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footnotes office supplies furniture hS Supplies Two locations to serve you better 2282 4168570445 GEORGETOWN BOLTON Guelph Holey Road The Halton Hills HERALD Florists Open Sunday December 10om4pm GREAT SAVINGS ON CHRISTMAS TRIM AND MORE GEORGETOWN NORTHVIEW CENTRE 8776901 14500 DISTRIBUTION 32 PAGES Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1 866 SATURDAY DECEMBER 22nd Market plaza expansion At least some of the residents whose property is next to the Georgetown Market Place plaza walked away satisfied Tuesday after Hills Site Plan Com mittee gave final approval to the expansion of the plaza One resident told committee members the changes made to the design of the expansion have benefited the residents I feel better now added the resident Another resident however wasnt so satisfied When the developer properties of Toronto said a noise study deter mining the effect increased truck traffic in the mall area would have on neighboring residents will not be done the resident responded by saying one is necessary Town Mayor Miller said the town t require a noise study being done The mayor went on to state the applicant has tried to do everything possible to appease the residents concern and people don appreciate it He qualified his criticism say ing he appreciated the comments from the resident who recognized had been made to the pro posal so concerns of the neighbor ing residents are better met The approximately residents in attendance at the site plan meeting live in the development in Georgetown Their backyards will border the area of the planned new Woolco department store The expansion calls for the doubling in size of the plaza from approximately 150 square feet to almost 300 000 square feet Included in the expansion will be Woolco department store and the conversion of the existing plaza into an outdoor mall Additional retail spaces will also be part of the expansion Cliff Levy who appeared on behalf of ICI proper ties at the meeting told the com mittee the Woolco Store will be Continued on Page An Inside Look lowttBirtener lb Food and Fashion 3 Letter to Stsanw Santa 1926 8 Sports 20 24 Forum Entertainment 25 Dental 9 Youth Enrimmtnt 12 27 13 Apartment 27 13 31 14 days until Christmas ilil liiiiJ ill IB iinia una imia Apartment complex controversy resolved By BEN The Herald A Georgetown couple in their 80 living on the seventh floor of the Royal Ascot apartment pom plex on Hall Road are resting easier now The couple along with the other residents living on the seventh floor of the building have been without elevator service for more than two weeks Wednesday Toronto based Northern Elevator Service Limited replaced the computer chip controlling the elevators movement it had removed ap proximately two weeks ago The company took the chip because it hadn t been paid the own to it by the builder of the apart Toronto s Granville Con for originally installing the elevator After several meetings involv Town Mayor Miller the province Toronto Prenor Trust a trust Involved with the apartment complex and Sam Diamond the receiver manager for Royal Ascot Prenor Trust decided to pay the elevator company a certain sum of money to replace the chip Manager of Commercial Mortgages for the trust company reveal the agreed upon amount during an interview Wednesday Prenor Trust is in charge of paying off Granville ding debts associated with the apartment building The debts in volve many building trades and total million and change said Ms She wouldn t reveal the amount of money paid to the elevator company saying it will be revealed during an up coming court heanng The hear ing is to decide which outstanding debts will be paid Mr t know the court date Reluctant to pay Northern Elevator until the court hearing Ms said the company decided to pay after being unable to obtain the chip from another elevator company to put the elevator at Royal Ascot apart ment complex back in service Mayor Miller said the trust company felt it was being held for ransom Trust speculated if it gave in to Nor them Elevator other companies still owed money would start removing parts of the work they did The Trust company lawyer is investigating if legal action can be taken against the elevator company Northern Elevator President Barry said Thursday con trary to comments made by others involved in the controver the company t paid anything We ve only been given a letter saying we will be paid of the The chip was taken as a last resort said Mr We haven t been paid for a year and no one was giving us a straight answer One person would tell us wed get 10 cents on the dollar and others were saying wed get nothing Blaming the provincial Liens Act Mr Pletch said his company is embroiled in six other similar situations Meanwhile Town Building Director Ron Shettell said a stop work order has been placed on construction of the recreation entre at the apartment building The work order was placed because of deficient construction the area of roof flashings and some structural supports he said Mr Shettell said the order would be removed when com pltance with the building code had been completed in these areas Mr Shettell is hopeful this work will happen this weekend Halton Hills cares By LISA The Herald The generous and giving spirit of Christinas is helping the Acton Food Bank and Love In Christ food bank in Georgetown cope with rapidly increasing numbers of needy area families Over the past three weeks we seen more and more families needing food said Laura Ellison coordinator of the Georgetown service I think the increase is due to the economy Love In Christ in the Moun- tainview Baptist Church at Moun- tainview Road and Comsetgate once served 30 families a week Now over 50 families accept can ned good and perishable items so the little funds they have can be used to keep a roof over their heads Joan coonHnfltor of the Acton food bank is seeing the same need in her community Since opening on Oct in the Canada Packers building de mand for their services has in- Continued on Page 2