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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills TOLKRADIO 79 WEDNESDAY AUGUST Saturday at the North Kart Club Committee seeks review of complex Another attempt Is being made to stop construction of a new municipal complex In Hills General administration committee GAC has urged council to reconsider the Slaw granting approval of the new town Ice complex recommendation would stall council from sending the bylaw to the Ontario Municipal Board IOMB for approval Roy Booth who made the recommendation was supported by Mayor Tom Hill and George Mallby chairman opposed Coun Booth Justified his with three reasons delegations to council presented petitions opposing the complex letters to council opposed the complex at least one councillor who voted In favor of new offices changed his mind We as a committee deal with municipal property and we be concerned with his and It Is out of my concern that I make this proposal said Booth He based his recommendation on a procedural bylaw which states that no Item may be brought to council by opposing members unless the item la first brought to a committee meeting In this case through the clerk Booth explained that his research con cluded It was within legal bounds and straight forward not innovative for GAC to make this recommendation to I dug around and tried to come up with something to forestall the final decision with the hope I could come to and put It forth said Booth adding he recom mendation Is only a holding tactic At no time do 1 suggest we take power away from any power group regar dless of any power the group may hold said Booth Mayor Tom Hill said he hopes all 13 councillors wilt be present at the Sept 7 meeting when council plans to discuss the municipal complex issue The majority of councillors and a lot of people want to squash the bylaw now on the books said We shouldnt bow to the we should bow to the Downtown businessmen protest industrial rezoning Georgetowns Downtown Business Association DBA trying to lure customers away from Georgetown Market Place and Brampton too have seat to council a letter protesting the proposed rezoning of land from Industrial to commercial adjacent to the Gordon Alcott Arena The move was one of three taken at a meeting last week after about 17 merchants bad beard town planner Mario Venditti outline a decade of development Georgetown will undergo beginning with the expansion of the sewage plant faciUtiea Besides strip commercial development on Street Georgetown two nodes of commercial activity Venditti said downtown and the market place which is undergoing expansion to include another strip of stores an enclosed mall and another large department store A regional shopping centre Is whats lor the Market Race VemUMJ said In reply to as how to out Main Street Georgetown on the map Venditti said You cant do It by You need to create an Identity Ho recommended the merchants develop Into a specialty shop area stressing Its qualities HIGH DENSITY The perimeter of downtown core for high density Venditti although that was no guarantee construction of apartment buildings would occur Aa well Venditti felt that council likely would approve an upcoming bylaw which would allow apartments over downtown stores Both measures would Increase foot traffic down town said he was hoping to get a study done downtown Georgetown and Acton funds for which would come from the province Competition position board of education will be asked in September to consider a position paper on he trend to play down and discourage competition In education trustee Richard Goodin brought a notice of motion Thursday asking the board to consider the contradiction posed by the trend in education to reduce competition while a major outside the school for competition standards objectives and emotional response Mr Goodin In a prepared motion said the recent Olympic Games are only one example of the major Importance attached to com petition outside the school He asks for a position paper on his subject at the next board meeting In order hat parents and the public may definitely know where we are at and the direction we are taking Mr also wants a clearcut policy statement from the ministry of education on he subject The shopping plaza waiting to go ad to the Gordon Memorial Complex would have a large supermarket a Goodyear store and four or five other smaller stores Venditti said The DBA with the single exception of Karen who said merchants should concentrate on improving their Individual stores voted In favor of Informing council of heir opposition to the proposed rezoning In citing their opposition the letter says the DBA Is proposing changes to the downtown DBA president Ralph Fletcher said provincial BUI CM1 gave power to mer chants to get improvments to a commercial zone redesignated a redevelopment area by icing tax dollars As a merchant Fletcher added I prefer to do it myself He explained that each merchant would be taxed according to the proportion of the Improvement received It Is an Issue over which council has no say Fletcher said It must be voted on by the Works gets crosswalk report The works committee got the bad news officially Monday when It tabled the regional report turning down four Georgetown Toss walks Regional Coun Dick Howl who also sits an the regional works committee said if the committee bad strong feelings It should make hem known then went on The one that floors me Is Mountalnvlew and Sinclair and The consulting engineers Gather of Toronto said only 12 people were seen to cross Mountalnvlew Road during the three S minute periods July The majority appeared to be students on vacation and oil and in ays the report It staggers me to think wed pay a consulting engineer to come up with that said He objected to the timing of the survey as did other councillors who all felt It should be done during the school term Although there arc crossing guards at all four locations which the region turned down for crosswalks works committee chairman Mike Armstrong noted What have we got after school hours The committee agreed to send back to the region the report asking that a traffic survey be done after the school term has started next The crosswalks turned down by the region arc Maple Avenue and Delrex Road and King Street Mountalnvlew and Sinclair Avenue and Mountalnvlew and Comset Street public he said PER CENT If two thirds of the property owners that control 50 per cent of the taxes dont object Fletcher Bald redevelopment of the town town core can be done A committee of merchants would need to have a plan and a budget to present to council Fletcher said urging merchants to return the meeting with their Ideas The merchants were unanimous in moving that designation as a redevelopment area be sought The merchants also formed an ad vertising committee which will coordinate the pooling of their Individual advertising Into a section promoting the entire downtown as a place to shop Committee members are Barbara Ross and Mowtln Last night a representative of the provincial government was to address members of the DBA on Sill C 301 Hugh Cree prepares for his best race of the year See page 1 Educate convicts expert tells Jaycees Educating first time offenders for decent Jobs Is the best way to reduce the number of repeat offenders a lending lay expert on prison reform says Lewis Sherry told Georgetown Tuesday a lick of is maybe the reason theyre In Jail In the first place Decent Job training means they wont have to go back to robbing banks or pushing dope to make a living he said Mr Sherry now director of information CONSTRUCTION SCENE at the waste disposal plant Is on schedule It Is expected to site off Road near be completed next spring Qt The expansion to the waste Cant handle program unit says Theres no way the Georgetown would be capable of conducting a prisoner education program at the present time president Larry Nlcholla said Some of the were Intrigued with the after Lewis Sherry described to them Tuesday a computer training program for convicts he was involved In It would be a good Idea If we were able to do It but as a unit were not explained Each member is from a different walk of life were not special lied In one field we could teach Sherry believes The Jaycees could most certainly do this type of thing but here would be Blot of problems You d have to have a lot of money pre set plans and complete agreement with prison and government officials hat there would be no interference In your training program Sherry cautioned added another problem facing Georgetown Jaycees if they decided to sponsor a course for criminal would be monger I dont think our membership could handle it youd need a lot of people for such a project he said systems at Ontario Paper Ltd carried out a prison rehabilitation program In Montreal during the 1900 a when he was employed with a computer company Of the St Vincent Paul Penitentiary convicts Involved In the program only one was graduated was convicted a second time And then he stressed five years after the man had completed the program A lot of guys Just wont a chance an opportunity he said Maybe hes a black or a Pakistani and never had a chance Many are willing to work to learn a skill RESENTED While the prisoners were enthusiastic about the course lawabiding cltixens resented the convict getting a good job or taking jobs away from people who had not brushed against the low Sherry said a similar program Involving car dealerships and auto mechanics failed for that very reason We saw these people In the business sense Mr Sherry said They the same skills as you and I have And he stressed that If any convicts did not complete assignments by deadline they were not In vl led bock to the voluntary program Sherry said both prison officials and government resented the fact that we tried to teach them anything beyond the laundry room Prison guards a comic book mentality and refused to attend seminars he added In the computer training class were people of ethnic minority origins drug dealers thieves and one murderer But no sex offenders no way said Sherry hat a sex offender should work In an office Further he believes Jails should segregate sex offenders If theyre grouped with others they get sicker more animalistic he believes after discovering that new Inmates are usually greeted with a gars rape SEGREGATED Id also like to sea the people who have made a but wont to help themselves through education separated from the habitual criminals the guys who aint gonna do it no how the Peter the cop killers The criminal who are mentally balanced should be segregated and given the psychiatric help they need Sherry said prisoners team the most from fellow Inmates They find out different ways of bow not togetcaught they hear about better contacts so they can sell heroin Instead of grass Because convicts pass along to each other more tricks of Illegal trades Sherry Is opposed to lumping all types of criminals In cells together PRISON IS JUNGLE They live by the law of the Jungle he said and soon fit Into the prison mlleau child molesters at the bottom of the heap and the Mafia at the top and believe me theres Mafia in Canada Sherry also believes reform Is long over due in the area of prison guards and officials who he says ore often grossly underpaid live in fear that they will be taken hostage or blamed for escapes end play a bfg put down game with the prisoners Another change Sherry would like to see Is uniformity In the Judicial system because arc overcrowded too busy and the standards of justice differ The rich get suspended sentences and poor get jailed Sherry crltlclied parole groups responsible for supervising people out on ball because they are divorced from other Judicial agencies He said parole officers like social workers dont get any at tention police said Sherry arc in condition because capital punishment was abolished and ball Is easy to get The same criminal clement gets out on boll and commits the same crime Sherry said STOP BEING SOFT Weve made It too dam soft on people he continued Steak dinners In Jail we should stop that kind of Jan Punishment Is Involved Sherry attacked society as on I dont care group The only time you and I as Individuals care Is when something happens to one of our own he said This one of the moat unpopular subjects today with all the other concerns we have he said Prison reform receives press and parliamentary discussions but the budget for prisons Is almost unquestioned Sherry said it costs to keep one convict jailed for one year I respect the government Sherry sold but not their decision to spend to keep a guy in prison for life years Prisons per dont do anyone any good of any kind at any time