Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), June 24, 1981, p. 7

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SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday June Page Overwhelming response to ILG campaigns bus tour White Pioneer Days and were In full swing around org downs Main Sired a school bus decorated with I Love Georgetown and balloons was making lis round through the community handing out appreciation scrolls to who bad obviously put an Into fixing up the house for the campaign launched In April Assembling Tor the bus tour were standing ten to right campaign buttons chairman Roy chairman Tom MP John Mayor Pete Pomeroy Georgetown and Area Ratepayer Association rep Lawrte Duggan and MPP Julian Reed Waiting on the but are Chamber of Commerce rep Doug Brenda separate- school board trustee Irene Ward Conn Marilyn Serjeantson own deputy clerk Del French Ward Harry Levy and Klrkpa trick and Itcbln chairmen of school activities Herald photo Do YOU love Georgetown Heres what others say The I Love Georgetown bus stopped at Phil Slddalls Boulevard home Saturday morning to commemorate bis good homecare effort Separate school board trustee Irene was among hose who joined Mayor Pete to present scrolls at random to approximately 100 homeowners honored by the campaigns organizing committee Herald photo Holy Cross students Greg McLean and Jenny accept on behalf Of their entire school an I Love Georgetown achievement award and cheque from Sharron Klrkpatrick Thursday morning The entire school looks on appreciatively knowing theyve helped contribute to the beauty Georgetown by cleaning up the school yard designing posters and painting a mural Librarian Laurie Harris far left helped coordinate he Holy Cross campaign Other school receiving award during the week were and George Kennedy Public Members the Centennial Senior Public School student forum left to right Martina Ebling Michel Keess Greg accept the achievement award and cheque on behalf all their fellow students surrounding them Thursday afternoon The Grades to students at Centennial each designed a potter for the I Love Georgetown program while some wrote By TOM Herald Special Depending on the response of Georgetown and area citi zens we would like to run a series of articles loiters etc on your Impressions experi ences your choice of George town as your home town or suggestions you want to make to Improve the com munity Be sure to sign your name to your response and send to this newspaper addressing it to Tom In first of our series here are some letters from Grade 3 students of George Kennedy School plus a Poem for getting involved with Georgetown In the I Love Georgetown campaign Is for the excitement of seeing Georgetown at It best is for the outstanding achievements being E Is for garbage cans which George owners are using proudly la for the Energy of the Georgetown people OH is for water Ibe Credit where the famous Boat Race Is Georgetownera you say I Love Georgetown MY KIND OF TOWN Georgetown Is a nice place to live in because It has lots of parks to play In it has garbage cans to put garbage in Principal Logan accept he award and cheque from aa the student from Grades to at Park Public School look en Friday morning The Indent showed heir love for Georgetown by designing posters and cleaning op the yard around their own school They even performed a skit In their Spring Concert called UtWfbng Convention geared to promoting of keeping Georgetown beautiful Seniors Week party at Centennial Manor Sunny provided the perfect touch for Ha ton Centennial Manor open house In Milton Saturday part of National Seniors Week the manor opened ila doors Saturday afternoon to thu general public to enjoy entertainment and refreshments and to become better acquainted with the seniors borne and Its residents MP Otto Jellnek was the master of ceremonies for the lawn show that featured the Milton Senior Citizens Band playing an hour of oldlime melodies The Meredith School of Dance provided an interesting change of pae they performed some dances set to rock ana Jan music Singer Marianne rounded out the show with some tunes accompanied by an accordion A trolling minstrel and clowns kept guests and residents entertained Indoors The of the manor also raised WOO In a bake sale towards completing the Interior decorating being done on the premise now Acting administrator Gordon Timbers that they had a good turnout and praised the effort of the staff for the success of the day A busfull of local digni taries and community repre sentatives were delighted Saturday by the warm recep tion they received through out the Georgetown area as they delivered appreciation certificates and souvenirs to res Idents caught up In the I Love Georgetown campaign Campaign organizers were overwhelmed by the number of homes featuring I Love Georgetown cutout symbols posted In their windows not to mention ho several homes with special displays waiting to greet the our bus Even Glen Willi ams part of the old own- ship of had its share of Georgetownlovers although one lawn sign which tickled the organizers sense humor proclaimed I Love Glen Williams According to organizer Tom the unique sign represents a growing interest In this kind of civic pride campaign among neighboring owns and communities Members of the Georgetown Area Ratepayers Association and the Chamber of Commerce who devised the campaign are happy to report that on their streets but time ho explained did not allow full coverage of the area Its clean and has flowers all over It has lots of stores to shop in there are two big arenas and two pools Indoor and outdoor Georgetown is fun Dean Bobbins George Kennedy Public School GEORGETOWN A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE Do you know what I love about Georgetown Its the people are so nice Im glad its not a big city but its growing and I dont like that I hope It stops growing They have a good Idea out now It is the I Love Georgetown project Im sure youve heard of It Lots of nice people are doing nice things Why dont you help out today Rich Sowery Grades George Kennedy Public School GEORGETOWN Georgetown Is my kind of town Some naughty people hat dont care about me or you sometimes throw trash on the ground Then people pick it up and make the town cleaner and nicer It makes a nice place to live There Is work in keeping Georgetown nice and clean I love Georgetown George Kennedy Public School Georgetown Is my kind of town I like Georgetown because loo much garbage around and Georgetowns water Is clean There Is lots of schools parka soccer fields and baseball diamonds and If you like to swim there Is an Indoor pool There great fishing and boating places I think the beat parts are the movies and the hobby shops plus the shopping plaza think second best I there is not much noise DoyouloveGcorgelown I think It Is the best town In the Colin Turner Grade 3 George Kennedy Public School people in and Acton are phoning them with questions about the possibili ty of Hal on Hills campaign Saturdays rideabout saw dignitaries and guests blowing up balloons and greeting homeowners as the bus rolled around most streets In Georgetown and he Gien Mr noted that several dis appointed homeowners contacted him later to ask why tho bus hadnt appeared LAST OF THE BUTTONS GO ON SALE The latest and probably final shipment of I Love- Georgetown buttons arrived at organizers homes last week Tom Ramautarsingh told The Herald Monday Although Saturdays rideabout formally ended the month- long civic pride campaign buttons and balloons will continue to bo distributed from the usual outlets buttons are cents each with proceeds going to librarycultural centre fund until Canada Day next week Be sure to buy yourself a button if you haven I already theyre sure to be collectors Items In the future Youll see I Love Georgetown campaigners In he Glen Williams Canada Day parade If we missed your area were sorry he said but we do want to congratulate you on showing everyone thai Georgetown Is alive with a great community Recipients of the apprecia tion scrolls were chosen at random guests from the bus knocking on their doors to make the presentations to any youngsters on hand the I Love George town balloons and but Ions Homeowners who received the special visits praised the campaign for its efforts to boost community pride and through club projects clean up selected areas The rideabout ended at about m delivering the tired but satisfied bus riders back to the Georgetown market Centre While good humor abound ed during the rideabout Mayor came In for he biggest laugh of the day when ho became enthralled In a conversation with a proud and bus inadvertently left to continue its rounds without him His worships absence was quickly noted however and the bus returned to retrieve him LAST WEEK TO JOIN OUR 4th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS TIL JUNE 30th POP A BALLOON WITH EVERY 2000 AND OVER FOR EXTRA SPECIALS OUR PLEASURE IS TO PLEASE VOW 232QuelphSt QuslphvlawSq- Georgetown LOCATIONS- MEADOW VALE TOWN CENTRE 18212491 SATURDAY 930600

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