Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), March 6, 1985, p. 1

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Ministers return to former haunt Sec Hockey hero comes home Georgetown native Bob returned home Monday to be honored as the eighth recipient of the Hockey Heritage Award Many of Bobs for NHL teammates were on hand at the dinner SeeBl Support mounting Acton wants a Jr C club See Sports CI the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1 866 EASYSELL WORD Up to Storm costs Cleaning up after Mondays storm the region about the public works director estimates Bob Moore told The Herald all the regional equipment was out and a lot of overtime work required to dean up the snow and It was quite an expensive We could have done quite well without it Mr Moons said Just last week the public works director asked for en extra for his road maintenance budget which was approved by the public works committee Now lm not sure well have enough because our budget has to go through to December be said Monday public works staff were out plowing Tuesday it more of the sanding and sailing to counter the Icing and slippery conditions caused by the freezing rain Monday Plows led way Monday led the way for ambulance service The town assistant public works superint endent said his men rallied to the call or bate Working in the Glen Williams near PresWtl grocery store the plow made their way to between Ninth and Tenth to clear path for the ambulance Peter Pan performs Recreation and Parka Depart meat presents Peter Pan at the John EaUott Theatre Wednesday March Shew times are and Alt tickets per persons This show is Tor Jr Kindergarten to Grade Six level Tickets are available at both Recreation Offices and at the Cultural Centre For more information call ISO Homemade brew the beer strike Dorothy of Webb a Fresh Apple Oder and Wine tajxhar store has doubled their of beer making kits For all the startup materials mote desperate for lager and ale can make about gaums for about It tale about five weeks before you should drink your own brew but Mrs- many people feel it a worth the wait When youre teed to the taste many people think noma made bee better be says A vessel or container Is required with a fermentaOoB lock to keep air out but let carton out That coat about containing and yeast run with a brand from England called most popular ate says A pound at corn sugar Costs around The first fermentation period a week After the second fermentation you can bottleyour suds then store It away until about the fifth week says Mrs Webb Webbs sella variety of kits featuring lager ale stout and American light beer If you drop by their store on Highway just outside of Nerval tbeyr open from pnx Thursday to Sunday Antiporn active Gall Rutherford of Again Violent Pornography will be the guest speak at the Newman Centre University of Toronto Her topic is Women and Violence The talk begins at and is open to the public Newman Centre St George Street is a based group On April three members of CUrem Against Violent Pornography will address a public meeting Our Lady of Mount Camel Pariah in Barbara Johnwm will make a special group of young people while Caff and Gall speak to adults about the and impart of Violent and Child Pornography the presentations begin at and end with strategies for community action WEDNESDAY MARCH 1985 Storm dumps 24 centimetres in single day Herald If you stayed put day and Tuesday this week you avoided a lot of the delays and vat ions that faced travel Sevcro storm warn ings forecast Sunday night came true There was about res of snow and millimetres of rain ped on Halton Hills re sidents Monday It was a pretty storm Environ Canada climatolo- Denis told The Herald It has been a long time since we had something big like this He said high winds gust up to GO res hour easy along with the heavy snowfall made for drifts hat wen hard to clean up on the highways and Ice pellets then rain late Monday afternoon and evening made drlv conditions slippery Many cars were strand on roadsides making traffic conditions more difficult for the mobile Tuesday there wire some scattered flurries and strong westerly winds Environment Canada forecasts a sun for today Wed with a high of degrees Celsius The mild weather Is expected to continue through the weekend with up to degrees Cclsclus temperatures People fed up public works rep Herald staff Getting chewed out Is part of the Job when you re in the public works department Improving but the disposition of the public is getting worse Oh It terrible today the town assistant public works super told The Herald Tuesday said the phonos had been ringing with callers complaining the town t plowing enough the town was plowing too much the snow was pushed up too high and on and on People arc finding it just a wee bit hard because the snowfall Monday was made heavy with the subsequent rainfall Mr said what mode Monday snowfall Along with the strong winds it made for poor visibility especially In the rural areas Visibility was almost bad enough that the assistant superintendent was going to call back his plows and graders It was a rough day We had everything out that we could man Mr said m Monday and worked till 11 p coming back again at a Tuesday morning Tuesday was more or less a clean up Mr said with every road In town open by Monday night I I say they were he best but by noon today Tuesday they should be In great shape he said Monday sand and salt were added to the dangerous spots What made the work of the plows difficult were all the abandoned cars Mr called them a big headache The plows had to go around them and be not to damage them Its winter Its Canada If you re living here I feel you have to live with the conditions he said cheerfully Task force selected for consolidation Herald buff Ratepayers forming the bulk of the Halton Hills consolidation study will all have been elected by the end of this week The first meeting of the committee of two rati payers from each school prlncl pals vice principals research people truste es and other staff is tentatively scheduled for March 17 The location has yet to be finalized The total membership will number With a voting body of Hetty Fisher Dick and Bruce the Hills trustees will all be on the committee At a meeting to elect ratepayers from Kennedy school last Wednesday Super n ten dint of schools for the north education centre Ron Chapman said the future of George Kenne dy is probably fairly sound per cent inrolmcnt The consolidation committee will meet once a week til June and will resume meetings the second week In Kept cm 1m when they are led to meet twice a week A recommendation from the consolidation committee is expected to be brought before the Hilton Board of in March for possible school closures and consolidations in September of that year dislikes flic region t believe in it wants regio nal police lu pay for real help It gets from regional bluff List ibe police up lor with the region s proper talked Iho police manager Vince said re going o Mr told Mr No councillors at their not they finance and admlnlstra They said You re a ion meeting that the regional employee police refused to pay Saturday For commuters dep ending on GO Transit there were long delays gelling to work and com home lers gave up on home and stayed over night with workers or at the office According to GO relations officer morning trains buses Into Toronto were delayed over an hour Because the storm let up bus service for the afternoon was put on hold The lost mid day bus from Toronto to left station at am The decision was to The was marie loslop the service for the of the afternoon so that Ihe GO drivers would be in Toronto in time for p rush hour out of Toronto Miss Ing explained The buses look longer than normal land were up to one and a half hours la re she said Because of the poor driving conditions many commuters who drive to work ended up leaving vehicles In Toronto and taking the bus home Miss Ing said Instead of the usual four rush hour trains out of Toronto there were only three With many businesses closing early because of he weather commuters jammed the Union Slat ion platform and crowd the first train of The trains were delay ed because of snow clog up the switches and signals on the tracks The snow t let up all so much chance to go out and clear il Miss Ing said Tuesday everything was back to i at GO with both buses and trains operating on sch For students with Ihe Ha Hon school boards snow storm was a rcprclvc from classes Separate School board iranspor to I on officer Iris said buses wcrcn running north of High way Monday However schools were open but only until noon Tuesday were on road but were up to half hour lute and some of rural routes were treacherous for pick up Ion board lotion officer Jim Hunt said visibility was poor Monday morning at 30 a ni when he made his decision on whether to send out the school bus It I a hard dec si on to m ike and Iliad cm ugh Input to decide with the bus operators that be opera I ing north of High way Mr Hunt said Although schools in Hall on Hills were closed all day those in Oakvillc and Burlington remain open III noon Monday Tuesday everything was back lo normal most of Ihe children who are regularly bused In their desks I guess we re into what an Ontario winter is all about Mr Hunt said Nobody expects II and when it does come causes massive chaos I wish it would go away come back next year hosted by the restoring various Georgetown Figure Skating Club the met such as the Olympics tread of anniversary carnival is a young tyke the and cultures of the world presumably training for neat Costumes and the Una were two of the Three entertaining on Ice were highlights Herald Georgetown will host Wintario draw March 28 Stuff If you re feeling lucky this month you be happy to hear Dance and Greg are coming lo Georgetown March The two will be holding the draw the Georgetown District High School Global Television network is carrying the draw live Before m I he Georgetown Kinsmen have organ led a variety show featuring loeul talent Kinsman It told The Herald local per foimcrs arc being lined 7 pm tickets cost W the door If you buy advance tickets they re You can pick up from Georgetown Kins men or at Esso Mac Milk Delrex Smoke Shop or Trio D count at This will be second time has come to Georgetown It will be the draw in the history of Mr Malcolm son said Kinsmen are picking up seniors at the Sargent Durham Street residences lo bring Ihem to Ihe show For more Informal Ion call 8770015 DONT PANIC Theres still some suds around IIOWNM Herald Mat If you re a beer drink don l panic yet A survey by The Herald indicates most local pubs and restaurants have more than weeks supply of suds left While Brewers Retail outlets remain closed for second week in a low an increasing number of customers arc lo our local bars But Ih helping to deplete the dwindling stocks of ale and lager faster ihnn during liurm limes house Rest their supplies should be good for about a week and a says owner David Mr Is hoping strike will lure now customers his establishment either can I buy beer or because other pubs have run out But on the darker side Mr says worried over a lengthy strike We hire about people and we have lo lay off is a franchise and owners ore now beg organize so can write a joint protest letter he said drinkers switch to hard liquor when the slocks run Mr a small poll indicates his customers will go back to the hard hut I think beer drinkers are beer drinkers George the o of the Hotel I believe there will be a massive switch to hi rd liquor Like her establish the was able lo increase their per cent their normal requirements when strike ilk wis looking strike could iesul In it the Gibbon which employs about people Mr says The hole has about a I wo week Inventory of beer bul the owners ore considering closing down Mondays and Tuesdays Asked if he would bo writing a letter of protest to Premier Frank Miller Mr quipped rank and I pen pals right At he Station House In Acton Ell says there enough beef In his bar to last for the rest of the He feels some drinkers will switch hard liquor but Ihe strike will event lly cause him to hove to lay off some of his eight employees The Slollon House I expecting Ihe strike t have a lo get any extra reserves he said Hollywood Tavern manager Ken Worsell says he can estimate how soon ihe Nerval tavern will be without beer 1 1 depends on how fast I hey the custom era drink the beer Guest speakers Feb Ann Gch and Barbara Johnson of Citizens Against Violent Pornography were the guest speakers St John A video tape and slides Here used to make participants aware of the kinds of violent and child pornography locally available Everyone was encouraged to make their concerns known to federal politicians In writing as soon as possible

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