Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), May 9, 1990, p. 1

The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

GSS OFFICE SUPPLIES Georgetown Secretarial Service ST QEOROETOWN 8772282 UVING LIGHTING Georgetown Kto 8732996 Home Newspaper of Haiton Hills Established 186 a FREE DISTRIBUTION WEDNESDAY MAY 1990 32 PAGES Used tire disposal an ongoing concern The problem of disposing of old tires will only get worse in to come Haiton Region commis sioner of public works Robert Moore recently told members of the planning and public works Chairman said the pro vince should take a position on the issue because the fire was the biggest the province has ever bad Frenchspeaking students get new building Committee members voted to support testing the use of scrap tires as fuel to run cement kilns as an environmental alternative to disposing of old tires in landfills Mr Moore urged committee members to support the test bum of tiredenved fuel because we the Regional staff feel test burning is a logical and safe step in the disposal of scrap tires Jack Cocbett a waste disposal engineer for the Region explained that currently the Region transfer stations will only take up to five tires at a time This policy is directed at the general public he said Companies which generate large quantities of tires make their own arrangements he said But Mr said when peo ple try to trade in their old tires for new tires fare companies are now charging a handling fee of from to per tire Events like the tire fire he said are disco companies from ac cepting old tires And tins means more people start to bring their tires to the transfer station Mr Corbett speculated But the Region is finding that landfills in Niagara Foils and New York state where the Region cur rently disposes of its garbage are less willing to accent old tares Mr Corbett said landfill which is scheduled to open Hilton in could handle scrap tires but the Region is always looking for better ways of dispos ing of tires Regional chairman Peter said at the committee meeting I agree with incineration if it is done properly It can be safer than he added The p Ministry of the taken a stand either way on tare derived fuel but it has told companies if want to try it go ahead Mr Moore told ByBENDUMMETT The Herald French speaking elementary school students from Georgetown Acton and Milton will finally get a permanent building which is ex to open September 1993 The provincial government an Friday a grant of million to the Haiton Roman Catholic Separate School Board to build the new facility The new building will be constructed somewhere in Georgetown French speaking students in North Haiton take classes at Sacre Coeur School in Georgetown in a building the Catholic board rents from the Haiton Public School Board Before the lease was signed two years ago the building which is located at the corner of Maple Avenue and Guelph Street was known as Public School Teachers and Catholic board of were pleased with the an Sacre Coeur Clarice Sheers likened teaching in a per manent school as opposed to a leas ed school to owning a home as op posed to renting one You feel that much more comfortable in vour own home Don Shrenk chairman of the Haiton Catholic School Board tempered his for a September school opening saying no construction will happen until the monev starts flowing The Catholic board wants to open the new school for the beginning of the 199394 school because the board s lease on the existing building ends in said Mr Shrenk But Mr Shrenk was pleased that the province awarded the exact amount of money requested by the board in the 1990 capital forecast budget This figure cor responds with the board s estimate for the cost of buying and building a school The new school will be for junior kindergarten through to Grade and will have capacity to handle a total of 300 students said Mr Shrenk One hundred and fort students attend Sacre Coeur and that number is expected to in crease over the next several to about students Growth is at tributed to the expansion of Georgetown but only Sacre students currently come from Acton and Milton Sacre Coeur has served French speaking elementary students in North since 1961 Before cupying its current location it was run out of Holy Cross School on Maple Avenue for about years For the past three years the French section of the board has listed a new school for Sacre Coeur students as a number one priority said Mr That the school has been so well attended for almost years said North Haiton Walt Elliot was an indication to the province that a permanent school was necessary Mr Elliot speculated the new school could offer a French sion program as well as the core French curriculum But the board s Superintendent Continued on Page Rugby friendly ends in stalemate North Halloa basted in a Satardai afternoon at Neiison Fiew on Sinclair and battled back to tie the visiters on a talegame penalty kick Jamie Gaefpb ltd the at Pictured above tin from left to right wing John Mark Shcppberd and flyhalf Jamie bottler challenge a plater for the ball while teammate Moffat looks on from the background coach Jim Atkin son manager of the Ontario team was impress ed by the efforts of the North has three local Mark Sfcepofcenl Mark Lamb and Wade to out for the provincial team the hasnt been finalized it expected that the North Reghy will swing NiagaraSoathwestern Ontario action the week after the

Powered by / Alimenté par VITA Toolkit
Privacy Policy