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BEST AVAILABLE COPV Frank Grant wants to keep his museum in Halton Hills Page 3 Halton Hills officials examine Canadas first wood recycler Page 11 Elementary school athletes shine at local track meets Page 12 In Business For Business GSS OFFICE SUPPLIES Georgetown Secretarial Services 8772282 Main St N ACTON Ontario fife Parti TwmI FREE DISTRIBUTION WEDNESDAY JUNE 14th 1989 36 PAGES The waggle the kilt The 14Ut annul Georgetown Highland Games drew sentiment during the day However the Highland of people to the Fairgrounds Saturday Games are expected to be bach for its threat of rata Lock stayed with the Here one item highbinder leads the pipes and however and all the events went off drams daring th massed bands parade Herald a hitch AHhoogh the games are to photo by Brian MacLeod break even seine town councillors fell an antitown Thousands fling at Highland Games By DONNA KELL Herald Staff The piercing melodies of the Scottish bagpipes filled the air and circled around the trees in the Georgetown Fairgrounds day The Highland Games had returned for the time br inging with them a touch of heather flashes of tartan and an ode to the Scottish Soldier This years Highland Games at traded thousands of visitors and 28 bands from such faraway places as Chicago Detroit and Ohio The bagpipes just echo into the trees Its a beautiful park said organizer Keith Spicer It a super park Everyone who comes here says so But this years gala event was marred by inconveniences day the day before the festivities Mr Spicer discovered there was no hydro The Town of Hills was called in on an emergency visit climbing a hydro pole in the rain storm to provide power for the annual event And Saturday morning water that was supposed to be running by 6am didnt blast into action until an hour after breakfast was cook ingatthepaviilions When youre doing something voluntarily you dont want to run into these problems said Mr Spicer It was either fulness on the part of the town or negligence Councillors at Monday nights town council meeting following the weekend Highland Games said there was an antitown attitude prevailing at the Games Organizers were bitter that the town had failed to provide utilities on time in addition to cancelling camping privileges several weeks before the event according to Mr Spicer Theres quite a resentment towards this town council said Coiin Norm Elliott of Acton who confessed his own Scottish heritage to the other councillors And Coun Elliott said there were rumors that this would be the last year for the Highland Games which have become a Georgetown tradition It disturbs me a great deal when I hear on Saturday that peo ple should hang onto the Games program because it could be the last year But Mr Spicer said the tradition Contd on Page School Board wants entrepreneurial spirit ByBENDUMMETT Herald StaTf Fostering an entrepreneurial spint within the Halton Board of Educations schools should be one of the boards primary goals as it approaches the 21st century Director Bob Williams said at the June board of education meeting Mr Williams said the boards administration has insufficient manpower and resources to make all of the educational related deci sions alone This is one of three inter connected strategies Mr Williams outlined for board trustees concer ning the direction he thinks it should take if the education system is going to properly prepare students to meet environmental problems the changing economy and advancing technologies Although Mr Williams said some of the regions schools cur rently display significant initiative in their approach to others depend too much on the board for direction As director it is his and the boards job to provide schools with the resources and leadership to become more in dependent But ultimately the strategys successful implementa- Bob Williams Hon depends on principals and teachers Principals have to ac cept their enhanced role as school leaders and teachers must be open to new and advanced teaching strategies be said The report is to some degree an act of faith Mr Williams said of bis strategy for education in If the board and schools are outrage