At Hornbys Countryside Centre opens for alcoholics See IttlllMtltllUMr Midgets set to spar off The Sunny Acre Midgets are ready to host their annual hockey tournament thanks to coach Richard Hume Come out to the arena and support them See page Cl With night lighting Town constructs toboggan run the HERALD Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 866 WEDNESDAY JANUARY 9 1985 NURSING HOME OPENS THE HILLS Search for top citizen Know someone who a community minded person you a dm In The Georgetown Lions Club wants to hear about them Once again the Club is on the hunt for a Citizen of the Year Last years choice was Ralph and the Lions are hoping to find another citizen worthy of this honor Nominations should Include a resume outlining the outstanding accomplishments of your candidate It snot necessary that your choice have given unselfishly of their time Just In 1984 He or she may be someone who has dedicated themselves to service and the better of their community for many years Letters with nominations from past years are still with the Lions Club and will bo cohered again when making this year choice with the announcement of the winner due Feb S In The Herald Following the naming of the Citizen of the Year abanquetanddancehonorlng the Individual will be held Feb in the Lions Hall Special presentations will be made on behalf the federal provincial and municipal governments Halt your nominations to Georgetown Lions Club Box Georgetown Ontario Attn Lion Watt Kids fingerprinting Bundle up your kiddies Saturday and bring them out to get fingerprinted by the Oakville Town Two Club Volunteers will make the fingerprints and take your child picture for only The Club Is giving out Child Identification cards which record vita Information about each child to be used by police in case a child Is ever abducted or missing The card duplicated and Is strictly for parents Those parents who lined up in November and t make It to the front of the tine In time are invited to come out again The Club will be at the Georgetown District High School gym between 10 a m and p and all parents are welcome Fatal head injury The body of George Juraj 33 was found by a family member In the basement of their Sargent Road residence in Georgetown on Christmas Eve Dr Macintosh was to the scene at approximately 10 15 am and pronounced Mr Trpcic dead from which point the body was taken to Georgetown District Memorial Hospital for an autopsy Cause of death was a hacmatoma behind the left ear Sergeant Roy Smith or the Regional Police Force explained the injury as a rupturing of an artery after a blunt head injury had been left without consulting a doctor Smith said there is no indication as to how the original injury was sustained although it li believed to have happened about a week prior to the death Hits the Jackpot Georgetown William pay the second Boyd picked up 10 mortgage on the home three doys before In October Christmas when he His prize Is one of 148 disclosed three lucky instant prizes tens in a ticket he offered in the game bought for the Match Profits generated Sweeps from the sale of Match It felt pretty good It Sweeps tickets are expected I was to physical looking for the sweeps fitness sports cultural but the tens came up and recreational Mr Boyd explained activities throughout An employee at the province of Ontario Douglas Aircraft Mr Boyd slopped in at the Mac Milk on the corn Boulevard and Highway 7 after finishing the night shift to pick up a paper when he bought the ticket When he arrived at his Langstone Crescent home Mr Boyd awoke his wife with the good Mr Boyd said he has already paid off a couple of bills with the winnings and plans to The long awaited opening of the Bennett Health Care Centre wis celebrated From left ore Fred Morris and Judge Ken The threesome re instrumental In the of the new Herald photo Official opening Decade of planning for Bennett Centre Herald After I en years of planning Georgetown District Memorial Bennett Health Care Centre officially opened Monday Chairman of the ml board Judge Ken praised the of administrator Morris calling him he driving force behind he project Mr Morris first ment with the project The Georgetown Chor a Society got things underway with the sing of Canada complete with the inclu iion of the seldom heard second verse Former Minister of Ikilth Dennis Timbrel I asked Choral Society If did conventions If so have a Job for in about two and a half weeks lime he quipped Minister or Food and Agriculture Den nil Tlmbrrll shown In front of the new plaque for the Bennett Health Care Centre The plaque Is In memory of Stewart and I Bennett who left a portion of their estate the hospital For more photon see page AS suyjcskd iIil idea of a nursing home lo the board or directors he rgclc sing Judge Langdun also remembered the lute Stewart and licnncll after which the Health Care Is mimed More Ihan 000 wus to the Georgetown hospital with the bulk of he estate bequeathed to he lor use by ihe public Those on hand rood and Agriculture and Ontario leadership hopeful Dennis Julian Reed MP John Mc Derm id region chairman Pete Muyor Russ Miller hospital and a host of people win hud some involve- home license tough because of all the demands on the mini but easy because of quihty of the people involved the He he was sup portive of the project Mill Is mid hopes to head he executive council for some years come Present Minister of lit Keith Norton sold he was pleased to be there he felt he had played relatively in the project just happened to i time Although chronic care unit of he hospital is yet tic completed Mr Norton said having the various health care fieilltlcsin one complex will provide a higher level of service many professionals PC convention delegates favor Miller as leader Herald Staff Three out of 10 Ha 11 on Burlington delegates for the Progressive valivt provincial leader ship convention support Frank Miller Roy McMurlry and Dennis Timbrell each have one vote or support and there arc still three uncommitted delegates and two others The Herald was unable to get In touch wilh by press time Arnold George and Eric said they back Mr Miller In his bid for the view of the small busln Mr said he had respect for Mr Mill for having worked his way up from nothing Burlington Alderman Gcorfce is also a Miller supporter and said he fact that Mr Miller I from Toronto is going end up as important in the conven lies been in the trenches operating his own business and I think that quite import ant Mr said He said Mr Timbrell is young enough to be a It probably will happen some not yet Iry had her vote because he a line speaker and shown himself capable of making hard decisions together in one building Wilh the heliport which Ihe ministry gran tcdalmosttsooooto Mr Norton called Ihe hospi one of Ihe finest emergency health care systems in the world Mr Norton said a greater res pons I bi Illy In the can for Ihe elderly Is needed and said there will be approximately I million elderly in by he urn of the Tola cost for add lions to the new wing were said to be in the million range in January of IjSI year That figure included costs for chronic care nursing selftare units and active GDMH is still for a license a chronic care although basic construction has been completed All monies raised for ihe project have come from Ihe hospital community and donatl the exception of grant fo- the hell port The Bennett Health Care Centre offers retirement living In vate or semi privale and e semi private ward living In the nursing home There arc beds in ihe nursing home and beds in the self care division The rooms arc fully decorated and residents arc invited to bring some of heir own Huns into what will become new home The centre his iwo large lounges and a small indoor pool for relaxation and Impaired A Rock wood man has been charged with impaired driving and driving over the legal I limit after regional police slopped his vehicle when they saw it being driven In an erratic manner in the vicinity of and Maple streets early Sunday morning MORE STORIES SEE PAGE leadership Patricia candidate for next has thrown In provincial leadership her lowel for Roy convention Murtry and Ab Tcnnant The sole supporter for is supporting Dennis Mr Timbrel from Timbrell among the Bur Undecided are Pom Imglon delegates is Ab Johnston Monica Tennant of Georgetown Oswald and He said he thinks Mr on However Mrs She Timbrell is Ihe best Mr don said she leans said he work towards Mr Miller the candidate Unavailable for when he was trying comment were Barry get a nursing home and Linda Mc licence for Georgetown Memorial Hospital and I think It a close got know him pretty race between Miller and well Timbrell Mr Arnold a As Tor Mr Miller he Georgetown lawyer said been a neighbor In He said he supports age country for years Mr Miller because he lo Mr bul Mr thinks Mr Miller has a s vole for good chance of winning him the next provincial He said although Mr election Timbrell Is running Mr Miller connect second there are still on with the rural area is him support gates that may go with there Mr Arnold said Timbrell I m not looking so As far as McMurtry much to sec where they he has some party faith candidates are on the fuls because he was one issues I m looking more of those who started up for the flavor of the big blue machine person and what kind of Mr said leader they 11 make he Mr Grossmunisoncof said the back runners in the Youth delegate Eric convent ion arena and Pinkney of Georgetown Mr doesn is also commuted lo Mr think that will change Miller any 1 feel he going to I don I think Ontario wintheconvention I just is ready for a Jewish think ho Ihe best Mr premier he said I Pinkncy said I looked think that the biggest at him from the point of problem wilh Grossman Green Party speaker Green Party member Chris Kowalchuk of who earned most votes of any Green candidate In the last federal election will be the guest at the next meeting of Hills Action for Nuclear Disarmament Jan 30 m at Trinity United Church in Acton Indusmin inquiry Recommends 5 changes Herald Staff Five recommcndali have been proposed as a result of a coroner inquest after the death of Donald Colbert who died in an industrial accident al Indusmin Limited Oct Mr Colbert suffered massive Internal Injuries and a laceration In the aorta when he fell feet from a catwalk while trying to clear a convey belt of loose grael McBndc dlrec tor of public affairs with Ltd which Indusmin Is a subsidiary of said the coroner a inquest had twotmste being to clarify the circumstances surround ing the death and the second to make recom He said the five ember coroner Jury is looking ahead as well as behind in an effort to prevent similar acci dents in ihe future Corrosion of col walk was the main reason given for the collapse and the Jury recommended extensive company Inspection of Ihe catwalk by qualified personnel at least once Another recom men da lion which Mr Mc Bride labelled an engineering problem Involves redesigning of conveyor system eliminate rock pile up on catwalk Safety reports made from a group consisting of two union rcpresen two manage ment representatives to be logged and repairs to catwalks arc be made as soon noticed It was also recommended that safe ly barriers be made available to all employ restrict access to ah hazardous that the Ministry of Labor conduct on site Inspections two or three times a year unexpec ledlytokeepa closer eye on Ihe situation A total or witnesses were called during the inquest including regional police attendants various Indusmin employees and a representative from the Ministry of Labor The Inquest took almost seven hours to complete when held at the Hall on Hills own office Dec IB Ministry reports The Ontario Minister of Labor has its investigation into the fatal Industrial accident which claimed the I if a of Donald Colbert an employee at Indusmin Limited Bob Cohen director of communications said the ministry gives consideration as to whether or not charges should be laid in all investigations involving fatal accidents The ministry has one year from the date of the occurrence to lay charges which Tall under the Occupational Health and Safety Act Mr Cohen would not release specific information regarding where fault of the accident lay or what the ministry exact findings were pending the outcome of whether charges would be laid or not He said that type of information may Interfere with evidence in the case of charges Continued en Swedish minor midget Peter left and Georgetown minor midget Mike Row right exchange in prior the start of their exhibition game Saturday Georgetown defeated the Swedish team at the Alcolt Arena before about MO people