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FREE DISTRIBUTION WEDNESDAY ALGUST9th 1989 PAGES Georgetown to vote on oneprice calls to Toronto By DONNA KELL Herald Staff Georgetown telephone users could get oneprice service to call Metropolitan Toronto within three years Bell Canada will send surveys to about residents this fall ask ing if they would like to pay anywhere from to more a month to get residential to Toronto York Scar borough and Etobicoke Business phone users will also be surveyed Customers in Georgetown presently pay 75 for basic vice and 10 a month for business phone service Surveys must show a 50per cent support before Bell will consider hooking up all of Georgetown to the oneprice Toronto line The survey results are expected to be delivered by mad in October Results could come back as early as the new year said Bell section manager for Georgetown Nancy If approved the service would take about two years to lm plement she said What everybody has to decide for themselves is if they spend enough to warrant the monthly in crease she said I honestly don t know if Georgetown will elect to have the service It could go either way Surveys were recently com pleted in a communitv east of Caledon East People in that community that were surveyed were 61 per cent in favor of a one pnce line to Toronto Rates in will increase from 7 40 to a month for a residential phone line and from to 55 for a business line Communities between Georgetown and Toronto will not be included in the if they don t fall within the Metro area There must be at least one call a month made to a city or town by per cent of a town s population before the oneprice line is con sidered Ms Creede said This means calls to Toronto could be toll free while calls to would still be long distance The northern areas of such as Streetsville and would be most likely to be called by many Georgetown residents once a month Ms said Milton will get surveys for a possible Toronto phone line at the same time surveys are sent out to Georgetown Bell is presently in the process of preparing the surveys Ms Creede says the chances of a town with about the same population as Halton Hills choos ing the Toronto line are about the same as for Georgetown the deci sion could go either way Red Cross needs more blood donors Steady as she goes Jesse Desjardlns 7 concentrates Held outside SacreCoeur School on Guelph Street last nervously as he tries to catch a water balloon without Wednesday Judging from the gleeful facial expression letting it break Jesse was one of many children par of participant Chad Gimmell not all were hoping for in several water sports put on by the Jesse s success Georgetown Parks and Recreation Department in the People who are too forgetful or too busy to give blood this summer are contributing to a shortage in the Metropolitan Toronto area that could affect surgery patients and car accident victims a local Red Cross spokesperson says Hills Cochair of Blood Donor Clinics Flo Street said the Metrowide problem is also affec ting Haiton Hills There a bad shortage They need donors a day every day for at least the next two weeks Mrs Street said Thursday Type O blood found in per cent of the population is the blood needed most by the Red Cross she said The Red Cross Society is com for the lack of donors by uicr the number of visits There used to be a 90day period between visits This has been reduced to days This time of year its bad because of the holidays said Mrs Street But we need blood for accidents and then of course for people who are having serious operations The Red Cross usually looks for 800 units of blood a day But when shortages hit the quota is increas ed to 000 units There will be a blood donor clinic at Holy Cross Church on Maple Avenue Aug from 1 30 p m to 30 p m The local quota is 350 units of blood that day but Mrs Street says the Red Cross would sure like to get more Anyone from the age of to can donate blood Transportation is provided by the Red Cross for those who want to donate but can not commute Mrs Street advice to everyone is just go out to the nearest blood donor chmc and give In addition to the August clinic in Georgetown there will be a blood donor clinic in Acton this September Escaped robber caught in Georgetown A man convicted of assaulting a Georgetown man with a knife while robbing his home in was arrested by Halton Regional Police for his parole Gregory Kuipers 22 was ser ving the fast of a threeyear sen tence in the Beaver Creek Correctional Camp Bracebndge Under his parole conditions he was to remain at the camp for the rest of his sen tepee Mr Kuipers was convicted of aggrevated assault break and enter and robbery at a Georgetown home in July 1987 Police say he broke into the home in the middle of the night and stabbed the owner Halton Regional Police received a call early Friday from the Bracebndge detyachment of the Ontario Provincial Police who asked Halton Police to find the escaped parolee Acting on leads from several sources Police found the convicted man at a Langstone Crescent home in Georgetown There was a bnef struggle before the man was taken into custody but there were no in juries during the struggle police say Mr Kuipers faces the parole board who will hear evidence and decide if the convicted man will return to prison the Bracebridge O P said