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Vitos considers postal contract By DONNA KELL Herald Staff After a month of speculation on bow Canada Post planned to vice the postal needs of residents in the Limehouse area an offer has been put forward Vitos Fruit Market situated at the intersection of Highway and Regional Road has been offered the postal service contract and the owners are now carefully consider ing the proposal Officials from Canada Post ranged a meeting with Vitos when General Store cancell ed its postal service Dec But of ficials did not show for a scheduled meeting with Chris and Marion Vito the first week in December and a postal contract was left up in the air until last week Rural post office representative Hawke arrived unan nounced last week at Vitos situated two kilometres from the former faculties offer ing the VUos a contract to receive several hundred dollars a month to provide postal services said Marion Vito Well probably put the service in she said But the couple added the contract must go under review with their lawyer and an insurance company must be consulted before a final decision is made I want to read the contract I want to know we wont be bound to doing money orders and other Vito The Vitos recently applied for stamp vendor status from the local postmaster A contract with Canada Post would mean increased service at least the addition of parcel pick up said Mrs Canada Post spokesmen would not reveal the terms of the con tract saying there is no set model for contracts with storeowners and that each con tract is individual Media Relations spokesman Continued on Page 3 Grade 2 students at George Ken nedy School found it was better late than never last week as they were finally able to stage their Christmas concert Originally the Christmas event was to have been held Dec the same day Halton Hills was left In darkness due to a widespread power blackout Herald photo OPEN 7 DAYS A ACTON Its Worth the Drive to LOOK Whats Happening To Us See Next Weeks Herald For Details mister FREE DISTRIBUTION WEDNESDAY JANUARY PAGES Traffic turmoil Not Cold Enough The coldest day of the year so far didnt stop these youngsters from bitting the slopes Wednesday after noon Temperatures dipped down to but felt a lot colder with the wind chill factor Gliding down the slopes of North Golf Course were Simon Johnston Jeff Williams and Matt Anderson all 12 of Stewarttown Public School Herald photo by Donna Hell By BRIAN MacLEOD Herald Staff POWER members are not pleas ed with a new transportation study which would bring trucks destined for the proposed Acton landfill from the north straight through downtown Acton The study prepared by Marshall Macklin Ltd for dump proponents Reclamation Systems reroutes all proposed truck traffic to come north or south on Highway 25 then east on Regional Road to the landfill site at the Acton Quarry on the Third Line It is very naive or very stupid on their part to think that they can route trucks through the main street of Acton without causing more problems than are already there said Ruth French co- chairman of the citizens group POWER Protect Our Water and Environmental Resources RSI was told to redo the transportation study last year dur ing the public information meetings The study group organized for RSI by Eco Logic Laboratories said the proposed transportation routes were unac ceptable because they brought more truck traffic onto roads which are already heavily travell ed by trucks The group also instructed RSI to study the Implications of bringing waste in from Metropolitan Toron to That component of the study had been missed although the pro ponents have admitted Toronto could be a client for the proposed 20 milliontonne landfill site study group members said The original study proposed trucks travel along Highway 25 then east on Regional Road to the landfill site or north on Trafalgar Road then west on Sideroad 17 north on the Fourth Line and west on Regional Road The new eliminates the Fourth line ran the truck haul routes to and from the landfill site RSI expects about 438 trucks per day to enter the site between 8am and 5pm Monday to Friday when the site is opened The company has two transpor tation proposals The first would allow waste from surrounding municipalities including the City of Gudph and the Region of Peel and Region on the proposed routes Under the second proposal RSI would only accept waste from Metropolitan Toronto and the town of Hills Waste from Toron to would be brought in on much larger trucks thereby reducing numbers to about 241 trucks a day RSI says Advantages to the new proposed routes are that Highway is a Kings highway and it is expressly designed to carry the proposed volume and type of truck traffic RSI says As well the main truck route does not pass through any ur ban areas Truck traffic generated by the landfill will not endanger the safe ty of the community RSI says The landfill issue has been in hiatus since the study group walk ed out on the public information meetings in September at a meeting in Milton unhappy with the format While the POWER group is continuing its activities the group has raised more than to date RSI is preparing draft documents to sub mit to the Ministry of Environment for review Once those documents are finalized Eco Logic will attempt to continue the public information process probably in a different form A consolidated hearings board will then listen to arguments for and against the dump A final decision is not expected the landfill site proposal