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By Johanna Powell Ss beat the province’s Aug. 1 deadline, approving a fiscal restraint program that will cut $ Region slashes $3 spending this year. That doesn’t include addi- tional cuts of nearly $2 mil- lion approved by the Halton Police Services Board, bring- ing total spending cuts for the region to nearly $5 million. In fact, the region cut $800,000 more than was required in order to provide a pecial to HHTW Halton regional council 3 million from regional RTL ANOS teel “restructuring” Buhel | tural Steel Ltd. on Armstrong Ave., which has getown for 31 years, is undergoing “‘restructur- fi ee = en made “very recently,” he hurt more than others. We've really suffered in the last two jer / Ferro Structural Steel Lid. is the second largest company: of its nature in Ontario. “We used to get almost every school contract in the area,” Salamon recalled. “Later we switched 10 industrial and commercial establishments, because they money. A short while after, there was hardly anything i industrial-commercial, so we had to go back to schools. In fact, if it wasn’t for the schools, we may have had fo make earlier. Staff is already being cut down. Two years ago, the com- pany employed almost 100 people, and this number has dropped down to approximately 30. Although Salamon admitted closure is a possibility, he mentioned discussions with outsiders to plan a potential ger. “There’s no definite plan,” he said. “We have to take things step by step.” Salamon said the company will finish the jobs at hand, | before “considering il te Komiya on the rules of the game. photo by Simon Wilson/HHTW million in spending cushion. This will soften the blow if the province decides to demand even more spend- ing cuts or if some depart- ments can’t meet restraint tar- gets. The cutbacks, approved at a special council meeting last Thursday, had already been accepted by a committee rep- resenting about 600 non-union workers at Halton region. Their approval made Halton eligible for a 20 percent reduction in the total spending cuts it is required to make. Friday morning, the restraint program was also accepted by 127 road, water and sewer workers who are members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. However, at.press time, Halton had yet to reach an agreement with about 275 other unionized employees. Hughes’said many of those are nurses whose unions were waiting for a deal between the health sector and the province. The yest are. landfill employees who.are represent- ed by a union but who do not have their first collective agreement in place. No layoffs are foreseen under Halton’s restraint agree- Saturday, A "Your independent voice in Halton Hills’ Cops make break-in spree By Oksana Buhel Police are still investigating 200 break-ins which took place in south-central Ontario, 20 of which took place in Halton Region. ‘Three suspects were arrest- ed July 2'on Hwy. 6, outside the men in the stolen van they Jy. Were driving, recovered | “almost $10,000 in stolen property and charged them with break and enter, and possession of stolen property. custody awaiting trial. The second arrest occurred in, Halton Hills, at Trafalgar Rd. and Steeles Ave., July 7. ‘Three men were arrested and charged with break and enter and possession of stolen property. The van they were driving had been stolen in Ancaster, and inside the van was $18,000 worth of stolen property taken earlier in the day during a break-in in Caledon. Guelph. Guelph OPP caught , Two of the men are still in” ment. Instead, the savings will come from eliminating 66 regional positions and freez- ing the wages and salaries of the remaining 1,014 staff members. Regional services will not shut down, aside from the business days between Christmas and New Year’s Day, when many staff mem- bers will be asked to take reg- ular holidays. Many of the spending cuts have been made to items such as office supplies, mementos, grams will be reviewed, including the Pegasus trans- portation system for the dis- abled. As well, no work will be done on the Oakville waterfront this year. Agencies and boards will be required to trim 2.2 per cent from their budgets this year and another 3.5 per cent in 1994, According to regional staff, as a result of the cuts to. the 1993 budget, much of the groundwork has been done for the 1994 budget. That budget is expected to be in place at the start of 1994, several months ahead of usual. ugust 7, 1993 As a result of further inves- tigation, four men were arrested at their Hamilton res- idences a short while later. ‘The Joint Force Unit, com- posed of members of the Hamilton Wentworth Regional Police Service, Halton Regional Police Service, and Ontario Provincial Police, Brantford sand “Guelph detachments, investigated the breakSins which mostly occurred in rural homes. Staff Sergeant Mike Kingston, of Georgetown 11 Division, said the group had been active for at least six months and esti- mated the value of stolen goods during this time at $2 million. Search warrants, executed in Hamilton and the Six Nations Indian Reserve near Brantford resulted in the recovery of almost $80,000 worth of stolen property. Kingston explained the prop- erty was being “fenced” 4, , f Five-year-old Laura Thompson got a hug from Georgie the Giraffe (Christopher Cizmar) at Wednesday night’s Town of Halton Hills Recreation and. Parks Department annual Big Top Summer ‘Carnival held at Acton Arena. photo by Simon Wilson/HHTW Call Brenda 877-5165 ~ 24 hr. pager ~ JGison s_ BRENDA PAYTON ASSOCIATES Sales Hepresenlatve 50 cents includes G.S.T. arrests Joint Forces, explained 75 charges have been laid to date, but “information (regarding other break-ins) is coming in daily.” No trial dates have yet been set. (sold) in the reserve. Property included vehicles, jewelry, figurines, collectors plates, stereos and computers. Sergeant Marty Power, Halton Regional Police Service representative on the Wastewise cash 2p the Blue Box to recycle materials that once went directly into landfill sites. Our government is convinced that with reuse centres such as this, along with the Blue Box programs, the amount of waste going to landfill will be reduced by at least 50 per cent by the year 2000,” Mr. Halton North, has ed a grant for $77,850 to Georgetown’s Wastewise Community Resource Centre for the implementation and operation of a reuse centre. Mr. Duignan made the announcement on behalf of Environment and Energy Minister Bud Wildman. 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