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The Acton Free Press Wednesday January Oofces points DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION Jim Singleton is acclaimed to the position and chats with newly elected chairman of the defeated Bill of County Board of Education Ernie Photo Bodnar and vicechairman BUI Johnston Bodnar elected board chairman A 39yearold engineer was acclaimed to the chairmanship of the County Board of Education Ernie Bodnar was declared chairman at the board a Inaugural meeting Thursday in Burlington Bodnar lives in Georgetown with his wife Dorothy and four children Three are high school students and one is an elementary school student is the deputy engineer for the town of Deep concern Prior to the amalgamation of the 10 former boards in the county he served on the George town District High School Board While he did not outline ambitions for his term as chair man he Indicated deep concern about not allowing Burlington to be removed from the county He said he felt would be left as a small unit without Burling on and indicated that a merger with Peel would be likely if Burlington were removed Bill Johnston was elected vice chairman replacing John also of Burlington Johnston defeated trustee Bill In that race Bodnar outlined the contribution past chairman Doug Wood had niade in his two one year terms and reviewed previous contributions the past chairman had made in education Experience Wood had served the old Oak ville Board for seven years four as vice chairman one as chair man Since then Wood has been active with trustees associations it the provincial level Restrict snowmobiles Helton County Roads committee has recommended the banning of snowmobiles from major roads in the county The towns of Georgetown and with two exceptions Milton are from the by law because they have their own The by law prevents the machines from travelling on the travelled portion of county roads and bans them all together from the major arteries Town rules In Milton will be banned from Bronte St under the county bylaw while other county roads in town and all town roads will fall under the town jurisdiction The machines are banned from all provincial roads under provincial legislation Oakes who ended his term as Warden of Halton County yesterday said in an Interview with this paper there were four projects of prime importance Hat he felt should proceed In He said the construction of a new public works building on a acre site on Ave should be pursued The groundwork for the building had Been done Relieve Manor Congestion at the Centennial Manor should be relieved Oakes said a waiting list fluctuated between and 50 said the county was investigating the possibility of procuring a five acre site in the south to alleviate crowded conditions at the 370 bed home In Milton The county is looking at the property but have received no decision from the two senior levels of government The outgoing Warden said It might be necessary to add to the Milton home in order to provide relief for the situation soon He said however that an addition to the Halton Centennial Manor would not rule out the construction of a home for the aged in the southern portion of the county Crowded conditions Because of crowded conditions in the administration building especially in certain departments of the admin of Justice I feel council must meet early in with representatives of the Public Works Department to determine needs for added space in the future He suggests a study be carried out on possible changes in the present system of county govern ment If we assume increased Jurisdictions and responsibilities then the three additional members as provided for in the private member bill would become very helpful Dr Oakes listed planning engineering waste disposal police fire and Children Aid as i that might be handled on a wide basis He recom mended county council seek more representation and a stronger say on the conservation authorities than what presently exists Could be The private member bill that has been passed by county council may be amended Oakes said The bill now provides for three additional repre from Burlington and Oakville noted was a feeling among county councillors that the request for additional responsibilities should be into the bill If It is going to be amended It would have to be done before the hearing of the private member bill Committee March Dr said he favored a only region and indicated the only reason he could see for going with Peel is the removal of a large part of the county such as Burlington He Indicated the county should force the province a hand rather than waiting for the province to force the county into a regional unit Confident He Bald he was confident the county could prepare themselves for regional government and benefit by mistakes other regions have made He said t allow costs to Increase once reglonallzatlon was invoked In some of the regions now formed costs have increased rapidly and increased provincial subsidies have been awarded over a five year period to help offset the increased costs During the past year the county restructured their committee system streamlining the host of committees to four broad com The warden reported a busy year with the Department of Social and Family Services and an increase of staff to meet the heavy workload reeves greatest hope implementation of official plan One thing I d like to see go through finally in Is this official plan was Reeve Tom Hill comment about expectations for the new year In the township The plan which has gone through almost two years of preparation by a firm of planning consultants was approved by council last week but only after an amendment was attached to it asking Municipal Affairs Minister Bales to delete from a list of potential extractive industrial sites two separate parcels of land on which quarries are proposed Requests would end Implementation of the plan would likely put an end to land use change requests council has been swamped with during the past two years Several requests ore still before township planning board awaiting approval of the official plan Hill said the Toronto International Drag way on the Fifth Line near Acton will continue to exist as a non conforming land use Hours and da lea on which it will operate will be similar to last year We re going to try to up our roads program this year We have two more bridges to complete and the whole township will then have brand new bridges the reeve told this paper Hill also said a continued effort will be made to improve Construction 1242500 The number of building permits issued in the Township of in began at a slow pace and ended the same way There were no building permits issued for the months of January and December However the rest of the year was a busy one for the township building wise Building permits issued for the year totalled This year total exceeded by more than The value of building permits issued in 1970 was If January and December were the slowest months August was the month of greatest expansion A total of worth of construction permits were Issued during that month on and to pave parts of streets in the township s four hamlets Reviews changes In 1971 a brand new bridge was 22 Sideroad A public meeting will be held in or March to enlighten residents of Esquesing in the area about the possible reconstruction of Consulting engineer Ban- to Id Halton County roads committee there were two alternatives They are reconstruction of the road or construction of a bypass Barr told the committee the by pass would be more expensive but takes environmental concerns under consideration The road is used often by quarry operators Choose It Canada la gait and GMC truck TIUDEN ANDREW MURRAY MOTORS Mownainvlvw Road Semi Annual SUIT SALE Everyone has a sale me of yea And so But what sets us sou In our lor ng Department you f a shed range of Engl wo In our Cloth ng Department there are coats iackets and ready to Includ the no thy All of except excellence all except priced Yes eve else hav Janua sale But no one else can offer you the part cular that has us our And remember you are a stranger but once at House of Davd tjeuse of CHAIU ACCOUNT rout CHAiaix BOND BUILDING GUELPH riVMVwinnnnjuuijuuuuMnn MEN AND MACHINES two photographs Harding is Clarence Harding father lent to the Free Press by Clarence and Ella Written on the back of the original picture is Harding I our Harding brothers are pictured the information that Bob Armstrong took the here Percy Herb and John John picture PICTURED SANDY Bennle bush are a Jimmy Combs sitting on the woodpile Herb group of workmen posing motionless for one Allen William Hitchcock Jerry Kentner and of the cameras of those days Inthephotoare AlfKentner Picture is owned by Clarence and Sandy and son Jack Lindsay Tom Ella Harding who owned one of the machines constructed on the Tenth line near a new fire hall was constructed for the Georgetown fire area and the township much needed works garage was completed and paid for out of the roads budget The reeve calls the garage the finest and best equipped of any municipality of comparable size in the entire province Two new dump trucks were also added to works department equipment Hill said has been given to spend on works projects under the provincial government s winter works incentive program Looking back on his first year as reeve Hill says he very pleased with council s new arrangement of holding a regular meeting every two weeks and a committee meeting In weeks In between It a the best thing that ever happened in the township Wo intend to carry on the same way in he said Your SkiDoo dealer is dealing like crazy Before you buy any snowmobile see your SkiDoo dealer first Hes dealing on all available models Come in and write your own deal now The snowmobile season is just starting so get in on all the winter fun skidoo72 MURT ALLISON SUES SERVICE RJI