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Page THE HERALD January About the Hills Summer student wages up Summer student hired by the towns engineering public works and recreatlOD departments this year are In for something of a raise as a result of a recommendation forwarded to council by genera committee Monday night A five per cent increase over 1978 means that four university students to be hired for the towns engineering department office will earn between 33 and an hour this summer while IS students who will be helping works employees with garbage collection and roads and parks maintenance will earn per hour Wages for summer students working in the various recreational fields for the own will be Increased across the boards without regard to age as was the case last year Wages range this summer from K an hour for canteen workers at the arenas 10 an hour for programme instructors and ski bus supervisors to per week for summer programme supervisors Hamlet signs considered With already identified as a hamlet on signs erected recently at the village two entrances on Trafalgar Road the towns budget committee has been directed to report on the financial feasibility of erecting roadside signs to identify Hills other hamlets Glen Williams and According deputy town engineer Ted five signs would be required for the two hamlets for a total cost If approved by the budget committee and council region works employees will be asked to erect the signs at the towns expense Municipal complex funds A bylaw Is to be prepared for approval by town council that will see In lot levy revenues allocated over the next two years to a reserve fund intended help defray the cost of constructing an addition to the Hills municipal building on Trafalgar Road About four years after a public outcry forced council to shelve plans for he construction of I a massive new complex the towns general committee voted Monday night to proceed with its more modest proposal aimed at centralizing all municipal departments under one roof reserve fund already contains allocated last year from the sale of townowned land parking problem a r king will be banned along a section of Highway outside the Chudleigh Apple Farm south of Acton In accordance with requeslsfrom the Milton detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police and Hills council The serious parking problem noted by police at the location particularly during the fruit season will lead to the imposition of a roadside parking ban extending 1100 feet north and south of the farm entrance road if final approval for the action is granted by the ministry of transportation and communications Knights of Columbus dance me of Columbus and the Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital Auxiliary are joining forces for a danecinHoly Crosschurchaudilorlumon Feb Proceeds from the event will go to the Cardiac Core Unit at Georgetown hospital Tickctscanbcobtainedat gift shop or by colling School grounds designated I Seventeen public and separate school properties in Halton Hills will be designated as playing fields under a new bylaw to be placed before town council by which the municipality will be able to apply for provincial subsidies for the development of the locations as recreation facilities Given the go ahead by the towns general committee Monday night the bylaw covers lands owned by the Halton Board of Education and used by the town in much the some way that a similar existing bylaw covers townowned lands To be identified as community centres are school grounds at Li chouse Centennial George Kennedy Horrison Howard Joseph Gib bons Glen Williams Speyside Park Georgetown District High School Acton District High School McKcnzieSmith MiddleSchoolMZ Bennett Holy Cross and St Francis of Assisi Pomeroys speech Contd from Page 1 think the politician should Rather than the townhouse- housing planned by Focal Mayor Pomcroy ob served singlefamily and semidetached homes should be councils goals if the qua ity of life in the community Is to be upheld A responsible program for land use control would be prepared the mayor said by which Hills would realize its share of industrial development and thus off set soaring residential assessment and keep its tax ratio Dividing a map of Hills into four quarters by drawing lines along the Sev Line Trafalgar Road Avenue Mayor expressed hope that tile southwest quarter which predominantly farmland will remain In agricultural use forever Industry on the other hand should be largely isolated to the southeast quarter he said where municipal services can extended from Peel Region creating a link between Stills and Lake Ontario SOUTHERN STRIP That portion of the towns southern strip would thus part of the much larger industrial corridor parallel ing the lake which as the mayor noted is already at tracting new residents from around the world Further attracted by the area a close proximity to ma jor urban centres and prime transportation routes Mayor said factions of the automobile Industry are local in the region and are direct access to the zones of Peel and Milton that sandwich Halton Hills Existing farmland in the towns southeast quadrant eventually become de veloped for industrial or resi dential use Mayor Pomeroy While Georgetown would be permitted to expand south ward he added the towns hamlets Including Glen Williams and Stewart town would likely sec no further substantial growth in size or population ESTATE HOME The town northeast quad rant meanwhile would likely be designated for limited real dentiol growth In the form estate home developments Mayor nek now ledged hat his 25year fore cast does not wholly pond to the stated intentions of regions new official plan which is now awaiting approval by the ministry of housing He commented at the outset of his remarks that Hills residents appear to have gotten over the initial shock of regional government The election in December of a Georgetown resident Betty to represent Acton and Esqucslng on the Board of Education the mayor said indicates that localized paro chialism is on the wane and that regional government is finally being accepted for what it is Halton teachers settle contract PLANS FOR NEW MILTON HIGH SCHOOL Roy Wo I la Ion superintendent of C School for the hearing handicapped Al principal of the new C Drury High School and director of education Em Lavender study blueprints at a press conference held last week to answer questions on the new high school which scheduled for completion In September The school will have program for vocational from north which means students may no longer to go to for vocational Indies Legal Aid Clinic staff trimmed Contd from age said he expected it would cost the clinic to 16000 for lawyer fresh out of law school There Is no way they could think of hiring an ex per fenced person Grant Isaac one of the duty counsellors who works at the clinics Georgetown office finds it surprising that the clinic Is planning even a part time lawyer I havent been down there for quite a while a couple of months at least he said And then it was for one evening As far as I can see there isn even work for a duty counsel let alone a part time or full time lawyer Mr Isaac said that he has never been notified of board of directors meetings except by Mr and al one point the board said neither duty counsel nor clinic workers could attend the meetings This has been changed since he said but he is stilt not receiving notice of when meet will be held When Mr Savage came to Georgetown to do his survey of the clinic he didn talk to Mr Isaac although Mr Isaac un he talked to other duty counsellors at the clinic There were some hard words the time the clinic was first proposed and I dont think the clinic wants any more to do with us than they have to have The local bar association is more than willing to assist the clinic but hoy dont wont us Reg who has resign ed from the board because of his move to Calgary said he was shocked to learn from the report that it cost to per cose to handle clients That the reasons we cut down on staff he said The new board coming in after the election should look at the situation and give some thought to whether or not the clinic should be continued Right now it t be closed up because It is helping some people but It is a very expensive way to help Mr who has a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of New York and more than years In the field said he had planned to leave the clinic at the end of the fiscal year since he felt there wasnt sufficient work to employ two full time legal workers BEAT ME All they did was beat me to the punch by me go the end of January he said The clinic isnt getting the clientele It was designed to serve he said Only a very few low income people come Into the clinic and since very few financial statement arc taken the workers don know where people stand There probably is need for the clinic but it is very limited he felt and the Switch Instantly from one channel to another from anywhere In the room Fits any make T V set channel capacity THIS WEEK SPECIAL small number of clients doe snt Justify the high cost of providing services to them During the past year the clinic handled a total of 569 cases At no time did the clinic ever handle as many as cases In any month Mr Cumptsy said and most of the cases did handle were the type that could be solved in less than half an hour on the telephone Mr said he was in favour of the clinic when It was set up and still agrees with the basic concept of the clinic What he disagrees with Is continuing the when there arent sufficient clients to warrant such an outlay Mr Cumpsty is deeply con of the cost of social welfare in Ontario and feels that government money should go where the need Is greatest There are places like Ham or Guclph or even Burl ington that don t have clinics Why should the clinic be continued here when there isn t sufficient need I think 1 should be closed here or cut down to one day a week and Integrated with a clinic some where else like Burlington he say Since he is leaving the clinic the Concerned Citizens Group have asked him to continue to help residents with unemploy insurance and work man compcsnatlon problems and a number of volunteers have come forward to offer him assistance in handling other problems which people might bring to him All these people arc trained profession who want to do a little volunteer work but are not prepared to take on a full time job Volunteers are the back bone of the social agencies in Canada and I still believe people want to help one he said They don t all wont to get paid Mr Barrow said If it became very obvious there was no need for the clinic I d be the first one to make sure it closed Ive no desire to proli ferate wrongful use of public money He said all the board mem bers felt that was a need for the clinic although it may be an untapped need and thus the board plans to do more In the coming year Contd from page made that salaries will be Increased by five per cent that year Also part of the settlement was an agreement to recalcu late the pupil teacher ratio by taking kindergarten students as onehalf student since they don attend classes all day For the 197879 school year the pupil teacher ratio will stand at 5 with kindergarten stu dents counting as one For the 197980 school year the pupil teacher ratio will be with kindergarten students counted as onehalf Bill head of the boards negotiating commit tec said the hiring of the additional teachers was nego tiated by number and not by percentage The board In Its original offer was starting out with no teachers being hired while at the time of the fact finders report the teach were still asking for additional teachers he said Bill Watt chairman of the Elementary Teachers Association said that a survey conducted in December and January 1978 reflected that the primary concern of 95 per cent of the teachers was a reduction in class size The total package for 197879 will cost the board including salaries and bene fits The average teacher will earn around an in crease of about over last year Discussion by tbe board on the memorandum of settle ment presented by the boards negotiating committee was re latively brief a number of members saying that they had made their feelings on proposal known at the last board meeting when the board ratified the proposed settle ment with the secondary school teachers SUPPORT PROPOSAL Trustee Ivan Armstrong said be would be supporting the proposal mainly because I don believe anything will be gained by prolonging this but he said he was not In agreement with everything In the settlement If our only goal Is to reach the celling the province has set for us with this settlement we re only hastening the day when the province takes business out of our hands he said Trustee Fred said his main concern is that the settlement will have a major impact on the mill rate Trustee Helen Howard- Locke who was a member of the boards negotiating com It tee said she would be staying away from marathon bargaining sessions in the future I ve yet to meet anybody who can think straight after even two hours of a meeting she said TRUCK LOAD SALE JUST ARRIVED SPECIALS Cable Converter 20 RCA Portable Color TV 14 RCA Portable Color TV Model EC 388 V SALES SERVICE LOWLDWPMCES A St Georgetown WE SERVICE WHAT WE SELL Serving you for over a quarter century Shoppersworld Highway No 10 and Steeles Avenue SIDEWALK SALE Three days of super bargain hunting Thur through Sat Feb 3