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THE INDEPENDENT & FREE PRESS 50 cents (+GST) Friday, April 25, 2008 60 Pages www.independentfreepress.com Recipe of the week: Cherry muffins Page 34 New school to honour Ethel Gardiner Page 9 Nine tonnes of trash collected in annual clean up Pages 10, 11 Youngster hit by truck after exiting school bus Page 3 Editorial 6 Ted Brown 7 Sports S/L 1, 2, 4 Calendar 23-25 Classifieds 27-31 INSIDE Big Brothers Big Sisters of Halton have launched a campaign to find 100 men willing to be a Big Brother to a young boy. For details see Wednesdays edition. WEDNESDAY... 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 (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. with0.9% APR Financing Available o.a.c. New prices start now. Autobahn for all. Georgetown Volkswagen 203 Guelph Street 9 0 5 . 8 7 7 . 5 2 8 5 georgetownvw.com 2008 GTI from $27,975 Nowitseasier tomakefriends withyourfast. now For breaking news go to: www.independentfreepress.com Halton Hills award-winning newspaper Worker killed in 50-ft. fall An air ambulance arrives at the scene of Tuesdays fatal industrial accident on Steeles Avenue in Hornby. Photo by Graham Paine Six-year-old Hunter Brooks of the first Acton Beavers gets some help selecting a tree for planting from his grandfather Jim Brooks during the annual Scoutrees for Canada tree planting event held at the Acton Quarry Saturday. Area scouts, cubs and planted more than 3,000 trees in one of the events that helped kick off Earth Week. Photo by Jon Borgstrom A Brantford man is dead after falling 50 feet into a sewage pumping station shaft Tuesday after- noon at the Halton Region pumping station site under construction on Steeles Ave. in Hornby. Steven Lundy, 23, an employee of Kingdom Construction Ltd., the company that was building a storm water storage facility for Halton, was pro- nounced dead at the scene, Halton Police report. Both police and the Ministry of Labour (MOL) are investigating the accident. An MOL spokesperson said Lundy was sweep- ing the roof of the concrete storm water storage reservoir when he fell through an opening. Firefighters and Halton EMS were called to the scene at about 4:20 p.m. Lundy was extricated from the shaft by Halton Hills and Milton firefighters. Lifesaving measures by workers and paramedics were unsuccessful. Police say a post mortem done Wednesday determined the cause of death was blunt force trauma consistent with dropping from a significant height. Lundy suffered multiple injuries, police said. The MOL spokesperson said as part of the ongoing investigation the Ministry seized the wooden cover that was used to protect an opening in the roof. A stop work order has been issued for the pro- ject and is still in effect. Grandpa gives grandson the lowdown on tree planting