The highland games are coming to town Clean your kill practice your Scottish June on jour calendar fur that diy the Hilton Highland games will laki place in Georgetown s fairgrounds Town Monday night gave Us Messing promise possible financial to of e two fairly successful years in pi Cans lo Hills a present delist the town administration committee told town council that 1 umber of member ho games executive I ft It lb and Hint at the benefit to both the the Ifche HERALD WEDNESDAY 18 1970 Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Hills has a more distinct corporate Identity than Brampton which continue be swallowed up by the growth of Toronto Hills also has close Scottish sympathy he continued noting the existence of the town two tine pipe bands the Georgetown Legion Pipe Band and the Girls Pipe Band Bill Miller another member of the organizing committee for the gomes added The gomes will bring a lot of colour to the town and a lot of revenue In lis last year in Brampton over people saw of Ontario top pipe bonds and Scottish dancers performing in the Bran Highland Gams It s something new a cultural aspect for the town which we don t have at the present commented Councillor Les The town can look very excitedly towards having such a fine annual event hero news coverage in weekly newspapers competition The Herald has been judged to be providing the best news ana feature stories of all Ontario weekly newspapers with circulations bet ween and Its composition and layout were also judged tops in that circulation category as were its editorial pages These latest honors for the Herald were announced by the Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association late labt week as the results of the Ontario weekly newspaper com petitions were revealed In overall results the Herald placed third in Class circulations between 6 and 10 First place in the prestigious award system which is based on all aspects of a newspaper content from photography to advertising went to the Renfrew Mercury Second place was captured by the Hawkesbury Carillon Class 5 is the third largest category Since the Herald entered the competition its circulation has jumped to over as it has become a free circulation paper Circulation of last week Herald reached Town hall expansion approved Customers of the Soup Pot on St Valentine day were greeted by waitresses Lea and Louise Hoist emit who used the occasion as an ex to dab on a little extra n up in ihe form of valentine Thebi ig question Despite protests of railroading and too few facts figures on the project town council Monday night approved plans to expand the town offices on Seventh Line to accomodate a centralized administration complex Estimated cost of the entire consolidation of municipal services could be over New library is needed but where This is a railroad believe you me stormed Councillor Harry Levy following presentation of a recommendation by council Committee for the Development of New Municipal strntion Property and Build ngs that green light be given to the project and lint the firm of and Wilson Are iti els be hired lo carry out the designing of the addition to the former of offices This is the first lime that Is has been brought before council and you assume re going approve everything You waited until the entire picture before you came before us The Hills Public Library Board had little In convincing town council that a new library Is needed in Georgetown Council however proceeded to spend the half hour Monday night deciding which one of their committees would investigate the need and come up with recommendations on a possible site Joan Lister chairman of the public library board met with council Monday to present the board a request for action in finding new facilities for the Library Since request for an ex tension to the presenj Church library is turned d ting The situation said Mrs Lister is becoming The library docs not have adequate seating a proper reference file nor facilities for storing and showing films Despite those inadequacies the use of library increased last year as ire books were taken out the year before We com ire reidlng in the paper of council for improving arena fucil yet never is the library mentioned To provide a proper library for Georgetown she Hilt square foot I would be required to house the needed volumes plus room for film and file storage Bradley line not cut Julian Heed Liberal for Burlington has called upon the provincial government to give priority to the develop ment of renewable energy resources Acting upon orders from treasurer Ontario Hydro has set out to trim billion from its luvcar expansion program said Mr Heed The cuts involved some cancellation of large capital intensive projects including a million reduction In Hydro line ex panslon however it is mainly a question of deferrals We do not as yet have detailed break down of how the reduction is to be plcmented but it making first hand inquiries that the to Georgetown corridor will not be deferred Although billion reduction Is extremely large amount of money have learned that this only represents oneseventh of Hydro planned expansion program of million The need for of this magnitude is on Hydro a demand projections Into the However recent studies in the S Indicate that projections of future demands can be very reduced by a sensible program of conservation without interfering with our standards of living in any Health hazard must be shown before Norval gets water will not be getting a mun water system In and unless a serious health problem in the small village is shown the likelihood of water for in is not great The region chief administrative officer rnie Held reported to the works committee lost Wednesday on a meeting between staff and officials from the ministry of the environment Environment minister George Kerr was present at the meeting he told the regions representatives that the 1510 required from the province for the project wis definitely not included In his ministry budget and was not of high priority In the budget unless a definite health hazard was present in the village due lo the lack of municipal water About the only good news for residents who have already voiced strong concern over gelling the Georgetown water system extended their village was that the regions works committee Is ready to hire lo draw up engineering plans for the project Cost of lhat is estimated be roughly That money will be set aside in the region 1976 Although project has already gone through verbal reviews councillor Connell eould not miss the opportunity last Wednesday to once question the advisability of providing with municipal water supply predicted that extra water lowing into the village will saturate the soil affecting the vlllngen septic tanks councillor Brown agreed In two ycors when the septic tanks are all overflowing the people there will be saying Why dldn jou tell us it would have been cheaper to truck in our water at ISO per Chairman of the works committee Jack replied if the problem occurs In two or three years wc II just have to deal with it He was one of the prime movers in getting the works committee to endorse hiring the eoasultants Rusty Ford Owners file classaction lawsuit that hove to be looked after The town is going to be faced with some large ex penditurcs he said to renovate or replace the old Georgetown Memorial Arena I object to spending this money at this point simply for our own purposes Chairman of the special building com Hyde defended the expansion of facilities Its much more efficient to bring all our departments Into one unit At present the own a various depart men Is are split between offices on Main Street in Georgetown the Gordon Alcott Memorial Arena and Ihe Seventh Line building To finance the project the town boa requested permission from the Ontario Municipal Board to issue debenture to the amount of 1600 000 Town treasurer flay King told council hat approval for WOO of debentures was received Monday afternoon but Hyde pointed out a good portion of that amount had already been designated to move the ambulance service and fire departments Into new quarters Under questioning by Councillor Hyde about any other town funds that might be available to assist in paying for the new municipal complex Mr King noted that between OOOand In reserve funds wcreavnilablebut prepared recommend that they be used for the new building until the need for those funds for other possible purposes Is con side red Don of the firm of and Wilson Architects presented council with rough plans for possible expansions to the former building One would have increased the of the present square foot building well over 10 square feet Another plan would increase the to over 15 square feet with two two storey ad dilions 25 fine for not buckling up Provincial Court Judge S has sent memo dated Feb to Chief of the Regional Police advising him that the suggested fine for out of court set on seat belt legislation will be and 13 cost for a total of The memo also suggested out of court settlement for careless driving of motorized snow vehicle will be plus cost for a total of 178 WW Lyons a Toronto lawyer whos acting or the 150mcmbcr Rusty Ford Owners group has begun preliminary work on a class action law suit against Ford Motor Co of Canada Mr Lyons who is presently working on a similar class action law suit against General Motors has no date set for the Ford suit however he predicts the suit should get off the ground before this upcoming summer Mr Lyons is working with the Automobile Protection Association a Montreal based consumer group which helped organize the Fordowncra group The 150strong Rusty Ford Owners group coordinated by Tom of Georgetown who a threeyearold Ford pickup truck is quickly deteriorating from rust Mr not ready to sit still and let the rust ruin his new truck began making the public aware of this problem and Inquiring about possible nisi problems other owners faced Earlier this year Mr appeared on CHIC radio In Brampton telling the story of his truck and through this formed the group of 150 1969 to Ford owners with similar rust problems Ford owners with the group come from all parts of Ontario in eluding Elliott Lake London Owen Sound Ottawa Sornla Simcoe all parts of Toronto with about members from Hills After being frequently approached concerning the rust problem Font car rust Is an industry wide problem mainly due to the Increasing use of salt and calcium chloride on roads In the winter Bob Simpson reelected Ambulance Service Chief All eyes are on Credit A PAIR OF CRUTCHES did not keep Scott Peck of the 1st Georgetown troop from receiving his Star Awards night last Tuesday Making the presentation to Scott is Provincial Commissioner Jack Kent Blasting 0 break up the fee build up along the Credit River Tuesday morning by the Credit Volley Conservation Aiunomy The initial blasting took place about one half mile north of Paper Mill Dam The blasting Is an attempt to loosen ice from the bed of the river and allow the According to Joan Rollings Information officer of the C V A floooding proolcm con bo anticipated in the Credit River Valley if the to remain warm and mild The chances of flooding become even greater with rain The Georgetown Volunteer Ambulance Services annual meeting and election of of fleers was held at the am hall on Sunday The following were elected lo office Chlcr Bob Simpson deputy chief Andy Captains Ken Brown Garnet Cameron secretary John Llghtowler treasurer Gerald Wilcox Lieutenants Glen Chop man Larry Cook Bob Crnwford George Duncan Mike llarley Bill Maxwell Frank Tyrrell social chairman Angus Stone memberships chairman Harry Stone A review was held of the facilities which will be available to the service when they make their move to new facilities in the lire hall building on Chapel Street Hills Mayor Tom Hill attended the meeting and conducted the elections