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905877-6944 33 Mountainview Rd. North, Georgetown SPRING LOADED EVENT See Dealer for Details EFFIE DIMOU Sales Representative www.georgetownrealty.ca edimou@georgetownrealty.ca Thinking of buying or selling? Call Effie Dimou for all your real estate needs. 905-873-6111 Dir: 416-991-4247 hairlounge.com Thursday, April 2, 2015 Halton Hills' award-winning newspaper serving Acton & Georgetown 64 Pages 50 Cents (+HST) Cyclepalooza is coming. See pg. 24 Visit us at www.theifp.ca facebook.com/Independent&FreePress Twitter: @IFP_11 Mock disaster Halton Hills Fire Department conducted an emergency drill. See page 3 Looking at the world Local man sees with computer- ized glasses. See page 12 The $100,000 club just keeps on growing. The Town of Halton Hills is no exception with the number of employees who landed on the 2015 "Sun- shine List" (public sector employees who earned $100,000 or more in 2014) up again from the previous year. In 2014, 36 Town employees made the annual list just released by Ontario's Ministry of Finance, up from 34 in 2013. CAO David Smith was the top earner at the Town, bring- ing in $201,193. Director of Recreation and Parks Terry Alyman, Director of Corporate Services and Treasurer Ed De- Sousa and Director of Infra- structure Services Chris Mills each earned $155,152. Halton Hills Mayor Rick Bonnette earned $131,346. Nearly 500 Halton Region employees made the 2013 list, but that number jumped to about 750 in 2014. Last year Halton's Assistant Medical Officer of Health Monir Taha earned $271,917, and Region CAO Jane McCaskill brought in $264,942. Other employees with hefty pay cheques included Commissioner, Leg- islative and Planning Services and Corporate Counsel Mark Meneray who earned $250,087 and Commis- sioner Social and Community Services Sheldon Wolf- son who was paid $219,717. Halton Region Chair Gary Carr earned $215,592. KEY TO THE TOWN: Acting Mayor Councillor Moya Johnson presents the Key To The Town to the 2014 Georgetown Lions Club Citizen of the Year recipient Fred Helson at the special ban- quet in his honour Tuesday night at Alcott Hall. Mayor Rick Bonnette has bestowed this hon- our on only three other people since he took office 11 years ago. The others were Lord Acton, British nobility who visited Acton in 2011, Dr. Jeff Sutherland, the community's ALS ambas- sador and the late Paul Thompson, honourary mayor of Main St. Helson gets his Citizen of the Year award, see pg. 10. Photo by Ray Lavender By Lisa Tallyn ltallyn@theifp.ca Sunshine list keeps growing DAVID SMITH TOWN CAO Continued on page 19