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YOUR MORNING SMILE A young bride three months complained to her mother about her groom drinking habits you knew he drank why did you marry him she was asked I didn know he drank until one night he came home sober WEDNESDAY DECEMBER IS 1M7 Home Newspaper of Hills fvliht reaching mora rton 12400 fa partial permit of family Big tiller Delia holding BobbyJo on brr Up The other children are to right Jotaua Dattd Christmas comes early as family grows to 12 Bt TAi The famit five of their Christmas presents this ear a feu weeks ago and their names arc David Jo Joshua Samuel and Ranch The recent addition of new brothers and to the famil brings the total to children rang in age from IB to 1 The four children art the natural children of Joe and Caroline and the eight youngest are adopted but their parents are careful to make no distinctions between them Vie don I have eight adopted children Joe said we have kids The are from the I Stales Mao to be specific to Canada Oc of living in Ottawa and later in the Toronto area Tbe now lire in a Urge house on the 6th hoe below The arrival of the five children was n more that might be under the Ranch and old Samuel had to be hospital lied almost as soon as they reached their home was suffering from the croupe and Samuel had con traded pneumonia Both were home in time for Christmas though BoWnJo joined the lly three daw after she was born was still living the Slates Jo and Steven aged and 8 who are brother and bv blood as well as choice joined the five ago while ot living in For the past fifteen vear the has also taken in foster children The were made aware of the situation of their five ch Idrei through the feature Todav Child in the Toronto Once thev knew the appl cation to adopt wTuld be approved the family pet a photo album for their new and sisters at ha were living in he north group homes and Li were graphs of the dren future home and each member of the In addition each per son wrote a brief no describ ing and welcoming their new The children had the bums for about a week and a half before went to pick them up Caroline said When Joe and I went pick up Josh and Samuel Josh stood look at Joe for a Then he said new and ran to him with arms open to be picked up All our of the older children know ho to change a diaper cook a and clean a house Without the four older ones it would be difficult to have the vounger ones Caroline d Or person re dead It share and share alike The older children all hue chores to do keeping the house looking nice takes both Caroline commented She added Jut likes to Me the house look neat and iheres of the children soon get Page J Calibration monitoring of plants sewage flow Ontario ministry of en vlronment officials confirmed last week that monitoring a new flow meter Is underway at the Georgetown sewage treatment plant Art Thomas manager of utility operations said he new meter is being calibrated by the firm which installed the device In the recent expansion of the planl to three million gallons capacity per day He would not confirm however a suggestion that the monitoring Is taking place because high daily lows are being reported since the device full operation Oct The Herald learned hat flows have been generally than anticipated since Ihe new meter was installed One source indicated that a peak was achieved during the past two months of about million a figure Mr Thomas would not confirm because of possible con fusion surrounding the flows at the Beginning possibly in January flow charts will be released by the ministry because of the large amount of interest surrounding the operation of the Georgetown plant Mr Thomas said daily flows recorded for September show million gallons October million gallons and November million gallons Officials cautioned thai the figure for October docs not reflect the loud monlh of of ihe There has been no con flrmation that the old meter at the plant has been reading low for a long as the past three or four years nor has there been confirmation thai the meter may have been located in the wrong location within the plant The present flow for plant had been estimated al about million gallon leaving about MO gallou for expansion of commercial and industrial areas in the community If Ihe meter shows an ac curate higher flow it might affect the ability of Georgetown lo attract new Industry or development ENVIRONMENT STUDY NEEDED FOR NEW ICG disputes ministers statement A spokesman or the In leresled Citizens Group ICG has disputed statements by Ontario Energy Minister James Taylor that only one hydro transmission line has been approved entering Ihe Milton switching station south of Hills John Minns also disputed a statement by the minister Dec in the legislature that any further approvals would require an environmental assessment board hearing before being approved You don need any ap provals if ihe lines follow enisling corridors Mr Minns said His statement confirms comments by Ontario Hydro community relations spokesman Peter Webster to The Herald earlier this year in which he said as many as 11 hydro transmission lines may be entering or leaving the Milton station Authorization is needed for each but no further study Mr Minns said an alter native proposed two weeks ago by the ICG for a Kitchener routing a route supported by an independent consultant hired by he ministry of energy to work with the ICG would not require environmental hefl rings In a speech lo the legislature June then Energy Dennis Timbrell announced an environmental hearing for a section of the corridor Only a small portion of the overall route from between Colbeck and constitutes a new way which has not been in dependently reviewed or which docs not follow an existing the then energy minister said in part While the Ontario govern maintains that the Commission studied the crossing Mr Minns says there has never been on environmental study of the section of the Bradley lo- corridor ex lending south from to Mi Hon The Kitchener routing proposal suggested by the ICO would see Improvement along on existing corridor from Bruce to Kitchener along an corridor from Kitchener to on the bride and east along the ex sting way to the Milton switching station This corridor would have a double use since it would transmit bulk power and serve a toad centre as well Gordon Kidd a Hills member of the ICG slates With the cost reaching mjny millions of dollars this double use is important to all who pay hydro bills Refusal last by cabinet allow a our month in dependent review of the hydro now removes from opponents any fear they will be charged wiui bottling up power in Bruce nuclear generating station Mr Any further refusal or delay the government would seem unreasonable he The citizens are justified in asking for the renew because the record of change in corridor routes speaks Tor itself Mr Kidd He cites the major change in the Pickering route approved by he Solandt Commission and another corridor near Chatham One cannot commit oneself to something In the future which has not in fact been authorized Mr Taylor said in he Dec replying to a question from Burlington MPP Julian Reed A few short Energy Minister James Taylor gave the green light to exprop riation of land for the Bruce to Milton hydro transmission cor members of the Interested Citizens Group ICG were drafting battle plans aimed at bringing all progress on he corridor to a standstill In a phone call to ICG chairman Bill Mann early last night Mr Taylor announced that he ha- rejected final appeal for an indep endent review of Ontario ro data used in planning the power lines route from the Bruce peninsula genera ling station near Milton ation of private land along the 109mile long route will pro ceed he said Mr Mann and other ICG directors wasted little time assembling the chairman home lo finalize plans for an allout war on a number contentious aspects of the dispute Cabinet rejects review proposal Separate school teachers talking The meeting beta the separate school board and its teachers since the appointment of Toronto Jane Dev I as media tor was successful according to the chairman of the negotiations committee Hartley Sberk feels that the meeting last Wednesday even ing was a good start because both sides made con cessions Ms Devlin was able to get the teachers to respond to the last enpunt package which the board offered be said This was something they had not dec She showed aw an interest feefa the will be able to get the teachers to be more realistic in their demands have demand an per cent increase the board has offered percent Mr hat the are infringing on the board rights by demanding a reduction in pupil teacher rat Meeting their demands would require an addition of teachers and raise the board teachers salaries total by COO This would mean an extra two mills on the bill he Right no- Mr feels that separate school are a pretty fair and their benefits are equal to or better than those given by the board of education On top of that they are not facing redundancy as teachers are who work the public We re ji a grow situation he says are that our enrollments ill over the 10 years by MO The Ten negotiant meet jig is far Jan TOHOVTO Ontario cabin last week rejected any further study of alternatives for the Bruce to Georgetown hydro transmission lines Energy Minister James or said in an interview Interested Citizens Group I ICG proposed to Taylor earl that a Kitchener route for thelinewouldsaietime cons truciion costs and provide bet systems security But Taylor said such a would have to go through environmental assessment board bearings which would lake two to five years The options were examined bv himself with staff and also in cabinet he said Cabinet also has authorized Hydro to continue acquiring land and proceed with cons truction on the original route Taylor made the commit men to at the Kitchener option to the ICG Dec He said Hydro denied a couple of beliefs attributed to the corporation One was that Hydro preferred a Kitchener route which they don I her that it would be cheaper which it will not lor also said he d review the report of Slater Energy Consultants which was com missioned by the energy mm istry to rev lew Hydro system security studies presented the Commission in 1 Slater supported the Kitch ener option Taylor said did not that you pay your money and take your decision he said If he been in command from the beginning which he was not I don know whether I have reached different con clusions about the Bruce Georgetown line But as of now it too late be said Taring another route mean major delays that would add costs to consumers in the form of higher electrical rales he said As Mr Taylor was warned when he met with ICG en tat Ives last week the ens If their appeal was reject intend lo stall work on the corridor through a series of lengthy court battles that could lasl as long as four years Mr Mann reported that he reaffirmed the ICG a warning lo Mr Taylor upon hearing of his decision The citizens had asked Mr Taylor last week to commis sion a four month long indep endent study of Hydro inform concerning a possible corridor route from Bruce to Kitchener According the ICG the Informal ion would confirm lis longstanding contention that the alternate route is superior to the one now being consider both In engineering and environmental terms The in formation was shelved for poll Ileal reasons the ICG believes The contention that better routes exist than the Bruce Milton route was confirmed this week by findings of a recent independent consult art six week study ordered by Ihe ministry of energy at the ICG request In his report Ken Slater of Slater Energy Consultant confirmed that possible routes and suggested by the ICG are In Tact superior as if Hydro original preferred Ob Page I The did misgivings about the whole process that led to he final cabs decision went amiss somewhere over the years to caje so many people fight original Picked Up In Passing Electron tubes contract A federal contract worth 1 been awarded Vsnan Associate Ltd of Georgetown to provide the transport department with electron tubes the department of supply and announced Monday It was one of unclassified contracts worth or more that were awarded by the department to Canadian com pack during lie week ended IS Total value of the contract amounted to SO Salesmen bonded All insulation companies involved in must be bonded by the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations Paul Tin president of the Better Business Bureau of Greater Toronto has aid that a number of small businesses may be unaware that they need a bond is to cover claims regarding damage to a home or business The bond can be obtained through an insurance company Library board appointee separate school board has named Georgetown High school teacher Michael as appointee to the library board Mr McMahon replaces A Boyle Contract awarded line nil solve a of the at the dump Region proposes 48 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