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trie Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1 866 WEDNESDAY JUNE 13 1984 THE HILLS Super Sunday series Don I miss your chance to buy an advance sale ticket for this all new Super Sunday Series featuring The Toy Town Troupers and the Whiteley Brothers with their Junior Jug Band Great family entertainment for only for the complete series I Tickets are on sale Thursday June from until p m at the Cultural Centre Legion sponsors Dave Thanks to he generosity of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 120 DavoPowerwiUbe a sponsored member of a Canadian wrestling team that is touring in the United States Thursday Dave met with Legion members Lloyd Norm Ward to accept a cheque for to his expenses The grade student at Georgetown District School will be go ing to New York Washington Ohio and Pennsylvania to com pete in the midget 130 lbs weight division for 1510 year olds Struck by car By WILSON Herald Correspondent Eleven year old Jamie Palrlquln of Norval met with a very unfortunate accident last Thursday While walking up the sidewalk with a school friend were chased by a out on the highway la get away He was struck by a car and was taken by ambulance to Georgetown hospital but was transferred to Ihe Hospital for Sick Children where In traction with four fractures of the leg and a broken arm His many schoolfnends and neighbors thinking of him and wishing for a speedy recovery Swimming June If you felt like a fried fish last weekend don t despair Our local lake will be open soon for public swimming Acton Fairy Lake will open June Six paddle boats and six canoes will be available for rental starting then The lifeguards for he lake and the town pools begin training June and start duty the Friday of week Lifeguards will be on duty Monday to Friday from to 5 p m and weekends from i to Boats can be rented every day from noon to depending on the weather Sign up for peace The peace petition caravan campaign Is coming to Hills June 1823 It is part of a nation wide household contact program which will let each person sign their name on petitions to be sent to our members of parliament There a re four points the people are asked to support an end to cruise missile testing in Canada Declaration of Canada as a nuclear free zone 3 a diversion of wasteful spending or thearmsraceintothelundingofhumanneeds ratification of the above three points through free vote In parliament If you are interested In helping with this volunteer program call BT7 Acton drop in Got a beef Lots of praise Just want to find out who who or what what Well you re Invited to meet your Ward 1 and 2 councillors next Saturday June 16 from at the Acton Public Library This is your chance to discuss Issues of concern with your local government rcprcsentat tve Plus come and meet Library Board members and discuss Acton Library concerns with them On the same day from a m The annual Acton library used book sale Father son hospitalized A man was charged with careless driving after the Lincoln he was driving skidded into a Fairmont during the rain storm on Junes A Georgetown man George and his year old son Robert who were in the Fairmont were taken to Georgetown District Memorial Hospital where they were treated and released At approximately the Fairmont had stopped on Guelph Street while negotiating a left hand turn Into a private drive when It was rear ended by the Lincoln wants expansion Things are getting crowded In the town recreation office on James Street Georgetown Parka and recreation director Tom Shepard aid renovations will be needed next year to the existing office by Remembrance Park He a budgeted in capital funds for an addition to the office Including a washroom storage space and another meeting room Ita getting crowded and we have problems with meeting the fire regulations Mr toidcouncillon perusing the town capital forecast Monday night Five year plan Firefighters plan for the future the need fire chief Hill Cunningham made t very clear Mondiy night what his men depart mint will be looking for over next five years He presented his re quests to councillors Monday night at their meeting ChiLl Cunning ham asked councillors yejr to be set side for it was felt we should provisions for some of liicm he It could if something more urgent came up In 198j Chief is looking for towards the traffic control system Hit fire instigated ye The system is leelronie device that control from fire eles is ask for Tor 1 ihicillyeonts for the vulunteer fire filers As well the hat requested next year for fencing the station on Avenue milar sums For have been re isle fur 1086 by the re eh In in Ch of f r computer chine and he lies The dispatch system leu to the fire service 1 lows the depart of information on build water systems high hazards occupancies the quick est routes to go to fire All of this vital would be immediately available when a fire coll is ved aiding the in performing their duty The community is getting too large so that we can no longer rely on memory or on site visits to company Chief Cunningham told Acton is also in the budget planning In and the These requests are deportment is request for capital department anticipates projects all of which to will be needed capital projects over the next Land for a new station in five years Area Grits anxious for convention MEETING OF THE CLANS The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario John rode In weather parade In this horse drawn carriage The Highland Games began with a parade starting at Item em bra nee Park The Thinking BIG is only the start Perhaps Morta sums It up best when she says the thing is you really don t know what to expect because we haven had a leadership convention In 1G years Liberal delegates from Brampton Georgetown and the riding of Halton will be meeting their counterparts from across the country this week in Ottawa for the Libera leadership convention Mrs president of the Brampton George town women for the Liberal rid association says their nine delegates and seven alternates have been busy lately reading tons of material from the leadership candidal and attending manor policy sessions The delegates are look ing forward to the Thurs day evening with Trudeau at the Ottawa Civic Centre she said where supporters will show appreciation to their long standing lead Of Interest to the worn en Is a special Wednes day night dinner f calm ing Judy LaMarsh where the money raised will go towards future women liberal candidates Mrs said She pointed out that IS years ago there were only women tes voting but in 1984 there are 1 women delegates Onena Curne of the Liberal riding association executive would personally like to see a long battle be tween the candidates In to witness the sir a each uses to for She said one delegate from her riding made over calls to poll his riding members for their opinion on the best leader John Turner won by a fairly substantial marg she said The man had made a promise in his delegate speech that he would poll fellow members of his J Looking ahead to 198G recreation- 1 the fun begins Friday If you been start ing to Think BIG but t know what to do about it come to the Alcott Arena Friday Saturday and Sunday it s just what the doctor ordered The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce have offered the perfect prescription for resl dents who want to dis cover the town cat roots t Bit it stands for Business in George town is the of a number of events all prepared by the Chamber for us to celebrate Georgetown birthday and On lor bicentennial Included in the fun Is the sale of Si souvenir coins a gala birthday dinner Thursday featur guest speaker Premier Bill Davis and a three day exhibition of booths highlighting Georgetown s business community The dinner includes entertainment provided by the seven piece band called the Swing Stylists plus songs from George town own titanic Singers and the Choral Society Regional man Pete is cutting a gigantic cake domted by the Regional Business Development Department they ve helped to forge Georgetown into a pros community Inside the arena you II opportunities Section A The color of Game It highlighted a jrtciure page Section District Stoat Camp closet Meet ik principal veteran mot after In theatre Section Test your knowledge by taking first Herald sports At press time the dinner set for at Holy Cross Audito rium was sold out What should really those residents who our Gordon Alcott Friday 12 noon m Saturday 10 am 6pm and 1 1 arc the huge of different booths plays and entertain meat provided Over 150 businesses and organizations ore participating to show us something about their products how One of the over exhibitors at the Big Celebration will be from The Herald Were celebrating our years of coverage In north with a number special giveaways Here Monica and Robin hold some of the souvenirs press hill an copy of the Herald a 11 page booklet on Georgetown and our bicentennial food watch a fashion show participate in a draw for a VCR and much more OUTDOORS Outside the arena there will be on display boats cars trailer and heavy digging Inside there will be products displayed from firms some people might never have know existed in town Canadian Tire will have Can Am car displayed the one used by Jacques Villeneuve who in finished the season with on overall ratine of 3rd in his class You see big firms there like DRG Statio nery Varian and Smith and Stone plus the small businesses like Clare s Sharpening vice The hospital has a booth along with fast food outlets travel agencies banks appli merchants and other interesting bllitles While at the arena the town staff will be selling food and refreshments While munching your hot dog it will be possible to listen to a number of stage performers sche duled for each of the three days MAGIC Friday at Keith Wallace will keep you amused with his magic and comedy show He be bock for a Saturday noon show also Friday starting at pm and again Saturday at p the String Band featuring Bob Armstrong will be per forming Between these acts there will be Old music with step dime break dancing dis plays a fashion show plus Keith Wallace entertaining adults with Shades of Blue Looking ahead to 1986 recreation director Tom anticipates a second Ice surface at the Gordon Alcott Arena Mr told councillors Monday night that it wasn a new idea He said that idea was around at the the Arena was being built In his 1986 capital forecast for the recreation department Mr Shepard anticipates a million expenditure to put In a second Ice surface and expand seating at the Arena Recreation director Tom indicated plans for next year where five natural Ice surfaces at public schools will be eliminated Instead Is budgeted for an artificial ice surface to be maintained by an underground gas system Georgetown men enter famous Banff marathon Herald Staff local men will leave Pearson International Airport in Toronto tomorrow night on their way to Alberta to represent Georgetown in the world famous Jasper To Banff relay nee The locals will join three trends in Calga completing the 17 man team that tackle the mile race route beginning at 12 noon Saturday in Jasper They are just one of 100 teams select for tho gruelling International My is for us to finish among the top teams spokesman Brian Markham told The Herald Monday night We have no nagging injuries and we re nil feeling pretty optimistic about our chances 16 HOURS The winning time of last years race was 16 hours minutes The Georgetown con tingent will arrive In Calgary around Thursday They will spend the first night at the home of team member Drew Mark ham Brian Markham brother The first five runners will lodge In Jasper Friday night while the rest of the team will move on to Lake Louise The team has rented t vans for the race one to slay with the runners and another to shuttle team members to starting positions at each new leg Georgetown Track Club president Paul Burroughs will run the first leg of the race for the local contingent Markham who will run fourth assigned each team member his parti leg of the race The average length of he various legs Is around 11 miles STRENGTHS I tried to keep in mind Ihe strengths and weaknesses of our members Mark ham told The Herald For example we have our lighter runners tackling the uphill route Then you have a fellow like Ian who prefers to run at night The sixth leg of the race the most gruelling because of a 2 000foot rise In elevation will be run by Bob Daniel The next leg provides a 000foot drop over miles and Tony Matthews has been assigned that part of the route One interesting feature of the George town crew is that they may well boast both the youngest and oldest competitors in 14year old Geary and 56yearold FINISH Clear will cross the finish line for George town after completing the final leg of the race memberaoftbeCeorgeWw team lb Joe Mark back traveling to Alberta for the Jasper Banff Marat- row Bob Danlell Don Paul BwmtfM to right row Tony Malanew Charlie all ln and Brian fnm WallhHHir Krnn nriRiln ill Cam Well bridge Helmut Kron Brcnden