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Growth to east halted until board gets MOE facts Approval of residential developments at the east end or Acton which eventually could increase Ihe community population by will be delayed least until the developers can find out from the Ministry of the Environment officials exactly what feet the development will have on town water jnd sewage treatment facilities Dowson and solicitor Bill feld appeared at a planning board meeting last night Tuesday on behalf of Alliance- Developments McNamara Cor Ltd who own part of Lots and Concession and part of Lots and Concession t on the eastern town limits Some of the land is north of Highway and some south east of Churchill lload reminded the board thai in the Acton Last study was tabled at Ac ton Council and it was concluded that if town were accommodate growth It would bo towards He sold two dentin developments were recommended one north of Highway for people and the other south of the highway for another He said one of assets of the develop ments be extension of trunk services which could help the town service a new in dustrial area explained that the firm has al re idy applied to amend the official plan of the former Esquesing township which is in force now A new official plan for all of Hal ton Hills is currently being worked on He iskcd that the town make it clearly known what land uses they wish for the area We feel the Acton East study In pnn is a balanced scheme for the new town of Hills to consider he concluded It is a program of balanced growth lo the east which facilitates opening up of a fur thcr industrial area limit Councillor Dick said he thought the presentation was premature He ex plained thai the Ministry of the Environ bad put a limit of population on the capacity of the present Acton sewage treatment plant The two new develop ments raise Actons population to more than llosenfeld argued that what the had said is not what the capacity of the planl should be but what the level of at Ihe end of the process should be There hasn I been an adequate view of what capacity planl can bo constructed on that site to come up with the effluent level he suggested Timetable who also sits on the works com mitteeof Region Council maintain that the committee would get time table for expansion of Ihe Acton plant this week and that the job would likely go to ten der in October Recognising Ihe difference of opinion which existed Councillor Hie Morrow further discussion of question without the correct facts would be a waste of time Ik presented motion saying that the board would reconsider the lion if the developers would return with factual material obtained from the MOE Councillor Duby who was mayor of Acton in 1973 acknowledged that Acton Council had given the Acton East study ap proval in principle at that time The question however is jusl one of the sewage plant but one of how fast do you want to become twice the size you are pointed He recalled lhat In 1973 Acton Council was having difficulty getting MOE appro val for construction of individual homes let developments Councillor Joe Hurst reminded his col leagues that the people of Acton ore still paying on debentures which helped eon struct the present plant He emphasized total costs of any expansion required by new development would have to be ah orbed by the new portion of ihe town cautioned the board against planning by the sewage treatment plant alone We would like you to keep your broad he said Set your goals high The proposal will get sobered up in the pro cess of implementation said he I sure if the had made a final decision However he added that if it had made its mind up at million gallons he had information to prove them wrong said he didn think the MOE could make its mind up on effluent until it knows what the influent to the system would be think it would be for the town to beat 18 and not lose the tinncry than to be J 000 and lose the tannery and that s a possibility he said One Hundred and First ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY APRIL 1970 Twenty Pani flee Cents in J HORST BARON IS escorted by police from the new court building at Mil ton Mr Baron was found not guilty by reason of insanity Wednesday in connection with the shooting of his wife and two boarders at the Baron farm last October He was charged with three counts of attempted der Mr Baron has been transferred to Baron not guilty but found insane Ontario Supreme Court jurv look 40 minutes to decide that Baron charged on three counts of attempted murder was not guilty by reason of The jsual because of the agreement of both counsellors on diet open to the jury Justice Samuel said in his address to the seven men and fivt women row J defence lawvtr Louis I Silver told the they could either find Mr innocent or innocent of lo have est ibhshed that Mr B iron is of shooting his wife Baron ind junior Mayer and his nine year old son Mr would hive had to show that there was intent Mr Baron mind intent the crown counsel told the jury Mr Baron wore the Mini dark blue suit ind tie for thi week trill on he the kept the imi expression police observed lie had following the slicHilinf and which he main I lined duruiL most it the Mr in his summary on the test mion of two mental ists who concluded that Mr iron is kalv when be fired ID speci revolver the three people in the of the It iron home on Hit list October Hi i jury specu all counts ni id fore in Susan lover told the court tin jurv s decision was mi iron is lo be held in custody until tin pleasure of the lieutenant governor is known jurist said Mr Baron is escorted from the court the hearings resumed Mr Baron may be taken to I met other considers its merits six months Mr Irekiven Neither the crown Sil ver would long ill remain incus 11 jJ Hills average tax hike In Acton and Georgetown and in Esquebing announced here last week is only a drop in the bucket to the tax hike set by Board of Education The two combined will up the average Acton and Georgetown taxes by roughly while Esquesing taxpayers will be hit an jump But the bad news is not ended Region lias not yet set their budget but estimates of the tax increase at that level are guessed lo be around This will be added to the known increases Each of the three bodies set the own mill rate and are completely responsible for their own budgets The town its mill rate a modest 1 in Acton i in George town and 1 In The Board of Education Increased their mill rate in Georgetown 11 in Acton and 12 in Th town average hike Is in Acton and Georgetown and in Esquesing while education costs have the average tax rate in Acton and Georgetown and in Ikli I ilit I Three viceprincipals transferred from town reshuffling of vice principals in North schools was announced by the Board of list week vice principal of school has been to Slew irttown school where he will hold the position lie will In rep iced by Angus us limit vice it school Burlington his been vice l Bennett for Juni and at sehoo Burlington Mr principal for four vears before coming To teaching to vice principal of the high school had last Biteman November requested and principal of Robert I been granted a transfer to School has been transferred Pearson high school to Brookville school Larry He will be vice principal at chairman of Social Sciences Slcwartlown school will t ike had l0 the ltl Free Press of his desire to get Mr has been at leaching Before I for two years mine to high school Before he w is teacher principal Dave was also it Bennett school for it Pearson He also is hung foi two in ephced by 1 McLaren rom ikvilles rdue high it the of his career I One more punch from winter the jury retired to the evidence Judge Hughes began hearing i r divorce iscs in the s ime courtroom Approx people wire pre sent when the judci inter his just The under six months pick The which Ins sat for five started ended April 21 Then was i five dij recess over I ind Pissovcr on way to After six months in and out news limelight 50year old Baron of Acton was to be taken this week from the old Provincial Jail in Milton and transferred to miles north of Toronto murder on the grounds of insanity is lo become a resident of the isohtcd Oak Ridge Mental Health Centre the maximum security mtntil hospital in the Old in winter returned to ihe Sunday exactly four m months is with of high winds snow power cuts mil I- alien trees and inches cut power in several and sent works hydro crews in Acton sques and Ontario hydro met Hilton Hills Works department off iculs said they can recall winter storm slncking so late in the year The lown experienced no power cuts from the storm Doug Mason Acton Hydro Commission superintendent said A hydro crew a fallen tree from Main Ihe slon with Mr Baron acquitted last provL week of three charges of of ihe hospital present population of arc considered to tie criminally insane resident is being held in custody on a court document called a I icuten ant Governor Warrant which is in effect an open sentence to ensure he will be readmitted to society until successful treatment by psychntrists and approval by the provincial cabinet Treatment programs at a slain duck He Oak llidge whose residents the child who is supposedly include convicted murderers connected with Ihe killing had rapists and child molesters been talked to Other pupils are wide ranging Among have also been interviewed them arc LSD use aversion he said therapy nude group tors and modification techniques The centre has been very successful to date in lis rehabilitation of persons committed there and for example only five of men released back into society through Oak Midge since 1968 lime so it kid by wet flikis Mr said spor idle tuts in total ten minutes at his l home Appointment Hilton Hills council with the of Mrs Henry igneel Knox St ret from wen Hilton Hills Boird to brush snow from the Norm in I lliott 164 hick roads Mr Moretk said I ltd Acton was Monti ippointed for the ot lo six men were the to fill the unexpired brought in to work iy term People irrived at church an Mr I is i formir hour curly due to broil quilt trees down in Georgetown I- rank Morttic ilton Hills general works supcrinlimitnl said I- tree s blocked four line soutli Acton the line hi said snow wns mil gridcr I Bilhmfad and dislret is off six hours Out Hydro operations supervisor in Br inipton Jim im said lie not confirm the of the ire i power cut bet he I id ntt seen the trouble reports from lines nun is of Monday morning Mr did say that mosi of the power cuts were isolitid and tint no major interruptions were rejwrtcd Ik crews id worked on repairs throughout night ire i respond calls during the storm Most drivers needed to In hiulid out of ditches of Us said denthment of the mvtstigiicd help during in IB hour period during a 12 hour period at i m Sunday starting at am Sunday dong the six mile stretch of people were in 5 between jurcd Three of the accidents and Ospringt invest by the Royal trivellcr on Highway 25 City detachment occurred on said some drivers who found Highway No charges were themselves off the road re laid in the three accidents issistince from southbound vehicle wcnl net Thoughtlessness kills ducks One and as many as five I think its just thought ind forth to I tame airy dueks have lessness on the kids part Ic School Mr said Ik Ibeen killed what one school Mr Batemin said siul the ducks arc so tame officii termed the though Dam thai it not hard to draw lessness of children videnee of the killing first them close enough so Robert Little School vice to the attention of they in be hit over the head principal Gary said superintendent of services Alf knew of one incident In two weeks A street washer discovered duck body near dam on Mill Street West or five bod ics have been found Mr It s On children going Vice principal said be the school is of ihe incident be the works stops aid he ince of nature and im press upon them lhat they should be cherishing nol trovini it Mr Balemin added thai is fortunate to a duck reserve so near an ban If incidents become trend We re going to lost our wildlife populat Acton youth 17 Pleads guilty of trafficking JUNIOR SABRE Steve Taylor won the lady and her trophy at the team annual banquet Satur day Mr Taylor received the Lady Gerth Trophy for the Most Gentlemanly Player from June Gerth More banquet pictures inside A 17 year old Acton youth afoul of the law admitted last week In provin again cm court in Milton that he By comparison traditional lle dru prisons have an per cent community and Acton recidivist rate District High School in parti Officials Oak Ridge say onehalf are normally placed l0 lost Nov following llielr release from the maximum security In as a form of half way stop before being released outright Into society guilty to charges of trafficking in restricted drug and trafilck ing in narcotics and was remanded over to May 12 for sentencing Minimum months A spokesman for Regional Police said that possible fines aside the youth faces a jail term ranging from a of six months to a maximum of life imprisonment The court was told youth had in cash on him vhin arrested and led police contained one pound of man juam divided up into one- ounce piastlc bags I anil some hashish In Toronto The court was told the youth had purchased he Illegal drugs in Toronto on Nov 1 paying for a pound of marijuana and for quarter pound of The case took a strange twist when the lawyer for the accused told court thai WOO of the seized by police belonged to a friend of the accused who had asked him to purchase a stereo set Judge said Ihe friend would have lo make to a brown bag which estimated by poll allhand Welfare luc of the drug in Ottawa to have the money returned JAMES BELCHER a church organist in Collingwood came to Acton Monday night see the large pipe organ at Organ Company Limited The organ was made for a church in Kankakee Illinois where it will soon be sent The Company held an open house Monday and Tuesday evenings many people attending from as far away as and Hamilton