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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), May 28, 1986, p. 1

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SEE INSIDE A PULLOUT PROFILE REPORT ABOUT OUR CITIZENS J BANKERS SECURITY SYSTEMS ft A Akim Rented By The Week Montortig Temoetitute RES 8778197 the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1866 WEDNESDAY MAY 198b I a first I alhi r OPEN Hide SUNDAYS till It Drue la Un Air land search for crash victims By Herald Staff The cavalry came to the rescue Monday night but they find anyone lo rescue Police and firefighters were aided by a Labrador twin engine helicopter from Trenton in their search for a downed airplane Regional Police were call about a distress signal from a pilot shortly after They met firefighters from Hills near the Scout hut in The rescue mission was tiled off around when the area had been searched ind nothing wis found Where was the pilot Where Is the mystery ghoul pilot When the call went nut thai a plane had crashed In an area north and west of Georgetown rescue crews feared wont Bui alter two hour of combing the area around I Imp house nothing could be found Two aviation experts offered their opinion about why the emergency call hid gone out Doug Cameron is an air controller for the Rescue Centre in ton No report had come In about missing persons and no aircraft were overdue he said When the area was searched from air and land the rescue was called he said There a chance garbled emergent message came from a pilot intraining from a local flying club he said Occasionally a trainee will praclUe a forced landing The pilot could hate switched his microphone from Intercom to a signal Cameron said That would explain why control lower picked up in emergency signal instead of an In true tor Kick Is the tiler Instructor Brampton Flying Club Before he was told an actual voice message had been heard Mr speculated thai someone had tripped their FIT box 99 per cent or the time II a nuisance trip he said A sadden Jolt could accidentally activate the emergency control bo which emits may day signals thai are picked up by receiver satellites or biting the Earth Cameron believes a satellite would have picked up signal fromanELT The Trenton Centre starts getting emergency calls dally once the warm weather begins he said Chinese celebrate Need to preserve cultural ties MP A new group in Hills dedicated to preserving Chinese culture and language had cause to celebrate Saturday The Hills Chinese Cano Cultural Association held a pic in Cedarvale Park where MP John McDermid was the special guest Mr presented the Association with a cheque for 100 from the federal government The money will be used to strengthen the programs in order lo preserve Chinese culture Since September Chinese children between and years old have been every Saturday for hours to earn more about their heritage Their Saturday mornings at Georgetown District High School arc spent learning about Chinese culture language written and spoken the importance of family and more Wong said Ms Wong is one of ihe teachers looking after a class of about Before presenting the cheque Mr emphasized the need to preserve culture The preservation of Chinese culture in Canada will help her great challenge in the east he said He implied relations between Canada and Chinese speaking rut lions will be stronger in the future and that Chinese speaking Cana will be an asset Lawrence president of the Association was given much of the by fellow members for form the association Mr said the Chinese of Hi Is will be more involved in the community now that they are better organized Among other things he mentioned cooking lessons as part of this in ALL PART Or THE JOB1 Iking was the guest newly formed babies Is part of John Hill Chinese Canadian unwritten Job description he hat no Cultural Association who had a pic trouble living up to Here he Is teen in Cedarvale Pork Saturday with Kevin Hwang Mr Herald photo There wasn even a sausage The area wis well combed by the aircraft tin police bald Doug Cameron of the Rescue Centre in Trenton Police checked all the possible Ian ding strips in the area and alio some people about ultralight pilots In ihe vicinity One person fishing said he saw an ultralight fly past and he thought he heard a crash said Sgt Keith Robert The north was call off when a report of an an aircraft emergency transmitter in the area wis However his no record of the Incident and no officers were involved in search Monday Nevertheless the detachment received a number of calls from the media and citizens seeking information about the inci Neither the Brampton Flying Club or Peel Regional Police hue rcceiv any messages ibout downed There were no reports of missing persons or an aircraft overdue said Cameron The Trenton base received a call from the shift manager at the air traffic control tower at the Lester Pearson airport A call came in at indicating that the tower hud received a garbled tr about an aircraft having to make a forced landing Capt Cameron said Trenton then sent up their Labrador rescue helicopter com with a six The firefighters from Hills had 14 men at the scene and three trucks We didn receivt any lion at all during the night said Deputy ire Chief Bob Hyde Cameron said no box had been activated The helicopter crew left the area iller a thorough search had been plotcdonhnd and from the Space walkers and cystic fibrosis wire doing a kind of was sponsored by the Saturday Tin Iwo Kinsmen and where the of many walking to raise fir walk and ended 12 miles later the air rf 60 jobs banned from need to Hide House area be filled Students looking for work overlook the Canada Employment Centre for Students According to the Centre Supervisor Greg Robinson there ore now jobs waiting to be filled We really need students to come in and register with us We have a lot of good jobs wc re having rouble filling he said Greg named a few part time lions for the kitchen and cash register of a fast food restaurant plus a delivery driving Job that pays an hour Ing after animals Thursday through Sunday paying per ho Along with many general labor jobs Greg also has some career related Jobs he having a hard time filling Generally this is a good year for student employment Mr Robinson said Our jobs are increasing but he number of students registering isn although we have an active promotional campaign at the high school He invites students to come into the Centre in the Niagara Escarp ment Building at Street and Mountalnview Road It costs you nothing For more information call the Centre Neighbors of the elide Hide House wili get some relief from weekend mobs it clog up their and block their driveways with parked cars Mond flight councillors pass ed i resolution binning parking on the west side of tastern Avenue and on streets adjacent to it Gerald Itennic despite the aspirations of Hills no business should con tribute to the destruction of a neighborhood A taxpayer s concern deserves as mucn consideration as for any corporation the said pointing out area residents have had heir neighborhood swamped by weekend visitors over the past four Mayor Miller said he hod a meeting set up with Hide House to discuss the parking problems among topics He said he didn I expect the meeting would resolve the pirking problems noting he been meeting about this for the past twoyears Elective hospital surgery cancelled Despite the threatened two day walkout by doctors patients will be taken care of at the Georgetown District Memonal Hospital the hospital board chairman says Thursday and Friday he Ontario Medical Association has said Its members will again withdraw their services What that means is that doctors offices will be closed and elective surgery cancelled The Medical Chief of Stuff Boys has advised us doc tors will be at our hospital lo look after patients coming into emergen People In the hospital will be taken care of we have been assured that by Hoddmott Hospital Board Chairman Tennunt told The Herald I don feel that our doctors will let anyone down Because doctors won t be In their offices patients needing drugs or needing Ihe attention or a doctor will have to go to the hospital Surgery itt be curtailed to emergency surgery Mr said the one day walkout earlier this month by doc tors didn affect patient care at the hospital and that he expects things to go just as smoothly Thursday and Friday when doctors repeat their walkout I back Ihe doctors to the point they arc running their own business As a businessman I don believe in the government taking over my business Mr said As far as extra billing it doesn mean a thing to me The thing in my mind is the government wants to run the doctors business Police praise There were words of praise for the Regional police and he town bylaw enforcement officer for having done a prompt job recently of clearing up the loiter problem in Acton s downtown Gerald extended his congratulations Monday night saying that the day after he com plained about the loitering pro blem was cleared up Loiterers impede shopping and discourage shopping with uncalled for remarks as go into ihe stores Coun Bylaw enforcement officer Jack Lusty said that with several sum months still to go he hopes the downtown Acton can stay loiterers Continued on page IN THE HILLS Jobs in Acton Acton students lake note The Canada Employment Centre for Students staff will be at the student services office Acton High School each Tuesday through the lunch hour from 10 am to p you cm out what jobs are available and pick up some tips on Job searching Starting June the Centre will move to the Acton Social Services and Information Centre on Willow Street Tuesdays Centre staff will be there in the afternoons with Jobs you can apply for Quick action Quick action by on employee a I Tooles Restaurant in the Georgetown Marketplace helped avert what could have been a more serious incident Sunday night Vandals had piled up paper towels in the mens room of the restaurant and started a fire caus ing damage Employee Chris ran in with i tiro extinguisher and put out Ihe blaze before firefighters on the scene milestone iSOIWAI May the Reverend Canon J Maxwell celebrated the 451 anniversary of his Ordination to Priesthood He was the celebrant at a Service of the Holy Eucharist at ID which was followed by a public reception in School at The reception was attended by an estimated 350 friends and former parishioners Refreshments were by ladies of the congregations of St Stephens Hornby and St Johns Church in Stewart town Hard soft If baseball diamonds arent quite as hard as you would like them to be the towns recreation director urges you to have patience At Monday night council meeting lorn explained that because of past complaints that the diamonds were getting to be like concrete they were loosen ed up and new material was put on top of them this year Against school closure Lawyer helps in fight Some Public School parents have hired a Toronto lawyer and arc taking steps to get an in tcrim injunction within the 14 days to stop closure of their rural school Speyside resident Jim Sheldon sola money is being collected to pay for the court battle and already S3 is In the pot Already one public meeting has been held by the parents and another is planned for night Mr Sheldon old The Herald he anticipates Howard glesworth Public School parenls will also be attending this meeting Both schools were named Tor closure this spring by a tion Committee of the Board of Education Low enrol men Is and high cost of keeping schools open were blamed on the school closures and reorganization of the schools In north Taking on a court battle on in expensive endeavour and Mr Sheldon said local residents and others are being asked for dona ions Membership fees from the Association also been towirds this It doesn l seem lo be a great pro to ruse the money Mr Sheldon chuckled The Board l is popular as it likes to think it Is A recent survey of Speyside pjrents iskmg for and other support showed to per cent of parents said they supported the fight to keep the school and per cent of that said they would donate money to do so Mr Sheldon said We don feel entirely alone in feeling the board of education Is out of line he said naming cases in Leeds and lawn where parenls hove tried to stop their school boards from closing schools Mr Sheldon doesn feel the Con Committee followed the Ministry of Education guidelines or the Committee original criteria As an example he referred to the provincial guideline that the board Is required to look at how the school Is being used by Ihe community prior of it As well the should have ad dressed what It was going to do with the school buildings once the schools are closed Will they be bulldozed or leased In the case of Speyside it s to be leased til to the Roman Cutholu School Board it leives community groups such as the whleh holds exercise In the They have to renegotntc space with a new now Mr Sheldon said The interim injunction is intended to keen things as they are and open until ihe matter goes to rial Mr Sheldon said He wants to gel it as soon as possible before schools close for summer so the community will know where it stands for September If wc re successful In getting an injunction I would hope Ihe Board would reconsider Mr Sheldon said Although other parents groups have been unsuccessful in doing bat tie with school boards the fact they have tried to Indicates there something wrong with how boards of education ire set up in the province Mr Sheldon said If we get enough cases going before the courts maybe somebody In Queens Park will gel the Idea he said If the court says no to an Interim injunction parents have other gunpowder to use They plan to have a strong lobby of Queen Pork As a i rial note of protest Mr Sheldon pointed to how much secrecy surrounded the lion Committee when it was meeting in North Other school closure committees in like Kilbride and Falrview were very public and minutes of their meetings were posted regularly In the school McDonalds melt Sliced cheese on cheeseburgers Ihe only things melting at the Georgetown McDonalds Restaurant Monday night Shortly after a light fix tare overheated and the fire department was called By the time firefighters arrived on the scene the tire had been put out

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