesing Council okayed the issuing of a building per mit to S Duchlnski Lot Monday despite the fact he docs not have the man datory 125 foot frontage on a township maintained road They reasoned that the of Adjustment had ap proved tho separation of land in January before the of the bylaw making foot frontage necessary PRIVATE ROAD Conditions attached to permit stated the township would not maintain the ate rood on which two houses arc already built and only building permit would be issued for three acre par cel of land Both Coxe and an opinion before they make Dick opposed the finol decisions ion giving permit Choose 200 Acre Norval Farm for Site of 1974 International Plow Match A acre dairy farm near said the acre farm in Town ship has been selected as the site of International Plow Match in 1974 Last week a group of direct of the Ontario Plowmen s Association met with direct ors from tho Plowmen s Association to tour three sites In They selected the farm of W T Craig on 10 Sideroad between and 9th Lines president Jack Taylor of Bur- is well drained and has excel lent plowing soil Using borrowed from IlaKon Warden Frank Tom opens townships new works garage with one snip At left are Deputy Reeve MUlcr and Deportment of Highway Engineer Bruce roads superintendent Bad Snow is at right TENT CITY The group also visited the and Liptay farms la north in their search for a suitable site for the 1974 match All sites were excellent we could have sel any one of them Mr Taylor said A site covering acres tho north side of the farm will be used for tbe tented city and match head quarters Remainder of the Reid farm and about 500 acres of surrounding lands will used for the plowing and park lots URBAN PEOPLE TOO Helton directors are confi dent tho sites con venient location wilt draw record crowd to Interna tional match We can expect a total attendance of especially If wo get good wea ther Mr Taylor said Although the plowing comp etitions are traditionally an ev ent for rural people tbo Inter national match in recent years has attracted thousands of ur ban residents too and Mr Taylor promised the match will have plenty for both urban end rural people to see end enjoy Halton cent ral location to neighbouring titles like Toronto means the match can expect a good tare of and city vStim bo said ORnG NOV The match will likely be beta during the final week of Sept ember starting Tuesday and ending on a Sat urday Tha local com under the chairman- of Ross of Burlington Is already committee and working to tha match a success

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