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Home Newspaper of Haltqn Hills Paget Tilt January 1OT9 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Lirrnled Main St South Georgetown Ontario MICHAEL Editor HIT Mail New McNally apartments aife badly needed Congratulations art due all around for the recent speedy efforts by local politicians as well as the Ontario Municipal Board to hurry up construction of Georgetown desperately needed apart merits The unit Park Avenue apartment complex has been on the drawing boards since but numerous slowdowns by both the developer and government officials have stalled the project But in a bid to beat a federal government year end deadline to qualify for grants the town of Halton Hills the region and the OMB went into high gear to make sure the necessary approvals and by law changes were completed in time to meet the year end grant deadline And they did it Work should get underway almost immediately on the apartment complex on the old Beaver lumber site on Park Avenue near Mill Street on the edge of downtown Certainly Georgetown is a community in desperate need of more rental accommodation Just ask any single person who has tried to rent an apartment We hope the town and the region will continue to investigate ways to encourage construction of rental accommodation in this apartment starved town At the same time involved in the construction of the apartments are also to be com mended for its excellentlocation One of the best ways to a strong and vital downtown core is to en courage residential development adjacent to the business area Recent planning decisions in the city of Toronto where downtown apartment construction has been encouraged show the validity of this type of planning The construction of the McNally apartments is a big step towards increasing Georgetown downtown core residential population A heavy sigh greets latest hearing It is no doubt with a heavy sigh that many Halton Hills newswatchers read that yet another Ontario Municipal Board hearing is underway locally and furthermore that its subject matter is once again that dreaded hydro corridor which the media has made such a fuss over during the past few years The collective sigh that must have reverberated around the Gordon Alcott Arena hall as the hearing began yesterday must be a signal to Ontario Hydro that these Hills citizens who have been putting up a very expensive fight against the Bruce to Milton corridor for so long are finally ready to break Has the unending pressure at last had its desired effect feel that many local people long ago accepted the fact that the corridor would eventually march through Halton Hills somewhere between Acton and Georgetown regardless of the praiseworthy efforts by farmers and other landowners to draw out the covert political reasons for the selection of this particular route This route it became apparent was a fait accompli and nothing short of violence against Ontario Hydro and the government that fuels its greedy ambitions could stop it Perhaps it all true perhaps it should be no surprise at all if the current Municipal Board hearing follows the precedent already set last year when the local municipalitys planning policies were buried by Letter to the editor another board ruling Has allowed a similar corridor to be built across southern Halton Hills If this is indeed the case then the board ruling will he accepted passively and the corridor will be erected along the towns fifth con cession to carry powertBat may not be needed to a that may not have been either What must not be accepted so passively is the government s original decision to bring the corridor our way a decision thai- has been established as a blunder of the worst kind an immense technological cover up that has and will cost Ontario taxpayers millions of dollars And whether or no corridor opponents were right will likely never know since the is intent to getting the corridor built without having to commission the long requested independent study of the corridor route which would no doubt uncover the covetup If the voters who have read reports of the corridor controversy since it began making headline in have decided as so many have that injustice has been done they will react accordingly board forthcoming ruling on me Bruce to Milton corridor Passive acceptance of the ruling itself active resistance to the potential for similar mistakes in the future come election tfme Teenager would miss Hungry Hollow lflhd To the editor of The Herald Dear Editor I am just young of age will have little the McLaughlin situation near Hungry Hoi low I have lived in my ravine home or mm and was much disgusted when ravine was fenced off 1 understand that Mr McLaughlin wonts the land or building Homes and these would make Georgetown a larger own Bui there are many homes right now that don have an owner and if these it Real Estate company close to Bankruptcy There Is also a JCJCT sggsb SrtowH 4tCTOM tS humorous remarks rare his revenge delights columnist Queen Park Bureau Of The Herald Humor is not a big item in Ontario legislature Therein a lot of jokes and wisecracking but arc few and far between There was one this session a classic piece of work by Tory backbencher Mickey PC Fori William Toronto Sun columnist Claire Hoy had written one of his vitriolic specials In which he libelled all politicians jerks first elected in 1977 probably seen thte like before If Mr thy will do me the favor of calling me In front of my face the House I punch him right in the mouth told a legislature that immediately in waves of laughter Mickey ft a wiry fivefoot five and aged Bui he is also an amateur boxer who won 13 lilies and represented Canada at the Olympics SUPPORT Hoy five foot ten and lbs Go gel him Mickey Don tNDP Tins guy is goint sell tickets Bob III hold the Mat offered I will fiddly yield the member for Fort if he wishes to continue Liber il Icider Smith said Part of plnsureMPPs denied from challenge probably from lis unexpectedness atid part from the relat ihe e but may have been from deeper Politicians the press never about whal eyre called jerks or otherwise It s a rule for the press- always gels lasl word The next day IheSunhadapiclureof Hoy in boxing gloves read and waitinj plus another II y savaging Members must beta delighted lo hear the rds from that like to thrown themselves few While Hoys is re most he as symbol in this case In an aside at the lime of Health Minister Dennis Timbrell Smith he liked being labelled kit a with wide r the press gallery do you feel about the term Timbrell You never said under the rules of he tonic Smith in I and won I would mike him I small as an icknowlcdgement OH HI That brings up a serious point one thai is too sloughed over or ignored in lodiy s world The power of press comes from heir ibilitj 1 determine what is news in a I bra to agenda e press fillers news They don I il If isihceonclusonoftliepress with its hard journalism that all politic i ins ire jerks or In fact is the impression Ihe public will get why I think loved crack so much It known revenge Conservatives are up in arms say Turner abused position chance thai the people into these homcswonihavensourccotmploymcnt I feel that the present is at Us optimum population a occurs will edit amount of du I McLaughlin a being inconside rate the fence be that the development beheld i The Tories are up in arms because John Turner is abusing his former pOsitnn as minister of finance peddle economic information to Canadian business That not my beef The only fault I Can find is with the amount of money Turner can to Stale the obvious I wish could mono the act In talking a possible conflict of interest lory finance critic Sinclair Stevens said Turner who quit as Liberal finance two years ago is providing information to or Canadian at a year That means his law firm could be hauling m up to a year Just for these monthly newsletters Siemens suggested thai Turners i a contravention of prime mm r I guidelines which discourage for msiers from using or nf rotation for personal gain What his so fascinating for Tories is that Turner is generally d as present not has embroiled in over his newttlet lers Three months ago one of his epistles said Jean had lost his leverage as finance and he later felt to apologized for ihis personal reference But I dun see much in the latest newsletter that would suggest an apology Take this for instance ST VFFS OBVIOUS There his been nc in strength and independence of the of finance is a powerful countervailing force within the government bring economic fiscal reality into effective with the politici requirements and generally in other departments and ministers II on thai there has been on increasingly poor economic pcrf irmance reflected in the continued inability of the federal government I ring its fiscal house order or lo a sustain external economic jierformanec There was also an observation that Ihe Council has done I tile to help the If can i year for reevchne this of current comment I shudder to think whit real inside rmation might be worth memo id a lhat we have in place and working pretty well a relnble reconmissancc operation on political and developments particularly in Ottawa Ontario Another one lhat it was to find out precisely slale of thinking of Ihe postcontrols learns and the business to poslconirnl Stevens suggested thai his disclosures would change Ihe put lie s perception of John Turner who Ins been looked upon as a kind ip f thing Prcsumablj the Tory MP is referring to a if his reference to this lype of thing but so far there is no hit valuable sale And in pulling Prime Minister Trudeau so far as say thai while use of information would be it is equally clear that use of information thai has nothing of a confidential character about It though red In the course of official duties is fully proper So far there I even anything to suggest Turners newsletter no- wed from his former officii duties It could have come from reading o shoulder on Ihe subway the HERALD Ed c Haltons History from the Heralds files PLAYOFF THIRTY AGO Thanks to generosity of various local organization Christmas year was made a little brighter for many of the needy children of County During the post month the Children Aid Society has been very happy to receive numerous donations of toys clothing and cash ear marked for Christinas treata all of which have been distributed where 11 was felt the need was Ihe Georgetown Haiders defeated Weston In their first game of the playoffs In a fast wideopen hockey game Max Bradbury was ihe star of this game with a beautiful goal that brought Georgetown from behind to tie all Georgetown two Inter goals were scored by and Nash fire at Burst Greenhouses lon recently damage estimated at The fire broke out in the boiler room and destroyed the roof of the healing planl and broke w in nearby Mr is married lo the former Muriel or Georgetown ATDFIREX TWENTY AGO Had a police it been patrolling the area at the lime Georgetown s partially built could have been reduced to smoulder ii g ashes New Years morning Jim Isborrow was checking the area in the cruiser when he flames licking front roof of while approach nig the highway on fllh Line He notified ihe fire brigade who promptly doused the lie before any damage could be done The izc was till confined to a pall of tar on the roofofiheplaii when they arrived but had ft stirtcd it would hove spread rap probably razing he building whose law office Is located at Mill can now add C to his Mr was one of several lawyers I in Ihe Queen New Ye s with the title of Queen Counsel Extensive is done to the rear the Hydro building on Water Street Friday when a truck owned by Hume of Toronto collided with il after slid ng down an icy embankment while lo cross the town parking lot A gah rihday on Christmas Diy marked the birthday of yearold Thomas toss born it Bruce County in 1EGI piclure of Mr Ross blowing out the eandles on his cake with some of his ten great grandchildren looking on red in the Tor inio Telegram The new rectory makes a handsome addition to Si Albans Anglican Church in Glen Rev and Mrs John Rath bone and family moved into their new home in time to spend Christmas there The house contains living kitchen washroom bedroom study on the ground floor and Iwo and upstairs Care as laken In selecting materials match he to which It is hoped join the rcclory by cloister and eventually build a new ball Tl- VMS AC A member rgclown i fire department was chief on Sunday Jack Cunningham succeeds lewis in the post which Mr Lewis has held for the past five years Mr Lewis was elected deputychief for year Treasurer Gordon Inglls and secretary Clarence continue in office The volume of cards mailed here dropped per cent over last year to the post office With an increase in population of almost two thousand over last year his Is a significant decrease While ere was a decided decrease in five cent mail oddly enough there was a similar ncrease in six cent mail The post office does tint a guess why this should happen ll is pissiblc people decided to write letters or because of late mailing sent their cards first class in hopes of speeding them Up In an inaugural night address at the traditional mayors dinner at Knox Church Hull Monday ind loses during his first in office shifting of more responsibll to town employees the establishment of a list or major capital projects and emphasis on lown beaut If ion Georgetown District High School Board will in about two weeks be looking completed working drawings for the million a half dollar building project hat will add squire feel of floor space to he school Outstanding features in the plan are a with thrust stage a lecture room with seating and a large resource area Construction of a new playing field with in watering system and proper has also been incorporated into the budding project Two saucer like flying seen near Norval during the holidays were NOT ihe result of Christmas cheer The two eirclcd for two hours near a local dairy firm but have not been seen since Jim Clark part owner of Clark Brothers farm at the 4th Line West and noticed the two mysterious lights while checking his barn about The lights would disappear behind clouds and then reappeared as maintained Ihe same distance from each other while sweeping in wide clock wise circles in the direction of Richmond Hill Mi- Clark said POSTMASTER SWORN IN 0F VFAIt AGO Georgetown new postmaster Gilbert King was in Thursday AnativeofSt Regis Quebec he la single and so far as he knows the first Indian become postmaster In a staff office Mr King was transferred to his position from the Gateway post office In The committee trying to save Acton old lown hall from demolition has written the financial report for council asking for an of the December deadline for raising the necessary funds for the project Committee chairman George Elliot Bays the report also includes a copy of the letter recei from the Ontario Heritage Foundation saying thai the decision on a grant for the building is deferred pending further pal input on the restoration project An in cam era council meeting last Tuea day evening resulted in a resolution to take positive action on the parking problems of Acton volunteer firefighters A resolution was passed designallng specific as parking for firefighters and emergency ties only and authorizing the purchase of property on Willow Street be converted Into a parking lol