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Transportation for disabled Pegasus used extensively in Hills Hills residents using the Regions Pegasus transpor tation service will be able to a seat on the van from now on Regional council decided last Wednesday Pegasus is a service provided for the disabled The van transports people between Haltons four municipalities The new booking system should benefit users in Georgetown and Acton because in the Region they along with Oakville residents use the ser vice the most frequently ac cording to a Regional staff report Hills and Oakville residents each had 77 people registered with the ser vice laBt year And total Pegasus registration in 1989 in creased by 24 per cent Most of the new users were from Halton Hills said the author of the report Bonnie Ewart the Regions Commissioner of Social Services Ms Ewart also said per cent of oneday trips in the Region were between Georgetown and Milton A lot of people from Halton Hills use the van because most of the specialized therapy pro grams for the disabled are located in Milton and Burl ington said Ms Until council approved the system Pegasus users had to reserve a seat net- ween a week and hours in ad vance A reservation had to be made regardless of how regularly a person took the same trip But under the system people only have to make one reservation for repeat trips explained Ms Council was asked to approve the system because a similar but informal arrangement had developed last year Although the prebooking system could potentially frustrate infrequent users because of a lack of available seating the system saves users and staff time said Ms Prebooking also encourages regular use and enables the dispatcher to schedule trips more effectively In Business For Business GSS OFFICE SUPPLIES Georgetown Secretarial Services SI Georgetown 8772282 8771485 Florists Send an uplifting experience Jlct call or visit us today to send ttie feeling never ends CENTRE I Ontarios budget Halton spend more money on social services By BEN The Herald Ontarios budget announcement Tuesday increasing spending on social assistance and child care will mean increases in Regional spending in these areas in the Regions treasurer Joe Rinaldo told Haltons ad ministration and finance committee Wednesday The Liberal governments finance minister Robert Nixon an nounced provincial spending on child care will increase by per cent to million It will also spend an extra million on social assistance And since the Region pays cents for every dollar the province spends on these programs the Region will cor respondingly be forced to increase its spending next year Halton will spend million on social assistance and million on dak care Mr Rinaldo said But Mr Rinaldo wont know the extent of the increases until this fall Thats when the Region will start planning for its 1991 budget Overall however the budget the province is headed in the right direction the treasurer told committee members He was referring to the province successfully bringing In a balanced for the second year in a tow The province will collect and spend about 445 billion in the 199091 fiscal year Mr also highlighted the provinces decision to provide municipalities with million a SI per cent increase over last year for waste management The creation of a crown corpora tion to build water and sewage treatment plants for municipalities could also benefit the Region said Robert Rossini a policy analyst for Halton Region The corporations mandate is still unclear said Mr Rossini but there is speculation the corpora tion would eventually either pro vide some funding for municipal- owned water and sewage treat ment plants or borrow money an behalf of municipalities to build plants Municipalities could therefore get a better interest rate he said Halton Region unlike many municipalities operates its own plants The budget looks pretty good but we wont know for sure from the Regions perspective until this fall said Regional Chairman Peter Pomeroy The province has a way of hiding thing he said after Wednesdays committee meeting For North Halton Walt Elliot the provinces announce ment to transfer responsibility for the Niagara Escarpment Plan from the Ministry of Municipal Affairs to the Ministry of Environment was highlight The switch something my staff and I have been working on for the past three years Mr Elliot said Thursday morning The MOE is the logical ministry Continued on Page CORNER OF ST S GEORGETOWN The Dl Sounds ofthe Ewri Fri Sal 700Clrae View from the top Climbing the pole at work if at least better than climbing the walls Halton Hills Hydro worker Ken unties ropes that kept the hydro wires off the roads after they replaced thin wires along a stretch of Guelph Street between Mill Street and Main Street in Georgetown Wednesday workers were using a new technique so no power was cut to any homes or businesses in the Photo by Alan Mackle Poets comer Escape to Quebec Townships Pg 6 Student Alness on decline Realty of Distinction Inc Realtor v 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