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877 5213- Real Estate lIERi3LLD rijumi- Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1866 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 28 10 pm youth curfew enforced Police crackdown to cut vandalism Herald Staff Writer Do you know where your children are If it after and you don I you may be facing a maximum fine In an effort to cut down on vandalism in Hills police are Inl a program in which any child under 16 found loitering place not nied by a parent or a Kuiken joins election race JAKE KUIKEN Furniture and entrepreneur Jake ken announced this week that he running ng set for Oct Mr Ku ken was a date along with Norton and Tom in November for local s position representing Esques on Halton lis Council Mr iim who passed away recently won the No vember election with Mr running a close second The owner of Hills Furniture and Appliances In Acton Mr Kuiken has been a res dent of the area for about years He told The Herald Monday that he has reservations about the town movement to get a new municipal centre also concerned about no so problems at the Croatian and Cana d centres and opposes the International Peace Camp proposal to develop a recreational centre near Response awaited The fate of a council building committee remains in limbo as the town awaits word on whether Is offer for the Stevens Estate has been accepted Mayor Pete told The Herald that some news on the offer is expected the next couple of weeks One of the principals in the negotiations Is currently out of he country The building committee was created last year when town began to seriously cons der sites for a proposed municipal centre Wh lc there are no immediate plans to build the town two weeks ago made a formal offer to purchase the Stevens property located on Maple Avenue near the Trafalgar Road intersec Anniversary bash Some tickets are still available for the second annual Amateur Night You can look forward to another action packed evening of fine local talent Some returning performers are May Swans ton Jean Cairns Jill Frances Dave Inglls Hamilton The and Show Ralph and the Discover for yourself what talent lies in H lis by coming out Thursday Oct p to the John Elliott Theatre Advance tickets are available at per adult and SI per student or senior citizen Council time change There 11 be different hours for council meetings In the future The town general committee agreed with Coun John McDonald Monday night and changed its staggered hours format for general committee and 30 for council Now of whether Its a committee or council week meetings will begin at McDonald said he canvassed members of council staff and reporters before malting Ihe suggestion and reported the response to Ihe m starting time was favorable Uniform hours he added will end some of the confus on the public has about when meetings each week are to begin Dance school chance A Georgetown youth was one of the S new students selected out of a total individuals who auditioned for the National Ballet School Alexander Oldaker 13 will be enrolled In the Torontobased program which combines professional ballet training with an enriched education for youths in grade 5 to grade 12 The new students bring total enrollment In all programs at the school to Its highest Family Bullae higher profile la Sports Aerobics I Section Real estate and class Hied person appointed by their parent after 10 p and before Gam will be picked up by police and taken imme diately home We want the parents to know they have some responsibility to know where their kids are and what they re doing crime prevention Serge ant Rick said Thursday at a press con in Georgetown There are Just too many kids hanging around A statistical analysis by two students this summer as part of the federal solicitor gener al work experience program showed per cent of all damage occurred after 10 p by juveniles between and 16 years of age Reported damage In Hills and Milton during first half of 10S3 amounted to support We antic pate we II get a lot of support from We re no looking at kids on their way home from a movie at 10 p with their friend Hills crime pre vention officer Bob added BOREDOM Boredom and peer pressure are two of the malnreasonsforvanda lism Const said Removing the opportunity for a group of bored juveniles to stand around thinking up dares for each other is part of the pilot project Intention If the project turns out to be effective in the north it may be imple mented In the rest of the region Sgt said Another aspect of the vandalism project Is educating the young people about the un necessary cost of damage Safety Officer Rod Beaumont will be visit children In Grades 3 and and talking JUVENILE DELINQUENCY A report page A 5 SUNDAY BEST FOR SATURDAY PARADE For Acton Salvationist Saturday was especially and Heft to right Trevor Mnnh Sheldon and Roy Important Between and people took part In a parade to ensure they look llieir Sunday best commemorate the official opening of the Salvation Army ClUdel on MUI Street Some grooming was la order More teachers added to payroll as school enrollment climbs parents said 1 sure a lot of them would 1 ke to Bee their kids home early Some parents don care but they re very Having a curfew will be seen as a big relief for parents who want early it will help settle a lot of arguments Sgt chuckled Enforcing the seven days a week curfew Is seen as a first step toward cutting down on vandalism n town According to provl of the Child Wei fare Act the parents can and may be charged if iheir children are Kicked up loitering nd a school or a If the parents t home when a child Is picked up police have the authority take him to a relative or any other place of safety which may well be the police station It doesn mean we re going to be auto matically grabbing every kid and taking him home Sgt said It s selective enforcement to them about vandal Ism In Ihe Georgetown and Acton high schools Const will be approaching the Grade students He II be teaching the high school students how to deal with peer pressure what causes it and promoting class discussions on it As well hell address the issue of boredom and how to deal with It There are peak levels when vandalism rises alarmingly and we plan to go into the schools at those times as a reminder to these kids Const said Herald Staff Writer The Grade problem at Centennial Public School was solved Thursday night by Halt on board of education trustees who voted unanimously to hire five more elementary teach ers and half time para professionals One of the teachers will help reduce class lies from pupils down to the guideline of 31 at Centennial The rest will reduce class sixes at schools In south The cost of the add tional staffing has been estimated at a quarter of a million dollars Broken down It means 000 and in salaries and benefits for teachers The request for more teachers was made by board administrators Sept IS when student enrollments were found to be higher at school than had been anticipated As a result of the September enrollments additional staff were added to seven schools Including Glen Williams and M Bennett schools In Halton Hills At Sept ISs special board meeting Burl ng ton trustee Cam Jack son had asked admin I stralors for alternatives to meeting the staffing need which would not Increase board spend Having done his homework dent of employee ser vices told trustees Thursday night that he had explored suggestions made by Mr Jackson and saw no other alternatives In the situation than the hiring of additional staff By not spending this money then we would live with the problems as they currently exist he told trustees Mr Jackson had ask whether altering the teaching time of vice- principals could make a difference in the number of new staff to be hired Mr Rae said that it was a Question being examined for the future by the staffing group of the salary policy Its a question that has long range impli cations Hopefully sometime this year we 11 be coming back to the board on this be said If we did alter by ten per cent the teach time of our vice principals the effect is two and a half teach era However how do you collect that two and a half teachers from viceprincipals by alter their schedules Mr called it com pi led and not a change that could be made As for putting some of the board s consultants and back Into the classroom Mr recalled that It was only a week ago that board approved a number of such appointments second look at it when It had been dealt with as recently as that meet he said Asking the Halton Elementary Teachers Assoc to reopen the collective agreements on staff allocation was not with in his job specification and the board would require a motion if they wanted Mr to approach he said Lost plans cost builder Had docu ments not been missing a Georgetown man would not have paid about to prepare two lots on the Sargent Road extension in Georgetown for water and sewer servicing BUI Richmond dilemma with the wo properties has left regional officials red faced although he told town council Monday night that as civil engineer himself for Misslssauga he under stands how problems can arise Acknowledging the region b move last month Hills general committee agreed to waive proper ty levies on the two Iota to help compensate Mr Richmond for a bureau foul up The region t find documents to say that the two lots owned by Mr pari of the extensive Delrex subdivision development of 1930s and lBWawere already serviced Butas he began to dig and move up the extension he came upon water and sewer mains servicing the two lots nothing Mr told Ihe general committee All servic es were already Install ed by the Deve lopment company Town clerk adminlst Ken Richardson commented to- the committee that Mr Richmond s problem may not be an isolated case of records being turned over to the on and then lost Halton assumed the town responsibilities for and supply when region was formed In 1973 Last month regional council agreed waive the lot levy it would have received for each property In addition council paid Mr Richmond after he signed a waiver promising not o sue For single family real dential development the towns lot levy per property Is Mr Richmond said that the HO reflect other costs with doing the unnecessary work such as his own lime on the job work of a consulting engineer and repairs he made to existing vices while digging in the area In spite of his pro blem Mr Richmond praised region and town staff as well as the two councils for helping reach a solution Union Gas office stays Union Gas has no Imminent plans to shut down its Main Street Georgetown office Ihe company s regional manager told The Herald Tuesday morn The rumored closure plant were raised at Monday night general com ml lee meeting Mayor Pete said he had heard the utility wanted to move Its customer service office from Georgetown to Milton That news to me Union Gas Bob Seymour said adding that the company is looking at its Halton Hills locations possibly combining the Main Street offices with those of a Union Gbb building on Armstrong Avenue In fact he said one fine where they are on Main Street Mayor suggested lhat council stress the Importance of keeping the Main Street office open to Union Gas Meanwhile Union Gas a proposal for a rate Increase before the Ontario Energy Board was coldly received by committee members The committee will voice its opposition through the Association of Municipalities or Ontario the proposed Increase of a year for Ihe average house hold customer which Union maintains has an annual gas bill of about The increase is more like per cent and not per cent Union Gas quotes Coun Harry Levy said because of an earlier reduction In the price of natural gas at the wellhead He said he also accept Union s argument it faces higher costs due to lion and changing of accounting systems Coun Levy added that gas users to pay for union s cor porate decision to buy Petrosar Firm underlines recycling gains special plant which burns waste gener ale energy Re sources markets project In Burlington Aldershot area The project began In January 1982 and close to SO per cent of Alder By CHRIS Herald Staff Writer Gwen Discepolo wants to keep from getting down In the As operations manag for Recycled Resources Ltd she telling Just about any body who listen that there a lot of good going waste in the thousands of green trash bags which dot curbs ides every day If people raised their noses and scoffed at the recycling Idea when the Burlington company Gwen Is operation manager for Italian Recycled Reooorcea Ltd a firm which saves Items from household and Industrial trash She was at he Mountstwrg Wildlife Centre near Mlllon Sunday lo answer questions visitors had about recycling trash was formed in Mrs Discepolo and her husband partner George are warmly re ceived these days when they have something to nay to area CRISIS Is In the midst of garbage crisis a hangover from the region earliest days when it assumed responsibility from area municipalities for garbage disposal dually its landfill sites have filled up and shut down and is left with one in due to close next summer Halton is carrying out an expensive study o find a new landfill Bile but paralleling that Is research into how the region can cut down by as much as per cent amount of trash which is being burled One solution that being considered Is a for newsprint glass and products which lend to moke up bulk of household rash Highly publicized garbage crisis has created an acute awareness of source separation to lessen the impact on the landfill site Mrs Discepolo said Source lion means sifting out reusable trash right in the home or work place Mrs Discepolo spent Sunday afternoon talk Ing to visitors at the Wildlife Centre west of Milton where her firm set up a d splay PILOT PROJECT In and Bur ed Resources picks up newsprint left at the curbs Ida on garbage days In addition it is re sponsible for collecting newsprint glass and cans as pari of a pilot shot residents Mrs said are regularly taking part Aldershot also happens to be close to the region s only vernal landfill site Along with other west Burlington ratepayers homeowners are upset with the region proposal to expand landfill site handle waste until Halton 20year waste disposal program Is In place That may not be until 1968 Hills hat Its own Divide and Con quer program which has operated since On regular garbage days in the Acton and Georgetown urban areas municipal trucks coHeofriewsprlnt glass s Resources Recovery Ltd markets the newsprint for the town It to the Continued on page M