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Georgetown man is teed off with driving range A Maple Avenue couple wont sit out in their backyard for fear of be ing struck by flying golf balls from a nearby driving range Town councillors heard from Robert Harris Monday night as he described the last seven years of cracked house windows and spoil ed afternoon teas He said the windows were paid for by the North Golf and Country Club But I always say how are you going to pay for an eye for me he told town coun cillors Were not able to sit out on our lawn comfortably without that thing going on in our minds that a ball is going to hit us But Mr Harris said his concerns spread from his home to surroun ding neighbors He said last week he walked to the foot of the hill near his home and this golf ball camerightatme Somebody could be very seriously hurt he said Mr Harris said his home is in range of every ball He added that his neighbors have received dents and smashed windows to their cars Monday morning before Mr Harris came to the towns general committee meeting there were four balls fired at his home within an hour Town adminiBtrator Dan Costea laid the town would make a friendly neighbor call to the golf nurse to see if theres a solution the problem The golf club before opening its driving range seven or eight years ago did at least morally respond to the towns request said recrea tion and parks director Tom Shepard But Mr Harris said a fence plac ed on the driving range by the golf club was not enough to stop the balls He also said his property was prime territory for righthanded swingers which he said make up of golfers Please he said to town coun cillors could you do something If so can you do it quickly Coun Pam Johnston supported Mr Harris claims that the driving range is dangerous to those pass ing by on Maple Avenue She said there were to 30 balls that hit the road during her bicycle ride one day Mr Harris retains his sense of humor in light of the golf ball pro blem on the property he has lived on for 38 years He said he sells the found golf balls at a garage sale Im very tempted sometimes to get my own clubs out and hit them back he said to town councillors But more seriously be added hes interested in the public as wellasmyself Its common sense not to have a range at the side of the roadway In Business For Business GSS OFFICE SUPPLIES Georgetown Secretarial Services Guelph St Georgetown 8772282 Fend ley Florists GEORGETOWN HIGH GRADS ORDER YOUR CORSAGES TODAY 211 Guelph St Georgetown NORTHVIEW CENTRE FREE DISTRIBUTION SATURDAY MAY 20th A long wait for malpractice decision Police week display Oakville Town Centre Constable Deborah MacDuffee of Georgetown was one of many Regional Police officers at the Police Week display in Oakville Town Centre police were joined by the CN Police the and the RCMP in meeting with the public Events are scheduled at the mall for this weekend For more Police Week photos turn to Page Herald photo Police Week means getting close to police By DONNA KELL Herald Staff It could be at least 18 months before the results of an investiga tion involving two child birth doc tors one from Georgetown and one from Brampton are released by the Ontario College of Physi cians andSurgeons A former Georgetown resident Martha Meers filed a com plaint requesting an investigation into the professional conduct of Georgetown obstetrician and gynecologist Valerie Kumar and Brampton gynecologist and obstetrician Sennik Ms alleges the doctors are responsible for the bursting of her Fallopian tube March 17 as the result of an ectopic pregnancy a pregnancy outside the womb Mb told theHerald after signing an official information release that she was in the emergency department of Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital March 17 before being transferred to Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga where she experienced hermorrhaging She alleges that the staff at Credit Valley say she should not have been moved in her condition Ms Meers also says Dr Kumar the only gynecologist and obstetri cian residing in Georgetown was unavailable to see her for the three hours she spent at Georgetown hospital where Dr David Cook per formed a blood test confirming she was pregnant Ms says blood tests were conducted by Dr Sennik in Bramp ton on the recommendation of Dr John of Georgetown the day before she was admitted to Georgetown with severe pain Dr was treating Ms Meers in the absence of her regular doctor Dr Jack Ford But a spokesman for the college of physicians and surgeons said it could take at least a year before the result of an investigation into the conduct of Doctors Kumar and Sennik is released to the public College director of communica tions Linda Franklin says after a written complaint is received evidence is gathered from both witnesses for the doctor and for the complainant The evidence then goes to the complaints committee of the col lege where it could take as long as 18 months to process Mrs Franklin says this is large due to a backlog of investigations made by the college The complaints committee looks for evidence of profound miscon duct If misconduct is discovered the complaint carries through to the discipline committee where a for mal hearing is held to decide a penalty for the offending doctor The system is quasijudicial Mrs Franklin said If the doctors found guilty at this point its the discipline com mittee that decides the punish ment she said Penalties can be as lenient as an unpublished reprimand where the doctors conduct appears in a medical journal but does not bear his or her name or could be as harsh as a revoking of the doctors licence If the complaints committee finds the doctor innocent of im proper conduct the decision can be appealed to the operated body the Health- Disciplines Board But per cent of cases appealed to the board are upheld with the colleges decision said Mrs Franklin There are practicing physicians and surgeons in Ontario of the 24000 registered in the pro vince Of that number are in vestigated by the college of and surgeons each year But less than seven per cent of those in vestigated are found guilty of Im proper professional conduct ByBENDUMMETT Herald Staff Halton Regional Police are returning to the ways of the early sixties as shakes hands with a police officer becomes the theme for this years Police Week which wraps up this weekend Like it was thirty years ago when towns were smaller the force is getting in touch with the communi ty said Detective Keith Robertson of Division precinct in Georgetown Robertson has been a police officer in Halton Region for almost 20 years He attributes improved com munity relations in North to the recent introduction of village constables Acton and Milton have village constables police who walk the local beat Georgetown is expected to get its own village con stable within a year Milton Village Constable Larry said people are receptive walked away A man who walked away from the split cab of a say the loaded grovel truck was 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