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GO wont expand here soon Hills residents shouldnt expect an allday twoway GO train rail service in the near future Halton Regional Chairman Peter Pomeroy told members of the Regions planning and public works committee last Wednesday The province is moving towards expanding the Georgetown GO transit rail ser vice the provinces Minister of Transportation William said at a press conference in Toronto April 5 But chairman who attended the press conference said the extended service Is a low priority for the province He told committee members the proposed expansion wont happen for about the next ten years Necessary track reconstruction is one problem discouraging the province from introducing the all day two way service to Georgetown sooner the chairman said The province has allotted million to the GO transit rail pro ject which besides Georgetown includes similar services for Milton Richmond Hill and StouvUle The million is over and above the normal amount of fun ding the province provides the municipalities annually for roads highways GO transit and municipalities transit systems Mr said during the press conference The announcement as it per tains to Georgetown was part of the provinces extensive plan to ex pand the Toronto area transports system during the next ten years Other expansion plans to the GO train system benefitting Halton in clude an allday service to Pair- view station in Burlington by 1992 a new GO station at Road also in Burlington to begin this year improvements to the East line between Whit by and Oshawa and the extension of the GO train service to the downtown Hamilton station ac cording to a regional report Chamber manager resigns The Hills Chamber of Commerce is looking for a new general manager Mary Ann Chapman the current general manager handed in her resignation recently She will leave her May Ms Chapman accepted another job but she would not elaborate on the new position Ms Chapman acknowledged this isnt a good time to leave the chamber because it is in the mid die of preparations for this years upcoming BIG celebration The chamber has set up a search committee to find a replacement said Ms Chapman Meanwhile Walt Dixon who heads up the search committee said former general manager Doug Penrice will take over the position in the interim so plans for BIG go ahead as scheduled Mr Dixon couldnt say when a new general manager would be chosen The general manager said she was as surprised as anyone that she was with the chamber for only four to five months Ms Chapman had replaced Doug Penrice Im leaving on the best of terms she added In Busjnress For Business OFFICE SUPPLIES Georgetown Secretarial Services St Georgetown 8772282 8771 Florists 1 1 works overtime SECRETARIES WEEK Is April ORDER TODAY 8776901 FREE DISTRIBUTION SATURDAY APRIL 1990 24 PAGES Dufferin bid for landfill is withdrawn By BEN The Herald Aggregates has withdrawn its proposal to put a landfill in its quarry partly located in Halton Hills The landfill would have been twice the size of the pro posed Reclamations Systems Incorporated RSI Ac ton landfill The quarry would have had a capacity of between 30 to 40 tonnes of garbage while the Acton quarrys capacity is 18 million tonnes The Dufferin quarry is bordered s on the east by the First Line in Hills and in the west by the Sixth Line Milton Mayor Miller like the rest of Halton Region s councillors learned about the surprise move Wednesday at a Regional council meeting And like most especially those from the north the mayor was pleasantly surprised with the news I pleased to see this but I m a bit surprised said Mayor Miller after Wednesdays council meeting But Mayor Miller tempered his enthusiasm saying as long as there is a quarry there is a possibility of someone wanting to build a land fiU Bill told the Region we have never had any desire to force our solution on the community and having presented our solu to the appropriate bodies Hills Milton and the Region and being unable to ob tain sufficient support at this time we will now return our focus to our main business aggregates The letter followed a meeting between the Regional Chairman Peter and Mr I asked him Mr to withdraw the proposal said the chairman after the council meeting And as far as the chairman is concerned the possibility of the quarry being used as a Aggregates had always landfill in the future is a dead said its a good corporate citizen Going quackers After being savagely attacked by 30000 ducks Tom Reed left and Tony Schlegel try to keep their heads above the waves of waterfowl The duo were Just a couple of he many Klwanis members tagging ducks in Brampton In preparation for the Klwanis Credit River Duck Race The ducks will start the race at the Nerval Bridge and bob their way down to El Dorado Park In Brampton The docks are still selling for each and can be attained by phoning the at Members of the Georgetown Brampton and Ftower City Klwanis Clubs are also selling the ducks for the April 28 race Prltes include a shopping at the Olde Hide House a cellular phone and a 1990 Pontiac The money raised by the event will go to local charities Herald photo by Ben and it looks like they might proven it he said The mayor didnt have much choice but to withdraw the proposal The company said Mayor Miller knew there was strong opposition from the Town of Hills and the Region Conservation Authority The company had promised to The chairman set up the meeting because the Regions planning and public works committee had sent the aggregate company the A majority of committee members defeated a motion to outright reject the proposal at their April meeting Instead they recommended Regional coun withdraw its proposal if it didnt simply acknowledge the pro- get public support In a letter addressed to the posal They came to us the commit- Region that was received the same tee which the chairman is part of day It was written April 18 the vicepresident of St Lawrence Ce- asked for a yes or no but we 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