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a 4IS WEE SUNDAY BRUNCH 232 Guelph St., Georgetown 873-2254 Acton High School FER the hi-tech cpuac in north Halton for drafting and computer graphics this week when five new IBM machines were delivered. The drafting computers and eight colo on the screen. Here Senior drafting teacher Norbert Axtmann along with mS 13 student Lisa Volmar (left) and Angela Break, Grade 12, get ready to check out the new Photo by Wendy Long <40 minutes what the students produce r plotters can draw in Wictory bitter sweet for Willow Park By Dianne Cornish ‘The chairman of the Willow Park Community Association has declared victory over the Ontario Municipal Board’s (OMB’s) recent decision to compensate 24 families in the Norval trailer park for being evicted by the Credit Valley Conservation Authority. The Board ordered October 7 that trailer park residents will receive anywhere from $18,000 to $47,000 per unit from the CVCA and the Town of Halton Hills. “We did win; they are paying us,” Heather Croft, a Willow Park resident since 1987, said during Thursday’s telephone interview. However, she added: “We're still losing our homes and they’re breaking up our hamage We're losers on that Croft and a ialb group of trailer park residents attended Monday night’s committee of council to hear a verbal report about the pend- ing compensation package from town administrator Dan Costea. Costea said the CVCA is calcu- lating the compensation on a per unit basis in compliance with the OMB order which bases the pay- out to residents on comparable rental accommodation. The average compensation per unit is about $32,000, he said, meaning that the gross amount will be between $750,000 and $780,000. The CVCA will cover 55 per cent of the costs, while the Town is responsible for the remainder. Asked by Councillor Al Cook if the compensation award would mean extra property taxes for resi- dents of Halton Hills, Costea said the town’s portion of the compen- sation settlement will be completely covered by Georgetown South developer, Halton Hills Village Homes Inc. Apparently, the town reached an agreement in 1988 whereby the developer agreed to Rk end” the town’s share of nsation costs because run-off a its residential development upstream of Silver Creek might add to a potential flooding problem in the Willow Park Trailer Camp area. The trailer park is bordered by both the Credit River and Silver Creek. CVCA general manager Vicki Barron said last week that the CVCA decided to expropriate the Willow Park land in 1988 because it is “flood vulnerable.” Croft said she and any other resi- dent of the Park who filed separate- ly for compensation from the CVCA and the Town have 30 legal days from receipt of the OMB deci- sion to file an appeal. She received her copy of the decision October 9. When she and other Willow Park residents were asked by Halton Hills This Week if they will appeal, they said they cannot decide until they know exactly what they’ll receive as compensation on an indi- vidual basis. Croft said final figures should be known “within a week.” The Willow Park Community Association chairman also disputed Continued on page 8 ‘Your independent voice in Halton Hills’ 50 cents includes G.S.T. Scrapyard called an "eyesore” By Dianne Cornish Municipal zoning bylaws for the Monarch Resources and Recovery site on Armstrong Avenue have been and continue to be violated by Monarch and it’s the town’s responsibility to ensure full enforcement of its own bylaws, Michael Norris, a resident of The Sands condominium complex told town council Monday. Speaking at a committee meeting of council, Norris charged that the scrapyard operator and owners of adjacent properties are operating in contravention to existing zoning “unsightly storage of on properties zoned as Monarch, a company which con- ducts a salvage operation on the property immediately west of the condominium complex, is zoned as industrial, M2, which prohibits open storage on the site. However, the property is littered with debris, including old cars, tires and refrig- erators and “endless piles or open containers of junked items that remain on site for extensive peri- ods,” Norris said. Complaints to the Town of Halton Hills about the operation from more than 100 Sands residents date back as far as 1988. Noting that he, “like other residents, has become frustrated with the disgust- ing mess we must view from our windows,” Norris added, “I am appalled that this matter was docu- mented to council some four years oe and is still unresolved. “The purpose of my presentation this evening is to ensure that you, our Council, act without further delay to have this disgraceful eye- sore of endless junk removed from the adjacent properties,” Norris said. “The enforcement of (existing zoning) bylaws should be sufficient to resolve this problem. Backed by about 15 residents from The Sands who sat in coun- cil’s public gallery during his pre- sentation, Norris asked why the town hasn’t enforced its bylaws in this case. “Why, for so long, has the Town tolerated this outrageous disregard for Municipal Bylaws, by these businesses?,” the Sands resident asked. nry Tse, the town’s director of Building Code and bylaw enforce- Continued on page 9 Hillsburgh woman seriously injured in car train collision A Hillsburgh area woman has been airlifted to Sunnybrook Medical Centre following a car-train colli- sion in Acton on Friday morning. The woman was travelling south on Highway 25 when she collided with the westbound train at the level crossing. The crossing has warning lights but no barri- ers. A dog was also in the car at the time of the collision and was fatally injured. Further details were unavailable at press time: howev- er, a report on the accident will appear in Wednesday's edition of Halton Hills This Week. 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