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Town- Country DRY CLEANING SAME OAT OUT CLEANING HALTON HILLS SHOPPING CENTRE LtheHERALD SECTION THE Tuesday December 31 Page HIDE HOUSE HERALD STAFF AWARD CORRESPONDENTS In Halton VETERAN WRITERS Smith front left and writing news reports Tor The Herald Kay who Kay Wilson honored by The Herald staff Friday for writes about news In Nerval was presented with an their delation to newspaper reporting Winifred the appreciation plaque for her seven years of to oar readers Helping the twosome celebrate awards are I memorial trophy for her 20 years of Herald reporters left to right Dan Ralph Anl and Sandy Campbell Herald photo We like your news Winnie Herald If 1 see your news In the paper Where was your news Winnie It was in there somewhere Winifred Smith replies It is and has been since the early IKOs Winifred Smith is and started writing the news the Ballinafad news when Walter owned the Herald Dur ing her first weeks on the Job ber home was hit by lightning It went along ihe clothes line and hit the stove she said Mr news in her column prompted him to say something Winifred never forgot I asked you to take the news but I didnt think you were going to make the he said But she has been making the news for over years as she hustles to find what Is news in People dont call and tell me the I have to phone them up she United Church is center of news where Mrs Smith gets most tips She calls herself a senior senior member and she has developed many connections Who died where there were Tires who came back from vacation are the kind of tips she seeks She is dedicated to her Job and more so to her town Itsnot the you know Its keeping in the news Im doing it because I like Ballinafad I don t want it to be missed In the paper she said Kay remembers Making sure Ballinafad Is in the news and the compliments she gets for her writing are the biggest benefits of the Job A Job she never expected to be doing when she was I think should quit Sometimes I make mis lakes you know I said I would retire at BO she said Perhaps she will retire soon but her involve ment in the community and In her family will never end If she has her way She Is strong and vivacious Mrs Smith lives with her Ruth Burt In a large brick farm house with S3 acres of land Ruths twin sister Doris lives about five miles away and she Is married to a Burt too Joyce Swann is her other daughter she Is a nurse In St Catharines In all Mrs Smith has 12 grandchildren and great grandchildren My oldest great grand child Is IB and has a boyfriend but I dont want her to get married yet she said Her family is the most Important Family drops by the big home about once a week We used to have a family gathering every Christmas This year there will be 18 here at Christmas she said Her husband Frank Smith died threeyearsagohewas87 His name still on the mail box Mrs Smith would never give up house although many have suggested she move into an apartment I like my family to come home here Id like to keep this house until Im carried out she said She has lived there since 1939 There was a long road between the time Mrs Smith moved to Canada 1911 when she was eight until she finally settled In Ballinafad Her father began farming in and brought the family over from London England once he established himself Ihadtogooutandwork a comparitively poor family she said Because she was the second oldest child in a family of five three Mrs her mother at home This meant Mrs Smith did not get the education she wanted I went to School They really taught you in those days There werent many In a class but they really taught you she said Mrs Smith finished Junior fourth While working and helping her mother Frank Smith of entered her life He owned the farm beside her fathers He was one of three Smith brothers all bachelors on thai farm and she was frequent asked if she was going to marry one of them I dldn t have to hunt for them he hunted me she said of Frank Smith Her own family and more farming followed Only after she was did she Join the Herald as a correspondent If she had more schooling and she was starting out today Mrs Smith may nave sought a career In Journalism she said A lot of people say I like your news Winnie she added Sleigh rides to Brampton By If Staff Home means a great deal to many people during the holiday season For Herald columnist Kay Wilson home means a great deal all year round The yearold Nerval correspon dent has been writing pieces of local raws for The Herald for the past six on Winston Churchill Boule vard just below Mrs Wilson didnt move very far away when she got married In June 1937 In only moved one line over to Ninth Line where she still lives with her husband Spencer Dad as he affectionately call ed i a former fanner who until he retired in 1973 used la have to dairy cows and mix farm 200 acres between Ninth and Eighth Line It just about killed me to sell It Mrs Wilson said looking sadly out the kitchen window towards the snow covered fields once farmed by her husband The couple have sold all but of their property Oh look the barn doors open she said admitting to being bothered by things like that The farm was grand father farm and had a Georgian style home with pine floors and a wide staircase The home still stands but the Wilson sold it with the land and built themselves a new house on their ievercd lot Their backyard is scenic with evergreens and a creek running it Blue Jays and cardinals their only visitors Theyve also spotted many a wolf fox muskrat and deer Mrs Wilson Is used to the wide open spaces of farm country Shes the daughter of a fanner herself Her two brothers who both retired only this past year also farmed in the area While they were Norval Junior Farmers Kay belonged to the Junior Institute a younger version of the Womens Institute When she was a girl she used to go to the traditional red brick school bouse Schooldays she used to walk to Whaleys Corners on the south side of Sleeles east of Winston Churchill Boulevard for her reading writing and arithmetic lessons Except when the weather was not good Then my dad was good Hed come after us with the team and sleigh the now whitehaired Mrs Wilson said She can remember the first old Ford car a black Model T that her dad had It needed to be cranked The same as the one out In the garage smiled her husband whos fond of antique cars Wintertime the car was packed up until spring although Mrs Wilson remembers one late fall outing to Terra Cotta The hills were a lot steeper then and they couldnt get up one of them to their destination although her father took several runs at it she recalled Christmas time the family used to go to church in with the team and sleigh bundled under buffalo robes and bay Mrs Wilson recalled Its one thing Ill always remem ber about Christmas time going for those Christmas concerts at church she said her blue eyes nostalgic behind her glasses Brampton for a days visit to the Forks of the Credit We used to take the team and sleigh to Bramptons CPR station after dad had done the chores and leave the team at the livery station to be looked after He would have to walk up to the train and I know mom would it would come before he walked back from the livery station Mrs Wilson said smiling Today there are no more trips by horse and sleigh to Brampton and Mrs Wilson family gathers at her home Shes the mother of and the grandmother of three Once the warm moments of the holiday season ore over this friendly tall woman picks up her pen and paper to report on the Womens institute news She began writing for The Herald when she became responsible for public relations for the I about six years ago taking over from Dorothy McLean the former Herald correspondent for Mrs McLean was stepping up to vice- president then The one thing they really wanted was to get their meetings in the paper Mrs Wilson said Its really a volunteer job for the community I like the challenge part of It and I certainly like talking to people and doing things for the community Along with her responsibilities as on elder at Norval United Church and membership in the Norval Community Club and Plowmans Associati on Mrs Wilson finds time to write up Ihe happenings in her community Her mother came from tain and there are plenty of Christmas and people expect me to do it she said memories of taking the train up from with a laugh Recycling is catching on but more can be done Herald Special In the early the provincial government responded to a growing public concern with environmental pollution from disposable wastes by a series of divide and conquer recycling projects To encourage the separation at source of glass bottles ferrous metals tin cans and newsprint from household garbage municipal govern were provided with seed funding to help finance extra curbside pick ups storage facilities and market studies Since 1974 Georgetown has been Involved with the projects The Ministry of the Environment Issued a grant to get us started explained Mayor Miller When the granl ran out we just continued on We felt it was good lot the community good tor the country Mayor Miller estimates that only per cent of the citys householders presently participate in the recycling program But be Is confident a promotional campaign soon to be implemented throughout the entire region will successfully Increase that figure regional government has been working to centralize the tag activities of its municipalities To this end the privatelyowned Recycling Company has been contrac ted to market all paper tin and glass collected in the region It makes a lot of sense to have a single processing warehouse that handles all the municipalities said Ahlberg of the municipal waste branch at the Ministry of the Environ ment The Halton program is probably one of the largest single vendors of recycleable items In the province right now This gives them some guarantee that they will never have difficulty selling those items simply because it Is one of the biggest sources Recycling programs are expens ive We are selling the material that has the lowest value on the market place but has the volume In the said Gwen DIscepelo coowner of Halton Recycling It is not a profit making process She calculates that since its inception in 1979 the company has lost about and relies heavily on provincial fund tag to stay alive But in the opinion of Paul Taylor executive director of the Ontario Recycling Information service the notion that recycling programs should be profitable is twisted In any discussion of waste disposal costs he believes environmental pollution should be a primary consideration Neither form of disposal Incine ration or land fill is a safe form of disposal he asserted Essentially its a choice between a lot of air begins Youth Basketball League with the begins Jan 7 at 7pm at Holy Cross School Georgetown Registrations will be taken on that evening So if your child is looking for a sport alternative basketball may be answer Juniors ages 610 years coed practise on Tuesday evenings at Holy Cross School and hove their games on Friday evenings at St Francis of Seniors ages 11 13 years prac tise on Tuesday evenings at Holy Cross School ana have their games on Thursday evenings also at Holy Cross School ThecostforYBA includes a T shirt a manual and loadsoffUhandexpertcoaching Call 8776163 for more information Y brochure The new winterspring YMCA brochures are available at the Georgetown and Acton Ys In the brochure you will find programs on fitness karate Judo gymnastics babysitter training pre school and much more For more information call or Acton Checking up Councillors will soon know how far behind town staff are with council reports MoodaynightonCoun John McDonalds initiative they asked staff to provide a list of outstanding reports starting with the new year This way councillors will know the status of reports theyve request ed and when to expect tbem Coun McDonald said Help still needed While rushing around In the holiday season many people forget the most Important things things such as sharing and carina Positions such at friendly visitors entertainers program board members office workers puppeteers and porters need to be filled by caring people Experience the feeling of what sharing and c are all about become a volunteer Call the Volunteer Bureau at for more information pollution or a lot of ground water pollution The Federal Government has been researching the properties of plastics However Taylor does not believe the results of the study will be positive There Is no problem with post industrial plastic scrap That market is well served he explained But plastic gathered from house hold wastestreams Is not recover able unless It is or 10 ton piles all exactly the same chemical type and colour and quite clean Because the technology and the economics of current shredding processes inhibits the potential for recycling plastic Taylor looks to more restrictive packaging legislation to reduce the volume of plastic in the wastestream If we cant design the stuff to be recycled then we shouldnt allow It in the market place he said Taylor suggests more research time and money should be spent examining the possibilities of large- scale organic composting In Europe It is not uncommon for half of the waste stream to end up being composted Provided that it is done well and that the material that is going into the compost process is not hazardous the resulting end product would be good for application on farmlands be said Under the Environmental Assess ment Act the Province effectively controls the location maintenance standards and operational require ments for disposal treatment sites So many municipalities have been frustrated in their efforts to have proposed Bite selections approved by the Ministry of the Environment arid in Taylors view this shortage of sites necessarily creates a need for major recycling projects When you separate the reusables and from the waste streams be said there is not much garbage left for landfill or to be incinerated Recycling Is growing rapidly he added More municipalities are gett ing involved with a consequential Increase In total tonnage collected each year The whole suggestion that people are not going to participate IS a myth If you put into place a recycling system that is convenient enough to use and well enough promoted almost everyone will use it Halton recycling helps to preserve our forests Herald Special Newspaper recycling efforts in are playing a vital role In a provincewide program which Is helping preserve forests natural resources save energy and reduce the need for landfill sites Newspapers from Halton are recycled at the Thorold newsprint mill of Ontario Paper Company which processes tonnes of old newspapers a year and employs 1500 people the province Speaking to the Burlington Lakeshore Rotary Club recently Bryan Alien Director of Newspaper Recycling for Ontario Paper Company described the efforts of Recycling as excellent He predicted that householder participation in newspaper recycling would grow In 1B8S My objective Ih 1981 was to buy 50 per cent of the newspapers need from Ontario sources We came very close My objective for is to increase our buying from within Ontario to per cent Mr Allen said that his firms program launched four years ago brought stability to on uncertain market We took an unusual approach which will sound very basic to you We guaranteed we would buy every sheet of newspaper made available to us in Ontario and that we would maintain this promise year in and year out He said the lack of a stable market had in the post left collectors with many barns and warehouses filled to the rafters with old newspapers that organizers had been stuck with once their particular market disappeared Ontario Paper invested million in replacing Its original mill at Thorold The new mill opened in and needed per cent greater production capacity to succeed Recycled newspapers are supplying the additional fibre needed in manufacture Our motivation was hard economic reality and this factor will remain for as long as our mill stays In production Mr Allen also cited the cost of landfill sites as a factory which makes newspaper recycling attractive I believe that the forces of economics will encourage moat town and city councils to explore every possible means for keeping to the barest possible minimum the volume of wastes for their disposal sites These sites are extremely expensive to set up to operate and then maintain in perpetuity once they have reached the end of their life cycle Legion reserve spot to help our disabled Legion Lines The President Of Branch Norm Word and your executive would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year For the convenience of the handle there is now a parking spot for the disabled at the back door of the legion The bar will be closed at p m on Dec 31 CAR WINNERS Dec 19 France Tom Art Hall Glad Caldwell Murray EUCHRE WINNERS Dec Ladies 1st Lois Richard- son 2nd Mary Lou Ireland booby Merry Crawford Gents 1st Doug 2nd Oliver Scragg booby Richards SICK LIST I Les Sadler Cowan G Hayes in Georgetown Hospital Lloyd Houns ell in St Michaels Hospital Stan In St Johns King in Hospital in Acton Wm Bryden Bill Glbbs Fanny Weaver in the Bennett Centre and Norton and Barb Burns at home Entertainment Saturday by Boots Cheque it out The Christmas season Is a lime for giltgiving and students at Georgetown High School have been doing part to help community Mints Here student council treat ovarii cheque to both Harry Bras left chairman of the Royal