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5213- FOBERT I EXCELLENCE AWARD CUSTOMER RELATIONS Canada Post muscling in on Herald elves The Herald s annual Santa feature has some tough competition this season Canada Post has announced plans to deliver children s letters to Santa Claus to the North Pole and if they enclose a return address they II get Santa s replies mailed back to them Contacted by The Herald Mr Claus said hes delighted that the Write Santa I Guelph St Georgetown the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1866 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1982 Canadian post office has reminded to public appeals for a little Christmas cheer this year and will be handling mail for him He stressed however that he 11 continue giving special atten tion to letters fie received from children through The Herald It was almost ten years ago that The Herald started making special arrangements for Santa s mail from Hills and we don t intend to give up now letters received before Dec will be published in The Herald alongside Santa personal reply J ABOUT THE HILLS start tonight Citing its concern over making this Christmas a sale and happy festive season the Halton regional police force announced plans tor a special pot check program lo begin tonight Wednesday 1 across A special patrol unit of our officers will be looking for drinking drivers checking vehicle safety and enforcing seat belt and other traffic laws Reed on the issues Fiscal restraint aggregates and the state of the ruling Liberal party In Ottawa will all be touched on by MPP Julian Reed when ho discusses The Major Issues Facing Ontario at this Friday night annual meeting of the Ha lionBur li Provincial Liberal Association Following Iho dinner from to at Hall in Mr Heeds address precedes a business session including the election of a new executive For further Information contact Wallace Davis at Came that close Melissa Harrington 10 of School near Acton and Desmond Ng S of Park Public School In Georgetown will receive priics during a special presentation at an upcoming meeting of regional council after being named runners- up in the on wide fire prevention poster contest The Fire Prevention Committee which sponsor ed the contest for Grade students named a Milton boy and a Burlington girl as 1983 winners their posters will now be entered in the provincial compel it Ion FORD SALES LTD 8776928 Highway BEST DEAL is A CAPITAL DEAL Ser ob to plan Town eyes land for municipal complex NOW DONT BE SHY Only three lite Rachel Modi of Georgetown very thy when she met at Legion Ladles notour Saturday morning It was her first time meeting the dear old man and look some time to warm up and lift her downcast eyes to his Jolly face St paid his first of Ihe season to Hills for the Georgetown Lions nd annual Clous parade and tie be back this coming Saturday for the Acton Men parade Lois more photos page t Herald photo by ELECTION Akers seeks recount in Ward 3 Herald Staff Writer A parcel of land on Georgetown Maple Avenue Is being seriously considered as the site for a new municipal centre Town councillors wrap ping up the term agreed to put down a deposit Including interest on property known as the Stevens tate across from the North Golf and Country Club The money cornea from he towns reserve which it has been maintaining specifically for a new administrative building Moyor Pete explained that the town building committee estab lished in 1981 to search for new administrative build ing sites and determine what additional office space will be needed has been working with Long more Construction Ltd of Toronto rep Bob to find a site Because Ibe committee was Involved with prelim inary negotiations with a number of property own its reports to council were heard behind closed doors Mr Nlchol Mayor said offered his services to examine four sites free of charge Mr was project of the Jeho vah Witnesses Watch Tower com plex on George town a western He told council that he recognizes the town need to consolidate its unlet pal offices now scattered in Acton Georgetown and Mr added that his firm has specialised in project of this sort During five months be ginning in late spring Mr Nichols firm looked at three other properties be fore putting the Maple Avenue site at the top of its list Two of the pros pective sites are located In Moore Park area and land currently owned by Dominion Seed House was also considered Soil tests studies contour stud and surveys were later carried out at the town a expense on the Lshaped Maple Avenue site The more we examined it Mr Nichol said Ihe more it presented itself as an ideal location Building a municipal centre at the site would solve a number of other problems Mayor commented Its close to the works yard on Tra gar Road and develop ing the Maple Avenue property would facilitate plans the Georgetown Dis trict Memorial Hospital has for expansion The Is planning a bed rest home wing and there is an additional pro posal for a chronic care wing Construction of the centre might create access routes from Maple Avenue and Trafalgar Road to the hospital The town Hydro Com mission has also an interest In panic Ipating in the venture possibily locating its ad minis tra live services on the property A building of this nature will need municipal vicing Mayor said adding that new sewer and watermaln con struction in Iho area would alleviate sewer problems on Princess Anne Drive He explained that the la needed to bold the property while the Incoming council deter mines whal amount of pace the town adminis trative requirements de mand Interest is retro actively owing on the deposit since the commit lee first expressed an In to buy the property The deposit had to be made some time ago Mayor said Council is expected to discuss issue again In January Mayor Indicated While not all the land in the purchase will be used for the municipal building the excess could later be sold he said Ward Coun Marilyn Serjeantson cast the only Continued Nothing dirty about it defeated candidate stresses A county court judge will decide this week whether complaints rais ed by a Wards George town council candidate election race warrant a recount Jim Akers a partner In a Georgetown real estate f rm acknowledged Man day that affadivits were being filed with the county court office in Milton and w th the town clerk s office calling for a review of the votes by Ward residents to choose two new town councillors Other I own council candidates were Jim Young and David He explained that once the affadiWt copies of which having been sent to other dotes in the race Is filed at county court along with a fee a judge reviews allegations in be document and de termines whether or not the count has been con ducted properly If a recount is ordered the judge sets a date and the town and candidates are notified Only the candidates their the town clerk and Continued on page A3 Georgetown and District High School opened and at the John Elliott Theatre Friday and the production was avidly received by he audience In one hilarious episode Debbie who plnjt ed her Hot Box Dolls through a moderate trip lease The production continues Friday and Saturday nights Review more photo page As Herald photaby Harold Planning report backs council on aggregate policys deferral Song dance comedy slapstick drama and even a Utile audience participation alt are la traditional pantomime theatre and tali jeor for Yuletldr the Georgetown Utile Tbratr ha recruited formidable talents of the Peel Pantomime fcetp present Hickory Dock Come see Alan Gibson as the and Ray si Baron senate and delight Slap sod Tickle Marie Clealon and Jalle Reynolds and a bait of other characters both and ery lliallgrrat family Ion at tie John Elliott Theatre Dec la and II twlaarterDeanperforinaacnfMthelattertwvdafsl Don Getyew tickets tM0 each or each la croup of It more at Ihe Theatre box office 1 lo 30 tomorrow Thursday Friday next Tuesday or Dec and Photo submitted JIM AKERS Mr Akers lost by only votes to automobile sales representative Phil Carney who received 1 votes and real es tate manager Finn Poul sirup who polled voles Mr Akers explained that he has heard there was some confusion at the polling stations about what to do with spoiled ballots but stressed that he t th there is any thing dirty about it Mr Akers indicated thai some residents reps for the town council race as well as the mayoralty campaign school board and hydro commission may have correctly filled out one section of the card while making errors elsewhere Proper sections he con tended should have been counted Supporters he said have argued that he owes It to the people who voted for him to seek recount In light of misgivings about counting at the polling stations after polls closed Town clerk administra tor Ken Richardson said his district returning officers never ed there was confusion about bow votes were tabulated The ballot box he said are locked up and have not been opened since the election A report presented to town council Monday by the planning department has called on the s ministry of natural resources to re consider parts of its Cam bridge district Land Use Strategy It supports concerns ready expressed by that the province a projected demand for add itional supplies of aggre gate may be excessive and argues Ihat It would be premature for the town or the region to establish large aggregate resource protection areas until the Niagara Escarpment Plan Is adopted Last month regional council delayed approval of an amendment to Hal ton official plan which would have dlslgnated large areas of the region for resource protection At public meetings reviewing the amendment residents expressed fear that the protection areas would prevent them from enjoy ing free use of their land and send property values plummeting ALREADY MET A regional delegation Is waiting for an with MNR and housing and municipal affairs off idols to discuss the accur acy of projected demands Tor aggregate Coun Dave Whiting said province has already met with Cal officials to talk about aggregate White Coun She son said she was pleased with most of report she maintained that its wording suggests the town should look to the Niagara Escarpment Plan to solve the aggregate problem Protection areas may not be needed in the rest of If they re main tained in the escarpment the report argues But Coun Sheldon ac cused the town of trying to remove the aggregate problem from its Juris diction Planning policies on the Escarpment are not formed by town councils but by the Niagara Es carpment Commission SEEK SUPPORT The Niagara Escarp ment Is also In Hal Ion Hills residents look to us for support and we are re sponsible for their needs Coun Sheldon said She argued that the MNR I need to con cern itself with protection areas in Halton Municipal and regional official plans already ensure that the aggregate Industry will be protected by limiting development allowed In the rural areas Coun Sheldon said With councillors Sheldon and George cast ihe only dissenting votes councillors Terry and John Mc Donald were absent council agreed to forward the report to the region asking that it be used to form new aggregate In a official plan In addition it asked that town and regional staff meet with the MNR to review the report s con elusions Council also underlined its support for the NEC Rural and Mineral Resources Areas under certain lions Ex traction Is not permitted in Escarpment Natural or LONG RANGE The report calls on the ministry lo provide cri teria for Its long range Continued on page A3 Pays for cow and thats no bull A Georgetown farmer ihe national news his week with the of a cow Tor Albert Cormier of Cormdale Farms Inc said the purchase was made with associates whom he described as foreign investors from Italy customers he has sold cattle to before Mr Cormier operates a dairy farm on Trafalgar Road near the town offices He told The Herald he plans lo use the prize cow from Wisconsin for em bryo transfers and will put It on a program of super ovulation Super ovulation Is the process by which several eggs are released from a cows ovaries fertilized and transferred as em into other cows In this several off spring of the prize cow can be bora at a time brought to maturation In the wombs of regular