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YOU WIN With Quality Brand Name Furnishings All At Wholesale Prices I Ontario Chesterfield Wholesalers I Hal LIVING LIGHTING Si Hwy 7 Georgetown Saturday Norval Easter service Reverend Mary Campbell and Jamie Cunningham clerk of session at Norval Presbyterian Church stand with the cross they decorated as part of their Easter Sunday service in Norval Herald photo Education costs on the rise Crazy Boat Race Get ready for a wild and crazy time this Saturday as the An nual Crazy Boat Race sponsored by the Georgetown Lions Club is set to go People attending the race can expect to see a variety of strangelydesigned boats which will fall into one of four categories These include canoes comic boats crazy boats and commercial and service club boats said the races Committee Chairperson Mark Rush The canoe portion of the race starts on the Credit River at noon in Cheltenham while all other en trants will start at the William Hunter Farm in Terra Cotta at pm Mr Rush said however the best place to view the start of the race is at the located beside the Terra Cotta Inn on King Street The finish line will be at the Glen Williams ball park on Main Street The faster boats are ex pected to finish the race in an hour while the slower boats pro bably wont cross the finish line until 3 pm said Mr Rush Last years race which at tracted entrants raised close to said Mr Rush The Lions Club cant expect to raise this amount from Saturdays race because one of last years major sponsors wont be par ticipating this year he said Awards will be given out to the winner in each category and as well special awards will be presented to the best judged crazy boat and comic boat star ting at 730 pm at the Acton Legion By USA BOONSTOPPELPOT The Herald Despite a lack of new in itiatives and the deferral of previously passed policies the Halton Board of Education will spend approximately million more in 1991 than they did last year in order to maintain the level of classroom service provid ed in 1990 Board trustees approved a budget of at a special meeting of the board held last Wednesday But the sum is lower than the boards finance committee had initially calculated in their budget proposal presented to the board March They recom mended an expenditure budget amounting to 275218635 Wednesday night deliberations succeeded in reducing the pro posed budget by in the areas of reorganization of in structional and support staff library services review and addi tional support staff Patty Wilcox chair of the finance committee explained that although the above areas are approved policies of the board they were deferred for this year This means nine instructional and support staff including a co- Indecent exposure Halton Regional Police are looking for a young adult male who exposed himself to a child in a field near the Hall Road apart ment building Sunday afternoon Police say the victim was walk ing her dog through the field when she saw a man standing amidst a narrow grouping of trees with his pants around his knees Police describe the suspect as a white man about with dark wavy shoulder length hair and broad shoulders Extra patrols were instigated in the area by the Criminal In vestigations Bureau of the Halton Regional Police who are continu ing to investigate the incident Hanman to coach Raiders Georgetown Chrysler Raiders Jr B hockey team named longtime Georgetown Minor Hockey Association coach Charlie Hanman as their new coach for the 199192 season on Monday replacing Gary dyen The move comes after Raiders finished sixth in the seven team Central Ontario Jr B West divi sion and were swept in their best of five opening playoff series with Brampton For more on this story see the sports section page 23 An Inside Look Nice Bait 2 Button 13 Community Forum 2 14 Hit Cab 2 Forum 3 Legion Linn 8 Money Mitten 19 Editorial Entertainment 21 10 Meal 22 11 Sparta 2327 Community 2932 op instructor music consultant and English as a second language coordinator will not be hired this year resulting in a financial decrease of An addi tional was deleted from the budget through the deferral of additional support staff con sisting mainly of library The last items removed from the proposed budget was library services and Ms Wilcox is disap pointed that libraries will be put on the for another year Quite a few school libraries are behind in their collections and need to be upgraded just to get up to par with other schools said Ms Wilcox New library equipment and maintenance funds worth that the committee had proposed were cut from the budget Items the board will be paying for this year include for legislated benefits including health cost tax 1166000 for debt charges new schools etc for all other operating costs including con tracted salaries and benefits and price increases for supplies and services for multiyear pro grams such as computers In schools and technical studies Just over a quarter 257 per cent of the budget Is paid for through provincial grants increased 11 per cent or up million from 1990 levels The total grant amounts to Much of the remaining expen diture budget will be paid by tax payers The board estimated that local taxes for are ex pected to increase to 855 mills or on a residence with an assess- value of bringing the total education tax to Bill Harrison chair of the board said one of the boards goals for 1991 was to minimize the impact of the education budget on the local mill rate Throughout the year we have been looking at ways to prepare a budget that would not be a strain on local tax payers in these tough economic times He continued to say that new in itiatives were not even con sidered at either the board or the school level The mill rate increase of 502 per cent is the lowest for our board in over a decade and we would expect it to be one of the lowest of comparable boards this year he said Child care spaces refused by Region ByBENDUMMETT The Herald A of funds is the reason behind Halton Regions decision to turn down 87 partially provinciallyfunded child care spaces for the Region said Halton Social Services Commis sioner Bonnie during an interview Thursday The province recently ed money would be provided to subsidize 5000 child care spaces of which were offered at a total Regional cost of said Mrs Ewart That figure represents per cent of the cost to finance 87 child care spaces over a one year period The re maining SO per cent was to be Continued on Page Bonnie Ewart Lifestyles show Saturday Georgetown District High School the place to be on Saturday April 6th 10 am4 pm Lifestyles of Halton Hills is a funfilled day of health promotions and demonstrations by over community organizations and businesses The following is an outline of demonstrations and entertainment that you can expect to see ONSTAGE DEMONSTRATIONS GDHS CAFETORIUM -Video- Healthy Lifestyles am Chi and Demonstrations Halton Hills School of Dancing am Work That Body Step Aerobics am St John Ambulance Heimlick Manoeuvre Demonstra tion audience participation noon Cheri Lindsays Ronald McDonald 130 pm Pine Valley Square Dance Club pm Kings Batons East Twirling Club 230 pm Chi and Demonstrations 330pmVideoHealthLifestyles 330pm Pine Valley SquareDanceClub In addition Good Sports Us will demonstrate games to par ticipate in with your dog on the playing field every hour throughout the day The St John Ambulance volunteers will demonstrate and first aid at various times through the day and will demonstrate the Heimlich Manoeuvre on stage at am The Hills Child Care Centre will help your children plant seeds for to take home and watch grow The Georgetown District Memorial Hospital will test individuals grip strength and blood pressure continuously during the day The Georgetown Rug Hooking Guild and the Halton Hills Com munity Chess Club will present ongoing demonstrations of their skills The Hills Ambulance Service will bring along an ambulance for viewihgand Ambulance Andy will be entertaining all day long