Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), April 11, 1984, p. 13

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Grow your beard for Pioneer Days ByBETTYANNE Herald Special The hemen of Hal ton Hills have been Invl ted to grow a Pioneer Beard for the annual Pioneer Days celebratl on planned for down town Georgetown In June Since Georgetown is observing a 120th veraory and Ontario bl the Pioneer Days commit lee thinks the Idea of a pioneer beard growing competition would be for the occasion and appeal to men of all ages A few years ago another beard growing competition was held In Georgetown and It Is reported that It was very well received at the time This Pioneer Beard Growing will culminate during Pioneer Days ISM lo be held in downtown Georgetown on June and sponsored by the Georgetown Central Business Improvement Area With eleven weeks to go to ihe event niters feel there Is plen ty of lime for local hemen to grow sub stantial beards or beard combinations Judging will probably be in three categories beat groom beard or beard only longest or fullest growth and a scratch beard cate gory for beginners HEADQUARTERS Headquarters for the event is Hods Barber Shop Main South with Information and forms available there later this month Entrants for the scratch beard com pe tit ion must register at Bods in April and be verified as bore faced on that date Established beard owners will be eligible in the remaining If enough entrants are round the Pioneer Days committee say winners will be judged and prii awarded on the final day of he threeday celebration Saturday June MP Julian Reed was speaker at SI Francis of AiiImI Separate morning He talked to student at their Day on Ids experiences an actor Here Mr and Carmen Robinson how to make a melodramatic expression 20 COLOR TV ONLY YEAR WMftAHTY OH PARTS AND LABOUR AUTOMATIC CCIM CONTROL L the herald SECTION SECTION THE HERALD Wednesday April 11 Page I Jackmans take to the road Couple travels the world over By CHRIS Herald Staff Travelling has afford Ken and Myra Jack man an education they wish the whole world could enjoy It makes a differ on your outlook of life Mrs as the recently settled Acton couple talked about societies and cultures they met over the last 30 years After years as a plant manager and most recently the man In charge of energy conservation for SIFCO Industries of Cleve land Ohio Mr Jack man 71 retired In 1977 He and wife also have three married en moved Into a Rose- ford Terrace home in Acton but November The bouse is filled with the memorabilia of their travels which were made for both business and pleasure The fond- memories Ihey from India Asia Europe and Argentina After being a wartime plant engineer in an under mountain air craft plant Mr Jack man decided move himself wife and a daughter to Canada from their native land In 1991 Mr was to the A V aircraft company by Canadian Steel Improvement Company which was providing forged products for the industry When the A V plant was closed soon after the Avro Arrow project was dropped Mr Jackman joined Industries Steel Improvement and Forge Company Through SIFCO be has been involved with the selection of machl its Installation and the general manage ment of heavy industry plan a in other parts of Ihe world He was In Argentina in early 1960s help ing to set up a car manufacturing plant In the Jackmans and daughter Elisabeth moved to India grown daughters Mary and Judith stayed in North America where they spent the next three years ADVISOR M was the technical advisor for during the con of the Forge Company Ltd plant in Poena Hlsdutl included instructing and supervising person and forming and directing a plant main tenancc group The Indians in the area brought their share of culture to the plant too After a particularly difficult Job of install the 121 ton anvil for a power hammer the Indiana celebrated the feat with a The pujah Includes the burning of incense and the ceremonial breaking of a coconut from which the milk is dobbed on the brows of the workers There were many pujahs Mr said enough so that when I left India I had a yellow mark in the middle of my fore head Unlike a North can plant the Indian opera I ion took on an ambience of its own with greenery Inside and workers babies sleeping nearby while their mothers helped with construction POVERTY The extremes of poverty and wealth were plainly visible yet the Jackmans said the people even the poorer ones were proud and kind The Jackmans have the kind of memories from which books are written there Khan the religious foreman who consulted the gods after Mr Jackman ask when one of the projects would EASY RIDERS Thanks to Brian At thre clock Wednesday Khan was able to proudly announce And while his men had to work over time to do it work was completed at three clock just as Khan promised In Argentina Mr was forced to plow through the front doors of a jewelery shop to avoid a more serious accident We prefer our customers to leave their cars the store Mr Jackman remem bercd the Jeweler say ing Travelling has also taken them o such placea Poland Ger many Greece and Egypt Homes makes his television debut A special fund set aside for energywaste Herald Staff By creating a special reserve fund region hopes to prove to residents that It is committed to finding other besides landfllllng of getting rid of garbage Last week the regions administration and finance committee agreed to inject Into a fund which the committee hopes will one day be used to build an energy from waste plant where garbage Is burned rather than buried plants are wide ly oped in Europe and parts of North The Incineration of garbage produces which can be used for beat or to produce electricity Although the region It currently looking for a new landfill site It Is alto studying the regional Industry At he presented the request for funding Ihe EFW plant Halton chief administrative officer Dennis Perlln said this Is probably the moat Important report we have presented We need to demon strate the communi y that energy from waste can work he added The feasibility study Is out there to make it work A final report on an in Halton is expected in July As well as starting reserve from an existing reserve of money the region will turn rale- payers to help build up the fund If committee decision Is endorsed by regional council today Wednesday era will begin paying an extra few dollars for trash disposal per year In the extra amount will be about 38 In the next four years the amount will be closer to That coupled with regular Injections of reserve money Into Ihe EFW account plus revenues from a new charge on each load of trash dumped at the landfill site will raise about million by The EFW plant Is expected to coal about million with per cent of the costs made up of government sub sidies In he region s 20year disposal plan which Is supposed lo being in J9B8 percent of garbage will be burned Ash from the as unburnable gar bage will be burled at landfill site A small portion of Ihe garbage will be recycl By CHRIS Herald Special II called Sherluck Homes In the Chicken Brain Mystery but it really represents he further adventures of Brian The Georgetown cartoonist whose figures have graced the edito rial pages of The Herald coloring books a commercial or two and most recently The Inspector Gadget Show has taken a very serious plunge into animated film Mr has budgeted for the production which voted a few characters of the cartoonist imagination from his idea file Pari of the funding for Ihe project comes from the Ontario Arts Counc impressed by the script and a story board Mr put together in seven lually sleepless days and nights meet the deadline I heard about the grant and I grabbed an application Mr Lemay recalled It was due November 1 and I had come up with a story No problem But one week before he was to submit his cartoon pro posal Mr Lemay found idea had already been done He had to quickly find an alternative and turn ed to some old friends of his Sherluck Homes and Homes faithful companion Whatsit HOURS For the next week be worked about hours a day He was able to quickly draft a script and spent the bulk of hia lime drawing and color ing the detailed scene- byscene story board like the supersleuth of serious faction Homes Is an paralleled expert in crime solving by deduc tion Homes like Holmes has some interesting personality trails when no one Is looking Homes plays his violin like an electric guitar gyrating about his lab in a sweep of rock and roll chords Without giving loo much detail about the film suffice it to soy that Homes is threaten by his criminal arch rival More nartie Ad diabolical as Arthur Conan Doyle a Morlorle Mr a has hatched an insidious plot to scramble the brain of our hero The process of crime solving introduces us lo a host of other support characters like poor Mrs and the befuddled Inspector Las trowed APPEAL With the Chicken Brain Mystery Mr says he wants a comic appeal which covers a broad range of ages The animated have a lion share of outright comedy plus a mart subtle variety which may be missed firrl It will be one of those things you have to sec a few times to get nil the subtleties he said The first time you sec it you the main funny pari but you may miss the run on behind it All but the final came ra work will bo done by Mr He is tlio producer director and artist ani motor Three chums have helped out enormously in other aspects of production Dennis Gonzales has done most of the voices Mike Is the narrator and Will Ash worth deve loped the voice for one of the characters and amount of work much of it the painstakingly animation which makes or breaks cartoons He has also had look deep in ho Chicken Mystery humor to ask if it as real on I Im as it appears on Mystery and comic mayhem Is on cartoonist Brian mind these days lies busily working on his first self produced animated feature Introducing supersleuths Homes and Whatsit Healthy aging course May 3 The Victorian Order of Nurses will bo holding a course on healthy aging starting May The Thursday night course will last for five weeks at George town Public Library and will cover a wide varie ty of topics relating to health course was oped by Mary Gibson and Mary Buncll ontologies specials with the VON In order to share their knowledge In the field of aging The instructors will be leaching good nutrition promoting exercise and preventative health Some of the topics discussed will Include aging problems such as arthritis circulatory problems and stress re lated discuses The interests of business Improvement areas BIA in he province are being safeguarded and pro moled by the Ontario Business Improve ment Area Association The group Is holding an annual meeting and conference April and in Toronto All municipalities with a BIA are invited Casablanca coming Don t miss final film in Culture Centre collection classic favorites We would like to offer additional films Monday evenings so let the Recreation Deportment know what you would like to see Admission is adult seniors and students For more information call ext Youth dramatic arts Get In the Act Our recreational department arts programs are designed to encourage and self expression and to teach basic theatre skills and techniques Act I Is offered for 10 year olds and Act II for II 11 year olds on Tuesday evenings starting April 17lh 1961 REGISTER NOW Waste meeting provided he feature background music The Chicken Brain M story is Import ant step In Mr Lemay I wanted to produce this on my own lo say to others I done his thing to prove myself among the profession a is Although barely 15 minutes long Mr Le production Invol The Ontario Waste Management Corporation OWMC will bo holding an information session April li 12 In Milton staff will be available at Hills Place and Banquet Halt from a until both days to discuss the selection process for an industrial waste site March 15 he OWMC announced a list of eight possible candidate sites for the treatment and of liquid waste There are no sites selected from the Halton Hills area For information call Solar room approved Permission build a solar greenhouse to a home at IB Black Creek Court was granted by the Hallon Hills Committee of Adjustment Mr and Mrs Robert Smith were told any further development the property would require Credit Valley Conservation Authority approval as the land lies within the regulated Fill and Construction Control Line of the CVCA l The town engineering department had no objections on condition that the drainage course between the addition and the property to the south be maintained and not obstructed Volunteer week There are over active volunteers In Hills and during Volunteer Week local agencies service clubs and groups will say a big thank you to them Town councillors proclaimed April to Volunteer Week M Peace meeting Brampton and area peace council is holding a meeting April IB at at Cardinal Leger School and you re invited Cardinal Leger la at the corner of Guest and Mary Streets in Brampton and the meeting is In annex room For more information call Stewarttown news By J ROSS and STEWART Herald Correspondents Sympathy of the community Is extended lo the Maglll family in the passing of Mrs Msglllof Ihe village Brian Hogarth or Hornby has just returned from China and April 11 he will be showing slides at SI Stephens As many are interested from St Johns wish to attend the Guild meeting was changed Bob Graccy of Hornby has made and donated a cupboard for the use of the Alter Guild of Si Tennant thanked Georgetown resident was person nil thanked by BramptonGeorgetown MP John McDcnnfd for his years of service to local PC riding association Mr Tennant from the associations board of d rectors but he is still active on the advisory committee tho campaign chairman for Georgetown PCs Pathfinders host Buffalo girls The 1st Glen Williams Pathfinders hosted two Girl Scouts from the Buffalo area last week Friday evening there was a welcome parly at the Knight bridge com ro unity centre hi ales Saturday the girls went lo the CN Tower Eaton Cen and had supper at the Organ Grinder Hills Mayor Miller Joined the girls for breakfast Sun day morning and pre sented them with Hills pins The weekend ended on a happy note with a luncheon back at before the girl returned home Best float The 1st Glen Williams Pathfinders were pre sented with a plaque for the Best Theme Float In the Santa parade recently

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