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footnotes office supplies furniture Too locations to urveyou better 2282 GEORGETOWN BOLTON Guctph Healer Road Onwno ALD LIGHTING St Hwy Georgetown AVI Sou do DISTRIBUTION PAGES Home Newspaper Is Established WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1SS0 Strike looms at local mill The Herald The SO unionized employees at Georgetown s Provincial Papers a division of Abitibi Price could walk off the job as early as this The workers decisively re jected the company latest offer In a vote held Sunday in Georgetown said worker representative and a national representative with the Canadian Paperworkers Union CPU Marvin Pupeza The employees minus two or three who attend the meeting voted per cent in favor of the offer being rejected said Mr Pupeza The union has been in a legal strike position since Sept 27 Mr said unless a deal can be worked out this week a strike will begin Monday We ve decided to give it one more shot he said The wedge between the union and management is money The company latest offer includes a twoyear deal with a 90 cents per hour increase in wages during the first year and a five per cent wage increase in the following year These figures were confirmed by the company s personnel manager Barry Ferguson Mr Pupeza said this offer is too far behind those agreements reached earlier this year between Abitibi Price and the employees at its other divi sions in Northern Ontario and Quebec Like these employees the Georgetown workers want threeyear deal said Mr Pupesi The union initial monetary demands included a 10 r hour raise and another 12 cent tacked on to the houilj wage The represents lost wag incurred by the employees the past 10 years said Mr During the early Georgetown local wage crease was 10 less than the crease received by the locals said Mr If tb figure is translated into dollars said Mr t Georgetown employees are ms ing less than other Price workers The union is flexible on the per cent wage increase he said Mr Pupeza said a mediator has been contacted to see if a meeting can be arranged this week between the mediator union and management At press time Mr Pupeza said he t heard from the mediator about an exact date for a meeting But Mr Ferguson said management understands the meeting will be held Monday Mr Ferguson would make no comment on the company s latest offer and the union rejection of it Town gets donation town will have no problem ushering in the New Year come mid night Jan I now that there is the first and only official Ha I ton bell The bell cairn were donated by the fa mil of John left presented the bell and to centre and Town Director of KecreallonriidParksTomShepjrd Friday Herald photo An Inside Look Police 19 Glen Wtffiams Fonrm Service Clubs Council Schools Ottiwi Report 5 History Money Matters Editorial 8 Sports 1B5B Letters Theatre Arts A Ideas Entertainment 7B Computers Births 8B Bostons Deaths SB Housing IS Classified Hotline TAKE TIME TO REMEMBER An early Christmas visit What s this Mr and Mrs Claus paid an early Christmas Bazaar Ms Cleave plans to send the to Georgetown over the weekend Not quite wicker plate faces to her daughter in Winnipeg Ap- resident Marion Cleave holds up the proximately W0 people attended the bazaar and it Mr and Mrs Claus faces she bought at Salurdaj s was expected raise 500 for the church Herald Georgetown Knox Prsbyterian Church annual photo Councillors question police over Devils night incident Two Acton councillors and Halton Hills Mayor Miller are scheduled to meet soon with Halton Regional Police to discuss the force s response to the pum plan and egg throwing assault on the community Oct 30 Councillors Norm Elliott and Rick Bonnette want to know why police left the intersection at Main Street and Mill Street while approximately youths armed with pumpkins and eggs pelted cars and in the area We re the councillors unhappy the police left the in said Mr Elliott following Monday nights tow general committee meeting He qualified his nt in the police saying before making any final judgements he wants to hear the police side of the story Both councillors recounted for the committee how upon return ing from a meeting in Georgetown the two entered what Mr Elliott referred to as a war zone of egg throwing youths At the intersection the say they saw two police cruisers Mr Elliott said he was surprised at the activity or inac of the police After passing through the the councillors later relumed to the scene and saw no police Meanwhile the not was going at bore said Mr Elliott The councillors later found the police said Mr Elliott at the Old Hide House parking lot at Mill Street and Highway Police told the two at that time they were unable to stop the youths and they were waiting for reinforcements Mr Elliott tions if the police have stayed in the area of the fray while waiting for backup Mr Elliott said he is hopeful the meeting with the police will answer this question Mr Elliott also took exception to local media reports in winch an Acton resident was quoted as say ing the egg throwing evening was an innocent time Let me go on record as saying this I an innocent time Elliott told the committee emphatically 1 m speaking for dozens of citizens who told me of their dismay and It was he most serious incident I ve ever seen in community said the ciuncillor This kind of incident can hap pen again stressed both Both men also noted the van dalism cost the town almost in clean up expenses Mayor Miller said he received several calls about the incident three of which came from non Acton residents It was embar rassing to be told that Acton was a terrible place said the mayor If I played a tape recording of those phone calls to all of the peo ple of Hills the ty would say it can happen again and those who took part t want to do it again said Mayor Miller Coun predicted youths from Erin Rocwood and other surrounding communities would participate in the van dalism next year if measures taken to prevent a recur rence of the event The situation was dangerous said He described how a Georgetown girl had gotten out of her car to participate the egg and pum throwing only to slip fall and then have her arm run over In another incident a youth received a large welt on his nose after being pelted by a hard boiled egg he said Canada Post denies Georgetown closure Rumors and pure speculation are the words a Canada Post spokesman used Monday in response to questions about the possible Georgetown post office Chns said there is no truth whatsoever to the talk of Canada Post closing the Georgetown office at the present time But that I mean at some future date the crown corporation may consider he commented The Herald contacted Canada Post to recent rumors around town that either the station was scheduled to be closed or there were plans to sell the property The rumors have no foundation repeated Mr Bartsch Mr recent comments are similar to the ones he made about months ago when the Herald contacted him enquiring about the same types of rumors During the last year the Georgetown mail sorting operations have been moved to a plant in Mississauga As well the Norval post office was privatized last month