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Family feels at home in Canada after escaping martial law by Helen Murray It took many month but the Joseph Plecke family of Acton finally feel at home in Canada Plans or a Canadian Christinas in a new home were suddenly thwarted in their homeland of Poland when martial was imposed in December 1901 children Joanne and Michael found themselves unable to leave the country in spite of having all the necessary travel papers and airplane tickets They were 10 leave just days after that fateful day in December to start a new life with s father Hans just north of After several weeks of red tape not to mention a lot of running around because telephone service was cut off the family was finally allowed to teas the country on one of the first planes out The four arrived in Ontario with no knowledge of the English language and with only a few suit cases of possessions Joanne found herself in a school surrounded by children and adults with whom she could not communicate while her father faced the prospect of going to school just to learn the language and then hope he could get a Job in the tightening Canadian job market Now one year later the have settled in to their new lives learned the language and tour southern Ontario to get an idea of ihur new home It was a tough winter last year for the family but by June their lives started turning around Jot graduated from a language course in a week early He was accepted for a machinist job at M Mechanical in Milton and in his broken English was able to communicate with fellow workers In the meantime eight old Joanne was rapidly catching on to the language and making many friends Inne Sinclair was a big help to the life would have been extremely difficult in the communication Joanne has since changed schools and is attending a separate school in Commuting to Milton from north of Joe points out is a new experience for him In Poland he notes kilometres is a long way to dme but in Canada it is a necessity when the country is so big and communities are jo apart Joe J limits his English has improved greatly since he started his job He explains it is different to sit down in a classroom and try o learn the language than to actually sit with other tans and actually speak it Ik feels this is why Joanne has caught on to the language so quickly because it is all she hears all daj But at home the Tamil still speaks Polish is home all day with Michael and does not have the contact with others that the other half of the family does As a result her English is not nearly as advanced And time she goes she is with either her husband father or Mrs Sinclair and speaks Polish with them This could change this spring says Joe when he teaches her how to drive Getting the job was the turning point of his litem Can ada Joe reveals Suddenly he no longer felt like a visitor to the country He could support his again and he felt he finally belonged Thc have Polish friends in Guelph also making them feel more settled The admits they will never return to Po land to live They gladly accept the Canadian 10 and li per cm inflation ratt It a far from the loo to per tent rate the found themselves facing at home in Poland The family is final stilled into the ana way life Jocund Ma and children Joanne and Michael came lo the area latt tear shortly When the Pleckes left the strike ridden country last year a ear would tost two years wages in cash only no or loans He does not even guess same car costs now after the yeir his countrymen have gone through A recent letter ram rela ives in Poland told him one egg costs approximately one hour spay Asa for a family of Tour with just one egg apiece and nothing else cost half a day His sister wrote that Ibe cost of a New Years Eve celebration party Pay but he admits he does not know if that was at one of the cheaper or more soots in tow As for the lifting of martial law Joesaysheonly knows what he has seen on television just like everyone else The letters from home do not men But he says the Polish people are sure that the government is bad They feel the government is able to change the situation but won t Joe thinks the people in his country are getting tired Joe himself thinks Solidarity the country main union with a membership 10 million had the right ideas in wanting a better life for the members but went about it the wrong way and too fast He says it took the United States and Canada many years to achieve what we have but Poland wanted it overnight He elaborated that Solidarity wanted the stores full of clothing and meat all at once and they wanted higher salaries immediately Joe says he es the future of the is in the hands of the government and that the time for the people any thing to say is cr It upsets Joe when he hears Canadians complaining about their inflation rate and other economic woes He reallj think a with 11 per cent inflation is Justified in their complaining At least not after living in Poland and lining up for food if the cuuld find a store with any losell The like Canada and its people Joe said Canadians ore very kind to foreigners and are always willing to help or the Pleckes Canada is a newsmakers GeorgetownActon Wednesday January 19 Second sheriff held office for 24 years by Sheriff Mai has reseanhed history of all sinte 1856 This is the in the series Sheriff George Crawford MeKmdsey wis born at Trafalgar Upper Canada March IK son of William and Jane McKind His parents were natives of the North of Ireland They came loCanaduin iBUandset lied in of He attended Common School and was privately tutored Appointed Sheriff in to he marned Teresa Crawford October 19 1B59 In principally through the exertions of Mr Sheriff a charter was obtain for the Milton and railway The scheme was coldly received by the people of and consequently ex pi red Sheriff McKindscv became president of the British Canadian Gold Exploration and Development Company in IKK In he been me President of Milton t air He ran as a conservative in the federal lions of 1872 but was defeated by John While MP by 115 votes Hewasalsodcfeaiedin Crawford McKindtv was also a Justice of the Peace and a Cap tan in the Militia during his career He was appointed to the Canadian Senate January IBM at the age of years giving him the title of Honourable George Crawford McKindsey He sat IT years in the Senate and died at Milton February I at the age of years Halton School Board Winterfest in February 1983 is scheduled February 12 This community event is being organised now by the Halton Hilb Recreation Parks Depart meet Any service group wishing to participate in any way is urged to contact the Recreation Department at immediately is acbedutad for Saturday February IKS with the 1Mb as an alternate day hi case at poor weather your newspaper for more details 4 million tied up in Crown Trust You need a licence I- rom trippers to wrecking yards the Town of Hills issues various business and trade licences which last vor added 7H6 to the There have been no or adult entertain ment licences Issued in Town but if it happens it will cost the owner of the establishment a year While lottery winners are few and far between the Town came out a w inner b Meeting in lottery licence fees in The previous year more lotteries operated within the town limits and pro duced There I cence fee on cigarette vending machines which raised three billiard halls paid a total of and three bowling alleys paid Four amusement arcades paid a total of SI iQO machines throughout the Town cost S911 in licence fees rive auctioneers paid trucks also need licence from the Town and five licences yielded The catering truck driver too has to pay i licence fee of adding another Both driving schools and the instructors must be licenced with four driving schools paying total of SIX last year Seven instructors paid Inaddi lion the driving school vehicles must have a licence costing five dollars Nine of them were licenced lastvear a carnival costs money too Three car nivals came to Town I year and paid a total of Hawkers and must have a licence and last year paid WS0 Owner of dog kennels are in eluded in the list of licences and of them paid to tht Town Laundromats and restaur also fall in this with four laundromats being charged and 4J rest Newspaper vending boxes don l stand on Town streets for nothing either They yielded jay Even the movies theatre paid 150 for licence last year Taxis ire lucrative field for the taxi owners paid and taxi drivers paid One taxi broker licence cost Wrecking y irds must have a and there are seven of them within the Town boundaries who Most tradesmen alio have to have a licence Plumbers electricians heating contractors garage owners and drain contractors added Dogs loo did their bit for the Town by contributing 9 in dog tags Instructors Kim New combe and Krisll Champ working with children after graduating from left and right enjoyed their summer lice nation program Recreation dept develops leadership training program Hills on Department has developed a new leadership program Tor youth 1 J years and over Leadership training will be pro vided on topics such as program planning games leadership discipline song leading and more The program provides training for any future leadership role babysitting coaching recrea lion leadership etc Lisa is returning to the Recreation Department lo instruct Leadership Development which will run for seven weeks commencing Thursday January 27 Certificates will be awarded to all participants who have 100 per cent attendance Register NOW at either the Recreation Office Mill Street bast Acton or James Street Georgetown or call for more information Over million of Halton taxpayers money is invested in Crown Trust Co one of three financial institutions seized by the provincial government a few weeks ago The investment came to light Thursday evening during the Halton Board of Education meeting in Burl Trustee Bill asked superintendent of business and finance Barb Moore if any board money was in any of the seized operations Mrs Moores answer of million was re ceived with silence Crown Trust Seaway Trust and Greymac Trust were seized by the government while an tion into the purchase of over lo apartments units is conducted freezing the assets of cub tamers Clients were able to withdraw up to of their money Board vicechairperson Betty Fisher told this newspaper she along with the other trustees Is concerned over the fate of the money but is not starting to panic yet She emphasized all the board can do is wait and see like all he other deposits any money in a trust firm they check lo sec if it has provincial government approval which Crown Trust had They had no reason to believe their money would not be safe Fisher continued to say it is common practice for board funds to be deposited in accounts and moved around in order to gain the best interest rates The Crown Trust Investment comes due on January Mrs Moore told Ihe trustees Fisher admitted she does not know if Die board will ever get the money back It is of grave con but we have to sit and wait and hope that everything is going to turn out The possible purchase of Crown Trust by Continued on Halton Hills in area picked for toxic waste Part of Hills and a large part of the built up area of Milton are being considered as possible sites for disposing of toxic industrial wastes a press release from the Ontario Waste Manage mentCorp disclosed this week The area within the socalled Golden Horseshoe of Ontario at the western end of Lake Ontario from to Niagara Falls has been selected as the immediate focus of the search for suitable liquid industrial waste treatment and disposal sites The area selected contains soil conditions which offer greater potential for natural protection required for facilities Donald Chant chairman and president of the maintains Chant said the decision to focus on the so- called Golden Horseshoe stemmed from estimates that show waste is generated in and around the Golden Horseshoe About per cent of these wastes arc in liquid form Dr Chant estimates that of the 1 million tons of industrial wastes produced in Ontario each year his corporation will dispose of 150000 to tons The rest would be handled by us tries In the search for sites Dr Chant said Ihe first preference would be for land zoned for industrial uses but said he would be astonished if local erupt over the site selected The fact is these facilities have to go some place and somebody is going to be unhappy Dr Chant said The OWMC was set up by the province in 1B81 and began its search afler rejecting a acre site in South Cayuga thai has been approved by the province Alternate sites should be identified by April Dr Chant said The map accompanying the release indicates sites would be considered in the south end of Hills in an area below in eluding most of that part of Milton A large part of the City of Brampton is also included in sear ch See adjoining map Should suitable sites not be found in these zones within the Golden Horseshoe search will be broadened to other regions of the Trans stations will almost certainly be located In other parts or the Province although specific areas for Ihem have not yet been identified Escarpment review public in February The two year long review me Niagara master plan released is completed and should be in the hands of the NEC but will not be revealed to the public until the week of February to 18 The three members Armour McCrae Walter Shrives and Dean Henderson on loan or the study beard 740 submissions on hearing on phase one alone and eight bearings for various sections of the mile long escarpment Each of the 44 municipalities in the escarpment area will receive copies of the 1500 page Phase One report as will all public libraries The phase one report deals generally with the escarpment but the phase two report deals with particular areas where objections were registered The complete report will be available from the government book store al a cost of almost bat phase one will be available in a tabloid newspaper avail able to public NEC Director Ron Vancart warned there would be a fair amount of security surrounding the release of the report the Commission members and the Minister and the release to the public He stressed every report would be numbered and told the Commission members they would be responsible for keeping it confidential The member Niagara Escarpment Commission was set up by the province in to help protect the whole escarp ment from Niagara to Tobermory from the pressure of development The escarpment sprawls over eight regions and counties-