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Tourist dollars target of North Haton association Business people in Acton Georgetown Milton and surrounding area are banding together to dead aim at attracting more revenue from Ontario second largest industry tourism Thursday night a North Halloo Tourism Associa lion born A pre release outlining the entire plan was given out Friday Following is the text of the release When you tell people where you live how many times have you been asked Oh that If you live in a community in North Halton this probably happens quite a few times fortunately for local business operators it happens too many times In general people who live outside the North area the exact location of Acton Georgetown Milton and the outlying communities These people are missing one of Ontarios most naturally beautiful areas boasting the Niagara Escarpment numerous lakes and streams rolllnghills and beautiful forests The towns and villages in the area Milton Cambellville Eden Mills Rockwood Acton Llmehouse Glen Williams Nerval Georgetown and Terra Cot la compliment this natural beauty with a common Heritage theme The Ontario Agricultural Museum the County Radial Railway and evolving theme towniActon apple farms craft boutique villages and Country Inns collectively constitute a Heritage nucrocosni of Central On tario Each of these component communities and individual operations within and between them have had varying degrees of success attracting tourists but as proven with the immensely suc cessful and very analogous relationship between the communities of Jacobs Elora and FiTgus a regional approach is needed to com pliment and foster these more local thrusts The wider the area of coopers Hon the greater the benefits that are available to the individual participant This is realized in terms of savings on advertising printing and media support A concerned group of local business operators seeing the problem and realizing the great potential of this area drafted a proposal for area tourism and commercial development The proposal stated There are three major functions which must be performed if we are to begin to harvest these benefits I Coordination within the North Area Liaison with and the lobbying of various levels of government to the maximum levels of financial and non- financial support 3 Promotion It is proposed that a nonprofit nonshare capital corporation be established as the body lo fulfill this role Individual businesses and operations which would benefit directly from tourism would be offered to join the association for a membership fee The proposal was presented to other interested business operators at a meeting on Thursday and was formally accepted A North Tourism Association has now been officially established The proposal to create the association bad already received full support from Halton Hills Mayor Peter Milton Mayor Gordon Kranlz Halton Region Business Development Officer Brent Hearse Festival Country General Manager Robert McConkey besides other business associations in the area Steve Dawkins of Hide House In Acton who has been largely responsible for the major part of the formation of the association was Others elected to the Executive Committee are vicepresoent Rick Jack Tanners Table Acton Secretary Joan Johns County Radial Railway Treasurer Cindy Lindsay Ontario Agricultural Museum Elected as members of the Board of Directors were David BanksEden Mills General Store Victor Country Gallery Terra Cotta Tom Chudleighs Apple Farm Milton Kelly CrawfordPine Valley Farms Ray Mohawk Inn Camp- Pal Schneiders Reliable Sweets Yvonne IngersollGlen Gift Shops Glen Williams Agnes OliveThe Forge Terra Cotta Tom Reed Georgetown Motor Inn Chuck Zukowskl Inn Milton It was felt the number complexity and im mediacy of the proposed projects necessitated the hiring of an Executive Direcoloi Jo Lister has been retained to fill this position Jo lister has worked for several years in a marketing capacity for McDonald Restaurants Previous to that she held the position of Executive Director at the Georgetown A long time resident of the area Jo is enthusiastic about the potential of the area and the opportunity to be involved in providing a vehicle to coordinate and promote tourism and business development for the area Full membership will be open to tourism related businesses and operations with the fee based on the number of employees An membership be available to businesses that will benefit from increased traffic levels eg Jo Lister announced that to launch the membership drive there will be three area meetings at which time a full presentation will be made explaining the benefits of membership and the proposed projects Meeting for Acton and Eden Mills is August 9 at 30 p m at Jact Tanners Table in Acton Meeting for Milton Campbeltvdle and Hot is August 10 at 7 30 at On t a no Agricultural Museum Meeting for Georgetown Glen Williams Norval Terra and Ballinafad isAugustllat7 30pm All interested persons are Invited to attend these meetings If more information is required please contact any of the members of the Board of Directors or call Jo Lister at 877 1078 newsmakers Georgetown Acton Wednesday August 1982 Cooperate or be closed Cole warns Cher Home An Acton rest home may be closed by Heltons health department unless its operators become more with Regional staff Dr Peter Cole medical officer or health issued an order last week demanding that the operators of Chers Rest Home en Main St Acton allow his public health Inspectors and nurses unrestricted access to the records and residents of the home as required by the Ontario Public Health Act or the 11 bed facility would be closed down Cole told members of health and social services committee last week that his staff has experienced intolerable abuse from the operators the home and other people not connected with its operation In the last week three of my nurses have come hack to the office crying because of the intolerable abuse they have suffered from the operator and their associates he said These are the same purses who have been bending over backwards to help the Cherwonlaks for several months now he added Chers rest home is operated by Brian and Try poena Cherwoniak The have stated they feel they are being harassed by Regional staff because they have been pressing the Region for subsidies they feel they are owed for care provided to three residents between I960 and 1961 pays rest home operators a subsidy for care provided to social services clients but only when the operator signs a purchase of service agreement and meets standards set out by the Region Regional staff have consistently denied that the Cherwoniaks arc being harassed or subjected to a greater than usual number of inspections or visits In a report to the committee Cole noted that between March 1961 and July 10 1962 public health nurses recorded contacts with Cher a Rest Home The facility was examined by public health InspeclorsZfltimesbetweenAug 1977 and June 15 and was contacted times between March 1980 and April 28 by social services department representatives Other rest homes in the Region have been contacted between and times the same period Upon reviewing the material attached from the Health Department there is no doubt that there has been frequent contact However I do not believe that health department staff have acted beyond what was necessary to ensure that they were fulfilling their responsibTlibunaertfie Public Health Act wrote chief administrative officer Dennis in a separate report on the controversy surrounding Chers In the same report admitted that several of the contacts between the public health depart and the rest home were caused by com plaints and allegations against the operators made by residents the families of residents or other people in the community Whether the allegations turn out to be un founded or not surely the Medical Officer of Health and his surf must follow through on an allegation that is made to make sure that there are no breaches of the requirements ad ded Public concern over relations between health department and the privately owned rest home was raised by Milton Wards 1 and 3 Regional Councillor Bill Johnson who reported allegations that had been made to him about strongarm tactics used by Cole an inspection of the home last year Following a Regional staff report concluding thai allegations were unfounded Johnson suggested a special committee be established to investigate rest home conditions and standards in Halton That suggestion was tabled by Regional Council pending a decision on a possible Inquest Into the death of a former resident of Chers who was admitted to Guelph General Hospital suffering from badly infected bedsores Gerald a lawyer representing the Cherwoniaks told committee members last week that he felt all of Ihe problems between his clients and the Region were the result of a breakdown in communications between my clients and this department said allegations have been circulating through the Acton community about residents of the home being assaulted and money being taken from some of them We are trying lo find out who made those allegations and when we do we will issue writs for slander he said adding later that two other slander actions have already been started by the Cherwoniaks for other allegations Dr Cole is saying there have been some problems but there have never been any problems There has never been any trouble with either Mr or Mrs Cherwoniak welcoming public health nurses he said While the Region does not actually place residents In rest homes It does provide citizens seeking advice with a list of homes that have signed purchase of service agreements Punnett noted that he recently telephoned the Regional headquarters asking for that in formation and discovered that Chers is not among the list of homes despite the fact that Halton has an agreement with the Cherwoniaks Its things like that that lead me U believe there is some persecution of Chers Rest Home he told committee members also accused the Region of being at least partly responsible for the breakdown in communications because several of the allegations that leadto visits by Regional staff had never been reported to the owners When allegations Im asking that you at least approach the rest home operator about them he said noting that even statements about the bedsores of the resident who died came to us through the backdoor At the very least you should give her the chance to answer the allegations before you go into long reports I believe she Is running a clean establishment and is taking good care of her residents Dr Cole stated that the major interest of his department in the home was to ensure that the residents were receiving proper and adequate care for There has been a concern that some new residents may require a higher level of care than Is appropriate for that home he said He also noted Mr comment about a breakdown in communications and said some of the information about patients that reached Regional staff left them with the impression that important facts were being withheld from them by the rest home operator and that this was pairing their ability to adequately Judge the quality of care being provided That was the case with the bedsores suffered by the patient who died he said adding that the ulcers became a concern to public health nurses because they hadnt heard about them from Mrs Cherwoniak We know that when these things happen they arc usually beyond the expertise of the rest home operator he said If the developing ulcers had been reported to public health nurses bey could have provided the with necessary advice and assistance Coleadded In a confidential report to committee members Dr Cole said his order to the Cherwoniaks had been issued because of their totally unco operative attitude in recent months Most recently the operators of the Rest Home have been totally uncooperative in allowing the staff of the Health Department to fulfill their responsibilities In this particular area he wrote Dr Cole added that on two separate occasions his staff were denied aecess to records and patients of the home and experienced verbal abuse at a constant and intolerable level Consequently he concluded in view of the fact thai there have been a number of cum that have made us suspicious about the quality of care in the Rest Home because we have been unable to have access to the clients or cooperation from the operators I felt hut it was essential that we identify those changes thai must be made in order to allow us to fulfil lour responsibilities If these changes do not occur it will be necessary to deliver an Order of Closure since there is no way of determining whether or not our suspicions can be substantiated The order compel Is the Cherwoniaks to provide Regional public health Inspectors and nurses unobstructed and unrestricted access lo patients and records of the homo to ensure that patients are receiving and treatment Acton Councillor Dave Whiting a member of the committee old he rest home delegation hat allegations and problems only become public knowledge because you stand up and tell everyone Johnson said last week he is still not satisfied with the results of the meeting between the committee and the rest home lawyer see how it goes for the next few weeks Cole said alter the meeting he is hoping some provincial regulations spelling out the responsibilities or rest homes will be forthcoming from the province One region he said closed a rest home because of concern for the health and safety of its residents If I were unable to get information regarding the condition of a patient in a rest home I wouldn hesitate to close it If someone were to die in a rest home here I would consider myself responsible Birth control programs are necessary MOH Cole claims By STEVE ARNOLD Anyone who old enough to get pregnant is old enough know how not to That was the philo sophy Dr Peter Cole I took into organizing I Torontos first Birth I Control Week campaign I In 1077 I Birth control is also a I subject Cole now I medical officer I of health feels strongly I bout so strongly in I fact that some of the I events surrounding that first campaign created dr a minor public storm Last week one of those events was resur rected when Rev Ken Campbell the colorful leader of the Renaissance movement sent a letter to Regional council saying Cole should apologize to parents and educators he offended with statements made during that campaign five years ago Rev Campbells comments came on the heels of a controversy over allegations that Cole used strong arm tactics un necessarily during an inspection of a rest home in Acton That tempest ended with Regional council extending an apology to the doctor for the un founded allegations Referring to Rev Campbells statements Dr Cole admitted that not everything con nected with that first Birth Control Week campaign was point be ren fondly I did tome things differently then because of the time pressure we wet under he said ma recent interview Among the actions which drew the of Rev CtmpbtU the tact thai Cote look tut proponed directly to high principal rather than ibe Board of Self control better says Campbell Education Eventually 11 principals refused to take part in the campaign because It hat not been endorsed by the Board of Education and Dr Cole admitted he was surprised at their Hon I was surprised and taken aback at the fear they expressed of something that had been generally but not officially supported by the Board he said At no time was there ever any rejection of the concept be said adding that in subse quent years the program has been presented to trustees first After that problem things have gone very well but I never felt particularly pleased with the first year of the program be said add ing I learned something about diplomacy in the first year Dr Cole said that in starting a program to promote birth control he knew that he would face opposition and bitter feelings from some quarters In several efforts to advance the cause of intelligent birth control and prevention Cole said he has encountered problems by peole opposed to the topic itself He noted one incident In Toronto where an alderman expressed public dissatisfaction with a pamphlet he was distributing even it had been circulated and approved by seven Cole programs were an invasion of rights of parents there really isnt a disagreement he said The first and foremost sex educator should be the parent he said I dont dis agree with that really but that philosophy breaks down when the parents arent willing or able to communicate that Information Rev Campbells contention is that birth control information should be provided within the context of JudeoChrlstian values Children should be taught to keep the fire of their confined to the fireplace which is marriage he said in a recent In Value statements like that Cole said Campbell but in a pub lic school system you nave the problem or deciding whose values lo teach In a system like that there cant be a lot of whether or not its good to have premartial sex All we can do Is provide children wilh the information they need so that they can make informed choices That has always been my approach Dr Cole said He added that even children raised with the type of values Rev Campbell holds will not always stick by them when exposed to the temptations of life If Rev Campbell feds his children should not be sexually active until they are married he should impart that information to them but it doesnt mean that they wont be he said KEN CAMPBELL I believe its more Important for us to try to prevent pregnancy by giving our children information than by trying to exert sexual control over them Cote added Im not saying that people should or shouldnt be sexually active or at what time they should become active he said Regional councillors climb on restraint bandwagon Wage restraints and program cutbacks are among the Ideas being examined by Regional councillors as they climb aboard the spending restraint bandwagon Councillors recently expressed their general support for a Lamb ton County resolution calling for wage restraints in govern ment In addition to taking a hard line with staff during next years salary negotiations a study has also ordered into the steps that can be taken now to trim some money from Ihe budget Restraint and spending cutbacks have become a politically popular idea since the release of the latest federal budget catling for a campaign to limit wage growth to six per cent next year as a means of reducing inflation The steps approved by Regional council however t have the complete support of all its members All his is is a statement that capitalizes on the popuianty of the word restraint said Burlington Walter This is a back door low key approach to something very dangerous because we are trying to fool people into thinking we ore doing something about inflation by picking on one group namely Regional employees he added Rather than picking on its employees he continued should be reviewing Its budgeting procedures and priorities which would be the way to actually accomplish something should dig our shoes in and show some leadership rather than just words added Burlington Councillor Steve said he didnt think It would be right for he Region to backtrack on its contracts with em ployees lo limit Ihem to a six per cent raise but he felt some benefl could be gained by carefully reviewing staff openings before they arc filled should be very careful not to replace people who leave unless we really need them he said dumping scene Annoyed by garbage be spotted tossed along the Eighth Jeff man snapped thin shot tells the story Much of the refuse rural roads ha- been eliminated In the lost decade a- counsels got with offenders but there are still pockets where garbage is strewn aurrtag the rural II offend rwral residents sad It decom poses early can for 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