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1 By Oksana Buhel ‘A new $10 million indoor com- posting facility may be constructed in Halton Hills in the near future, but few people seem to know about it. “I haven’t heard anything about it,” insisted Mayor Russ Miller, GO trains ‘back on track GO Transit’s Board has tabled recommended service reductions until GO Chairman, Lou Parsons, meets with Ontario Minister of Transportation, Gilles Pouliot, Treasurer, Floyd Laughren and Premier Bob Rae. The Board, which consists of the chairmen of the five regions that GO serves as well as the chairman “of Metropolitan Toronto, instructed Parsons to seek the meeting with the top government officials “to discuss alternative methods of achieving a reduced operating bud- get without significant impact on GO Transit service level The service reductions were GO’s reaction to government instructions to trim its need for provincial operating subsidies in the current fiscal year by $6.5 million. The suggested changes included all day on weekends between Oakville and Burlington and between Pickering and Whitby; cancelling the single weekday train serving Acton and Guelph and the one serving Barrie; eliminating bus service between Richmond Hill, Markham and Scarborough Centre and all but.one of the buses operat- ing in weekday off-peak hours between Union Station and , Richmond Hill; reducing GO’s sub- . sidy payments to municipal transit } systems under, the fare. integration ; and raising the fare on bus services operated between Finch - subway and Richmond Hill under contract to three municipalities in that area. The board has agreed to convene a special meeting on short notice once Parsons has held his session with Rae, Laughren and Pouliot. Meanwhile, it agreed to recom- mend that the government approve ; a system-wide two per cent fare increase; a raise in the downtown bus surcharge levied on passengers on GO’s Uxbridge-to-downtown- Toronto bus service from 60 cents to $1.30 to reflect the current TTC fare; and cancellation of the GO portion of the subsidy for the Twin Pass program, which sells GO adult monthly passes and TTC Metropasses as a package with a | $20 discount. Convenuence Store: 10 Mountainview S, 877-9741 ee ms sro la Georget (oo a br] aa 0: 22 649 Bonus: 07] Encore: 9 165 7 0) Sat. May 15/93} 14 17 24.32 40) Bonus: 38) goth Bird OF 01 kos 12 43 Call eacey ‘Lotto no 00) os 1870-0195 Bruce MacLean when. asked Friday morning. Equity Environmental Services Corp., a Woodbridge-based com- pany, completed the purchase of a 61-acre site, west of Sixth Line between Steeles Ave. and the 401, on May 7. Equity must now wait for the land to be re-zoned from agricultural use to rural industrial and prestige industrial. The predicament is that the pro- posed zoning change has been deferred indefinitely by the Minister of Municipal Affairs, at Gardener’s Resource Guide. Author Wendy Thomas was greeted by Pam Dickinson of Oxbow Books on Main. St. in Georgetown Saturday, during an autograph session featuring Thomas’ just- -released book, The Ontario Lid put on indoor composting facility the prompting of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Halton Region. Bruce MacLean, Town of Halton Hills deputy planning director, explained that the last re-zoning application to the minister was sub- mitted in 1982. “At that time we were told that the land would be more suited for agricultural pur- poses,” MacLean explained. “Now we must apply in piecemeal fash- “ion for every site between the 401 and Steeles, from:just. west of the ue Line i est of the Nineth ine. aT iter said the planning department has not yet received a re-zoning application from Equity. He added that after the application is received, the re-zoning process could take another six months to a year, “assuming there are no com- plications.” Larry Hurley, chief operating officer at Equity, insists there will be no complications. “We’ll do some soil testing before we put in the application,” he explained, “but we know the land is suitable, or we wouldn’t have “pought it. This is merely a formali- photo by Colin Gibson/HHTW TW. Seavice undays Poa ae 44" Remote Control Colour TV... 20" Remote Control Colour TV... 26" Remote Control COlOUr TV .ssssissssesersessssen 448” Deluxe VCR Special with Remote Control........ 228” Deluxe Hi-Fi VCR On-screen Programming... 348” CD Remote Control Player........ 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