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THE HERALD Wednesday October Page Councillors give Canada Post the cold shoulder A speech made about the success of Canada Post at a town meeting Monday was flag waving media hype rural Halton Hills councillor Joe Hewitt told a Canada post representative Mr Hewitt said a presentation read by Peter Darvill director of city services for Canada Post west Metro division was almost offen slve Mr Hewitt said Canada Post s profit of million last year was due to reductions in service decreases in staff and increase in volume This is just an opportunity for Canada Post to stand up and wave the flag the councillor said in response to Mr claims that the postal service had increas ed while costs to taxpayers decreased since 1981 I find a presentation like this to be media hype he said Mr told Halton Hills councillors that Canada Post recorded its first profit in 33 years m 1988 He said proposed changes for the crown corporation mean that Canadians are paying once for postal service when they go to retail outlets and not twice by pay through taxes Canadian taxpayers are no longer being asked to bear the burden of postal benefits Mr said But Conn Hewitt said Canada Post is spending money on Using If this is supposed to be a costcutting measure all I see is Canada Post out there trying to sell a new image Coun Rick Bonnette and Cook approved of going to the local coun cils to inform them directly about Canada Post s operations They said it would save money other wise spent on television advertise ment Acton Coun Norm Elliot tioned the Canada Post represen about super mail boxes say there is inequity when older houses can get door todoor service while newer subdivision rely on super mail boxes Obviously Canada Post an ticipated that you would encounter some reaction from citizens when you got into topics like community mail boxes the councillor said to Mr The Canada Post representative said super boxes are part of Canada Post s 1981 long range plan that asked for the crown corpora tion in debt in 1981 to be breaking even financially by 1988 There had to be some hard deci swns made We still had to deliver the mail We had to get better at delivering the mail Mr said there is resistence to change in the postal service within both the ruraf and urban sectors But he said at a recent meeting in Whitby residents were happy with com mumty postal boxes It was building in the community People were meeting each other who never met each other before he said corporation a chance to privatize or close rural services the group says Rural post offices scheduled to close will do so after a 90day Joe Hewitt Canada Post will work to retain rural post offices Mr Darvill told councillors He said those post of fices are in rural Canada to stay But Rural Dignity the cross Canada organization formed to combat rural post office closures says Canada Post intends to use natural opportunity to privatize and close rural post offices ousting the postmaster from the system Retirement of a postmaster death of a retailer or sale of a local store give the crown 250000 damage in flour mill fire By DONNA KELL Herald Staff Halton Flour Milling owner Brian stayed at his Mill Street office until 30 Friday night unaware that flames were licking at the of his flour mill and would cause an estimated damage He was exiting the Acton milling company when a warning from a boy across the road alerted him of the developing fire We were in side the office ready to go home Mr Dolotowicz who had stayed late for a meeting that night told the Herald Tuesday Some kid said Hey youre mills on fire We didnt believe him at first Mr said there are no windows in the front office no way of knowing that a fire was building inside the flour mill The Halton Hills Fire Depart says the blaze broke out in a shed that sits atop four of the mills silos The fire then spread down to the silos A couple of the silos got crack ed through the heat and they may have to be repaired I don t know Mr said Tuesday We wont be able to carry as much inventory as we had Firefighters battled the blaze for five hours Friday night The loose flour and grain in the mill could have exploded if hit by sparks or flame the mill owner said The plant itself was unharmed by the blaze The company was back in to operation yesterday Tuesday It will be Christmas before the storage area where mill inventory is kept is back to full service Acton Councillors Rick and Norm Elliot were at the scene Friday Coun Bonnette said the fire department did a great job dousing the blaze It was a potentially dangerous situation and it was averted by firefighters and volunteers he said Halton Flour Milling has been in operation in Acton for the past seven years The milling itself has been at that location since Flour Milling supplies wheat flour to buyers in all parts of Southern Ontario OSBORNE DECOR LTD Does your car dream Do you remember how your car looked when it was new Do you wish it could look that way again Tidy car can bring 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