Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), July 13, 1977, p. 1

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J Larry the HERALD Jin Home Newspaper of Hills The fullsize paper reaching more than 12700 homes In Hills Picked Up In P reSCHClS Gibson transfers to BC IN 1BSON With a certain amount of sadness but also enthusiastic happiness The Ft era id on that Colin Gibson sports editor of The Herald since November his been transferred His leaving much sorrow to The Herald office since he was an a team which attempts to make this publication the most author in the area Happiness cornea from knowing thai Colin is suited for and prepared face the challenge of a sports editor on the daily B C Free Press It a tribute to his personal sacrifices and drive over Ihe past yturs that he wis proposed us candidate for the job opening on Vancouver Island He began his new job Monday Colin provided The Herald with a sense of humor a style and grace which made its sports pages one of the best in Ontario according to the Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association which last year placed his pages fourth in the category of newspapers with circulation between 10 and 16 CVCA reminder The Credit Valley Conservation Authority reminds prospective homeowners that prior to building on the noodplain the Credit River or its tributaries they must have a permit from the authority The brochure water and related land management outlines the rules and explains the assistance available from the authority It can be had by calling 151 1615 grease fires Firefighters checked two fires in the home of Georgetown residents last week although the residents borrowed fire extinguishers from their neighbora to ex the kitchen fire Both fires resulted from grease left unattended in an open pot on stove deputy Bob Hyde sold on Monday The fire at Eden place resulted in damage and on Saturday to the heme on with no one injured In prizes Michael of Brampton Musical Society is looking for talented persons in Hills to perform on a Gong Show he has scheduled for late September profits will be donated or research in Multiple Sclerosis and Mr Boynton is relying on local businesses to aid In the funding of cash prizes for the winners in the Gong Show The show will be taped by Rogers Cable TV A prize of will be given for first prize for second prize and a Gong trophy will be given Anyone Interested should call Michael Boynton at McDonnell named to fair WD Doug McDonnell recently ntcd general manager of the Ontario Slock Yards has been named chairman of the market liveslock committee Royal Winter Fair Mr McDonnell a Georgetown resident is a graduate of the University of where he majored in animal science open house The International Joint Commission Reference Group on Pollution from Land Use Activities will be holding an open house In Brampton on Tuesday Aug from to 10 at the Brampton Public Library on Queen Street There will be a slide show and coffee and The public will be given a chance to indicate If are interested In further participating in the Public Consultation panels funds approval for library Best weaver Williams 33 Stockman Cres Georgetown was one of Ontario craftsmen awarded prizes for work Ontario Crafts the second province wide exhibition organized by the Ontario Crafts Council Mrs Williams won for the best weaving Auditions tonight Domes at Sea the next musical that will be performed by the Brampton Musical Society will be held In Civic centre at 8 Performers who can act sing or dance or anyone interested in painting or constructing props for the show should attend he audition Nicholas a Georgetown resident is director Draft parking bylaw The town solicitor and town engineer Bob Austin will prepared bylaw restricting parking on Main Street Acton to twohour intervals and prohibiting cars parked within feet of an intersection Bob Austin said the best choice would have been to limit parking to only one side of the and Don Lindsay of the Downtown Business Association said merchants would have been fo favor of that proposal if there was offstreet parking Highways to go metric The ministry of transportation and communications has announced Sept as the date when Ontario Kilometres will replace miles on distance signs kilometres per hour will replace miles per hour on speed limit signs and metres Will replace yards and feet on advisory signs Existing speed limits will be converted as follows replaces SO km h replace 30 km replaces SO 100 replaces mph James Snow minister of transportation and communication is for Ontario Municipal Board announced that it will hold a public hearing next Widncsdij July to irguitunls why new public in lorgetoun should or not be Unit on a two acre site Park The s decision Minds in ruling which j milled the for ton of a new library It followed an affidavit by John W Ferguson and Bitty and a 3 500 name petition protesting the Ccdanalt site The affidavit asked the to review Us decision on die grounds that a dc was originally for an addition and reco nil ruction of library site not for a new library affidavit also objects to the uie of parkland as a silt the silt Is a hazard and that Hills council has the issue At Mondays finance idministration committee mi mK nun Hoy ir port on whin the on Ihi debenture is II lined thai Municipal A riftr Hut medlar mid mil able for sum from Id nj or irs if I be is go ng itbir urpoMS in paying tin debenture tun library is f eh his been mil through a debt nturt in from lot lev it luncil by recorded vole June 1 reaffirmed lis support if i despite a delegation it to a How consideration of other possible sites Council failed to pass a motion by Coun Peter I to the reaf on for two weeks Voting m favor of the site were I Mnllby Peter Marks CF Pat Patterson Mike Arms Miller and Gamel Put McKtnzlt Opposed were Councillors Roy Booth Peicr and Marilyn leans ton Joan Lister chairman of the I bond did not view decision as a setback Tor boards plans to build at In a brief stittment to The Herald Monday she said that once the has all the facts she it will not stop con of the library Hydro hearings end resume again Aug The on the southern section of the Bradley to hydro corridor was recessed Wed ncsdiv so thai the lawyers involved tan honor previous commitments One of the who is opposing the corridor proposal predicted that the will continue at lea t week when it resumes at the Acton Legion Hall Aug is Throughout the third day of the proceedings of affected Ian downers in ihts municipality continued ihur cross examination Hydro sole witness land use planner Art Leon and John Schneider attempted to trace the history of Hydro various routes fin illy that the utility indoned Its original Bradley with th Kitchener transformer station on rders from ministry of in July ministry directive Kilthtner In favor of a Milton will tost Ml million Mr I calculated Ignoring Mr Moshcr argument that the hypothesis would be totally Impractical Mr built figures on top of the mile distance which he said was the dif between the Bradley lo route and to Kitchener route instruction mile of he reasoned Hydro could spend an extra SIS million to expand the line to Milton and at the same time face i power loss of megawatts for the additional distance That amount of energy Mr learned could be sold to consumers for S3 million and increases tenfold through Hydro practice of borrowing at en per cent interest rate Adding million more to represent the cost of con rue ting a transformer station he arrived at a total cost of million Despite extensive haggling with Mr over information and repeated refusals by Hydro lawyer Tom Marshall provide evidence thus far not introduced the Halton Helping Hands desperate for volunteers Sen or citizens or disabled persons who wish to remain in homes are entitled to the assistance of supervisor of Helping Hands Barb Stevens said on Monday Mrs volunteers yet she has clients throughout and Acton despcr needs someone who can drive a client to the Georgetown pool from 12 1 m someone who could change the double type of storm mdows which the person has not been able to remove for five years someone who could in i yard and someone willing to clean windows These tasks ore difficult for the senior citizen who has crippling arthritis on vena mild form on a damp day disabled person is also unable to cut grass or plant a garden Mrs Stevens said she is not looking for one solitary volunteer lo do all the work but she would be content if someone would vol unlet for a specific position Anyone interested should call Barb Stevens at 87B2220 landow la that no substantial studies were ever undertaken or the Bradley Bruce loEssa route which is also shorter than the Bradley to Georgetown route Mr Mosher testified thai the druse to route was one of the live routing concepts considered by Hydro during and for their en aspects A proposal to erect a line between Bruce ind was rejected however as a result of many constraints that were marked at the time on a reference map When Mr Mosher speculated that the map may have been subsequently discarded Mr Marshall refused a request to have a Continued on Page IS The circus comes to town from Puck Circus rolled onto the grounds of the Way Jay Club In Mon day and a strange cargo began unloading The performers wandered around the grounds of club stretching legs after Iheir long drive from Leamington Disappointment showed on a few faces when the circus director t sure if the back lot at the club Is large enough to hold the lent The owners of the WayJay Club sure if they would move a few fences backwards allow more room or if the circus would be held without the tent atmosphere While the performers ale mountains of toast and donuts gallons of coffee tea and milk Before the show the crew checked the ropes wires scats lights the props and a Tew costumes were mended Clowns were the first to appear In makeup and costume and the big show was ready for another performance The time had come The whistle blew there was the National anthem followed by the opening spectacle which is a salute the Queen s Silver Jubilee The act were full of suspense and children watched in wideeyed wonder The finale of the show brings back oil the talented Canadian performers every performer is a Canadian who worked to luxa and pagentry X m The final circus perform a at the Way Jay Club in No committee decision same day Kerr says regional council shouldn I be making decisions based on committee meetings held earlier in the day Milton Coun Jim Kerr believes Speaking following a council meeting last week Mr Kerr said the decision to accept the design of new regional headquarters at a cost of near ly more than budget is an example of such action He said he Intends to make a notice of motion have ell members provided with a wrltlen set of minutes for any committee meeting prior that Item being dealt with or placed on the council agenda There no way that we should be discussing a major Issue In a meeting in the morning and making a decisions In council in same afternoon he said Tola coat of the hcadmiart era building is estimaiee at S million Canoe voyage ends as Venturers attend PEI Jamboree The excitement is over and the inp home has begun for the 15 members of the First Georgetown Venturers who canoed lo Prince Edward Is The boys and Venturer advisor Howard Powell Wednesday at Canadian Jamboree at Cabot Park F I when the Governor General Jules Leger and a CBC television camera crew present for the officio ceremonies The Canadian Armed demonstration team Snowbirds put on a perfor the ceremony The Venturers were to present a plaque commemorating 1 mile canoe trip the mayor of Georgetown E I from Onl now part of Hills Four of the Venturers have already returned ilea ton who drove support von of supplies and camping equip ment Mike Dixon and Brian and Tom Hastings arrived home afternoon Carl of Some of the group are being picked up by their families during thtir vacation Another group are picking up a van in Montlon and driving it back to Ontario for a company How Powell and his son Dale will be visiting relatives and sightseeing a bit in Monet on and N as well as says Mrs They wercdue to leave on July 10 or 1 1 and she expects home by Friday July 15 The Venturers arrival at was covered by Channel television in Toronto who showed brief clip of their arrival on the II clock news evening and by CFTR radio In Toronto who Inter viewed them live at noon on Wednesday The Herald would like to correct two errors which ap peared In lasl week story on Venturers We said that they look the ferry from Cape Tormcnline to I This is not correct Apparently I hey discussed the crossing decided that after canoe ing I miles they weren going to use a ferry to go miles across the bay We also reported that Jeff Cole of Misslssauga was the Georgetown group He did not make the trip Mrs Powell tells us A happy group of Venturers from First Georgetown are seen as they arrived in a sheltered cove near the Bite of the Fourth Canadian Boy Seoul Jamboree In Prince Edward Island Wednesday July Fifteen of the manned the en noes while two others drove a van along highway The only concern of Ihe Venturers while sailing across the mouth of Miramachl Bay when a sudden squall came up out developed The trip started as a among the friends of the boys but ended In reality when they got to their destination to be welcomed by more than 1W0 Scouts and Venturers attending the Jamboree CkarleUetMrn CnanUanPatrM

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