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Home Newspaper of Hills March 14 1979 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited South Georgetown Ontario Publisher Second clan Mall RagltlcrM Number Its time to reconsider LACAC plan Hills needs a That a Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee and it would go a long way to making sure that the heritage of this widespread community is preserved so we don dissolve into yet another blah suburb The LACAC idea is not new to Hills it has been brought to council before by members of the Historical Society in eluding new town councillor John McDonald who was then acting as a private citizen Town council blocked the proposal and some supporters of the LACAC idea say they the powers of the com A LACAC would be only a recommending body with no real legislative power LACAC members are pointed by council are supposed to operate with virtually no budget and the expertise needed to run the committee should come from the committee members This would mean that lawyers architects and people with a healthy knowledge of focal history would be likely nominees for the committee The mam duty of the group would be to prepare an inventory of buildings in the town that are or historically significant The committee would then present the list of historical sites to the town council It is up to the town council to pass bylaws delanng a building or parts of a building historically or significant In some cases only the facade or some rooms in a building are designated The cannot impose the designation And neither can the town council Making the designation law is done in a similar manner to an official Council must publish notice of the plan to designate and inform the building owner If there is no objection the designation can then become law However if the building owner or any other person objects to the designation a hearing will be held by the Conservation Review a provincial group The hearing will be held in a manner similar to the town s public meetings and will be well publicized with the public invited to attend and speak The review board s decision is then passed on to council who can either accept or reject the rec Once a building is designated historically or architecturally significant the owner cannot tear down the building or alter it without the consent of council Since history and heritage are shared commonly it seems fair that the public have some say in its preservation Once we lose a of history or outstanding chitecture it is lost for ever and we and our ancestors are poorer for it Surely the town council has a role in seeing our history is preserved We suspect that in many cases owners of a building may not be aware of the significance of their until informed by the own council We would feel better knowing that a group charged with cataloguing historical sites in Hills exists to ensure that our heritage is not haphazardly and unthinkingly destroyed Its worth noting that the Ontario Heritage Foundation says in most cases buildings declared historically significant increase in value United Way would be good for region We welcome a suggestion heard last week that regional of ficials should meet to discuss the of forming a single wav organization that would serve all of Halton It is somewhat ironic that the suggestion should come from Bird the mayor of Burlington a city with its own longestablished United Way support rather than from one of north Halton municipal officials who must be alt too aware of local fund raising problems Mayor Bird proposal endorsed last week by Halton regional council would see the regional chairman convene a meetings of Halton s four mayors to investigate possible ways and benefits of LARRY N MARTIN Sales Phone 877 2201 establishing a region wide United Way According to specific figures resented by Mayor Bird altonians are not realizing anywhere near their full charity funding potential With a region wide United Way to coordinate the fund raising efforts of Haltons many charitable health and social services organizations he reasoned the groups themselves might benefit from generous funding increases while con tributors would be funnelling their donations through one umbrella agency and could appreciate a better return on their charity dollars In theory the idea Is all the more appealing in these times when social service groups are straining under the weight of annual operating expenses that it seems can never be fully accommodated by their corresponding budgets North Halton chanties would perhaps benefit most from a regional United Way since their counterparts in the south already rely directly on local branches of the co operative fund raising group After expanding on their limited outside assistance the north Halton chanties might see substantial Increases in their public contribution components It almost goes without saying though that north Halton agencies must retain the option of carrying on their personal fund raising activities without outside assistance if they so desire No doubt some Arouse among them might prefer to continue relying on established methods of soliciting local donations methods that appear in some cases to be firmly rooted in the grass roots style and spirit of the smaller communities found In the north milUS 5nCtCt Peel region educators report most provocative of the year turf Park Bureau III The Herald The following are from hi most provocative 1 Peel Region r of education John Froser Almost all educational resources in dedicated training people for more at higher and higher levels Technology courses commercial courses or programs that lead the of entrepreneurial skills ire seen is being no quite as good or lit as greit a as the study of pure and olhcr subject siress concepts The students our in no encouraged lo devise ways and means of manufacturing boiler washing The mismatch between skill or lack of and jobs is in part due 10 ihe lack of realistic understand mil ihe work place We ore quite well the 1 university bound studenl for higher In els of education The school environment and the v rk place environment moreofien differ radically of our siudenls tend be psvcht I unprepared for the work Anopenendedleavepolicy be adop ted would allow to assume cm pi ivmcni In the world of business or iiidustrj Administrators and consultants qua id leach do in facl leach for not five consecutive days per year Might it not be more desirable to ice 1 with absolute and very high salaries outstanding teachers while sere out a period of lime in differentiated roles super if they have it before Warning rank of teacher If students opt for spares ihey should In required to pcrf socially construct ive 1 in the school such as cleaning griffin from walls desks picking up paper English Canada still paranoid about Quebecs policies Ottawa Bureau Of The Herald For a while there I thought we English speaking Canadians were finally getting over our paranoia about Quebec involvement in foreign affairs There I been a word uttered On subject far months Quebec cabinet ministers were taking the odd trip and we even send trained analysis along to see whether they attracted handshakes than their federal counterparts We didn t panic when a slray foreign cabinet minister found his way Quebec City and was greeted by Rene And there have been Admittedly there was a little furor over the departure ceremonies for French Premier Raymond Barre but we sort of dismissed that as bad manners by Loves que a serious attempt to flex Quebec international muscles Generally speak ing over the lasl few months there were encouraging indications that we were gradually growing out of the paranoia that reached a peak when Lcvesque was made a grant officer of Frances Legion of Those were horrible days for our paranoia Holt Kmgsway said that the behavior or French leaders was unforgiveable And Maurice DionncIL Northumberland gested thai separatist leaders from Corel and Brittany be invited to Canada to repay the French government for Inviting separatists from Canada only was invited to France in fall of 1977 he was treated in such a way thai our paranoia reached epidemic proportions Why he was even invited to address the French National Assembly an invitation that we managed interpret as a slight to Ottawa One journalist reported that French Premier Valeric Is card d Eatang ami with unders landing in direction of And somehow we managed to interpret thai as an endorsation of Quebec Independence Anyway as I was saying thought we were graduating from his persistent paranoia But then with a resounding came the new edition of the Paris telephone directory And naturally some enterprising Canadian checked the listing or the Quebec delegation in France Horrors As the Ottawa Journal later reported in a pagewide headline Queb ec Pans embassy jolts diplomatic circles And as the Toronto Globe and Mail Just lo name a nol her reported on the front page Quebec office Is embassy on paper CRISIS BIGGER At Ihat time some IB had been reported killed in the ChineseVlet nam border war and all hell was breaking loose In Iran but by golly we had bigger crisis lo deal with We read that In he Paris directory published two years ago the Quebec delegation appeared only as Del Generale du du obviously a far cry from Ambassade Quebec The Canadian Embassy was contact Immediately And we were told that Ihe mailer was being looked into In Ottawa External Affairs Minister Don was being searched out for comment And back In Paris an official of the French ministry for foreign affairs was offering us reassuring news hat Ihe Quebec a delegation It cannot have the status of an embassy said the official Whew was later 0 add to that reassurance by declaring that a page In a telephone book make you an embassy Thai was good news Indeed But thai t fully explain another problem the Canadian Press pointed out II seems that the directory lists the Canada in standardshe type while the Ambassade du Quebec has larger type on he opposite page Great Caesar will our problem Finally the Quebec government was called Into the crlils And Inter govern mental Affairs Minister Claude Norin Issued ui uimi the govern ment did not ask for a new listing It was he said a decision by the editor of the telephone directory Now with all the loose ends tied up on ihat Incredible crisis except for the large type that is we can go back to little skirmishes like the ChineseVietnam History From the Heralds files All should in facl be dance nscll And much much more in the same The 238 page report contains 34 re men da lions all written in plain Engl ihe usual jargon unlike most educational documents it put in only four months using very few people and quite mexpens iv eh DOUBTS It leaves me with one major nagging blames the school tendency 1 exalt the abstract and theoretical over ihe mundane as a reflection if ihe value systems of Possibly true may also be a distortion based on a problem peculiar 1 he teaching profession Vour average teacher or guru was born went elementary secondary school graduated went teacher college or univcrslly led began teaching school If one has never left Ihe unreal nfines of how could one be expected lo understand how real world funclnns and leach il Thus my many each would for a leave that would give work In a business world for a while THICK THIRTY 1 1- A fire which in the new bull home on Boulevard of Dr Stiles gulled the interior and did extensive properly The fire was first 1 neighbors at 15 on Friday mi rnmgwhen after apparently smoulder r some time it gained headway and Insp he deep sn a road block near the house l re ewe rage is being installed he fire bridge retched the in record time and lull the lire under control within half wcrounabldosave he roof fn in caving in and more than he rk of the house remains Urge trailer loaded wnluliventons piper bound for a local paper null skidded and jack knifed across i Hill last Thurs in traffic en route to inn wis fir several hours An 50U cars trucks and buses in rval until truck was the rood and the hill sanded An iiicmpi block and tackle to pull Hie ihe ditch up rooted a large iree I winch the tackle was fastened and the falling tree lore down hydro wires and left lie village without hydro until late 1 ne clock in evening A new teacher will be added to the School n ye The education its Wednesday decided hat rniher than lire new leichcrs as recommended in the inspectors report me teacher would be hired and the present assemblv room converted into KINDS TOtNTI Unusually high March winds up In force did mass damage in his area Sunday Television were favorite large and some 65 fell in town before mile per hour winds lo claims which flooded local insurance offices next day The was not limited to commercial highway signs roofs windows and all fechnj the force of the wind Sock Thieves arc plaguing the KniHing Co Ltd in Glen Miliums and after two recent robberies Hie mill have decided a niglu watchman an expensive method of dealing with iheir troubles Mrs Godfrey Collier 11 Orchard Boulevard is the Lions Shamrock Queen Mrs Collier was crowned Shamrock Queen at annual Lions Clubs SI Patrick Day Dance held his year on riday evening in the Rose Room and It wis Irish Hose Room thanks to an decorating committee who underlined nth theme with large shamrocks and green trimmings TV SHOW MS TF AGO Its getting to be a habit Several on location shots of have bobbed up in a couple of the series on the CBC TV network Al leas two district forms have been the site of filmed shows of farm life Now it a local industry Smith and Stone Lid which will be featured on a future I clevis i on program A CBC crew has been this week filming for a on plashes industry lime of year again lime when countless boards of education across the province hold out pics in the sky for young and old teachers lo replace resigna lions and fill new schools And County Board of Education is no except on This year board expects have lo hire about 145 teachers for both clement and secondary schools handle the influx of new students Morton Is a small man only in physical stature When It comes withstanding verbal abuse he a giant The heckling was fierce last Wednesday night when he spoke to Young Progressive Consorva lives the Holiday Inn in but he grinned above it all and said Hecklers make a belter meet ing member Terry O Con nor in thanking Ihe member for High Park described his speech as willy urbane articulate and largely The loudest laugh came from Morly Cong regal ions of Ash grove and Horn by Churches which officially become one a few months ago through amalgamation worshipped together he roof of heir new church for the first lime on Sunday church is at the intersection of ihe Line of Esqueslng and Side road near Public School TOWN HALL ORDERED CLOSED ONE YEAR AGO Acton old town hall has been ordered closed by the industrial safely branch of the provincial ministry of labor The order directing that the structure shall not be occupied until cither the floor roof or any other pari of the structure can safely support Ihe loads applied or likely lo be applied was received by the town Monday The first floor of 96yearold structure on Willow Street is occupied by a detachment of Police and a citizens dropin centre The second floor is unoccupied Barry Shepherd 33 was appointed school for Georgetown by Board of education Thursday Mr Shep herd one of II candidates for the post will lake the seal vacated by Don Long who resinned because busiueu Mr Shepherd ran tajbe election One of three men killed lo with a runaway locomotive near Drumq uin Tuesday morning was the engineer A group of about workmen from ding crews working on a rail were lined up at the side of a catering truck parked on Ihe north side of Britannia when a locomotive left Idling Just south of Britannia Road apparently slip ped into gear and began move forward The locomotive with no one at the controls crossed road and plowed Into three pickup type vehicles which bad been parked near the rail line A