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The Acton Free Press Wed November 1976 Councillor reports ONE BAG OF GARBAGE PER HOME Considerable concern has been expressed over a matter covered In your paper where the Regional Public Works Committee discussed waste disposal problems and one individual suggested the above idea AnOakville councillor who was criticized by the chairman of Public Works for not offering positive suggestions to our wis te disposal problem responded by writing the committee with several Ideas one of which was to limit people to one bag of garbage per home per week Naturally the letter was placed on the agenda but 1 know thatnorecommendatloncametocouncilontheidea I m not sure how It was reported in the newspaper but surely one can read about a suggestion made by an individual without assuming that it will become council policy However we do have a very very serious waste disposal problem in Ha I ton Our three remaining sites have sufficient space for another IB months At the present time we have not agreed on a location for a future site to recommend to the ministry After thts is done it will take many months to hold public hearing rezone the area and prepare It to the ministry standards It might be interesting to note that the councillor who made the suggestion has stated publicly that he will not be a candidate in in the December elections and that the chair man of public works recommended that the committee receive and file the letter My Council Res pons lb ill lies The councillors in Ward One of Hal ton Hills did not need an Attendance Report to let us know that we had best record of attendance Your report was correct in explaining that a councillor could be absent while attending other council business or through illness For example In I missed three regional committee meetings while we negotiated a Union Agreement in Halton Hills Every councillor could be absent for another very valid reason In Halton Hills for the past theee years we have met regularly and councillors were expected to arrange their own holidays If a councillor took two or three weeks each year he would be absent for several meetings We had a large volume of business and council made this decision so that important matters would not be neglected while council closed down for holidays You mentioned in your report that it did not include attendance at special committees of council As a Regional Councillor lam presently active on seven other committees For the month of October I have attended meetings When you consider preparation time regular and special meetings telephone calls and what one tries to do to resolve local concerns one can be very busy As I stated earlier I find my responsibllitieschallenging at times demanding but always very interesting McKenzie Contract OK PLR back Reprieve for ducks mallards on Fairy Lake hop- mammals who are directly ing they will not be forgotten responsible for their or neglected by twolegged certain status quo FOR ONE OF THE FEW times in his working career Bev Baker of Cobblehlll Road is able to go home for lunch Mr Baker a machine operator is working for King Paving and Materials on the reconstruction of Mill Street East Mr Baker said that he enjoys the home cooked lunches his wife Frances prepares for him His work in town contrasts with most of his job locations For example for eight months while working at Pickering he drove to and from work every day Councillor claims diplomas worthless A high school certificate from sell the lodaj is worth more three d for than Quaker oils box top board Watson Region Committee What appeared to have the makings of a long strike at the P Robertson plant Milton ended abruptly as members of the Local of the United Steel Workers of America returned to work for the p shift on Sunday at the plant Workers had been on strike since Oct The decision to return to work was made alter 154 of 172 union member per cent voted in favor of management newest pro posal to them at a negotiating meeting with L Robertson management on Friday morning The two major additions in the new contract offer which swayed the union according to the local president Pete Edge were the inclusion of an guideline clause and an improvement in the company pension Raise Increase Mr Edge said the company also raised its wage increase from to cents on the base rale in the second year of the contract The present base rate is an hour Mr Edge said this went over the guidelines Bet down by the AIB but he doubted if the increase would be rolled back by the If this should happen Mr Edge said whatever amount is rolled back would be rein stated if and when the AIB is dissolved due to the inclusion of the guideline clause in the contract Jack Horn personnel rela lions manager at PL Robertson pointed out the money would not be tively reinstated though Pension Increase In pension benefits the company offered an increase to for the first year and Smoking banned at meets Trustee BUI Herd thinks the sight of trustees reporters and the public smoking at Board of Education meetings is setting a bad for students The board s vicechairman announced Thursday he will be bringing a motion to the board calling for a smoking ban this month Milton Couneillo told Administration Wednesday The committee was con the report from Ihc Board of to the Region Planning Com concerning input for the officii I Wilson told he committee he felt regional eouncil should control the budget for the Hoard of Education time look the which II i I till continued from Page 1 not just greedy as some bird fanciers claim I confess unblushingly that I am feeding our mallard population although the quota of bread and corn they are getting from me is not adequate IL Is just enough to keep them from starving I did not altogether ignore the nofeeding requests posted on two signs around the lake I cooperated up to a point toting handouts once a day in the evening instead of twice dally as in previous summers Subsequently I cut the feeding to every other day hoping our birds would get the message Instead I got the message finding that after missing a day our ducks were twice as hungry I reasoned that my feathered friends had all day to quest or natural food If they were still hungry by the end of day they were not finding enough natural food in the pond In prcsancluary years Fairy Lake was NOT a duck lake which lends to support my theory that it does not provide enough natural food to sustain a large flock of wild fowl The decision to ban feed was understandable but under the circumstances- something less than humane If you have domesticated fowl you don decide to stop feeding them in the hope they will fend for themselves Our Fairy Lake ducks are as ante as bam yard birds I make this point without fear of rebuttal don I pretend to be a zoologist or wildfowl expert but I do know our mallards perhaps better than anyone in Acton And so I should spent considerable lime and money on them Al least one trip a day regardless of weather over the post four or five years If this makes men nutter so be it We all have our hing If the ducks stay and I fear they will si me provision must be made for wintering feeding them better to consider this now than to wail until the pond is frozen lid cost in the second year of the con for future employment as well as over the length of employment dating back to lorns Watson scoffed a suggestion that the board need more funds id the and I have this from conservation author ean survive winter if they have food and open water The ide plan is to aerate a part of the lake and fence the area for safety pur poses Last winter the main part of the flock was housed in the old poultry barn a few makeshift arrangement but far better than leaving the lave hopefully birds lo freeze to death when without it inconven all open water closed in The town workmen did a Equipment now adjusted Hit switching to ne equipment in tin e quite fine Job of winter feeding the penned ducks who told me come spring that one of the staffers was teaching them to quack in Spanish or Italian If they follow Iheir custom of past winters about one third of the flock will winter at the dam provided Beard more and Co bubbles the water there as usual That leaves the remainder to seek shelter and food on the side or the pond Several winters ago all the birds were moved lo the dam which meant too great a concentration of fowl around run off As a re sult water conditions were rated as under par Perhaps a bubbler could be rented or borrowed this winter Or we could for a Wintano grant to buy a new aerator I make this suggest ion seriously After all grants hive been awarded for less pr purposes The winter teed bill fir one hundred odd ducks That should impose ver little hardship on the taxpayer At present from one sou re yours truly our mallards are getting twenty pounds of torn and three loaves or bread day if this were increased it would not break the public purse to pay for it I am the first to id mil we have problem which might have been if con servatlon and wild life spokesmen had irned it the outset of the consequences of attracting and keeping wild fowl on the lake waited for four or si before waxing hysterical it the presence of hybrids in the flock The resulting turned me off experts r the rest of m natur If you re Stop signs A petition signed res dents Churchill Road south asked Hilts council to install three way stop signs at Westcott Road Road and 1 field Ho id intersections with Churehill Road south Peter Homer said or frequently speed up to Go miles on hour on the street and trucks from the attain speeds of to miles an hour Halt owe en night a car came down who must have been doing GO and there were about 150 kids out on the street he stated Mr Homer contended the slop signs would break up the street and lessen the speed call we were warned to get our our hybrids or the feeding licence would be revoked Imagine conservation people making this threat in the dead of winter A classic example of blatant blackmail And we went for it One of the joys of to getherness Georgetown and I have inherited a problem which is Acton bused However Georgetown and trippers and other out of join with in voicing pleasure at the sight of summer of ducks on Fairy Lake Care of the ducks is a municipal responsibilty since the original plan was approved by Acton lion Committee which was swallowed by regional vernment In her Press column last week writer Jennifer a good case for action lo solve our duck problem Organization f volunteer groups takes lime and effort however wi rlhwhile the cause Me winter is appro iching in no uncertain terms and there are more lhan one hundred hungry Before the company pen increase would only effect future employment pointed These two changes in the addition to headquarters the contract offer were enough to satisfy the unions piny surplus teachers ing committee thousands of dollars stolen UPPER CANADA DENTURE CLINIC OPERATED BY A PROFESSIONAL DENTURE 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