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The decision Monday night by Hills council equalize sewage costs in the two urban areas of the town has to the aver Georgetown ratepayer bill this venr and sliced from the average Acton pavers bill Committee of the whole council tlnirimn Hyde broke the tie vote on the equalization question result in the average ixpaer in both urban are is SI JO for plant ex This move ne in future costs resulting from explosion of both the Georgetown ent eases Acton taxes plants will be split evenly among taxpayers in both areas Council overturned a fin committee recommend which would have seen Acton residents p for sewage services and George town residents this year Councillor Pat McKenzie lead the move to equalized assessment for sewers noting if Hills is lo truly be tome one town such i move w is neccssurv Councillor Hie Morrow countered Hills at the region including had toted equiltzeti assessment on the basis It would mean the north was paying for developments in the south He warned sewage costs would be high enough for Georgetown taxpayers with out them also having to help Acton pay their bills Morrow wondered how Hal Ion Hills could consider equalized assessment when the region had turned it down and decided each municipal should pay its own bills I won vote to further damage Georgetown tax pay Acton will benefit from this We can t say no equal at the regional level and have equalization here You just can I have it both ways he declared wondered why it was all right have one set rate for items like recreation and not for sewers too Councillor said it was a question to come to grips with especially since Hills is unique in hav two fully serviced urban areas He said equalized rates would be the best Hunt for the entire town Councillor Harry Levy ob jected saying each item of the town expenditure should be looked at individually to sec who pays the bills He warned Acton would benefit from such a plan at the expense of Georgetown and suggested there was no Ilalton Hills should equalize assessment when the region isn Councillor said both the region and Ilalton Hills started systems of for sewers and the is sinking the system so should Hills He said comparisons of equalized isscssmcnls for things like crossing guards street lighting were in valid the tome close to the eost of sewage treatment plant ex Ik said if i speeifn the town w somclhme then its l should pa for it and not expect other are is share the Councillor Hurst said Ihe problem of assessment wis a difficult one to solve since the deb surrounded the slum win ml benefit most in ihi lone run He said comparison with Ihe is rone suite it four instead of just one Hurst Hilton Hills is one town now Art lo eh irci people in four of Georgetown more than those in ird three if Georgetown just bee ft Is more benefits in town mm should have if or in i lies throughout Hurst unullor Miller the lown should hue irned to em foi s up si of its form had whit It shir items should I eh Ihe in dm lull decided ill this whit is ifairandobjeclive policy Morrow charged s if such a policy is extended to nil items residents end up p mi for t lights crossing fur philosophy his been vuu don pay for services you don hi said 1 tit ended the dilute by stitmc It is of isscssmcril in the interests of Hills coming truly one town of handling costs suggested by treasurer Raymond King would have seen Acton taxpayers paying either this year or and Georgetown rate with both plans Acton rale would have been reduced under plan two Ihe payment of from lot levies towards the sewir debt hirst in have sed ratis together the be in best lht think itually libit rite One Hundred and First Year No hue ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY 19C Pages Fifteen Cents A dro Hilton Hills o REV RUSSELL FINLEY and wife Jessie pose in Ebenezer United Church Sunday when friends and guest helped them celebrate his anniversary in the ministry Rev is also starting his tenth year as minister for Ebenezer Eden Mills and Arkell Rev from Sask atchewan also served churches at Hamilton Smithfield Hannon Chatsworth and Story on the district page Farmers effected by the hydro corn lp 0 fiRtit dor which will cut through the heart of Halton Hills have decided to join together hire a lawy er and fight Ontario Hydro at provincial expro priation inquiry hearings At a meeting held at each of Ihe properly Hall on June I owners over whose land the residents whose property line will go should contribute lies in the path of the hydro a minimum of towards the corridor or live clone to the legal fund to fight Hydro line unanimously voted to Anyone with more than 50 raise funds necessary for acres of land will be gal assistance when fighting an acre as their Hydro when it tries to ex pro- pnale their land addition the estimated With the urging of area 150 property owners who are farmers Pierre Pilote and within sight of willal waiter Scott the crowd de- so be encouraged to ieorgeloun Dick told firmtrs they have fight id of Ihtm but still stop the corridor the audience that everyone who has re ceived in ixprupnitlon no from Hydro must within TO days write to the Minister of Energy requesting a hear before the expropriation officer I would vou to stick loRcthcr prtstnt a united front Don have just a few I II I THE ALUMINUM ROOF of Don Hepburn s barn collapsed in sections as fire raged through stocks of hay and grain Monday afternoon Firefighters from Acton Rockwood and Milton attended the blaze on Sideroad just west of the Guelph Line New middle school few interested Mon public is held to inter people how schools will he re org miid lo elude middle school interested people who hard for attended numbered in eluded four principds me vice pnneipil one school bo trustee two five lwn re porters three Hi sold lhcr mini I sm ill roup d Ihe front if the m leav ing rows of vicanl chairs 1 school principal in the meeline called upon his experience it middle school in is lit explain ihe new incept for He showed slides of rooms it tent emu trustee loin he school for Ac ton and he s sold on the middle school concept He expressed his dis ippointmenl it lilt crowd and wondered if the reason was or it people art satis lied lit he w iht lctlmcs if people lo I k l the school board Keith r ml the Ml il Hon Ii students hid lo the group in m inv questions lit reviewed situation overeiowiline portables it ill schools tilt luildinetif the new school II looks is if slum sthot I ill ir He school he idded When the new school opens in September all town eritlt 7 and students will to old high school then i middle school Mr said no bus transportation will be to the new middle school Some of Ihe parents fell w ilk is long from or Kmgham for children is as 10 he distance is comparable lo others walked elsewhere in the county by children the age Mr said Tom Watson pointed out Ihe provincial distances allowed ire one ind a quarter miles for kindergarten children two miles lo an elementary school and three to a high school distances are less he said The distance to the new middle school would be no more i mile and half from any house presently occupied he iled Il is pointed out that Tyl bus has i separate arrangement with some par lo drive their children from Kingham Hills lo the I itlle school tan turned on Pigs rescued while barn burns firefighters were lenient said he understands lost 1 md lei Hie Hit 1 rn contents ire in hi ij nits lorn lo the No lust Ins been urn imed litem semi In m 1 ill In hilt Hepburn daughter of 1 in the Hit 1 in owner w is burned wen on during the fire lien Hit It rine lop off luul up IVCIII pumper et w lt a 1 ire Department sen Hit firm I Mill in broke down on ihe in l Intf 1 iv lionit from the Mm Call meeting about block parents plan MOMENTARILY FLOATING on the air is Glenn Van who broke a Robert Little School record clearing the high jump at five feet one inch last Thursday Glenn is an intermediate Field day results and other sports in the second section its A bid by Councillor Morrow backed by Councillors Harry Levy and George loask the voters if they want an municipal complex was defeated Monday nights meeting of Ilalton Hills council Morrow urged the question be put lo a plebiscite on a municipal election ballot He asked all work by the architect to cease until the voters made the decision He sold he was deeply concerned about costs in the few years He reminded council of the sewage plant added costs and pointed out within three years another a year would be added for carrying costs He said this year town budget had been kept a reasonable increase only because of an infusion of from lasl year surplus He said for the repair of the old arena had not been considered in the overall total We haven I responded lo the serious need for library facilities in Georgetown While we are considering more than for a municipal complex and just for architect a fees we haven t done anything about adding one square foot of space for books or a library Morrow contended the location of Ihe municipal complex at Ihe Seventh Line site was short since there would toexpand Ten years from now we be branded as idiots for doing it He urged council to stop the building now and get your priorities straight because we can really afford what we re doing Councillor said he was not too proud of I fftrts lo set up the limns first block Merits proLX nil ire mm me in two ins iys i project I i unit irk ins who is mult rl tilt project slid tpl 1 lock pi idt iv Ik mc I nil with school ft oin kindi lo thru there will mecllllf of volunteers lo set up steer in Iht is si led for p on hint it it Hit Services Centre in tin Mrs who his done rese of lotkpirtnts that a pro- is very simple to run it is set in motion Two or three block in street will cut crime ind deter child molesting slid People will be able lo sign up for the program at the meeting Interested parties can con act Mrs in the even iRfsat853 or Community Services Centre Mel in during the day anything council had done In the last two and a but we had no choice He said council had been spending money right and left As a member of Ihe committee for the new municipal administration properly every lime have to determine the best of many alternatives He said the committee is being shot down on every issue claimed a centralized administration building was necessary for a unified town Councillor Ern Hyde claimed there was room for expansion on the site We are one municipality and I want to centralized building wiihnll the departments together necessary He termed the attempt to put the question to a plebiscite as procrastinating ami passing the buck Sgt Hiton to head precinct Staff Hemic Ward who has been in charge of the precinct of the Ilalton Regional Police since 1 is leaving his post here riday He will return lo the detach meat in where he lives Ik will be by Dick Hilton who has been with Georgetown precinct since April 1975 Prior to he was with Ihe police department Hilton lives in He starts here Friday Fairview chapel Mien is i eootl will In built in view cemetery but the donor of the proposed bin Id me wishes to remain il this lime Ha Hon Hills Mori ly ippniictl re solution asking tin mini lo for the prov ili I tin of Con unit lot ition must be ap proved but no holdup is ex his already in pnn unit 11 would be located in tin corner the lift of