Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), October 10, 1990, p. 1

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footnotes office supplies furhitur- UVING LIGHTING Guelph St Hwy Georgetown to ISIS wb of ttMMHiHMm two wmw ilwi Bond ffftS1tfioSS or Hie a to yissfentes tMlw Justicamssctarke Police bust crime ring Halton Regional Police have solved at least break and enters committed in the Town of Halton Hills in the last two weeks Police have arrested a year old Georgetown man two Georgetown young offenders and one Bolton young offender The yearold was charged with attempt to break and enter and the young offenders were all charged with breach of probation One Georgetown young offender was charged with attempt to break and enter and the other local young offender was charged with break and enter and theft The Bolton Continued on Page Residents question region stance ByBENDUMMLTT the Herald Concerned Georgetown residents remain convinced Halton Region staff has taken a stance on the proposed waste water Hon system of twinning the Silver Creek Trunk Sewer to service Georgetown West despite assurances from Regional staff t the case Georgetown resident Marilyn King who represents approx imately 5ft0 people who oppose the twinning said that she along with another resident met with Regional staff in August and were given information by Regional staff supporting the twinning The Continued on Page Neilsons insists jobs to increase Despite having to lay off eight people currently working at the Neilson s plant in Georgetown because the manufacturing com sold its ice cream division to Foods the number of people working at the Georgetown will actually be larger thin the existing the end of this year said hi torn chairman Jim Fisher The increase in the number of working out of the Georgetown plant is a result of the moving its entire corporate staff Georgetown said Mr Fisher The eight emplovees to be laid off from the Georgetown plant worked in sales and marketing division of hi now si Id cream division s Mr Fisher Although the lies An Inside Look Pole intuitu Pg 15 Fire Pg 2 Legion Pf 16 1 Forum Sports Bill mild Pi 3 Schools Turner Pg Pg Pg 7 Births FdilMiiL Pg Dulhs lettet Pg Apartments Columnists Pg Computer 12 Pg Montr Hotline Pg Business Comics marketing staff of the company s ice cream division worked out of Georgetown the plant pro duces milk cream and As a none of the Georgetown production employees will be hid off because of the sale to explained Mr Fisher Mr Fisher that the s plant production tion will expand bed use of the sale The explored option to maintain its ice cream business We concluded thil our business was just not strong enough to justify the sizeable new capital investment required to vive in the industry we will be concentrating our resources in the dairy and confer tionary businesses where we have larger nger and growing he said 1 1 u l hi corgi town pi nit would expand Mr shir wouldn I siy when the spans n would happen or the predicted extent of il or hid off the will be providing st r inn pack ltd Mr he is its issistmg find altern implovminl We lbhshed fund payible who provide people with permanent jobs to assist in milling their needs for said Mr fisher A helping hand e from Tot onto I Situr help mil her resi nil lot Itihk Jesse Mil Km sell her ful interesting designed silk Batik ll iNth and rafts or Georgetown lnhihon nut it the North Golf nun lub Between Will people ill ended ihe unci sin a of i rafts mcludtiit candles lice miking tote painting quills and i more Batik is a form of painting in which the silk is and then dropped in The fills in he cricks left b the creating distinctive design Herald photo Local food banks still in need Despite the goodwill of Georgetown residents who donated more food over the Thanksgiving weekend it was still enough to feed the hungrv in the towns own lbs of food wis dropped off at fire station loci residents an increase oven last veir However president of the rjelow food bank I of Christ Laura sud the food donated will not lasl much more than a week to feed who use the food bank The donation is a slight increase over last vear Mrs Ellison said thinking the Lord for reaching the hearts of the people of Georgetown But she is saddened the realitv that the donation is a drop in the bucket lasting about a week The food is greatlv appreciated Mrs Ellison said but families also need takes for granted such as toilet paper salt sugar and toothpaste Sometimes these people don have a thing to brush their teeth with when they get up in the morning she said The food bink must also shop for fresh fruits sugar and salt which Mrs Ellison said are rare treats for many local families Eggs come to the table in some households as often as Christmas she explained In Acton approximaely bags and four boxes of food and two bags of potatoes were dropped off at the local fire department The food was taken to the Acton Social Services and Information Centre Peggy Balkind a director at ASSIC said it is difficult to say if there is an increase in donations over last year About more bags were donated last year however she said there may be more food the four boxes donated this year than in those extra bags Part of the perishable food donations will be kept at the centre for an emergency fund and the rest of the donations will be given to the new Acton food bank The Food Chair which opened yesterday Tuesday The food bank is located in the Beardrtiore Tannery

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