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THURSDAY JUNE Page OLDB TYMBRS The girls in pioneer style costume are from front Ann Claw Allison Moon Delia Wendy Brown and Heather Clarke public school pupils who are dressed this way to promote llieir school s Old Garden coming up June Features wilt include a parade booths home baking entertainment and a dance The school is raising funds ease educational lour expenses DIVE FOR LOOT Scuba divers in the River the foot the lliver Driver dam t paddling around in the churned water for the fun of losl week They were acting for polite following lip that from i recent had been at the dam They tame up with cosh register am other items FORD BLUE 30002000 AllPurpose Tractors Your best buy in tin doss FORD BLUE leads in implements too INGLE FORD Equipment Sales Ltd RRl Georgetown Out Phone Bruce Trailer Tolls Escarpment Mooting Rural Townships Have Outlived Usefulness by Gene Meet The search for policies to preserve the Niagara Escarp ment is shaping up as a basic conflict between a rural way of life and urban needs for bre athing space A provincial task force established to recommend means of protecting Ihe escarp ment last Wednesday night held Its first public hearing in Milton District High School In a session lasting more than three hours the nine member commission heard a variety or public suggestions ranging from outright provincial acquisition of the entire escarpment to development control through tolls for the most complete provincial authority come from city duellers especially some representatives of the Bruce Trail Association Residents from rural areas closer to the escarpment however were less willing to see the mile grcenbelt put totally in pro vine ml hands RATIONAL The most rational use of the escarpment is as a recreational facility said Brown or the Toronto Bruce Trail Club Re claimed rural townships have outlived their usefulness as economic units and have become unable to meet public needs despite their feelings that they should be allowed to develop near the escarpment The economic arguments of all the reeves in Ontario won t diminish he need tor open space he said noting that bo percent of Canada population now lives cities and towns Residential development of the escarpment is scandalous FOR Tilt He urged the province to acquire escarpment lands as they on the market and hold them In perpetuity for the people of Ontario Brown admitted the need for the development of aggregate resources but would limit quarrying and other mining operations to an area at least a half mile from the escarpment Asked how the province would finance such acquisition policies he said financing was not his responsibility but noted thai the publicly unsolicited Ontario Place cost the government million while the total value of escarpment land was million in according la an ex report by Waterloo University professor Leonard O The people want lo be able to use the escarpment he said Nobody asked for Ontario Place NC I AL CONTROL Bruce Trail Association secretary Ray Lowes echoed call for complete provincial authority saying planning for the escarpment should be a Queen Park totally out of the hands of the local municipalities Another Bruce Trail representative favored unilateral provincial control along the entire length of the However while some vironmtntalists would have given Immediate control to the province representatives of the rural communities nearest the escarpment were not so easily convinced CONCERNED TOO Nassagaweya Township reeve Anne MacArlhur known as the Voice of the North noted that the concerned citizens who would readily give total authority to the province ignored the fact that local officials were elected because they too were con She said Nassagaweya had moved to amend Its Official Plan to block the construction of another quarry but had been stymied by the Ontario Municipal Board a creature of the province I THERE If you have the Idea that province Is a fond mother that going to look diligently after you you better change your Ideas she said Mrs called for increased cooperation and communication between the province and the municipalities but noted that with more than acres currently under conservation is pretty well doing its bit for the urban She said she has lived on the escarpment all her life and knows from experience that the people who live there care as much or more than anyone else about protecting it Mrs s feelings about the escarpment were amplified by a north resident who described himself GIRLS TOP DRIVERS AT HIGH SCHOOL Driver education in Ted left and Paul Armstrong of Arm strong Insurance right presented awards lo the lop school Holding Ihcir awards student drivers in the two are Shirley Levers left and most recently completed Connie Allan driving courses at high as just a worn out old farmer He said he had farmed his land alt his life that his son was in crested In carrying on and that he hoped his grandson would share Ihe same interest All he asked was lo be allowed stay on Ihe land But he said he would need lower taxes to do He fell it would be a shame force the farmer off the land leaving behind no one who cared enough to take care of it INPAIDMIIVNTS spokesmen for rural area nearest the escarpment were also concerned with a possible provincial takeover They felt it would destroy the local assessment base make the rural communities the willing and unpaid servants urban desires Al the close of the meeting task force was faced with a seemingly Insoluble urban rural dilemma City dwellers want total provincial control rural residents do not Urban areas need open space but the rural sector docs not want to be bankrupted by population pressures After the meeting task force chairman J Ctasky said the group had anticipated the urban rural clash but could only hope here is some solution He was The task force will hold five more public hearings before it submits its report to the government on October In Bat short time they must formulate an overall policy for 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