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Your Window & Door Professionals 341 GUELPH ST. UNIT #3 GEORGETOWN V IS I T OUR SHOWROOM • family owned and operated for over 38 years • awarded readers choice 20 times Proud to be doing business in Halton Hills since 1975 honesty • integrity • quality Then and Now 905-873-0236 www.buy-wise.ca a 1975...in the news • Georgetown's new arena could be known as the Gordon Alcott Arena, if a suggestion made by Councillor Ernie Sykes is adopted. Alcott founded the little NHL. • Halton Board of Education school trustees approve themselves a 120% pay raise despite some opposition. Trust- ees will now receive $6,600 a year. • Halton Hills Council threw out a rec- ommendation from the finance commit- tee for a 12.5 per cent across the board raise for employees, to compensate for a 12 percent cost of living increase. • Georgetown's new indoor pool could have water in it as early as next Mon- day, and the pool could be ready for use April 11. • The long-awaited official opening of the Gordon Alcott Memorial Arena took place May 30, with Mayor Tom Hill and Mrs. Gordon Alcott sharing ribbon- cutting duties. • The finance committee of Halton Hills council is recommending all food stores in Halton Hills be allowed to stay open Sundays, if they desire, in an ef- fort to create a uniform by-law across the town. 1975...in the news • George Maltby, unsuccessful candi- date for Ward Two area councillor in the December 1973 election, was ap- pointed to Halton Hills Council, to fill the vacancy created by the death of Len Coxe. Councillor Dick Howitt was appointed regional councillor, and will move up to take Coxe's position. • The main line of the CN Railway was blocked for six hours one Monday when six gravel cars derailed at the Acton In- dusmin plant, between Limehouse and Acton. • The new Halton-Burlington riding will send a Liberal MPP to Queen's Park, following Julian Reed's victory. • The already-crowded Georgetown GO trains will be hit with an influx of even more passengers when GO Tran- sit starts a new bus service for Acton, Rockwood and Guelph commuters. • Parents demanded Halton Board of Education take action against a book they considered obscene, entitled Go Ask Alice at a board meeting in which shouting broke out between trustees and parents. The book is about a teen- age girl who becomes hooked on hard drugs and eventually dies. It includes some explicit sexual content. Liberal MPP Julian Reed (left) is congratulated by Progressive Conservative candidate Gary Dawkins after Reed won the Hal- ton-Burlington riding (a previous Tory stronghold) by less than 500 votes. An irate Reed ran primarily because of a school board decision to close Norval school. (Left) Crowning the GDHS snow queen (centre) the Maple Ave. soap box derby (right) skating carnival fun Hot rods. Fire levels the Random Car Club in Glen Williams The Independent's 40th Anniversary Special Section, Thursday October 17, 2013 • 5