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Home of Halfcon Hills tj 199 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Limited South It I Publish i linn it i IHOM Mi 1201 Second Clan Mail Number New police news system In supposed effort to prove relationt between the Hal ton region media and its police force the force acting chief I has unveiled a proce dure for turning information over to the press In the past officers at the district offices of the regional police have given members of the press copies of police reports detailing the of the previous week with information removed It was a pretty straight for ward approach and one that tended to avoid mistakes Names places crime et cetera were all clearly spelled out in the report If a reporter was incapable of copying down the relevant information pro perly he or she would not likely remain at their job long before an editor or police representative be came aware of the mistake This once a week distribution of the police news by the force has been found efficient accurate and by many police forces across Ontario including the Hal ton force IJailies receive their information once a day if they wish Under Acting Chief Harding new plan all of this will end In future reporters will be expected to make daily visits to their local police station to receive oral re ports from the district command the staff sergeant or the duty inspector These men supposedly highly trained in policing will spend their time redding through the reports formerly given to the newspapers and read aloud the relevant a relatively literate year old could do Whether or not a reporter really will have to make daily visits to the police station still seems up in the air It has not yet been made whether or not the polite will only release information to the previous day or if instead they will be able to backtrack and read reports dating back to the report last visit It obviously an extremely inefficient and rather stupid way for our local police to dispense the news we d like to think that the time of top officer in district police offices could be better jpent doing some thing other than reading a list of oceurances to reporters Making a conservative matt it would probably take a reporter about half an hour to go over one days with an officer allowing time for the to spell out names places and so on With fue newspapers covering Halton Hills not to mention radio and TV the local police s top staff could be spending at least hours a day telling reporters what the force did the day before Under the old system a rela lively junior officer spent about seconds a week handing out police reports to the press Sounds like an inefficient change Obviously both the police and reporters time could be much better spent than fiddling around with police news under this new system regional police and its problems are legend it probably one of the most controversial police forces in Ontario Regressive moves like this latest one by the now chief will do little to improve the force or relations between it and the Press We think the new chief s time would be better spent trying to come up with real solutions to the regional police force s problems instead of coming up with useless new systems like the new news distribution plan The determined search of the Acton Golden Age senior citizens club restates the urgent need for funds to turn the town beautiful town hall into a functioning com centre The Golden Age Club has been meeting regularly in the town hall building until its closure last March Since that time the club has been meeting a mere twice month in St Parish Hall Club members have expressed a desire to meet five days a week Certainly if the membership and interest is there for five days a week activity every effort should be made to see that it is made possible Organisations like the Golden Age Club perform an invaluable function in communities like Acton keeping senior citizens in touch with each other active and active enjoying their retirement years Rather than having to turn their back on contact senior citizens clubs help our elderly citizens maintain an active social life It a shame that because of a mere lack of space Acton senior citizens are being deprived of the vibrant active club they seem to want A brand new community re housed in a remodelled Acton town hall would provide the perfect locale for a day a week senior citizens club We hope the plight of the Acton Golden Age club will serve as yet another reminder and incentive for Aeton residents and industry to donate to the town hall reconstruction fund At the same time it would be nice if the town council or some local organization could come up with a temporary home to house a five day a week seniors club until the new town hall becomes a reality Ratepayers chief keeps watchful eye Its nice to see people like Laurie president of the Georgetown Area Ratepayers As are determined to keep Focal Properties and the town council on their toes Mr Duggan presented council Monday night with copies of a stock brokers newsletter article in which Bruce McLaughlin hopeful deve loper of the controversial home Focal development predicts a favorable decision from the town the development The Brokers news letter goes on to say a development agreement for the subdivision has been reached between the town and McLaughlin It nice to know that if in fact the newsletter information was correct at least someone would be watching to ensure the final Focal deal was not made in the backroom between the developer and the town However council was quick to clarify that neither the newsletter nor Mr McLaughlin were correct in their assumption and statements about the deal Still thanks to Mr at least council knows what the other side is saying pubhcally about the Focal dispute It never hurts to know the thinking of one oppo nents in the development card game Halton s History from our tiles tlMt member in eld lfnnelouifimll Miss to l1 on Me nil in ir life Ifni resident if town sir w is I liter 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