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Daffodil Day this Saturday Catherine daffodil chairperson shows a bunch of the lovely yellow flowers to Acton Guide Angle Co line and Pathfinder Nancy Van Daffodil Day a cancer month fund raising project Is this Saturday and Friday night Acton Guides and Pathfinders will be selling the flowers around town Photo by MURRAY Soaring mortgage payments anger Kingham residents Mortgage interest rales arc hitting new highs and the list of angry homeowners Is growing One Acton resident Bill Rogers of Kingham Road la organizing signed petitions to be sent via larger groups lo the government demanding some control over streaking mortgage figures Rogers appeared at a homeowners meeting held recently in lo shake nine visiting politicians into action In one day he was able lo collect 126 signatures in the Kingham area and ho still looking for more Of the units In Phase Three of the lownhouse development Rogers says lo mortgages come up for renewal this June Residents are frightened and upset over larger monthly house payments Rogers says his own payment will go up per month He comments over per cent of the semi detached dwellings on Greenorc Crescent are empty since rales started jumping Property values are plunging as rales go up Rogers explains houses similar to his own which were purchased for arc only worth now if they can be sold And therein lies the crunch Houses in the development Just I moving Selling Ihem seems to be an Impossibility he says Even before mortgage problems became apparent the houses weren t a popular resale item I can t understand says another Kingham Road resident lean figure out what wrong They re bigger belter nicer and cheaper than similar houses in Georgetown but they just won I sell Mine was listed twice but we never even had a call this house t worth anything Sterrlt Is also looking at higher house payments in June What scares me is the second mortgage he What the sense in paying more money when your house I worth if Who wants lo pay a month when you can resell says a lot of residents are being advised by their lawyers to sit it out hoping for government intervention in rale hikes It the ones with one Income that re dead right now they have logo He signed Rogers petition as did most other Kingham Rood residents because you got to show them you re awake He like Rogers wants the government to control rates rather than use a system of grants and loans We want it straight if they talk about tax re bates they might as well stuff it Acton sewage plant struck A five man picket line one day has been the only sign In Acton that region works employees are out on strike The region works department was struck Thurs day by 120 employees members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local and there was a five man picket line set up at the Acton Water Pollution Control Plant sewage plant on Churchill Road South that day There has been no other picketing In Acton up to press time Thursday a regional works employee Ian who was picketing at the Georgetown sewage plant claimed in an interview sewage from the Acton plant was going into the river untreated This charge was refuted by region manager of operations Don Morner He said com absolute nonsense reported the sewage plant is being operated by regional works supervisors some of whom used to work in the plants As well con suit ants who designed the plant have been called in A supervisor at the plant confirmed statements The supervisor said the plant pumping stations and water wells in Acton arc all being checked daily and all Ontario Ministry of Environ standards are being met He said everything has run smoothly in we hove been fortunate Three union workers are at the Acton sewage plant the only insulation struck here and they work an eight hour five day a week shift Alarms go off hours a day if thereareany malfunctions Without a contract since the end of the union has been in a legal position to strike since February 10 The strike culminates a five week work to rule campaign by the employees O i and fifth Year No 39 ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY Tver I Cents Petition to abolish region Majic solution by Murray A Waterdown man thinks seven years of regional government has been more than enough and wants Acton and north Nassagaweya residents to help him force Queen s Park to abolish the second level of local government Mike Majic has started a petition to end regional government once and for all In an interview this week said he intends to visit every area where there is regional government including Acton and area to get signatures for his pet He has launched his petition campaign because he feels regional government has resulted in outrageously high property taxes Needs names alms to collect at least 100 signatures on his petition and then publicly present It to Premier William Davis But he says he can t do the job of demonstrating to the provincial government that people are fed up with regional government all by himself Majic wants residents In Acton Esquesing and north to start circulating petitions and send them to him He says people can obtain copies of the petition from him or make them out themselves and then circulate them Majic can be contacted at 1 Ontario Hl3 campaign has been on since March 10 and is gathering steam Already he has well over 1 000 signatures from circulating his petition on week ends and in his spare time during Ihe week when he isn t working at Mack Trucks in He says the message to Queens Park in the petition Is simple and honest It doesn beat ar the bush and comes straight to the point It tells it like it is Renter should Majic reminds everyone he needs not just the slg natures of direct taxpayers property owners but also wants the support of renters because they pay property taxes too through their ever increasing rents Regional government is bleeding everyone Majic declared He claims it was brought in by the larger centres in each region ie in Ha Item region and Burlington because they couldnt keep hiking taxes it was too dangerous With regional govern the cities have been able to spread the debt around to the small towns and rural areas We citizens are the government and must be heard by our representatives said complained the provincial government would like to see friction over this issue between the cities and rural areas In the regions but he Is getting support from ail areas Residents of both big Province in court if petition ignored Ignoring the people who sign a petition to have regional government abolished will land the prov government in court A Waterdown resident Mike Majic Is circulating a petition in regions like Hallon and hopes to collect 100 After the petition is presented in public to Prem William Davis Majic plans to give Queen s Park GO days to consider bolls regional government If after that two month period the provincial government announce it will take action lo diamante regions then he and his supporters will lake the government lo court I think if we find that Ontario residents want to abolish regional government and the provincial government refuses to act on it then we d be within our rights to take the government to Supreme Court He feels the people of Ontario who he reminds everyone are the real government would be just Ified in taking their representatives the MPPs to court in a class action suit Buiding business could be worse by Jennifer Barr Are high Interest rates on affecting the building trade in and around Acton diet how the 1980 season will go Con tractors rarely see their busiest season till June and July Joanne Turner owner of Acton Accordlng to area builders housing Cost Concrete said she t really starts are practically nil but business isn as bad as predictions due to a greater number of homeowners de ciding to renovate and build additions to their present residences Berry spokesman for Alteo Con struct ion said a builder would be a fool to build now He said building business In Acton and area la dead The company only built two houses In 1970 noticed a difference in business Makers of well tile and septic tanks Acton Is still selling a great deal of these as people put In bigger better wells and sewage systems Turner said People are more concerned with pollution Just to be on the safe side Acton Cast Concrete has decided to diversify and more on concrete Berry says bridge financing nee- steps patio slabs and as well for building a house Is just too as tiles and tanks expensive at today s rates People c buying an already completed house are faced with interest rates of 16 per cent and better Most people round here could not qualify for a mortgage of to You d have to to earn about a year to pay for it he said Construction is planning to develop properties In Florida until the Canadian market stabilizes However Berry says of the future The wise man doesn make any comment It a sheer guess from day to day Small contractors and businessmen in related areas seem surprised that business Is as good as It is But they all point out early April Is too soon to John Oltoway of Excavating says Ihere s always going to be people with some money to play around with excavating business Is not too bad right now He agrees the Interest rates have affected construction of houses for which he digs basements but he finds the trend is towards custom built homes rather than houses built for speculation Ottoway says he s looking for a real good year There are lots of swimming pools being built In Milton so the earn can be that bad he says Vera Koreck of Vera a Masonry Con struction says it Just like any other spring a little slow but normal Continued on page inside Be sure and see the eight page standing contract Issues to medio tabloid tribute to Actons minor hockey stars In today paper A fire Monday at Heller caused an estimated damage See story on page 2 Holton Board of Education and its high school teachers have sent out tionarbltraUon ending the throat of a strike Details on page You find Profiles on page News Digest page 3 Editorials and On the Leave are on page Our Readers Write on page Digest page and Sports are on B3 Finding milkrelated words Speaking to school children and community groups hat kept Ilalton Dairy Princess Cathy Rich busy the past couple of The woman baa visited and Robert Little to conduct exercises tike this one with Trevor Thorn pi and Berlin to find milk related words She alio talked to Greenock Women a Institute In Ml Rich will compete for the title of Ontario Dairy Princess at the Canadian National Exhibition and small centres in each region have been equally harmed by regional government and must band to to bring it down he said He has been concentrating his efforts so far In Brampton and because Peel region Is where Davis lives Davis is for the riding of Brampton Visit every region But he plans lo visit every region to drum up sup port for his campaign There arc regional govern ments in Peel Niagara York Hamilton Durham Ottawa Carle ton Metro Toronto and Waterloo Waterdown where lives is in Hamilton Wentworth I started this petition because my three kids will want to own a home when they grow up and I don want them to come to me and say Dad what the heck did you do anyway Listen if families managed their home budgets the way the government manages our money we d have been on skid row long ago Besides the fact taxes have soared since regional government was born also complains because it was imposed upon taxpayers without their approval He finds it that people will complain about regional government among themselves but haven been prepared to go door to door to get sup port for an issue they feel strongly about Majic believes recent city about his cam to end regional government will ensure he receives the support he needs He notes already over people have contacted him volunteering to help circulate petitions and he has received several letters from residents of Halton Hills Send protest Idlers If some people arc against regional government but don t want to circulate petitions he Invites them to send him a hand written and signed letter voicing their support for the abolition of regional govern Majic also wonts people In areas where there Isn regional government like Wellington County to support his campaign warning if regional govern ment Isn abolished now It will spread throughout Ontario Petition text A resident of Hamilton region who wants regional government abolished throughout Ontario including in wants Acton and area residents to start circulating his petition for support here Mike Majic who lives in wants sup port from property owners and renters so he can present a petition with or more signatures to Premier William Davis to have the extra level of local government removed Following is the text of his petition To the Premier of Ontario After icven years of regional government we the people or Ontario find It Is yet another parasite Implemented by your administration For services rendered under regional govern ment costs have doubled tripled and in some quadrupled most notably property taxes Homeowners of Ontario are paying high enough prices far their homes The properly taxes make us tenants In our own homes Thanks to the good foresight from the govern of Ontario this we the undersigned are demanding to abolish regional government since It was Imposed upon without our will or consent Majic that people write to him to receive petitions start their own using this text or send him handwritten and signed statements saying they sup port the abolition of regional government His address Is 1 Waterdown Ontario L0R2H0 Petitions should be mailed back to him for presentation to Davis