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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1999 THE NEW TANNER Union accepts Town pact Halton Hills public works, parks, arenas and recreation 'staff have ratified a three year contract retroactive to April 1, 1998. Steve McKnight, presi- dent of CUPE (Canadian Union of Public Employees) _ Local 73, said the 40 mem- hers will receive a two per cent increase for the past nine , months in 'ack pay, a three per cent increase effective January 1, and a further two per cent increase on Jan. i; 2000. The new rate boosts the Town's starting wage for a labourer to $15.50 per hour. BINGO!: Acton resident Joan Taylor, Bingo Country hall manager Wendy seven" at the Milton hall, MacDonald says, prizes was "just great." -Angela Tyler photo Bizarre accident involves BY MAGGIE PETRUSHEVSKY The New Tanner No charges will be laid following a bizarre accident Monday morning which hos- pitalized a Grand Valle woman and an Amarant Township dog. Wendy Poirier, reception- ist at Dr. Steen's office in Acton, watched in horror as her neighbour's injured dog was run down, her husband just escaped injury and a pe- destrian received serious in- juries. Poirier says a woman knocked.on.her door.at 6.a.m. looking for help after she ran over a dog on old Highway 9 west of Orangeville. The dog was still alive and the woman was seeking the dog's own- ers. Poirier says she recog- nized the yellow dog, prob- ably a Lab cross, as belong- ing to-a neighbour. Her hus- band, Sid, put on his coat and went to help the woman get the animal off the road. It was extremely dark and both the woman and Poirier's husband were wearing dark coats, Poirier says. Traffic was slowing and avoiding them until another Grand Valley woman, unaware of the problem, ran over the dog again and dragged it several feet, hit the woman who originally struck the dog tumbling her into Poirier's driveway and narrowly miss- ing Poirier's husband. Poirier says she was watching from the doorway and saw the woman fall. "The way she just lay there my husband thought she was dead," she says. Poirier tried to call 911 but the line was busy. An- other driver, stopped by the accident, had already grabbed her cell phone and was alerting emergency crews. Poirier grabbed blankets, one for the injured woman and another for the dog, and helped another motorist com- fort the woman until the am- bulance arrived. Pamela Clark, 26, re- ceived a badly broken leg and . hand, says a spokesman for the Shelburne OPP. She was taken to Headwaters Health Centre in Orangeville, then transferred to Sunnybrooke dental receptionis Wendy Poirier Medical Centre in Toronto. The dog was put in a car and taken to the Dufferin Veterinary Clinic in Orangeville where it is on intravenous fluids. A clinic staffer refused to identify the dog's owner and said no de- cision had yet been made MT \ y MacDonald . 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