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Page THE WEEKEND OUTLOOK Friday May 1991 Numbers To Note EMERGENCY Police Fire or Ambulance Dial 91 1 Fire Information 1 33 Police Non Emergency 878551 1 Hospital 8770111 Distress Centre 8771 1 House breakin Regional Police report a house in rural Georgetown was broken into Wednesday night by unknown suspects who removed worth of items from the home Police say the culpnts smashed a small rear basement window with a cement block to gam entry into the home Once in side they entered all rooms police say but only searched through the bedrooms where a couple of cameras binoculars and approximately 100 baseball cards were removed Police say it appears the culprits were in the process of removing a VCR and television set but left prior to do ing so Police believe the suspect or suspects must be small to have fit through the window and are likely amateurs since several valuable items in the home were left behind Police are continuing their investigation Plants damaged Police report vandals got inside the Dominion Seed House in Georgetown Wednesday night and damaged numerous plants Various potted plants were thrown around and two fire ex tinguishers were discharged in the building Police say nothing was stolen and are continuing to investigate Lost control A young Guelph female lost control of her car on the gravel shoulder and severely damaged her 1986 Chev on Sideroad west of 25 police report The ac cident occurred Monday when the girl hit a tree She wasnt in jured and police say the accident was due to a driver with a lack of driving experience Windows smashed Police report 17 small windows worth were smashed when unknown vandals threw rocks against the west side of the Blow Press Company building in Acton Saturday night Police say this is an ongoing problem Croatians want freedom ByBENDUMMETT The Herald For the 1500 Croatian Canadians living in Halton Hills last Sunday will stand out in their minds as a day like no other for years to come Sunday marked the day the majority if not all Croatian Canadians living in Halton Hills and across Canada celebrated as their homeland voted per cent to become an independent state Croatia is part of the six republic federal system of Approximately 5000 Croatian Canadians from throughout and surrounding areas were attending the Annual Canadian Croatian Folklore Festival held at the Croatian Cen located just south of Norval Sunday when they learned the news There was a burst of joy singing and prayers when the news was announced during the festival said the Centre s Father Krasic during an interview Tuesday Croatia s Minister of migration telephoned the centre Sunday afternoon to give us the vote s outcome said Father Krasic The overwhelming support for independence means the ny of Yugoslavian central government rule is practically finished he explained When asked why the vote in favor of secession didnt eliminate the central control of Yugoslavia as a while Father Krasic explained countries throughout the world must first stop supporting the idea of a United Yugoslavia As well Yugoslavias central military threat must be eliminated he said Father Krasic predicted these remaining barriers will come down very soon Canada is one country that has been slow in supporting Croatias right to secede said Father Krasic He said the Federal Govern ments previous External Affairs Minister Joe Clark wrote a letter to Father three weeks ago saying the Canadian government supports a united and democratic Yugoslavia This idea is contradictory ex plained Father because the majority of Croatians want no part of a United Yugoslavia Contacted in Ottawa Tuesday Halton Peel MP Garth Turner said he couldn t say much on the Croatian situation because he has not been a close follower of the situation However he offered that Canada sides on the side of caution Since Yugoslavia is on the verge of disintegration Canada wants all efforts focused on preventing an outbreak of civil war he explained Fire calls Halton Hills firefighters spent minutes extinguishing round bales of hay that caught fire while being pulled on a trailer down south of Acton Wednesday Firefighters have no estimate of damage to the trailer and say the van pulling the trailer wasnt damaged Firefighters were called out of bed at 3 a yesterday to put out a rubbish fire Firefighters say unknown person lit fire to a pile of garbage waiting for pick up at the end of the Townline south There was no damage Public Works Week Hatton Hills Public Works employees Bob Fendley left and Earl Burt right demonstrate log cutting and brush feeding which were two of the activities highlighted In the departments display set up last week which was Public Works Week School children and community groups were invited to the works garage on Trafalgar Road where employees gave tours and explained what their role Is In the community Herald photo Taxpayers coalition meets in Georgetown By LISA The Herald There are danger signals that indicate Canada is heading towards third world status warn ed Frank Gue president of the Taxpayers Coalition at a meeting of the Coalition Tuesday night Georgetown District High School Approximately people came out to listen to Mr Gue s opinions and be introduced to the ideals and goals of the newly formed tax coalition It was the first time the coali tion had met in Hills to in crease membership since it was formed as a branch of the Ontario Taxpayer Coalition in February of this year It now has 300 members in Halton and group leaders are hoping to recruit more so their message will carry more weight The message is simple They believe residents are being choked to death by taxes Mr Gue said the nation is being strangled Our manufacturers are leaving us the farmers can get past market value assess ment for their crops and the GST which was a good idea was not implemented well In addressing Hills residents Mr Gue told them welcome to the third world He said Canada is experiencing several factors that indicate the nation is in trouble Among what he considered danger signals were Canadas borrowing of money to pay its deficit the high deficit itself the governments expenditures being higher than the countrys nationally generated income an overabun dance of civil servants an over valued currency and that people in Canada march to too many bands and dance to too many str Somewhere in the past the government passed a line and became selfserving he said But he admitted taxpayers brought it on themselves by always accepting the little tax hikes here and there and allowing the government to believe tax payers could absorb any tax hike He said one of the worst ex amples of overspending are school boards and that is the area the coalition is currently address ing We believe people view the success of education on input the money put into a project rather than output he said This state ment along with one stating the coalition supports the elimination of programs from the upper levels of governments that lower levels are required to fund was sent to the Ministry of Education Also present at the meeting to discuss her organizations con cerns with education spending was Dianne Austin secretary of the Ontario Public School Board Reform Network which is made up of school trustees and public members who want to strengthen the role of school trustees and demand proper ac countability for school board financial and program decisions She told those in attendance there are three main weaknesses the network sees in the current system One is that financial controls on school board spending are weak or limited to audits of the board We want the provincial auditor to do a money for value audit on school boards she said Wed also like an Internal auditing committee set up so trustees know more about where tax payers money goes A second weakness she stated was there is an almost near absence of financial in that the board spends the largest chunk of taxes but only a handful of taxpayers keep watch I suggest towns form a wat chdog committee so that at least one member of the public is at every board meeting she said In concluding she said the budget process is a problem itself She said more public par is needed in the pro cess As well shed like the budget to follow the school year instead of the calendar year so the budget is not set five months after spending started After the speakers concluded their comments Mr Gue said the audience stayed for another threequarters of an hour You can tell how good a meeting was in how long the people stay after the meeting is formally closed he said Several memberships to the coalition were accepted at the meeting and he expected many more to come in from Hills residents CORRECTION NOTICE Dominion Seed House s ad on Wednesday May 22nd had an error The price of the Petunias was incorrect The should have read 88t a box instead of 99 each We apologize for any this may have caused ELECTRONIC SERVICE 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