Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), February 25, 1981, p. 1

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I About the Hills Eight months for extreasurer Former Georgetown Figure Skating Club honorary treasurer Eugenia was convicted Friday of theft and sentenced to eight months In prison for stealing from the club and a former employer four children Judge Alan said following her conviction the sentence would have been harsher He recommended she be allowed to serve the sentence on a temporary absence basis so that she can visit and care for the children he also recommended she receive psychiatric assessment and commence two years probation A former resident of Pennington Crescent In Georgetown Mrs Pctrclll pleaded guilty to two counts of theft The court heard that she Illegally obtained from her former employer Finishing Systems Ltd of Georgetown theGFSC between April and November 1979 Married and the mother of four children ranging in age from three months to seven years Mrs Petrel I has been living in Brampton the past year A hundred homes Work started on lie housing units in the town of Hal tan Hills in 1980 and was completed on says Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation During the year work started on singlefamily units eight row housing units and 60 apartment units Work was completed on singlefamily units row housing units and 262 apartment units the HERALD Home Newspaper of Hills Wednesday February Toronto child missin Rising river claims a victim A 12 year old Toronto boy is missing and presumed drowned after he fell into the Credit River on the Upper Canada College property in Nerval Monday afternoon Scott of Dun vegan Road In Toronto was on a field trip from his school St George College along with other boys and two teachers from his grade seven class The group was walking beside the river when something gave way under his feet and Scott fell into the water Before the Instructors could reach m he had been swept away under a shelf of ice which still lines the river bank in spile of recent mild tempera Regional Police and Area 2 firefighters searched From about when the accident happened until dark Monday evening and resumed their search day morning At press time they I found the boy Joi Allen headmaster at St George s d the school has been sending students up to the Upper Canada College school for several ycjrs ThL students spend days observing nature and collecting specimens under supervision of instructors he said The students receive safety instructions for nil in Business man may sue Deltacraft flood worst in 26 years By CHRIS Herald Staff Writer While town and Credit Valley Authority officials are confident new flood controls along the Credit River near Glen Willi passed a supreme lest during last week thaw at least one area businessman say3 he suffered the worst flooding In years Arthur Klee president and general manager of Ltd a Glen Williams furniture manufacturer watched flood water spill into his plant near the paper mill dam on River Drive Thursday ruining approximately worth of raw materials and damaging shop machinery While the plant is now operating at full staff Mr said about men were laid to go home when flooding shut down the I really don know I long it will take to get every thing working again he said Thursday adding that flooding might been averted if demolition experts began destroying ice jams below the dam before starting in Glen Williams Blasting in various locations below the dam behind George town Armstrong Avenue enough ice to lower water levels at and by 10 m Friday night Mr Klee said the water had dropped enough to call in workers to clean up Saturday morning Mr Klee declined to confirm whether or not he would take the to court partially blaming the dam s open sluiceway for building up levels in front of the dam ice was jammed further down stream general manager Glenn Schnarr insist the 000 worth of dredging channelization and cations responded adm rably to the sudden IF in the least flooding we it Glen Williams this year it will be the least flooding we get in many many years Mr Schnarr told a CVCA meet last Thursday night With the exception of the Deltacraft flooding no serious property damage was reported in the Glen Williams area he told The Herald later How ever a few roads in the Meadow vale area downstream wort briefly submerged the CVCA is that last week break up though possibly tempera ry will reduce the chances of serious Flooding when the spring thaw finally arrives Excluding wages paid to fire- town and employees approximately S3 wis spent and pounds of dynamite used in the four days last week when the tec jams were being cleared Modifications on the Paper Mill dam on the Credit in Glen Williams stored large flows of ice upstream while allowing water to pass through the sluice gales relieving the risk of flooding In the village However ice Jams further downstream from the dam poured water into the plant background Thursday causing damage to raw materials and machinery stored In a ground level workshop Beardmores chemical spill just chloride spokesman A Be had denied there is anything dangerous about chemicals into Black Creek and surrounding groundwater From the Acton tannery Canada Packers public reljtions officer Murray Stewart said Friday the chemical described by ministry of ment consultants as leaking from the Be ore fieihlies is common chloride CI londe ives the rcceivinp wntcrn salty taste but It not i Ions thing Mr said after the waste sites around Ontario i II of htm iking virious ng locations nitrate I envy metals and explosive levels of methane pas Mr Stewart said ore will operate with the MO to dckrmlr the of the chloride level A meeting is expected t be soon Thelinnery oldest and largest employer has Its own d firm to the plant but its close proximity to sewers has suspicion as to wh eh either Is actually leaking chemicals Don Morner of works department said the region will not be involved in furtl stud to be undertaken by Beardmore and the but commented thot runoff this time of year enn be expected to curry high chloride levels because of winter roid soiling an Jehu Steele said last Wednesday all 11 rouble spots identified by the province wide study must be I These young from Joseph School don t too nervous at the sit in dressing room at 1 Public School waiting their turn to go onstage The students left to rhthl Michelle lassford and arc members of the library club which has aid photo by BLOODSUCKERS ABOUND Recreating the classic bloodthirsty struck by thaw business best known Beta Is Keith Harris star of the Georgetown Little Theatre latest thriller Count a contemporary shocker based Bram Stoker a famous novel The damsel whom Keith Is placing La distress here is Melissa about to become one of Dracula brides The GLTs production opens Friday at Sucre CoeurEfcurch ball Performances follow Saturday night and and VAMPIRES BACKSTAGE PAGES A Jelinek calls Trudeau a liar leaves House but not sorry the Ottawa Bureau of The Herald MP Otto with drew from the House of Commons Monday night after branding Prime Minister Pierre a liar The outspoken Tory left the chamber voluntarily after deputy speaker Lloyd Francis had asked him a halfdozen times to withdraw the tlons Justice minister Jean Chretien then demanded he be suspended Mr told reporters afterwords that his conscience would not allow him to with draw the remarks 1 feel that I was saying the truth and though t had not planned to call a liar my conscience would not let me do it he said Commons rules state that MPs must be suspended unless they for or withdraw ICE RINKS GONE SO THEYRE TAKES IT TO THE STREETS Spring or fall the mild weather means the Ice rinks area t of a grudge match centre photo at George Kennedy School weekend I In Brampton and was barely slaying alive In action playable so It a Into the streets and playgrounds for hockey buffs between local squad and the self proclaimed Brampton Sunday s rematch series In the minor leagues meanwhile of all age Our photographer round roadhockey aplenty around Burnouts The Brampton teams performances belled their Roger and Steven and Chris left turned the streets of Georgetown on the weekend Including a hair raiser name Georgetown dropped a threegame series the previous Grey stone Crescent Into Maple Leaf gardens with some exciting on Metcalfe Court right Kenny Kin ton went against goalie Leslie Herald photos by language The dispute came to a bead quickly during debate on the government constitution resolution Mr Jelinek said the Prime Minister had been less than candid with the public In statements about his meeting with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher It was not less than candid he lied to the Canadi an people he lied to the media We have a Prime Minister who lies lo the country and with It In any other country like the US and elsewhere a leader of the government would be Impeached for lying to the people In regard to an Import ant situation like the future of the country he stated Amid shouts from the government benches and inter- ventions from the deputy speaker Mr again accused the prime minister of lying and refused to withdraw his remarks Anyone who knows the facts knows that the Prime Minister lied My conscience will not allow me to withdraw that It is unfortunate that the Prime Minister has acted in an unparliamentary way by twist truths and by lying I cannot possibly withdraw my statement Doth supply and service minister Jean Jacques Blala and house leader Stanley Know lea repeated the appeal Continued on page

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