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Viet refugees are adapting Till October new in town the five members of Hills first boat peo ple family lo their new word has come rom Con that four more sponsored refugees all of ore related to the original family should arrive here Friday After weeks of questioning the slow immigration process local sponsors arc praising officials for their careful plan which has enabled nine members of the same iafon area family to reunite In a homeland thanks to the efforts of Iwo different spon soring groups Accord to Operation Life line spokesmen this arrivals at Toronto Interna Airport will include the daughter of Senli Thong Tsan and it Chan Vong were reeled by local sponsors last and the sister of Cun Tsan who with his young wife Tim Von Tieu were the first Asian refugees to town October 1 Details about Cuns sister who will be by husband and two young ntphewi are being ly withheld at the sponsors request thur arrival newest dents It have I style fir namos as by their sponsors and explained by us interpreters and Mrs John of the Christian Reformed Church whose sponsored Ihe of lie first refugee family told the Herald lb in Kent Sue and Mother Sharon and year old on Tang Ann all appear pleased with the r new names design to I in It was a tearfully rcun on for hen family at the airport last wl en Sen and Ann armed from Malaysia then stopover In Montreal briefly separat EVEN THE KITCHEN SINK The Georgetown KlnctUs hod everything yea even hen sink their big fund raising rummage sale Saturday sink in fact was already sold by time Ihe Herald photographer and asked Kindles Colleen Armstrong left loposeforu picture held at Sinclair and Streets raised for cystic fibrosis Balls in Focal court Conn told onsF Herald stair writer Coun Marilyn Serjeantson encountered mostly blank faces when sHe asked last week about the current status of the much publicized land development dispute between Properties Ltd and the luwnof Ifalton Hills The ball is sill in the of Focal Properties planning board chairman Mike Arm strong volunteered pointing out that there lave been no meetings or discussions on the mailer since early this year Impressing disillusionment over the disappearance of the issue which was raised so the last election campaign suggested hot the board should try to revive discussions and resolve the We started all those studies and everything and now there nothing she com phmed Despite all the lion talk this council has never Towns banner delayed at region An apparent error on the part of municipal officials has left Hills temporarily unrepresented at meeting of regional at least aesthetically An unexpected delay in the preparation of a large embroi dcred coat of arms represent Ine Hills has a slightly embarrass ng of open wall space behind the council chair of Mayor pete while elsewhere the walls arc emblazoned with the efforts of Burlington Oakville and Milton artists When the overdue of Burlington coat of arms banner at last Wcdncs day meeting made the ion all the more obvious chairman Jack turned with a grin to Mayor for on anticipated explanation The mavor had to amid the of his colleagues that Hills crest is not ready because of on unidentified staff mem Somebody in our organize tion give Ihe wrong crest to the embroiderer he laughed declining to predict a cample lion dale It a small problem that no fault of the artists The Us banner made a brief appearance in its preliminary form at the open ing of the new regional head last June Burling ton Hills crests soon for however From an design by local artisan Dorothy Stone embroidery artists and Maria Jennings created original initial banner during more than hours of work sal down and d the problem I think we should devote at least one board meeting oil Coun Serjeantson suggest ion that recent reviews of the treatment situation could help the board shed new I on the Focal issue which centres upon the lack of treat mint capacity for the firms development prompted Armstrong to comment that little has changed In recent months The town and regions joint policy selling priorities for the allocation of capacity he pointed has not changed since council s lost term of office Top only is still the scrvie of developments which fill In open voids In the urban Despite the efforts of business officer Bill Marshall Coun Armsirong added Hills still owns no vacant indusin ally zoned land to wtich it could allocate srnie of the treatment capacity Mr Marshall doing everything le can he said and I think we shoul 1 leave it Coun maintain that discussions should be re opened about the allocation of sewer services in general the Focal issue specific ally So fir this has been just another term of council wit no added industry she said The town controversy back to the late 1950s when land was annexed by former town of Georgetown Del rex Holdings Ltd now I oca The town has repeated Ij defended its right to servicing to the huge holdings south of Gcorgetowi where the firm proposes build 1 homes lie had en dured so much together was clearly lo be back together Rev De Jong noted that of the time since the parents ly chatting together the r home translators the sponsors have thus far learned that Ken his family en countered no physical lolence during their journey from Iheir hometown ir Saigon where they had been franchised by he Hanoi go vernment forced to pay officials ounces of gold now worth about for Iheir freedom Although Ihcy met no hostile pirates the days spent crossing the sea lo Malaysia In liny crowded boot Rev Jong reported storms slowed Iheir journey merciless thieves Hem oh the Malaysian coast They were robbed of everything they still possessed Ken father Sen told the De Jongs that he horror of the boat people phenomenon equalling the most lerrlfymf accounts found in any newspaper The fam ily landing In Kuala Lumpur Malaysia was followed quick ly by their interment In Camp the nearby quarters for Vietnamese refugees Local sponsors are now seek jobs for all members of Kens family Ken who had auto mechanics experience in Vict Nam ob tained a job Ideally the day after his arrival but there arc Indications il may only be for a temporary period Ilia Sen was a fisherman and chicken farmer In the family homeland while Ann las ex pcrience as clerk and can lype using Western Asked to comment on the reactions of some Hills residents to the arrival I ere of Viet refugees De Jong admitted thai he has received several verbal complaints about Ihe efforts of his church rogation in sponsonnp the boat people He described Ihim as o type of crank coll Invariably Rev Jong sad the callers do not want to discuss the pros and cons of sponsoring refugees bulslmp challenge the sponsors dom In offering homes Jobs thing to what one angry resident colled ihe yellow bastards Informed that the Herald has also received negative verbal comments about efforts from readers who ore then invited to loiters to the editor Rev Jong said he would be glad lo respond in writing to such letters in much the same way as he has been defending his actions on the phone I tell the callers there ore two different viewpoints and that I don t believe theirs is majority view he explained I think it wonderful thai Canadians tiki and do bring these people here help them They won be a charge on the public purse since there is opportunity for employment here they II soon be paying taxes like the rest of us and we oil stand to benefit They going to steal all our soft jobs from us because of the language bar II have lo pick up all kinds of menial work I really 111 ink we re ahead In the long More fundraising for old town hall The Acton town liall reslora committee decided Mon day night to make the attempt to raise to restore the old building on the corner of Willow Bower Streets The money represents the citizen of estimated needed to complete Thercmainderof the will be borne by the town Hills and Win la no rants if the Acton lownspeo- con raise their part Alma Swetman Dills Stella have vol inteered to form the nucleus of he fund raising committee rfcey are looking for more helpers plan to meet again In the near The restoration committee held a pledge drive in Decern which netted In pledges leaving to go The new fund raising cam paign must move quickly By the end of November the com mittee must know where it is headed because it must report to council by December The town hall was built from and some local towns people have been trying nto save it as a visible symbol of Actons past Until it lion began to deteriorate it was the scene of many dances and BRAMPTON COLOUR SOUND NELSON ST W 4534455 PRESENTS SYLVANIA Model CX9161W 20 COLOUR PORTABLE 00 DONT MISS THIS TERRIFIC OFFER I FINANCING AVAILABLE NO DOWN PAYMENT REQUIRED FACTORY PAINT WALLPAPER WALLPAPER BOOK ORDERS Over 800 Patterns to choose from including fine prints fanfare mini mates MANY MORE 3 Days satin SAVE Sale Price ONLY Reg Reg SALE ENDS SAT OCT 271979 GEORGETOWN DECORATING CENTRE 8774193 Downtown 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