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Peace Camp proposal draws residents ire Home Newspaper of Ha I ton Hills Established 1 A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Street Ontario PAUL J TAYLOR Publisher and General Manager Time to move on the offensive When a rural property owner seeks a land severance planning guidelines will put him through the wringer But those same rules seem to have plenty of loopholes when it comes to recreational centres in the rural area With last weeks announ cement that yet another such centre operated by the Inter national Peace Camp is plan ned for the Speyside area council now finds itself doing battle on three fronts It barely has a tenuous grip on the activities of the Croatian social and cultural centre south of Norval and the Canadian- Yugoslavian centre south of Acton on Highway 25 How much more of coun cils time is going to be spent arbitrating between rural residents upset that their lifestyle is suddenly filled with a lot of unwanted noise and recreation centre represen tatives who feel they have a right to do as they please on their own property But at least with the Speyside situation in which about 260acres of land may be developed by the Peace Camp for recreational use council has an opportunity to work with the Niagara Escarpment Commission NEC to shut the barn door before the horse has bolted Surely both ad ministrations have enough hin dsight from problems at the other two centres to realize this function is unwelcome in the rural area It undermines the goals of any official plan as much as strip residential development and the ruthless pursuit of aggregates We realize that because the Speyside centre falls under the planning jurisdiction of the NEC the towns ability to exer cise control in the area is somewhat limited But commissioners have underlined their desire to preserve the Niagara Escar pment and carefully control development even along its borders They have strong ob jections to the more liberal development views hearing of ficers have taken towards proposed Escarpment plan The town and the NEC can no longer be arbitrators in a situation which should never have been allowed to happen in the first place On behalf of the residents in the area who appreciate a peaceful rural lifestyle both bodies should do everything in their power to prevent the kind of rural misuseloud music lots of traffic trespassing bar becue which these recreational centres have become notorious People power The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce has plans to im plement a program called Business Alert starting as early as this summer Its a co- operative program run on people power We support the new program and congratulate the Chamber for their efforts to promote a campaign which will benefit all merchants in helping to reduce crime From views expressed recently by police spokesmen businesses can do more to prevent crimes from happening in their area With the help of regional police the Chamber will work among themselves to keep one another informed of criminal activities in their area The program is still in its initial stage as announcements to businesses have just been mailed out It is hoped that eventually a seminar wilt be arranged to tell merchants Later a series of seminars can be arranged to discuss dif ferent types of crimes such as breakins credit card fraud shoplifting and other types of suspicious activities Each business is treated like a link on a chain Without a fulltime Chamber secretary to answer Business Alert calls the program will only work if each proprietor involved agrees to phone two other businesses when a report comes in about a credit card fraud or a burglary This pooling of knowledge and resources has worked well in a town seemingly more difficult to coordinate Oakville has an added dimen sion L to their Business Alert where the banks play an in tegral part Banks phone retailers on a cooperative basis about in cidents such as stolen credit cards or bad cheques after the police notify the banks initially Not only will local mer chants eventually save more money but they will make Georgetown a tougher place to commit crime Get the lead out Federation of Ontario Natural For centuries man has known of the harmful effects of lead poison ing In recent years however the less dramaticeffccls of chronic exposure to low levels of lead arc becoming better known The evidence seems clear that even low levels of lead contamin ation can cause general 111 health miscarriages and learning disabilit ies The only prudent course of action would be to reduce human exposure to lead as much as possible Federal Environment Minister John Roberts la proposing to do Just that by limiting the amount of lead permitted In gasoline This would not be an unprecedented step the existing limits for leaded gasoline In the S are onethird those of Canada and some countries such as Japan have banned leaded gasoline altogether Mr Roberts hasnt yet said by how much he will reduce Canadas limits but he has asked for public comments on the new guidelines At present Canadian automobiles spew out IT million pounds of lead annually accounting for per cent of the tea din our environment European studies have shown that from per cent of the lead In peoples blood can be traced to automobile exhausts Since airborne lead also contaminates food crops the contribution of automobiles la very significant indeed Lead is added to gasoline to improve Its octane rating so that the car engine wont knock There are environmentally safe substitutes available although there will be some costs associated with the conversion There are also savings since unleaded gasoline generally gives better mile age and better engine wear If you would like to help rid our environment of this toxic substance you could write to Mr John Roberts Minister of Environment Ottawa KM to urge him to follow through with his ideas You can also take more Immediate steps All cars can burn unleaded gasoline which Is now avail able at every service station By paying a few cents more for unleaded gasoline you are helping to protect the health of us all LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Herald welcomes letters to the editor It is of Utmost im portance that all parts of the letter are clearly legible Let ters must be signed and include the telephone number and of the Ex cessively long letters may have to be edited due to space con straints Letters may be drop ped off at The Herald or mailed to Guelph St Georgetown PHONE Out MM Number itT Throne Speech draws comments from MPP report Julian Reed The following are excerpts from comment made by lUltooBurllngton MPP Julian Reed an tie Throne April ON THE Aycaragoa handicapped citizen of Acton by the name of Lome Doberthlen who is the owner of a business undertook to bring to the attention of government the need for legislation governing parking for hand capped citizens Mr is a recently handicapped individual and has there fore had the experience of both situations With visits and a campaign with various members of government and in the Legislature here namely the minister of transportation and com munications Mr Snow we were promised two things One that when the new plating system came into operation licence plates would be available on request to Identify the handicapped owners of automobiles and two that uniform legislation would come into play to provide common legislation for all municipalities across the province In my hand today I have quite a large number of letters from handi capped people In my riding expressing their very deep concern that while the licence plate move has been made by the government no move has been made to impose uniform legislation to the chagrin of many handi capped people we have discovered that to this point legislation has not been forthcoming from the government to provide uniformity for parking in every municipality in Ontario ON NURSING HOMES The solution to the problems we experience on a basis really lies In the provision of adequate inspection for nursing home operations We know there is a public perception that people who arc resi dents of rest homes require a certain amount of care If they arc elderly disabled and so on But to this date there is no legislation in place in Ontario the operation of rest homes other than that provided at the same level for boarding houses ON THE AGGREGATE ISSUE In Hal I on outside the Niagara Escarpment the ministry has identif ied and originally wanted to Impose controls or designation on 16000 acres of land recommendat ion was made by the hearing officers on the Niagara Escarpment that a further overlay lake place on the escarpment I have to tell Members that the designation of land in the manner in which the ministry Is proposing Is unacceptable to the citizens of Hal ton- Burlington and will be found as time goes on unacceptable the citizens of those other ridings contain aggre gate potential So when we are talking about attempting to designate 16000 acres of land In Halton for the exclusive use of aggregates In the future we arc handicapping a whole municipality Indeed we are asking that municipal ity to do far more than Its fair share In supplying aggregates to the Metropoli tan Toronto area Now I recognize that the aggregate Industry Is important to the construct ion business In Ontario and the supply of aggregate is necessary and an economic supply at that But I say to the minister and to those officials in his ministry who wish this land that if he were to proceed on the basis upon which he started he would be handicapping a whole ring of ridings around the Metropolitan Toronto area for years and years to come He would be preventing them from carrying on natural Industrial devel opment and housing development as the need arises He would be putting priority on aggregates to the detriment of all other uses ON FLOOD PLAIN MAPPING A parallel situation could be referred to in terms of the flood plain mapping an issue that has been discussed and raised in the past couple of days brings up an area of serious concern because flood plain mapping Is done by conservation authorities We know that conservation author ities have no guidelines of process They are kingdoms unto themselves Their decisions on how to operate and what they consider to be their mandate are of the own their own creation Therefore when flood plain mapp ing is being done in a particular area one conservation authority will hold public meetings to discuss the future flood plain lines and another conserva tion authority will not But I suggest to the minister that the conservation authorities that are applying these flood plain lines must remain flexible there must be a process of contact between the citizens who live In the flood plains and the government I am often concerned that instead of explanation the business of turning down an application for a building permit for Instance very often Is done in an atmosphere of Intimidation rather than in an atmosphere of conciliation or of explanation or some times in an atmosphere of give and lake Child rearing dropout opens up the floodgates Derek Nelson Prom the Park Bureau of The Herald Burled away In the provincial budget is one Item that has received little publicity but that is going to be very important financially in the years ahead Treasurer Frank Miller promised to withdraw Ontarios objections to the child rearing dropout amendment to the Canada Pension Plan What the amendment docs Is allow a woman or man to withdraw from the labor force for up to seven years to raise a child without having to Include those years In the calculation of her his average lifetime earnings upon which her his pension Is based In short the person can quit work and not contribute to the CFP but get benefits anyway Miller dropped his objection be cause the amendment has wide spread approval and he hoped that ending his veto would promote a spirit of goodwill In the pension reform process The Ontario veto over CPP chang es exists because of this provinces volume of contributions PENSION SCHEME It has been exercised in past years on Ihe principle that Ontario did not want to see piecemeal ad hoc changes to the but an overall reform package Moreover Ontario was skeptical about the continual attempts to divorce the paying out of CPP benefits from the premiums collected to finance the plan Miller agreed positions have now been discarded It is unfortunate The child rearing prov ision Is another example of how politicians of all parties believe in the free lunch or alternatively that the next generation can handle the prob lems this one Is creating The Canada Pension Plan is differ ent from the Old Age Pension or any of current supplementary pension Income schemes initialed by govern- MUST BALANCE The I hers come as matter of right out of general revenues But the benefits paid out were originally supposed to bear some relation to the amount of premiums a person paid over his or her lifetime This principle had already been eroded to some degree by such means as the way disability pensions arc figured as part of Ihe But the child rearing dropout provision opens the floodgates Liberal Leader David Peterson said it recognizes that raising children is work performed for society as a whole critic Marion said work in home raismj young children Is equally Important to work outside the home and should not result In reduced pensions NOT PAY except someone has to pay for the decision of that woman or man to stay home and raise children Neither Peterson nor puts a price lag on how much this subsidy Is going to cost those who do choose to keep working In addition Millers removal of the veto means that those who harbor further schemes to expand benefits without any thought to the costs Involved will be encouraged to play The scariest option down the road one foreshadowed by Peterson and comments is pensions for housewives or who after all are doing what some people believe Is work of equal value And If housewives why not other corners in society In short goodbye the CPP It was meant to be and hello Just another system for redistributing money from those who earn wages to those who dont If thats the goal politicians should be honest about It Bible digest The Spirit Unci witness with our spirit that we are Ihe children of God Rom ans 16 And I will pray the The Spirit of the Lord Is Father and he shall give speaking now settle the you another Comforter doubts and bring deliver- that he may abide with ancc Our part you for ever I will not Through Him we leave you comfortless I can have the knowledge will come to you John of a knowso Salvation 14IG IB THIRTY YEARS own Coronation Day celebration will start Tuesday morning and last well into the evening when a big display of fire works will end the tribute to Queen Elizabeth in the park Most important pari of the day will be a community church service which local clergymen will conduct in Knox Church In the morning at The order of service includes much of the original wording of the ceremony as it will place in Westminster Abbey with a narration describing the actual coronation Part icipants In the parade will assemble at the high school grounds at 1 p and parade will move off at 1 30 m Splitsecond timing will be necessary for the Lome Scots Band who will play a morning engagement In Orange vllle then bus to town to lead the local parade It will be one of the biggest parades Georgetown has seen School children from two town Beauregard Stone School and Glei Will- lams will all march in groups each carrying small flags Marching in uniform will be the scouts and cubs from town and lbs guides CGIT and Explorers TWENTYFIVE YEARS poncnts of a fulltime engineer for Georgetown councillors Fred Harri son and Alfred Sykes got no support at Mondays council meting when for the second time in recent months they moicd to engage a man Previously their motion suggested a salary of and on Monday salary uas indicated In the motion The second motion was dcfeated7lo3 Both councillors explained they had no Carr who has served Georgetown in a part time capacity for a year Coun Harrison and Mr himself had told council recently that be did not feel he has the necessary time to operate his own business and serve the town also Mayor Armstrong said that since then Mr has himself engaged an assistant engineer and that he has changed his opinion and is in a position to continue in the towns employ Reeve Doug Sargent Indicated he might favor a fulltime man but did not agree with the salary suggested Others agreed with Coun Hyde who said the town has the services of an engineering staff at a reasonable foe and should continue as long as this situation exists TEN YEARS AGO A nineacre piece of land on Armstrong Avenue deemed unusable for industry by the Industrial Commission may become the site or a private profit athletic club if Planning Board approves a site plan agreement and Immediate plans call for two single squash courts according to Boyd who made offer to purchase He explained to Georgetown council in committee last week there are men interested in having the squash courts sauna and locker room emphasized the shores would be available to anyone but only one share and one vote would be allowed each member He said tennis courts may be added in the future A membership drive Is planned for June Coun Harry Levy said the slope of the land made it impossible for Industry and felt this was the best use Were getting for a piece of land whicTi noone can use he added Deputy reeve Ernie Sykes asked if the land would be of Interest to the Credit Valley Conser vation Authority Coun Levy pointed out the Authority would be advised before any definite decision was made He said land was well above the floodplalnlevel Thercmalningacreln the same parcel of land he only part termed usable for Industry by the Industrial Commission was approved for sale to Ross Linton who plans to build an aluminum extrusion plant ONE YEAR AGO Cloudy skies and spots of rain Monday developed Into thick and heavy fog spoiling the special fireworks display that is highlight of the annual Bang-o- rama Trie fog came rolling in or the celling dropped on us Optimist club president Bruce Tolten said About seven ground shots went off well but the aerial fireworks were lost in the thick blanket of fog managing only to give the sky a colorful glow as they exploded Mr Totten blamed the dampness for keeping a lot of the smoke from the fireworks In the air Sponsored by the Georgetown Optimist Club offered Hills residents a variety of entertain ment at the Georgetown Fairgrounds An estimated people turned up to take port in the events a drop from the estimated 12000 Mr said the gloomy weather kept some people POETS CORNER Spring green grass lying In the sun a peptide exchanged for nickel and dime flowers full of Dectar animal days of raccoons and boon bicycle riding lota of fan running ahead of the wind pushing kites Into the sky I hope spring lasts forever MISS YOU I really yon Not because youre not here or that Im alone though hat may help It seemi as if I part of me far away even you for sore whats missing Maybe my heart By Marlowe C Dickson