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The fullsize paper reaching more than homes In Hills uric Home Newspaper of Halton Hills TALKRAOIO John WEDNESDAY Design unveiled Hal on Region lost week approved a modified prellmln design of a new regional headquarters building and the Incorporation of the regional health unit administration Into the facUity Approval come following a special meeting Wednesday when architects Shore Henschc and Irwin unveiled the two storey split level design Council had earlier placed a limit of 000 square feet on design of the structure which will be built on 10 acres of land acquired from the province at Bronte Road and the Queen Elizabeth Way The approval of the health unit add lion requires the con of a subbasement In one wing of the threesided open space work area of the building at an additional cost of The total package will not exceed million More than million remains in reserve for the project from the sale of the former County building at Mil I on Architect Stephen Irwin told council the design calls or a courtyard to be the focal point of the structure encompassing the centre of the building It will be covered by a roof with a threesided two storey step ped administration area rounding it Council chambers will be built in the form of a rotunda with two and possibly three committee rooms adjacent to it The chambers will be dlr opposite the courtyard and main entrance Mr designed to be built within feel of the property tine on Bronte Road to allow for a certain prominence of the building on the road which would be lost by constructing on a declining grade toward the back of the property The courtyard he said would be an orientation point for visitors lo the building LOCAL PRINCIPAL SUPPORTS INCREASE IN DRINKING AGE Georgetown Is typical of most On tarlo communities where lowering the drinking age to 18 has meant high school students come to class with alcohol on their breath says Michael Furlong principal of Georgetown and District high school Mr Furlong elected chairman of the Ontario Secondary School Head masters Council last week in Toronto said high school principals overwhelming supported a legal drinking age of Lowering the age to school age creates problems Principals were concerned that lack of Inforcement results in younger and younger people becoming involved in alcohol he The effective drinking age Is down to IS from the legal limit of IB he said We see it not so much in school but at extracurricular activities Asked if there were high school students drinking when he was a youth Mr Furlong said there were but not in public Students arc drinking more in public these days hi said At Georgetown and District high school there has been the odd cast on where a student has had a glass of beer for lunch he said However I not too concerned about IByear olds drinking Repeal bylaw complex dies 48 GDHS students skiers French carnival battle US snow storm A placid skiing holiday for 4B students at Georgetown and district high school generated more than usual as they battled their way home from Vermont last week plow through snowdrifts five feet high in places The annual skiing expedition by the high school students took a turn for the worst last Monday as the bus they were riding in found itself caught In the middle of a storm which caused in Upper New York State and parts of south Ontario The stale was still digging Itself out this week from the storm which left at least dead and hundreds stranded without fuel or food Encountering the storm shortly after leaving Vermont the group headed north toward Quebec Instead of northwest Roland told the Herald The drive was slow as he bus slammed through drifts as high as passenger windows The trip was scheduled to end late Monday evening but he weary students t arrive in Georgetown until about Tuesday The 24 hours extra they spent on the road caused some Domtar plant closing extended one month Fine Papers of flclals confirmed Monday that the Georgetown coating mill operation will continue to April Instead of closing Feb as originally announced No reoson for the extension Meantime Del Majurey Investigate fire cause The cause of a fire In a semidetached bouse belong ing to Mr and Mrs Frank Zadravec 10 Main St Georgetown Is unknown and being investigated said Area Fire Chief Ken The sole occupant Mrs Crook was unharmed The house was ready to be demolished a few years ago Buikema said ages in figures would be dlffl cult to estimate Some smoke seeped Into the next door president of Local In ternatlonal Poperworkers said Monday that contrary to some published reports last week imply the union employees are very much dissatisfied with the company and Canada Manpower Job placements and the pension plan There t one member placed he said Or those 30 or employees who did find jobs It was by their own efforts he said Only two of the office staff have been placed but no union members As Tor pensions those bet ween to years of age can get only per cent of their pensions as well as the In tcrcst he said There hove been numerous meetings between he union and the company he said and the union Is hoping for a better settlement concern since we were not anticipating anything like this money left except maybe and hats what we were worried about Roland said A on the rip used a credit card lo house the students in a motel outside Malonc New York overnight Monday The more than cost was repaid his week the students said is about miles from Cornwall where the group crossed the border to find eastern Ontario clear without problems of drilling We plowed right through one snowdrift before Ma lone that s when all the big drifts started to hit us Bo- land said State police closed he own shortly after group arrived since three of the four roads into the were clogged with snow and abandoned vehicles Robert I tea ton a fellow student on the trip said the bus driver continued to keep the bus moving because lo slop would have meant no vehicles getting through The students Roland Rob John Peters and Brian Rogers commended the resourcefulness of the bus driver BULLETIN Divisional Court Tue reserved judgment on an application by opponents to the Bradley Georgetown high voltage transmission corridor for the hearing of evidence on alternate routing Details of the arguments by sollc tors for the Interested Citizens io Hydro will be published next week All small towns In Quebec hold winter carnivals so the French Canadian Association decided Georgetown should join In the traditional merry making The first Winter Car nival will start Feb IB and continue until Sunday Four French girls will be selling tickets for carnival events and the girl who sells the most tickets will be crown Snow Queen a dance night Feb Holy Church The winning ticket holder receives and second prize is and any profit will donated to Church The four excited girls arc Aline Perron 10 who attends Brule school and lives at 11113 Georgetown Helen attends Georgetown and district high school and lives on langMone Crescent 16 attends Notre Dame school in Wolcriluwn unit Marguerite flu attends Sheridan College In lives Georgetown The girls were well acquaint before the Carnival pnpar aliens and arc having fun competing for the honor of Snow Quetn The new Queen will receive gifts and represent the in sport shows throughout the year Carnival the frosty snowman will be visit int stores and plazas In next week A par Fob mil different festivities held the weekend inclu lint Ice sculpturing punting in he and a Log tutting Contest Behind the winter scheme idieux Jackie mil invented the idea of Ihc carnival Sup ervising the selection of Snow Queen are Gabriel Ic and Char les Miue Renaissance seeks meeting with board Ken Campbell founder of the renaissance Committee has Informed Tom Wells Hon Minister and Reverend Garry Morton Chairman of Ihe Board of Education that if the motion of censure against himself and tho committee were not with drawn by the board of he will be forced to go to he courts Mr Campbell regrets even considering this action he said In a prcsi release and wants to appear at a next board meet Feb to discuss the situation The previous board passed he censure motion Dec 11 1975 and re affirmed Dec 15 when retiring Trustee Dick requested Its withdrawal Campbell recommends the board withdraw motion of censure He proposes the Board provide public forum to hear alternate viewpoints on controversial educational issues He proposed Ihe board chair man serve moderator for he forum with trustees examine and challenge the validity of viewpoints The general public should be permitted to quest Ion and comment on the issue he said Mr Campbell feels distur relating to a Eduction project which In the motion or sure would have been avoided it there had been a public Council Mondaj rescinded a bylaw approving a expansion of towns Seventh Line offices despite protests from two members that the action is Councillors Les Duby and Mike Armstrong voiced the only opposition the move in a recorded vote late In the meeting The bylaw approved last June proved to be the catalyst for widespread ratepayer opp osition on the basis of need not being proven A petition containing mare than names present to council Aug and resulted in a stalemate on the former council and referral lo newly elected council for further a lion The issue also figured prom in the Dec elections and most observers feel re sulted in Ihe defeat or Ward 3 Em Hyde an outspoken supporter of the project Acton Coun Les said new members of council had not been privy to the bock ground and study which pro ceeded ihc passing of ihe bylaw last year and urged a delay in action until all mem arc more knowledge about the project Mayor Tom Hill however said council must decide on either send the to the Ontario Muni Board for formal approval or repeal the bylaw Two weeks Roy Booth suggested the repeal saying councils procrastlna in dealing with Ihc issue would only drive the cost or the project upward Council also called or a space survey of various own departments re sults of which are expected by the end of the month Coun Booth added that the publ ic would surely oppose any further approval of the project and urged council to shelve the bylaw and save the expense of an Ontario Municipal Board hearing All other members of council with the exception of Coun Put who is on vacation voted in favor of repealing the bylaw The stilus of ihe project is not in doubt however since most council members have voiced privately a need for ultimate expansion of the town It was revealed two weeks ago hat a public institutions inspection panel the successor to he Grand Jury abolished last year had Inspected the own offices In November and found them totally inadequ ate for the duties that are performed under regional First Robin Bob Mitchell of McGllvory Cres reports sighting first robin of the year outside his home Friday Mr Mitchell Informed Ihe Herald the bird sat for about 10 minutes on a tree before flying off probably for war climes as a photographer attempted to race to the I oca ion for a picture LIBERAL LEADER TELLS SUPPORTERS Dont applaud By Stuarl Smith leader of the Ontario Liberal Parly has warned Canadians must not applaud Quebec Rene when he comet sell English Canada on benefits that will accrue if Quebec separates If we applaud him Smith told about 2C0 persons In Nerval last Tuesday at a meeting where Burlington Julian Reed was acclaimed the Liberal candidate hell take that back to Quebec and say See they don want you But before people in Ontario boo Premier expected sweet talk the half mllion strong ran coOntario com should be given the same rights and services that English community has in Quebec Let a put our own house in order he sold He said FrancoOntario community had suffered from not being able to speak French in Ontario courts or to get services In their language when they arc predominant in a community as In Northern Ontario where he has loured recently Rene Levesque can be made to look like a liar when he says lhat outside of Quebec French Is second class Smith said ifLhc French community can call out and say we re first citizens here But If have to say otherwise Helps iheseporatlstalmsofPremler Mr Smith said He said it was perfectly obvious that Western Canada will strike a private deal with the United States lo get goods cheaper there than from Ontario manufacturers and In turn have a guaranteed market for their oil if Quebec leaves Confederation When Ihc market out west goes Smith said snapping his finger sharply lo percent of the gross national product goes like that Violence In street could result from Quebec leaving Confederation the Ontario Liberal leader said Besides sitting on their hands when Premier Levesque speaks and giving the same services ana services and rights Quebec community has Canadians can also begin teaching their youngsters a second language when they first go school he said It Is a genuine advantage to have two languages In Canada he sold We have It the American don t and I like It Smith said he was born and raised in Quebec and while he had a certain affection for people there he had a greater affection for Canada Dr Smith also criticized the performance of the provincial government under Premier William Davis In the areas of Farm Income Stabilization program its handling of the Gray Coach affair and group homes In On lorlo The government has no Idea why cost for some group homes for either the elderly or adolescents was per day but WO In others he said Margaret Birch made only a single copy of Iho report available on the lost afternoon of the session Just before Christmas recess Mr Smith said and lhat report says that treatment he children obtained was the soma rcgar of Ihe rate government The inspection panel also found that the building and engineering departments in a garage are not only hampered but have reduced space in which to work Mr Hyde who expressed outward concern over the find of the Inspection panel said Monday he felt the pub lic was deliberately mislead by some of the former council members on the issue for political reasons If this expansion of town offices could be such an obvious need loan independent objective public body he said then it had lo be obvious to every member of council and at one point It was The expansion Issue was the main Issue in the recent elect Ion campaign he said raised at every meeting Mr Hyde also questioned what happened to a copy of the inspection panel report which was sent to the Hills Administrator Clerk Doug at least three weeks prior to the election Findings of the inspection panel visit to the Hills 4 are contained In a report present to Judge Alan the following day Region Sheriff Rob ert said a copy of report was sent lo Mr chard and all other depart and administration heads of the various lions Inspected the following day Mr however said he has no knowledge of receiving a copy of Ihe report adding that the pressures of the election preparation and Ihe large volume of paperwork near yearend may have re sulted in It being overlooked He said he is presently search ing for correspondence from the ministry of housing dated Nov which has also gone There Is certainly no intent to deny council the information Mr said In a tele phone interview There a definite need for expansion of the town offices he said the question remains when and when funds will be available Mr said however lhat the report sent to Hills was addressed to the municipal offices Seventh Line Stcwarttown The cor rect address is either Georgetown or Main St Georgetown Chapel school inspected town use not defined Georgetown Chapel Street school for which Hills has offered to Helton Board of Education has had a onceover look by a group of councillors and a consulting engineer Councillors Roy Booth Miller Pat Patterson and Pete with consulting Alan Zeegen and Pat of the Recreation de partment entered the 108year old school Thursday for a top to bottom tour Closed In 1974 the school brought nostalgic memories to of Georgetown who taught there for three years in the 1930 and has had many close lies with It since In an interview she told the Herald she had worm feelings or the school Its only wood the smell of the school beautiful large classrooms with high ceilings It would be nice to see the old building put to good use like offices or cultural uses she said Her husband Ernie recalled that the property had original been by the Meth Church prior to for five shillings an acre It was used as a cemetery until 1BSS when the bodies were removed In 1B92 the Methodist church sold the property between St John Church and the school for quite a sum in those days Mr re marked The 11 room school was clo sed because of declining enrol ment in he area and the superiority of other newer schools said Emcreon director of education for the Halton board of education There was nothing wrong with It structurally Chapel Street school was one of five or six schools closed in the past five or six years Mr Lavender said The cant thing In Georgetown and is enrolment tins de clined He said he could not be certain of the condition of the heating plant and recalled that there were bad drolls in around the windows According to Reg Irish of the board operation sec tlon the gas fired steam boiler in the 14 square foot school was renovated quite recent As well there Is a squarefoot paved parking lot Mayor Tom Hill said he has no idea at all what the building be used for if he town buys It The buildings uses will be decided by council by the town s department heads We 11 find out what we need it for first the mayor said When the tour al the school was over alter the group had their through do ens of empty school desks and nipped through old textbooks and encyclopedias and walked around the building Coun Booth said he was impressed by what tho tour revealed Consulting engineer Alan Zeegen said the structure doesn t look In bad condition although make a definite statement the stress loadings would need to be assessed he added My overall impress officespace survey Ion Is it quite reasonable Council extends purchase offer An offer to purchase the Georgetown Chapel school has been extended by council until June 30 to allow study of re nova costs of the facility The school which sits on about two acres of land in central section of Georgetown has been declared redundant by the board of education which offered the property to ihe municipality last year The approved Monday brings the purchase offer into conformity with a resolution passed last week by the board of education which extended the deadline for closing Council allowed the ex tension but rejected twice advances by Coun Roy Booth that council approve the cost for the facility Coun Mike Armstrong strongly opposed any bid to purchase the properly but while approving extension of the closing date he added the dumbest thing this council can do Is renovate it Cost of renovating the school property could match the expected cost of restoring Cedar vale community centre complex parts of which were closed last year because of unsafe conditions A report on the centre structural con is expected shortly I suspect we will have a very large coat In true ting Ccdorvale Roy Booth said We are looking at 10 square feet at school Instead of square feet He noted there arc several regular citizen groups Including he Red Cross and Air Cadets which use the Community Centre Council will discuss the proposal at Its Feb meeting when approval Is expected of a capital budget Council members last week toured he school with architect Alan who Is preparing structural reports on the Cedarvale centre and the old Acton town hall ax