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Page I SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday August North Oakville fa heads Agricultural committee Future fascinates Norm ONE HAPPY FAMILY The and the oldest a bote from lb Eaat coastal Writ net last Sonday and Monday for the Gardiner first aaaaal family reunion Clady and Peter Gardiner of Georgetown boated their families gatheriag aoue M family member aa far away a Labrador and California Children inch Gardiner of bottom lefll enjoyed meeting Uncle Ales back raw left Paul Gardiner Jane who la being held by earned the award for the family member attending She la one and a half yean old After a welcome brunch at the Rib Cage Smday at Terra Cotla More and a atery will appear In Friday Weekend Extra Georgetown Witnesses head for national conventions More than district conventions of Jehovahs Witnesses will be held throughout Canada during July and August according to a spokesman for the group Tom Bennett a minister of the Georgetown congress tioo ald that mora than 90000 delegate are anticipated at these Kingdom Loyalty Conventions that will be held In the country The local group hope to end US members to be among the more than is attending lbs Toronto assembly at Woodbine Race Track August to Revolution coups and insurrection have become common In our time Mr Bennett stated showing that there Is a lack of loyalty In the world The greatest need of the human family right now la God for which Jesus Christ taught ma follower to pray for That is a government deserving the loyalty of all mankind The Kingdom Loyalty Conventions will strengthen the faith of anyone who attends and will provide much practical instruction for everyday living Mr Bennett said all conventions of Jehovahs Witnesses are open to the public without fee or collection By CHRIS Herald Staff Writer Norm is fairly typic of the average farmer in Ha ton and probably why be is beat suited for new duties as cultural advisory committee chairman replacing Burling ton Harold He is an established farmer his family has been tilling the soil or raising livestock on the hundreds of acres surrounding Mr s Sixth Line anil Lower Base Line home for five generations and his farms location is in that ambiguous fringe area where urban development mingles with the rural commu nity in a tenuous peace Consequently Mr Is well tuned into the problems facing agricultural Industry readily admits that their outcomes are largely unpredictable but at the same time one senses that this exactly what excites him about the future and pose a lively challenge for mm as spokes man for the region fanners A cash crop fanner growing corn wheat and seed oats Mr shared in the million which Dow into the region thanks to this aspect of the agricultural Industry alone But he agrees with predecessor on the committee that you pretty well have to come from an Wished ftrm family to survive a farmer In Halton during the current era of high interest rates rented land sod food ices which apparently make it difficult farmer to earn ma keep I moot hurting as bad as a lot of people Mr Biggar told The Herald In an interview last week Ive worked Into an established operation based on a family farm Despite the relative security of working an enterprise which has deep roots In Heltons historical farm community Mr SB rents much of his farm s BOO or so acre His assets remain in the 10 acres of land the family and in the thousands of dollars worth of farm machinery be owns with his father Harold There are grants available for farmers from the provinci al arid federal governments he acknowledged but they fall to alleviate the problem which probably perplexes the nations farmer the mast How to get an adequate return on his investment Mr readily admits that Just because he la the advisory committees head and therefore the prime inter prefer in the dialogue between Ballon a farm and regional council be necessarily have all the answers But in approaching the issues he likes to consider the broader farming concerns which reach beyond the region a boundarl Farm produce price he said should perhaps be allow to find their own level There constant debate on bow food marketing boards help I not saying Im against marketing boardsthey help regulate produce flow so that farmers t growing more than the market will bear We have a real dilemma here whether to have them or not Recently as Mr Middle- brook pointed out In another interview The Herald regional planning policies are slowly being adopted which represent the land use concern of farmer But Mr said he feel farmers shouldnt nave to butt their bead against the wall to make themselves understood both by councillors and planners There should be someone on the region staff who knows about farm life If they want an agricultural segment in then they should have an agricultural planner Mr Biggar said That was part of the thrust in setting up this committee We try to represent all aspects of farming in Our members approach council through the advisory commit tee and councillors come to us for advice on rural Issues as well There is still a considerable amount of grumbling on the committee about toe region and HlUs decision to allow a developer to plan estate home project on loo acres of land about four miles south of Acton on Highway Both administrations are awaiting a plan of subdivision from the developer Admittedly the topography Objections raised by the in some porta of the si to is committee In the past to rough Mr Never- development proposals for the thcless there Is some good soil rural area don t necessarily on the land and the committee mean it Is against all such Mr Biggarsold We have the ability to over produce In this country depending on your viewpoint about bow well our crops are doing And some times it questionable bow much of an issue land use la The onus for deciding whether or not development is right or wrong for the rural area really falls on the region al planners and decision making councillors be added What the committee wants is to make sure that what development Is done Is done orderly The urban encroachment issue currently has no signs of dying out Mr noted describing the hoards of prospective house buyers who crowded through the mud one day to check out the opening of a new development In Oak ville He also t have to go too far for further Indies that population especially in its southern area municipalities is growing by leaps and bounds About 300 yards north of his lies the right of way for High way between and Burlington Rural residents Mr said can expect the govern ment to implement a landuse freeze to prevent agricultural land from being sold for urban development purposes In some ways our ancestors were better off farming than we ore now Mr said There more value to their farmland then When a guy can get maybe an acre for development you kind of expect hell take a close look at it Fanners ore no different from other people In an era when most of us are watching our pocket books carefully What may appear to be a relatively small issue to the average urban recent concerns over another deer hunt in can muster farmers Into a powerful and convincing lobby when you start talking about crop losses This year prohunt advocacy by farmers Continued m page A3 Norman Is the new of the Agricultural Committee replacing Harold Middle- brook Mr a North farmer sat down with Harold last week to share views of the future of agricultural Industry maintains that it could be a viable arm operation sing farm use on the merits of each property was one of the points underlined by the advisory committee study on agriculture In Halton The Viability of Farm Operations in preientcd to Hills town councillors May Intentions Planners must foresee the possibility of com plaints from residents due to noise or odors coming from Sou have to put the land Mayor Pomeroy talks planning Toys Games Books Records Chlldrens dreams at Toy Quality at Prices Georgetown Mark I Place 8778800 EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY at AFFORDABLE PRICES Canadian Oak Furniture Lvalhar Upholstered Furniture Oak and Leather Inlay Optional Woods Include Cherry Walnut Maple and Pine COATS to 50 OFF SUMMER SHOES up 50 OFF Eastern Ave Acton Ontario 5198531031 Contlnned from Page Al the supply of housing to the market is going to wind up being cut right off he predict ed The new Planning Act which the provincial government brought out for comment last summer would have expedited matters by cutting out a lot of levels of bureaucracy he said But the civil servant cant let those government jobs be cut out so there now appears to Even to build a regional road we bare to do an enviro nmental assessment he sold So It going to come for sure And that means hiring consul tants to assess The person who set it up bad a great Idea but its been put off track so badly I dont think it can ever be put back on The mayor took a few swipes at planners for procrastinating on a firm recommendation In their reports You rarely get a clear cut direction from day one be said Its usually a surprise six months later The mayor said a planner should stand us and be counted and really defend ids position on a development because usually the decisions are for too important to be made on a political basis With a washy report however the politicians often fly in the face of the report for some personal reason and then a problem results later Mayor predicts growth In the Georgetown port of Halton Hills will be suffici ent during the next few years that the town will either have to hire more planning staff to handle It or we a lot of consultants He also predicts a link rood connecting Highways and will be built and extended north to meet a main road of Hills probably Mount Road south He wants to keep Halton Hills as a nice ruralurban town rather than the sort of hodgepodge developed In neighboring municipalities in recent yeara Unless we took a realistic look at the sewage treatment plant and accept realistic growth you can bet those service pipes would have 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