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Vol No. 27 turday, Jan ¥; HIS WEEK 993 32 pages SUNDAY BRUNCH 232 Guelph St., Georgetown 873-2254 "Your independent voice in Halton Hills’ 50 cents includes G.S.T. Rural garbage disposal options explored By Dianne Cornish The Town of Halton ills will invéstigate the feasil of expanding garbage pickup to the hamlets of Norval, Stewarttown and Glen Williams, a special com- mittee meeting of town council eee eee mn, town. staff has been fed directed to look at other options which will help ease concerns. of hamlet and rural residents, who recently lost a fully-subsidized ser- vice to dispose of 150 kilograms of garbage daily at the Leferink Transfer Station, in Georgetown. Staff will begin negotiations with plant manager Bert Leferink to see if any arrangement can be worked out that will enable rural Halton Hills residents to continue using the plant, possibly with some of the costs being absorbed by the town. Staff will also investigate the impact of removing the urban ser- vice charge, currently covered by urban residents ae garbage : pickup and charging a flat fee for all residents of Halton Hills. In this scenario, garbage pickup would be extended to all residents, including those in the hamlets and rural areas of Halton Hills. To help offset the costs of town- wide garbage pickup, estimates will also be obtained for pickup across the entire municipality, once every two weeks. Staff has been directed to report back on the extension of garbage pickup to the hamlets and the out- come of negotiations with Leferink by Feb. 1. A longer time frame was granted to investigate the costs of extending pickup service across Halton Hills and implementing bi- weekly pickup. Council reached the decision after debating the issue for two hours in front of an audience of about 20 rural and hamlet residents at the special meeting. Their deci- sion came in reaction to a presenta- tion made at Monday night’s com- mittee meeting by David Barrager, a Stewarttown resident. Barrager warned that illegal roadside dump- ing would result if a local dump station isn’t available to rural and hamlet residents. The Leferink station remains open for business, but because Halton Region decided to discon- tinue funding support to the strong Avenue plant and other container stations in the Region late last year, the Leferink operation has initiated user fees of $1.50 per bag. For the past 12 years, rural resi- dents had what they considered to be a free disposal service at Leferink’s. However, the costs were absorbed by the Region. At Tuesday’s meeting, Councillor Continued on page 3 Georgetown plant to close after 30 years By Wendy Long le recession has taken yet another bite out of the local economy, leay- ing 17 people to face unemployment. Koch Automotive Products Company on Armstrong Avenue expects to close its doors by the end of January, “depending on our ability to satisfy the at eae said Vice President and General Manager Gary Taylor. Koch is a large corporation based out of Dayton, Ohio. The closure will effect only the Georgetown location, Taylor said. One employee will be retained, leaving 17 to be laid off. “It’s basically due to the economic conditions,” Taylor said. “Our cus- tomers are not interested in Canadian content anymore. They want the BASF. “T’m not too happy about it,” “They used to want Canadian con- tent. That’s no longer the situation. They want the cheapest and that’ Ss it,” said Van Heemst. “Nobody’s got a job lined up. I guess we'll have to go knocking on doors. I don’t think it’s hit a lot of guys yet. Be Pe it'll hit home, that’s for Could that be three-year-old Daniel Biggin behind bars? His older brothers Daniel and Shane whispered that he just might have robbed a bank last week. The three boys took advantage of a fair-weather day and took their mom to the George Kennedy Public School playground. hoto by Laura Salverda lowest price and don’t care who manufactures it.” Among the 17 to be laid off are veteran employees, some who joined the automotive sealant plant when it opened in 196: Koch purchased the plant in November 1988 “when it was a division of Machine operator Pete Van Heemst is particularly upset about the clo- sure. He has been an employee of the plant for almost 15 years. Each morning for a decade and a half Van Heemst has left his Shelburne home and travelled an hour to Georgetown, put in a day’s work and then driven for another hour all the way back. Van Heemst said. “GM wants everyone to buy Canadian cars but they won’t buy Canadian Parts, Well to hell with them. Maybe I should go out and buy a foreign car.” Van Heemst cited General Motors as one of Koch’s largest customers. Bridal Splendor Look for‘our first ever Bridal supplement in today's paper. Find out whose got what for the m -- in need in this} informative 12-page pull out sec- tion. a Guaranteed Lowest Prices of the Year! IN-STOCK AND CUSTOM ORDERS ¢ UNTIL JAN. 31 ¢ OPEN 10-9 DAILY ‘© 853-1031 N