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Board of Education shuffles administrators and Dave finally have their entire family home alter home about three weeks ago with Derrek completing the their sons birth at Medical Centre Ham week They arc Aclon first set of triplets In most ilton The boys were to Guelph Gene nil Hospital to make caring for them easier for their parents Brian and Phillip came 11FLEN MURRAY After much haggling Haltoo a Board of Educ ation shuffled its admin istration and came up with a new structure The board is cutting down on the number of administrators at the area superintendent level from eight to seven However the super of Instruction Job a higher level of administration is being divided The new Job description has one man performing the trad itional tasks while someone else at a max imum of 40 a year will hold the title of man ager of personnel and employee relations Hal Ion is losing its superintendent of in struction John at years end The board was near hiring a new superintendent in mid September but talks fell through the last ute and the item was deleted from the agenda The distribution of area superintendents under the new structure is two In the west two In the east and one in the north Under the old setup there were three in the east and west and two in the north These area superintendents come under the superintendent of instruction Under the direction of superintendent of special services RG Chapman there is another area board assistant board chairman BiU Lawson said I believe it to be en tirely reasonable to advertise for an assistant director without a commitment You are providing a train ground and if you don take advantage of It someone else will said Lawson Trustee Gary Morton summed up change by If the board was doing the right thing He predicted the area superintendent will be spread so thin yet the board will congratulate Itself on cutting the num ber of administrators He went along with the new structure though because he said adjust meats can be made later Trustees stopped short of voting in favor of a structure which would have created the new post of assistant director Much of the discussion centered on what com if any would go to the assistant director for the directors job Director of Education Em Lavender has about two years to go until retirement think we all recog that within 19604 there will be a number of retirements in the senior administration of this Disston future bleak in spite of recent sale I In spite of the recent sale of the in dustrial woodworking line of to a Dundas firm the employment situation still looks bleak This week pres ident of Canada and Garth Doel president of DoTan Manufacturing announced they had reached an agreement for DoTan to purchase a portion of the Disston line in Acton and Vancouver is in the process of moving the production of hardware hand tools and metal cutting tools to their parent company Sandvik Canada present facilities In Montreal to utilize available capacity there More than employees are affected An unofficial spokesman for Do- Tan yesterday Tuesday said he did not believe his firm was going to of any employment to em and his company would keep all work in However pres ident Mr was unavailable to el ther confirm or deny this statement Oni and Fifth Year No 15 ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 17 1079 Twenty two Pages Twenty Cents In whole region Halton Hills benefits most from uniform sewer rates Acton and Georgetown gain the most from the uniform water and sewer rates adopted across the whole Region In a random sampling done by the regional Georgetown householders will pay from two dollars to ISO less next year thon they would have if the present system was continued In Acton the benefits are even more pro nounced with domestic consumers saving up to In their 1980 costs if uniform rates had not been established Houses with no access to sewers within the urban areas of Georgetown and Acton will no longer have to pay anything on their house tax bill for sewers At present homes without sewers such as on Ann Street Georgetown do not pay a sewer surcharge on their water bill like the rest of the people but do pay a portion ewer charges on their house tax bill as do all homeowners in the urban viced areas While paying a sewer surcharge obvious on water bills homeowners in both Georgetown and Acton also pay a portion of sewer charges on their normal tax bill This means a higher assessed home has been paying more for that of sewer costs than a lower assessed Treasurer Ray King said I feel the system to go into effect January 1380 will be much fairer Buildings such as hospitals school and all government buildings which ore tax win now pay a much higher sewer rate singe the portion of the sewer rates formerly on tax bills will be on the sewer rates they do not pay taxes it follow they did not pay that portion on their tax bills Georgetown hospital for example will pay an additional 100 In In general Industries will benefit eons id with Economy Forms Georgetown listed as saving an estimated in 1980 the uniform rates and Beardmore In Acton saving over the costs projected for next year if the present system was in force Buiding Products expands west Building Products of Canada Limited an nounced his week that it will build a million thirty thousand square foot vinyl siding manu facluring plant in Calgary Alberta Construction will begin In November with com scheduled for April I960 The plant will manufacture vertical and horizontal vinyl siding and soffit In a range of five colors Building Products pioneered vinyl siding in Canada and currently manufactures a complete line of siding and siding accessories at its Acton plant These products are marketed under the ESCLAD brand From plant location the company now supplies these products across Canada and to selected export markets The Calgary site was selected said W Hall restoration group seeks dollars for history Acton has about a As the restoration you want it cough up 000 way to go to pre- committee chairman W or whatever But servo its sole remaining George Elliott stated in a to date no one has century building and news release the liaison started a campaign according to the Town committee will not make sold the councillor Hall Restoration Com the applications unless The press release from time Is Acton people come up the restoration com out with more pledges If the mlttee puts the town hall The restoration town hall Is to be re- issue right on the line committee is calling a stored we must have public meeting for help The Committee has Monday October at done all It can m to discuss The plateau to what more can be done to be raised from towns secure pledges and folk only matches the possibly start a fund- sum Hills Council raising campaign for the agreed to divert from town hall The meeting is demolition of the building That was a conditional diversion of published in More recently the downstairs rooms have been used as a meeting place for the town senior alliens Wad land manager vinyl ding because of its central location to the western market for vinyl and its proximity to Alberta growing petrochemical industry Building Products operates as part of Chemical Canada a division Imperial Oil Limited It is a long est supplier of roofing and Insulation products with manufacturing plants in Wabamum and Winnipeg in the west in Ontario and in LaSalle and Rouge Quebec Treasurer Ray King emphasized the amounts are not savings over last year water bills with the sewer surcharge In eluded but are the savings resulting from comparing the costs under the present system and the new system The Beardmore saving whose main goes Into lagoons is due to the removal of the sewer portion from their tax bill Industries using large amounts of water in their processing with little entering the tary sewers will be able to apply for a reduction through a Sewer Rate Committee of four regional councillors to be set up shortly According to the regions statistics Paper Georgetown a large water user will have an increase in sewer and water rates next year of If no application for a reduction Is made The user pay approach recognizes a direct relationship between the amount of water purchased from the town and the amount of effluent going back into the sewer system As a result a 15 per cent discount has been built into the domestic rates to cover such items as or car washing where the water does not return to the sewage plant A provincial special assistance grant of 8 million will be used to defray costs of phasing in over the next three years Burlington Oak and Milton will receive discounts from the grant but Halton Hills will not since they are already benefitting more than the other municipalities The grant is being passed on to these mun since their costs will be higher in the new system than they would hove If they were simply financing their own sewer ser vice in their own area In Hills the rates are lower under the regional system than they would have been If the alone so the grants are not applicable Ruby Clark was a special guest at the Knox Women Missionary Society final meeting Thursday afternoon Ruby received a special mom en to from the Society Acton gains from new billing system Wood or Burlington expands plementlng are being we may have to pay carried out That seems to be the We just finished a story in north sewage plant Today we gain to- expansion If wed not morrow we may lose gotten that through the some agreement of equalized Region Council Acton Acton Regional starts on equalized water H Councillor Ed Wood and sewer billing at the to smiled Were the new year though some Same as with Acton 1 biggest beneficiary now studies concerning ihe million plant expansion Down the road if problems of Continued on Acton and Georgetown are the main bene ficiaries from the region s turn to equalized water and sewer billing from the politicians points of view The price Is right for In Trinity United Church Last Christmas a mail In pledge card blitz earned for the town hall fund The additional money is needed to lm press a Hills Council committee which acts as liaison between the town and the restor ation group The town committee Is in the position to spply for grants from and the Ontario Heritage Foundation and possibly the Community Centre Grant If you believe in re storing Acton s last remaining historic public building you will be there to give your support If very few show up for the meeting the Restoration Committee will conclude nothing more can be done and there is no interest in Acton in the restoration i funds That condition is They will then indicate to that the balance of Ihe Council the building dollars needed for restor ation come from else where So far the people of Acton have pledged about 000 Councillor Ed Wood who chairs the liaison committee said the town position is to wait and see If Acton people will come up with the money It comes right back to the towns people If BttBBBaW No confirmation on fire charges Regional Police were unable to confirm or deny rumors that an arrest had been made In con nection with the Dominion Hotel fire in August which claimed one life Spokesman from the police were unavailable for comment at press time this morning Wednesday newspaper he tried but failed to persuade committee members to apply for the pre servation grants Councillors John McDonald George and Marilyn Serjeantson also are on the liaison committee The twostorey brick town hall dates from the It is its birthday Its walls witnessed many council meetings dances and Acton Citizens Band recitals It was still In use when the main book con- coming local history the bright coated riders and hounds father for a fox bant It colorful light and it was Acton Early Dayswas again recently when the and Catalan Hunt assembled at Docking Farms owned by Hog Wood TstltnpapbefareUkmgoffanertliefoxbaluiaowedtraditsta Photo by HARTLEY COLES