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r _____________ IWOMPir6-8--c-k8I j windhieids r'IYLJ5I 71MAIN ST. #1&2Ml T 76-478 A Metroland Community Newspaper J,'.' flft4~~Ž~ Vol. 139 No. 28 Friday, June 5, 1998 36 Pages 750 (GST included) Good, deanfu Select soccer teammates Shaina Locke (lefi) and Candace Sharp horse around during the under-16 squad's fundralsing car wash Saturday at the Esso gas bar on Derry Road.j s 'l Love te Read' festival Sunday 0 . -The third annual 1 Love to grounds are on site. M [Ilm LI lmimRead/Children's Literary The event promotes liter- fMzý ý Festival wiII be held this acy and the importance of Sunday at the Farmn reading to children. 327 Bronto St. S. Museum. Tickets cost $5 for aduits Ma" u 4MAuthors, illustrators and and children are admitted storytellers will be on hand f ree. from noon to 4 p.m. for The Farmn Museum is Dr. Jo-Ann McKinnon readings and book signings. located on Townline Road, 875-1322 Wagon rides and picnic north of Steeles Avenue. Casino is planned for Mohawk track By KAREN SMITH The Champion Mohawk Raceway has been chosen as a site for one of more than 40 charity casinos to be built in Ontario. The Ontario Jockey Club (OiC) and Camival Hotels and Casinos wilI approacb îown council Monday night witb a plan 10 open the 22,000-square-foot gaming facili- ty at Campbellville's hamess racing track in December. If approved, the OJC will provide space for the casino in a currently unused area of the grandstand building, acting only as the landlord in the projeet, sad Gerard Spoor, Milton worried stalling starting By BRAD REAUME The Champion Demands for detailed financial informa- tion could delay Milton growtb, according 10 Mayor Gord Krantz. The pbasing plan for growtb passed Halton regional council scrutiny Wednesday, but with the proviso Ibat information on the costs for additional police, roads and sebools associated witb expansion be included in the financial plan. That document will be presented later this month. Fearing delsys 10 growth in north Halton, ail tbree Milton representatives on the 20-member council refused 10 support that condition when il came 10 a vote. In 50 doing ironically tbey pulled their votes - for that day - from endorsing the overaîl Halton Urban Structure Plan (HUSP). Milton bas been lobbying for HUSP in one form or another since a home building freeze was imposed on the town in the mid 1980s. see GROWTH on page 3 vice-president of standardbred horse rac- ing operations. "We don't pretend to know the gamaing business. We known the racing business," he said at a public open house hosted by the Town of Milton and the Oic a( Memorial Arena Wednesday night. Carnival will oversee the entire opera- lion of the gaming faciity while the OiC, which has struggled to keep Mohawk Raceway on its feet, wiIl look to boost horse race wagering and tbe industry as a whole using the casino as an attraction. Attendance at OiC facilities bas been generally declining, resulting in track dlo- sures, and the recent openings of casinos has put a further dent in business, Mr. Spoor said. "We have tried and tried to keep it (Mohawk Raceway) open, but things haven't been so good. Racetracks are being left with no choice but 10 embrace these competitive produets in order 10 pro- tect tbeir horse racing businesses." Considering the track used 10 attract 8,000 patrons a night and now only about 1,200 corne through the gates, the casino proposai is juat what the doctor ordered, he said. "They co-exist very neatly together. This space is relatively easy 10 convert and presents an opportunity 10 provîde horse racing and charity casino customers witb physically separate areas yet expose each of these uses t0 the other's customer." Carnival, wbich operates Casino-Rama, saw Mohawk Raceway as an ideal loca- tion, said Steve Kates of the travel and tourismn magnet's casino division. "'It's just a natural location," be said aI the open bouse where the public was invit- ed t0 Ieamn about the project. He noted tbe track is close 10 Hwy. 401, but somewbat isolated from residential and commercial development, bas parking 10 accommodate 3,500 cars, and bas been a gambling locaion for tbe past 35 years. Tbe casino, wbicb will operateon a modest scale in size as weIl as regulations compared 10 commercial gaming facilities like Casino-Rama and Casino Niagara, wiIl feature 40 table games, 150 siot macbines and dining and entertainment facilities. Betting will be limited te, $100 and no credit or banking machines will be avail- able on site. No free alcohol wiIl be served and no admission wiIl be granted 10 any- 0se. CASINO on page 12 il