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YEAR END REVIEW December 28 lM- Page 5 Serving You Since 1977 JAKES AUTO SERVICE LTD 5 Armstrong Ave Unit 4 Georgetown 8776353 Serving You Since 1978 doors limiied 5th Line Limehouse 8775413 a Woman lays complaint against two doctors An Orange woman who says she lay in the Georgetown and Dtfitnct Memorial Hospital for three hours while her Fallopian tube ruptured has asked the On tario College of and Surgeons to investigate the action of two doctors involved in the case Martha 28 formerly of Georgetown says her ectopic pregnancy resulted in a ruptured Fallopian lube two hours after she checked into the Georgetown hospitals emergency ward March Ms she was transferred to Credit Valley Hospital in an hour after the tube ruptured where a doctor removed several hundred blood clots from her abdomen in an emergency operation The complaint filed with the lpge of physicians and surgeons names Dr Sennik and Dr Kumar For the second year in a row the Georgetown Rebels proved to be the hosts with the most as GDHS ran away with the first place overall in the relay portion of the annual Rebel Classic Invitational Track and Field meet May Georgetown accumulated a whop ping points to take first overall with Oakvilles White Oaks points and Assumption well behind in second and third respec tively Residents of the Willow Park Trailer Homes in sought public support for a new location Acton The 29- trailer park on Highway 7 lies in a floodplain pro tected by the Credit Valley Conser vation Authority Last year the CVCA gave the group until September 1988 to move but the eviction date was extended until November Bell Cellular agreed to relocate a proposed 180foot tower in Hornby Bell representatives met with Hornby residents after the Town of Halton Hills strongly suggested a relocation of the tower to be built on a quarteracre lot on Steeles Avenue The tower if approved would have been surrounded by agricultural land A 48yearold worker with the handicapped in Georgetown was killed in a car crash west of Horn by early May Margaret Candless was a director with the North Halton Association for the Handicapped Halton Regional Police say she was killed after a truck with ap parently failing brakes struck her car at the intersection of Steeles Avenue and the James Snow Parkway Mrs McCandless began working with the Georgetown cen tre in 1986 A Niagara Falls man 33 was charged with criminal negligence causing death in con nection with the fatal accident A mix of Tory followers gathered in Georgetown Friday May 5 to hear local MP Garth Turner stand behind Finance Minister Michael Wilsons budget released in early May The largely business crowd attending the breakfast urged Mr Turner and the Pro gressive Conservative Party to be harsher in spending cuts Most said social programs should be hacked even further than they were in the budget A Maple Avenue couple said they wont sit in their backyard for fear of being struck by flying golf balls from a nearby driving range Town councillors heard Robert Harris Monday night say in seven years at his house he has seen cracked win dows and has had his afternoon tea spoiled by flying golf balls Later in the year the golf course agreed to move the driving range to reduce the impact of stray golf balls on the Harris backyard Serving You Since 1978 Hwy 7 Georgetown 8731844 Serving You Since 1978 CORRIES HAIRPLACE Prop Wonfold Mill St ACTON 8533461 Serving You Since 1979 DIET Mill St Georgetown 8772900 Highland Games returns for 14th year in town The piercing melodies of the Scottish bagpipes filled the air and circled around the trees in the Georgetown Fairgrounds Satur 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 tracted thousands of visitors and 28 bands from such faraway places as Chicago Detroit and Ohio Water and Environmental Resources chairperson Rita Lan dry who said the strategy was to lobby widescale An estimated damage was caused to Road ir Georgetown during the rainstorm between June 24 and 25 One house located at Road was covered in gravel and asphalt loosened from the roadways Coun cillor Joe Hewitt said We always had a problem with that particular property town engineer Ted Drewlo said The road needs reconstruction Fairy Lakes new beaches was scheduled to be closed when the Halton Hills Parks and Recreation Department began water supervi sion in July Town parks and recreation superintendent Bryan Shynal said the beach would re main closed until Regions health department said bacteria levels in the manmade lake were safe for swimming Fairy Lakes three beaches remained closed over a third of the summer Halton Hills councillors voted in December to form a committee to study problems at Fairy Lake From May 26 to June 5 the blue and gold flag of Halton Hills flew over the skies of That was a result of the final standing of the Fit Week and the Great Canadian Participaction Challenge where Halton Hills went headtohead with Guelph to see whose com munity was more fitnessminded Hills won the challenge for the second year in a row with 364 per cent of the towns population exercising for at least minutes compared to 337 per cent of the population in exercising for the participaction challenge A 100year postal tradition at Terra Cotta will remain in tact for at least the next years Terra Cotta General Store owner Ted and his wife Donna agreed June to sign a postal con tract with Canada Post Corpora tion that would continue full postal services to the communitv A united front is necessary to pressure the provincial govern ment to pass more effective pro tection of the environment GEM Great Environmental Watch group declared at a June con ference in Norval The meet was hosted by POWER Protect Our From Gordon arena to Sudbury to the Windy City Georgetowns Adam Bennett took the biggest step toward achieving his dream of playing in the National Hockey League when the Chicago Blackhawks made him their first choice sixth overall In the NHL entry draft in Minnesota