Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), September 17, 1986, p. 1

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SPORTTkl Lifetime Service Guarantee IN TIffi Good neighbors Tony Degabriel is pleased to live in Georgetown the town that rats for the Canadian for Chronic Skin Disease be said Mr is president of the foundation The money was raised with the help of the Georgetown I ions Club Money came from raffle ind a dance and dinner in which the Hotel provided food at cost The dance wis the Lions Club Saturday Winners of the lop in the raffle Mere Isabel and Ted Hayes of who will be going Las Vegas Second prize a color TV wenl lo Doug Slack of Cherry Street in Georgetown The ten speed bicycle third prize was won by Service of Glen Williams Energy audit Energy conservation is still on agenda Last week Regional councillors in the and public works committee decided to have a microprocessor based process energy audit at the South East Water Control Plant The energy audit will take a couple of months to do and is an attempt to reduce the million annual energy costs at all the Region Water Pollution Con trol Plants A Ministry of Energy grant has been confirm for the Ltd audit Learn Chinese The opportunity for children to learn Chinese languages and heritage is available in Hills Ml children from kindergarten to Grade arc in vited to learn Cantonese dann at Georgetown District High School Saturdays between a and p Classes tug Sept G and will continue for JO weeks They are the Hills Cullur I Cost doubts Ward Cook has doubts the town proposed complex can be buill for under million duly support the building of this municipal complex hut when I look at the figure I don I Ihink the building coming in at hat price Is realistic Cook pointed out the price of structural steel has doubled over the post three years and express doubts Hills will be able to create the type of building it wants and thai the townspeople can be proud of 3 million loan Hills Hydro has an outstanding loan of nearly S3 million as of January 1986 with Ontario Hydro Monday night they got own council approval to get a debenture through the Itcgion which will save them million in interest payments if the loan is paid oft in Legion lines Sports Chairman Joan Brown lells me registrations are coming In slowly for the in house Euchre Tournament to be held Sept Entertainment by Pub- tones Sept Hazel and Ken Car Club Chairman Mo Carney lulls me the Car Club is well under way an member will be receiving their new cards short Widening Steeles A public meeting is to be held on the plan to widen Steeles Avenue into a four lane road between Fourth Line and the James Snow Parkway A report by s director of public works says Ihe four lane roadway is needed because of in creased traffic caused by the James Snow Parkway Inlerchange and the general traffic growth the Avenue area As well the proposed Milton Industrial Park Is anticipated to cause more traffic The consulting firm of has recommended that be widened uniformly on both sides to a maximum width of metres No dale has been set yet for public meeting the HERALD Home Newspaper of Hills Established 1866 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 17 198f matin at hi OPEN iHideHuust SUNDAYS ttorlh Ih To In WIPE Festival 5 comes alive Recycling not that effective Recycling is helping keep the amount of garbage being produced by residents down Regional waste disposal manager John McKay says residents are producing six per cent more waste this year than last year However nine per cent of the gar bag is for recycling so It helping to keep waste levels down The people In Halton don t care whether we have a landfill problem They just care about throwing out their garbage Regional Chairman Peter said last week He pointed to the solid waste budget statistics which show people In the Region are throwing out more garbage than eve before Ihnrllv i I iffatr fi Ihr II hunt The ten fimlK ruisid tin if unit link II was dollars in Haiti Hills r a household here r the hut I Hi limp during im arr from It oil I II I null llir lal 14900 PLEDGED For Terrys cancer campaign AMI III- 1 1 Herald Staff rive later celebration is continuing at Hills I and Cultural Centre The fifth in of the centre will feature a variety of profession and inutrur entertainment between Oct 14 and The celebration is Festival Five Keeping Culture Alive It kicks off at 1U urn with i performance from children s enter tuner and recording artist Sandra Beech She will be performing the mornings afternoons of Oct 1j 16 Tickets are and will be offered first at nursery schools and to the The opening night Oil 14 is by invitilion only Soloists ndn Tom Troulen will perform in the evening The evening of Oct 1 is innual Talent local per formers will gel a eh nice to let their shine All interested per formers should Jo nine Wilson the Recreation and I irks Department to have their n mies in eluded in the The number ISB77 exl Tickets for the talent night are for St for seniors festival Five begins it in when the library hosts a Senior Citizen in the tilery John McDonald will be showing slides if Georgetown w the town once i and schools free The schools TO will feature iry The If ire begins talent from schools The Georgetown In i Georgetown entertain for two L will perform the one act play Blink Sunday Concert music will follow per formed by the other two groups Tickets arc New Orleans will be visiting Oct when Georgetown jazz mm Bryan will perform with singer Kendall Tickets will close 19 with i in the gallery beginning at 11 am Classical Donald Wilson and Peter McAllister of Fanfare Records will display their virtuosity Tickets arc include brunch Tickets to my of the events ire al the I tee real ion on James Street in it the John I Hint Hit lire Bin office Between the Aclon Georgetown Terry runs raw was raised Sunday The run raised reeird s record was The money was raised 125 runners said Paul Terry 1ox Hun eommittee member In- Georgetown the number of runners was up by two bringing to ft but pledges were down pat Powers organizer of the Georgetown run The actual total for Hills WISS14 The most money nisei In Hilton Hills indimluil was SI 4H if Stortv in J unit wis represtntinf his f and for his received i skcr hide Mr II a e success There was a blend of and old runners Mr slid of the Acton run The draw or the dinner for two at J Tin wis won l Kevin Hicks- of People completed the run run nine w cycling wheel for the lirst lime there w someone on crutches Mr said roup of sir even ran from Ac tin Georgetown their Sttl in pledges between Iho two runs Mrs powers Hie national goal for Terry runs across the country was million and it looks like thai Roil will be rcichcd Mr It is the sixth of the run lo raise moneyforcuncerrese Money from pledges must be it NDP ready for election Students study holocaust ll Herald Staff Georgetown District High School history will be among the few In the province be studying the holocaust of the Second World War Social sciences department head is one introducing this program as part of the Grade European history course Even within most schools if you tell somebody you re leaching about the holocaust your fellow schoolteachers tend to recoil too powerful for the kids or what happens if you have a man kid In the class whose grand parents were involved Mr said It opens a whole can of worms Most teachers don I teach about the mass extermination of Jews dur the Second World War The holocaust isn specified as a re quired topic in the teachers guidelines although the Grade 10 history course includes discussion of Ihe World War the history teacher said What happens in per cent of the time is you talk about the rise of Hitler and Canada role in the war You never get to unseemly things like death camps Mr tinlayson said Before coming lo last year Mr Fin lay son taught about the holocaust at Milton EC High School The new social sciences department head at C Brian Moore continues to about the holocaust tell hem students it good to Cross walk runners What do you do when you come a pedestrian crosswalk Ward Norman sus far too many people are oblivious to that child standing at one end of the crosswalk and drive right on by in stead of stopping and letting the youngster make way safely lo the other side He wants Region to tell him the number of crosswalk violations that have taken place so far this year and he wants youngsters taught crosswalk safety at the schools Family counselling There is provincial money available for a treatment for families Involved In family violence In Halton COHR Family Servicea la being recommended to provide the counselling In Georgetown Acton and Milton They already have an office in Burlington get upscl once in a while II makes them think about being human Mr said So often its just foeis and figures and not enough that stresses the heart in school This particular unit is very real them The department head lies a survivor of the holocaust in lo talk to the students shows films like War saw and asks students to keep journal Mr inlay sons teaching program is based on a highly praised pro gram now being taught in 15 classrooms In the United States called racing history and ourselves It the human speaker that knocks them out Its the of it that hits so well he said He Said he finds students start making connections with current events after studying about the ius Itc about somebody being up because they re a dlf nationality or race hits Ihem fir harder than before and ap preciate their families more Mr tinlayson said He did a survey to find out how students and parents felt about the Holocaust unit Parents found heir youngsters asking more questions ibout ihe past and current events such as the recent Tamil refugees Mr I never hid a complain from parent though 1 was walk me on ice he said After electing their executive last week the New Dcmocntic Parly Is ready to get down to business in the new North nding The riding association had their first meeting last Wednesday 10 since the North riding was formed Their first meeting in preparation for the next provincial election was at the River Oaks Community Centre in Patty Clancy was elected presi dent of the riding association The Milton resident was president of the former Burlington association for over a year and before that she was on executive Ms Clancy works as a for the Labor Council of Metropolitan Toronto The Office and Professional Employees Inter national Union Local is Ms Clan office union and she is the president John Green of Milton was elected vice president of the riding lion The native of Wales has lived in Milton since he arrived in Canada in He has been chairman of the finance and committees for Women Place His pro fession is intern itioml money broker Three area vicepresidents wee elected for the riding Allan Foster is the Acton vice president iz Monroe is the Milton vicepresident and hem Wolf is the Georgetown These vice presidents live in their on the executive arc Helen Klaassen of Georgetown me Lucila of Georgetown member ship her husband who is treasurer The five members at large of the executive ore Hewitt of Georgetown Dons Fuller of Georgetown John Nichols of Georgetown Sharon hosier of Acton and Carole Crew son of Milton The riding association will be call i meeting in late fall to elect a candidate Ms Clancy said The next meeting of ihe executive is Oct That will be a priority set ting meeting Ms Clancy said How the size of the new riding affects the riding association will be discussed then she said The weekend of Sept is on NDP Provincial Council meeting The future of the riding association may depend upon whit comes out of that weekend Ms Clancy said Those not gome to meeting will be working on plans for the riding association One effect of the smaller North is it will be easier to work with Ms Clancy Dealing with three towns instead of four will make the associations job less dif ficult she said A of three including Oakviltc Regional Councillor Kevin addressed issues of the social services ministry Questions from the followed The meeting said Ms Clancy Plans for heritage horse park Pageant of the horse featured at Scotsdale The dream of a heritage horse site is becoming a reality Farm near Ball in ad on announcement will be made to unveil pi ins for first Horse During the day the j40icre firm will be turn into i showcase of activities featuring ferners demonstrating how to shoe a liorst harness makers and equine an As well there wdl be equestrian demonstrations by known riders keyhole and races and lent pegging games plus much more But the big news will be when the Heritage Horse Park Corporation and the Ontario Heritage innounce a proposal for horse park at million site The Heritage Horse Park Corpora Hon a non profit volunteer will do a feasibility study on Scotsdale Farm The study will look taking over the property and turning it into it Attn here lust weekend on the ecu dale property are Mike Co from Acton and Steve of Toronto Herald photo norst ptrk said Diane Mel hereon the ition The study will lie presented the Ont hound when it is The cost of Ihe study will lie paid for by llu Corporation said Ms The showcase called The I if he Horse will run from 1 pm until pin The i the event is to the public sne ik preview of the potential of a horse park Ontario Premier David Peterson has been attend he may she said The I Governor Horse Guard will open the three hour show rhe Pageants stars will be horses of ail kinds and sizes A park is special facility designed serve educate challenge inform and entertain pie of all ages increasing lion of the equine heritage Its in sport New of a heritage horse park good news for horse lovrri The Scots dale property was be queathed to the people of Ontario

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