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Page I SECTION A THE Got something to swap Master Trade can help you STRIKING UP FUNDS FOR FIRE DEPARTMENT The are campaigning la raise DM lor Jim of Life Bev Com Pit Billy Idst Maglll Lynn Conner Kay MascUoe CoMer Penny Martelti Nelly Gall participated In to rake money Herald by ft Derek Jones inquiry recommendations endorsed by CVCA Barter la Beautiful Is the slogan of a new seeking to establish itself in Master Trade Interna al hat recently set up shop in Brampton and Is striving to acquire new customers from Hill Wood- bridge Malton and Mha areas Its basically an organize tlon of Canadian business owners who buy and trade from one another on a part cash part basis can be swapped for merchandise and vice versa Master Trade acts as the sale agent or broker When a trade is made between two members the seller receives Irade credit and the purchaser Is auto matically In debt to the system The purchaser repays hla debt by trading service with another Matter Trade member It Mans median barter It a comeback la Canada Master Trade a company that hat set a franchise In Brampton b la get Ration companies and services and barter a part cash part trade basis Cynthia Edwards b operating the Brampton office and Ren Rice general manager IHerald photo Fence proposed for pond Neighborhood protest By Herald Staff Writer Erecting a fence along the lot line between the Kingham Rood housing development in Acton and private property containing a pond in which a three year old drowned last fall endorsed Friday by the Credit Valley Conserve lion Authority ICVCA The Authority was replying to recommendations made early in January by a coro ners Jury Investigating the drowning death of Derek Rejecting he other recommendations that Che pond should be fitted in or that the pond and swamp area must be drained by ditches and culverts he CVCA claimed the pond ts an environ mentally sensitive area Located inside a horse clse track owned by Don Campbell the natural pond three to four feet deep Derek Jones fell Into the swampy waters near his home Oct while playing with four year old brother and another child By the time hi brother rushed home to their mother that Derek playing In water he little boy was unconscious Efforts to i Itflle him failed Citing a report prepared for the CVCA In by Ltd resource planning manager Rose Menyes said the pond area It one of only two large cattail marshes remain ing In llalton and contains good quality stand of white cedar and tamarack as well aa a variety of aquatic bog and floral species The report also call the area a potential environmen tally significant area Past landfill activities along the edge of the marsh have depre ssed its slie and produced harmful filiation When a ponds ability to retain or absorb water fa reduced the acknowled ged there Is a detrimental affect on the Credit River watershed Ponds normally absorb water during high like the spring when anow banks melt and release It during periods of low predpit alien like the summer We see fencing a the solution general manager Glen Schnarr Friday Our altitude that we can only provide so much protect ion We can tflD in the Credit River either If wa tried to protect against all drowning we 1 have a river left Informed of the read endorsing tin erection of a fence Derek Jones mother Louise said she was pleased something was going to be done to keep children from playing In the potentially dangerous area Its better than nothing especially when summers coming around and everything melting away Mrs If the fence it high enough it keep the kid out Acknowledging that a lot of the older children never theless be able to cUmb the fence the said at least it will serve as a and give parents a few extra minutes to catch their children from ding In hot direction It will keep children from being able run straight from thdr to the pond she said The response by the CVCA being forwarded to the town for consideration II is expect to come up for discussion at the next council meeting The town was found at fault for not requiring a fence to be built between the bousing and the property on which the farm pond is located by the coroner a Jury The municipality bad insisted only that a fence be built between scuttles park plans For example the owner of a shoe store has a son with bad teeth he can take ton to a dentist member of Master Trade In return the credits the shoe store owner owes for the dental work can be made up by trading shoes from hi business to another Matter Trade member net necessarily the dentist who treated hb son People can trade stoves cart dental care babysitt ing serviceswhatever their line of business It reasonably new and people don understand according to Ron general manager of the Toronto head office Ilka when Charge card were introduced People didnt believe in then Like most credit card companies the Master Trade system uses a black Elastic card to record trade members If there it abuse of the system the Individual business doean t worry about it Matter Trade does Matter Trade make ten per cent on any trad between lb members Mr Rice claimed there are member companies in Matter Trade Trie company was established in PO expansion waited in wings Writer Expanding the pott office Maple Avenue and Guelph last ihrM yearn according to acting Georgetown postmaster Jim Collier He preliminary pinna Mail delivery to more homes Slxtyslx Ge homes are among and businesses across Canada slated to atari receiving mail delivery next month Canada Post hat announced Residents of Ontario and John Streets Jason Crescent and Drive will have tetter carrier at their doors for the first time starting as early a April 1 or moo a residential construction In that are 1 completed While another letter carrier win be- hired by Canada Post to extend service to the high growth areas of Calgary and Edmonton service extension to 11010 Ontario borne tod businesses will be carried out by existing postal staff Delivery service extension b part of the game plan for Improving overall postal service anticipated last year when Michael Warren was appointed president and chief executive officer of the newly I the Increasing volume of mall had been reviewed by the poet office staff Wc put In factors we would like to or the of our staff and customers Mr Collier Its not an overnight thing The plans have been changed two or three times already for Lnst week Ottawa announc ed it plans to spend BOO to put an extension to the IDS building The additional space to pott office win be on the Maple Avenue side providing more room for mail trucks to unload as well as additional working space for the Inside employee Design detaUs yet available and being work ed on by the Department of Public Works in conjunction with Post Office architects and engineers Final plans for the expansion will be approved by the London post office which supervises pasta operations In southwestern Ontario Georgetown protest has i town recreation and parks department proposal to turn a vacant Acton lot into a badlyneeded baseball dia mood for the community Town council concurred Monday night with an earlier departmental decision to with draw plans construct the diamond on unused Beard- more Tannery property on Poplar Avenue a real deadend street Following arguments from thegsllery for and against the diamond proposal the com last week agreed with Poplar Avenue residents concerns that the baseball facility would Increase traffic on the narrow street and pose a threat to children who play there the town department says it will main tain Its committment to search for additional ball diamond space Our prime objection is the road allowance loading to the diamond area Poplar buck said The traffic will be severe The number of child ren we have playing on the street would scare you to death Some residents Indicated they were under the Impres sion sidewalk and storm sewer construction along the street would probably be In cluded If ball diamond were developed Susan Stone expressed con cern that there t be enough parking space Pat Hope who presented the com with petition opposed to the ides said the worried that aftergame celebrations would result In a noisy and garbagestrewn Mrs Pom added the was not aware that lbs lot had already been Identified in the towns master parks plan as suit able recreation area for Acton The plan was completed with extensive public participation While two representatives of local baseball association were unable to attend the meeting Acton Men a Softball Association president Bruce Mscpherson said that ad ditional diamond In the com munity would facilitate growth of adult nail leagues There a definite shortage of ball diamond time In Halton Hills he said Slip into a sleek sporty spirited super Scirocco I BAZ MOTORS inoMtphiL THE Young Drivers of Canada Spring Fashions Are Here Now Step Out in Style in these lined doublebreasted All Weather Coats by Croydon Wear them belted or straight Available in blue beige khaki or 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