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Be prepared to pay twice the fine if you get caught speeding - or violating any other Highway Traffic Act statute - on Mill Street West from Victoria Street to Duby Road which will be desig- nated as a Community Safety Zone (CSZ) by the Town. An unexpectedly high rate of traffic accidents, an alarm- ingly low speed limit compli- ance rate and curving road- a 8 z = fe) ° Gg MOTOR PRODUCTS 1994 $10 LONGBOX Rockwood * 856-2222 Renewed interest in east en otary some big cheques for Guides and Scouts at their Tuesday meeting. See page 11. Acton Agricultural So- ciety held their annual meeting Saturday. See the report on Page 3. go! Joan Taylor of} Acton wins $25,000 at Bingo Country in Milton. See photo on Page 7. nine churches joined in a service of unity Sunday morning. See story on Page 9. Sat way made the one-kilometre stretch of road a perfect can- didate for a one-year CSZ pilot project. The other CSZ test zone will be on Delrex Boulevard in Georgetown and the Region will be asked to consider testing a third CSZ on Mountainview Road. The program is a Provin- cial initiative that gives mu- nicipalities the power to dou- ble the set and minimum fines for traffic violations in designated areas where there are road safety concerns, The province agreed to pay half of the cost of new police of- ficers hired to help imple- ment community safety pro- grams. Mayor Marilyn Serjeantson, who initially at- tempted to have two addi- tional roads designated as CSZ pilot projects, said she hoped the CSZ would be a "wake-up call" for drivers to obey the rules. "T really think we have to motivate our community to be aware and this is possible one way to do it," Serjeantson said. In a report to councillors Town Traffic Coordinator Bob Butrym noted that The Halton Hills Injury Preven- tion Committee has given the project a cautious endorse- ment to the CAZ proposal. It suggested that there should be public consultation and traffic studies conducted in an area before a CSZ is des- ignated. Butyrm said Mill Street West was chosen when a traf- fic analysis showed the col- lision rate in the area is more than double what's expected and that only 9 per cent of Winter Fair on Feb. 27 Acton Agricultural Soci- ety is kicking off its fundraising campaign for a new building in Prospect Park with a Winter Fair on urday, Feb. 27 from 6 to Mm. A twoonie will buy a sou- venir button for admission and Miss Acton Fair and her two princesses will direct people to the activities which will include: skiing, skating, making snowmen or you can get out knitting needles for the Best Knitted Mittens con- test. There'll be horsedrawn sleigh rides, snow shoeing demos, hot refreshments and special activities for the lit- tle tots. To contribute to the fund raiser participants are asked to donate a loonie for every event they enter. It's all in aid of a new Agricultural Soci- ety community building. Supervised vo Halton's Catholic high school teachers vote Monday, Feb. 8 on the last offer from the Halton Catholic District School Board - a ee deal that both the local and provincial union officials rec- ommend be rejected. HEAD ON: Highway 7 was closed for more ing a collision between an eastbound tractor- than eight hours Wednesday follow- trailer and a westbound car at 4:40 a.m. two km. east of Acton. The car driver, a 31-year-old woman from Mississauga, was taken to Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital with non-life-threaten- ing injuries. The driver of the Becker's rig, a 36-year-old male from Oshawa, was not injured. A clean up crew was required because of the spilled diesel fuel. Charges are pending but the incident is still under investigation. Anyone who may have ked to call Const. Brian Hacket of the Port Credit witnessed the collision is as OPP at (905) 278-6131. - Angela Tyler and Maggie Petrushevsky photos The Board has requested the Ontario Labour Relations Board conduct a supervised vote by the teachers of the offer that they voted down last Thursday. Joe Pece, Halton second- ary president of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association, said the pro- posal would be seen as an insult to all Catholic teach- ers and includes reduced ben- efits, classes with 33 students and a requirement that the union drop all grievances te for teachers Board chair Jim Sherlock said the three-year deal, which he didn't call a final offer, was competitive, af- fordable and met the require- ments of the Education Act. He also said that a lockout of teachers remains a last resort. drivers surveyed in. two three-hour periods complied with the 40-km/h speed limit on Mill Street West in a nar- row section near Wright Av- enue by St. Joseph's Roman School. Halton police will provide an increased enforcement level in the pilot project ar- eas and will work with Town staff to develop and evaluate Community Safety Zones. Lube, Oil and Filter $24.95 + tax Buy 2 Wiper Blades Get 4L Washer FLuid FREE Achilles© mazpa 357 Queen Street 619) 853-0200 d plaza By FRANCES NIBLOCK The New Tanner While any commercial development in the east end of Acton will be triggered by new house construction, there's some renewed inter- est in land approved for a plaza in the area. Brookfield Homes - for- merly Coscan - has Ontario Municipal Board approval to build a 70,000-square foot plaza south of Highway 7 and east of Churchill Road. It also has approval for a 200-home ivision..adjacent, to. the n a recent interview Brookfield's vice president of land development, Kathleen Schofield, said that although a deal with a potential plaza developer fell through last fall, the company is still in- terested, once there is some residential growth. "He (the plaza developer) went to see all the major (po- tential) tenants and they all said the same thing, that they need to see some housing," Schofield said. Schofield said Brookfield and other Acton east land- owners should have a better handle on the timing of hous- ing construction in a few months. Following a recent meet- ing between the landowners, Town and Regional staff and local politicians, the Region agreed to approach the Prov- ince about altering a ratio used to calculate the amount of water and sewer services needed for a house. Schofield said the current ratio of 3.8 people per unit is "grossly overestimated" and suggested that the Region's number of 3.4 people per unit was more of a reality. 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