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Page THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday December Stored Have A Sate Happy Holiday Season From The Staff and Management STEVEN C FOSTER A LL B BARRISTERS SOLICITOR 37 MAIN ST SOUTH GEORGETOWN ONT 873 fax 873 4962 Holiday Festival Kindergarten students at JosephGibbons School in night Kindergarten to Grade students took part in Georgetown sang a song to demonstrate the culture The Holiday Festival celebrating cultural of Australia during a dress rehearsal Wednesday holiday customs Herald photo afternoon for their Christmas concert Thursday NOW OPEN MONDAYS LANE NATURAL Womens Institute prepared to help By GERALDINE CAMPBELL I PRO When a monetary value is on the work of the Women In iui the people of Ontario and their communities they in the figure is at least million Last year the Women s Institute donated half a million volunteer hours to various causes Agriculture in the Classroom Local Fairs and Nursing Homes and wherever they are needed Statistics Canada stated the 1987 average wage was 11 7 per hour The Women s Institute members realize the importance of their communities and they are prepared to donate time to assist others As well they donated over half a million dollars to help others in the com All this information was part of the report given by the Public Relations Officer Geraldine Campbell at the an meeting of held recently at Guelph Next time you buy a cake at a Bake Sale or attend one of their fund raising functions be thankful that there is a rural women s organization that cares enough about their communities to do something about them As you travel Ontario you will notice about communities where the hall is the link that holds the community together Many other branches actively support thetr local community centres by doing small things like buying the cleaning equipment as the Palmyra Branch did to putting on fund raising meals to help pay for improvements such as the Tryconnell branch did However WI is not only about money and volunteer hours it is also about resolutions When 20 rural women speak as one voice as they do when a WI Resolution is passed action will happen After all Brock ty is there today because of a Women s Institute Resolution This year out of the Resolutions presented by Joan Law Resolutions Convenor to the Annual Meeting were ratified With a theme for the decade of Women and the vironment it is natural that many resolutions would be on that topic Many briefs were presented to local councils on En issues and as a result action has happened at a local level WI would like to see the Ministry of the Environment pass legislation to regulate maniifac hirers and distributors pay re fund for the return of bottles and cans of soft and juices A bag containing broken balloons found on the Beach from the Kingston area aptly demonstrated to the members the need to ask for legislation to be passed banning the launching of balloons into the atmosphere The dumping of hazardous wastes into landfill sites resulted in asking that Regulation 1 27 be changed to prohibit all hazardous wastes from being disposed of at a sanitary landfill site As well they would like legislation enacted requiring all sanitary landfill operators to pro vide facilities for the collection of household commercial and in hazardous wastes the sanitary landfill sites and for the transportation of such materials to hazardous waste treatment facilities At many functions you notice Plastic foam products being used so all WI members at all levels have been asked to refrain from using such products as they are environmentally unfriend ly Instead do as many do Lug a Mug THE CORPORATION OF THE Town of Hdlton Hills 1 Hoi on Ik O Box HAtTON HILLS Georgetown Ontor 873 CHRISTMAS TREE COLLECTION The Public Works Section of the Town of Halton Hills is scheduling in the Urban areas ONE pick up exclusively for Christmas Trees They will NOT be collected with your regular refuse Please place at the roadside on Monday January 7 1 991 at AM Thank you Halton Hills EngineeringPublic Works R Austin P Eng Town Engineer