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Home Newspaper of Page A THE Wfiiiiesdi Deem ItWO A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Street Ontario Publish PAUL DORSE- Editor DAVID Advertising Manager PHONE Second Class Mail Number 1980 The best and the worst Well we come to Ihe end of year one In which restraint conservation and wall and see seemed be the phrases Like alt years I960 had plenty of and downs and by way of reviewing them wove selected a few special recollections among the roses thcsilkandtho burlap thegemsand the junk Here then are the best and the worst of 1980 NEWSMAKER OF THE FAR There just no way around it got to go along with everyone else In the country and declare Terry ox our Newsmaker of the Year even though he a Hills resident as should normally be the But like every where else he went In Canada he brought Inspiration and solid to the people of Hills who In 1SB0 contributed to cancer treat raent fas of Septem Trials almost twice as much as the local cancer unit raised here during the first nine months of 1979 hat more than each from every man woman and child and that a Runners up to the King of the Marathon Runners for helping bring Industry homeless refugees a cultural centre and a noncom mere la I Santa to town much of with Whit ing generous help and Jim Barren for single handedl gen crating more Letters to the Editor that this seen to- sincerely try i to help the George town Fall Fair and for helping get the Elks Lodge firmly behind some worthwhile causes EVENT OF THE YEAR In it was the filming of Honest Thief In 197B it was the landslide victory of Mayor Pete In I960 it was the Intensely dramatic Marathon of Hope Enough said BEST SERVICE CLUB CONTRIBUTION OF THE YEAR The Georgetown Rotary Club with some help from Acton and Milton gave us Industry SO an effective and interesting business promotion taking the form of a sprawling trade fair Like the mayor said we didn l know half of these industries and businesses even existed let hope they do It again Runners up the Kinsmen Club of Georgetown for Its Bump- for dancealhon this year raised for cystic fibrosis research thanks to the Reel footed students of Acton and Georgetown high schools BEST CORPORATE CONTRIBUTION OF Tf IF YEAR Smith and Stone was named Business of the Year by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce for boosting employment but two other Georgetown firms William Nelson Ltd and Irwin Doreoy Ltd scored an Important goal against a formidable opponent named Space Limitations when they offered use of ihelr vacant land for soccer games Town rec director Tom Shcpard was delighted MOST UNDERTAKING YOUTH AWARD We said It before and wc say it again the Acton high school students who paddled Ihelr voyagcur canoes Into history as part of their total immersion course over two weeks and miles last summer are better men and women than we are Din pardon the Indian cross reference BEST LOCAL POLITICIAN He has his tiny perfect flaws but Mayor Pete probably spends more time doing more things for more people than anyone else in this area at any level of government Runners up Miller postman to the farmers and Burlington Julian Reed still a spark at Queens Park ONGOING Or THF AR the big words of Hydro Croatian centre River Run Focal Everything there virtually taken care or except for Focal Properties and a little problem with these 1740houseswaitlngtobebullt Well you don hear the word Focal so much anymore but urban la a biggie now and no matter how you slice it it still reads Focal COMMUNITYPROJECTOFTHEYEAR Immediately thought about the town new library and cultural centre its tremendous ramifications and potential Impact upon community spirit and pride But we decided will be the year of arts complex In 1980 Aclarla commanded a the lions share of public attention and through impressive prixes caught the imagination of lottery fans throughout Hills trip over Prospect Park for one lucky winner an elegant dinner by the shore of Fairy Lake for another Such tuff as dreams are made of 1981 will also be year and the old town hall will be restored at last BEST NEWS OF THE YEAR Last March when Ross Miller wn named chairman of regions solid waste management committee we regarded It as a major coup for whose councillors never seemed to be Ihe right strings That good news was multiplied tenfold last month when Mayor Pete stepped Ibe chair to lead the nee and administration committee Georgetown Roy Booth retains the planning com ml tee chairman Lookout Burlington The norths gonna WORST Oh Till- Double at Halloa region ill March sewer rites shortfall was discovered in August liter deficit in he opening budget Councillors ire generally culm but the of additional lax hikes has appeared MOST Hi KOMI- OF Tilt unit senior finally puis on I lizabcih Drue iflcr plenty of indlnLsof bureiucncy Runners category IK Georgetown Motor Inn the Sir John T Armstrong Memorial aparlminls also known as the Durban Street seniors iparimcnts Very close runner up those dim gravel pits by now hopefully resolved MOST I It ATI- I HI- Docs me really understand the finer details about the water and rates Issue Just how equal are they is tie surcharge so different from the charge buck Who ire these people in ind why ire Ihey trying lo do these things to close runner up section KB and revised property assessment another nundbender Hon Tilt Mt former Ward Patterson might claim a spot in the NHL referees but he found himself i pi lee in Hilton region municipal history when he convinced us all lint regional councillors spend money like drunken The following week the himself i Icclotiller at budget lime took his to task for calling the regional reps sailors NT THF On a brisk morning last January members Interested Citizens Group summoned the press to a Sitth Line lootion to witness possible trespass by Ontario Hydro trying to build a half million toll transmission line someone scow pasture The Great Corridor Confrontation amounted to a few words exchanged between landowners and public relations people Construction began the next day BFST CONTRIBUTION OF tended to favor the pop designs tiny etching but the gala art staged list April by the Georgetown and District and Beaux International had an air of cultured sophistication nothing else in Hills could match Lets hope do it again Runners up the Hills Arts Council Musical Triltght concert series which begin this past fall with Maple Sugar folksy entertainment and promising to like this iwird next year is the forthcoming Miurccn Forrester concert Nornic Studios dramatic semi profession prod of Murder in the Cathedral in presentation by and In Kno CI tin- Toronto is hurled out of his care at least seconds before it to rest a quarter mile further down Highway above Norval last August he was uninjured Runners up Mrs whose knitting was interrupted one November afternoon by the appearance of a truck in her living room she loo was uninjured Georgetown Betty Milton and a travelling chum luckily decided to skip the northbound bus which later hurtled off a bridge kilting many passengers on the lighter side there was also former regional chief administrative Officer whose sudden retirement was cushion by a annual pension AWUtDS Till St To Pete lor simultaneously making personal last April to two fund raising committees behind the Acton town hill restoration and the librarycullural centre con truclion That a for you and 450 for you THF To the SOS Save Our Streams- volunteer roup which started dragging garbage out of llhck list spring and intends to do to again this year The project came out of the blue caught on with hikers and other fans of Ihe outdoors and emerged as a well planned well executed long rani clean up scheme Runner up ever deserving of our acclaim Roma Timpson and Neighbor Service III- ADSTART AWARD To Join Roc and the I illle Theatre They haven been cheating like that fine Boston Marathon runner of course but they were already catching second wind by the time everyone else in own realized money had belter start lowing in for new arts complex They vc raised most of the II pledged to the project almost a year before the complex is set to open Tilt JOHN AWARD To Dun Farmer former Hilton regional treasurer Tilt MING AW MID ind I Isi two lovely young from Acton who deservedly h to respectively hold litks of Miss Acton all Fair and Miss Acton Full 1900 Tilt To former Georgetown school I Harry Shcpard in announcing his retirement from the board this past October warned voters that trustee Hetty F would do more harm than if elected to succeed him Tilt Willi WIS WF GO AG UN Julian Reed Tor Informing us this week that Ontario Hydro could very well build another transmission corridor through Hills by Till Pitt AWUtD To George Kennedy Public School in Georgetown unci the Board of for continuing use of Its lime out booth in which quasi violent students arc locked up for brief periods so they cm cool down without hurting themselves others or properly TIIF HANDS ACROSS TIN AWARDi To former Georgetown mayor Steamer who represented Hills war effort during the 1 J44 Dutch liberation by attending special overseas and present grateful lh re will a I painted by fellow veteran Roy Booth AND IN OUR I PART Tilt 10KD AND THF LORD TWITH AWAY While Holy Cross Church in Georgetown lost two popular priests this year and Devent and thus on page A7 Advice for McDermid Otto on spreading riding cheer In the 1 vent it you live in one or the served eon Mis Ills will help vou prepare for you might with jour filler represent olive the I have hen i il re ill some slice Is called Caucus Newsline it put out ilie for Ihe ic ill in mil of aforementioned MI s And this is not your ordinary Issue of Caucus Newsline This special edition of aucus rend is for by Ml ridings holidays In words tells the MPs how if hnstmus cheer to the con During the Christ were id the message of Progressive MPs for heir constituents will the disastrous record of lOnionlliold current Trudau I bet cant wail to mix u bit of those tidings with their Carols his Impend ing Tory MPs should be by invitallons to Yule llde pirties Rut as 1 special service to shut Ins ifflicled Individuals mi who in look forward to hearing a Tory MP recite a Christmas disaster poem I hereby offer F OCR STANZAS There are four convenient beginning with Disaster Area No 1 The Constitution Here the local MP Is advised to mention that a majority of Canadians have clearly expressed their disoppro- Toptwclhls point hey can cite figures released in lie litest Gallup Poll coing all the odds Hon JoeClark led the on the Trudcau proposals which would have the British House of ominous Trudeiu charter In the constitution of course he holidaying MP could point out hat The Gallup Poll was indication of how right Mr CI irk was In judging the Conadion peoples fee lings on Ihe question Nice touch That brings our little party to Ana No The Budget And his one I should worn you is not the bit DRINK In fact if jour MP repeats all the advice in this section perhaps you should make an early trip to the punchbowl everything economic it seems Is going lo hell in a handbaskct and besides government is power grabbing what left from the provinces This section concludes by noting that the Trudcau government is now locked in deadly combat with Ihe producing provinces and the Progressive Conservative Disaster Area No Energy This loo has precious little to do with The Night Before Christmas It recites all the gasoline price increases since the disastrous Trudeau govern was disastrously elected months ago Thus far Liberals hive presided over price increases at the gasoline pump totalling cents per gallon in central and western Canada and IBS cents per gallon in cistern Disaster Area No 4 The West Here not unexpectedly we got a bit caustic Belatedly office has announced hat It has caught sight of Western Canada and is prepared to send an exploratory probe of cabinet ministers discover more And finally there is advice on leave cm laughing What docs stand for is the question Pierre Elliott Ruining Our Cimda is the answer Have a Holiday con eludes Caucus Newsline You bet Of average Joes and Ottawa and empirebuilding Thought on con tupus the ind First In by fedt the I s the theory Ih it he ml 111 loncoeletl by ilulth of in heir own mini Imis 1 rids ind of told lint Oil pile Irani tin imrtnn In s The truth We us of he hurt 11 tniM Hi in sihrns indexed private restaurants personally avail airplanes tax juiil oversets Invil and when consultant with he ileparlnients we jusl left The reports of mid auditors geiirnlsiim II up very well that Ottawa hit no cost control over its spinding food chunk of which goes support empire building The has as contact I the federal government Its agencies like the post office or Air Cnnad that are usually being disrupted one way or another The ends thai the Ottawa arms seek aren nebulous They in power and both of which liny can acquire from average in through he tax system None of this is to imply that the gov eminent here Is compos iii of ingels probably because is not a own ill wise or so Inclined lo navel gaze as 1 there seems a firmer grasp of tit feelings lmiutt- is a topic producing ambivalent thoughts In this corner Community and Social Services r Ke Norton has just a pre election million lure to subsidize an additional 1 dive ire vols province wide in The have been bat by 1 wide variety of Interest roups ill j 1 ir lie re expand daycare i including one demonstralion whin 1 rofesslonils used children like union pickets lite for universal slate run subsidized daycare receives from mi Aside from the fact province got the money Woo million have some for children It myth somehow work me rs Inn materialized out of Inn ilr In just the past few Mothers who winled to advance family economic inces have ilways worked On the other hand iheres fair evidence too Ihat mother should be with very liny children on a full lime that so culled professloml day butcould lie harmful psychologically However Its a of life divs tint women want daycare to handle their children while go o work for rcisons of economics or self fulfillment So It needed although those who can afford it should not be subsidized The real problem Is our social systems continual splintering of the family unit combined the tendon to have fewer children Modern children are deprived of Ihe constant mention by grandparents aunts and uncles who used o be around when both parents worked THIRTY won a turkey and set a new club record the Strike when she bowled on almost perfect Mrs Inoicnm I he previous record of 404 bowk lis Dick last year had ires in her two frames scoring on the first spare then a nine point score on her list bill There will be no election Township this year AH scats ivc tilled and the entire IOjO Hill hoi their seits for he coming year Jack Wilson Maple Avenue hoi I won a mantel radio in a lucky sored theAlliancePapcrMlllshockeyclub Tin w made at the Christmas party it he I rid afternoon The girls of School in finer Christmas lhan wh learned a lesson on how others On the whole school I to the Peel wlcre a concert for the 1 Iderly rcsidt re topped with Christmas presents and i perjoml card for each which the girls had made themselves TWENTY new precede in friendly relations among set list Thursday when the staffs of three ilbinks or a Christmas party the Delrex banquet hall The downtown 1 1 Ihe Bank of Commerce and Royal Bank and the Mountain view branch of the Commerce were tn Ihe party which featured a turkey 1 ir by an evening dancing First Baptist Church Char formed the nucleus of carolling which sair as carols to local shut Ins Sunday night fie roup met at church p and returned at p m Members of the congregation and added their voices to Ihe outdoor Farmers on Dec a in members of ten an Jut Moffat Jack Robert Milton Mane Marshall 1 Mill 1 I d Scgsworlh Burlington The Ablllbl Power and Paper Lid annual report for was judged Best of all Canada for the second consecutive tie judges in of annual reports Children of the members of IK is CI lb were by their fathers it a I party In the arena Rose Room it party was arranged by Lion ft lured entertainment by the Clown a led by Sandra with Mrs it pano and fie tradilloml visit of TF N former rector of SI s Anglican Church Canon John II become Dean Of Saskatchewan In Fein ir 111 McMulkin who has been reclor of St John tie Fvangellst Church Hamilton since leu town four years ago will assume w is rector of St s Cathedr il in ice 1 rt in early February Laurcntian a Georgetown student Is senior club defence corps again this Mike Cummins Cummins whophjed Ins in 1 here including Junior C is in his third wilh the Laurcntian Georgetown Raiders pul it ill toi oilier nlghtIoburvDunnvilcl3 lntiri He till in Georgetown Memorial Arena 111 ihu si shone Slitt pumped in five ois ind idded in assist In his best night in i lialiir form to single humble the I Two months of investigation it lo four Ontario Provincial Police officers is topav off This week Iwo men were I r to and charged with possession of side urther charges are pending Tl charge arose from a Dec 1 it If Public School inwhich It w 1 e nil electronic equipment wis stolen Milton DIP officers say worth of stolen wis From The Heralds columns Majestic centre hall home with and attached nii situated on 12 acre rustic site Raised hearth and split boulder repine in living room big formal room Willi den or fifth bedroom four huee bedrooms plu doors to front rear balconies A grind HI AGO Hills has lonsthlmr productivity and some of the lowest Hilton region labor forcesurvcv The resullselllesirvey conducted last last summer indrele iseill 1st week show that the wages paid in Hills lid Milton arc somewhat lower than those in Burlington and Women Place phi nidi stel for abuse wives Iheir children is conn closer to completion but the fund ri sing contour in an earnest attempt lo reduce the tions deficit en students from Paul total Immersion history class at Acton lllh School The Herald 1 specialtycorn bitted award for the Most Unique Undertaking of and fir youth In the students donned period costumes Ihey illotmUOmlte trip retracing the travels Canada repreiendng themselves and The Georgetown and District YM brought the cultured sop hist lea lion of to Holy Cross auditorium last March with a gala Beaux Arts auction that netted Marc than no art lovers following veteran auctioneer Sharon Theobalds lead bid ISO paintings drawings and prints purchasing all but SB of the works on hand