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the HERALD More high risk babies being saved Home Newspaper of Hatton Hills Established IBM A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario DON BRANDER Publisher and General Manager Advertising Manager Phone Page 4 SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday January TO An added surge Almost every town has a fail air Every town deserves a fall fair Georgetown could have lost Its annual agricultural extravaganza last year had it not been for a last minute appeal Its annual general meeting time for the fair board and support is needed again to continue the September event People may say they back the fair by going to the Georgetown Fairgrounds faithfully each year But residents must dig down deeper than that The fair needs creative people to sit on committees to plan for new events coax others to return and give the board of directors an added surge of enthusiasm In Halton Hills there is a strong agricultural heritage that needs to be preserved and honored Our presentday farmers work hard for the crops and livestock they raise Fall fairs are a chance to showcase the harvest of their labors For the urban folk fairs are a chance to experience the country atmosphere amongst the excitement of midway noises and grandstand events Children love the day with their parents learning about animals farm produce tractors and the array of exhibits and displays The fair is worth preserving and worthy of our participa tion and help Come to the annual general meeting this Saturday at the Lions Club Hall at 1 pm No one will be turned away who believes in the Georgetown Fall Fair When autumn comes the board of directors will be ready for the best fair yet with your support What others say Take active role The debate over garbage disposal will dominate political agendas for the next decade And municipalities gripe they must unfairly carry the burden The planning process for a garbage dump is lengthy Peel Regional council is in its fourth year of debate and it still has not resolved the issue here Municipalities in the Metro area including Peel have warned the province that unless it starts acting in unison with municipal and regional governments on garbage disposal it may be left holding the bag Recently when Peel officials sought clarification on the guidelines which govern building near landfill sites the province responded in a vague noncommittal fashion The letters seem to imply the region should stand by its own interpretation of the guidelines However If they are wrong and if it costs millions to put right the region would be responsible The recent controversy over Metros search for a disposal site outside its boundary demonstrates the need for third party intervention But its the political sensitivity of the garbage debate that holds the province at bay But someone needs to coordinate this provincewide problem The costs and time involved could be reduced if the province appointed an independent group to work with municipalities in the planning process It may also help residents to know that decisions on this sensitive issue are not made with political gain in mind Courtesy Brampton Times Recycled thoughts A few statistics read out at the meeting show Just what kind of an impact garbage has on our environ ment In each person creates 7 tons of waste In a year To save trees residents need only recycle tons of paper products What Is being done The Regions program con centrates on the four Its Recover Recycle Reuse and Reduce Hills started a divide and conquer program in Acton and Georgetown also held a Hazardous Waste Day Oct 3 1987 The blue box program will be ex panded further In Region and will be In Acton Ihe summer of this year Mr Shatness said Blue boxes ore given to each homeowner for recyclable materials and a special truck comes by with containers for tin glass and newspapers The revenues you get for recycling materials Is not very high and the Job is very labor intensive said the waste reduction coordlnator For example the going rate for a ton or gloss Is and a ton of tin is Newspapers earn per ton But when you compare that to what Region charges for its tipping tee to haul and receive waste per ton the economics dont sound quite so bad So what of the future Mandatory recycling may be next thing that comes along That Issue came up at the meeting and was discussed by members of POWER Apparently there is one community In Ontario that wont pick up your garbage unless it has been separated for recycling Halton Region has stepped up Its restrictions on Industry and by September 1988 will require com panies to recycle all their card board said Mr Shamess In Ontario the government ha legislated companies to recycle per cent of their nonrefundable bot Ilea Meanwhile the POWER train con tinues to steam on Members of the group who oppose the use of a local quarry for landfill purposes deserve credit for being positive and proac tive in their opposition A lobby group without Ideas and without alternative suggestions quickly loses credibility They dont have to worry about that But then they cant recycle all the waste in Hills by themselves either There Is a simple explanation why high risk new bom Ontario babies had to be flown to Buffalo and Store of these babies arc being saved Increasing Ihe number re quiring treatment or core We hate the kind or in Ontario Unit can respond those kinds of needs and s Elinor apian told It is a lesson in miniature a key reason why Mho heal ill care system is undergoing increasing And why Is so Ikird to bring under control Cap an suggested Ihe Immediate cause of transfer of a sick baby from Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto Its equivalent in Bur fnlowasshiirtnRenf There no of beds or respirators There was a nursing shortage Critics tile province- wide shortage of about nurses Is a consequence or pour pay But saw it as something Editors notebook V By Canadians have a way of com plaining about garbage dumps but we cant wholeheartedly accept ways to combat the problem Two cases in point Thursday evening at Public School members of the environmental pro tection group POWER held a meeting on recycling There were about 15 members present As spokesperson Ruth French said its surprising no one bothered to come out lo the meeting outside of he groups membership The recycling information meeting was well advertised In local newspapers welcoming members of the general public Point number two In Europe where land is at a premium govern ments have moved ahead in develop ing wasterelated programs and technologies which residents have accepted Garbage incineration Energy From Waste plants and recycling programs are much more advanced than in North America In Holland there il a motto which slates that there is a recycling bin closer than your mailbox A special guest at the POWER meeting was Albert Shamess Waste Reduction Coordlnalor for Heltons Public Works Department He told the audience that schools are now using a video provided by the provincial government on recycling to encourage youngsters to good habits At least were educating our children about the evils of waste Since 1977 the Region of has had a recycling policy said Mr A Regionwide program which started three years ago aims to take 15 per cent of gar bage away from landfill by recycl- Why recycle Mr puts things into a clear perspective With recycling we dont need as many landfills ft creates Jobs there is leas pollution there Is a saving In energy But on top of lhat and perhaps the most Important reason our environment suffers leas Queens Park By Derek Nelson ONEROUS I am concerned It Is not so much nurses are not available as the fact hat this particular Job is ex tremely stressful It Is very hard to find nurses who will do this type or The requirements ore very onerous she added Ontario has 10 hospitals equipped to handle high risk birth situations Two are in Toronto The others are in Hamilton London Kingston Windsor North Bay Thunder liny and Sic Marie And If necessary hospitals In ad jacent can be called upon as well as happened In the Buf falo case and another Involving a Thunder Bay baby flown to Buffalo and Winnipeg in cidents plus flying a woman ting premature triplets from Toron to lo Kingston to find a suitable hospital triggered an uproar in the legislature How could Ihis happen in Ontario opposition parties wanted to Ca plans explanation was there had been an unusual peak of difficult premature births In the last few days although Tory MPP Emle Eves noted there were transfers from Toronto to other Ontario hospitals in I960 But Caplan also said the system is BETTER JOB In short were simply doing a bet ter Job of keeping people alive And of giving them the opportunities be alive Take the triplets as an example The mother took fertility drugs She was flown to Kingston for the birth The triplets went into a specially Tipped ward one of thai is cheap And it can only get more pansion was in the works with a perinalal ward promised for Ot tawa Funding would not be a problem she said Yet Whether Is right in hinting there Is a limit to the number of nurses willing to handle the emo tionally arduous chore of taking care of or whether it is low pay that causes the nursing shortage the system Is demanding more nurses And it is demanding more because it Is successful in keeping more babies olive Since no one would suggest letting those babies die If the technology Is available to save ihem questions to be taken a step further How do we pay for our miracle- working It isnt enough to talk of orienting the health care system towards care rather than treating illness as Ironically Caplan did in an announcement the very same day she was peppered with questions the baby air express Those hard to- treat babies are a good illustration why that can never be more than part of the answer Citizens forum Good Neighbors say thanks Dear Sir A very sincere thank you goes to our police and high school students for the pickup from all the schools To all people who came to sort and pack with the amount of people it sure did not take long And to all who came with trucks and cars to deliver our firefighters To Mr Fobcrt for use of Ihe nice worm place The community sup port was tremendous in all ways We are very grateful and thank again Sincerely Siena van en Porter Good Neighbors Service Coordinators Driver killed family dog Dear Sir This letter is directed to any drivers who may have been Iravelling on Highway 7 near Era mesa Flower Mart purple lower house three miles west of Acton Jan probably between about One of you killed a tiny little dog an innocent little brown toy poodle who had slipped out or the house unnoticed and who had never wandered more than feet from the door until night and who didnt know or fear traffic You hod to have seen her in your headlights she was in the centre of the lane when we found her Maybe you even tried to miss her You didnt You had to have Tell the slight thump you had to have known you may have hit her yet you couldnt even be bothered stopping to check You left her there in the middle of the lane of traffic to die alone Shejnny have been saved if youd had the decency compassion and for a poor llttlo defenseless animal I sincerely hope and pray whoever you arc Mr or Mrs or Miss ignorant heartless driver you read this and know the anguish and pain youve caused both to a liny little poodle and to five heart- broken people who loved her and miss her terribly I hope that you Boots shoes on train seats Go Dear Sir How do you recognize a GO- train passenger from the Georgetown area You cant spot them all course because many are quite nor mal in both appearance and actions but if you find a passenger with Its dirty boots or shoes up on the facing scat heres a better than per cent chance that you have found a Georgetownarea resident Who arc these people Street kids Vagrants Nothing or the sort They ore usually smartly dressed middleaged men and women who probably dont wear heir outdoor shoes In their own homes beyond the front doormat Yet there they sit wit their dirty wet salt laden shoes on a scat where some other passenger will subsequently sit in hisher clean clothes Do they sec the error of their ways when questioned about their filthy aberrant practices A few actually do but the majority belie their middleclass appearances with foul- mouthed gutter Invective Can hey be persuaded to wipe ihelr dirt off onto their clothes Rarely What is wrong with the upbringing received by these Georgetown area residents Why have so many parents failed lo teach their offspr ing how behave in public and on public proper If a few spousesparents children of current passengers will ask those passengers where they place their i while on the trams this practice can probably be ended quickly may then stop thinking considerate Remember the mijon are inherently branded wllh he a els of he obnoxious minorliy and this could easily lead the im pression that Georgetown is hick town lacking in manners and com mon decency Can we look forward to Georgetown area im mediately cleaning up heir own and in he process the GO train seals truly It Willmotl Checking out the books Dear Sir On Jan Mr Burnetts Grade class walked the Georgetown Library I want to tell you what I learned on my trip discovered that the Library is not Just a place with lots of books its a place where can learn a o things like space cars planes and a lot mare 1 would like to thank the library staff for teaching us and permitting us lo check so many good books out Alfred Tsnng Grade Park School Write us a letter Want to share your let I In on any subject with the community The Herald welcome letters to editor on any topic and from anyone who has the urge to write We only ask that the letters be signed your name and address In case we must call check some detail We will not print unsigned let ters nor will Now all thats left Is for you to do Is pick up the pen Address your mall to letter to thi Editor The Herald St Georgetown Ontario wxrWAXftw In your opinion Question If you could escape winters chills where would you go years ago With election of Rex as the first vicepresident Georgetown was prominently represented at the Notional House Builders convention held at the King Edward Hotel Howard Green minister of public works was guest speaker of the event Nerval Junior Formers erupted with the big goals In the second period of their game swamping the Actonlies 73 Cunningham and Dave Leslie each picked up their se cond tallies to lead Ihe team to vic tory Herald staffer Dave Hastings of Georgetown was elected president of the Georgetown Brass and Reed Band The band under direction of Alfred of Brampton prac Tuesday nights Fred Harrison brought issue of how the Georgetown arena was being to council Thei Georgetown man said he had talked with ratepayers who were dissatisfied wiih the way the board was running the townowned building Instead of having arena resened for curling and hockey he wanted more free skating and hockey time for people years ago Georgetown mall carriers got a day off as a result of the Toronto The only repercus sion in Georgetown hap pened on Ihe day Family Allowance cheques came in A 28inch lajer of Ice had to be chopped away allow Kenny Dia mond take a mid- winter plunge In a backyard pool Its not that the Georgetown youth was fond of tak ing a banc chilling swim He did It on abet Firefighter Jim Coulson was elected chairman of County Fire Prevention Bureau while firefighter Doug Hnrley was elected secretary Major programs of the bureau are the fire prevenlion week Christmas fire safety spring clean up grass and bush fires hospital and industrial fire safety training fireworks and youth programs Councillors were shadowed by Georgetown high school students at a council meeting Repeating an ex periment 11 students were selected to sit beside a councillor reeve and deputy reeve and mayor in order to wiincss first hand what happens at council and the Jobs these years ago Art the Acton resident who was fighting to improve Canadas prison was a guest on the Flics spoil 42 J ears or his own life in various prisons Coun Booth resigned his posi tion on the board of directors of Ihe Childrens Aid Society In his letter of resignation the community and social services- committee of the Georgetown cited a conflict of interest of CAS meetings with two the local level Twoway radios were installed as standard equipment on all public school buses The move which cost for he boards fleet of 13 buses port of package design ed to improve the safely service communication and policies of the public si busing system Hamilton and his daughter Evelyn took advantage of Jan 10 he one a year eggs will stand on one end to try an experiment of their own The resull3 Where is your winter escape 5 years ago STEVE LISA MASON MARTIN BAR- ALISON IRVINE KEN San Diego because Australia I have Greece I Jamaica because I Hawaii they have the best always wanted to go this sum- have never been the water Is university volleyball there I would like to and I loved it there and It would be JONG because been the water Is clear a great experience ti Average Income for Georgetown residents was This com pared with average Income of for residents for for Burl ington and Toronto Georgetown Park School student Desmond and Schools Melissa Herring an joined Mayor Pee Pomeroy at Ihe region as the two students was honored for their artistic efforts In the Fire Prevention Associations poster con test Georgetown native Brian Ilayward got his chance to piny his first NHL game when the Winnipeg Jets called him up from of the AHL Midland Athletic coach Earl Scott was fired by ownerassistant roach- Hugh Robertson because the team was not playing welt as expected Mr Robertson ex pected the club be a solid third In stead of a disappointing fourth at the time of the firing