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Athletes honored Bl Lifetime Service Guarantee Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1866 ONTARIO IJ IBS SECTIONS PAGES FREE DISTRIBUTION rlh Drive Acton IN THE HILLS Magic treat You are In for a real magical treat when the Physically Han dicapped Citizens Affiliation presents the Master of Impossible phenomenon PaulRoytcr Two shows are booked for day April 30 at the auditorium or Centennial Manor IBS On Street South Milton The show Is intended for a younger audience under ten years of age The performance Is more lengthy and guaranteed to tickle your funny bone Tickets can be purchased at Health Care Centre in or ordered by calling at 877 1436 Tickets cost per per son or for a family pass of four No one ever outgrows magic the performances can be enjoyed by all Pioneer days Downtown Georgetown will be partially closed to traffic June 13 17 and 18 for Pioneer Days Roads will be closed Main Street bet ween James and Church from a to midnight for the Thursday Friday and Saturday Through traffic on Mill Street will be per milled PC meeting The Ontario Progressive Conser vatlve Association of North will hold lis annual meeting on April at the Bayrlscher Hot Restaurant Steeles Avenue Milton The meeting will feature the in stallatlon of a new executive as well as the adoption of a new con For further information contact Ted Hilton Acton Area President at Family res arch The Peel Branch Ontario Genealogical Society will meet April at 2 p at the Civic tre Library Bramalea City Centre Bramalea Topic United Empire Loyalist Set tiers of Lennox and Ad dtngton Counties Visitors welcome Wright coming Laura Wright Canada Queen of Crime Fiction will be coming to he Gallery of the Georgetown Library and Cultural Centre on Sunday April at This acclaimed author has written such novels as the Edgar Award winning The Suspect and sequel Sleep While I Sing This is a National Book Festival Author Reading sponsored by Canada Council There will be no charge For more information call 8732681 Book sale Saturday April 16 Is the annual book sale hosted by the Georgetown University Women Club From Sam to pro at Knox Presbyterian Church Hall comer of Math and Church St Georgetown Refreshments are available All proceeds go to stu dent scholarships in Hills Arrive early for w at selection Spring slides Celebrate the coming of spring with the Friends of Halton Museum April at p m In the Museum s Main Building Dynamic artist Cathie Belyea will present three audio visual shows Admission is free and refreshments will be served New members are always welcomed For further Information call SASH needs help The Sexual Assault Services of SASH needs volunteers for an eight week training session beginning May 10 People are needed to answer calls for crisis help for executive and committee members For more Information call Newcomers meet The Georgetown Newcomers club meets St Andrew United Church on Mounlalnview Road S April Come out and meet some new people The guest speaker is Gail from The Hobby Horse She will bo discussing quilling tcchnl and other fabric related For more information call Pat Pioneer dies The last Bell Canada supervisor In Georgetown died April at St Raphael Nursing Home In Toron to Mabel was 102 yean old Miss was a Bell Canada pioneer and the last Georgetown supervisor for Bell before the system took over In She was well liked by her coworkers and the townspeople generally and was a member of the 10DE and Holy CrossChurch Her funeral took place Monday morning from the Church of the Good Shepherd In Inter ment was at Holy Cross Cemetery She Is the daughter of the late William and Martha and liter of the late Mary Richardson Ellxabeth Kennedy and Edward Looking for bounty Look tor bounty and pieces of eight a crazy boat crew Lion Club of Georgetown In aid of Multiple Sclerals navigates dawn the Credit River from Terra Colt a Far more picture see page AS Herald photo by Donna Saturday Doieiu and of homemade took to Kcll the Whitewater la be annual race by the Pleasant tax surprise from Region Walt Elliots win at polls tops PC expenses By BRIAN MacLEOD Herald Staff North MPP Walt Elliot may have been swept Into power along with the rest of the Liberal party but he spent more the other two parties combined to do It Between Mr Elliot and the Liberal Riding Association the big red machine spent more than to get their candidate elected in Halton North during the last election Conservative candidate Dave Whiting and his party association spent more than 000 on their election campaign and Fern Wolf and the New Democrats spent only IIS While the Liberals spent the most they are also the left with the highest debts after the campaign Mr Elliot raised about from fund raising efforts and the Liberal riding association raised another After government reimbursements for campaign ex peases Mr Elliot is In the black by MOO but party is facing a Walt Dove Elliot Whiting deficit from the campaign New Democratic Party candidate Fern Wolf managed to raise for her campaign and the party pick up another But Ms Wolf spent only on her campaign and the party spent almost Campaign reimbursements left Ms Wolf with an 100 surplus Early association is 3 n the Conservative Dave Whiting is the only candidate whose personal cam palgn Is in the hole after the election Mr Whiting needs to raise another to cover his own debts The Conservative Party mean while spent only on the North campaign and they are holding an extra after the campaign The surplus In Ms Wolfs campaign will be transferred to the NDP riding association And where did all that money come from Provincial law demands that all donations over 100 be disclosed and that donations from any one com be limited to Mr Elliot expense accounts show that his campaign Income came mainly from private citizens and some businesses Mr Whitings campaign revenues donations more than 100 are evenly split between private citizens and companies and the vast amount of Ms Wolf campaign revenue came from unions The biggest con tributor was several different locals of the Canadian Auto Workers Union which dona fed more nan TOO Benefit for coma patient to cover treatment costs By BRIAN MacLEOD Herald Staff Taxpayers In will get a pleasant surprise when they get their regional tax bill in 1988 Even with a whopping per cent Increase In solid waste disposal budget for 1968 the average That down from a per cent In crease projected in January Since January the budget numbers have been tossed around by several committees and the new numbers are favorable to taxpayers The water and sewer rate budgets and the solid waste disposal budgets were approved late lost year but the final effects on the tax bill be assessed until council approved the tax supported budget last week The reason for the 1 per cent drop in Regional taxes is because of a 2 2 per cent Increase in property taxes instead of the projectea 4 per cent To taxpayers that means you II on ly pay 4 77 more on your property taxes instead of the 47 predicted In January The net effect of all this is that residents In Halton will pay on average 499 for all Regional vices in 1968 Halton a garbage disposal pro blems are keeping taxes up as high as they are even though the in crease Is smaller than the national rate of inflation per cent and the Toronto area inflation rate of percent That huge per cent Increase In garbage disposal costs translates in to a 1 per cent Increase in regional taxes Part of the reason for the smaller Increase In property taxes Is a larger than expected Increase in assessment In The Region had a seven per cent increase In assessment last year compared to a projected five per cent increase The lion share of the increased assessment came from the decision by the City of Burlington to change their taxation procedures to market value assessment Despite the relatively small In crease in the Region budget Oakvllle Coun John Graham ob jected He used the budget discussion to launch his attack on the make up of Heltons Police Commission and the 25 million police budget approved this year Graham found himself In a heated public debate with Halton Police Chief James Harding two weeks ago when he said the police commission should be disbanded and replaced by a committee of Right now the police commission Is made up of three citizens ap pointed by the province and two Regional councillors Chief Harding adamantly opposed replacing the commission with politicians Coun Graham complained that for the first time In Halton history the police budget comprises over half of the 48 million tax sup ported budget The Region cannot control the police budget only appeal it to tbe Ontario Police Commission which rarely supports such appeals said Graham He complained that the police budget Increase of over nine per cent and more than 000 for new pro grams In 19B8 la excessive compared to the Regions relatively low In crease and the for new Regional programs It not a persona matter it an issue of government and the ultimate responsibility of the budget said Coun Graham who supported the Region budget because it would be an exercise In futility to oppose it Each year the police commis sion is able to take the biggest piece of the cake and it does said Coun Graham He said the Association of Municipalities of Ontario AMO took a similar position In Its discus sion on committees in I960 Coun Graham found allies among his audience Burlington Walter said tbe police commis sion and the Children Aid Society are two bodies funded by the Region that Is not officially under Its con trol He said there Is a good argument for a totally elected body for police commission Burlington Coun Rob Forbes also questioned the current police budgeting process He Questioned a system in which one body makes a decision and another body takes responsibility for that decision The issue will be discussed at April meeting of the Region Finance and Administration com Elizabeths Fashions is holding a benefit fashion show far Paul Franks the young man who has been In a coma since he was In a car accident early in 1987 The fashion show will take place at the Holy Cross Parish Hnll April Tickets are and all proceeds will go to the Franks family Paul Franks will be transferred to a hospital in Pennsylvania which specializes In coma patients In about two weeks and Elizabeth owner of Elizabeth Fashions wants to help defray the expense of transferring the yearold son of Mary and Jim Franks will pay for most of the cost of keeping Paul In the hospital but the cost of transporting him there and visiting him on the weekends is likely to become expensive said Mrs McNeilly The show will feature spring and few years through working with her at Ladies Auxiliary at the Legion said Mrs I wanted to do something to help her The only way I could think of do ing It was to use my business The show starts at I but refreshments will be served at 30 said Mrs McNeilly Ail door prizes and food and drinks will be donated so all the proceeds to to the Franks family Grass fires troublesome fashions with a variety or door prizes to be given out said Mrs McNeilly The benefit for Paul is the first benefit show Mrs McNeilly has ever presented I vc known Mary for a I feel that the community support them said Mrs McNeilly She has made 400 tickets avaui for the show so If It sells out that 2 to the Franks family Anyone who wishes to donate door prizes can contact Margaret Vint at Tickets are available at Elizabeth Fashions on Main Street in Georgetown Raves Hairstylists on Guolph Street or by calling Firefighters it tended to numerous grass fires ion fires during the past week Firefighters doused a grass fire April at IB on the Second Line between the and Slderoads in Nassagaweya Eleven firefighters responded to a 111 grass fire April 10 on Trafalgar Road and north of Silver creek The fire was out when they April 10 at p m the fire department attended to a grass fire on the Fifth between the Fourth and Fifth Line Ten firemen responded to an alarm activation April 5 at 41 m at the Bennett Centre on Princess Anne Drive Itwasafalsealami A ban fire April at 47 call ed firefighters to Young St In Ac ton Firefighters rushed to the Fifth Line In Limehouse April 10 at l am to attend to a chimney fire Six firefighters rushed to Todd Road to put out diesel fuel which was on fire April at 16 a There was no damage April 10 at 10 17 p firefighters doused a ban fire on the Slderoad between the Fifth and Sixth Lines Firefighters attended to a call April at am In Acton Officer recruit John makes dream come true poll Ml By CHERYL Herald Stall Little boys often dream of being a police officer but end up being businessmen John Chanti ell though never outgrew his dream The 23year old Mlssissauga man is a new recruit on tbe Regional Police Force I have always wanted to be a Ice officer Mr Channel I said It hasalways been my dream The police officer began working towards his dream when ho entered Brock University In St Catharines after completing Grade 13 at Lome Pork School In Mlssissauga He received his Bachelor of Arts In sociology which he figures will put him in good stead when answering calls such as domestic disputes Getting on a police force isn easy It is a difficult occupation get Into Mr Channel I said You nave to apply everywhere and keep your fingers crossed Before being accepted by the force Mr Channel spent an even Ing following a police officer on hip night shift to get First hand knowledge he said It was lust a routine night but the recruit found the experience fan tastlc It made me want to be a pollceofflccrnow tie said Once hired by the Regional poller Force the rookie training had only begun Mr Chan spent the first weeks learning the ropes the police force before being sent to the Ontario Police College In Aylmcr for nine weeks In Aylmcr Mr learned basic lit took practical courses such as self defence and how lo drive police cruisers and classes on provincial and federal laws The toughest think for Mr Chan during these veek3 was retain the mass of informolion he was presented with This job has so many laws and procedures to lcam he said I think that is why the training pro cess Is so extensive This Job is always changing Mr Channel said There arc new ways of doing things and you have tokecpontopofthings he added For the next two months the new recruit Is with a coaching officer learning on the job training In approximately two years he will return to Aylmer to take up date training Although Mr Channel Is aware that he could be killed it does not worry him It is something you always have In the back of your mind he said I know this and always take preventative measures For example when approaching a car the recruit would stand so he could not be hit by an opening door or move the squad car over so as not to be hit When going to a call the police recruit would think ahead and do some mental role playing As long as you are aware as to what might happen and use com mon sense you can prepare he said Halton Region was Mr Chan- nells first choice on his list of potential employers It is a force unlikeanyotherforce he said operates on a proactive police style which means the force gets involved In the community more The Mlssissauga man Joys getting out and mingling with Channel really likes the pec- month pie he has come In contact with since joining the force I developed good friendships in col lege he said Even the guys here are a realty good bunch They are all patient with the new recruit Mr Channell said They realize he Is still learning There is a real bonding between police officers which Mr Channel feels comes from working together are always working together and that is what bonds us he said We are a team As well as working as a police of fleer Mr Is a voluntary probation officer with Correctional Services Ho was a Cub leader and worked as a security guard one summer for the parks department In his hometown squash running and biking For now though Mr Channell Is working hard and enjoying his bud ding career as a police officer At the moment he is working out of the MUton station but will be moving to Georgetown within a