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rfaybe swimming pool plan school addition to serve 500 more students the wheels hive been set in motion on georgetown district high schools next building ex tension project high school board at a meet ing monday passed a resolution directing their secretary treasur er to prepare a building prop osal and submit it to area sup erintendent of schools mr i c harris with a request for his approval the proposal will be accomp anied by enrolment figures for district elementary schools and the high school and projected enrolment for the high school s 1972 term the extension which will go on the east end of the exlstln building and spill over into the former tost property recently acquired through expropriation is to be ready for occupancy by september 1960 current elementary enrolment in the area served by the high school is 3 886 the high school s enrolment at the end of october was 1 157 and will be 1 657 in five years according to the boards projection if th beard sticks to a list of facilities required which came out of a planning commit too meetinp thursday the now section will include lecture rooms to scat 1 000 a library including audio visual area ex tension to the student s cafeter m a teachers cafeteria guidan ce area teacher work area offi ce for department heads an other gymnasium eight class rooms a lab three shops a typ ing room and rest rooms for administration clerical staff and caretaldng staff at what stage do you start thinking about a swimming pool wondered committee chairman ernest bodnar and the query launched a discussion on including a pool in the plans it ended with instructions to board secretary ernest forgrave t find out if a provincial grant for such a facility is available mr bodnar said he hoped the layout of the new area would be such that the library and lect uro rooms would be easily ac cessible to the public the board took its second step before the meeting adjourned and selected the firm of barn ett and rleder td do the archi tectural work high school briefs at a regular meeting monday night georgetown tt district high school board accepted the resignation or mrs peter berry from the business administrators office a board employee for three years mrs berry is moving to montreal where her husband has accepted a new position mrs t gundlng a clerk typist bookkeeper was elevated to mrs berry s position and mm d burt hired to replace mrs gunding as clerk stenog rapher on a part time basis adjusted the cleaning con tractors rate by 07 80 monthly to compensate for added duties since the former tost homo on the east side of the school has been converted to board offices heard principal donald f turner report the school would be without occupations classes after a junior vocational school to be built in the county la op ened in 1068 received a reccotrnnendafr ion from planning commute chairman ernest bodnar askini that contractors be required to bid on a a playing field and track and b a playing field only when lenders for that field construction projects are call ed heard from mr turnei that a master keying plan is at most completed with just 10 locks as yet to be changed georgetown herald 1 the home newspaper for georgetown and district d tt hrld 1u71u7 cauda 1u71967 avthorizad aa sacoaat chat mall offka daph ottawa and for paymnl f postaga in caah gaorgatown ontario thuriday novombar 23rd 1967 s 00 par yaar slnglo copy prica ten canta brumac offers cash building for release change plans new engineer not coming l daitcr engaged two weeks ago to become george- towns town engineer has chan ged his mind mr dalter who holds a simil position in widdifield town ship near north bay advised council this week of his de cision he was to start here on january at a salary of 14 200 monday council decided to re advertise for applicants at the same time advising two other engineers who were interview ed that their applications will also be considered gumby and pokey will be there among the clowns and the hoopla preceding santa when he makes his annual lour saturday will be two children s favourites from tv land gumby and pokey they ii be featured an a float entered by the e w bliss co here employees john bonia ron white liz brown and john ward law work on the entry call tenders for new fire hall for esquesing with the advertising for ten dcrs for a fireball authorized by council monday night esque inc township s own fire depart ment became official council approved plans sub milled by w e hall for a 48 ft by 80 ft fireball to be built on the two township owned acres adjoining the municipal building on the 7th line the building will be brick ori three sides and cement block at the back a new well will have to be drilled but council decid l ed this would be the municipal itys esponsibility not the con tractor s mr hall guaranteed the spec fications would be in the clerk s 1 office by friday floats marching bands accompany santa saturday just two days to go until santa and hit colourful and mu meal escort roll march strut dance and cartwheel their way through georgetown streets santa almost a perennial lo ser in his game of calendar checkers with the weatherman is making a strategic move this year by making his georgetown visit earlier than usual his arrival here saturday is one month to the day prior to his official visit on decemoer 25 when he goes solo with rein deer power and sack of toys people lining the parade rouc from sinclair ave tq downtown via guclph and main streets will see 40 floats and such out standing marching units as the guelph royals res senators drum corps and colour guard bramalca lions majorettes lome scots pipe band and gc corgctown girls pipe band lion parade officials have ur ged all taking part in the pro cession to be at the departure point at 1 o clock so the starting time of 1 30 can be met esquesing nominations are next monday night child dies car hits tree parents injured a young child died on high way 7 five miles east of george town saturday night after the car she was riding in rammed a connie bailey two year els daughter of mr and mrs doug las bailey rr 2 brampton was killed instantly in the wreck the child father was admit ted to peel memorial hospital with minor fractures and mrs bailey is under intensive care recovering from multiple injur ies kinsmen reviving plan for senior citizens apartments dean taylor of the george i town kinsmen club reappeared i at esquesing council monday after a ear and a half to a two year absence on the same oucs i uon which brought him to council repeatedly in the past the senior citizens aparment project has been revived due to the tireicss cforts of thv kinsmen i esqucs ng council is involved for two reasons the land op i posite georgetown park school la in esquesing although own i ed by georgetown and the nee i ssary survey to be conducted by the ontario housing corpor ation has to be requested by the municipal council originally the project was to be built uy twin pines ltd however they withdrew when prices went too high or them the kinsmen then approached the ontario housing corpora tior who said they would under lake it but first a survey of the peed for such a development in esquesing and ceorgetown would have to be made council passed the motion to authorize the survey when mr ravlor assured them that any costs of the surey would be borne by the kinsmen halton rabiesfree in month of october not one case of rabies was re ported in halton county durng october is the official word from the health of animals depart ment of the department of ag riculture three split 1000 prize at kin stag a 1 000 pr ze at the annual kinsmen 10 club dinner on fndiy was split between three winners in the ehminat on draw the last three in the running decided to split the pri7e and as pre arranged the pr ze was divided 200 woo and s500 grand winner was joe bahnt 71 bend ve weston lcn girbaliauskas d ie was second and j m wick glen williams co ectcd the s200 award followm a mast beef dinnrr served b v nmen of the legion la the 25 men present en loved an evening of games a poor show and 1he exeilcment of following the elimination dra v in a spcr it luckv drrt v corev trpcmn srampton won an eay chair i spec il p 7cs irc awarded to ovrrv twentv fifth name drawn inn vv nncrs were i and r hi her cf t diwie g cooper l young c baker g prosscr l hunter b wolfe and r mc cartney mum s the word s usual ar ound esquesing election circles with noone committing them selves in any way however rumours are flying thick and fast some have cr tom hill eyeing the deputy reeve s chair and others have an excouncillor entering the race according to esquesing trad ition the first official word of intention is the appearance of the names on the nominations black board this year three of the esqucs ing school board will be up fori election chester early lloyd fisher and dr alan thompson the grapevine gives the two year term vote a very slim chan ce or success nominations night is monday november 27th in stewartlown hall separate school boards discussing amalgamation the georgetown separate school board beat the roberts government in amalgamation proposals it was revealed at last wednesda s board meet ing chairman ben bojle told of meeting with representatives of brampton bramalea and bol ton separata school boards to discuss amalgamation with them as early as october the chair man explained the exploratorv talks had been undertaken with no knowledge of the robarts an nouncemtnt whether we like it or not we re going to be amalgamated said chairman boyle and brampton s idea was to initiate action on our own leel they felt if wp were already amalga mated we might be left alone he explained that the george town representatives would be elected from their own area tht board finally decided to favour more exploratory talks but with no cramitmcnt to th idea trustee george frost main tamed they would get a belter deal out of county amalgams tion however he did not op pose more talks with the three neighbouring boards possible successors for r a dupas a board member who has moved to toronto were discus sed and a motion will be pres cnted at the next meeting the perennial headache of chool boards transportation took up a large part of the meeting the principal richard pcrrrjtt claimed the children were arriving at the school too early said chairman ben boyle suggestions of running another bus and of having cardcarry ing bus passengers were forw arded the card carrying was suggested to stop children from jumping on the bus when they are not en ailed to transportat uon plans steel tank factory on base line paul krohncrt manufacturer of stainless steel tanks for milk or chemical transport cleared the first hurdle in establishing a 15 000 square foot plant on the base line near highway 401 at esquesing council monday the confusion arose last week when he informed council he planned to build up to six hous es for his family however since no docs not plan to sell the houses council has no regulat ions to stop him deputy reeve george curric pointed out four of the houses facing the base line would more than qualify in land area any way regardless of what he plan ned to do the krohncrt company has been in operation in wcsthill for twenty years but is now surrounded by houses and shop pmg plaras the deal lor the twenty acre ppreel of land is not closed as the would be purchaser wanted all details cleared up first council gave hull their bless ing provided the health i nit approved and he compiled with all esquesing s bylaws council granted two hundred project on south end land would add homes for 10000 a proposal which would add over 10 000 residents to george town three more elementary schools nd a high school 1 420 homes and a number of apart ments is being studied by gc orgetown council the brumac firm which pur chased most of the delrex de vclopmcnts land last year on which many homes have already been built in the east end now proposes large scale develop ment on the former cleave hepburn and wright farms be tween silver creek and main street south monday council voted to en gage municipal planning con sultants to study the proposal and advise the town what action to take c brumac has asked the town to construct the necessary san itary sewer and water mains and to pave imountamvicw rd to the south town limits it asks a guarantee that water and sew age disposal facilities will be adequate to serve the new area and necessary amendments to the t wn s official plan and zon ing by law would be required in relurn it has offered to piy the town 500 000 in cash and ownership of the delrex office building and a surround ing 4 acre property which it val jcs at 200 000 and to provide four school sites m the new ar ea at no cost to the town the proposal involves 382 ac res of ths 111 acres are ear marked as residential there would be 1 420 single lots and 20 acres of apartments and mul tiplcs the remaining hnd would be 6 acres commercial 27 institutional and 18 acres of oarkland the brumac firm in its sub mission claims the towns fin ancial position would be great ly improved with the develop ment a council fact finding com mittce has been studying it for some time and it was this com mlttec s recommendation that the consulting firm be asked to study it tells history future of cedarvale project mrs f w johnson 10 edith st was hoitcss for the ovem her meeting of the local coun cil of women held on friday the 17lh dollars to the acton fair board two hundred to the esquesing fair board and fifty dollars to the milton fair boird is thf fsqttesing fair bnird the sime a- the georgetown rair board asked cr tom hill on being assured it wis he stated then whv is it a ways advertised georgetown pair not lsqucsin air a former assistant asses nr jeff dennv was hired as a clerk in the assessing department mr denny served as assistant asses sor for five vears before leaving i for windsor two vcars ago cablevision coming gets bylaw approval by council on monday georgetown cablevision ltd which plans to bring cable tele- vision service to georgetown got the go signal monday when coined approved a bylaw establishing the firm s right to operate in georgetown a former georgetown garace operator wiir shaw is one of the principals in the firm the companv has arranged to use hydro poles to carry its cables with the hydro receiving a 3 00 per pole fee while councillors all endorsed the plan crbill smith suggested the town should dome a share of this revenue i i agree said cr jim young the hydro should at least set this aside in a special fund fo improved street lighting miyor gibbons explained tha the hydro is a puhlie utililv ind ratepvcrs benefit b an rev enue accruing the firm in its igrccmcnt an ress not to participate in the sale or repair of television sets in town the bv uw passed on a fi vote withers familh and nunc opposing it dcputv reeve speight was absent from the meeting james warren who was in reduced by mrs a m suthei t land was gue i speaker and i chose as his topic the program being developed at george towns cedarvale centennial project mr arrcn as committee member in charge of public re lations and planning is eminent ly qualified to deal with his sub ject ind he did so with skill and humour he traced the his torv of the property through its varied staccs as famland hos tel for oun armenian orphins a i nited ch irch school for girls from broken homes until it v as purch sed bv the town he outl nrd the idvantagcs he development of c lltttral and rccrcat ona interests in a suitab le setting bring n together people of various groups within the comn un t cli he de cr b d the buildings prcsonliv comprising cedanalo mted nme of the work alrcirfy i done and discussed a fe v of the problems si ii cilling for solu tion s ich s more j aiking spaco nottcr tct in proved wah room facilities i nnvilion of tho od rvm ind others equally i pressing he spoke w ih enthusiasm of the sple lid ro operation ac rorrted b manv of the groups involved ii the woik that has i cen un lcrliken and with ev cry hope for the nltimate sue ce 5 of 111 project mrs k ii jones thanked mr warren for his interesting and informative address mrs ann pntchard was in the chair for the meeting the canadian as sociatmn of c nsumers eport wns g cn bv mrs joh ison tea hostesses were mrs iohn win mrs prrtchard and mrs clarence hayes