Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), October 5, 1983, p. 1

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Our Good Earth depicts changing seasons ByJOHNSOMMER Herald Special The Hills Library and Cultural Centre Wonted on art exhibition to celebrate Thanksgiving and nt the same time thcannl versa of the opening of the centre Eventually was de cided to have Our Good Herald sponsors special contest The Herald is sponsoring a double your money contest starting this week and continuing until January 1984 The Grand Prize winner will receive a shopping spree worth but the money can be doubled to by presenting a sales slip from one of participating merchants An entry coupon will appear each week in the special For further details see page A All rough history we our cnvl ronment and the lias shaped us are not able to live without nature In our pride we sometimes forget that Thanks nig Is a fitting time to remember The exhibition con of 35 artworks by Canadian artists By walking through the exhibition ma clock wise rccllon the view will encounter the seasons the year In landscapes or In depictions of man In his natural environ ment or as flowers and fruits or as abstract forms derived from all these The artworks In the exhibition have been loaned from the eollec of Hills Public Libraries private collections In Georgetown artists directly and from Gallery House Sol About hair of the 35 works wilt be for sale The collection of the Hills Public Libraries Is small but distinguished Before regional government the library board mode the decision to use a monetary plus to buy artworks for the library After a long and consider a tlon five pictures and four pieces of Eskimo sculpture were from commercial galleries in Toronto for an outlay of under The estimated market value of these works today is In the neigh of 10 Pour of tho pictures from the library will be part of the exhibit They are Blue Moose by John Boyle Summer on Braggs Island by David Blackwood Bobsled by Ken Danby and Pears and Plums by Prances Johnston Also In the show will be painting by Mnrjoric titled High Summer which was given to the library by friends of the artist at the time of her retlre- following living local artists are Frank Black GretchcnDay Reginald Vallery Mokrytikl and Jo Wa Hereon The exhibition is off opened at an reception by Reverend Peter Barrow Thurs day Oct from to 9 Admission is free 5213- FOBERT Real Estate Inc the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 18bb WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 5 1983 rank Black seen above Is one of the local artists to be featured In the Cultural Centre Tall art exhibit entitled Our Good Earth Harold file photo MUDSLIDE RIDE Pictured here Is one event In a Mud recently sponsored by the Creek Alliance Church Georgetown Alliance was represented In this event by far right and Smith far trill The day an excellent success with many church youth groups In attendance I- or any Oscar The Grouches oat there who missed II there a next Photo submitted EAAC member says Peace Camp problems suggest study needed By CHRIS Herald Staff Writer It alike trying to pin jelly to a wall That s how Allan Johnson a Georgetown member of the region s environmental and ecological advisory commltleefEAAC cribed reviewing the International Peace Camp recreation centre proposal It was Mr Johnson who pressed last Wednesday night into ordering an Environ mental Impact Assess ment on the Peace Camp rented land near Speyaide The Involved study Is needed Mr Johnson suggested in his pre sentation to the commit tee because or lingering concerns about how a recreation centre will a nearby sensitive area committee chairman Bob son cautioned Mr John environmental and ecological concerns about the Peace Camp project Mr Johnson argued that the commit tec should know more the people we re dealing with CORPORATE He presented the committee with cop of notices of incorpo ration for the Interna Peace Camp Inc tlPC formed in March 1983 and Ontario Ltd the numbered company to which the Peace Camp pays a month In rent for the land The numbered com role was men tloned at an Aug Hills council meeting The documents list the officers and tors of both companies There appear to be six directors of Internal anal Peace Camp of which three are also officers Alberto Chuna the prcst at Santa Cruz Roman Catholic Church in Toronto Is listed as president Her Inaclo as secre tary and Manuel as treasurer When he appeared to answer questions about the peace camp Mr Alvcs sold he had been a director for only a few days The officers and directors for the num company formed in April are Maria and Ms Oiivcin address the documents show Is the same as Mr the secretary of IPC Ms Sllva address on the numbered company document appears to be the same as Victor Am oral a director of the Peace Camp Antuncs a Peace Camp director also appears to I same address as ran Medelros the treasurer of Ontario Ltd The Peace Camp pro posal has been describ ed as a church re treat but Mr Johnson said he called the Roman Catholic Arch diocese in Toronto and was told by a Father Lombard that the Peace Camp has no affiliation with the Archdiocese CONCERNED Mr Johnson said he concerned that the Peace Camp may be a commercial operation and not just a religious retreat He told the commit tee that he toured the area around the proper ty and could see signs continuing development last week The Peace Camp has been asked to stop by tho NEC until proper permits are Peace Camp re- Continued on page A7 Practicality the key for Haltons dome bid By CHRIS Herald Writer Logically there no contest So Mayor Harry Barrett boasted at a press conference last Wednesday after presenting dome stadium proposal and thumbing his nose at Toronto proposed redevelopment of Stadium We might have a problem with tho politi cal end of it heconced but politics should take a back seat to practicality With council s seal of approval the dome dlum report was dis patched post haste to thcMacauley Com miss ion s offices in Toronto Led by former Ontario Hydro chairman Hugh Mocauley the Com mis is reviewing propo sals for the province fint dome stadium in Land covered with asphalt All but one regional has been covered with dome stadium remarked at the ease proposal presented to with which council was council last week willing to accept the Milton Bill Johnson proposal when It has representing two large- balked at simple land rural Wards snubbed severance proposals in the proposal because the north the stadium complex oakville Coun Keith would be built on prime maintained agricultural land that has little Therearelotsofother of getting the places where the region the poll could put a stadium power which Coun Johnson told The metropolitan Toronto Herald Friday but instead the plan suggests productive Howover he said farmland be covered Halton has gained some with asphalt and con valuable publicity by the dome Insouthcmsectionsof ve had a little the region he added fun if nothing else prime agricultural land commented St Josephs in Acton ransacked by youths The rectory Actons St Joseph Roman Catholic Church was broken Into by a year old youth of no fixed address Sept The young man and a partner entered the real dencc In the afternoon by breaking a gloss panel In the side door Once inside they ran sacked It and put aside several items to be removed regional police said The two were found when Father Ralph and a friend returned to the rectory The second man caped and a warrant has been issued for a 17 year old man Along with a charge of break and enter tho first youth was also charged with possession of stolen property regional police discovered a quantity Valium on him taken in a break in at the Medical Centre over night Sept which both the previa and federal govern ments have Indicated strong financial support STRADDLES BORDER Under Mayor Barrett description and backed by a staff report the Toronto pro posal pales in to the emerald of provincial sports the region envisions The general site for dome straddles tht Peel border and is on the Milton boundary It the provincial government highway plans materialize the site will be serviced by Highways and pro posed Highway 407 a north south super route which will link Highway to the north with Queen Elizabeth Way to the south In addition the site Is on the path of a pro posed GOALRT rapid transit line Transportation Mr Barrett said Is undis puted a big factor in the Macauley Commis sion review Ideally he said fans should be able to leave after the game within an hour and Mayor Barrett doubted that that would bo passible at the Ex Ever since It was proposed that Halton should join the stadium race councillors have stressed he project should not be funded by local taxpayers and that it would have to be paid for by senior level fede ral and provincial funds Last weeks special council meeting was not the first indication the public has had of what proposal entails Provincial transports it and communications minister James Snow recently unveiled an artist conception a dome stadium com plctely serviced with GO and adjacent highspeed highways As explained by Dave McCleary the regional planner largely credited wilh getting Halton proposal so swiftly off football clubs expressed Interest in the Halton stadium They stressed that any stadium wouid have to be completed and ready within seven lo to be Mr Barrett said Six candidates in byelection THERE ARE SIX candidates running In Eiqueslng by election This week Robert Jim France and Tony Taylor Joined Dolly Pete Norton and Jake Kuiken who announced their candidacies earlier Nominations closed Monday and the voting day Is Oct An advance be held Oct IS at the Trafalgar Road clerk office More details page A3 ttlipf SHOOTIN IRONS Everybody plays by the rules when Mammy Vokum is officiating Mammy alias Inet overlooked the Closing nay celebrations at the North Golf and Club on Saturday Some brought five from some brought nine Irons Mammy brought shoetin iron More photos page Herald photo by Gerry Timbers JUMPIN JACK FLASH The Rolling Stones clones are ready rock the John Theatre en Amateur night Oct 13 The phony rockers are left to right Pat Tunney Ron Woods Richard DaveTunney Jagger Craig Berotsik Billy Not pictured here but very much a part of the band was Ken Charlie Watts Same tickets are still available Tor the second annual Amateur Night Herald photo by Gerry Timbers Cash stolen A Penthouse magazine and a small quantity of cash were taken from the Goodyear Store on Guclph Street overnight lost Wednesday regional police have charged a year old Crescent man with break enter The glass panel of a bay door was broken by the man A court date of Oct 17 has been set Pipeband prizewinner A Toronto man was the winner of a video set recorder ruffled off Saturday night by the Georgetown Girts Pipe Band Bernard MacEachern won the prize In the Pay what you pull draw Approximately was raised through the draw and will go toward a trip to Scotland by pipers Support for the raffle was appreciated by the girls Lawyer disbarred A Hills lawyer was disbarred by the discipline committee of the Law Society of Upper Canada recently Jack Kenneth Martin of the Brampton firm Richardson and Martin on Queen Street was disbarred after being found guilty of professional misconduct for misappropriating about in trust funds A 23year old Burlington man has been robbery this year two of which were In Georgetown The man was charged with the theft of BOO In the armed robbery April IS at the Guelph Street Pronto Gas Bar In Georgetown He a also charged with the robbery of from the Beaver Gas Bar also on Georgetown s Guelph Street that robbery took Sept 17 The investigation by Halton regional police resulted in eight other armed robberies being cleared In Peel and Hamilton Discount questioned Georgetown Harry Levy took another swipe at Union Gas customer service Monday Levy authored a resolution asking Union Gas la broaden Its per cent discount on service calls to homes of senior citizens The discount he said should also Include the price gas Last week Coun Levy criticized Union Gas proprosal to raise gas rates and his suggestion that seniors get cut rate gas was endorsed by council to be passed on the Association of Municipalities of Ontario Shoppers beware regional police ore warning shoppers to keep a close grip on their wallets A woman shopping for groceries at the Georgetown Miracle Food Mart was robbed of her wallet Police said the wallet hod been In a purse In a shopping cart Identification and cash were stolen Features Since the Juvenile diversion program began In January young people were spared criminal records PageAlO Entertainment Some tickets still available tor Cultural Centre anniversary event The burns off laughter early in a bid to get down to serious business Page Sports The skill development program It Into Its second year now For the details seepage Section Astro Advice lends her expertise to readers II Private Property Week In Halloa Hills Real and pages CI C

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