Ontario Community Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), August 17, 1983, p. 3

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HON A It 1Q Lots going on for tourists Booklet promotes Heritage days By CHRIS AAGAARD Herald writer A booklet being wide ly distributed his week should provide a size- Entitled Your Guide io North age Days booklet is a bene lima rk by which the fledgling North Tourism Association NHTA than In previous issues can gunge its success Business Is feeling very publisher and editor strongly about It and are Steve Dawkins told The willing to put money Herald Friday behind the booklet While the Association Weatsoapptnudedlhe has published two other promotional Interest tourist booklets In Its Milton and Ho I on Kills first year It s the first councils have shown in lime six popular annual events in North Ha 1 1 on have been grouped unrt a promotional urn called Heritage Days The events fall fairs in Milton Georgetown and Acton Milton the area tourism pot The Association has been around for over a year now The Heritage Days festival is sort of a benchmark for how things go at this point Mr said that Steam Era show and about copies of Festival of Countries the booklet have been and the Leather town distributed through Market In newspapers covering Acton span a month areas within the radius Milton Steam Era is a popular event for many people In The annual fall fair will be one of the attractions outlined in mid August travel guidebook on heritage events in North long period between Aug and Sept STRONG SUPPORT We re hoping that It will be a real winner Mr president of the NHTA and mark cling director of Acton Olde Hide House said half hour drive of North Distrlbut Ion will extend as far east as and as far west us poirls around Kitchener and Copies will also be liable at North a few advertisements from large national and Toronto- area corporal ions most of ads were purchased by smaller businesses of leisure or service Inter est tourists Earlier this year an Informal survey was carried out at the Ontar Agricultural Museum to find out how many people had seen prev booklets published by the Forty one per cent of the Museum visitors during the survey per said they had seen the publications One of the fall promotions Continued on page Haininos Is proud to on the opening their shop the Moore Parti Plaza Georgetown 8731555 Main St N The number of members and members part can be picked up at The in issue is Herald office as well significantly higher With the exception of for special shoe fitting see THE ORTHOPAEDIC PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS Money for landfill site search By CHRIS AACVARD Staff Ontario newly appointed environment minister has told a reg committee that will get some money to off set costs Its ten year long search for a new landfill site Andrew Brandt who look over Ihe environ ment portfolio from Kellh Norton during a cabinet shuffle two months ago met with a special delegation of regional councillors and staff in Toronto Thurs day Since it began the recent phase of the site search oer fie Environmental Assessment AZct has ask Ihe environment mln for help to pay for the search Until day for aid hate been turned down Although The Herald was unable to find out as of press time what sort of financial help the minister could offer delegation members were delighted by minister interest in site ANDRE- BRANDT Subdivision plan Marport Corporation has been given a six month extension on a proposed plan of it behind tile Georgetown Market Race While Canada a is on an upswing Marport is still having difficulty selling the land for development oses lawyer Ron Webb I- lit Intensive house building The six month period should be enough He adding that coun not take the initial subdivision app roval further Marport were owners of the properly on which the Georgetown Market Vandalism study Continued from page A Most vandalism is done to private property and damages exceed Most popular with als are breaking house windows and damaging vehicles Graffiti is probably not reported most of the time as it can be cleaned up to public irty rinses from school windows to stolen destroyed signs So far this year pee cent of public prop erty vandalism has been to schools Const Place was built Last year council asked Mar port to find out if the Market Place would do something about traffic flow and lighting problems in the shopping centre Mr Vttbb said Marport wrote to the principals of two company ics awning the shopping centre and the response was that the owners prepared to themselves to correcting tl moment ton reps have asked for per cent funding from the province to cover the expensive landfill search under 11 may cost as much as to million before a landfill site Is constructed STUDY BACKLOG In addition Halton has paid about over the last 10 years in other studies surround garbage disposal Hills Miller the chair man of Hail on s solid waste management sub committee said that while no one knows as yet where the minister will find funding for the region it on lis way Mr Brandt Miller added was also concerned about the amount of lime it takes to go through the EAA process At Thursday s meeting he formed a committee of regional council members and representatives to speed up the landfill site search NO FIGURES There was no ment ion of any fig urcs planning and public works committee chairman Pat Mc told The Her aid But my Impress ion was tnal it would not be a token amount Coun McLaughlin ex plained thai the region must present the min with detailed fig the a l of money It has spent look for a new landfill site But some response from Mr Brandt Isanti cipated In about six weeks he said Burlington Liberal MPP Julian Reed and Oakvlllc Tory MPP transportation and communications min Jim Snow were among the region contingent which met with Ihe mln and his advisors Miller said that Mr Brandt a former mayor and alderman of 5arnia is quite under standing about what we re going through He a very straight forward person he commented Hie Is to get the landfill site on track it should take this long An Georgetown home was robbed of worth of coins jewellery a Minolta and binoculars between 3 and 11 p m Saturday regio nal police said thieves by cutting a With Eyes Like These Who cares about their feet WE DO Mothers Your childrens feet are important Put them in taM Lots and lots of imported wool and polywool fabric in the fashion fabulous fall shades Top quality sample cuts metre PLUS MORE SPECIALS 10 00 Georgetown Market Place 8772477 5fcafc Wat HOURS OPEN MON TUESWED 8 30 AM PM THURS 30AM 900PM SATURDAY 5 30 PM Main St S

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