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50 cents (+GST) Vol. 130 No. 49 Wednesday, February 20, 2008 48 Pages Circulation 21,220 www.independentfreepress.com Georgetown Skating Club event draws 70 competitive skaters Page 14 Heres My Card special insert 44-Pages Brides 2008 special section 8-Pages Raiders Playoff Preview special section 8-Pages INSIDE Editorial 6 Ted Arnott 7 Entertainment 12 Sports 14-15 Classifieds 17-18 Calendar 19 Halton Police are cautioning people about frauds that have been occurring in relation to items being sold on the Internet. For details see Fridays edition. FRIDAY... Realty Specialists Inc. Brokerage Top Producer since 1985 www.mariabritto.com MARIA BRITTO Local: 905-873-9255 (905) 873-1655 354 Guelph Street, Georgetown APPLE Auto Glass Truck Accessories Upholstery Heavy Equipment Glass Window Tinting GEORGETOWN CHRYSLER We handle all insurance work. Jason 2 LocationsGeorgetown Kia 1-866-364-0697 314 Guelph St. (Hwy. 7) Superstore Open Sundays 199 Guelph St. 1-866-367-4081 The Power to SurpriseTM FOR Up to $2,000 value CASH-BACK ON SELECT 2008 MODELS FOR Up to $2, 0 value CASH-BACK ON SELECT 2008 MODELS FOR Up to $2,000 value CASH-BACK ON SELECT 2008 MODELS For breaking news go to: www.independentfreepress.com Halton Hills award-winning newspaper Trafalgar Road, south of Five Sideroad, was closed for 10 hours Friday after a dump truck hauling a pup trailer fully loaded with gravel, collided with a school bus that was attempting to reverse into a resi- dential driveway. Both drivers were charged. Photo by Ted Brown While there have been a few complimentary calls to the Towns Public Works Department over the past couple of weeks, most of the 200 calls Town staff have been inundated with have been complaints about the job theyre doing on snow clearing. The most common grumbles are that the roads and sidewalks arent being cleared quick- ly enough or good enough, or that a Town snowplow has knocked down a rural mailbox, says Town Public Works super- visor Dick Spear. And theyre not just call- ing in their beefs, the plow operators are also hearing from the angry residents directly, said Spear. The drivers are being told to come down the street next time with the plow down, Spear said, and people are yelling at them because they are plowing snow into the end of their freshly- cleared driveways. Spear, however, has nothing but praise for his 27-member public works staff. Six Recreation and Parks employees also help out in the winter. My staff has worked around the clock since it (all the snow this month) started, said Spear. Im very proud of my staff. I wouldnt trade them for anything. A collision between a gravel truck and a school bus with no passengers on Trafalgar Rd. Friday morning resulted in only a minor injury to the bus driver but caused the road to be closed for 10 hours. Halton Police say the accident occurred at about 8:25 a.m. south of Five Sideroad when the driver of the school bus, that had no chil- dren on board, was attempting to reverse the bus into a residential driveway on the east side of the road. While she was reversing and turning the vehicle into the driveway the front of the bus entered the southbound lane where it was struck by a dump truck hauling a pup trailer, fully loaded with gravel. The driver of the truck attempted to avoid the bus and swerved to the right. The truck spilled its load when it flipped on its side and landed in the ditch. The truck driver wasnt injured. The bus dri- vers minor injury was treated at the scene. The bus received moderate damage, and the truck severe damage to its front end. The bus driver, a 32-year-old Halton Hills woman, was charged with careless driving. The 44-year-old male truck driver from Brampton was charged with unsafe operation of a commercial vehicle, improper brake adjustment and fail to record defect on inspection report. Crash leaves Trafalgar Rd. closed for 10 hours DICK SPEAR LISA TALLYN Staff Writer See SECONDARY, pg. 3 Plow operators feeling residents wrath Works department inundated with complaints