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AVAILABLE CO All Halton Hills firefighters could do when they arrived at this house fire on Line west of Monday night at approximately 30 pm was to keep the fire from spreading into the trees The twostorey wood and brick home owned by Bob and Margaret Brown was already engulfed Inflames when firefighters and the Browns who were shopping arrived Firefighters are still Investigating the cause of the blaze which caused according to Halton Regional Police ap proximately In damage Photo by Lisa Boonstoppel Pot Ontario Fire Marshalls Office to investigate mysterious blaze By LISA BOONSTOPPELPOT The Herald Bob and Margaret Brown gone more than an hour when they travelled to town to buy a door knob for the basement door of their house Monday even ing By the time they returned to their twostorey wood and brick home on the Line west of Hwy 7 they found they wouldn need the doorknob because their house was engulfed in flames Halton Hills firefighters relized they were fighting a losing battle by the time they arrived on the scene at approximately 30 When we got here it was already totally gone said a firefighter at the scene Tothe who lives down the road from the Browns said she first noticed the huge plumes of smoke and when she walked down the road to investigate heard a number of loud explo sions By 30 when firefighters returned to the station nothing was left of the home except for Womens Place receives 36332 from province Women who are victims of family violence in Milton will benefit from new provincial funding announced by Halton North MPP Noel on behalf of Social Services Minister Akande Womens Place will receive funding totalling A 500 increase in annual funding will be used to cover costs associated with operating the program and providing support Vices As well a 782 grant will be used for new equipment and sup plies This home provides a compassionate secure nonjudgemental temporary home for women who have sustained abuse and their children said Mr Duignan Eighteen women and children are pro vided with a safe environment in a crisis situation The shelter opened in October provides women who have abuse with counselling support and a home for up to six weeks Aerials to hours daily run by the shelter pieces of charred wood and blackened bricks Halton Regional Police who are helping firefighters in said the house and all its contents were destroyed and have estimated damage at I can t figure out what hap pened just don understand said Mr Brown a few hours after the fire started Thank God nobody was there and that nobody was hurt He said he never seen anything bum so fast in his life The couple had lived in the heme for two years with their teenage son Nathan who is on holidays after moving from Mlssissauga where Mr Brown works for Hydro Our life is that home he said All my kids pictures were in there We can never replace them They re all gone Mrs Brown went into shock when she realized her home was on fire and had to be treated by ambulance attendants at a neighbor s home District Fire Chief Brent Mar shall of the Hills Fire Department and Constable Dun can Taylor of the Halton Regional Police have called the Ontario Fire Marshall s office to assist with the investigation At press time they still t determined the cause of the fire Halton Hills tops Brampton You did it again Halton Hills For the second year in a row this community has shown it is in better shape than Brampton by having a greater percentage of its population take part in the Participaction Challenge on May 29 While Brampton had 337 get active and Hilton Hills had 796 our area came out ahead with 34 percent with Bramp ton falling short at 25 per cent As a result the Halton Hills flag was flying at Brampton city hall on Friday going to be next year s victim Region special report Halton Region Council will decide today Wednesday if Regional staff should write a report tracing all information that far the Silver Creek Trunk Sewer in Georgetown and related pro jects The Region s Administration and Finance Committee mended last Wednesday the re quest for another report be denied Oakville Regional Councillor John Graham make the request indicating in a letter to commit tee that a simple request made by Georgetown resident Linda Walton over an aspect of the trunk sewer at a Regional Plann ing and Public Works meeting May 8 was given little credence During that meeting Ms Walton asked the committee not to accept a status report on studies proposed for the trunk sewer Ms Walton that committee members not accept the report until the pro vince Ministries of Natural Resources and Environment had first commented on the studies being carried out The request was denied by Planning and Public Works Com mi t tee members Coun Graham was one of a minont of committee members who voted that Ms Walton re quest be granted In his letter addressed to the Administration and Finance Committee Coun Graham writes the extreme reaction of a number of councillors sitting on the Planning and Public Works Committee to my in raises some suspicion of irregularities Contacted Fnday Halton Hills Regional Councillor and ing and Public Works Committee Chairperson Marilyn Ser jeanston predicted the issue will be resolved today Wednesday at Council Coun Serjeanston said as far as she is concerned Coun Graham s remarks are invalid He seems to have been unaware of all the previous reports Coun Serjeanston Coun Graham be reached for comment at press time to rtpl to Ser comment Graham also indicates in his letter that a new report on the Silver Trunk Sewer is needed because of two letters sent earlier this year to the Region by the province question ing the planning approach taken towards Silver Creek Valley One letter is from the Ministry of the Environment while the other is from the Ministry of Culture and Communications and both suggest the several projects proposed for the be evaluated in connection to one another instead of separately An Inside Look 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