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m nappy tiouDdys CLEANERS LAUNDROMAT Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1 866 TUESDAY DECEMBER 1985 J oldT OPEN SUNDAYS SI It tin- THE HILLS Loyally rewarded If you stick it out for over years with the town youll earn yourself money or a gift to the value of That s the employee retire ment policy approved last week by town councillors For town staff whove worked for Hills to years retire ment earns them a gift or cash to the value of Trie payment of cash or a gift worth that much comes alter IS lo years of dedicated service and after 10 to 14 years service For those with the town only five to nine years thty get payment or a gift worth with their retirement goodbye Christmas Capers There are still tickets available for Dec performance of The Great Canadian Christmas Caper Show time is at pm Tickets are and are available at either Recreation Office or the Cultural Centre Call ext for more information Munch to movies Boys and girls of all ages are invited to bring their lunch and Munch to the Movies at Hills Public Librories Georgetown and Acton Jan 12 1 Admission is free and no registration is required For further information call the Georgetown Library at 8772681 or the Acton Library at Our mistake In The Heralds Dec edition there was an error in a story about food hampers at Christmas The page one article incorrectly reported the Salvation Army do not accept food or toys at Christmas only money The Salvation Army do accept food and toys at Christmas and throughout the year The Herald egrets the error Firefighter captain On the recommendation of the Ballon Hills fire chief Larry Brassard I long time volunteer firefighter has appointed captain Costly to clean The most expensive town build In terms of cleaning costs is the Hills Library and Cultural Centre According to the janitorial Contract signed by council Monday night cleaning the Centre costs 180 annually Next most expensive is cleaning the clerks building on Trafalgar Road which costs to clean a year The treasury building on Main Street costs to clean and the Acton Public Library costs 4488 Cleaning the Acton office and the engineering building each and the cheapest town building for cleaning is the recreation build- ling It costs annually Subdivision okay say Halton reps To the delight of the five Hills regional councillors the proposed plan of subdivision for Georgetown South got draft plan approval last Wednesday from the region This is really no dilfercnt from other developments Hills Mayor Miller said urging Oak vllle Milton and Burlington councillors lo support approval of the residential subdivision He stressed the Importance of such development for the town noting Its the first big development the town has had in the past 15 years It has taken a tang time and many meetings and negotiations for Halton Hills to get this far Hills Coun Marilyn Serjeantson said Our population has virtually remained the same for the past years but well now be able provide serviced industrial land The councillor said most people in town are looking forward to the new subdivision and want to know what kind of houses are going to be built because they re interested in moving there Hills Coun Sheldon said this development will be the catalyst needed by the towns econom ic environment She noted that without going through the droit approval process answers to public concerns wouldnt be available The councillor said this process no different from that of other subdivisions In other parts of the region Final approval of the development is conditional upon Enterac satisfying concerns specified by the town and approved by Halton region Despite the lengthy list of conditi that must be met by the developer Burlington Coun Walter said he wouldnt be voting draft plan approval the subdivision He said the subdivision issue will bo back before regional council during the three year term of the council and the staff report is very clear In Indicating its implications for the region Coun Mulkcwich said there are a great many unanswered questions in the areas of financing and water supply Preliminary water studies no certain water supply to support the development the councillor said He said he was concerned about approving the draft plan then facing the develop er two years down the road after a great deal of money hod been spent on looking Tor water I was pleased to hear references by councillors that oven if one conditi on of that great big long list cant be met the whole thing goes down the tube Coun Mulkewlch said Burlington Coun Pat McLaughlin saw nothing different in the financing of this subdivision from the financing of other subdivisions in the region He said the water supply for the first phase of the residential develop ment Is sufficient came to the second and third stage of development may be a different situation Its very important to Hills to have this development go ahead the councillor said Burlington Coun Joan Little wasn satisfied with the cost to the region of developing a sewage treat plant to handle the additional homes and the finding of water No ones forgotten They were at the Saltation Army Items of rood were quickly packed headquarters In Acton preparing gifts with quid efficiency by members of of food and toys for area families at the lakeside Chapter of the and Christmas Seen here are Betty allot Army helpers on Friday and Dot Norton Herald photo Pomeroy defends staff Whos the fairest KKVA Georgetown District High School Invaded Pine view Public School tail week perform two plays written acted by drama class After the show was over there was some exchanging of costumes Lisa Neil right shared her crown with a would be actress from Pine view Public School Herald photo The regional chairman was on the defensive last Wednesday when it came to the hours worked by his staff Im satisfied regional employees work Just as hard and Just as long as any other municipal employees Chairman Peter said during the council meeting He said the six and a half hour work days of employees ore no different from the hours worked by staff with the City or Burlington and municipal employees across Ontario Just because a staff report showed employees work from to with an hour off for lunch and two coffee breaks doesnt mean those are the only hours they work Chairman said defensively He said he felt badly remarks had been made In a committee meeting by other councillors criticizing regional It doesnt mean those are the only staff hours hours they work Chairman Pomeroy The chairman said about if had to pay wages for all middle management staff at the region the extra hours middle management were upset about reports in the press it about 600000 and which said regional staff only work that doesnt even include the depart- hours a week heads Donor organ is Carols yule gift A 12year old Acton girl walling for liver transplant received her Christmas early Carol Bridge received a new liver Friday at London Ontarios University Hospital Carol is recovering from the eight hour transplant operation and Is In critical but stable condition Her recovery Is going as expected hospital spokesman LeighAnne told The Herald She said the condition of anyone after such an operation critical for the first hours Soldiers dont get Christmas day off Herald is Christmas like for a soldier Bill Collier and Art Hull spent at war The Christmas they discovered In Europe was not filled with presents mistletoe and carolling Nor did the true meaning of Christmas that a savior had come to save the world give I them much comfort B1U Collier now lives on Normandy Boulevard in Georgetown and Art Hall on Byron Street They are members of the Royal Canadian Legion and still g talk about the war if they are asked K There ore a lot of stories and some of them are about Christmas pi Bill Collier was 30 when he joined Art Hall ended up with the Saskatoon Light Infantry at even though he was from rural Ontario Their first Christmos away from home in was spent In England Each man remembers that g- Christmas as a lonely one filled with homesickness They were In holding units waiting to be sent Into action Bill Collier was fortunate enough ft lohsvefriendsfromGeorgetowninlhe same regiment Art Hall was among new faces In the Saskatoon regiment Long term familiarity was not import ant the army soon became your family they said It was not the kind of family that gave presents Neither one can remember any exchanging of gifts The odd time you might get a pair of socks from the Red Cross and another year you might get a scarf Mr Collier recalled Art Hall never saw a pair of Red Cross socks everyone did not get them What you did get usually came from home and there was no guaran tees it would come at Christmas Walter Biehn ttho former owner of the Herald used to send over the Herald once a week The Acton Free Press used to come too Mr Collier said And only one time does one of them remember sending anything home Bill Collier belts while he was In the hospital in 1943 Those he sent to his sister for Christmas that year As presents were rare so too were calls home Art Hall was a wire operator and he recalls how one year a soldier called home at Christmas Only guy 1 can remember who called was Crosble He phoned home at Christmas when we were near Bright on He had the dough he said also called Bing was New foundland John Crosbles The only decorations in the army were those you earned There were no Christmas trees in England because the English were so strict about the woods and cutting It down Mr Collier said One thing the soldiers did get while in England was a good meal and a church service But by 1943 they were spending Christmas in facist Italy and there was no more of that Art Hall spent his first Italian Christmas in the battlefield of the city of The only girts you got were from the muzzle of a gun In Italy we never had church There was no use in it Why stand out and get shot he said One of Art Halls best friends did get killed Christmas In Bill Collier also lost two friends between Christmas and New Years In 1941 Georgetown men Reg Blair and George Latimer were killed Art Hall doesn remember the Christmas he spent in Florence War defeats the meaning of Christmas Soldiers didnt get Christmas day off Mr Hall sold They made sure we got our meal at noon Outside of that there was no let up in the fighting There were always the odd mortars to keep you on your toes he said shell Mr Collier said lam Collier said Bill Collier remembers one special married now with grandchildren Art Hall agreed a Christmas with Christmas the men made for themsel- Christmas means more now Mr peace is much more meaningful in Ravenna Italy Mr Collier and his comrades were not at the front They were a defense company design ed to protect the commanders In case the enemy broke through the lines it was this company Job to hold them up while the general got out he said Since late October before the Christmas of 1944 the men had been trading old clothing to the Italians for fowl mostly chickens and geese Everywhere they moved they loaded thcblrdsontoatruck When Christmas came the birds were killed and plucked We should have hired the locals to do it The Italians plucked them alive We ended up using pliers on a lot of them The novelty of the birds soon wore off he Bald After all the plucking and cooking ISO men sat down and filled themselves That was an unusual Christmas for Mr Collier Most or the time like Art Hall he was Just Interested In whether or not you would survive The Christmas message came at the end of the day when you knew you did God was never completely gone from their minds though There is an old saying There Is no atheist In They remember Christmas at war tort- Veterans of World War Bill Collier ma ln left and Art Hall shared some happy and Europe mm