Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), October 17, 1979, p. 1

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877 The bit piper tin J circulation read tint Reaching more thin 13 homes I Hilton Hilts I This Week Already working Sign controversy There still no resolu lion to Hills sign by taw controversy as a proposed new law ailed to gel council approval Monday night Page ready Georgetown votive MP John McDermid took his place in the current sitting of parliament last week lie spoke with the Herald about his thoughts on the current session jue before hooding off Ottawa Pages Enterprising woman Perhaps trying to avoid a fear that plagued another politician wife Gail Maltby lown George s spouse decided to be a rose in her husbands lapel and set up her own luring factory to make sure She row owns and works in a thriving machine shop in Acton Page 11 Annual meeting Georgetown Red Cross held their annual meeting last week and while appointing their new executive lo take care the future they look a long look at their illustrious past Page Football finals II Smoke Shop and Dairy Queen in the Georgetown Flag Foot ball Championship on Sunday The playoff re sults and how these two learns here on Page 32 Coming events Have you seen the Her aid new entertainment page yet Take a took this week to find out happening in Hal ton Hills Page IB Drainage problems Crescent landowners are about drainage problems on their street but council gave them no assurances Monday night P Raiders in last Raiders could be in trouble In the early going of Ihclr championships defending season They don t look like league lea They re in last Week Running season II cross country time Aa the colours change and tbe weather cooler public and clubs run rum Two were held recently Week First Viet refugee family arrives By PALL Herald staff writer Months of uncertainty and speculation hive ended with arrival here Saturday of two Southeast Asian refugees representing the first of as many as Vietnamese families who have found generous sponsors in Acton and Georgetown Cun Tsan aged and his year old wire Thu Van are the first mem bora of a family sponsored in June by the congregation of Christian Reformed Chuzch parents Thong Tsan and Mill Chan Vong who arc in their sixties and a old female rcla lion Ting were all to arrive In George town today Wednesday Representatives of the soring group were told Friday by Immigration Canada thai and hi wife Sue would be flying from Montreal to Toronlo Monday leaving the group only three days to make final preparations As il turned out the young couple arrived Toronto tlonal Airport the next day at about 9pm ROUP Rev and Mrs John Jong of the Christian Reformed Church found and Sue among a group of Viet refugees wailing in an airport lounge wearing name tags indicating destina tlon The couple speak only a few words of English leaving the Do Jongs with whom ih y ore staying rely primarily upon diagrams and gestures to communicate with their new While food and clothing ap pear be readily available for Cun and his fimiiy there is a need for more permanent and jobs Cun began work Tuesday at the Canada Packers plant outside town where Ivan Vandcr another member of the church congregation has provided him with an I unity to follow in his father footsteps Among tew bits of in formation the sponsors have obtained from immigration Is the fact that a father was a farmer in Vkt Nam providing a back ground that will stand Cun in himself worked as a me chanic in Viet Nam Apart from these tacts nothing is yet known about the new arrivals their specific reasons for leav ing their native country or their mode of existence since going into exile and Sue arrive In from Malaysia two days prior to their move to Toronlo and Georgetown The of tic family was then still in Malays a where hundreds of thousands of IndoChinese re fusees have been sheltered during recent months after fleclnf II Communist regime of their homeland long lorn the Herald that Ihcre have been no prob lems accommodating Cun and Sue at their home despite the language barrier which they Continued age Residents oppose Hornby drivein A petition bearing more than 110 signatures his informed Ihc town in no uncertain terms that the residents of Hornby do not want a drive in theatre built In their neighborhood as was proposed three weeks ago The towns general commit lee Monday night referred the petition is well as si on by resident John to the plaining department for inclusion in a report being prepared on the proposal by John M Peacock and The three roponenls veiled plans for the car In screen drive in before the town planning board list month proposing a acre properly adjacent to the Horn by ballpark is its on I- in Speaking on behalf of the who signed the pcti lion Mr Klyimk so he is opposed drivein being built in residential section of Hills He cited the Ron Hunt and John Roe seem anxious to get bride Melissa father business partner The jilny will be on again this I- dous safety risk that Hell church on time In Georgetown Utile Theatre and Saturday at Hall For a review on opening could be posed by traffic from production of There Goes the Bride Ron Hunt Is Hie bride night performance see Page while John Roe plays he bride Herald photo the theatre the deterioration of roads and resulting tax for residents lily of polluting creek i the LITTLE THEATRES FIRST PRODUCTION feeds the drainage system and the theatre dctr effects on the bill We feel drive in would be the ruination of the bail park Hornby Hill agreed claiming the ncirl unanimous support of invoked baseball directors longtime residents in Ihe a Mr challenged the proponents contention that there would be no problems caused by floodlights from the and conversely of and olhcr ghls the drive in Mr Klymik said hundreds of local youngsters would be walking along Avenue to and from the ballpark about Ihe lime wt be entering the drive In The approximately lis involved in baseball park he added f ice similar safety RUSTIC QUALITY Mr Klyok lold the commit tie that rustic ethnic lies I f ne upstanding it he live ties which he slid would be destroyed by the eoustructioi of drive in Miller informed Ihe ton m lice he has received three tellers and in phone ills testifying objections shared by of lie Mr main lined a In eould jeopar due many community sueh as the annual Hornby parly now in its and the baseball urn imcnts that itlract thou sands of spectators and have seen the hometown cap- lure ten Ontario champion prospective father In lav of Commerce to start transit service By WILLI- TT Herald editor Georgetown residents will be able to ride an in town bus service lo do their Christmas shopping during the months of November and December thanks the local Chamber of Commerce The bus system will service the town major areas as well as the residential districts and will Thursdays Fridays and Sat On Thursdays and Fridays buses will run hourly from am 3 while Saturdays the buses wilt start 10 am run through to pm Tic buses will be free to preschoolers and senior while everyone else will pay cents Chamber of Commerce committee chairman Rick West told Herald the idea his been under consideration for many months In he the chamber tried a threeday bus service for one week last year during Christmas season that met with limited success Mr West said are two reasons for starling the bus system We lo help town shoppers and keep Christmas shopp ing dollars in town At Ihc same lime we look at this as an experiment and If the bus system proves popular enough we would consider making It a pcrmonenl Hung one poml the chamber ind been considering a bus service primarily for senior is during the Christmas tic it plar ICG members meet with Hydro By I ORI TAYLOR Herald staff writer The Interested Citizens Group ICG is optimistic lowing a meeting last week with Ontario Hydro Chairman Hugh McAuley to discuss the proposed hydro corridor through Hills We restlH very optimistic ICG spokesman John Minna said Wo ro thai the line Is forced through that Hydro will deal fairly with the landowners Thai Is tempered with the knowledge however Hydro lived up to any of lis promises or com mittments throughout the fight a gains I the corridor Mr Minns said the optimism stems from meeting with the new chairman and from what appears to be the new altitude of Ontario Hydro Mr Minns and John Schneider represented the ICG at the meeting Also present was Arthur Hill director of systems planning for Ontario Hydro Mr Minns sold the meeting was kept small at the request of Mr McAuley lo make more progress MADE Mr Hill lold the ICG and It In writing that In future with the major pro jects which require I mm mis line planning from this point forward will get system plan settled first with environmental assessment We made a mistake in that it Continued on page from this idea The buses will si near all senior is homes in Georeelown Mr Wesl emphasized the bus tern is being operated by chamber along wilhTravelwaysbualines The cent fare will not cover all of I costs of he service and any deficit will be financed by the Marly local who design ihc bus roulc says If a bus from one end of town to another it wuul take a over on hour So spat in town is likely ie more lo minulcs from a major The first bus will head out from Shoppers Drug Mart at am on Thursday November 1 slops on Ihe route in elude Miracle Mart George Kennedy School Smith and Stone Moore Park Plaza the hospital and Georgetown Main Slrect NEW FACE ON COUNCIL Monday night genera committee meeting was preceded by the official In of Terry Grnbbe elected to Halloa council lilt week Ward 1 byelection White proud members of looked Mr took tbeoaUuof office allegiance with clerk administrator Ken and warmly welcomed on council behalf by Mayor Pete Pomeroy and Mike She fill vacancy left by he death but June of former Acton mayor Let Da by Looking on In tie background la Ward Coon George photo

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