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O Canada comes home to Limehouse By SAVAGE Thomson News Service Canadian students will receive an audible treat to celebrate the country s anniversary in Their schools will get high copies of 0 Canada for the lornings exercises should mean an end to the scratchy records most people remember The new recordings feature more than 200 top artists including Rita MacNeil tuba and and are be ing sent free to all schools and radio stations in Canada They re the brainchild of Ross of Ont The radio morningman at DC in Orangeville discovered in early 1991 that there are few recordings of 0 Canada available the government t have good copies of the anthem available Carl in said I thought it was a travesty that my kids would go through school without learning the words to 0 Canada without having a de cent copy to hear Carhn told reporters He worked this past year to produce the new versions of ficially launched Friday at a Toronto press conference that offer both contemporary and symphonic versions they are available on CDs and cassettes The contemporary version features a mix of vocals that is similar to the Tears Are Not Enough record from a few years ago Continued on Page Hounds of hell savage goats By LISA The Herald After two domesticated dogs slaughtered of his purebred Saanen goats in a killing frenzy William Alexander worst fear is they 11 be back to kill some more The Georgetown man has been fanning dairy goats at his loth Line farm for over years and said he s never seen anything like the car nage he witnessed early Sunday morning when he went to feed a pen of kid goats He opened the door of the en closure to see dead and dying goats with throats slashed and heads crushed by a large black dog I put the light on and the dog didn t even look up at me recalls Mr Alexander He was in a frenzy and he just ignored me Fearful of the dog he closed the door and minutes later he saw it run off with another black dog similar in size and appearance The dogs entered and exited through a back door he left partially open for ven When he looked back in the pen most of the goats were dead The ones still living were in terrible pain suffering from crushed skulls and gaping wounds They had to be put down by a veterinarian Mr Alexander says he knows the vicious dogs are definitely not wild dogs because he followed one of the dogs tracks to the end of his laneway The dogs had defecated there and Mr Alexander said he could detect the remains of com mercialdogfoodinit The dogs were obviously well fed because none of the slaughtered animals were eaten For Mr Alexander the loss of the animals is not only emotionally trying but a tremendous loss to his dairy goat business The kids that were in the pen were all bom within the last four months which is out of season for goats Mr Alexander has specifically manipulated part of his herd s breeding with artificial light and pharmaceuticals in order to achieve the fall births As in all commercial milk producing animals calving goats must be dried up before birth which creates a gap in milk production By using artificial means to control reproduction with part of the herd Mr Alexander ensures that his herd produces milk all year around Mr Alexander said because of the effort and expense of having fall births the kids killed are more valuable and he estimates his loss at more than Continued on Page 2 BiWay relocation threatens downtown ByBENDUMMETT The Herald The Georgetown downtown core will incur a serious blow if the Way store on Mam Street moves to a Guelph Street location says Elizabeth McNeilly Chairperson of the Georgetown Central Business Improvement Area Contacted Monday Bi Way Assistant Manager Angela Thom sen confirmed the store head of in Toronto is considering the I AH INSIDE LOOK 2 I Environment News 5 I DBUulFonim 6 Sendee Bulletins 6 Agriculture 7 Legion tines Seniors Editorial flay side 10 People 10 Community Forum 10 Gibson 11 Ben 11 JacieB Palmer Money Matters Youth Page Sports Community Focus ReUglon Arts Ideas 25 For More Than possibility of moving the store to a location in the Hills Shop ping Centre on Guelph Street However she did say if the store is moved it happen until after the beginning of August Faced with the prospect of a possible move by Bi Way Ms Mc who also owns Elizabeth Fashions on Main Street said We the BIA membership hope it t come to pass Referring to the Bi Way store as a very viable part of the downtown core Ms McNeilly said We do everything our power to keep the store in the downtown area That includes the possibility of a letter to the store head office indicating how strongly the BIA membership supports the Bi Way store remaining in its current location said Ms Continued on Page 3 THE VOICE OF HALTON HILLS SINCE 1866 126THYEARNO 1 SINGLE COPY GST 25 HALTON HILLS ONTARIO SUNDAY JANUARY 5TH 1 if IF ill fXrm A I a First baby of 92 Little Erin born at 4 a Mommy and Kris and Ken January 2nd and weighing In at albs 15 ounces be happier Is their first child Herald was the first baby born In Hills this year Photo by Steven Local food banks provided Christmas cheer for needy The number of people using Hills food banks increased significantly this Christmas season but so did the generosity of the com say food bank coordinators The amount of food and gifts that was brought in was just believable said Joan coordinator of the Acton food Share located on the Beardmore property I was really touched So were the hundreds of people who needed the food she said We put as much food out in one day this December as we did in a whole month last year she said She found there was a significant rise in people using the food bank for the first time this December The generosity and numbers of people who needed help was no less significant in Georgetown The donations were mar vellous said Laura Ellison coor of the Love in Christ Food Bank at Baptist Church in Georgetown This is a very giving community She thankful the donations were up because so were the numbers of people making use of the service We had lots more people coming in this year than last year she said But both food banks managed to provide every needy person with enough food for Christmas Love in Christ has enough food left over to provide meals for needy families until February A couple of success stories came out of this year Christinas food drive as well In Acton a man brought in 12 turkeys which was his way of saying thank you to the food bank because he had made use of its services the year before Another man brought in bags of toys saying her t have survived the year before if it wasn for the food bank The Town Buyer will return Jan 11 GEORGETOWN I