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THE Regional council overturns committee recommendation Halton Regional council recently overturned a recommendation made by its administration and finance committee to nominate the planned Milton dump as a condi tion for Halton remaining in the Greater Toronto Area But the GTA isnt too uptight about councils decision said Regional Chairman Peter Friday Feb marked the deadline for each member of the the regions of Peel Durham Metropolitan Toronto Phone changes now in effect It started Thursday and every time a person forgets it will hap pen again Were sorry You must dial a one or zero plus the area code before the number you were dialing Will you please hang up and try your call again This is a recording Bell Canada now requires that all long distance calls made within the area must be preceded with the digits In other words a long distance phone call to Toronto from Hills would be phaced thusly 1416502345 Bell Canada officials announced the change Jan effective March l Bell officials said long distance costs will not change because of the new system The only costs to customers is changing phone numbers in automated systems Bob Campbell Bells general manager for network planning said the change is needed because Bell Is running out of area ex changes In order to create new telephone numbers Bell plans to start including the numbers 1 and 0 in the first three numbers of new The change is expected to in crease the number of available phone numbers by per cent However it also means the system will change so that the digits are needed in long distance calls Unless we make some changes now families and businesses mov ing into this area wont be able to get telephone service Mr Camp bell said Not because Bell doesnt have enough phone lines We just dont have any more telephone numbers to assign SAME DAY TAX RETURNS 101 St Georgetown 8772217 Good service good coverage good price- Thats State Farm insurance Guelph St Georgetown 31 Like a good neighbor State Farm is there STATI FARM and York to have offered the GTAB Solid Waste Interim Steer ing Committee a landfill site that could be used by the other members The Regions administration and finance committee had recom mended that the Milton site by ex panded by tonnes for GTA use but at the recent meeting Regional council voted to defer making a decision Councillors however did not decide when a decision should be made After meeting with SWISC members Feb 23 Mr said they didnt get too excited about the Regions decision because we the Region have a good working relationship with the committee Chairman Pomeroy who sup ports the Milton dump as a SWISC shortterm contingency site said the issue will once again go before council sometime next month No further debate is necessary he said Council should either make a commitment or get out of it But at the recent meeting a ma jority of councillors argued that the Region should first decide if it is part of the beore nominating the Milton site Regional Councillor Walter summed up the posi tion of most councillors when he said that the Region has only agreed to participate in the GTA process as an observer But this council has never agreed to the solution he Its presumptuous that council commit part of its landfill site to the when it has been approv ed for Haltons use only Coun Mulkewich said All four Regional councillors from Halton Hills Mayor Miller Rick Bonnette Joe Hewitt and Marilyn Serjeantson were in the minority having opposed the deferral Coun Serjeantson said after the meeting that the provincial government could legislate Halton to take a certain amount of the GTAs garbage To protect its own interests the Region should par ticipate in the process Hewitt argued during the debate that the Milton nomination should be considered separate from any longterm GTA solution The GTA solution involves two parts The shortterm solution calls for members to nominate a contingency landfill site to meet the current garbage crisis in the Greater Toronto Area These con tingency sites are available for joint use until 1996 The longterm solution states that in 1996 the GTA will introduce a comprehensive garbage management plan The Regions chief ad ministrative officer Peter Flem- said that a commitment to the shortterm solution doesnt mean commitment to the longterm solu tion GTAs longterm solution he would Chairman Pomeroy said at the no longer support Haltons par- meeting that If council opposed the SALE Thursday March 8th 200800 pm With Mayor Russ Miller In Attendance FREE REFRESHMENTS Our Serviced OPENING SPECIAL AAOFF COLOURS PERMS our WE DO ALL STYLES INCLUDING LONG HAIR carina Main Unimex Salary The Indoor Mall 318 Guelph St Georgetown 8736027 GUARANTEED SERVICE WITH ALL SALES 8773405