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titftc list a FREE DISTRIBUTION WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8th 1989 32 PAGES Taxpayers could face 126 per cent hike By DONNA the Herald The Town of Halton Hills Mon day outlined a proposed budget that calls for a municipal tax increase of 6 per cent for ban residents to offset an expected increase in waste disposal costs The proposed town budget asks for a municipal tax collection of 7 million and million for ban service charges Urban vice charges include the costs of waste disposal crossing guards and street lighting The service is provided to almost threequarters of the town 000 population Those in urban service areas will pay an average in taxes for a house assessed at M0 in 1990 if the proposed budget is approved b town councillors next March In 1989 residents with urban service an average town treasurer Ra King said Rural residents will face an crease of per cent in taxes That would bnng municipal taxes up to from the 1989 average figure of 67 The town s proposed 1990 budget does not include school board and Regional tax levies Costs for street lights and cross ing guards will likely face a six percent increase Mr King said Six per cent is an figure to counter inflation growth ac cording to Mr King But Regional staff said recently tipping fees the price charged for collecting and transporting garbage will likely increase by 37 per cent in January bringing the cost from 50 a tonne to over a tonne Halton s garbage is presently transported outside the Region at a cost of about 1 million a month The increase in the tipping fee would mean an average urban resident will pay more a year The public perhaps doesn t understand the reality of this Ac ton Councillor Norm Elliott said in response to the waste disposal in creases Mr Elliott said the in creased tipping fee demonstrates a garbage crisis in this Region We had a group here at Halton Hills town council saying this issue is orchestrated Continued on Page a Farm may be on Toronto orchestras short list Only shopping days til Christmas Kim Springer of the Parent Child Centre in St An drew 9 Church in Georgetown isn t clowning around when she tells us to get ready for Christmas The clown was part of a day long bazaar extravaganza Id Halton Hills Saturday Browsers buyers and snackers could choose wares that ranged from wooden ducks to shortbread More photos from Satur days bazaars throughout town are on page 11 Herald photo by Donna Kelt By DONNA KELL the Herald Scotsdale Farm near Ballmafad could be on an unofficial shortlist of communities competing to host the Toronto Symphony Orchestra each summer Two communities among the sites being considered located near Kleinburg and near Mono Township A main criterion in choosing a site for the TSO summer home which is intended to be like the Park in Boston Massachusetts where the Boston Symphony Orchestra plays during summer months is for the site to be within an hour drive to There are six sites of the 18 ap plying communities that are less than an hour s dnve from Toronto Hart of the TSO said last week She said the Scotsdale Farm near is within an hour from the city Mrs Hart said the TSO shelved plans to name a shortlist of possi summer orchestra sites This list was to be released within the next week or two But she said a consultant will review the sites before the makes any an Mrs Hart would not say which communities are among the other 15 sites John Creelman a contributing editor for the Orangeville Citizen and a resident of Mono said Wednesday his town is champion ing a site call Continued on Page Arson suspected in Meadowglen Mushroom fire Arson is suspected as the cause of a fire that broke out at Meadowglen Mushroom Growers Ltd partially destroying two of the Mountainview Road North buildings in Glen Williams day night fire officials say Halton Regional Police have called in an investigator from the Ontario fire office to conduct an investigation Damages have yet to be deter mined There were no injuries Firefighters let the buildings burn down because they were already scheduled for demolition We t going to commit firefighters and risk injury when the buildings were ed to be demolished a fire department spokesman said Firefighters left the scene Saturday morning around 8