Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), August 29, 1984, p. 1

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In ABOUT THE HILLS Falls off truck A teenager Is in sal is factory condition at Milton District Hospital a tier suffer injuries to the head when he apparently fell from a pick up truck IrovUting at an estimated kilometers per hour The 19 year old resident was one of two passengers riding In the rear box of a 1981 Ford pick up truck Sunday morning at approximately 3 a The vehicle was travelling northbound on the Nossagoweya Town Line approaching the 15 west of Acton when the Incident occurred The driver of the pick up a year old resident has been charged with falling to report an accident after police were Informed eight and a half hours after the fact House robbed An estimated in goods were reported stolen in a break and enter sometime over last Thursday nlghl The goods Including stereo equipment fishing tackle a television and a pair of binoculars were taken from a residence on the Erin Hal ton boundary line The front door of the house had been forced to gain entry per cent drop Elementary school enrolments in the north end of the region arc expected to be next Wednesday as schools open Across the region school officials arc expecting enrolments to be down by elements ry school pupils a drop of two per cent In terms of secondary school enrolments hey re expected to be down three per cent across the region or 567 pupils In the north enrolments in the high schools are expected to be However it expected enrolments will Increase In September as pupils who miss opening day Sept return to school In the past enrolments have gone up onehalf of one per cent for elementary school pupils and three and onehalf per cent for secondary school students by Sept The official date recognized by Ministry of Education for enrolments is Sept Grants to school boards are based on enrolments Travel agency affiliation In a joint statement Rick Bonne ttc President or Acton Travel and Steve Hawkins vicepresident of the Hide House have announced that the two companies are now affiliated Acton Travel remains a separate company and will continue to operate from lis Mill St location with Rick as President and Elaine as Manager The affiliation was undertaken as a means of pursuing marketing and development programs and to better service for customers of both companies Crawford open house A barkcovered Iroquois again dominates the hill rising above Crawford Lake on the Niagara Escarpment more than five full centuries after the Indians who once lived in the area moved to a new site The Region Conservation on which raised the money to rebuild the longhouse still needs about 180 to complete the fund raising campaign Everyone Is invited to attend Hie official opening ceremonies of the Indian Village and Conservation Centre Sept at 3 p The opening festivities will Include two days of free exhibitions and entertainment Sept a and For more information cull cob capers Mounts berg Wildlife Centra is featuring a fall program called Corn Cob Capers Each weekend from 10 a m until there will be a variety of programs and exhibitions such as apple elder demonstrations fresh com for sale along with pancakes and beverages You can view a corn mule her that settlers to Canada once used and participate in horse drawn wagon rides Each Sunday afternoon there Is an program on an outdoor platform for the kids For more Information call Sports CI Meet the principal Centennial new principal Al Zanatta is a familiar face to many in north He was the vice principal at both M Bennett in Ac ton and Stewarttown Public School See page A3 News Halton police Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1866 WEDNESDAY AUGUST 29 1984 Lawyer will challenge loitering charges lij lit HI IN Herald Staff Is Untiring problem brought into the I iron Sun In dim for tin sit mil time this week Tin first in was tin Using of Hit Acton trie Prtss inntitii win have received tickets for loikrmj in the down town core of Alton art joininf forces they met it the Public and invited police lo join them Sirge Lurry lion Sgt Rod Gal braith mil unstable Susan did two and Const the belt iired by res dint the meet included a Ill onto lawyer Bicker toll of Bicker ton Kim who Is four of those with loitering Another eight indical at the meeting that they also hope to get represent it ion from Mr i eke rt on Thire arc claims of and bunt made against police Mr clients hive been not to discuss the POLITICAL BAGMEJN councillor Hois left and regional chairman Pete for their apple sauce eating race Saturday at Acton More pictures on page AS Herald photo by Seniors heading back to school Herald Senior citizens will be Ruing to school in the fill but they won be the diss Instead trunks to a p lot project by the Regional Council mors mil the idlers or llolj Cross Sep ink School The for the pro grim Is have seniors shire their talents with young students Topics might be taught by seniors would include story telling crafts experience and ham r flit project will pro In October at Holy Cross which was chosen because they hive all eight grades said Ma run ret who is helping lo urdinite the effort Tlic teacher mat Holy Cross is Barnes The project could expand into other and at other schools depending on the from sent said Mrs The pilot project is looking for seniors to program ire hoping the idea will be a helpful step in further integnt seniors Into the community while also enriching the curncul the schools In a press release other benefits were out The older members of i community carry the and cut values which can give sense of belong ing to young people for the program anil there application form able for those interest To obtain cation call The organizers of the Gas bar robbery A white male wearing a hard plastic clown mask and carrying a small possibly automatic handgun ran Into the Gain Gas Bar office on Street in Georgetown and made off with an estimated Saturday Aug at approximately pm He appeared from a light blue older model Honda Civic which was drven by another suspect who was also a white male No further description of the driver is available but the gunman is believed to be about six foot tali 230 pounds and wearing length straight brown hair He was wearing a light blue and blue jeans at the time of the robbery The Honda Civic had no primer or noticeable rust on its body and Halton regional police have alerted other police agencies in the province to the lookout incidents until he meets them Sept 9 We vc never had complaints of that nature Inspect or Malt MncPherson responsible far the Acton Georgetown and Milton detachments told The lie said police haven received complaints about police brutality from Acton residents I sure the majority of people a l that meeting bat unlay are aware of the procedure to complain if they feci they re not being treated properly by police Inspector If anybody cures come down and discusi their complaints with police Inspector ties witling lo Myself I here MitPhcrson said And attend any the ir and Mill Streets Polite ion keep a recur 1 of how many tickets re handed out id said re like speeding parking lie if the tickets are tickets issued old Inspector said The m ljority of those 1 with loitering arc between 16 and years Halton riding Candidates peace Herald Staff The small crowd out Friday night for the alt candidates meeting at Acton High School seemed to be predominantly Conservative Several times the federal PC candidate for the riding Otto received applause Green Party candid ate Chris Kowalchuk also scored high wiiui the appreciation of his audience for his sincerity and honesty in the political game that often lacks both The meeting by the Acton Chamb er of Commerce was tightly paced and attended by about local residents Why should we trust you now when you sold us down the river for so many years Liberal candidate Currie was would be bowing here for three hours iff wan to take rcsponslblll ty Tor the positive as well as the negative Mrs Currie replied ATTACKED Mr was attacked by a gentle man who questioned the candidate s sincerity when he talked about global peace The speaker asked why the incumbent hadn t shown respect Tor a visiting dignitary Tram Korea who had recently been a guest in the House of Commons Mr Jelinek had remained seated while his fellow MPs had risen for the Is this the politics of peace or of confronts Hon the resident demanded I showed my respect by going into the House of Commons Mr Jell nek said For someone who has no respect for human rights I showed would not be the hypocrite to the chamber and applaud Mr Jelinek a family came from communist Czechoslovakia Nuclear disarmament was an Issue on which all Iho candidates was asked I see Canada as the peace maker of the world Mrs Currie said And think the world sees Canada as a peace maker We re in the position to bring them to the bargaining table candidate Kevin said his party also sees Canada as a mediator in world affairs However he said that traditional Image of Canada has become tarnished The supports a nude j r weapons freeze it the United Nations wants to refuse to test the cruise missile in this country or produce parts for nuclear weapons Mr said his parly also wants Cmadi to be a nuclear free zone PC candidate Otto Jelinek wouldn go that far in his stand on nuclear weapons Mr Jelinek his party is after balanced and mutually verifiable meaning Canada won i the of hiring nits on side well the Const would cut iihtrtising and reduce the number of civil irits throne attrition mid be privatized and would in respon si bit the the land Mr sud Mr Flynn advised his audience to look at the uric provinces mint by 1 I Hip ordinary Mi son is a sicrtcl cow to its and should be rt ilid with respect Mr If money is bun put into the economy and is iliiif job consider I think it wiste fill If is the If it not It the country I don see it as waste KEVIN reduce Its arms under a PC government unless the docs also Green Party candid ate Chris said the nuclear threat Something has to be done and a nuclear freeze is just the first step Mr Kowalchuk said You can argue for years who has more weapons Another member of the audience remarked on the yearly report from the Auditor General thai shows the tremendous waste in the government What would your party do about this awful waste in our federal system the speaker wanted to know the NDP have formed Mrs governments that arc ere ilingjobs I don stingy in their itnswiste Rash of car vandals Hilton regional police report a of willful damage incidents occur the week Sum d truck belonging to Electric hud number of wires ripped out ram lane ith the dashboard while parked it Al Custom its is dome some electric work On a 1384 Escort hid in estimated in done to it when It as stratified on River Street in George Another estimated in d 1 mn occurred to a 1 hid eggs brown it it and paint itched last Thursday while it was irked on vird in Georgetown On he evening estimated in dim were delivered to i Volkswagen when it hid its left rear sin at the Georgetown Market parking lot Last i 1377 I into 1 11 had its window smashed resulting in an estimated in damages JOURNEY INTO YESTERDAY hone enthusiasts hopped aboard their favorite four legged creature and Joined the Journey Into Yesterday parade through Saturday afternoon The parade wound its way to arm where there were demon I Ions by equestrians

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