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THE INDEPENDENT & FREE PRESS 50 cents (+GST) Friday, June 20, 2008 68 Pages www.independentfreepress.com Recipe of the week: Japanese cucumber salad Page 14 Ground-breaking held for fire stations Page 7 Local folk duo release new CD Page 15 High schools honour top athletes Page S/L 1 Editorial 6 David Ford 12 Calendar 19, 26 Classifieds 22-25 Sports S/L1-2, 6-7 INSIDE The Festival on Main takes over downtown Georgetown tomorrow (Saturday) and the Far- mers Market returns. See photos Wednesday. WEDNESDAY... The public will be able to have their say about a new Town community improvement plan (CIP), now in its ini- tial stages, at an open meeting in the council chambers at the Halton Hills Civic Centre on Wednesday (June 25). CIPs are designed to revitalize flagging economic areas in the town with incen- tives for private landowners and investors. The public information centre will be held between 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. and will allow the public to ask questions of Town planning staff and consultants about the strategies included in a recent CIP Strategy Discussion Paper. There will be no formal presentation, but will include display boards and feedback opportunities. The Chamber, Acton and Georgetown BIAs, agricultural community and brownfield landowners will also be con- sulted. Part of the Discussion Paper focuses on the future development and improve- ment of five key specific areas in the Town such as the Guelph St. retail area; Downtown Georgetown; Downtown Acton; Georgetown GO Station lands; agricultural lands and brownfield sites. Town consultant Steve Willis told council recently, Downtown George- town is quite healthy in many ways and would be the envy of many of my other clients... Main Street is very attractive with very significant investment into it and pays off with the quality of services you find on the street. And one of the lit- mus tests I always use is how many banks still exist in the downtown. I think you would have one of the highest num- ber in the core of historic downtown. GEORGETOWN CALL THE GEORGETOWN HEADQUARTERS 905-877-7818 or 905-877-8375 0% financing on all 2008 models. See us for details. i i ll . f t il . (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. Meet the all-new 2009 Volkswagen Tiguan. See Georgetown Volkswagen for full details and a decent cup of coffee. Georgetown Volkswagen 203 Guelph Street 9 0 5 . 8 7 7 . 5 2 8 5 georgetownvw.com The smaller SUV that makes a big impression. Available now for immediate delivery. For breaking news go to: www.independentfreepress.com Halton Hills award-winning newspaper As graduates from the Village Montessori School at St. George's Church observed their gradua- tion exercises Monday, no one was more exuberant than Quinn McMahon, 4, as she belted out O Canada at the beginning of the ceremony. Photo by Ted Brown The mighty Quinn Improvement plan for town seeks input from public CYNTHIA GAMBLE Staff Writer See DOWNTOWNS, pg. 3