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Home Newspaper of Hills THE HERALD WEDNESDAY JANUARY A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 101 Main St South Georgetown Ontario Willi Publisher MICHAEL Editor Rqiilfttil Theatre survey demonstrates plan support J Supporters of the proposed ex of the Howard Wrlgglesworth PublicSchool to include a theatre audi have to be encouraged by the responses received to their newspaper survey seeking public input on the plan According to members of the Georgetown Little Theatre group responsible for publishing the newspaper advertising surveys ItiaC October close to per cent of Ihejrespondents lo the survey favored thp construction of the theatre auditorium at the site The proposal is a good one that appears to be the most economical way of badly needed Basically the plan would Incorporate renovations to the school planned by the Board and modify the planned gymnasium to include full facilities with portable The funding for the expanded to plan would come from town and donations Halton Hills is lucky to have a amateur entertainment Sqgne that includes the and the choral society but they need a proper facility to perform in We can how much more the local Amateur entertainment would develop with the proper facilities and adequate access to them The GLT have detailed the many problems involved for local groups if they use existing facilities These problems range from inadequate stage and backstage facilities to poor acoustics and lack of availability It is to be expected with a survey like the GLTs that the majority of the respondents would be positive people wanting the theatre built would be aware of the proposal and more in to take whatever actions they can to see it built However it is still surprising and encouraging that so man local residents have the foresight in these economy conscious times to realize the value in spending the money necessary lo renovate School Supporters of the theatre proposal will be approaching town council on January to encourage to begin a feasibility study of the plan Such a study is required by the provincial government before Win tario or any government grants can be considered The town should begin the study immediately so there will be a chance of beginning the renovations sometime this summer in time for the busy fall season And we encourage supporters of the proposal to attend the council meeting Ever vote conscious town councillors always seem to listen to proposals that are backed up by a roomful of supporters town hall be preserved Helton Hills town council could help but be impressed with the support shown Acton residents for the renovations of the town beautiful and historic town hall For a while it looked as though the once proud old red brick building on Willow Street was heading for an inglorious demise at the end of a wreckers ball Probably the lowest in the building history came year when the Ontario Ministry of ordered the building closed because of its unsafe state of disrepair But from that lowpoint the people spurred by the Acton Tow Hall Committee have rallied the towns beautiful landmark and managed to raise over Iflwards the to needed renovations An additional will be in the form of to help finance the renovations r fetter to the editor The raised from is certainly an encouraging one and shows there is for csloring the building within the town However the job is not done and more residents to gel behind the building and contribute to the efforts even with a small donation We also think it would be a worth while gesture for some of Actons industries to come behind the building and make a contribution towards the restoration fund At a time when the people of are for a town centre it would I j il a people of Acton lose such a perfect building to meet their own community centre needs And course the biggest crime would be for the people of Acton including future generations to lose their beautiful link with Actons historic past building should be preserved Juicy tales from Ontario auditor detail governments misdeeds Queens Park Report By Derek Nelson 1 vinti luduor Norm in is the Hi who once veir recounts of g mini mi manage men I coal supplies eventually costing a single before lis were oil Incidents like thai happen and while preventable are audible Private industry loo makes snafus ihc federal government has made such incompetence a higher art form But there is a second kind of which is more culpable eventfnoi illegal Public is a public which should lie sponl wilh the reverence oik would bestow on a church offering one is statutory holidays and 13 when the member was silling lor on icklilwml a person at counted lor an per of ill spin time fi ilnui ibid about Si mi urns suili is a i lb it tonus from the sue inlitiipliiH or the stupid of 1 In el issic ist in Sunt inn til Hospital which drive A couple of lovely examples s a member ihe Power Planning never mines names She worked for Sill d i ind charged ihe over vcars comparison a second commission member soul in J bill tor less Hi in The working and uses quotation marks around the words in his report includid SI even itur hum in go class on other people s money is unreasonable Then there was ihc employee In the ombudsman office who logged miles in i government ir of on person business Willi dry humor Scott noted that no I ixible wis included in the employ or income purposes The Ombudsman office is notorious tor ordering working sandwiches from Winston s probiblj Toronto expensive restaunnii The mtcd iht ihe busy driver wis dismissed lo lie re lured it lliree later made no further comment one wishes he id To outsider Ihe old boy luring continues to function in government At our expense iliut ton is i form of Tory is a poignant pointer his statistics embarass Liberals Ottawa Report By MacLeod luring mil of Pirhamcnl rit surd recess is I is to the scores of sihsii induct lr Ml in Winnipeg South Centre iki lime to go back program good should attend Hun vWifldrcri librarian for the Hills Library for arranging for Jan to present a concert on December J was excellent Ms ipltis and imitative in programming for the Children Library arc an asset to our jmimiriiiy Me would however like to express our and embarrassment that of w public did not support this concert attending it Where were all the who pi mil i in lunls hen fur our ihililreir We would hue it fret school would hut pliedlti ifulllinnse ind vuir children missed in ouKnndint vint Weiln hope tint si r I Dobbin Ann eh tut 111 mi he so frequent iiimus atnek Hut Ik mill ii Thil federal isMibiiliiininthL government in fillow its And MPs rt is c in llus as the Tones lis just has such inini pointing at Viol in opposition makes r I luiti lo t his points s usiiH such e is lies and mi r iK prefer to I ilk about ic slotislies drnlced up i outside nl while even rile mine risi irch his filled unearth a he did establish that in i7G it wo such contracts were million NO not even when you ivc complete of the results But in eases such an appraisal Is Many of the studies undertaken unrtcr ihese contracts ire never even public What In am me is how the government can justify so outside studies while its own employees ore spending so much of lime on inside studies someone Is conducting studies the studies Why might ask would Treasury Board feel necessity to award contract for siudj on ihe pcho social factors ihe attitudes moilvation and behavior of public servants As siid 1 don know whether thai studv is just gathering dust on a shelf or whether hive been implement id Me course there were other related studies going on There wis one for tW r in independent of the pay soli md paid to Hit senior in tht public rv 1 inatlj to make Thai is that would the motivation r of public servants And hire is mother one of for BOO to in the plinmng sludv of service pay lor we have independent studies to thi idcntilijtion of gaps and conflict in compensati in policy and direct ives tin to be followed in overcoming such gips conflicts Don ire moit studies iffectingthealtiludes motivalionaudbehnv ior of public servants llight here for inslince and means of overcoming structural Itms In the government approach to mana I- or SI- there was a study undertaken on and insurance in connection with personnel manual At there was an independent studv to be made of the problems related the public scr Si there on pohev review project for of or a mere s management in out would tl ink the hurt would In furls will on of Ihe public service Bui ire we will never imp Prob iblj tht gov know documents either said ARCE Phone History From the Heralds files TOM LONGBOAT DIES THIRTY AGO death Tom Longboat famed Indian runner recalls the days In his youth when ho was a resident of and worked a on the farm of the late John Smith on the Line reaittenui recall he lived In hotel operated by Mr Brewer In Ihe building which la now occupied by J and Son Much of his training was done here and ii was always a matter pride In the days his fame Stewart could claim some share In his success Three men oil township emp loyees had a miraculous escape from injury on Monday afternoon while so working in the repair shop In the rear of the new township hall in Stcwarttown The men Herbert Ed McLean and Sam MUeham working on some of ihe township road machinery when a sixteen foot brick pillar which supported three heavy Heel In ihe roof collapsed spilling the girders the floor Only minor damage was caused to machinery A movement to form a of fire brigades was Inactivated In lown on Monday representatives various brigade met In the Georgetown fire hill Men a ended from Milton Brampton lie Woodbridge and i The new will be valuable in establishing cooperation between existing lire as a group will be able to lake advantage of courses of Instruction and about fire equipment EXPLOSION AGO Many mis were mystified by a muffled explosion laic Sunday afternoon which rallied windows and here and was heard as for away as Terra Coita The detonation and accompany bump came from the Armstrong pit near where pit workers were dynamiting a large rock shelf The chain of blasts in rapid succession was reportedly sufficient to crumble half an acre of rock feel deep was one of the heaviest charges of ever let off in any of district and the resulting percussion was similar lo the one created when Arrow shatiered ihc sound barrier over town last after on absence of four years Wilson took the chair for the Inaugural meeting of the Georgetown public school Wednesday January held the bo ird room at Harrison School As chairman Mr Wilson replaces C Salter who with retired from the board In December nine years The flood of Christmas mall which continues to swell wilh every year reached mother new high in as the local post office handled close lo greetings alone postmaster Harold Marshall who made the estimate based the figure on the recorded number of dispatched cards which approached mark and constitutes approximately half ihc total The once a lifetime hand wis drawn loday at noon by Mrs Keilh Hurler Mrs was playing with Mrs John Heat lie during her lunch hour at Smith Stone when the perfect hand occurred The Jack Armstrong Trophy presented to ihe local police department for revolver competition went to the top on Tuesday December 30 follow nig the final shootoff In the revolver range under police station Emerging as the top shot was Chief Constable Haley IIHIttX SHOP ROBBED ACO John H Graham celebrated his 101st Sunday and Laid he sec well enough to read or my appetite Is good Mr rib born in Georgetown said he Still likes to waich hockey and football on Thicv descended through the celling to m ike a 000 haul from Smoke Shop in ihe Georgetown Market on the weekend Moat of loot was post office property stamps money orders and some cash politician George Currie capped his forty three years In municipal politics by being elected Warden of the County at afternoons County Council meeting He is the only reeve since 1930 to serve as twice last time was In 1036 It is seven years since had a w irdcn when the late Wilfrid Bird held the position and died In office Two sites both in south end of the are being considered as the location of the long awaited new home for the aged The Manor Commillee of Manage mint his proposed several sites but strongly two of them said William Coulter of year committee The annual salaries of couniy iop education officials including the figure of 00 for director of education were ippriived by a narrow vole margin JW Singleton recently appointed director of tho new country board of education therefore ihc county highest paid civil CITIZEN OF THE YEAR ONI- AtO A steering commit is being formed to look into the need for a for battered wives and their children following a meeting in Milton last week discussion paper tabled by the board of education week attempts to come to with the problems associated wiih declining enrolment in schools The report addressing itself ihe analysis population trends and current and anllcipat problems predicts a decline In the school population by 1982 Georgetown citizen of the year Is tig yearold Walter Gray of Church Street He was chosen by members of the Georgetown I ions Club week and will receive his rccotuutioa dinner la bis February at the Lion Hall Mr Gray wa chosen because of his long record of service lo the underprivileged In ihe community well as his efforts on their behalf during his ears on Georgetown council Volunteer Firefighters had a parly evening In honour of one their number who has been with for years Although he was officially named Charles Ross Valanllne years tit has a of unofficial names which seem more widely known by his acquaintances and friends then his proper name It seems when he was a imtc bo his grandmother used bom New robbexnuaed Jimmy Valantlne and young Charles wound up being nicknamed Jimmy