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Home Newspaper of Hills October 1978 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main St South Georgetown L7G3ES Ontario WILLIAM MICHAEL Editor H772J1II Mill Number Library Boards searching necessary Halton Hills Library Boards decision to prepare a statement of purpose goals and objectives is a commendable if somewhat arduous endeavor Just as a builder needs a blueprint before he or she can struct a building a library board needs a plan before it can develop a library system The parallel made by board chairman Dick Howitt to a I towns official plan is a good one At a meeting held last Wed nesday night library board members agreed that a major public perception the library is as a source of con- and conflict We would wager that some of this concern arises from the lack of a clear statement of principals and goals for the library Nothing breeds suspicion like the unknown As William from the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Recreation told the library board how can we sell the library to the public when we arent united on what we want it to be Halton Hills citizens are justifiably concerned at the prospect of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on either the renovation or construction of a new library the needs of the library have been clearly stated The facilities required to ac commodate a library that is merely a book lending centre would be much different than those required by a community centre offering childrens programs guest lecturers and the like Yet last Wednesday night the board members were not clear on which type of service they feelshould be provided to Hills residents But at the same time there are board members clamouring for the construction of a new facility The boards soul searching selfexamination is absolutely necessary before any further discussion of a new facility takes place and before the public can be expected to support a new or renovated library The needs and purpose of the library must be clearly stated and the public must have direct input into the drafting of such a statement The final statement of purpose goals and objectives for the library must detail specific requirements for the library and it must be the subject of the scrutiny of a public meeting Once such an exercise takes place and once the public is given an op portunity for direct input into the boards policy making we anticipate it will be easier for the board to see their statement of pur pose become a reality with the support of the local community Focal report is a worthy effort The report prepared by the Georgetown and Area Ratepayers Association detailing that organizations objections to the proposed Focal Properties sub- division development is a boost to the credibility of all citizens groups and we expect the report to become a I highly circulated document Far from being a kneejerk reaction to the controversial Focal proposal the ratepayers report is a thoughtful and carefully documented analysts of arguments for and against the project The ratepayers clearly state their opposition to the development project and they use some pretty convincing arguments The ratepayers maintain that the Focal project will at the least push the towns existing vices to the limit and at worst necessitate a tax hike of close to per cent They support the towns stated policy of infilling which advocates the small scale utilization of building lots within the town limits rather than grand subdivision schemes that would push the towns sewage treatment facilities to the limit eliminating the option of infilling unless a new or expanded sewage facility was constructed Before passing final judgement on the Focal plan we are anxiously awaiting the results of the current closed door negotiations between Focal and the town But we wouldnt be surprised to hear that the ratepayers document comes into the negotiations at some point It still takes two to make a strike In this the true north strong and free it seems that some are freer than others While most working people in this country have the option of withholding their labor-striking- when contract negotiations with their employers reach an impasse Canadas postal workers no longer have this right After more than a year of working without a contract the post offices Inside workers voted to strike and after less than a day of operating without a postal service the federal government decided to remove this right While the CUPW leadership is urging union members to ignore the back to work legislation many workers Including Halton Hills have decided to go back on the job rather than risk costly fines While many applaud the governments bold step they are forgetting a basic element of labor- management relationsit takes two to make a strike Despite government attempts to paint the postal workers as a group of militants strike After all if given the choice of receiving full pay or significantly lower strike pay any working person will choose full salary it only makes sense Obviously the post office management were also not entirely pleased with the state of negotiations otherwise there would have been a settlement But the injustice of the back to work legislation is that only the union suffers While the union is now deprived of their one bargaining lever management has the best of both worlds they have the mail circulating again and a union that can no longer The stupidity the back to work move is that it is only a stopgap solution to the post office problem If union members were dissatisfied before the strike we hate to think what morale must be like now It strikes us as ironic that if the postal workers services are not valuable enough for management to come close to meeting their demands then how come this country cannot las more than a clay without their services Liberals clobbered may mean Trudeaus end Ottawa or The Hern Id being rudely Interrupted by is we were talking about Prime brilliant ury lea iter Joe Clark and how he will be such a fiirmidable force In next years general election campaign At those elections Suddenly lunger a question of evaluating election oratory ralhcr a question of whether voice will even be heard in the next campaign Liberal parly was not merely defeat ed in I hose was clobbered humiliated And although the Liberals have a traditional tendency to rally around their leader in limes of stress even I hey have on loyally If during the next few months opinion polls indicate that the Grits arc continuing wallow in the depths of detestation there will be enormous pressure on the prime minister to step aside and call a leadership convention If this happened it is quite probable that the Liberals would choose John Turner Trudeaus former finance minister to lead them into an election and thus Is Ihc scenario ihf Tories hate to think about They desperately want a general election before a change in Liberal leaders While ihc Liberal establishment may not be particularly enlhuiiaslic about Turner many think he deserted the party time of need he still represents the best for an immediate victory Aid if there Is change in leadership during the winter months this would ben prime consideration The Liberals doni require a longterm rebuilding program they need a jolting change personality to rcignile a basically sound depressed organisation If ihe Tories suffered this type of humiliation in knives would Ire out before the votes had been counted and thenirways would with strident cries for it leadership convention But Liberals dim operate this way They instinctively close ranks delay decisions until all rational voices been heard and then whisper suggest urns to leader The future of probably rests with public opinion polls that will lie taken during the next I wo months meantime declaring that you lose some and you win some the prime minister will carry on as though nothing has happened And outwardly he will be cheered loyally by his followers whenever he unleash his fighting oratory In direction of Joe Clark Hut tie wounds deep Its one thing say that you lose some and you win some but when you lose all seven Ontario scats lifter winning five of them in 1U74 and sec your popular vole fall below the New Its lime for a lilt of soul-search- minister will likely on his own initiative decide tostepdown And he would have good reasons for doing ho Its not simply a matter of facing defeat in a general election that would prompt such a move What Is irjore significant is the possible devastation of the Liberal parly in Englishspeaking Canada with a continuing Conservative drought in Quebec With the country already feeling the effects of linguist I and divisions unlikely thai would want to odd any partisan political elements to the division lines But still I am hedging my bets is above all a fighter and he is probably fascinated by the thought of staging once more magnificent uphill battle climaxed by a stunning upset Its a quest Ion of how Liberal views the grade on that hill At moment it looks mighty steep Industrial waste issue could spell trouble 11 NELSON Queens Park Bureau TOHONTO When the legislature resu mes later this month watch the political sparks fly when the words liquid industrial Both ihc Liberals and New Democrats sense the problems of waste will simultaneously stir public interest and make Tories look bad Normally environmental issues arent ill ihai popular Trying in convince people for example iluit should be shut down until they reduce their Sudbury mill emissions to the level some bureaucrat thinks is acceptable jusi isnt going to work Jobs are far more important Hut that doesnt apply in the liquid industrial waste area Here the isnt some vaguely defined and poorly understood phenomena like acid rain or a creek that foams when it rapids No Now were dealing with human health including real like birth defects cancers nerve damage And ho symbol fur it all Is becoming he Love Canal The canal is in New York Stale near the Niagara Itiver where assorted chemical waste some quite toxic was burled more than years ago when dangers were virtually unknown Now the residues are seeping to surface forcing abandonment of nearby hunting where the health of some residents may have been affected The Niagara Peninsula Federation of Agriculture recently bended press released Letter to the editor detailing their opposition a landfill site near Another Canal for Niagara TACTIC And leader Michael has specifically that a Love Canal disaster could happen here These arc scare tactic of but they an element of truth is Cassidy clearly pointed out in one St Catherines Under Ontario regulations old landfill dumps are Honored for two years yet at ihe Love Canal I learned effects may not be fell for years he said Not only that but local and provincial officials do not know where many of the old landfill sites are located or what kind of industrial waste went Into them Looking Through Our Files NEW SERVICE THIRTY AGO The Gray Coach Lines are inaugurating a new service through Georgetown Starting this weekend bus leaving Toronto at 1130 pm which used to terminate Its run at Brampton will be routed through Georgetown It arrives at at 1248 and Georgetown at am Miss Joan has relumed from a six month visit with relatives In Holland during which she attended the coronation of Queen Juliana Saving hydro is Just as important today as it was last week So far Georgetown has been one of the few fortunate mun lei pall l lea which have not had one Help keep that way by continuing to urn off all unnecessary lights and use electrical applia nces sparingly W reports thai his chick ens are now laying labelled eggs An egg laid last week by one of his flock had letter clearly etched on shell SCHOOL OPENING TWENTY YEARS AGO- With the Most Joseph Ryan Bishop of Hamilton officiating Holy Cross Separate School bad lis official opening on Friday evening when five people gathered to view ceremony and touring the building A Georgetown lady has been appointed assistant director of nurses at the large John llopkin Hospital in Baltimore Maryland Dons Arms will assume her new position December 1 at the hospital where she has been supervisor of the general operating room for the past three years Rural mall carrier for Glen Will iams for past 3S years John Hancock died on Wednesday October after a lengthy illness Purchases made by the board of educat ion included a portable classroom from the school board for the price of and new desks for the Park School for ESCAPED INJURY TEN AGO Six people from Quebec escaped Injury when their tight plane crash lanital on an unused road in Moore Park in the west end of town early Friday night The inc which was forced down by weather was damaged when It slipped into a deep pitch at the end of Its landing run It s nonsense to say a man cant afford to own his own home today eloper Bruce McLaughlin told a group of Georgetown last week Get going and can produce what people want and can Mr McLaughlin was speaking a dinner meeting of Georgetown Chamber of Commerce last Wednesday at Georgetown Golf and Country Club Original ly planned to present and town councils opinions on large scale residential building In Georgetown the meet ing was a soli effort when council declined to discuss ihc issue at the present lime NO ONE YEAR An attempt by Hills regulate truck traffic on IT Sideroad has raised the spectre of possible further job losses in this community already wracked by major plant closings and employ ment reduction this year Indusmln Ltd a quarry on the Line from which ihc ma tor truck traffic along the road closure of roadway could place the future of the mine operation in doubt The Junior Library in Georgetown will no longer hold puppet shows during the regular library hours since the number of people who have been attending exceeds occupancy limit recommended by the fire Unemployment Insurance claims are expected to increase to 19000 In the Bramp ton George t area by Feb ruary says Terry Gorman ihe president of i hi liiniipiiin District la bur Council Worse ihe problem is skyrocketing liuse a number of disposal site that were easily and cheaply used have now been closed for reasons jet no alternat ives have been provided In tact as and other critics before him have noted some liquid waste that used to go into landfill sites is now missing in Ihe sense government has no Idea where it is going In the case of one Toronto landfill site as as per cent is now unaccounted for Thill the kind of problem the I is going to have to come Io grips with quickly Either that or be a hot sent hell be occupying once the house Tit TRIE had campaigned In those seven Ontario const And must have been ralhcr discouraging for him 1 see Tories roll up per of popular vole while Hie Grits managed only percent would be frightening to translate ihesc percentages into a general Bui Liberal will be doing this and unless there Is a dramatic turnaround In Hie opinion polls and remember thai the must recent polls were far more optimistic about Liberals fortunes than the actual results of ihls minleleclinn ihc prime Councillor says thanks to Acton firefighters To the editor of The Herald On behalf of Gerry and myself I would like to thank the Fire Chief and the Volunteer Fire Men of Area No Acton for the hospitality shown us at the Official Opening of the newly reconstructed Fire Hall As Chairman of the Building Committee for this Addition I would MAIL PROBLEMS In the the current disruption In the postal service continues readers may bring their letters to the editor to the Herald office at 103 Main St South In Georgetown After hours simply put your letters through the mall slot on the front door like to express my sincere thanks for the cooperation I received from Chief Holmes and the Volunteers during the reconstruction I am sure that all the residents of Acton and District are as proud of this fine facility as I am Yours Sincerely Russell Miller fcheBEBSCa WILLIAM ft General 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