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Knechters For Meat That Does More Than Compete UVING LIGHTING St Hwy 7 Gorgtown jOHR mm- V iB Hi Super Sunday Series During the grand finale of the Georgetown University Womens Club sponsored Join Hands show at the Cultural Centre in Georgetown last Sunday children were Invited up on stage to participate in the show Join Hands Is a husband and wile puppetry troupe from Wind Ontario The troupe consists of Matthew Romaln and Margaret Atkinson The show was part Series The next performance March at the Cultural Centre Herald photo of the university clubs Super Sunday will be Morgans Journey a clown act For ticket information call or Seniors centres recommended for Georgetown and Acton ByBENDUMMETT The Herald A strategic plan by the District Health Council and Halton Region on how best to ser vice seniors in the Region recom mends seniors centres be established in Georgetown and Acton Seniors groups in both com munities are currently negotiating with the Town of Hills to have centres built Acton seniors are negotiating with the Town to establish a cen tre in the existing Acton Fire Hall once the proposed new fire hall for Acton is built Delibera tions concerning the new Acton Fire Hall are expected to the upcoming Town budget deliberations Georgetown seniors recently rejected an offer by the Town to use the Sacre Hall as a temporary facility The Georgetown Seniors Association is meeting with the Town to determine the best way of establishing a permanent centre a possibility being the inclusion of a centre as part of the expan sion of the Gordon Memorial Arena The recommendation for the centres in Georgetown and Acton was one of several supported by the Regions Health and Social Services Committee Monday That recommendation will go before Halton Council this com ing Wednesday for final ap proval The recommendations arose out of several focus groups established throughout the Region involving seniors this past summer and a questionnaire answered by area seniors High school Halton Regional Police report worth of property was stolen from Georgetown District High School last Thursday night between and 730am Unknown suspects smashed through a door window on the west side to gain entry into the building police say The door led into the draf ting room where the suspects smashed in the window of a storeroom door gaining entry but taking nothing The suspects then left the classroom travelling to the teachers room for the social science department side of the building and here the same technique was used the room Once inside the culprits found worth of bills in a brown envelope and also took a Pulsar TV a Beta VCR and a guitar along with its case which belonged to a teacher Police werent able to find fingerprints or footprints due to the number of people in the rooms each day but the brown envelope was taken for examination Police say the incident must have occurred before midnight while the janitors were still on site since the schools motion detector alarms in the school didnt go off between midnight and 730 am Also using the building that evening were three organizations Police suspect the culprits were juveniles since several computers were overlooked The recommendations identify the existing services for seniors what is still needed and what must be done to close the gap in services said Marlene Longdon Assuming Council ap proves the strategic plan the next step said Ms is to promise the services needed and implement the services in ac cordance with available funding Ms is hopeful all of the recommendations can be im plemented over the next 10 years including the senior centres She predicts more provincial funding will be forthcoming from the province than in the past because it has requested municipalities prepare long term senior care strategies Municipalities will be able to access funds from both the Ministry of Community and Social Services and Ministry of Health to set up new services said Ms is ahead of many com munities in this area because the Region study is already done she added Regional health and Social Ser vices Commissioner Bonnie Ewart echoed Ms statements saying were several steps ahead of some other communities Other recommendations per taining to Halton Hills include ad dressing the issue of loneliness among seniors and the lack of volunteer drivers to transport seniors within the community Ms Ewat said this is a comirfon problem throughout Halton The problem Is part of the greater issue of fewer and fewer volunteers offering their services every year said the commis sioner A public transportation system with Halton Hills is another ser vice identified by area seniors that is necessary said Ms Longdon The problem with this issue she explained is that in a spread out community like Halton Hills and there being only an irregular demand for public transporta tion it isnt necessarily pro fitable to run such a service It could work by using volunteers she suggested Services lacking throughout range from the need for more people to help seniors with chores like snow shovell ing to day care programs for seniors suffering from such il lnesses as Alzheimers Disease Underlying the implementation program is the idea that seniors prefer to stay at home as long as possible instead of being put in an Institution Ms Ewart said seniors across the province have identified this preference Regarding the implementation stage of the plan Ms said community agencies as well as seniors will be consulted on which services will be implemented and bow this will be done Its a community plan she stressed As j Fmim CMtmany 11 Ftram LtMttes13 Arts 16 BwJMSS 17 top 2125 BiWHtwi7 Births 26 onto 26 EttMtf I CttirtW School plan passed By LISA The Herald Halton School Boards Race and Equity Policy and Implementation plan was passed at the boards Jan meeting but Hills trustee Dick was one of four trustees who voted against the implementation plan The part of the implementa tion plan I object to is hiring or using a consultant to bead up the implementation said Trustee There are eight pages goals listed under the implementation plan of which the first under leadership emphasis is to establish a leadership role for someone to assume the respon sibility for the implementation of this policy Superintendent of Instructional Services Graeme Barrett ex plained the leadership role will likely be assumed by a consul tant There are several con sultants currently working for the Board of Education on twoyear committments This means every two years they are assigned a different task This group of term consultants was established last year as part of Haltons Toward 2000 Strategic Directions Mr Barrett said there will likely be a consultant assigned to the position Though the im plementation plan has been ap proved which calls for a leader ship role should the person be relocated from existing staff this would be subject to budget ap proval Mr said implementa tion of the plan shouldnt fall to a consultant but rather be underaken by one of the board superintendents I can think of four superintendents that could take on the job with what they already do he said Mr Howitt has two basic objec tions to the use of consultants One stems from the very idea of using them because he didnt agree to the idea of consultants in the first place But since they are here he says they could be better used in other areas I think they should be used on curricular subjects like mathematics sciences or languages These seem more im portant to me than an policy- he said The policy isnt on top of my priority list But as only one of four negative voters the implementation part of the policy was passed by the board Hills trustee Arlene Bruce wasnt present at the meeting for the policy itself Mr said he didnt object to it The entire board of trustees is somewhat divided concerning the policy which was evident by the conflicting reports trustees gave at the meeting In summary policy passed states It shall be the policy of the Board oTEducation to continuously strive through the dedication of its human and physical resources to develop promote and maintain race and ethnocultural equity in a learning and working free of Mas and racism