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POWER questions chairmans claims ByBENDUMMETT The Herald Despite claims once again by Regional chairman Peter Pomeroy at Wednesday s Regional planning and public works com mittee meeting that Halton has yet to decide whether it is a full fledged member of the Greater Toronto Area local environmental group Protect Our Water Environ Resources POWER says the Region is a full pant POWER spokesperson John Minns told committee members Wednesday the Region is in losing control over its waste management plan to the GTA Solid Waste Interim Steering Committee To solve what the province has called a garbage crisis in the greater Toronto area SWISC was set up to find a long term and short term solution for the garbage problem As part of the short term solution SWISC members the Regions of Halton Durham York Peel and Metropolitan Toronto are expected to offer a landfill site to the other members for garbage disposal The long term solution is a comprehensive waste manage ment plan of which a 3 R s reduce reuse and recycle action plan is a major component Regional Council hasn t made a decision whether or not its landfill in Milton which is expected to open will be offered to the GTA as part of the SWISC short term solution But according to Regional Chairman since Halton is an uncommitted member of SWISC the Region along with other members is still participating in the review of about 80 different ideas submitted from around the world as possible long term waste reduction solutions Mr Minns argued Halton s par ticipation in this form means the GTA is deciding for how to handle garbage The public Mr Mums told committee members being invited to help decide whether the Milton landfill should be offered to the GTA and which of the long term solutions would be viable for Halton He used the example that one of the submitted proposals calls for the installation of eight in cinerators in Milton In all likelyhood the people of Milton have no idea about this proposal predicted Mr Minns But chairman gested this proposal along with many others are too outlandish to taken seriously Are you Mr Minns aware there is one proposal calling for an Island of garbage to be built in Lake Ontario asked Mr Pomeroy John Minns appeared before committee members to urge them to allow for greater public par ticipation in the and whether should be a participant Following Mr Minns presenta the committee voted to hold a special planning and public works committee meeting involving all Regional councillors where the public would be encouraged to at tend to participate in a debate on Continued on Page 2 In Business For Business GSS OFFICE SUPPLIES Georgetown Secretarial Services St Georgetown 8771 14th ANNUAL V GEORGETOWN FAIRGROUND FIREWORKS SUNDAY MAY 20 MONDAY MAY 21 Ad Compliments of florists Georgetown FREE DISTRIBUTION SATURDAY MAY 19th 1990 PAGES BangORama festival to light up the sky By ALAN MALK1L The Herald A backyard celebration that started roughly years ago has grown from an operation needing only a few operators to an opera tion that needs about 90 volunteers Norm Guthrie chairman of the Bang ORama festival said The first celebration was in a backyard and was a to Victoria Day Sandy Booth vice- president of the Optimist Club said Bang O Rama slowly evolved in to the present one and a half day celebration Mr Booth said In its early stages before it came to the Georgetown Fairgrounds the Op timists combined with the Norval Community Association to put on a festival Mr Guthrie said It became recognized as the Bang festival years ago once the celebration was large enough to be moved into Georgetown Mr Guthrie added As for the name Mr Booth said Somebody dreamed it up Like last year the festival is ex to be visited by between to 12 people depending on the weather Mr Guthrie said If sunny weather prevails the Optimists expect about peo ple but if it s pouring down the club expects only about peo ple Guthrie said About five years ago there was a severe thunderstorm and the 13 volunteers who showed up at the Fairgrounds were forced to decide whether or not the cancel the show Mr Guthrie said Mr Guthrie had been listening to the Windsor weather reports and knew it was going to clear up He said no one else really thought the show should continue but Mr Guthne went down to the end of Park Avenue and saw a large amount of people starting to show After dropping prices and with a little luck with the weather clearing the show went on as scheduled The ticket sales helped the club break even for that year s event The festival has actually been rained out only once about or years ago This was also the only year the Optimist Club lost money on the event Mr Booth said It s not meant to be a fund raiser Mr Booth added It is stnctly a festival that allows the Optimist Club to give something back to the com he said Mr Booth is however very optimistic about the festival We will make money he said or at least break even Approximately has been spent on fireworks for this year production Mr Guthne said This year s volunteers started work on Friday They will finish setting up before the event starts Sunday Some of the volunteers will also be at the Fairground s to clean up on Tuesday Mr Guthne added The organizers however had to Continued on Page 7 Land severances gain approval The Region Land Division Committee Tuesday approved an application for three severances of the abandoned CN line property north of Glen Williams despite op position by three nearby residents The eight mile strip of land is owned collectively by 34 Ian downers whose properties abut the land Georgetown lawyer Bert nold made the application on behalf of the 34 landowners Mr Arnold who appeared before the Regions planning and public works committee Wednes day said of the three people who opposed the severances only one showed up at the Tuesday night hearing in Milton Mr Arnold was representing the landowners at the meeting The concerns centred on the issue of drainage in the area possi ble traffic problems and a predicted alteration to the land be ing used for recreation purposes Neither the Credit Valley Con Authority the Niagara Escarpment Commission or the town of Hills had indicated objections to the severances The Region had also expressed no op position to the severances as long as the land wasn developed Mr Arnold confirmed none of the Ian downers had plans to develop the property Mr Arnold appeared before the planning and public works com mittee Wednesday to ask the com mittee to reduce the Regional fee charged to the landowners to pro cess their applications for the severances from a total amount of about to about 3 The fee covers the cost to the Region of processing the applications which totalled 21 But Mr Arnold argued the fees should be reduced because the ap plications were identical After lit tie discussion committee members decided to reduce the staff recommended fee by 50 per cent to about in total The recommendation will go before Regional council next Wednesday for final approval Artist exhibits her work Shawn Langdon left shares a smile with artist Linda last weekend as the pair discuss art In general and Miss Donais work in particular Miss Donais held an exhibit and sale of her work last day and Saturday at the Campbell House Gallery on Main Street Georgetown The talented young Georgetown artist will be holding another exhibition and sale of her work July 38 to Aug IS at the Georgetown Cultural Centre Gallery Herald photo by Colin Gibson A big loser emerges as a big winner Page NOW OPEN Water Softeners Iron Filters FOR INHOUSE ANALYSIS St Raiders new GM a surprise choice