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the HERALD Home Newspaper of Hills OMB wrapup page 13 Community news page 9 Wednesday January 17 Pag SECOND SECTION GEORGETOWN ROTARYS ANNUAL RAISED FOR CRIPPLED KIDS Children from public school throughout Ho Hon Hills along with plenty or adults combined raise over at the George town Rotary Club skate a held Sunday at the Memorial Above two Llmehouse young iters pre pare to hit the Ice and do their bit for charily while right two Georgetown gist era discuss the rigors of the oil da skating session of the event over ISO skaters turned out for the skaten than which ran from to am to A We are happy with the response and thank the com for their efforts said club president Fred Long lub members will be at the Memorial arena from 9 am until January to collect pledges The skate a thon is the Rotary Hub biggest fund raising event Photos by Michael and James Georgetown High School students along with among paled in the thon from and Harrison Public School were at Memorial HALTONS PEO Rough road to council seat for Marilyn Herald editor For Hal ton Hills ward four town councillor Marilyn one of the few v omen incol municipal history me road into politics was not entirely smooth In fact the biggest bump she was being defeated in her initial bid for a council seat back in the 1970 election Mrs came third losing by a fruslratlngly slim 100 vote margin to Peter Morns and Mike Armstrong I was disappointed but the people I was running against were wellknown Bui when you come bo close you always think if you worked harder you might Shortly after the election Mr Morrow whs appointed chair man of the Ho I ton regional council and Mr Armstrong was bumped up Into the vacant word four regional council scat Mrs Serjeantson assumed that has on her third place finish she would be appointed to Till councillor Armstrong vacated area council scat there was precedent for the move however council decided in stead to open nominations and hold a byelection for the ward four scot only three months after the initial elect Ion It seemed inconsistent to appoint the regional councillors and not the area councillors Im sure that part of the reason was that I was a unman and not that well known she says Mrs ScrjeanlsonsayBshe was anile vocal in her objections to the byelection being held and she received significant public support She says she receive many phone calls and letters expressing support for her ap pointment However council re mained firm in calling for the by election but in the end Mrs Serjeantson was elected by la motion when no candidates came forward to oppose her She says she knew of some people who had considered run nlng in the but she thinks that the public response to he election kept some dates from coming forward She says that while her band was very supportive or her initial run far council be thought she was little crazy to try again in a bytlcclion Mrs Serjeantson political career is running liltle smooth these days and she was cleanly elected In Hie November municipal elections last year finishing second to Harry Levy comfortably ahead of Karen Morris Mrs sajs she first considered running for council Hills town councillor says she finds being a council member a challenge An recreation enthusiast fulltlmc mother bee iU5c first it seemed like no one from our end of the ward was running I was concerned about number of issues includ the Metcalfe ravine and the sewage plant and 1 t getting answers from people to the questions I was So finally the weekend be fore nominations closed I de cided to run I looked on it as a challenge Mrs Serjeantson says that probably her biggest surprise upon becoming a councillor was the slowness with which council operated Things just be done overnight and if go there wanting to things over night it can be frustrating To be on council at a time when money is so retrained is also very frustrating She says her proudest a enlevement since becoming a councillors is her contribution to getting lie Metcalfe ravine up ItlTTOIIONTO Mrs Serjeantson is not a of Georgetown but like of her neighbours In the area she and her husband mated here to buy a house back in Mr is the head of the phvsicol education depart ment at the King high school and at the time the couple were looking for an area in which they could afford to buy their first house Neither had ever visited the town until came here house hunting hut Mrs Serjeantson says that now she wouldn want to live anywhere else a to Georgetown Mrs wis employed as an operating room nurse in Toronto A after moving here Mrs Serjeantson quit work to have her first child Brett nurse Peel Hospital in but only part lime She says that her council work along with work she does for a sports supply company her band operates along the time demanded by her family simply do leave time for fulltlmc nursing Besides oldest son Brett the Serjeantson also have two other Idrtn Kirk and Wayne Mrs Serjeantson explains that when council is operating in hijh gear she attends a mini Australian student here on exchange MAGGIE IMNNAH Herald staff writer The Georgetown Rotary Club second exchange student arrived in town Sunday She is 16yearold Jaclnla Scdl of Too Queensland Austral Miss Sedl has already her high school education and will heading for New England University in Armo dale New Soulh Wales to lake a four year course in agricultural economics and finance a dm in Is ration when she relurns home this summer She will be attend ing Georgetown High School however as port of her stay Until the lime of Montreal Olympic Games Miss says he hid heard very Utile of Suite lhat lime she became curious about the count and she she was really pleased to find she could come here on ihe exchange I had the choice of going to Cinada America or England she says I put Canada down as my first choice but lhat dldn I mean Id get It all depends on how exchange can out My irmly hoped d get too so we were really pleased when we found out I was coming here You rarely meet a Canad she There ore lora of Americans but very few Canadians All the people I met who had been to Canada told me what a really beautiful country it was and how much like It so really looking forward In my time here FIRST Miss Sedl had her first expert of difference between Canada and Australia when she J landed at Toronto International Airport and saw snow for the first lime While snow may be found on mountain peaks in Australia and in certain areas during other times It is never Someofour taken for granted winter sports like Ice skating and snow skiing arc among the things she wants to during her slay She ilrcady roller skates and water hut she has had no chance to the version Canadians enjoy each winter Winter In Toowoomba runs from May to August and res id cnts expect it to be cold with a lot of dry westerly winds to contend with In summer which runs from December to ihey gel a lot of rain and can look for cyclones too Temp range from to Miss lists basketball ten nis and attending the where her brother drives in races similar to Canadian stock car races as her hobbies She enjoys fishing and crabbing is well as swimming and boat at the family cottage Paradise Point on Ihe Goad Coast Miss Sedl belonged to the Interact Club in her school She describes this as a mini Rotary club and says the group did some work in a school far handicapped children and also held i concert for the aged Rotary is a family club for the Scdls Mr Scdl Is international chairman for the club and Mrs Scdl belongs the Rotary Miss has a 13yearold Her brother Michael 20 Is a motor mechanic One of her 23year old twin sisters Marian will has a management position in a department store Mr owns an drainage and excavation company in Too woomba and Mrs docs volunteer work home for the aged In addition to keeping house for her family NEAR BRISBANE Toowoomba is about 138 kilo meters from Brisbane and has a population of 000 It Is the market centre for area known as the Darling Downs The city is surrounded by very rich soil Miss Scdl says and grain crops ore the predominant farm product In the area though there is a certain amount of market gardening near the city Itself Canadians may be fighting to gel of apartments but in Australia apartments are main ly rcnled by the elderly or those wanting to get out of the work involved In keeping up a house or by who can yet afford a house of their own she Like Canada Australia has had inflation problems The Australian government how ever has managed to get the rate down to around per cent she and now ihey are the problem of unemp loyment They ore having trouble finding places for all the refugees coming Into count ry let alone finding Ihcm work Miss will be staying with Rotary councillor Jerry Peace and his wife Jean on Metcairc Court for a few weeks Mrs Peace is on Australian too although her home was in Vlcto- nurse Mrs I with her many Herald photo mum of two or three meetings a week in addition to the many hours she spends doing back ground work lo prepare for the meetings Tills background work can involve anything from simply reading articles Included with council meeting agendas to a site being considered for zoning or meeting with town officials Despite her busy schedule Mrs finds time for number of hobbies including furniture re- finishing and an assort men of recreation tics People In the area may recognize Mrs as the woman who jogs daily down In fict Mrs Serjeantson says she used a jogging picture of herself in her election campaign literature be cause she thought residents mighl recognize her from her daily Jogging Jaunts rough the area She tries in run six miles a five days week but says Mrs Scrjcanlson not a religion for her like it is with many joggers Mrs is also an avid skier of both the cross country and downhill variety as well as a regular tennis player Reflecting on her first term as a town councillor Mrs Ser that undoubtedly her being a woman made things little more difficult at least initially MORI- 10LDIY Obviously I m not considered one of the boys she says At times she has also had lo speak a more loudly to he heard or taken seriously but she soys once other councillors got used to her her being a woman became less of a problem Although the municipal were almost three months ago Mrs Serjeantson council has yet lo really get going We arc still In limbo right now but we should get going soon I m looking forward to that Mrs Serjeanlsan soys a top priority for the new council has to be the develop ment of industrial land within the town She says a roadblock to this development now is the high price many area landown ers ore charging or lands zoned industrial The town will have lo consider other sites for Indus trial land zoning she says Ft MINUTES Although there have only been a few council meetings since the new term began Mrs Serjeant son says There are a certain amount inings Doing done outside council She so councillors ore some times given the impression lhat they are only hall the discussion of issue and that the real discussion may have taken place before the meeting To moke council work Ihings have to be little more open to feel like we are all working She is hopeful thai ihe annual budget making process will help unify the council And what of her future Mrs Serjeantson says she will likely run for council again She would consider taking a slab at region council seat but lhat would depend on who the other And mayor No I don t think will ever run Tor mayor At Ihe moment I don t reel like I could do a good job as mayor The day I feel I con do a good job mayor Is day 1 would consider running