Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), August 18, 1982, p. 1

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-877-5213- RmI Eatata Ltd Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1866 WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18 Mountalnvlew Rd 8770151 At Speedy You re a Somebody Cemetery site of crash After blowing a tire while negotiating a urn a car plowed Into a cemetery across from the Churchill Boulevard Intersect Ion Friday night It was travelling southbound on Winston Churchill when the Incident occurred around Alter the car crashed through the cemetery fence It collided with a headstone There was GOO damage caused In the accident and the driver faces careless driving and failure to report an accident charges Farm incomes topic David of a controversial report on farm incomes published by the Economic CouncilofCanada this year will address the Federation of Agriculture tomorrow Thursday at In the ministry of agriculture offices at 17 Wilson Milton In his report Brink man suggested that between and since capital appreciation of form assets was considered part of the farm a income with nonfarm Incomes Today he believes that may no longer be the case due to interest rates and declining land values At tomorrow meeting Brlnkman will discuss management of asset appreciation and incomes which he feels is critical to the survival of agriculture Annual farm tour Although members wont be visiting Hills the Halton Agricultural Advisory Committee will see a wide range of farming practices on Its annual tour Sept 1 A bus carrying committee members media reps and other guests leaves regional headquarters In OokvlUe for the Jones sheep and horse farm on Walkers line in Burlington Then it a into Milton for the Segsworth casncropfarminMiiton the fruit farm the Egger dairy farm and Merry beef hogs andgoatfarm Mr Merry will also treat the party to a barbecue to finish the tour Firm gets contract A Georgetown firm has been awarded a contract supply and services Canada has announced Varlan Canada Inc will supply electron tubes to the national defence department The contract was one of awarded during the week ending July worth million resigning Long time Brampton mayor Jim enounced his forthcoming resignation lost week Recuperating from his third heart attack which In June Mayor will step down In November after years In public office Including a post as deputy reeve Brampton alderman Terry Miller is thus far the only announced candidate for the mayor a scat Free ads for jobseekers Times can be pretty hard if you re out of work Maybe The Herald can help a little if you re unemployed why not take advantage of our free classified advertising offer Classifieds up to words in length will be placed free of charge In our Help Available section Just nil cut the small form provided on our classified page third section Including type of work sought and your skills and null it to us or drop it off at The Herald St Georgetown We re glad to help out Foundation says new government resource mays asainst Cabinet polic Half of town targeted for mining Up to per cent of Hills has been mopped for future extraction on new of natural charts which current Ontario Cabinet policies accord to the for Aggregate Studies The Toronto based Foundation reported last week that a series of new ministry maps and reports requlrng the tion of a half million acres of central Ontario land for gravel mining directly contravenes Cabinet poll which allow unlet pa II lies to plan for land The Mineral Aggregate Policy for Official Plans contained in the ministry reports has not received Cabinet approval does not conform with normal provincial planning mechanisms and is not endorsed by the ministry of municipal affairs and housing as Is required under the proposed new Planning Act the Found soys Stretching from Durham region to Niagara regions the would be appropriated area Halton Hills and North Dumfries as part of the Cambridge ministry district Forty per cent of Hills has been mapped for extraction according to the Found ation and SO per cent of North Dumfries The policy would negate any typo of future resi commercial or industrial development What t means is that If you wanted to build a home on a lot in these designated lands it would not be permitted Foundation chairman John Alexander comment ed The Foundation Is sharply trilled of the 30 percent increase In gravel Continued on page A Local firm part of m sale Georgetown s of Canada Ltd one of four Canadian firms supporting a sale to the Philippines Involving The Export Develop ment Corporation a crown corporation In wh provides a wide range insurance and bank guarantee ser vices to Canadian export era and arranges credit for foreign buyers iff or to facil tale and trade signed and three other Canadian firms for the deal Pritchard will supply a cooling tower y to Asian Alco hol Corporation of C In the Philipp ines Elliott Industrial Equipment Company of will supply the same buyer a steam drivoft turbogenerator and firms in St Cathar and Calgary will pro vide other components Con Smith heads division STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN It most look lute a stairway to Heaven to some of the little folk town recreation department summer camp si George Kennedy School but George town Ate Bailey Greg Resume and Grant explained the working of their aerial ladder truck last Wednesday during a visit to the school sotherewailltflelfany confusion Setting up and supervising the educational ibit for the kids were department leader Caroline Linda and Janet Herald photo by Ha raid Johnson still pushing for rest home death probe G Connell Smith of Georgetown has been Microwave Division The vision a part of Varian Associates Electron De vice Group produces high power klystrons and traveling wave tubes for use In communications equipment and scientific research Mr Smith has been with Varian Canadian branch since 196 He served as operations manager of Varian Can ado from until early this year when the organ G CONNELL SMITH nation was redesignated the Varian Canada Mlcro- D vision Previous ly he spent six year marketing manager of Varian Canada Before coming to Varian he was a senior engineer at Can adian Marconi micro wave tube division Mr Smith who lives In Georgetown belongs to the Association of Prof Engineers of Ontario and the Institute of Electrical and Elect Engineers He has a bachelor in engineering from McGlIl University in Montreal Herald Special Now that region council has rejected his call for an investigation of BOUND FOR BLUE SPRINGS Youngsters participating In Camp Prospect In Acton a summer program sponsored by the town recreation and park department headed for the Blue Springs Scoot Reserve nearby Thursday They stayed overnight played a few games and then beaded home with memories of a fine summer as the camp wrapped tip for soother year Waiting for the bus trip lo get underway are left to right Sandy Gillespie Laurie Gillespie and Vtkki Callaway Herald photo Headon crash kills biker A Georgetown man was killed after his motorcycle collided headon with a car last Wednesday afternoon in Hills Kalvin Ferguson of Street died of injuries sustained the crash last night at Toronto General Hospital He was taken to Peel Memorial Hospital and later transferred Toronto General by air ambulance Mr Ferguson as southbound on the Sixth Line near Slderoad about SO when he collided with car driven by Brian OConnor 33 of Mr Ferguson left arm had been severed In the accident and Mr Connor took him to the hospital the situation surrounding Acton rest homes Coun Bill Johnson is Using his concerns to Burl inglon MPP Julian Reed Coun Johnson said he documented his concerns to have everything In Mr Heed hands by this week lve already talked to Julian about It Coun Johnson said and I see mudoled things as usual and is asking for legislation to control rest homes Thats the issue here The issue la regional health depart staff attitude to Cher s Rest Home and the harrassment of the home operators Brian and Coun Johnson said he suggest a two prong investigation One part would look at the attitude of health staff and would fall under the scope of the minister of community and social services the other would examine the duties and attitudes of Halton medics off cor of health Dr Peter Cole and fall under the ministry of health A coroner s inquest Into the death of James Earl Scot a former resident of Chers Rest Home on Acton Main Street North may clear up any quest on surrounding that death Johnson said But he feel it will clear up the whisper cam against cause won be able to look at the whole picture Coun Johnson feels that Guelph General Hospital will have to bear some responsibility for the con dition of the bedsore on Mr Scott body at the time of his death since Mr Scott was in that hospital 13 days before he died He was also under a physi clans care at the rest Regional health depart staff will also have some explaining to do since they practically live In the rest home and yet they did nothing about the man sores All these things will be examined at an inquest but no inquest will look at things lkcDr Cole scon duct during visits to the house or the his staff have practised against the home ore Coun Johnson sold Coun Johnson Is also asking Halton region chief administrative officer Dennis Peril about a report he originally requested from Cole During a regional health and social services com meeting July Dr Cole publicly slated that bedsores on Earl Scott a body were down to the bone at the lime of his death July 13 Coun Johnson asked Cole to document that statement but he has never received such documentation and now he wants Mr produce It for him from Cole Earlier last week Mr Reed called for legislation to control rest homes but Health Minister Larry Grossman said in last Thursday that such legislation does not come under his ministry Mr Reed he said should approach the ministry of community and social services Mercury Kelso lake claims boy regional police are conducting an Invest gallon Into the death Mon day of a four year old Scarborough boy at Kelso Lake the second in wo weeks at Milton popular conservation area The body of Stephen of Eliesmere Road was found In about three feet of water by police and lifeguards foil owing a search which be gan shortly before According to police the boy was one of children who had travelled by bus for a recreational day at Kelso sponsored by a Tor onto housing complex They were accompanied by four counsellors There were four life guards on duty at the lake a beach Monday afternoon police say and there were about people In the area Details of an autopsy performed yesterday Tuesday were una vail able at press lime APPLE TIME ALREADY Orchard on Main Street South last weekend Formerly the peaceful Clilerclan monks from Oka Quebec who recently moved to Hockley VaUey the orchard Is now operated by Arbor Vallty Estates and grows different varieties f apples on Its SI acres Spy CourUand and Mcintosh apples being the favorites The orchard was also selling com last weekend but supplies were almost depleted Herald photo by Dave

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