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Snow causes many collisions THE HERALD Wednesday January lftPage It Boy leaps from bicycle seconds before its hit by car Snow and icecovered roads In Kills continue to be the dominating factor In traffic accidents during the last week On opposite Fogg Rita Georgetown January a car driven by Gary MacDonald or Milton went Into a broadside hit a dry patch of road was unhurt on January after was nil and rolled over one complete he leapt from his bicycle on A car driven by Carol turn Tie police report In Albert north of St Brlsbln of Acton was In the rood covered with when his bicycle hit an collision with a ear by packed snow and ice hod patch on the snow covered of many pot holes and that It was road A car driven by Scott snowing at the lime Damage Arnold of Stevens Crescent to the MacDonald vehicle was passed by at that time and did damage to Namlk Eric of Ewing St bicycle Damage to the Arnold Estimated damage to Watson vehlck as estimated the Brlsbinvehldewos to the Wccdmark vehicle 1W An unknown vehicle backed damage done to into the car of Jean M front bumper and hood of of Innerklp while she was January parked at Moid try Crucent on January Damage to the lne south of on lie Town Line Police report that packed snow and Ice covered the road and that It was snowing at the The Intersection of and Queen Streets was the quarter mile scene of an accident when a ear driven by We dont come out waffling Alexander Extinction of seals is now very possible In a word Judy Alexander summed up her first year as chairman of the Hal ton Board of Education as unusual Protests against the board pickets aiming their tirades at her personally calls for the resignation of the entire board strong criticism of board policies and programs all produced a year that has not been an easy one she ad milled But speaking to reporters following the board inaugural meeting last week at which she was acclaimed to her second term as board chairman Mrs Alexander commented that through It all had consolidated the thinking of board members more than ever before We are now thinking a little more closely on contentious issues such as values education and when we must deal with these Issues by Helen Tasiman Endangered Species was the topic of Keith Ronald a talk to the Georgetown University Women a Club An would Internationally recognized authority on seals Ronald had just relumed from conference in Halifax where of representatives of Canada fishery officer who too possible considering the naturalists or supporting the ice and polar bears number of factors working efforts of the Humane Society responsible Tor keeping the against Its survival is effective Refusing to buy numbers down The hunt In Itself he fur coats Is useless since the Again the Monk Seal the not be so bad blubber of the seal has greater confined to those commercial value than the fur to survive in worm water la operating from sealing This point was illustrated by a threatened by the very at essels Such hunters are slide showed the fur tractlvcness vlronment Warm beaches Ironically unsuspecting lure humans In sufficient Norway and Denmark had companies them He has the consumers of margarine numbers to deprive the Monk been working for an authority to ensure that contribute to the profit motive Seal of its breeding grounds In agreement on the number of animals are killed in a humane of seal hunters addition mans pollution Is seals to be slaughtered that no more are of Biological likely to make the sea Commentng on the public slaughtered than the men con Sciences at the University of uninhabitable outcry against the annual seal handle The quota is enforced Gueloh Ronald has done Seals ore hunt Ronald said that violators of the rules are extensive research on con morally the slaughter of seals ordered the Ice ditlons affecting the seal Unfortunately government population both in Its natural officials can do Utile about environment and In captivity men who simply walk out a natural limitation on the from shore and slaughter at numbers of seals Is the fact will that only one pup Is born to a Should the public wish to female in a year Number are exert pressure the seal further reduced by a percent hunt Dr Ronald advised that births Toppling Joining on association of was the same as the but chering of any other animal For some people killing animals for human use Is never Justified For others the slaughter concerns them only when it endangers the species Dr Ronald regretted that he extinction of the seal was IT WAS FAMILY DAY when Karen of Georgetown received her Bachelor of Applied Science degree from the University of Guelph at the fall convocation Pictured with her are from left Prof J Miles Department of Family Studies her mother Mrs John Mlntem husband Keith and baby Jennifer Mrs Bottom ley is com plcting her dietetic internship at Kitchener Waterloo Hospital often iheir own worst enemy An Antarctic Seal exercises exclusive rights to his hole In the ice Any trespassing sea Is killed The Ring Seal forms an association of two Any third seal who attempts to Join he group is promptly killed The Harp Seal on the other hand la a gregarious mam who likes the company of thousands Scientists suspect that a substantial reduction In numbers might deter this seal from mating thereby hastening extinction Grey Seals and Harbour Seals are provoking man to slaughter them by emptying fishing nets In addition the Harbour Seal is a carrier of parasites Since the odds appear be against the seal the Biological Sciences Department at Is attempting to learn everything It can about this marine mammal particularly as it may relate to man Ronald reports that scientists are trying to discover how the seal regulates its own heart beat decreasing It from 120 beats per minute to beats per minute A possible application to open heart surgery is being investigated Hopefully the research in progress will produce positive results Perhaps science may save the seal from extinction The steering committee formed last October to set up the fist District Health Council In Hal ton Region is seeking nominations for the council the first District Council in Region is seeking nominations for the council Sheridan College President John Porter chairman of the committee said the council will comprise 15 to 17 members and about 10 nominations have already been received The District Health Council has the broad responsibility to provide an overview of all the health and related services In a district to assess present and future needs and to advise the Ministry of Health on which of these needs to meet first and how to go about doing it Persons named to the health council should reflect a high degree of commitment said Porter Both professional deliverers of services and lay people will be out waffling Board prior to serving one members added are now year as the boards vice fired up as never before chairman and then last year as Mrs Alexander is beginning chairman her sixth year on Listing some of the board board having served three accomplishments during this don t yearaaBatrusteeforWard4ln past year she noted that most have been of nuts and bolts type of compllshments It was a year of challenges and accomplishments she said Board trustees honorariums were raised to per year early in 1073 We ve spent Ihe subsequent months earning It she commented a new administrator Em Lavender was hired lo replace retiring board administrator Jim Singleton a salary settlement with teachers was signed in June and the very significant Bill 100 outlining new provincial guidelines in education was Introduced into the system 1970 will see substantial cutbacks in the Hal ton school system she predicts as the board attempts to meet the province eight percent ceiling on grants The cutbacks she said will be felt but added that it was up to the school board to now decide which areas will be affected by restraint Mrs Alexander said he Hal ton school board had been often criticized in the past for operating under the provincial grant ceilings and keeping the per pupil cost In among Nominations should the lowest In Ontario This now be sent to J M Porter at means however that the Sheridan College by January cutbacks will have a less Nomination forms are dramatic effect In than available from Mrs on other school boards in the at or 7081 province Marge re of BR Georgetown was In collision with a car driven by Philip E Jamleson of Henry St Damage to the vehicle was No was reported for the vehicle Ice on Mountalnvlew Road North and River Drive on January en used car driven by James Bergman of Georgetown to go out of con hit the snowbank at the side of the road and flip over on to Its roof In the ditch Damage to the vehicle was On January a car driven by Stephen A MacDonald of Georgetown on the snow covered Fourth Line North of 10 swerved into a ditch and struck a culvert Damage to the car was A ear driven by Barry J of Georgetown sustained in damages January 11 on Ave west of the Sixth Line When Reid attempted to brake the wheels of the car locked and the car slid off the road and Into a hydro pole owned by Georgetown Hydro to the pole was The police report indicates loose snow covered the road at the lime Ontario St about a quarter mile southof Ann St was the scene of accident January 11 when a car driven by Barry Coles of Main St North Georgetown went out of control and slid off he road Damage to the car was Shrubs bordering he road were damaged to an estimated New board vEcechalrman BUI Herd Committee seeks nominations for District Health Council pointed Members of the District Health Council will be unpaid BINGO Wed Jan 14 1 EARLY BIRDS SPECIAL GAMES JACKPOT Humbert Free cord on admission Charge of Early bird 7 JSp The Terra Inn lostd Mondays It lf rkihir ah fp pu tt Our luitrlipi CEO OAKVIUE JAN Ticket No 11 Cordon Alton Arena Halton Hills Catering Com plats Catering STEVE CURTIS Proprietor 177 17 we want you to call for Choose it TILDENi ANDREW MURRAY 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14 of The Municipal Act TAKE NOTICE THAT the lands proposed to be Included In the Urban Service is applied for are all lands within the corporate limits of the Town of Georgetown to be known as Urban Service Area No and the Town of Acton to be known as Urban Service Area No 2 as those limits existed upon the thirty first 31st day of December il the intention of The Regional Municipality of Is to raise money required for meeting the costs Including establish ment construction maintenance operation and debt charges of sewer works and the costs and debt charges of water works by Imposing from time to time rates upon the lands included within the Urban Service Areas applied for ill any person having a complaint against or an objection to the establishment of the Urban Service Areas applied for may file such complaint or objection In writing with the Clerk of The Regional Municipality of Halton within twenty one 21 days of the first publication of this notice by forwarding such complaint or objection to CLERK OF THE REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF HALTON 3027 Harvester Road Burlington Ontario L7N 3G8 For the purpose of this notice the first publication date Is the day of January 1976 and all complaints and objections mailed shall be deemed received upon the expiry of five days from the date designated by the postmark affixed to mailed com plaints or objections DATE D at Burlington this 8th day of January 1976 THE REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF HALTON BY ITS CLERK GARFIELD BROWN