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Free wood at landfill sites A move by Regional Council aimed at reducing the amount of garbage burled In regional landfill sites will be a boost to people looking for wood for home fireplaces or Franklin stoves The regions Public Works Committee agreed last week that areas in Burlington and landfill sites would be set up so people could come and act wood without having to sort through domestic garbage at the land fill site Burlington Alderman Veir has been encouraging such a program for several years now Director of Public Works Bob Moore said the program would be carried on until end of February Until now it has been Illegal to retrieve wood from landfill sites General scavenging is still not allowed High school teacher appointed Librarv Bd on5thLine delayed Back to bock collisions on Double collision The Acton Free Press Wednesdey Dec 1977 3 By law Mike McMahon a teacher at Georgetown High School has been appointed to Halton Hills Library Board by the Halton Separate School Board He takes the place of Ben Boyle a long time member of the library board who did not want to be reappointed Mr McMahon lives in the Speysldc area and came to Georgetown High School three years ago from Glen Forest Secondary School in Peel Region He is a physical education teacher The library board with recent appointments now has Norm Elliott Mag wood Ruth Wilson and Walter as town ap pointees Dick George Lee and Betty Fisher as Halton Board of Education appointees and Cathy and Mike as Halton Separate School Board ap pointees Region appoints 1978 representatives Otto Jelinek seeks Halton nomination Appointment to the three conservation authorities two hospital boards and the Royal Botanical Gardens were approved by Halton Regional Council without discussion or debate Wednesday In most cases the appoint ments are made on the advice of local councils Russell Miller and Pat McKenzie of Halton Hills Jim Watson and Krantz of Milton and J Farley and appointed to the Region Conservation Auth Hills Mayor Tom Hill Councillors of Hills and Laurie Mannell of were appointed to the Credit Valley Conservation Authority Oakville Councillor McLean Anderson was ap pointed to the Trafalgar Hospital Mayor Hill was appointed to the Georgetown District Hospital Board and Councillor G B Clements of Milton was ap pointed to the Grand Valley Conservation Authority Mrs K Campbell of Milton was appointed to the Royal Botanical Gardens Board of Directors as regional ap pointee Mrs Campbell has held that post for several years now MP Otto has decided to seek the Prog ressive Conservative nation in Halton after all In August Party Leader Joe Clark had asked Mr MP for High Pork Valley to consider running In r riding in Metropolitan Jelinek says Hallon is his my efforts on a Jelineks present riding Support towards my candi divides into four consti in I know and tuencles Mr Clark wanted understand the concerns and the MP to stay and help the various local Issues as well as party gain some strength in anyone Toronto Etoblcoke Centre which could well have put him in a race against Liberal incum bent Gillespie was one specifically mentioned Under redistribution Mr Metro In a letter to Mr Clark on small business i released to the press Mr naturally continue to expound level be successful In obtaining the nomination he is confident he will be able to deliver a new PC seat to parliament Former home where he was raised and educated and where the position to assist and com majority of his business and with the heavily personal interests are populated small business tered sector of the Halton Over recent months I have tuency experienced a ground ell of Mr Jelinek adds should he party spokesman Terry OConnor ran for the Conservatives in the last federal election He was defeated by Damage totalled an est imated Regional Police report after an known car hit a parked car belonging to Sheikh of Montreal on December Back to back collisions the Fifth Line last Wednesday afternoon resulted In a total of in damages to three vehicles In the first mishap the road grader driven by Robert Con way Lindsay of escaped damage How ever the vehicle driven by William Robinson of It Georgetown has about in damages according to police Later on while police were investigating the first acci dent driven by Cheryl of R Limehouse was involved in a mishap with the Robinson vehicle The Robinson car was parked and unoccupied at the time damage to the Robin son car comes to police say Police also estimate damage to the Springle vehicle at The third reading was delayed when councillors protested they did not have A bylaw todedicate the new enough information They road running into Acton high pointed out the bylaw had Just school to the town was given appeared on Ihelr desks that two readings Monday night night BOWLING Great Fun fax BOWL for Pleaiure BOWL for Health Acton Bowling Lanes A 10 Main St Phone calls delayed police keep system Judge to hear Field case appeal Halton Police Commission decided to stand pat with its auxiliary power for the phone system in spite of an Internal report which describes the system as unsatisfactory The police have a system which puts auxiliary power for the about 10 sec after the main power fails Commissioner Judge William Warrender moved the system be kept A report from W Oliver deputy chief in the forces service division states This system has been in effect since however it has not been satisfactory and we have lost many calls over the years some of a serious nature and in some cases Ihey have called back police chief Ken down played the seriousness of the situation It one chance in mil lion he said Deputy Oliver stated that a solution would be for Bell Telephone to install an standby system which would cut in the moment commercial power fails The new system would function for six hours At current rates the new auxiliary system would cost per year The first year the cost including in stallation would be Watson urges funds for resource recovery Milton Councillor Jim Wat son wants to set aside one each year for the next three years for a reserve fund to help fund resource recovery in If adopted by coun cil the reserve would ac cumulate about Watsons proposal was for warded to Haiton Regional Council Wednesday and while it was referred to a Feb 1 meeting for further con sideration the was sub jected to a lot of criticism Burlington Mayor Mary said she favored the resource recovery concept but charged that the sugges tion by Mr Watson was a most disorganized way to approach the task We are already over charging people to use the landfill sites so that well have a reserve built up to charge another mill would be irresponsible Resource re covery could be another years down the road Yes it could be 10 years down the road it wont necessarily be built in 1980 Acton councillor Pat noted Music time The appeal of a Halton Regional Police sergeant convicted in a police brutality case is to be heard by a county court judge instead of the Police Com mission The decision to have a judge hear the appeal came after the Regional Police Commission learned an appeal is being launched at the commissions meeting at Thursday Brampton Lawyer John Greenwood who represents Sgt Jason Field told the commission that an appeal has been filed Field was convicted of unnecessary violence under the Police Act on December The case heard before Police Chief Skerrett was in connection with the slapping of 20yearold Gary Sparling in Georgetown last May The reasons given for the appeal sparked a sharp ex change of words between Greenwood and William a Judge who also sits on the commission The judge said he resented the insinuations made by Greenwood in the appeal I don t believe it he told the lawyer the commission and the press Greenwood replied he was not Interested in the judges beliefs After another com from the lawyer said I dont think your opinion is worth a damn Under the notice of appeal Greenwood stated the original charge of October 18 purported to charge the sergeant with a criminal offence The chief had no jurisdiction and he should have referred the matter to the provincial criminal court the notice states The December amend to the original charge amounts to a new charge and it falls outside the six month statute of limitations Also in the grounds for appeal is the charge thai Chief Skerrett was properly motivated by a desire to convict the sergeant while the weight of the evidence showed Sgt Field was innocent of the offence Bias was exhibited by the police chief states the notice in Skerrett admission that the complainant and his main witness were lying with respect to relevant facts Skerrett concluded he would convict the sergeant because the youths could not be lying all the time the notice states Also contends Greenwood the chief showed anxiety because of complaints of a lawyer or lawyers in the community with respect to police brutality Another grounds for appeal used in the notice states the hearing proceeded in the apparent position that the onus was on the sergeant to prove his Innocence Greenwood also contends the chief should have disqualified himself from taking part in the hearing because of his alleged bias Police commission chairman William said Ihc board has not met formally lo decide how to proceed with the sergeants case However he told Greenwood it is likely the board will seek to it heard by a county court judge Sergeant Field was at the meeting dressed in a suit Field will apparently remain a sergeant until all the appeals process is exhausted Then If the chiefs decision that Field is guilty is upheld Field will be demoted to the rank of a first class constable If the yearold Field is demoted the cut in pay could amount to approximately by the time he retires at age 60 presuming his rank stays at that level said three or four members of the police commission had prior knowledge of the case before hearing so it is likely the appeal will go before a county court judge Greenwood said the disposition of the case was very fair The appeal will likely be heard in the new year Green wood said In an Interview Transcripts of the hearing will take about four or six weeks be typed the Your Community Marketplace Dial ACTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Annual General Meeting Monday January 16 Acton Band Hall RECEPTION 630 730 DINNER 730 830 MEETING 830 Dinner Tickets 600 each Tickets Available at Acton Toddlers to Teens Nielsens Clothing Swetmans Shoes sorority carolling Thursday The Legion Chorallers were out carolling downtown on Friday evening Families members were throughout town evening Last Wednesday the band took their traditional music tour by bus Highlight of their evening was their sudden invasion of the Golden Age clubs pot luck dinner where they entertafned before moving on Christmas coiision A Christmas Day collision at Division Street and Wal lace Avenue caused a total of in damages to two cars Damage to the car driven by Hugh of 7 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