877 HERALD Home Newspaper of Hills Wednesday November Ma yor to run key committee Council reps gain top posts By CHRIS Herald Adding eight to former cabinet made several years ago Hilton regions comes from the north Hills Mayor Pomcroy and two town councillors been elected to head regional committees for the next two years While the unofficial elections held among members of the incoming council Monday afternoon await ratification Dec 1U Mayor Pomcroy has at least ttmporanlj assumed key chairmanship of the region finance and administration committee I tentatively accepted the chairmanship Mayor told The Herald morning It the tough est job he region and I really haven made up my mind about taking it yet bee of other commitments Meanwhile regional Booth will start his second term as planning com and Vtinl Miller has once again been chosen to held the solid waste management committee one of the region most prog ressivc administrative body Commenting on his reelect ion lo Iht planning chairman ship Booth said hit no changes are proposed for Hal tons planning policies in the immtdiate future I rather gratified he said I 11 be able to with progrims which we hive been working on for last two years pleased it low Hilton Hills Mike Armstrong has joined Ins torn Booth said it easier to explain position on ruril land issues to urban Rookie Anne Mulvik who former committee chairman Mil Anderson in the Nov 10 lections has also joined the planning committee with Burlington councillors Count II and I ind Milton s Br id cuts who Hid It will be ST NICK ARRIVES AMIDST POMP AND PAGEANTRY miivigcmcnt committee cord tig lo Milltr who wis unopposed in his bid for second as the committees hod He Man The Georgetown lions Club has been sponsoring the community annual Santa since 1310 and Informed sources lell us that St thinks It one of the best of the Its live season With Mi charming he delighted hundreds of kids young and old who turned out In droves as the parade wound Its way from Moore Park through the downtown core to InlhrGcorgrtownMarketPlace the Georgetown Girts Pipe Hand proved feature of the parade leading the entourage with a seasonal repertoire of Christmas Results of the judging for best float service club entry and best nun commercial float will in next week Herald See page fur more photos chairman midway Move to offset deficit through the term The pro ject tin committee faces is plan to recyclable from household trash and turn it into fuel or other useful products source separation pos hopeful will be rtadj next spring Sewer rates rising 25 per cent Ilj Herald Weathering propusil Hilton sewer surcharge council his approved cent sewer rate increase effective Jan I to offset sewer budget lie hike which will the average service costs by next year was last Wednesday returns for second term sajntas despite Burlington opposition regional solicitor Dennis Perlin warned thai IDKQfr council could legally sue the outgoing council unless quick action wis taken to correct the deficit First red last March the wis incurred underfill mi ting expenditures for 1B30 and receiving insuffi government funding for sewer works projects Mr said that raising the sewer rales would recover the deficit as well as provide enough money for expenditures or million including inflation planned for next years sewer works program Although the of the incoming council taking its extremely slim 117 of the Incumbents were returned to office Nov 101 Mr told i this ycir a special delivery letter from the North Pole has arrived on the editors desk seeking Herald assistance conveying the Chnstmis wishes of Hilton Hills youngsters to old St Nick Children of ail iges are invited to jol down ihtir message to Santa along with their Christmas wish and we it Tht Herald will do our best to gel them up north in lime for Mr lo respond accordingly All letters received before December 19 Herald St will be promptly dispatched to the North Pole and space and time allowing mill lelters is possible will be pnnled along with Santa responses in this newspaper during the weeks before Tht earlier the better kids so start rccjonil Jack Riflis mimtcd to job during Monday diction post by Coun Terrv Manntll ton Wilier Mulkewich Mr his past performance is Mr support for s sewer system his inhered wish lo scrip the system by help subsidize sewer works in north Three allots were rcquir id before Mr fitully secured i victory in the results of which rem mi until the al its miuiural meet 10 With no majority ifter the first billot Mr picked up votes Mulkewich and a second vole was held eliminating Minnell as the lowtst contender But the second tee in a lie between Mr Raft Mulkewich requ ring a third vott after short minute recess and some hasty lobbying Although Burlington heft votlngbloc went solidly against Mr he barely m mated to pull away from his opponent in a 15 vole ting the drafted Mayor Bird to quash Mr Ilaflis bid to return to office Hills Mayor Pete said it wis uncalled for and in i cry poor lastt It say much Tor a mm in Holy Bird position he was In her then she had an unexpected of this dump truck The truck went out of approached Narva on Highway and slid truck Harold treat i Herald photo Housewife has narrow escape as dumptruck crashes into home Mrs had a narrow escape Monday afternoon hen a dump truck crashed into the corner of her Nerval home only feet from where she was sitting m her living room the Willow irk trailer Mi where ho park when it out of is for injuries control and slid into house knocking a large hole in the corner of the living Mrs said she The driver of the truck was in room doing of Hit a Hoffman of Hint j Inn the truck Norland was taken lo crashed win Ihe wall and Georgetown District she wis so frightened she estimated Reed cries doublecross Ontario citizens have been by the province s Conservative government according to Halton Ion liberal Julian Reed In a issued from his Queen Park office morning Mr Heed condemned energy minister Robert Welch for filling to mike good on the government a prom to lie ineejuilies in rural urban hydro rates Mr Heed wis responding Mr Welch own si Ihe legislature yeslerday that in his province for revised rural hydro rates be set at only half thai foreseen by the government mini budget The move wis inlended lo bring rural rates on a par those in Ihe urban areas but according to Mr Reed will insind be seen the rural residents of Ontario as a doublet One wonders about the credibility of the promise lo issisl with home heating costs for people on fixed incomes since the workint there is even less straightforward he mmmtcd The upcoming election should signal the people of Ontario view this sort of Sewer issue under study Regional council has form look into Hilton s troubled barge method of Drilled regioml lor Dennis the propo sal oils for the live heids and treasurers of Hilton four municipalities to meet with their regional counterparts and determine whether the method is the to pay for s and wilier and industries in are charged sewer rale based on the volume of water consumed over a certain month Fearing that council wis about lo scrap the surcharge system in favor of another which would have been far more cosily to Hills regional rcpresentitives council last month that it would go to court to hold the region to its sewer surcharge outlined in Bill 151 the provincial legishtion which The Herald two weeks ago that current council should be of its liability in the event does not move to correct the fault before its Addressing an emergency session of the region idmini and finance commit tee which preceded last Wednesday regular council meeting Mr acknowl edged the formation of a special committee examine Hilton sewer rale system 1MPROVFSYSTFM Comprised of members of and local staffs the committee will also study to the present system proposed in a consult ant study re used to council last month Under the present surcharge system residents and induslri pav only for The ye raid the region has Burlington and because order to improve angered i the pay mor ments being north However if the current system is Burlington councillors have attempted to do on three ous occasions residents of Hills would be faced with an enormous ax hike to pay for the 1977 million expansion of the Georgetown sewage treatment plant Under Ihe former charge back system preferred by Continued on page A3 Councillor fires a parting shot is if tht 19B80touiKil to wrap up its list c nitric with the seven members in Hit Nm deflated fellow uneilhrs Ronnie llrown and Ron iche is well as Wood Don Gordon and Goutc to iccept ton rings Minnell rallied for a broadside at regional slill feel that there is drastically and radically wrong with the finances of the region Coun said I irlltr when he his liken ring from reiiona lick Coun Minnell said he his no rcgre lie outcome which loft him out the muncitial pohti involvement Other councillors were in the as tiny bowed the rifional political Coun Wood whose defeat is rep by Dave Whilin proved to lit the upset in Hilton Hills election serving on council had been a pleasure and n privilege I Dunk I mlcivmga teller person than I wis when I first walked in door he said I certainly wish ill the host in the next Iw irs ACT OF GODDO Torontobased rock trio thundered Into the Georgetown High School I- rid ay night to entertain some young fans Band member Greg Godovtti here and Doug fnglii have recorded three together achieved recognition and will open Ihe New Sear r at Maple Leaf Garden or Max Warming up for table a new band Jack Harlow reports that both bands were well received Goddo ha red a bill with Haltered Wives at Club last year Photo by Harold