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Equalized charges illegal Ric Morrow Hilton Hills councillor Ric Morrow says the town decision last week to equalize sewer charges throughout the town is illegal Last week council decided to equalize sewer assess charges in Acton and Georgetown adding to the average Georgetown ratepayers 1976 tax bill and slicing 8 38 from the average Acton homeowner taxes The plan would see the average taxpayer in each ban area pay for sew age costs this year Without equalized assessment Acton residents would pay for sewage service and George town residents only Morrow was opposed to equalized assessment but a slim of councillors be lieved it was just another nee step in making Hills one town Morrow told this news paper Tuesday that after talking to both the regional treasurer and regional solicitor he has learned Hills equalized assessment plans are Illegal The move Is illegal due to requirements in Bill 151 pro vincial legislation which set up regional government in Morrow says the town must either go back to the old chargeback system which would mean Acton taxpayers will fork over more for sewage services in 1976 or else use money collected from lot levies to bring the Acton rate down The day after the mil rate was set Morrow indicated to this newspaper he had doubts about the legality of the move and said lit would invest One Hundred and First YearNo ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JUNE 1976 Thirty Pages Fifteen Cenis The public ton Hills handles the Acton works committee voted last water billing on the region week to transfer the Acton behalf water billing function to its The public works commit Georgetown office and save tec was told by staffers that the Acton water area a the saving would tome from Acton rojetro of fie year The change is to be ed as soon as possible Presently the Town of Hal having business machines at the Georgetown office ing at greater capacity office staff increase of Up pool rates to cut deficit one part time person for the Georgetown off ice is to be off set cost wist by the lion of a Hills ployec who wis involved in the billing costs Hills Councillor Garnet said he wanted to Acton docsn I end up paying third of the rent or other operating costs Georgetown water office be cause of the change and the committee told regional slat The only other person on the staff is Mrs lorniClark Neither of them hive been officially informed of the billing Presently water bills taxes and pirking tickets be paid here Dog and bike licenses are sold The major task in the office however has been witer billing Because of this the region over half the eost of the New equipment new equipment in the Georgetown office will to make cerl that llL the Fathers Day Sunday and me with no present lives with Mr and Mrs Ferguson at Ft R 1 Guelph Area people win 10000 in lottery Mr Mrs C they were winners even wild tele The ticket was one of four vision ihe night Ihev ion til Well woods had on the in the J draw They were pur The ft res dents hid in Toronto compan lasl even The couple had bought Win An increase in membership and swimming lesson costs at both Acton and Georgetown indoor pools could cut a pro jected deficit at Acton from 16 to a deficit of 12 and at Georgetown from 8 857 to 4 IBS Starling in September rates will go up if Hills eouncil goes along with the increased rates recom mended by administration committee The single admission rate was tipped to cents earlier this year Membership for children would go from 13 to students would stay the same at adults would decrease from to 18 the adult sauna rate would stay the same a family would go from to 60 and a family with sauna use from to Red Cross water safety docsn happen Councillor i member the publte not n Hills deficit asked if parents could not be allowed in the pool while lessons are in progress He claimed at the pool there is no pi ice to sit parents must take turns peer ing through a window Gray said sometime in have trouble with small children when the band has been transferred parents arc present i for a ycir Council decides the iddition of time person In contrast the office equipment committee but was i the service Councillor nut Sykcs from lnmil the Georgetown area of Monday night at the Hills works committee meeting councillor Dick reported on the region decision The committee of the whole will decide what to do in he town office with a deadline of January 1977 Cars make homes police will evict Hills works will ask police to evict three lesson for one person will young people from the Acton and forgot I the draw made It was no until they compared one of their tickets with numbers in a newspaper that they realized and Olympic lottery tickets before but until now never had any luck They plan to continue buying tickets increase from 10 to for two persons from 18 to and three or more in a family will go from 24 to 30 In the tadpole and parent and tot lessons one member of a family will pay 10 up from 7 two members of a family will pay 15 up from nd three members of a homes they art borrowing and then have the homes removed too says there is to be night parking but wonders if the police cm enforce tins bee isn I spelled out It was revealed Monday by enough in the parking Councillor Joe that by law He said an agreement three young people have between the town and the taken up residence and art church that there is to be no sleeping in three cars which overnight parking not be have been left in the Knox enough for the police to which ilso serves is i vagrants parking lot Dick Hurst noted town polity and Mikt Armstrong both thought the police throw the young people out of the cars on the basis they ire vagrants Hurst said he knows polite arc aware the three tars have been left there hut sure they have been turned into sleeping quarters Former resident 10000 richer Terrific That s all Mrs Pat Patter son of JIB Bell St Milton could say when she found out she had won in the lottery Mrs Patterson wife of Regional Police Bill Patterson of the Milton Precinct said wc didn t blow it we invested it family will pay 20 up from Presbyterian parking lly a 18 Synchronized swimming will increase as will spring board diving Scuba diving will go from to residents of the end of the predicted by a woman from it was a bad Rumblings of thunder for several hours on Sunday Inch hail stones pound area Sun PAINTING A REPLICA of Holly Hobble on the sidewalk in front of Acton high school is Lesley Carter a grade ten student Art students in eon- junction with Art Fever had a sidewalk coloring contest on Friday Bright shades of chalk were used for a great variety of drawings Susan and Dan Warren were named to have the best work by judges principal Lavender Public health nurses strike region lockout to follow Hilton s Public Health Unit The nurses are picketing nurses will find themselves health units municipal build locked out when they to and regional to the job following this week week strike which Mr said all of the Austin noted one of the cars even have whte since it is up on blocks The police will be isktd to hive the cars removed begin Monday lltilth Unit nurses throughout Joined over 1 colleagues atross in the one week strike which was called to force ljutcn s Park to come up with legislation binding them to compulsory arbitration However when their strike is finished they will find the rcy to let them work until a contract is been reached Hit Hoard of has sud ill iking if the nurses precipitated a work stoppage will be no more work for them until i collective agree mint is reached In the will be locked out Hilton region Director of I Dennis said this week of the nurses negotiating team Tuck said in an Interview that the ive gone on strike in the hopes of forcing provincial government to en compulsory arbitration for them would like arbitration so we can settle our contracts without strikes The thrust of this strike is against the il government The pital nurses have arbitration and we don We simple don like strikes my more than else she said In striking public he nurses are protesting lockouts which hive been imposed it two of the units in Ontario outs ire not way to settle contract disputes sin s Local One the Ontario Public Health Nurses Assoc union 11 was the First formed in Ontario back in she observed linue during the strike and subsequent lock out as best as possible limited staff but admitted some services will have to be curtailed He said the region and nurses have been negotiating a new contract for this year every since the old one ex pired at the end of It seems to me the Ontario Nurses Association to recognize we have a federal anti inflation pro gram We have offered them maximum under the Anti Inflation Board guide lines and it just satisfy them he explained He add the average public health nurse in makes ooo a year There arc many com pounding issues involved in this problem It has almost reached the point where we can deal with our own nurses since this is a pro vince wide dispute Mr declared There are 47 public unit nurses involved in the strike in In The two public health nurses for the Acton area have joined in picketing in Georgetown and at other public health offices In Georgetown Memorial the two Shirley ireni closing for the sum McKay and Val Walters arena will be handed out fact sheets about using roller skates from heir strike it schools and on Georgetown for the program the streets Tucsdav here Some of money in the budget not needed now for skates will be used for the a plexiglass menls Com Also studded tires and rims Scrvccs for Ihe irena ice- surfacing machine will not be needed since it will not be used for roads and parks S teachers have had first aid savings cover cost of the sides region health units will OK arena sides Plexiglass will be installed on sides of arena The administration com mitlce of council Thursday night recommended accept of a bid which will do both sides but not ends The department had received two prices for inst illation of Ihe plexiglass the lowest from Crystaplex Plastics Ltd for 80 Observed councillor should be disippointed ends won be done because we didn expect anything to be done The plexiglass will be in stalled above the boards for a height of three feel for pro town commented Reerea lion Director Glen Gray He was her first Wintario said the proposed rate in tiu win The lucky ticket was creases were mime raUlin purchased at Store Milton from Acton Mrs Patterson is well known here Her parents Sylvester and Myrtle Sargent three brothers and three sisters still live in this area ith the policy with the review of all town rates Hailstones measured an Councillor George Inch across claims one pointed out the rates are in line with the policy of trying to break even in operating costs The Recreation Director said it is either a moderate Increase now or a drastic increase later to reach the eventual goal said it seemed the lightning and rain com with darkness made the storm an unusual one Plants and crops were battered but no serious dam age has been reported Power did not fail A bolt or lightning struck Mimosa church during a meeting but there was no fire and no one was injured Other areas were hit much worse than Acton Employers needed Community Services Centre Judy Mel in is disappointed that she has not heard from more prospective more cm She has a list of plenty of willing students but has heard from few people who would provide part time work for them People who can hire students are asked to contact the Community Services Centre in the at 3310 Sgt here Little Stomper Tom Connors and his wife Lena who live near Balhnafad Monday Dick Hilton who now the birth of their first heads the Aclon detachment child a seven pound two- Regional Police ounce officially began his new The country and western duties here Monday June singers son was born at the He had been here for a couple Guelph Generol Hospital of days previous to that Mrs Connors said its our looking over the town and first child and of course neighboring district covered arc very happy by the men of this office Too little prime time for public tennis Ann Pickering named new rec coordinator NEWLY APPOINTED recreation coordinator for wards one and two is Ann Pickering former pool supervisor There is not enough prime time for the public at Acton tennis courts Councillor George contended at Hills administration committee this week Ann Pickering Acton in replacing John Cooper who He said in looking over door pool supervisor has job recreation department bro- been promoted to the position with the city of Brampton he noticed all the of recreation for She will begin her new post on Georgetown courts offered wards one and two Halton June 21 prime time to the public He Hills general administration The new came sold until noon is not committee revealed Thur Hills In March of prime time evening she started with Ihe Surely every Thursday Miss Pickering will be swimming pool Friday and Saturday should not be scheduled for club he commented Recreation Director Glen Gray said it would be ironed out next year but due to the lateness of the formation of Hills Tennis Assoc i which oversees all courts in the town the times had not been as carefully con sidered as might have been He said next year the pro posals would be submitted In January or February SIGNING IN support of striking nurses are two district women centre Carol Wragg and Marg Barnstaple both of 2 Acton The districts two public health nurses were handing out fact sheets and explaining their position to passers- by onMiUSt Tuesday Ontheleftis Val Walters on the right Shirley McKay