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for a LIVE STYLE IN (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. 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 . THE INDEPENDENT & FREE PRESS 50 cents (+GST) Circulation 22,500 Friday, October 17, 2008 56 Pages www.independentfreepress.com Get rid of your unwanted E-Waste Page 8 Fire Prevention special section 12-Pages Recipe of the week: Phyllo pizza Page 25 Best of the Best tournament results Page 17 Editorial 6 Derek Davis 7 Ted Brown 10 Calendar 16, 26 Sports 17-19 Classifieds 22-24 INSIDE Can the red-hot Raiders continue their winning ways this weekend? Find out in Wednesdays edition. WEDNESDAY... Mass transit comes to Acton For breaking news go to: www.independentfreepress.com Halton Hills award-winning newspaper Robert Little students (from right) Makayla Dee and Darren Gendron (both of Grade 2) and Spencer Pestell (Grade 5) took part in Walk to School Day, led by Robert Little teacher Marie Burland. Kids from the school took part Wednesday morning, joined by Wellington-Halton Hills MP Michael Chong. The kids walked from Prospect Park, up Main Street to School Lane, to build awareness of the benefits of exercising by walking to school. Photo by Ted Brown A provincial minister is pointing the finger of blame at the Region for the infrastructure woes facing Halton. The sentiment was expressed by newly- appointed Minister of Energy and Infra-struc- ture George Smitherman in a letter he recently sent to Regional Chair Gary Carr. The corre- spondence came in response to a letter Carr sent the minister detailing the Regions Fairness for Halton campaign, which says the Region cant accommodate the thousands of residents called for in the Provinces Places to Grow plan without some hefty funding help for infra- structure. The campaign lets those at Queens Park know about the local funding shortfalls that need to be fixed such as a municipal infrastruc- ture deficit of $300 mil- lion in order to meet the growth targets specified in Places to Grow. The plan says Haltons population is supposed to increase by more than 300,000 to 780,000 by 2031. More than $2.5 billion will be needed for infrastructure to accommodate growth to 2021, while more than $8.6 billion will be required to serve the population increase to 2031, Carr informed the minister. But, Smitherman said the Province and its Places to Grow plan arent the cause of the problem. The servicing costs you indicate in your letter and the infrastructure deficit in Halton relate primarily to servicing areas which were planned for and approved by the Region prior to 2006 and precede the growth plan, he said. Provincial minister tells Region chair Growth plan not to blame for Haltons woes GEORGE SMITHERMAN MELANIE HENNESSEY Special to The IFP See SMITHERMAN, pg. 5