The Acton Freo Press Wednesday Educators unveil plans for 80s Regional Police officer Keith one or the moving digital radar units which is in uie In North Halton Board of Education has more than an idea of what if faces during the 1980s Detailed plans of how to reach six objectives ing the decade are under consideration by the board after more than a year of preparation by staff and trustees One of the first points educators would like to sec across the region is equality of educational opportunity for The way to achieve that goal is to balance the Police cruise with new radar Halton Regional Police have got speeders com and going thanks to new radar units The new units moving radar allow police to track traffic while tho cruiser is The force will also continue to use its stationary units A policeman cruising with one of the new radar units may choose to track vehicles in one of four directions HemayBelect traffic in front of him traffic trailing him or traffic coming and going in the opposite lane The new radar units mean officers do not have to discover a location where they can park a location which also has room to pull over violators For that amount of lars the new units can be used In poor weather be cause a suspect docs not have to be stopped lm mediately The speed is recorded on a small dis play terminal in the cruiser The officer can choose a safe a pot to stop the suspect car then show him his speed on the terminal Range of the moving digital radar is about four fifths of a mile or km It is accurate to within a half kilometre per hour Twelve officers in the Acton Georgetown and Milton district have been trained on the new machines In terms of leadership qualifications and other undefined terms Teachers will be en to transfer to schools One of the problems is that about a full third of super visors principals and viceprincipais will retire or leave the system some other way While the staff is being encouraged to shift about so as to providesuniform opportunities for dents the staff will also be encouraged to improve its skills Training retraining and development of staff is probably more import ant in education than in private industry a report by Ed Director Em Lav While staling that Hal ton s teachers arc highly competent Lavender report implies that some teachers do not have important Halton will also try to off set what Lavender Report terms disparities with programs that will en student success at school and later on In Provincial legislation was not needed to bring Halton to grips with spec lal education however new laws require the provision of staff and meez the needs of except lonal students The board writes Lav ender will make use of special education grants School buildings in north Halton may be in for more use and im while the school board abandons some of tho buildings south of Queen Elizabeth Way It will be necessary to develop a scries of to close and some schools and consolidate attend The French as a second language program is slated for expansion in the 80s The proposed expansion will make it possible for dents to have Job and ed ucational opportunities equal to those of students in the rest of the province Clean out Pilutti pit The remaining to tons of gravel in the north west comer of pit on the Sixth Line will be removed within the next month and rehabilitation started Councillor Miller told Halton Hills council this was the plan He said rehabilitation would begin in the northwest corner and proceed from there A letter from Pilutti Indicated no more trees would be cut on the property In order to ex tract gravel means possible l MEETING ROOMS FOR SERVICE CLUBS facttttes Did you feel tremor One Acton couple did Did you feel Sunday afternoon a earth At least one Acton resident claims he and his wife felt the small earthquake David Dodds Mill Street West said both he and his wife Gail noticed a little shake around 3 Sunday afternoon reported feeling his house shake a little He noted he was sitting In the living room chair watching a movie on TV when he felt his seat shake a little Just very slightly He said Gail told him a few minutes later that she saw the refrigerator in the kitchen vibrating The whole thing lasted no more than seconds and they t think It was an earth tremor Dodds noted his house has shaken before weekdays between noon and 1 p m when blasting Is being done at Indusmln That a all they thought the shake was on Sunday afternoon until they learned the next day of the small quake that was felt in Toronto and points as far west as Kitchener and London The earthquake centred in Kentucky Jiggled north The tremor measured 5 on the I enter scale Dodds added he and his wife had a drop of any inebriating substance all day Likely other Actonlans felt a strange little shake or vibration Sunday after noon but they t saying Move to cut costs startles committee It may cost you a few thousand dollars to move across the country but It is going to cost Region Just to move furniture from one office to another In regional headquarters Members of the Administration and Finance Committee were surprised at what they considered a very large amount of money to move existing screens and furniture In the open concept building The headquarters has no offices as such only screens which can be adjusted so that office area can be expanded or contracted quickly In addition to 111 for moving 10 500 will be needed for new screens and supports plus for utility and 1 000 to thermostats cost is Ironically enough the idea to move things around come during budget talks early this year when councillors were trying to find ways to cut expenditures It was thought it would help cut costs if improve ments in layouts of the current offices were im piemen ted OMB hearing on separation The Ontario Municipal Board will hear the appeal by a Highway man concerning the den of his land separation application Rudolph who owns property on Lot IS off the highway is ap pealing the 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