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MILTON PS;ý_C L3R"iARY PHARMACY ekn Milton's Indprpnlpnt PharmaryS *Free Oelîvery ç1fL ' 10% Seniors Discount FO E 10 __t litg nian unep Written Deug InformatIon Available "'At Zak's W. Gare,t o About Vour HeaIth'l 86 Main St. E. 875-2424- A Metroland Community Newspaper Vol. 13 No. 12 Friday, June 20, 1997 40 Pages 750~ (GST included) Halton wants out of chiorine battie By BRAD REAUME The Champion Halton Region has gone AWOL in the batlle 10 remove chiorine from Milton water. Despite protesîs by Milton Councillor Colin Best, members of the health and social services commit- tee agreed Tuesday 10 take no further action in the fight 10 have chlorine removed from Milton's water supply. Mr. Best pleaded with commitcee members flot 10 turn away from the problem because Halton Region's support on the issue coutd be critical in securing a solution on the floor of the provincial legislature. Noting the people of Milton were owed a status report, Hallon Chair Joyce Savoline îried 10 put the hest spin on the committee' s recommenda- lion, saying the region still stands hehind ils application 10 have water standards amended. The new position of Halton Region is simply 10 take no further action, she said. "The committee's position has no hearing on the political process," she said. "We have 10 show the people of Milton what we did and what the response was." Attempîs 10 resolve the prohlem through the Ministry of Environment have run mbt a bureaucratie wall. Milton was invited bo apply f'or an exemption 10 thc regulations, however, drinking water standards do flot allow for such exemptions. Attempting 10 solve the problem in another way, ministry officiais requested Ihal Halton Region take on any legal liability sîemming from graflling an exemption. Halton Region has "I1 stili get comments weekly on this issue. There is a great deal of anger out there." Colin Best refuscd 10 accept that rcsponsibility. clainîing the province should simply chantge the standards. "The mninistry is hamstrung by their own rules and regulations,- s,îîd Ms Savoline. -They are flot prepared 10 n Continued on page 7 Camp bell gets a wrist slap_ The head of Choose Life Canada and leader of a Milton-based religious group was ftned $100It for protesting outside a Toronto abor- lion clinie. Reverend Ken Campbell, president of Choose Life Canada and outspoken leader of Renaissance Canada, was found guilty of obstructing a police offtcer in Ontario Court (provincial division) in Toronto Tuesday. In a press release, Rev. Campbell called the ruling "a token $100 fine," noting that the judge rejecled the Crown's request for a jail sentence or a lwo-year suspended sentence with pmobationary conditions. Rev. Campbell was arrested January 22 afler he retused to leave an area oulside the Scott Clinic on Gerrard Street, contrary bo a court injoniction. He was praying alongside abortion protest- er Linda Gibbons when a Metropolitan Toronto police officer told the pair te, leave. Toti.ng a sign in support of' Ms Gibbons, Rev. Campbell said the îwo were given îhre warnings to move along or be arrestcd, but both refused t0 hudge. A court injoniction hans protesters from the immediate area of the clinic. LiO~ fa Uf Ken Campbell