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THE INDEPENDENT & FREE PRESS 50 cents (+GST) Friday, October 3, 2008 56 Pages www.independentfreepress.com Candidates profiled Pages 8, 9 Nurse and partner row to national title Page 19 Willow Park celebrates 10th anniversary Page 15 Recipe of the week: Tomato soup with basil Pages 13, 14 Editorial 6 Ted Brown 7 Calendar 18, 23 Sports 19, 20 Classifieds 26, 27 INSIDE The Georgetown Reb- els and Christ the King Jaguars square off today in a football double- header. For details see Wednesdays edition. WEDNESDAY... Students (from left) Mitchel Spence, Brodie Briscoe, and Chris Deligiannis from Gardiner Public School in Georgetown South were among the hundreds of students who took to the walking path at the Gellert Centre as they held their very first Terry Fox Run. Gardiner students, presently sharing class- room space with students at Harrison and Silver Creek Schools, will be moving into their new class- rooms in the new year, when the school is completed. Photo by Ted Brown REFINANCING? PURCHASING? BOB WOODS Mortgage Specialist (905) 877-1490 *Rate subject to change 360 Guelph St., Georgetown 5.25% 5 YR FIXED 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 . For breaking news go to: www.independentfreepress.com Halton Hills award-winning newspaper Politeness reigned in the first hour of the Wellington-Halton Hills all-candidates debate on Tuesday night, but then it descended into a shouting match between candidates with members of the audience joining in. The debate, hosted by the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW)- Georgetown, focused on questions from the near-capacity crowd in the 267-seat John Elliott Theatre. All five candidates attended this event unlike the previous night when only two of the five attended a Norval Community Association debate. The candidates are MP Michael Chong (Conservative), who is seeking re-election; Brent Bouteiller (Green), Bruce Bowser (Liberal), Noel Duignan (New Democratic Party) and Jeffery Streutker (Christian Heritage Party). The audience seemed to be stacked with mainly Liberal and Conservative-leaning sup- porters either applauding or vocally-chal- lenging the candidates but some Bouteiller and Duignan comments were well received too. Gasps, groans and heckling followed the majority of Streutkers comments. Questions varied from climate change/envi- ronment, economy, poverty, Harper politics, gas tax, early childcare program, Conservative cuts to Status of Women Canada, and ideologi- cal approaches to decision-making. While the economy and environment got the most attention during the night, it was the question on Prime Minster Stephen Harpers right-wing approach which led to a descent Full house takes in event at JET Gloves come off at all-candidates meeting See CHONG, pg. 4 CYNTHIA GAMBLE Staff Writer Grizzlies on the run for Fox