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iinnnm iiiiiiiiimnmmmiititmmimimiiiiimiiiiiiiimiNiiiimi Regional Government Phooey says former mayor Discouragement and disillusionment with the day old government were expressed by Acton a former mayor one or the panellists at the Chamber of Commerce regional government meeting last Wednesday He regional chairman Allan Halton Hills mayor Tom Hill and councillor Joe Hurst all spoke and answered questions While all related it was who presented the most bleak picture us ho told how his viewpoint has had to change since meetings began Several of the questions urged thai parochialism be forgotten that Acton and Georgetown mould consider themselves otic In such fields as provision of arenas and pools Mr said he too had entered into regional govern with such high hopes i but experiences at actual meetings had dampened his ardor Before he admitted he hod envisaged Utopia But now I face facts Both he and Mayor Hill referred to a motion resented at council the night seeking to give priority to Acton pool it has been objected to by ward and councillors and had to be withdrawn Staff and Department heads came from Georgetown the treasury and clerk s office are nine miles away Duby has travelled miles to meetings already It hurls that we had all these things of our own There were three opera Ions before at basic cost I assure you the escalation in cost is tremendous lean justify it can you One disappointing factor Mr Duby related is that we should have community pride It had to go down the drain Hills is in a different position from Burlington and Milton he declared Here we are two very urban centres with very separate Identities Acton was already fully serviced and well run The auditor always commented on Acton state of affairs We ran a tight ship he recalled with pride But with a nine mile gap Georgetown and going to grow together He referred to the hard work and heated debates and his conclusion It now ob vious its not going to work easily It seems we must compel individuals who make problems to realize we have certain concerns In Acton Parkinson law Is working so rapidly he said and added Inflation and escalation to the problems This would have been much better If there had been three communities in Halton as we had requested with Milton and included in the north Or Acton and Georgetown should have remained as separate in titles Now 20 dictate to There are three from ward one trying Impress the blance of council The system can work but I m not prepared to let the system work us as it has In other places Chairman Alan read a prepared speech which stressed added si bill ties of regional govern ment from those of county council The major for his member council Is planning They also now control supply and distribution of water sewage garbage disposal police traffic lights and control transportation and capital expenditures such as debentures He too admits to the difficulties of divorcing the areas from the region and blamed his councillors For lack of understanding of the enormity of their role in seeing the region a whole We asked for regional government Now we don agree and say it s the provinces fault Costs will rise he siid frankly everyone and everything comes into the same Influencing spiral Cost escalation is not necessarily the fault of the region He defended his pre region purchase of equipment by saying his saving of money has been proved right a question he said debatable Increase of staff is at the local level The region staff is required by new duties He worries about the loss of public input but says citizens who complain often base their objections on heard by the grapevine Out chaos will come order he promised Bogged down Mayor Hill mentioned how bogged down with work the area councillors are Some responsibility has been taken from the area by the region and he quipped left us with the dog catcher and cemeteries ami trying to supply money to run the region Councillor Joe Hurst see the problems in surmountable as Mr hid I don t just represent but all of Hilton Hills i mi mi iNiiimmmiiimiiiniinimiijiinii in NINETY NINTH YEAR No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MARCH Approve 17 of 29 lots in Legion subdivision Acton Legion may find it hard to believe Halton Hills Is all one town in light or a recommendation made by the general administration com mittcc Monday night The committee gave their okay subject to council ap proval to the portion of a sub division adjacent to a now Legion hall which lies within the old boundaries of Acton but rejected the part of the subdivision In the former township of The lot subdivision straddles the boundary and was planned by Acton Legion to finance the large new Leg ion hall overlooking Fairy Lake The lots lying within Es ran smack up against the Esquesing official plan not yet adopted which desig nates everything in existing use Present agricultural and to be ged would need an amend In the last three years council since the fall of when the holding bylaw went into force re peatedly turned down ap plications for change of land use until the official plan and zoning bylaw was in effect Blair Davm of Windland Associates a firm of engin eers and planners told ell Legion has obtained the approvals from Acton council Due to mortgage ties for the Legion hall the Le gion decided to establish a small lot subdivision on lots which can be serviced with water and sewage from Acton explained Mr Davis He said the Ontario Min istry of Housing is willing to approve if now Halton Hills approves The problem is that Elan does not allow It Mr Is remarked Councillor ex plained that the area within Acton is zoned R2 and the houses arc planned to be It is a tremendous facility the Legion is planning facing right on the lake and It would be a benefit to everyone in Halton Hills Chairman Roy Booth giving approval to the lots lying within Acton so that the Legion could obtain financing The remainder could go through an for amendment at a later date he stated Why is it so difficult to get an amendment asked Coun Morrow Planner Mario Vendltti pointed out Esquesing allow no small lots Now we are one town Hal ton Hills surely the province who created it could find a way to this Morrow Councillor Dick warned the committee the granting of this request would open up the flood gates to more than applications made last year wnich were rejected If we can t cope with this kind of adjustment under regional government some thing is wrong commented Duby Mr Davis said he had pre pared a draft official plan amendment adding a designation not covered in plan The designation would be residential development Reject levy Region borrows problem of how to finance projects the region under takes Cost Farmer said that If he was to raise money from the municipalities he had ACTON HIGH students serving as volunteers with the two Acton public schools are the vanguards for a similar program soon to be presented to the parents Sandy Holmes 14 of Wallace Street is a young student who loves kids She is seen working with Robbie Price showing animals and describing them she asks questions and encourages Robbie to discuss what lie sees See inside for the story on parent volunteers Halton Regional Treasurer Don Farmer will have to go to the bank to borrow funds to finance the current operation of the region Regional Council rejected a by law that would have alternative but to do it on authorized the treasurer to assessment basis He said if levy municipalities on an he had to go to the bank for assessment basis interim financing it would cost the region about Mayor Harry Bar in two months led the campaign to have Barrett claimed that if the the by law defeated He region raised Interim argued that municipalities financing on an assessment should pay for the benefit basis that would be the first they receive rather than on step to permanent financing an assessment basis on that basis because they feel it would be unfair to Oakville Oakville assessment ratio Is more favorable than Burlington Barrett claimed no municipality should be allowed to expand at the expense of the region He claimed that If services were provided at the expense of each municipality the municipalities could expand at the rate chosen the rate each area was Willi and able to pay Oakville Councillor MacLean Anderson urged the In every direction he suggested Burlington Councillor Jack asked Farmer to come back with a report on the matter for the next meeting I don know what I tell you that I haven I already this passed Farmer explained Thermometer rises on Lions campaign Seniors slighted hie en Golden Age club members accepted the in v recently of the Aclon Chamber of Commerce to mti attend a dinner at the Acton to defeat law and you better tell them something Raftis shouted If the by law had been passed Burlington would have to pay or 41 per cent of the interim levy Continued on Page 2 Two charged An 18yearold Georgetown youth and a yearold Acton man were charged with abduction of two underage Moved from mtensiv The latest rending on Ihe Lions thermometer located at their pool headquarters on Mill Street shows slow in Award The grandson of Mrs Doris Fryer received special ac claim recently Kenneth McLeod of the 129th scout group received the Chief Scout Award at the annual father and son banquet held at St Crispin church hall on Feb Area Commissioner of Scarborough south presented the award to a scout of out standing ability Resident collections have to according to cam ass campaign manager Vic low Vic says few of the re turns have come In and marks the thermometer at ihe 89 level The Lions continue to be enthusiastic at the response of the door to door canvass with many residents making pledges giving gener ously Watch the graph and step into headquarters and talk says Lion who the campaign will continue until every resident has been contacted Meadows Golf course Those attending expressed concern that in explaining the policy of regional government basei problems now being faced in making the system certain issues were avoided The Golden Age club members felt that somehow the needs of senior citizens regarding nursing homes and more senior citizens housing was not mentioned in the priorities The emphasis teems to be more on the younger generation was the con sensus of those attending who felt that members of the regional council presenting their policies were lax in Ignoring the problems of an op a policy idderless si Wen ship but girls as a re- alt of a com plaint laid by die parents The girls were reported missing by their parents Tuesday Feb and were located Thursday in Acton by Constable Bruce McArthur of Acton O Police report the girls have her to attended a party with the two in men and did not return home bo nearer home Grou discouraged Smoking encouraged by school facilities A recent report from the chairman of the local central region Canadian Cancer Society campaign indicates the committee feels that attempting to dissuade high school students from smoking Is an almost lost cause We have interested the biology teacher and a few others in curbing the smoking reads the report but with a room set for this purpose it Is most to dissuade students We have some enthusiastic supporters of a thank you for not smoking campaign amongst the staff at Acton high school but still feel If hi said Priority has to be the answer The proposed expenditure is astounding hi reported I wonder if the problem is psychological asked chairman Paul Nklscn Maybe we re all freikcd out by the size Any system will work if people want it to work Question Question Will the MTARTS transportation study be a planning guideline Answer Yes Question Why should we taxes for the Georgetown arena theatre complex there no hope of us using agreement signed yet project has priority Suggestions have been made each area pay for its own projects Question Surely we re all In Hills and t whose end the new projects arc in Question Will our municipal remain open Hill As long as 1 con have it open Question Wouldnt it hove been better to put the provincial govcrment out of the existing county building thin sell it and now seek new Answer Presently departments are ill over A larec new site for n complex could pay for itself Mayor lllll It going any further south than I want it to go Question reasons for keeping the Policing in the region is going to be very so I hope it a long time before Acton and P servile is phased out Pool Question Acton pool Xnswer It being processed ihe only way possible There could be financial problem if there i shortage Miyor expressed his concern over the attitudes of ward 3 and A councillors Question Is regional government here to stay whether it works or not The province is watching Question Why was a second recreation program turned down With citizen input we don t need an assistant co ordinator and I not having one had no problem lief ore hut Georgetown hired one so we have to keep him Maxims A cooperative posture will win in the end insisted Mr There nothing better for the digestive system than a good argument concluded the Mayor About GO attended enjoyed told buffet from Acton the panel and discussions Twenty Six Pages Fifteen Cents Chairman Roy Booth sold there were numerous other places in Hills where agricultural land abutted towns and could be iced from the towns That would mean could apply if we open that door we a be flooded with applications South of Hungry Hollow lor instance interrupted Morrow Planner Vcnditti said the town would eventually have to come to terms with here urban and across the way ral The committee mended the approval In prln a plan of subdivision for lots to a and to which lie within the planning area with the remainder to go through the normal used when amend is necessary This will help alleviate the financial difficulties any way commented chairman Roy Booth Crash victims improving Two victims of a twocar crash remain in thi Joseph limit Hospital In Burlington the Acton girl in intensive care with severe head injuries possibly requiring more surgery The other only recently released from intensive care The accident which eurred it the corner of the Third I ine of Milton on the ifternoon of Sat Mar sent four passengers in the Mustang driven Smith 16 of Prince St Milton to the Milton were Selim midt Eden Mills and Alex Smith driver of the vehicle Km Lindvik and pal Acton skier leads AS competition Beck 17 of Ontario St Milton Presently rermlning in intensive care in the Joseph Hospital 12 of Mill St is improving to the extent her parents hope to An Acton district girl won re- when she won out in me compel lions Meld tit the Notch ski in Vermont USX ind is in tin rice to for ihe ir fin in held it Sun Villi on TO Xccordin to World Wide Ski Corp which the national rue series Kris I inch of Xeton is the for the 1 s 19 to roup for istern return of the I X Divided by and region finalists numbering to men women will be selected from over participants The Nistar with the lowest scores in each ire selected for the event with final selections to be on March IB X I shows hit Kris his store of JO It she mis her id will hi one of thi competing for con led iw irds in by it SunV Competitive rieing is no i new guni Torino girl She from a skiing finuly where weekend her mother ind two sisters is i wiy of life Her fither Gunmr I wtLnn skier smoking was prohibited the school altogether it would cut down somewhat on the habit The remarks were part of a summation report on an Activity group dedicated to wiping out the disease or to assist victims ill three Hie irt of skiing skis since she wis ricinj competitions his to well Kris his Five about eight She mid her fimily have winter leisure hours on the ski in Burlington and they have Item Alpine Club in Both Kris and her older sister Beth have been ardent competitors in zone ing They hive represented southern Out ski te mi participating in the Hie cup rices In 1970 Beth represented Out irio it the in Games held in or Kris her specialty has always been in Shi was rated high cover Ihe ski picture in areas across in id is considered one of the top contenders in her diss The skier that for the list year or so she is not extended herself to is she did it one lime Tod i the young ilhlete says she is virtu illy retiring from r icing At 19 she finds herself more interested in usual ski just for ihe fun of it She found the in mis of competition affecting her ibiiily Iwoycirsigo look time off to flv own wings as i free lance skier Just to prove to myself that without pros sure 1 could do belter improve enjoyed the game is opposed to finding it a rigorous sport At the present she spends much of her skiing time lining club kids it Alpine Horses also ally enrolled in a Sheridan college services course Kris is kept busy This she for Sheridan in the Ont College Athletic Association A rices ind romped through with She modestly tells her entry in the Nistir competition was i spur of the mom When the school team went to Stiles for i Immng session sormtimi in she just entered the rice for fun An all round ithlete Kris is i compe titor hy niturc The moved into the Aclon district from Oikville i year ago ind a former member of the Junior Cimdian team she competes also as a top Ontario horsewoman