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THE HERALD Wednesday October 1989 Page Playing with fire Juggler Raymond of Georgetown plays with fire luring the Eighth Annual Local Talent Night at the John Elliott Theatre Thurs day The event put on by the towns parks and recreation department featured acts Including tap dancers piano players organists square dancers and singers Herald photo High school students to view AIDS video Students at Georgetown District High School and Acton High School will get the chance to see an AIDS awareness and education film dur ing their lunch hour this Friday The films are being shown as part of AIDS awareness week Oct across the province The Regional Health Depart ment will be presenting the recent ly completed film The New Facts of Life to Georgetown high school students Acton High School students will be shown the Letter From Brian Health department and Georgetown high school nurse Ann French said students viewing The New Facts of Life will see explicit information on the transmission and prevention of AIDS The film also makes clear that unless pro per precaution is taken anyone can be inflicted by the disease she said The film is presented in a magazinetype format by students who articulate Its message in a frank and direct way The Halton Board of Education coordinator of Physical and Health Education Sue Amos ap proves of the films explicit nature There has been some controver sy surrounding the film because in one scene students are shown ex plicitly how to use a condom But Ms Amos explains that AIDS is a life and death issue and so the video better show how to use a condom properly The Halton board is one of the education institutions that have ordered the film The nurse at Acton High School Marilyn Silk said the newest AIDS film wasnt chosen because she and toe schools principal Ozzie Caldarelli have yet to see the film The Halton AIDS Advisory Com mittee plans a poster campaign and other events during the week all for the purpose of educating the public about the disease and how to deliver care to those directly or directly affected by AIDS Tidy Car Gives You More Fun For Your Money NEW CAR TOTAL PROTECTIONPACKAGE SAVE 100 We Install Customized RUNNING BOARDS RUNNING MAUDS SUNROOFS PW STUPING RUST PROOFING GUARDS TOUCHUP PAINT CAR COVERS WMD0W1NTIN6 it KEEPING CARS IN SHAPE WORLDWIDE hum A W 8730570 Guetph St Georgetown OPEN MoaThurs I pm Friday Saturday am- Over people protest GTA at Queens Park ByBENDUMMETT Herald Staff Hills residents along with people from as far away as St Catharines chanted No GTA and Save the Environment during an hourlong demonstration pro testing the provincial govern ments handling of the Greater Toronto Area garbage problem at Queens Park Saturday About people listened to speakers from Halton Hills en vironmental group Protect Our Water and Environmental Resources POWER the Citizens Together PACT group and the Vaughan Committee of Associations to Restore Environmental Safety CARES denounce the waste management body called the Greater Toronto Area committee The GTA is a fiveregion com mittee comprised of regional chairmen with a mandate to search for solutions to Southern Ontarios landfill crisis The GTA is treating the symp toms and not the disease and if on ly the symptoms are treated the patient dies POWER spokesman John Minns told the placard- car rying demonstrators Jim Wiseman of PACT could barely finish his speech in which he said The GTA takes away your rights to be involved in the deci sion making process and puts it in the backroom before demonstrators broke out into their rally cry No GTA No GTA Weve heard the cry of the heart David David are you listen ing We have to find an alternative way because we are destroying our earth Mr Wiseman said of the different groups apparent desperation POWER representative Barbara Halsall was pleased with the tur nout but said it was disappointing no allyelected officials turned out to hear the groups pleas The is an unelected body composed of the five regional chairmen from Halton Peel Durham York and Metro Each region has to name a contingency landfill site as a condition of entry into the GTA John Minns told the rally tht GTA is undemocratic and unac countable In a proclamation sponsored by the three organizing environmental groups he said no level of government has passed legislation establishing this body The three other parts of the pro clamation read out during the rally are governments should be held accountable to ensure garbage reduction and they should em phasize reusable products more recycling and recovering The pro clamation is to be sent to premier David Peterson POWERS Ruth French says in initiating the GTA the province isnt serious about waste reduc tion The GTA uses the En vironmental Protection Act in stead of the Environmental Assessment Act to assess a propos ed landfill sites viability she said The older EP act doesnt require the GTA to consider alternative sites or alternative waste manage ment methods she said The GTA uses the less thorough act because the current garbage crisis means the GTA doesnt have enough time to use the act she said But Ms French argues it would have enough time if it concen trated on garbage reduction If less garbage was produced the pro vince wouldnt have to fast- track the environmental process she said Protestors heard a councillor from East Hampton say his council has carried out studies showing waste reduction programs will allow the town of to reduce its disposable waste by 85 percent Pat told the rally I think it certainly can be done in the greater Toronto area Even if you get 75 per cent or 70 per cent Im sure thats better than what you have today He stressed however that waste reduction depends on people being responsible for their own garbage and that means not transporting it to a location outside their area Ms French agreed saying the GTA is flawed because It allows garbage produced in one region to be dumped in another And if a region isnt responsible for garbage it will be discouraged from reducing its waste she ex plained Steven Shrybman a lawyer with the Canadian Environment Law Association who was at the rally explained several ways govern ments could reduce waste They could legislate that com panies use a certain amount recycled material They could tax nonrecyclable packagings and of fer rebates for packaging that Is recyclable or immediately reusable he said He said all pop and beer bottles should be refillable as is done in Prince Edward Island Govern ments could also insist appliances carry a fiveyear warranty Ap pliances are currently manufac tured to break down in such a way that it is cheaper to buy a new one than to repair them Companies create a constant demand for their products he explained But Mr Shrybman told the rally changes wont come about until the governments show some leader ship Money earned by waste management should be taxed he said As long as they are not and tipping fees the cost of disposing waste at a landfill site continually increase private waste manage ment firms will do nothing to pro mote waste reduction he said Its time to make politicians ac countable to look for alternatives and if they wont throw them out ATTENTION AGREEMENT FOREST USERS Regional Council has CONTINUED the ban on hunting and the discharge of firearms within the Coulson Tract Agreement Forest Described below periods of time when certain hunting and discharge of firearms activities are allowed in all other Halton Agreement Forests except the Coulson Tract Beginning October 1989 through November 5 1989 and from November 10 to December 31 inclusive ARCHERY HUNTING will be permitted Archers may be In the Agreement Forests hunting deer and other small game if in season Beginning November 6 and continuing through November 11 SHOT GUN HUNTING will be permitted for deer and any other small game if in season On these four days archery hunting Is NOT permitted in the Agreement Forest All users of the Agreement Forests are advised to exercise caution during the times that hunting is permitted David J Regional Clerk