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THE INDEPENDENT & FREE PRESS 50 cents (+GST) Friday, April 4, 2008 56 Pages www.independentfreepress.com A GreenCart primer for Halton residents Page 4 Who made the $100,000 club? Page 9 GMHA champs declared Page S/L1 Scotch Block scores wine hat-trick Page 8 Editorial 6 Ted Brown 7 Calendar 13, 21 Classifieds 25-28 Sports S/L1-4, 6 INSIDE Halton Regional Police Service has three prime concerns in Halton Hills: traffic, traf- fic and traffic. Find out why Wednesday. WEDNESDAY... The spring thaw earlier in the week meant some inconvenience for area drivers and kept Town of Halton Hills public works crews busy when melting snow washed out sev- eral roads and caused part of the bank on 15 Sideroad near Eighth Line to slide onto the road. Dick Spear, the Towns Superintendent of Public Works, said Sixth Line, just south of Steeles Ave. near the entrance to Hornby Park, had to be closed Tuesday night through Wednesday afternoon because Sixteen Mile Creek over- flowed across both Sixth Line and Steeles Ave. The shoulders were washed away REFINANCING? PURCHASING? BOB WOODS Mortgage Specialist (905) 877-1490 *Rate subject to change 360 Guelph St., Georgetown 5.35% 5YR FIXED RATE GEORGETOWN VOTED #1 FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE 2008 KIA SEDONA FINANCE0% CALL THE GEORGETOWN HEADQUARTERS 1-866-364-0697 or 905-877-7818 Up to 60 mos introducing AURA by Benjamin Moore QUITE SIMPLY THE FINEST PAINT WEVE EVER MADE discover your aura today at For breaking news go to: www.independentfreepress.com Halton Hills award-winning newspaper Flooding makes a mess of roads Melting snow combined with rain to cause some flooding and problems for area public works crews Tuesday and Wednesday. Top: A portion of an embankment on 15 Sideroad near Main Street gave way spilling onto the roadway which (middle photo) Halton Hills works crew employees quickly cleaned up. Bottom: Part of Sixth Line near Steeles Avenue in Hornby needed rebuilding Wednesday after water washed out part of the road. Middle and bottom photos by Ted Brown/ Top photo by Leah Maher LISA TALLYN Staff Writer See FLOODING, pg. 3