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GWQA needs to raise 2000 in November Page 5 Clocks and crafts on sale at GDHS Page 10 For Business GSS OFFICE SUPPLIES Georgetown Secretarial Services GEORGETOWN 877 2282 acton L7J 1W3 ESHH Home Newspaper of Hills Established J 866 FREE DISTRIBUTION WEDNESDAY OCTOBER PAGES Halton Hills to lose half its Via service By DONNA KELL Herald StaH Via Rail service from London to Toronto stopping in Georgetown be cut half as of Jan 15 Recent federal government budget cuts to the national rail ser vice will mean that service presently operating trains a week will be pared down to 14 trains a Via public relations officer Gauthier said day There is an average 2 passengers getting on and off Via s trains at Georgetown each month compared to an average a month in 1988 The train leaving London and stopping in St Mary s Stratford Kitchener Georgetown and Brampton before arriving in Toronto will likely arrive in Georgetown at 30 a too late to serve the commuter crowd although schedules for the reduced train service have not been com Mr Gauthier said The bad news is we re basically getting out of the commuter market We II no longer be serving the commuter Long time ad of Via Rail Halton Hills Councillor Rick Bon said recently the Toronto- Kitchener London line is a well used service in the The train becomes entirely fill ed as it gets to Toronto Coun said That tram ve been told has increased from three to five rail cars in the last year The councillor said Via looked at figures showing an overall pic ture of the service used to 50 per cent capacity But he said the tram should leave from Kitchener where it s making money on the line through to Georgetown and Toronto each morning Via will run the present Toronto- London service from Samia each morning Mr says That train now leaves that city west of London each day at 7 a Hie Torontobound tram from Sanua would have to leave at a to Continued on Page Town to consider public bus service Halton Hills town staff over the next few months will consider testing a public bus service on the community Russ Miller said Monday night that a private Hills transportation company approach him recentlv to offer a mini bus service Funds for private service would be provided by municipal government the mayor said It s nice to know that someone is interested in providing the vice Mr Miller said of the com offer The company cannot be named because a contract would likely go through the tender ing process before it is approved by town council the mayor said A bus service if funds are available in the town budget would be tested in the community before a permanent service is put in place The contract would likely be awarded to a company already the transportation business the mayor said It would almost hae to be so meone who has the equipment The bus service issue was men honed Halton Hills rural area Councillor Joe Hewitt at the town council meeting Monday night Hewitt asked the town to consider a shuttle service from Ac ton to Georgetour I often see school kids hit People to get to work hitchhiking Councillors said that a bus vice to GO Transit in Georgetown could be considered in a town study Mayor Miller said many people in Hills have two to four cars but said that the town would look info public transportation Town staff will study transports lion needs in the town and will look at the impact of a temporary bus service on the 1990 Hills budget Mayor Miller said the report could be completed in a few months Georgetown man charged with attempted murder Charlie the Scarecrow from craft and bake sale put on by the North Centre for Special Needs at the Acton Arena on Saturday Mary of Georgetown seems to be pondering if the scarecrow from this pumpkin Notsoscary scarecrow Hew in to the f his much needed brain The day long the first bazaar for the special needs centre and Mr Burak said we re doing very well thank you Herald photo by Brian MacLeod Toronto Metropolitan Police charged a Georgetown man with attempted murder after a Toron to woman was stabbed several times at her Queen s Quay apart in Toronto a half hour after police say the pair were watching videos Kevin Blackmore 30 will ap pear at a bail hearing Oct 26 in connection with the charges Ambulance attendants rushed the woman to the Toronto General Hospital where she underwent emergency surgery for a punctured liver and multi pie stab wounds early Monday morning police say Her name has not been releas ed by police called police the woman started running down the hall knocking on peoples doors and yelling for help Police say the ex boyfriend and girlfriend bumped into each other at a church meeting at 30 Sunday night After the meeting they went back to the woman s apartment to watch videos A man left the apartment at about 12 30 a m but returned a half hour later to use the telephone police say A man chased the woman into the bedroom and stabbed her about the body according to police After the woman escaped a man attempted to flee bur was stopped by police as he was leav ing the apartment building