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the HERALD Community Wednesday September 1901 Numbers To Note EMERGENCY Police Fire or Ambulance Dial Fire Information Police NonEmergency 8785511 Hospital r 8770111 Distress Centre 8771211 Flag stolen On Sept 2 police report a Canadian flag and rope from a pole were taken from a home in Georgetown The incident oc curred overnight while the pro perty was vacant and police have found no evidence or suspects relating to this theft Mischief charge A 22yearold Georgetown man was arrested for public mischief on Sept 3 five days after repor ting a break and enter to his apartment telling the police was stolen Police later question ed the man about the breakin and he admitted he had lied Outboard motor theft Police report an outboard motor boat engine valued at was stolen from a home in Georgetown on Aug The engine was taken from a stand in the rear yard The engine was not attached to the boat and the serial number is not known Unwelcome guest A Georgetown woman was ar rested for breaking and entering on Sept 3 after she was found asleep and intoxicated on a chair in a Georgetown home Ac cording to police the woman gained entry to the basement by smashing a window Upon entry she consumed three bottles of li quor belonging to the home owners and fell asleep on a chair Residents of the home out at the time later returned home and found the woman The value of the broken window was Business damage No property was disturbed when unknown persons broke a security glass window at Twin Windows on Road in Georgetown overnight between Sept 3 and Police report the culprit broke a window situated in a rear entrance door permitting to reach in and open the internal door bolt enabling entry to property The damage was valued at Vehicle damaged According to police of damage was done to an automobile belonging to an Erin man on Sept in Georgetown The man parked his vehicle behind Dairy Queen on Guelph St while he sorted mail at the temporary postal station located at 184 St Upon his return the vehicle was missing its right side mirror and the air had been let out of the front left and reap tires According to police possi ble suspects are striking CUPW workers Failed to return A Georgetown woman failed to return home after being arrested for breaking and entering on Sept 3 The woman was arrested at pm and held at the Regional Police Department 11 Division due to intoxication un til her release She failed to return home and has not been seen since The woman shared accommodations in Georgetown with her mother She is an alcoholic and has gone missing in the past damage A total of of damage was caused at a Terra Cotta home when unknown started two separate fires in the rearyard Thursday evening A neighbor wakened by voices coming from a nearby home and discovered the fires Damage was caused to assorted timber and a camping trailer Egg attack According to police unknown persons smashed one dozen eggs on the front windows of a restaurant on Guelph St in Georgetown Thursday evening Vehicle mishap A Georgetown man was taken to Georgetown and District Hospital with minor injuries following a single car accident on 27 Sideroad in Halton Hills Aug 30 Travelling east bound on Sideroad in a Ford Escort with no license plates the driver braked for the curve locking up the wheels and skidded into the ditch The vehicle then struck a steel fence and rolled over He was taken to the hospital by his wife A Georgetown resident has been charged with driving without license plates and without automobile insurance Improper turn A 20yearold Georgetown man has been charged with improper turning following a twocar colli sion on Guelph Street in Georgetown Aug 29 The Georgetown man was turning from Guelph Street onto Sinclair Avenue driving a Mercury when he slammed into a 1981 Pon- tiac Bonneventure driven by a Brampton woman with three passengers The Brampton woman and her three passengers were taken to Georgetown and District Hospital with minor in juries and both vehicles were severely damaged Intoxication charge A Georgetown man has been charged with being intoxicated in a public place and failing to leave a premise by police after he refused to leave Youngs Restaurant on Main Georgetown Aug Police say the owner of the restaurant refus ed to serve the suspect liquor and asked him to leave seven times When the suspect wouldnt leave he called police who charged the man and placed him in a cell at Division in Georgetown where the man called police names and shouted and screamed He was released when he was no longer intoxicated say police Careless driving A mil ton man was charged with careless driving after an accident Saturday afternoon in Halton Hills The man driving a 1987 GMC van was travelling north bound on Fifth line when he left the road for an unknown reason and struck a hydro pole The vehicle was severely damaged Dairy Queen Intermediates The Dairy Queen Intermediate team one of the Barber Tara Schaefer and assistant coach Mark squads In the Kinsmen Girls Softball League got Front row left to right are Jennifer togetherforapictureattheFatrgroundsatthestart Lynn Dafes Kelly Fox Wiltshire Stacey of the season From left to right back row are cralg Julie Pollock Pamela Bradbury Ashley coach Tye Tuft Nicole stephensand Julie Bottom ley Lisa White Natalie Hyde joins municipal race Bill Hyde will run for Regional Councillor in Ward 3 in the elec tions of November 12 the Herald has learned through a press release Bill has been a resident of Georgetown for the last years He has served on the library board in the Town and been active in local and regional organizations Bill is an engineer and a management consultant who has run his own company for the last 16 years Public agendas and priorities are still decided in back rooms where only carefully selected in formation emerges in running Towns and Municipalities the release stated The gap between reality and perception of what goes on often suggests manage ment as though by Phantoms How are decisions made Who makes them In the press release Mr Hyde was quoted as saving In our Town Phantoms will have us believe annual increases in budgets and mill rates are within current rates of inflation Are they The Town has increased operating costs by 82 per cent per capita in each of the last three years twice the rate of pre- inflation On the revenue side both Residential and Com mercial mill rates have increas ed by 63 per cent annum for each of the last six years The dif ference in increases between operations and revenues creates gaps which compound to effec tive rates of interest of 287 per cent and 204 per cent in a three year term respectively or a shortfall representing one years mill rate increase every three years Clearly we face a finan cial bind which calls for some new radical and innovative thinking to correct the imminent deficit Georgetown Minor Hockey Association Equipment Exchange And Final Registration Saturday Sept 14 Memorial Arena Drop off equipment 830 am 00 am Sale Noon pm Pickup unsold items pm 500 pm Registration 1000 am pm All items not claimed by 500 pm become property of GMHA no exceptions Bill Hyde Process involving public input is entrenched in every piece of new legislation Does it work Unfortunately public input is edited censored and often replaced by private agencies When challenged paper will be shuffled and reshuffled petulant ly until exasperated delegations let the Phantoms have their way These taxpayers the customers are never right but they always pay The Acton Dump issue has been with Town and Region for five years How are we doing The RSI Proposal denies or con tradicts every criterion and norm in the Environment Assessment Process There were strategies the leaders of Town and Region could have tried to avert or avoid another Assessment Hearing on a landfill dump in the Region The leadership took almost three years to take the menace serious ly In the interim the Proposal entered the irreversible MOE process which will inevitably lead to an expensive hearing The Phantom clipped 25 per cent off the estimate to try the proposal clearly a low priority for Council in spite of public Town and Region need the voice of responsible indignation to stop the financial drain for both residents and developers to bring all stakeholders to the deci sion making and to bolster the leadership It makes no sense to have rich risk free administra tions fat and happy Phantoms while people in Towns and Region struggle to live up to the in satiable ambitions of others The Phantoms must skinny down and seriously think quality Customer Service not for just those ex cellent front office staff facing the public but also in the decision making