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4 THE GEORGETOWN GEMINI WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1996 FREEDOM! St. John's United Church played host to the Georgetown chapter of Amnesty International's Coffee House, Saturday night. The evening featured performances by various artists in support of political prisoners, world wide. From left: organist Haydn Evans and soloist Shirley Shirtliffe perform The Circle Game. (Eve Martin photo) WE'D LIKE TO MAKE THIS PERFECTLY CLEAR. \z te ' z m S 25 2 2 = co i <q > g z i se ad < : oe eee a i 2 © | +O --_ We are Halton Region Planning and Public Works and for the next few weeks we'll be cleaning out the water mains on the streets in the area shown on the map above. We're working through the water system a few streets at a time. We'll drop off a bulletin to your home or business giving you a couple of days notice when we'll be working on your street. During the cleaning, we'll be flushing out a lot of discoloured water. We don't want that ending up in your home. So, please remember: : wY Please do not use your water or flush your toilet between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm on the day we're working on your street. wY Afterwards, flush out your own system by running your cold water until the water runs clear. Turn on the cold water in your basement and the tap in the highest part of your home. Thanks for your help and sorry for the brief inconvenience. After this work is done, the drinking water will be clean for years to come. We think you'll like the way we've made things perfectly clear: Questions? Call Betty Young at 878-8113, ext. 8145 EU ETReT OM ot) lira yg Ct Water allocations Cont. from Page 1. ruling that gave draft ap- proval to the Law Develop- ment Group's proposed con- dominium on River Road, even though the development does not have a water alloca- tion. Halton's Manager of De- velopment Services, Pat Murphy, said that the exist- ing Georgetown wells pro- vide 13,500 cubic metres of water per day and the actual daily use is 11,696 cubic metres a day leaving 1,805 cubic metres available. Once the residential, com- mercial and industrial draft approvals and a buffer are removed, the system is short 1,034 cubic metres of water per day. "Tt was on the basis of the 10 per cent over commitment that Region Council said no more draft approvals -- stop draft approvals here (in Geor- getown) until we find a sup- ply, and as you know we are in the process of trying to provide a supply at the Lindsay Courtwell," Murphy said. The Lindsay Court well, updated by Region currently pumping 500 cubic metres a day, is expected to provide another 1,000 cubic metres of water -- roughly equivalent to 1,000 housing units -- once monitoring and testing is complete. Halton's Director of En- gineering Research, Rick Robertshaw, said the next well to be developed is the Main Street well, for which testing should be complete in 1999 or 2000. Halton's senior Research Engineer, Benson Leung, outlined the need for a trunk sewer, force main and pump- ing station to handle wastewater from new devel- opments. Leung said the Region is also currently negotiating with the North Halton Golf and Country Club for an easement across its property for a gravity sewer. All of the work is subject to the devel- opers agreeing to pay up-front for the work. Sometime later this month councillors will get another water report -- this one an allocation update from Town staff. Georgetown man gets more than he paid for BY FRANCES NIBLOCK The Georgetown Gemini Canada's Privacy Commis- sioner has launched an in- vestigation into the careless disposal of a federal govern- ment filing cabinet which was later found to contain income records of seven individuals. The documents were dis- covered by Georgetown resi- dent Clay Downes who had purchased the cabinet in Au- gust at the Canada Procure- mentand Disbursement Cen- tre in Mississauga while outfitting his son who was heading offto university. The cabinet sat in a locked a ga- rage until last month when Downes opened it and found the documents. "I was aghast," Downes explained in an interview on Tuesday. "T was horrified and sick- ened - I had people's lives in my hands. "There were accountant's COMPUTERS Corporate & Personal Systems Networks On Site Service Upgrades & Repairs Complete Turnkey Systems Software OPiC penne aed Call x (905) 873-7311 Open 7 Days aL Aaa letters, bank statements with account numbers, Social In- surance Numbers and income information and I had to stop reading it because I was too afraid - it was too intrusive and [had no right to be look- ing at that other people's pri- vate information," Downes explained. Downes said he decided not to just hand the docu- ments over to Revenue Canada because he was con- cerned that nothing would be done to prevent a similar in- cident from occurring again. Instead, he contacted his niece, CFRB talk show host Carol Mott, who after check- ing with lawyers, revealed the story on Monday. Downes said he couriered the documents to the Reform Party Revenue Canada critic MP Jim Silye who raised the issue in the House of Com- mons on Monday. On CFRB Radio on Mon- day Privacy Commissioner Bruce Philips said that they have launched an investiga- tion because "on the face of it appears that somebody slipped up." Philips said that there is very little recourse for the seven individuals whose in- come information was found in the cabinet beyond the knowledge that this incident will force the government to re-examine 'its procedures.