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Home of Hills Page I Till IIM1AII November It A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited ml Main SI south Georgetown J Ontario WIN Publisher ii i ron Secrecy shrouds councils Focal Recent developments in the focal Properties Ltd housing controversy have left us frankly confused and apprehensive While appears to be no hard evidence that town council and Major Fete in particular have indeed opened the floodgates to development whether deliberately or mod verlently the very fact that such accusations are being made us wondering whether those doing the accusing have been privy to some confidential politically inflammatory information The most oubpoken critics of councils decision to defer jny development commitment con a large tract of land on Georgetowns southern urban boundary have suggested in no uncertain terms that the town is playing right into the hands of developers who have land interests in that area most importantly Focal Properties While ratepayers spokesman Laurie Duggan drew upon con conclusions about limitations in residential growth in order to condemn the move as prelude to development which cannot be supported Ward Harry Levy presented some in cendiary remarks about the mayors conduct in the matter Neither mans comments served to shed much light on whats really been happening behind the scenes but confusion over the handling of the matter suggests that Levy may have been partially right contending that the mayor could be more open about the issue Generally Mayor Pomeroy cannot be faulted for his ongoing efforts to resolve the Focal issue to the benefit of a majority of Georgetown residents He has repeatedly called the matter the single most important issue facing Hills and has gone on record as opposing Fowls plans in their present format However discussions arc taking place in the mayor s office which are presumably aimed at formulating possible concessions to the developer so that one or more housing proposals might proceed in keeping with council ambitions for Georgetown future growth To what extent council as a whole is cognizant of these discussions and their effects is not clear Judging from 1 s criticisms of Mayor during a recent meeting there is about the issue which council docs not know Needless to voters here in town know even less anil that s what bothers us most Again Mayor should be commended for what appeals to be his sincere efforts to Keep the public informed of at least any concrete developments in Hie matter He called a special press conference for example to ensure that newspaper readers would be aware of his controversial notice of motion the week prior to council s debate on the issue Yet the mayor should also be criticized tor allowing far too many discussions about the proposal taking place behind closed doors a practice lie promised to limit as much as possible at election time a year ago These days however he seems to be all too ready to accent the town solicitor s advice brought on by the spectre of pending legal clashes to shut out the public whenever Focal is to be mentioned We share the opinion of area residents that the Focal problem complicated and far reaching though it is has been prolonged too far and we tend to support Ixvy s comment that there is no firm indication Focal million lawsuit against the town would ever meet with success in the courts And we do not with Major complaints that council is too reluctant to approve proposed developments such have no place in municipal considerations of major housing plans we feel the taxpayers of Hills not only have a right to sec the Focal issue resolved luring the current term of council or soon after if legal con prove necessary but also a right to see the resolution evolve openly candidly and forcefully without concessions and with the full knowledge and consent of council Queens Park By Derek Nelson I In mining production in in number rv in tin world Vie ire second tin in consumption if first in world in importing Ibis nit of its immni in nisi I I 1 tie is sumption is being met imports not Tin of nurse is to build the lure id a process illy import repl tut wh it is interesting to sic press nil Irom Ihc mluslrv mil mini minuficlurin ipporluiulv shim to 1ml held in Sudbury idi slums in one form or another o hick to is the first to ili il sMcific ilk mining michiiiery NOW Will III On I lu other il is h believe tin ml criticism of Hie decline in muling ichinerv manufacturing Jusl pecking is IK like to further He building the industry should not In loll In Ihi passm i slum dune mini should into joint ventures re the risk the in or lie of our in sector mil linking it to iprovmct slralcgv be mil tlie Sudbury lie mi works in machinery in his hi Ion lick of induslri If II duln I Recalling the I Is P FrOSt years to deceive Thorn sun sews Service Unless you happen be in lour mid forties or more nllrli trust does not mi in all that much to you A inn from the past o same importance is ill Leslie frost one of the most remarkable in the life of the province He ins Ibc vote getter in Ontario history Probibly no other leader hid the grip on the public he had is Old Ontario oilier leader hid beginning as did this cicnlu For Frost won the Icidcnhipasa unknown lo the public mil at i I irgcly convention lie actually this tremendous fill lire Tilt PLANT One of great strengths in and politics perhaps his greatest ns he was a realist From day one as a leader he knew that his prime problem was his obscurity and again Ihe realist he tackled the problem pragmatically and He lackled it in his own way He got down Inearth and set to make himself known by the moil direct method possible by personally meeting people is safe to soy thai nobody has ever travelled a intensively in Ontario and certainly nobody has ever shaken hands on as many fronts as he did over a two tears period in 1WJ and THE ROAD travelled a bit with Frosl in that period lln campaign lie would nil on 1- ridi isk ill mild hi I is r ink up mi ml Monday morning be off from I even was slricl rule wilh I llnl In it home in I fir II This e ill is the press gilliry six Mien pretty well tlic Win fur the or uni oilier local mid inter walk up lo out his li and nunc s work or gi mini it perhaps There iron mint it Wawi some miks rth of Mane on Ihe Alg una The irip on a special train is all ihrough halfway in seemingly the must desolate part of the country the Irjui stopped Then he would patiently but steadily move through every hind Tins Leslie Frost in and I I think of belter of Leslie Ihe man patient hardworking Mililic publicly friendly and oil I Ottawa n- mi hi me go by 1MU Report IMijsliniiwulidrftrindUMi As xputid tries Id I- MSI llHnlllllHT me icoiioniie Imk the Parti By Stewart hut is hi On dminiiiit s forth mil it sth iltempts iinulil hi m ifter Hilitit J MacLeod nil Sun it s mill is iihieied Working with a ispnts I mil its full if would establish its own parliament Ms own supreme court and s white mi is liliu limi lie in It would claim mill to lull irriuiiimllls Willi in compute jurisdiction our ill lis existing in enclosed imp mill iei llul ipirt In the libr idi r would control sliorleomuis llii wbiii ih if SI 1ivnnii Quebec p Ilk HiiiU Hi iilit is mdid in rls be issmd up imknndtnee il it nit ins is independence And isue the while piper into in Hit ill important rtfirmdum md with proposds fir iiuislun try jnil fulii Ibis libit is d difmitiin while piptrpnmdis imple ibli could and if In fiMl Ihi Hi ile in He mill whit the Nut were they probably work 1 wilh i hi existing feeler slruclure depends on sou is difficult rejeh a concensus on the while and fiscal policies Andeienbj ind iildpi iCJiiclice says tin imiigin ition the limit 1 Hide pendente diiui to foggy form of sovereignly which to differ litllc from fit renewed federalism proposed by Liberals 1 thi white piper go even further in Ibis respect with public opinion polls indicating ihnt a vast majority oppose any formal breaks with the 1 Ihe piper would In some convoluted I Premier in motion i to white paper We a nilion the inchundmtiononthiscontmenl in the hive dciduped strong indicision Willi in independent Quebec Hut there is no need to dwell on its sovereignly thai the issue And I for one feel much about the coming referendum campaign now lhal the while paper abundant clear to they will lie voting on nothing less than complete independence s History from our file I MIS J Medical of Health appointed inspect atlendeei a ritiiwn list dm and in detail how tim will work The local meeting votctl lo it treatment for il ill the wtithir Indian it re it of and Hie last November thunder rtn recorded here is in it led so the one we had re and ijed THtM I MIS wis plane the i in is re for flight Company Kill I Ihe Herald Ih it the firm w is pleased wilh w ii ihi like craft hid breezed an series ot ground tin pilot his been given the to l ike it up win vir he feels ready downlowfi p irking tat ill sin town wilh costs involved to lie and properly I iking New Democrats pecking away eventually uncovers solutions socnliin liirlier said the ignilures on the ictilion represented r ier cent of the merchants Three ire desired may lit set back cars if prognostication hi Highway 101 engineer holds ut The super till will bee iRtwcen and Kitcheni r nd ill in is when the Milton to I i completed some lime next fall const iiiinlls a dropoff in will be says Ihc riporl 1 ummox who Man Ivid bear bull In china shop libel inn hi tin ir more agile tormentors can bun their rtsenlment On night full rim bull owned by in Hit I centre and for minute of his iy w i the perfect gentleman Tin bull ins pirl of in idierlislng stunt Id Presbyterian Church mi I iter visited to the home Mi for a social sh hi it i provincial park be lot tod on of the ire is inspired by efforts re illey ien of Hill Davis toll I s Ihe Autho I IT MIS Triplet rn George Henderson firm on llwiy George town wislern I week were kind of a gome in from tin graded gesture wis irreiuhr how ir since it wis she the rest of the rsmi livestock were going plus feed ill winl in a sale id ii Mr sud ran if J electors lit ilillon ridings ait urn it At ion lu lower ae to litis i gmlloiiofyi Ihe part pining mdwillpliy inthefulure off in id soul week In spirited rebuttal to last weeks criticism council of II ill bo education trustee Kill Liu son told lsucsmg Council mi tin way to is lake al education Hi in mud it was time Ihe whither Ibey were idmg politics Ik louipircdllii suggisled per eut in bo members fee with the jump in eountd s s irits isl who movsdlo Montreal me of men killed in a Newfoundland lit was a pi mi I iking llrmto ill nut of firm properties Iheir in Vnriaii of an Ida limited have riuivid Ihe If Aw for the Ilcsi in nit m I Component for the DM 1- ill iih pi in for ire Ins won two University of students third pi ice in an siudenls Paul ind David Jonas art lislcd as third pi ice winners in Third Annual Anient Society of Landscape Archileets I rushed Stone Association 1 Architecture in the current issue of Inter lice i publitahon of Ihe Aggregate Producers Association of Ontario to report ihe two students si lei till multiple use concept for Ihe mineiuarry which names as possible low high density residential aquiculiure reertational forestry and in of the rehabilitated Ian Clark is the best juni cms country runner in all of a grade 12 student Georgetown High School won the inaclian crosscountry held at Stanley Park on Saturday flay Paulina who wo weeks ago won the senior championship at College finished second some five seconds behind It was a Clark said his strategy for the race was to hang on Paul ins shoulder for first port of Ibe race