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Average home owner will pay more this year Year No Resume Rockwood hearing May The final phase of the controversial water and sewer debate in may be heard at an Ontario Municipal Board hearing called for the village hall Tuesday May at 30 am The hearing Is a continuation of two previous sessions which resulted in a page OMB decision dated January asking for more information regarding the additional cost involved in by passing the conservation park and reasons for he selection of the outfall pipe locatloa ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY APRIL Sixteen ftoen Canls Decide change During the interim the Ontario Municipal Board suggested the time could be used to decide on the service charge to be imposed on commercial users and the school board The board also ruled any reports used in presenting further evidence should be exchanged between counsel for the Village of and counsel for the Ratepayers Association at least 10 days prior to the date set for the continuation of the hearing One of the most contentious issues In the case to date has been the cost and the OMB In Its last report noted it had not been established that there Is any extravagance proposed by the works The determination of the application therefore hinges on whether It Is reasonable to undertake the expense Involved in order to derive the benefits to be received from the works and whether the charges have been fairly assessed to the residents of the village the OMB report noted In order to properly consider this question the Board should have all the financial Information available to it and In particular the additional expense required to by pass the Conservation Authority lands with sewer el fluent the report states It is reasoned this has now been done and the is ready to present ft as evidence There is also evidence to be refuted by the OWRC that the low in the River is slight and does not represent the considerable volume of turbulent water over a rocky river as suggested by the engineer Hawkins ThcOMBsaidthatdala on flow measurements would be Duck shot at lake A female duck from the bird sanctuary at like was shot with a pellet gun and killed this week A second duck a male was shot and injured in the head A neighbor reported finding the dead duck and police are still investigating A 10yearold boy who was interviewed denied knowledge of the killing The ducks and geese are getting a little restless now springs really here The had moved over to the dam side this week as the tec disappeared at their old home spot Some of them even waddled up the creek to see the sights at the librar crucial to a technical evaluation and the Board noted the OWRC had no such evidence at the December hearing Pond soluble It may well be the report continued that the head pond of the river dam is a more suitable body of water to receive and assimilate effluent of this nature and were It not for the desire to accommodate the recreational facilities of conservation lands such a location might have been selected The Board felt the OWRC should be given the opportunity to provide the necessary Information and so deferred the remainder of the hearing until It was available Both sides of the question the Ratepayers Association and village trustees Interpreted the January report as being favorable to them but the new hearing scheduled for May 1 should settle the question once and for all The said in one section of the report that unless the discretion of municipal council to proceed with these works is clearly shown to be erroneous the Board felt that it should not interfere unduly with the exercise of that discretion However in the concluding remarks the Board notes the Board does not believe It appropriate to dismiss the appli cation outright until the had a chance to supply information Two charges of forgery A Mai ton man was arrested in Acton Sunday April 16 and charged with two offenses of forger The young man recognized by Con Roy Wood at about clock in the afternoon The offenses for which he was charged occurred here in October and November and invoked the passing of Workmen s Compensation Board cheques at two town banks The Bank of Nova Scotia and the Toronto- Dominion He wilt appear in court in Milton May 15 Late fishing Ice on Fair Lake was ginning to get very slushy last Wednesday when two 10 year old lads strolled out on it all set to go ice fishing A neighbor on alarmed at the clanger phoned police The youngsters came off and their parents were contacted NORTH HALTON P were called to the scene Monday to the vehicle was estimated at The mishap morning when a Haulage cab trailer and pup occurred when two trucks both loaded met near a curve In the travelling west on 22 Sideroad slipped off the road Into the road There was no collision involved Gibbons mud Driver of the vehicle Alberto Burslc was not Injured TWO LARGE TOW trucks were needed to pull a Donline at am but the vehicle was not pulled out until late Haulage cab trailerandpupoutof ternoon Police allowed traffic to pass through the area 22 Sideroad Monday afternoon No injuries resulted when the intermittently although the road was blocked for some time vehicle slipped off into the mud while trying to get past an Photo by Gibbons oncoming truck which was also loaded The mishap occurred New company same plans former Seynuck property Construction of five model homes on the former property at the corner of Wallace and Mill Streets is scheduled to begin next month Corporation housing division manager Ken Pain told Acton Hydro Commission Thursday night Pain told the meeting his company which has previously been heavily committed to housing development in the has entered a purchase agree ment with Hulad Development to acquire approximately acres of land and hopes to assume He said he hoped to have the first units of the development in the throes this year in keeping with phase one of the Hulad plan Same agreement Pain said he hoped his company could carry on dealings with the commission under the terms of the Hulad agreement so that no tunc would be lost in drawing up a new agreement Major who is also a commission member totd Mr Pain the commission and the town will be most development could have been Im quite surprised at these built three years ago he developers who have played lamented around in the Acton area for the past four years the mayor commented in obvious reference to previous owners of the Seynuck property This Commission member Ted Tyler pointed out ownership of the land has changed four tunes And they ve all made a dollar at it he added No objection medical centre No objection was made Tuesda to the application of Stores lid for a second storey to house a medical centre and a resolution was passed permitting the change Committee of Adjustment held the in the council chambers last night Tuesday with chairman Neil Miller presiding Craig Hutchison and pharmacist Bill made their presentation for a second medical centre in town and a pharmacy In formerly Red and White store on Queen St A couple of observers attended the meeting but no objections were The application will be sent from the town office to the Department of Municipal Affairs Altera waiting period of 14 days the decision becomes final Pain said his company purchase agreement with is due to close at the end of this month He explained has recently acquired the heavy equipment division of McNamara Construction but will phase out the heavy equipment business in favor of housing development Asked about plans to heat homes in the new development Pain said the matter had not yet been discussed but indicated he has always had trouble selling electric heat in a project In the past The commission and failed to sign an agreement last year on the type of wiring to be used In the development Hulad originally asked for overhead install a while the commission insisted on underground wiring A verbal agreement was reached on underground WARMEST day of the year yesterday Some people even had nerve enough to complain about the heat Slash budgets but mill rate up 36 Residential taxpayers In Acton will pay 3 mills more in 1972 while the commercial and industrial rate is up 5 mills Acton council came up with the new rate at a special meeting Monday night but final details of the budget will not be settled until council decides which particular items will be cut rhe residential rate was set at 7 mills compared to 1 in while the commercial and Industrial rate jumped from the 1971 figure of 2 to mills to raise 170 up almost from 1971 The figures are based on a total assessment of 353 comprised of 120 residential and commercial and industrial For an average householder with an assessment of this means the new rate represents a tax hike of In 1972 based on for every thousand dollars worth of assessment However taxpayers will also have to remember the provincial tax rebate scheme has been shelved In it looked after 53 of the average tax bill So the average taxpayer faces an estimated 80 hike In tax payments for some of which will be recoverable on income tax during Finance committee chairman Reeve Frank said this year s budget was the most difficult he had experienced In more than eight years on council We were faced with two adversities 1 the increased costs in every budget and It was a poor year of growth for assessment The reeve compared the growth In assessment In 1971 which was up 550 over 1970 while showed only a meagre 75 over the 1971 figure It is the lowest increase I have experienced as a councillor In a given year he said However the reeve saw better times ahead In 1972 He predicted a healthy Increase In assessment for 1973 which would give council of that year a stronger base to draw on Oakes told council the budget committee faced a mill increase when the various budgets were all added up and they found this totally unacceptable The committee decided a or four mill Increase for residential and five mills for commercial would be their aim meaning they would have to pare eight mills from the budgets submitted to them Then they proceeded to chop mills from submitted budgets to arrive at the acceptable figure Biggest cut was 17 100 in the recreation committee s budget slated for operation of the community centre The committee asked for 31688 to operate the centre but council chopped that figure down by 700 took off capital costs and pared another 10000 off repairs the recreation committee hoped to do reeve said the recreation budget reached almost a pcron which in the committee s opinion was too rich for our blood They felt the figure they allowed was generous The public works budget also took a 9 200 chop as did the administration committee proposed budget The parks board budget took a cut the development also was reduced cut The budget also proposed to raise a 100 capital reserve fund for the use of either public works or administration committee whichever need was greatest allowed 500 for the newly formed centennial committee both of which were Tht levy of the Credit Valley Conservation Authority was increased in 1972 to from the figure of 3 which the clerk explained was no longer levied on per capita figures but on assessment Although the education levy which accounts for 38 mills of the budgcUwas up approximately half a mill there is no increase because of a 5 reserve existing from last year county levy was also up by mills residential and five mills commercial and industrial Complete figures were not available at press time but the Free Press hopes to publish final details of the budget next week Reeve Oakes estimated the newly introduced Interim tax billing in January and March saved taxpayers at least in interest charges this year Council also decided that the remainder of taxes would be collected in four instalments due on May 31 July 15 September 15 and November 15 of this year Recap of mill rate General County Education 1972 Com Re 7 BJ 5120011 Residential assessment Commercial and Industrial To be raised by taxes This amount is determined by subtracting receipts of from general expenses of 62974432 Holdin by l sa No barn dance in Esquesing tonight Struck by car dog bits teacher Georgetown area French Canadian Association president Roger failed Monday night to convince Council they should reconsider previous refusal to issue the group permits for social gatherings In a renovated bam on the property of Miss St Jean south of Georgetown Council originally issued Miss St Jean building permit for a bam for agricultural purposes only but found out later washroom facilities were being installed and social functions were taking place there Subsequently as a result of council action one was stopped police shortly before it was about to begin Another was allowed to take place only because plans had already been made ana council did not wish to Interrupt it according to Councillor Dick Not forthright charged that Miss St Jean has not been entirely forthright In her dealings with council The permit was issued in the first place for agricultural purposes on Howitt said Even when the washrooms were being installed and we became nous she assured us it was itnetly tor agricultural purposes Councillor tan explained to Mr the township holding law must be upheld That s our big stumbling block he said Sometimes we like it any better than an one else but its something we have to live with told council his association is trying to develop land around the barn for recreational purposes Social events he explained were being held mainly to help finance recreational facilities He said group workers used tractors and farm equipment to work the land into suitable condition for recreation Why did you go ahead and put a stage in without asking Why didn t you come for a building permit Reeve Tom Hill asked Out complaint asked if 200 people were going to have to do without the social gatherings when only one person had actually issued a complaint It doesn t matter if nobody complains a by law is a bylaw replied He added the group may have a chance to have the land rezoned after the township s official plan receives OMB approval wondered if the association might confine their acuvibes to barn dances You can go ahead and have jour bam dances but if we shut you down you 11 know why Reeve Hdl emphasfxed said he has heard of three other similar places in the township that are holding dances To my knowledge there t any Hill concluded A distressing accident happened just before school Monday when a dog was struck by a car and had to be destroyed The beagle which had broken loose from its chain was hit by the car driven by M Z Bennett school principal Elmer Smith on Mill St about a jn Teacher David Boycott driving behind stopped to help and was bitten on the hand by the injured dog He was treated at General Hospital and get to school till about Vet passing By chance a veterinarian Vicky de Klaer of Georgetown was driving past and stopped to help With her training she was able to secure the dog with a belt and muttle it with a rope to prevent Its biting again It was taken to Oakes but Its Injuries were so severe It was destroyed Its owner Jack Walker Maria St had come to the scene of the accident Students going to school at both Bennett school and high school saw the incident The police also were called SAVE up your Knox Young People will be around for them at the end of the