GSS OFFICE SUPPLIES SacrafarM 8772282 LIVING Georgetown Town fays 154 charges FREE DISTRIBUTION WEDNESDAY JUNE 27th 1990 PAGES Builders face million in fines ByBENDUMMETT The Herald Halton Hills Development Cor poration and its principals could face fines of up to million if they re convicted of 154 charges in connection with building infrac in a Stewarttown subdivision The town of Halton Hills laid the charges against the company and its principals Byron Dailey and Michael after the town found that 22 houses on Thompson Drive Court and Place in had numerous building deficiences said the town s administrator clerk Dan Costea Friday A bear ing will be held July 5 in Milton to determine a trial date The charges were laid under the provinces building code planning act and water resources act The development is comprised of 33 houses but only those houses that were occupied before August 1989 are affected said the town s building inspector John Holmes By laying the charges we are saying to developers that the town will not condone any structures that don meet the building code said Mr Costea He emphasized his point saying we want the con industry to know that compliance is necessary If the corporation is found guilty on all charges the court could impose a maximum fine of per charge And if the principals are also found guilty on the same charges then the court could pose a maximum fine of per charge andor up to a year in jail Strawberry delight good Now just a little and this would be perfect The thought Is probably crossing Nigel mind as be focuses on the strawberry feast in front of him And as chairman of the HnUonvUie Strawberry festival Mr Ives knows his strawberries The festival was held at the Public School Sunday and food and entertainment abounded The festival is put on to promote the many slrawberr growers in the Hills area Its now peak strawberry season and there plenty of strawberry farms in the area to choose from Herald for each offence according to the Ontario building code In my years of experience this is an abnormal situation said Mr Holmes Construction practices carried out in this subdivision are not normally found in the in dustry be added The towns final inspections which were done through the sum and fall of last year by the cur rent town building inspection staff revealed that some of the major Coot don Page 3 Electrical firm lays off 80 The Georgetown company Smith and Stone has laid off 80 of its employees for the week because of the current strikes in the construction industry said company president George Mac Phee Friday A major portion of the plant has been shut down this week because of the strikes in the and plumbing industries and a genera slowdown in the economy said Mr MacPhee The company employs peo ple and manufactures a host of electrical devices common to most homes including plugs and switches It is located on Glen Road in Georgetown Most of the company orders come from the construction in dustry in Ontario and Quebec but the construction related strikes in these provinces have slowed down the number of orders creating a backlog inventory explained Mr The layoffs are necessary to allow for an inventory adjust ment a reduction in inventory and at the end of the week the situation will be reassessed said Mr MacPhee He rule out the possibih ty of further short term layoffs saying it will depend on when the construction industry settles its labor contract disputes Mr Mac wouldn speculate when this would happen The company s parent firm Hammond Manufacturing of Guelph put the company up for sale in December 1989 The com pany was put on the auction blocks after a couple of com parues expressed interest in buy ing Smith and Stone Hammond vicepresident for financing John Anderson said at the tune