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For Some Moms Sunday Will be No Different 8anday May will be as a day of homage no- then everywhere a eastern which has stranger aad more yea panes Actaal to dates back many tea bat to Canada the eas tern dates train IMS when Asm tee Idea of establishing the second la Hay as Matters Day 80 yon happen to be a with a healthy appetite Snaday morning go eat and get Ads That Pay Yea can place an ad la The Heralds Classified pages by Baying or selling The Herald to where yea win find the want GEORGETOWN HERALD The Home Newspaper for Georgetown and District Printing Publishing The Georg Herald has served aad a Printers and far ffse news coverage Second Class Mail Registered Number 0943 THURSDAY MAY 1971 Return Portage Guaranteed per year Slncta Copy Prion Fifteen Carta Pedestrians Only For Three Days Main Street Mall in Merchants Promotion Main Street will become a pedestrian mall for three days July if council goes along with a committee recom mendation made last week The Idea came from the Mer chants Association who are planning a three day summer promotion scheme throughout the whole town On Thursday and Friday July and the street would not be blocked till thus permitting garbage collection and deliveries but on Saturday would be blocked all day FAMILIAR ROUTE For the three day period the buses will be around Church Charles and James St Deputy Reeve Speight said the last time this was done was in 1914 when beer was served from SIDEWALK CAFE The merchants are hoping to create a sidewalk cafe and beer garden and are applying to the Liquor Control Board for a license to set it up right out side the existing hotel Cr told council He said also the Lions Club might run a barbecue and era games BEER IN TUBS Im not trying to be funny commented Cr Hyde when suggested the route but the bus company is familiar with that route Soma years ago there was Grant Will Help Esquesing Set Up Own Library Board when they routed the buses that way Set Second Hearing For Holding ByLaw A second Ontario Municipal Board bearing on holding by law will be held Juno In the Esquesing township municipal building The OMB have decided an other hearing Is necessary be cause Sopinka law yen far the Golden Horseshoe claimed they did not receive notification of the ori ginal hearing Walter Sopinka swore out on affidavit to that effect Close to The previous bearing cost township close to lawyer has asked the B to have the costs assessed against the parties asking for the second hearing The re- was available cation of costs will be decided grant of from The South Central Region at the bearing the South Central Regional covers libraries in a wide area No decision has been handed Library System to help set up County and parts of down by the following a library board In the town- and Brant Counties the February hearing council Informed on Monday night The library bunding not be erected but library aeri vices could be provided to the township residents through contracting with the George town Acton and Milton This would Involve no cost to the Esquesing ratepay ers directly Set Beard In addition to the de velopment grant from the South Central Regional Library System of which the three lo cal libraries are a part Es would receive a per capita from the Provincial government which they would also distribute among the three serving libraries The letter from Foot Georgetowns representa tive on the South Central lib rary System pointed out would have to pass a bylaw setting- up a library board before the grant Town Tree Planting Program Set To Go Council on Monday set its tree planting program for this year Benefitting will be portions of Blvd and Moore Park Crescent Residents on property abut ting the plantings will be ask ed to water the trees in an effort to make the planting a one hundred per cent TownsGreenupWeek Ambitious Program for The mayor and council have launched a townwide flcatlon week to be known as Georgetown GreenUp Week starting May and running till May The spring cleanup will be help ed along by town forces who will provide trucks for cart ing the refuse away Were potting the onus on the peo ple commented Mayor Bill Smith They clean up and well cart it away The week long schedule goes like this MONDAY MAY School GreenUp It Is hoped that on day the principals of each school will allow their pupils to spend some of the school day picking the yard and pre mises The high school has ready been done with success TUESDAY MAY 11 Industrial Park GreenUp The town will be sending a truck and men into the Indus trial Park to clean It up It la hoped that each Georgetown industry will do what it can to clean Its own yard and make use of the town truck to cart away garbage WEDNESDAY MAY Commercial GreenUp A truck and town employees will be provided to help the merchants clean up their premises THURSDAY MAY Day Members of the George town Fire Department will be making spot checks on homes and basements for fire and safety hazards FRIDAY MAY 14 Vacant Lot Green Up ByLaw which is a by law to ensure that owners of vacant lots keep them litter free has been published in this Issue of The Herald The owners of Uttered lots also will be reminded by letter and asked to cooperate with Georgetowns GreenUp week by cleaning up their lots SATURDAY MAY IS Home ft Ndthboorhoed GreenUp Everyone will be encourag ed to greenup their homes Town trucks will be mad available for the of items Also the town would like to encourage any group or groups wishing to stage a Ut ter chase or any other anti pollution project There will be trucks available to pick up garbage bags paper etc Any group so interested please phone the town to specify where and when the truck may be needed Less Bottles Thanks to the CCOG Last weeks CC0 G sponsor bottle drive yielded bottles which otherwise would have been In the town damp or littering up the country side CCOG volunteers first plac ed the crates donated by Seed House In the four collection point Moore Park Texaco Saunders Etto station Rexway and Georgetown British Cats where the people eager to get rid of the bottles filled them Saturday a track donated by Charles picked them up took to the sorting point then on to Dominion Glass In Brampton where they will be recycled and ultimately paper and metal About half the bottles came In with metal ring still on which the sorters had to take off In another bottle drive It is boned the individuals will remove it Beergarden Profits For Community Work The planned by Georgetown Lions for the Georgetown Memorial Arena June will be the clubs fourth the second in that lo cation Too clubs first two were held at the Georgetown Armoury Profits from the Juno Beer like that from the first three will go into the clubs community service fund Tic kets will be sold on n first come first serve basis at the door with the limit A German band will the music during the after noon and Bob and Corey toko over at night The Lions Club first to ate a beergarden here has no connection with any other local Delegation Fails To Divert Trucks Play Area Grass are Moore Park Priorities Moore Park area residents had the opportunity to suggest ways their own pork lost week when recreat ion director Doug CaUisan chair ed a meeting to hear their id cas park covering ac res is adjacent to the 5 5 aero school site which will be oped Jointly Last year by motion of coun cil the pork was named Em- Park INSTANT RESPONSE ColHson emphasized that committee of residents should bo formed to Implem ent some of the ideas after the pork designed incorporates them Into on overall plan He met with Instant response and many signed up to help Among many suggestions was a play area both for pre schoolers and to year The tendency of the group was toward creative ploy areas than the standard swings slides etc GRASS FIRST A soccer field ball diamond tennis court and outdoor rink immediate need was seen for grass for the area to get rid of the mud with the other Ideas listed as priorities over the next few years has been allocated In the bud get this year for the park and a si grant from the Depart ment of Agriculture is avail able SWAP It was generally felt that the organized sport facilities should be kept In the area nearer school and other facilities at the other end Collison pointed out that the school board ottered its facilities in return for the services the recreation depart can provide This is in line with the school boards policy of community use of the schools Tho town will maintain the area ONTARIO PLACE Ontario Place 96 acre com in Lake Ontario south of the Canadian National pounds officially opens May Council Wont Budge 17 Sideroad Remains Truckway After two hours of heated bate at council Monday night nothing had changed the ratepayers were still angry at the designation of the Line and 17th Sideroad as a truck route and council did not budge from its posit ion Opinion seemed to be split the member delegation on improving the some felt It would only help speed up traffic and others see med to think it would moke tho road safer On Cr Dick sugges tion they will meet and decide what they would like done with the road keeping in mind It is a truck route FLYING STONES Mrs Bertha of the 17th told council their main concern was safety of the children who have to wait for school buses In addition to the danger from the trucks themselves she claimed the fly ing stones ore a hazard The trucks travel at miles an hour and pass on hill Mrs Marcolini added She emphasized that the trucks do have an alternative Expect Up To 100000 From 8000 Walkers Hundreds of Georgetown kids teenagers and adults were am ong the 8000 people who struck out from Bramptons fair grounds between and am Saturday la the fifth annual and Feel for Millions Walk About 3000 completed rout The last of the survivors trud ged back to check in at the point they had started from so fresh and eager IS noun later The mile route wound from Brampton to through Nerval and George town then to Hornby and back Third line West and Queen then back to the Arena MAYBE 9100000 Walk committee chairman John Hash said the group ex pects to raise between 978000 and 9100000 from the walkers who were sponsored at so much per mile completed He said last years walk which attract ed walkers raised just un der 975000 In previous four walks the committee has recei ved mora than which was distributed to UN- and the World- Service Mr Nash said the majority of walkers lasted between the and 20 mile marks and then were driven back to the arena by bus Ho said most of these route They must have be cause they disappear at the slightest sign of Interference such as bad roads work on the roads or police patrolling The spokesman for tho moth ers said it was impossible to walk into town with her chil dren since It was too dangerous Since they have an alternate route why can t they use it all the time she asked What would you do if you lived in counter ed Reeve Tom they have all the trucks going up and down that Why dont they complain said a voice from the gallery OLD TIMERS Because they are old time residents who are not so bard to get along with retorted the reeve I lived in the Glen St years with trucks hauling gravel and there never been a complaint He reminded the delegation they moved to knowing there was do zoning at the time Road superintendent Bod Snow told of receiving calls day some complaining of the condition of the road and want it fixed some complaining about the trucks and some complaining of speeding He said he had been out there six times that day watching the trucks and so were the police he added He stated the trucks the private cars and the resid ents have the same right to use the road He admitted the road was in bad shape at this time of the year but said the grader had been on it today I followed trucks he re marked and saw none going miles an hour I talked to the who were in unmar ked cars and they said no one was going over 40 miles an hour TRUCKS IN YARD Mrs Sandra Book a line resident told council five trucks had to be pulled out of her front yard last spring They had lost control on the What would you like us to do asked Cr Dick the one councillor who opposed the designation of the line and as a truck route In reply Mrs urged Continued on Page who lasted miles decided to stick It to the end The average walker is usually sponsored for 910 spread over a larger num ber of individual sponsors MARRED The walk was marred by only minor accidents A year old boy Michael Pickett received severe cuts to his leg when he slipped into a ditch and an unidentified girl was knocked down by a car but fered only minor Injuries which were treated by St John Am- balance personnel Mlchael Pickett remains in Peel Memorial Hospital today ri Continued on Page Two of his class of grade who accompanied follow his lead let the fresh air at their feet Solve Vote Dispute Ourselves Reeve Hopes Georgetown council on Mon day decided to ask the province to delay any action on a private members bill which could change the voting structure of Halton County The bill has been asked for by Burlington and which want more voting power In county affairs Theyre trying to change the voto to tho detriment of the five others said Reeve Morrow County Council la having a private meeting to try to resolve the problem our selves He said be has proposals which be will make to George town council and hopes be can go to the county meeting with the endorsement of the town We appear to be the only one who lose votes remarked Mayor Smith An in camera meeting is slated for May for the