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Separate school board objects to proposed abortion low The Halton Roman Catholic Board of Education plans to nounce the federal government proposed abortion legislation if given the chance says board chairman Donald Shrenk If the federal government holds public hearings on Us abortion legislation a board delegation will tell the Conservatives that life is sacred and anything that takes away life including abortion is wrong said Mr Shrenk The delegation will be composed of trustees teachers and students he said The proposed legislation makes abortion a criminal offence that carries with it a max imum prison sentence But it also makes abortion a matter between a woman and her doctor A woman can have an abortion at any time during her pregnancy if the doctor supports the woman s claim that her mental or physical health could be endangered by carrying the fetus to birth The board s superintendent of curriculum and education ser vices Lou presented trustees Tuesday night with an outline of what students in s Catholic schools are taught about abortion to better prepare the trustees if they get a chance to make a presentation at a public hearing The students regardless of their grade level are taught the Catholic church s belief that human life from its beginning at conception to its end should be respected Mr said But he also explained this message is taught differently depending on a student age Until Grade students don study specific topics such as tion Their studies centre around the general theme that everyone isprecious said Mr In Grades 7 and 8 students discuss such themes as man be ing the creation of God and life is a gift and therefore must be respected he said Students in high school discuss such topics as abortion sexual morality and human dignity They are exposed to a variety of speakers including those from the clergy and the prolife movement But Mr says the students art also made aware of the nions of the prochoice side of the abortion debate The board has already passed a resolution formally protesting the government s proposed abortion legislation in late November This resolution reiterates a ious resolution slating the board s opposition to abortion it passed following the Supreme Court of Canada s ruling that Canada s current abortion legisla is unconstitutional The resolution states that the Supreme Court s decision truly injures the whole of society It goes on to say that our national spirit ib seriously wounded by this removal of any legal protection to the lives of the unborn Metro can expropriate land POWER claims Citizens activist group POWER says although local politicians are not worried that Metro Toronto could use the Acton quarry as a landfill site municipal and provin laws allow Toronto to ex propnate land outside Metro for its own use Protect Our Water and En vironmental Resources member Rita Landry Tuesday said there is some confusion surrounding Metro s powers as one of the members of a five region commit tee studying landfill options in Peel York Durham and Metro Regions It s not something we ve dreamt up Mrs Landry said of laws approved for Metro in and 1973 that would allow that region to acquire and use land in any municipality Metro has the power to ex she said POWER reacted to Halton Regional Chairman Peter Pomeroy statement that the Ac ton quarry would not be named as a contingency site for the Greater Toronto Area initiative on landfill formed early this year Mr Pomeroy said last week that the Milton Regional landfill site on Highway still in the approval process is the only site Halton would name for landfill within the But POWER is concerned thai Reclamation Systems Inc the group that has applied to the pro vincial government to use the million tonne capacity Acton quarry as a landfill site will directly with Metro and could end up with a at Sideroad 22 and Fourth Line Metro Chairman Alan Tonks responded to POWER claims by saying the group was trying to find a roach under every rock Halton Chairman Peter said POWER is turning good news about the GTA proposal for a contingency site into bad news Its not that we re jumping to conclusions Mrs Landry said She said at one of the waste information meetings Mr said Metro use a site outside its boundaries for land fill Mrs Landry said the issue could be cleared up at the meeting scheduled for Jan in Milton EC Drury High School Wheelchair on sparks snow removal report Halton Hills engineering staff will file a report on what sidewalks in town are cleared of ice and snow by the municipality after a man was seen speeding down Highway in Georgetown in an electric wheelchair Georgetown Coun Marilyn Ser said sidewalks were not cleared from Highway 7 from Road to Boulevard She asked the town s engineering department to prepare a report outlining which sidewalks are town responsibihH Halton Hills Mayor Russ Miller agreed that a report would be a good idea Clearing of ice and snow wasn t done this morning from Pennington Crescent to 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