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Local Moms are noticed on Mothers Day Page 22 Soccer l kick off 89 season in Georgetown In Business For Business GSS OFFICE SUPPLIES Secretarial Services 348 ST 8772282 Main St N ACTON RELEASING FREE DISTRIBUTION WEDNESDAY MAY 17th 1989 lfi PACES Follow the bouncing ball Arch rivals from Georgetown District High School and Acton High School met last week to play to a 44 tie These midget rugby players plowed through rain- soaked fields and found it hard to get a handle on the ball Acton will host the MM Robinson Rams tomor row Thursday while Georgetown wilt visit White Oaks More rugger action will take place next week when the playoffs begin If the nice weather holds next weeks teams will play on dry ground Herald photo by Paul Svoboda Man charged in traffic death of local worker for handicapped A Niagara Falls man 33 has been charged in connection with the Hornby collision last week that took the life of a 48yearold woman who worked with toe han dicapped in Georgetown Margaret McCandless from Milton was a director with the North Association for the Handicapped on Park Avenue in Georgetown She was pronounced dead at Sun- nybrook Hospital on the after noon of May hours after her car collided with a truck and then a light standard at Avenue and the James Snow Parkway Regional Police say the cause of the accident is connected with faulty brakes in the 1978 Ford Crane boom truck that struck the Plymouth driven by Mrs McCandless The truck proceeded through the intersec tion where Mrs vehicle had the right of way say police- Police Have charged the trucks driver with criminal negligence causing death He will appear in Milton Provincial Court June Freeze new business in residents By DONNA KELL Herald Staff Norval residents appeared at Halton Hills town chambers Mon day night to ask for a freeze on grants in their hamlet Speaking on behalf of several area residents Joan Carter said there should be a hold on develop ment for the southeast Halton Hills community until town planning staff produces a secondary plan for development We dont want to fight anymore said Mrs Carter She said that business in the Highway Churchill Boulevard area is squeezing out residents whose homes are located beside them Just because its on Highway number 7 it seems to be fair game for someone whos got a buck to buy residential property The residents want to preserve their semirural setting but there are taverns large religious clubs and too many automotive businesses in town said Mrs Carter We have three shops Now no small hamlet needs three of them Norval has also been the victim of increased traffic said Mrs Carter She said there is con siderable potential for accidents and fatalities in the hamlet Since Highway ramp was opened at Winston Churchill Boulevard traffic has greatly in creased Mrs Carter safd This was confirmed by town- engineer Bob Austin who said there is less traffic on Trafalgar Road travelling in and out of Georgetown Mountainview Road traffic has increased said Mr Austin But although Mrs Carter and those she represents want a freeze on growth until a plan is in place town planner Ian Keith said this may not be possible You can say we have a moratorium on rezoning applica tions but the rights of the ap plication are enshrined in the law Any application that is turned down can be appealed to the Ontario Municipal Board he said Coun Joe Hewitt said there is a chance that lots on Highway 7 could be designated as Highway commercial But town planning staff said a secondary plan for will be completed and ready to show town council by next week is the only hamlet in Halton Hills without its own plan said Mr Keith P G Bell workers reject second offer Unionized PG Bell workers now on day 31 of their strike in Georgetown rejected the com panys second offer at a vote held Sunday The company came back with a position identical to its last offer said Brian Short business representative of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers IAM The membership rejected that offer by a 75percent margin he said Striking workers at the Armstrong Avenue steel plant a division of Steel Fabricating Company want a pen sion agreement that would allow those over aged to collect a pen sion when they retire They also want to remove a mandatory over time clause from their contract agreement This is We live in a world Nobody will work longer than hours unless they want to said Mr Short Before and PG Bell representatives met through a mediator last week Mr Short said overtime could not be discussed through a third party The union fears the company could use man datory overtime to increase pro duction levels lost during the strike The union says the company reshuffled an original offer made to the over SO striking workers A fivepercent increase first men tioned in the original contract offer was changed to give an average acrosstbetable increase The original increase was larger for lower income earners smaller for larger income earners said Mr Short Presently the starting rate for an employee is an hour Bell vice president of opera tions Paul confirmed that there were no changes in the conuM second offer He said rtfer war