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50 cents (+GST) Circulation 22,500 Wednesday, September 24, 2008 44 Pages www.independentfreepress.com FALL 2008 home T heres no place like l li Deb McGrath & Colin Mochrie at Home li i Theyre off! Campaign begins Page 3 No Place Like Home Inside of Halton Hills I D E R O A D S S AUTUMN 2008VOLUME 4 NUMBER 3 The art of Carol-Ann Michaelson Nordic walking Halton Wood Carvers at work Days with Bruce ...and much more Learn about health solutions in Health Care 8 pages inside Check out the Fall Sideroads magazine Inside INSIDE Editorial 6 Business 12 Sports 14-16 Calendar 18, 20 Entertainment 19 Classifieds 21-23 Town council stakes its position on the Sustainable Halton plan at a special meeting tonight. Read about it in Fridays edition. FRIDAY... Realty Specialists Inc. Brokerage Top Producer since 1985 www.mariabritto.com MARIA BRITTO Local: 905-873-9255 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 . 33 MOUNTAINVIEW RD. N., GEORGETOWN 905-877-6944 GEORGETOWN CHEVROLET COBALT SS model shown MSRP $21,195 NOW COBALT LS Purchase fi nancing up to 72mths. OAC with GMAC www.georgetownchev.com For breaking news go to: www.independentfreepress.com Halton Hills award-winning newspaper While Haltons Catholic school board ele- mentary teachers have a new tentative labour contract, their counterparts at the Halton pub- lic board have only just begun negotiations. The Halton Catholic District School Board and the Halton elementary unit of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association (OECTA) reached a tentative settlement on Sept. 5 covering the more than 1,000 Catholic elementary teachers who teach in Burlington, Halton Hills, Milton and Oakville. The board is very pleased to have reached this tentative agreement with our elementary teachers, Alice Anne LeMay, chair of the Halton Catholic board, said in a press release. I commend the members of both negotiating parties for their diligence and commitment to work together to achieve an agreement that is in accordance with the provisions of the provincial framework. An excellent working environment makes for an excellent learning environment and this agreement, salary and benefits aside, will enhance the working environment of all our teachers, which will have a positive and direct impact on all our students, Richard Brock, president of the Halton Elementary Unit of OECTA, said in a press release. Both negotiating teams worked tirelessly to build language into this agreement that will establish collaborative models for resolving issues from planning time to professional development to supervision, at both the school and board level, Brock added. The tentative agreement, which runs from Sept. 1, 2008 to Aug. 31, 2012, will not be put to a ratification vote by both the board of trustees and the elementary teachers union until a tentative agreement is reached with the Halton Catholic boards secondary and occa- sional teachers unions. See UNION, pg. 10 Catholic teachers settle, Public teachers just beginning job talks TIM WHITNELL Special to The IFP Kaitlyn Chambers (right) gives the rock on sign while riding the Sizzler with her friends Monica Kainz and Kaylin Horder (centre). The 11-year-olds were enjoying the rides at the three-day Acton Fall Fair this past weekend. For more Fall Fair photos go to page 13. Photo by Jon Borgstrom Rock on at the Acton Fall Fair