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TANJAY * MARY ROSE * ALGO DRESS « ALIA * JO'LEEN'S Clothing for Women Styles for all occasions Petites, Regular & Full Sizes In Real Estate, We Are "The Sign of Performance" COLLECTIONS INTERNATIONAL FREE Parking Hours: 224 Main St. E. Mon-Tues-Wed-Fri: Miton, On 2S (905) 878-0506 = sat:9am-5pm * TANJAY * MARY ROSE + ALGO DRESS WNOILVNYSLNI SNOILD37109 reve Performanc Counts Town's Hockey Heritage celebrated 7 MUTT AND JEFF? Ron MacLean ofHockey Night in Canada, left, and Jim Ralph of The Sports Network, served up the laughs at last Monday's Georgetown Hockey Heritage dinner at Holy Cross Auditorium. Sheldon 'Shel' Lawr was honoured for his dedication to hockey in Georgetown over the years. (Jamie Harrison photo) No Town facility study this year, budget pared BY FRANCES NIBLOCK The Georgetown Gemini A proposed study of new rec- reation facilities in Georgetown was one of the casualties of budget cuts dur- i ing recent budget debates. Councillors cut $45,000 from the proposed budget for the study -- although the net savings was only $22,500 be- cause half the cost was to have been funded by develop- ment charges. In making his pitch for the study, acting Recreation and Parks Director Paul Stover said the study would be very important to the pro- vision of new facilities for Georgetown. "There's growing unrest, primarily from the Georgetown community, who want to know what fa- cilities are on stream now that (construction of) the new Acton arena is underway. Quite frankly, we are unable in any definitive way to indi- cate anything," Stover ex- Sixth Line residents raise safety at budget talks Residents of the Sixth Line are somewhat appeased with news that the proposed re- surfacing of their road from Hwy. 7 to the Erin Townline will probably be moved for- ward in the Town's capital budget. Although the capital budget forecast includes $5,000 this year for engineer- ing work, the proposed $100,000 resurfacing project is not scheduled until 1999, but last week the Town Engi- neer said he was trying to get it moved up to next year. "Well, we made some progress but we're disap- pointed that the re-surfacing work won't be done this year," explained Sixth Line resident spokesman Art Hawes on last Friday. Earlier in the week Hawes had again appealed to budget committee members to do the necessary work on the road now, complaining that the road is "probably the most heavily-travelled and worst maintained rural road in Halton Hills," that was fre- quently unsafe to drive on because of its wash-board surface and potholes. Hawes questioned why, after writing to the Town for information, it took seven months to get a response. Hawes also asked why there wasn't money in the budget to fix an unsafe road when Town staff have start-of-the- art computers and the Town has a subsidized cafeteria for employees whose average salary isin excess of $50,000. Engineer Bob Austin said that before they surface treat the road they need to put down an adequate gravel base and do some work on the ditches, culverts and rock outcrops, and that there might have to be more money put in the budget for more work af- ter the resurfacing is done. Although staff recom- mended cutting $19,859 from MON-TUES 9-6 WED - FRI SATURDAY 9-97 9-6 | this year's operating budget for gravel patching, at the request of Ward 2 Councillor Kevin Kuiack, budget com- mittee members voted to put that money back in the budget. Kuiack said he's been get- ting between five and 10 phone calls a day from rural residents on the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Lines, complain- ing about the poor shape their roads are in. "| think that anything we can do to maintain or up- grade those roads we should do -- we have to ensure that the safety of residents in the county is being dealt with." plained. ; Noting that the Town's debt load is tied up for a 10- year period because of the Acton arena and that the ex- isting facilities are aging, Stover argued they need to 'There's growing unrest, primarily from the Georgetown community, who want to know what facilities are on stream now that (construction of) the new Acton arena is underway. Quite frankly, we are unable in any definitive way to indicate anything' -- Paul Stover, Rec & Parks Director hear from the "silent major- ity", saying that they'd heard from arena users and base- ball diamond users but not from citizens at large. "The potential of redevel- oping the Memorial arena lands came up last year but we weren't in a position to definitively say we were in a position to replace that facil- ity," Stover said, adding that the Town has land holdings in Georgetown South and people are expecting recrea- tion facilities to be built there in the future. Throughout the community, people are will- ing to pay for them through their taxes. Councillor Ron Chatten argued they could not afford the study this year. "We all know that this study isnecessary, but not this year," Chatten argued. Councillor Anne Currie said it would be "foolish" to spend money for a study when the municipal-- ity might not even ex- ist in three years with the Provincial munici- pal reforms. The study would look at the Town's existing infra- structure to determine what type of life is left in its aging pools and arenas and then at potential locations for a new leisure centre. It would also look at whether the amount of seat- ing at the Halton Hills Cul- tural Centre could be in- creased and at the Town's financial capabilities to build new facilities. Poulstrup pulls out Finn Poulstrup, president of the Georgetown Raid- ers, of the Ontario Hockey Association, tendered his resignation to the team board of directors last Tues- day evening. During an interview Wednesday afternoon, Poulstrup said he felt it was time to move on. He also said that resigning the presi- dency was not a rash deci- sion, but one he'd been mulling over for quite some time. For more on Finn Poulstrup's resignation, see POULSTRUP, Page 17. Prewired housing, 75 watt. White or black baffle SUNDAY 12-4]