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YEAR END REVIEW Thursday December 1989 t Sorvi Serving You Since 1983 HALTON TAXI A DIVISION OF HALTON HILLS HOLDING LTD 110 Mill St Georgetown Serving You Since 1983 NORTH STAR DRY CLEANERS 55 Main St S DOWNTOWN GEORGETOWN 8770469 Serving You Since 1983 Serving You Since 1983 Boucher Sons Aluminum Ltd a Serving You Since 1984 aRJay PLUMBING HEATING CUSTOM SHEET METAL WORK 29 Armstrong Ave Georgetown 8775343 Fire causes 50000 damage Town Highland Games settle misunderstanding Halton Hills fire department of- ficiab speculated that a group of small children playing with mat ches started a fire in back of the Shoppers Drug Mart store in the Georgetown Market Place plaza that caused damage near the end of June Police said witnesses saw children playing with matches in the area shortly before the blaze started No one was hurt during the fire It took firefighters two and a half hours of dousing the fire with water and shovelling mounds of charred cardboard away from the flames before the fire was brought under control A local man told the president of Aggregates Al Issac to get the hall out of town during a heated discussion on the proposed Acton quarry at a meeting in Acton in the beginning of July Mr wants to build the aore quarry between Highway 25 the Fourth Line near Most of the 100 au dience members which included several members of the en vironmental group POWER Protect Our Water and En vironmental Resources fighting the proposed Acton landfill site alternately shouted and laughed at the proposal Mr argued that ex amined six possible sites but the proposed Acton one the highest quality rock This hap pens to be where the best rock is he said Erin resident Terry Johnson 33 pulled a drowning boy from the Credit River near Maple Avenue and River Road at the beginning of this month The boy had been play ing in the river and was pulled under by an undertow when Mr Johnson entered the river and pull- Finance Minister Michael Wilson talked about the ox isting unfair lax system in Canada and reaffirmed the strong working relationship between himself and Hal tonPeel MP Garth Turner at a Conservative Parly fundraising dinner in Hornby early this month Herald photo the boy ashore He then per formed artificial respiration on the boy until an ambulance arrived He was then taken to Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital where he was treated and later released Halton Region decided to change its stand concerning the Reclama tion Systems Inc proposal to turn the Acton quarry site into a landfill site this month Halton originally just had concerns with the pro posal but the Region is now not satisfied with the environmental assessment of the proposal PQJVER member John Minns called the shift in position a remarkable milestone The ministry could have deemed the Regions original position as an unspoken approval for the RSI pro posal but now there is no doubt how the Region feels he said A Niagara Escarpment Commis sion Report said poisonous leachate from the proposed Acton landfill site could leak into the underwater aquifer the water source supplying all of Hills with its water The unstable quarry floor could develop cracks which would allow the Amabel aquifer to become con taminated with the leachate the report said The National Hockey League ap pointed longtime Georgetown resi dent Bryan Lewis to the position of director of officiating for the league Mr Lewis succeeded John who was also of Georgetown He died unexpectedly of complications following surgery About the appointment Mr Lewis said Im excited its another challenge and I accept the challenge Following a series of misunderstandings and muddled communication the Town of Halton Hills gave the Highland Gaines Association a written pledge of allegiance The former Highland Games president Keith Spicer ap peared before council in June say ing that there were problems and water at the Georgetown Fairgrounds Coun cillors said people attending the Games blamed the town for the problems Halton Hills Mayor Russ Miller said he thought the Games committee was completely satisfied with the agreement bet ween the town staff and the Games committee He added that the com mittee should get their house order before negotiating with the town for next years event But Mayor Miller stressed the town is desirous to have the Highland Games here Before the Toronto Symphony Orchestra would consider using Scotsdale as its summer home the community would have to show its support Credit Valley Conserva tion Authority manager Ken Owen said early this month The site near is one of several sites being con sidered by the orchestra as a sum mer practice area With the possibility of concerts under the stars by a big name orchestra tourism in Halton Hills would im prove Mr Owen said North Halton cable television watchers dont want five new cable television stations available on cable this year according to the results of a mail survey The survey which was sent to cable subscribers in Halton Hills and Milton revealed that per cent of those who responded will not pay for youth television a political sta tion out of Ottawa an all weather station a religious station and the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora tion all news channel Halton Cable sent out 16000 questionnaires on a massmailing scheme that reached over subscribers Nine per cent of the subscribers responded to the survey Bel Canada sent out surveys to Halton Hills residents asking if they would support a oneprice ser vice to call Metropolitan Toronto The survey asked residents if they would like to pay anywhere from to more a month to get residential connection to Toronto York Scarborough and Business phone users were also sent the survey The survey must show a per cent support before Bell would consider hooking up all of Georgetown to the one price Toronto line Bell will reveal the results in early 1990 Residents of Willow Park in Nor- were given a site on Regional Road 12 in Acton to relocate the town announced this month The Credit Valley Conservation Authority earlier this year told the residents they had to move their trailers The CVCA told residents they had to move because where they currently live is considered a dangerous location because it lies in the floodplain of both Silver Creek and the Credit River The site has space for permanent trailers HaltonPeel MP Garth Turner said he wouldnt be a cheerleader for federal finance minister Michael Wilson and wouldnt sell the nine per cent sales tax to the people of Halton Im not go ing to sell the tax to anybody Im going to explain the tax and say why Mr Wilson wants to do this and what it means he said The nine per cent tax will replace a system that is unfair and shouldnt remain in the status quo said Mr Turner Serving You Since 1984 Pictures Presents Main St S Downtown Georgetown 8777654 Serving You Since 1984 ftsiUrr TAt WwWt CUttm 232 Guelph St Georgetown 8731646 Serving You Since STEERING SPECIALTIES INC 33 Armstrong Ave Georgetown 8779411 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