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Benefit dance for Acton s BY MAGGIE PETRUSHEVSKY The New Tanner A massive stroke on Jan. 4 has left Acton resident Ron Schroeder, 45, partially paralyzed, unable to speak and possibly unable to work again. For his wife and children aged 10, 12, and 15, the ill- ness is devastating both emo- tionally and financially. Schroeder has never been ill so the attack after shovelling snow caught everyone by sur- prise. "Their father has always been there for them," Mrs. Schroeder says. "He drives them places. He helps them with their hockey. It has hit them very hard. I haven't had the heart to tell them they'll have to give up their activi- ties too." A tool and die maker with Dual Machine Products in Mississauga for 15 years, Schroeder has no benefits, says his wife Amawatie. "Tt's a small, non-union shop so he had no medical insurance. We'll probably even lose our dental coverage in three months." Schroeder can apply for Employment Insurance ben- efits but Mrs. Schroeder has been told it will be at least a year before anyone will look at his eligibility for Disabil- ity Pension through the Canada Pension Plan. What level of pension he might re- ceive then will depend on how well he recovers. Schroeder was taken to hospital in Georgetown first, then transferred to Mississauga General. At the time, his wife says, there was real fear he would not re- cover. Then he developed a blood clot in his left foot that presented still further com- plications. He is out of Intensive Care and has recovered enough that hospital staff are help- ing him try to sit up in a wheel chair, Mrs. Schroeder says. But he still can't speak, his eyesight is blurry and one side of his face has been af- fected slightly. He is also paralyzed on the right side. Once he reaches a certain stage of recovery he will be transferred to a rehabilitation centre in Toronto. But when that will happen and how long he will be there, like his potential for recovery, re- mains open to question. Mrs. Schroeder works at Tim Horton's in Acton and sees no prospects for a dif- - ferent job since she has no troke victim THE NEW TANNER special training or skills. Her family and Ron's have been helping out but there was no | other financial support avail- able until a fellow hockey parent began organizing a benefit dance. "T really appreciate it," Mrs. Schroeder says. "I broke down and cried when he told me." (The dance organizer insists on remaining anony- mous.) The dance is set for March 6 at the Royal Canadian Le- gion at 8 p.m. with DJ Steve ' Dunn (Music Machine) pro- viding the music. Tickets are $10 each and available at the Legion, the Acton Arena, the Station Hotel, Andy's Res- taurant and the Red Dog. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1999 Individual donations may also be made to a special ac- count which has been opened for Mrs. Schroeder at the Halton Credit Union. 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Acton 519-853-0539 Tyler Trans Gs EXPENSIVE ELECTRIFYING ENCOUNTER: High voltage contractor employee Vern George holds one of the squirrels -- posthumously named "Sparky" by repair crews -- that caused a major fire at a Halton Hills Hydro sub-station on Saturday, knocking out power to Acton for up to two-and-a-half hours. -- Frances Niblock photo Fried squirrels black out hydro By FRANCES NIBLOCK The New Tanner Halton Hills Hydro will retrofit its three Acton sub- stations with anti-rodent measures after two squirrels caused a major fire at the River and Willow Streets sub-station on Saturday. Approximately 3,000 Acton customers were with- out power for up to two-and- a-half hours, beginning at 12:20 p.m., and damage to the sub-station is pegged at $30,000. "We're blocking off a small opening where the wires come up from under- ground into the switch gear at all three sub-stations, and we're taking a look to see what we can do to prevent these rodents from gaining access," Halton Hills Hydro general manager Dan Guatto said on Tuesday. Crews will install plywood skirting and more substantial covers where the wires enter the switch gear. Guatto said there was also a second problem on Satur- day with an undetected ice- damaged insulator at that same sub-station, which wasn't back in service until late Monday afternoon. "When we tried to oper- ate a switch, that insulator caused a fault on (Ontario Hydro's) 44-kilovolt feeder line from Fergus. We used our back-up feeder and that reduced the outage time," Guatto said. The power outage forced police to take up point duty at major intersections and a number of indoor soccer games were cancelled at the McKenzie-Smith Bennett gym. 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