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i The Acton Free Press Wednesday Jan 31 Site F perpretators should be shot says Planche Shooting the people csponsiblc for Inflicting on Hal ton was sug gested at regional council Wednesday Councillor Ron Planche said The people who got us into this Site mess should be shot The remark was made after Solicitor Dennis Perl In asked council to approve recommendations to shore up the region case before the Ontario Municipal Board hearing on Site at Hal ton Centennial Manor The recommendations ask the region to express willingness to acquire lands adjacent to Site Including the property of yearold Bessie Smith Miss Smiths solicitor Peter McWiillams of Mil ton appeared before council She doesnt want to sell her land he said She has lived there all her life Her grandfather farmed the land in He said she is opposed to locating a regional landfill dump at Site F around her properly She doesnt want to be surrounded he said The regions proposal drew fire from Miltons representatives Mayor Don Gordon said 1 am beginning to feel personally responsible She Miss Smith docs not deserve to be hassled She has done no harm Councillor Bill Johnson Mr proposals as more skulduggery by the re gions engineering consulting firm M M Dillon I am against this he said Mr Perlin had ap proached council with the recommendation to apply to Milton for ap proval to acquire the lands required in con- LIVELY DISCUSSION on a Rural Development Outreach Project being held in under the auspices of the University of Guelph Future of rural area studied by group The University of Guelph is helping develop apian for rural The universitys Rural Development Outreach Project Is being under taken in this area to tively plan future growth in rural Professor Tony Fuller a teacher of geography at the university spoke to a gathering of about local people Saturday morning at Manor in Milton about the pro ject The project is at the stage now where a group of about 12 people from those will form a Com munity Pulse Group to act as a steering com mittee to formulate the plan Mr Fuller said the group should attempt to answer three questions Halton region north of Highway needs to develop Its own identity solidarity and be able to react to change How can this We must all live with change because It is in table but change can also be guided and directed North should attempt to have some control over change within it How can we generate the community power to do so North needs to become a true com munity and take tage of its natural re sources How can it do so The purpose of Saturdays meeting was to decide on the member ship of the pulse group which was done by secret ballot The group has a life expectancy of about Halton fills vacancies on regional authorities Appointments to var ious organizations were approved by Council at its meeting Wednesday Jan 17 Approved to represent Milton at the Halton Re gion Conservation Authority are councillors Kranlz and Brian Penman Representing Hills arc Councillor Miller and Garnet a former councillor Terry Manneli Region OKs garbage group Forming a solid waste funding if any management committee private enterprise in was approved region volvements if any and council Wednesday transfer facilities Jan 17 The committee had Milton Councillor Bill been projected to have Johnson was one of three been called the resource people nomed recovery but was Councillors Terry to solid waste man Manneli of Oakvlllc and Walter of Milton Don Burlington were also don who endorsed the delegated committee said he was Besides the three strongly in favor of councillors the irig private enterprise in committee will include volved because of the two regional public developments the works employees a world has made in planner and a re- respect to waste man from each of four com He said he was against muni ties having regional consul The committee has the tants M M Dillon of Tor power to call consultants onto on die committee when the need arises because their expertise The terms of reference limited to landfill are to recommend to Re said the region council for Its consider- needed people who were an updated plan of experienced in the action with respect to the techniques of handling implementation of re- and disposing of solid source recovery in Hal- wastes ton Such a plan i3 to cover all relevant peels including type technology site cost financing VALUE When you include eggs in family meal plans you are getting good value for your food dollar Accord ing to grading regula tlons one dozen Grade A large eggs must weigh at least pounds If a dozen eggs cost you are paying only per pound a good buy If you consider that there Is little shrinkage during cooking practically no waste ami that eggs con tain the highest quality protein three or four years Good change will take three or four years to happen said Mr Fuller maybe even longer The project has been going in for close to three years The plan for rural development should really be a comprehen sive rural guide said Mr Fuller It should be broad based and Inte grated with other aspects of the community I say that not because theyre fancy words but because you cant really do any thing In this community that doesnt in some way affect lots of other things There are four majoi areas to be looked at human economic en vironmental and com structures half of Burlington is filled category are physical by Councillor Joan fi ds Allingham alliens thotsortorthlng Brock Hams and G Tne I Ret them into a combination that is mutually Mr Fuller said the pulse group would have tlie resources of the Uni available toil We can help them hold public meetings form groups make sur veys using summer students any number of ways I emphasize the word help We can help them do it but we wont do it for them They must work out what is best for the com munity while remember ing you cant turn the clock back but think of whatlies ahead nection with the proposed sanitary landfill Site the lands of Mogil Properties and the lands of Kowal and Micallef to gether wltb Ihe lands of Bessie Smith However having re ceived negative feed back he said it appeared as if the region was pro posing expropriation Consequently he amended his proposals The amendment deal with the proposed acquisition was amended May Fifth Pits on the Fifth and Sixth Lines may again be used as sources of gravel for work on roads west of Metro Ministry of Transport and Communi cations listed the Vin cent Odorico Spitzer Cohoon and Mines as possibe sources for contractors Hills council after debate went along with these suggestions and suggested the addi tion of the pit on the Sixth Line and the consideration of any other pits in town Councillor Roy Booth suggested the list was not satisfactory since the and pits on the Sixth Line have been rehabilitated He predicted from residents if they arc reopened Dale Gunter of the MTC said the and Spitzer pits would again be rehabilitated if to say the region would be willing to acquire the three properties after planning financial and environmental approvals arc received This amendment to the first amendment was further amended by council with the para graph And further that staff prepare a report to council as to whether there are any additional adjacent properties that may be detrimentally affected by Site The lost amendment was proposed after conn ell was informed re gion wasnt sure what lands were affected by Site When regional chair man Jack Ha ft is held up a map of Site F pro perties it was the wrong He had confused It with the Oakville dump map Quipped Councillor Terry Man Legion Notes by Harry Norton Mr amend to his proposals also a result of a letter lawyer David trin wrote to council Mr Eslnn who is the solicitor representing the TremaineBn tannin Group said would be Illegal for to make application to Town Millonforlhe acquisition of these lands reopen pits on Sixth Lines reopened since it is now unlawful to leave pits in a dangerous state He said the ministry rehabilitates the parts of the pit that are worked out and simply makes the other part safe Town engineer Bob Austin pointed out it may not be economical to reopen the Spitzer pit for the of material there Gunter said their aim is to list material sources having the least impact on the acre and to leave the land in the beat possible shape for a return to farming Councillor Miller said he had come up with six more pits which are already open He said he could see no reason to go into good farm land such as the Cohoon farm He urged a road out to the Seventh Line If the pit is opened He urged a plan with the town and the MTC in volved for the taking of Birthday banquet planned bygroup Logan Joseph was uuij approved Miltons Bird Farley and on the Hulton Region Land Division Committee Mrs Pamela Sheldon will represent Hills and Brian Fletcher is Burlingtons Oakv dies representative hasnt been designated Hills Mayor Peter Pomeroy and Councillor L A Duby represent the town on the Credit Valley Conserva tion Authority Councillor Laurie was approved as representative Councillor Brad Cle ments will return to Mil tons seat at the Grand River Conservation Authority Keith was named to fill the opening on the Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital Board on behalf of Burlington Councillor McLean Anderson is choice to fill the spot at the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital Board Mayor Pomeroy will represent Halton Hills on the Georgetown District Hospital Board while Jack will represent Milton at the Milton District Hospital Board Last Tuesday evening a potluck supper was held at the scout hall for the Scout and Guide Mothers Association The upcoming banquet celebrating Lord and Lady Baden Powells birthday was discussed in detail It has been decided to hold two ban quets this year in order to accommodate all groups without too much con fusion The Father and Son banquet will be held Feb ruary 20 30 m at the Acton Legion Boys are to return their fee for this banquet to their leaders no later than Feb The Mother and Daughter banquet will be held February p m at the Legion Girls ore to return their fee for this banquet to their leaders no later than Feb Please note that no late orders wilt be taken order that these two evenings will go as smoothly as possible The next Scout and Guide Mothers meeting Will be held Tuesday March at the scout hall There were 36C 128 farms listed in the 1971 census All but 1077 of these were classed as family units aggregate out of the The MTC represent alive explained property owners must before a pit is listed and they can say No and thats the end of it He emphasized there is a possibility none of the listed will be used said the fact they ore available tends to control the price of base and sub- base gravel in the area He said the major con planned In way from Misslss auga Road to Highway and Highway from Highway the Miller claimed working a pit on the Cohoon farm on he Fourth Line would throw more truck traffic in an area already heavily travelled Councillor George Malt by said he would be concerned if five pits were opened at the same time Backing up his state ment hat listing of the pit does not mean li will be used Gunter said pit has been listed four times and never yet been used He said he could not guarantee only one pii would be used at a lime Wed like to stage construction so that could be done but only God and the Premier has control On Saturday January about members of the Ladles Auxiliary were treated lo a happy hour followed by a roast beef dinner with all the trimmings This was the annual dinner for the ladies hosted and served by branch executive Some general and asso ciate members pitched in to help the old men and Doug Mason and his crew cooked the meal Plans ore now finalized for Snowball a win family picnic to be held Feb 18 from to lirs There will be sleigh rides ice skating snowmobile rides clowns a cross country ski race and a broom ball game Come on out and bring the family For those of you not wanting to pack lunch strong reminded council and snowballs a chic the MTC had brought the ken dinner will be avail roads up to their original able Those wanting condition after pits were chicken it is Sunday you used last time and said know should pick up he saw no reason to the bar assume they would do the cooks can get otherwise this lime enough old hens plucked Tickets for the Chicken dinner are for adults and SI for For those who prefer the indoor sports there will be dancing to Kent Tocher from 16 to xjhrs Get your family and friends organized and let make this a real fun day over that It depends on the money flow Councillor Mike Arm ACTON COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTRE Mill St legal Quit Cons County a Private and Confidential ACTON CHAMBER of COMMERCE Annual Dinner Meeting MONDAY FEBRUARY 5 COCKTAIL HOUR pm Acton Band Hall Per Person Guest Speaker BOMS SHEEN speaking on the Acton Shopping Survey TICKETS AVAILABLE AT Swetmans Shoes Acton Toddiers to Teens Hills Furniture Acton Pet 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