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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 2000 THE NEW TANNER CREDIT CHEQUE: Halton Hills Co mmunity Support and Information (HHCSI) youth manager Kimberly Rogers (left) gratefully accepted a cheque for $480 from Halton Credit Union office supervisor Fran Burton last week. The money was raised by Acton branch staff during October's Credit Union Week and is earmarked for HHCSI's soon-to-open Acton Youth Centre at 45 Mill St. East. --- Frances Niblock photo Local firm is sold in Georgetown CO Austrian company Masked man robs Mac's Halton Regional Police are seeking a masked male who robbed a Mac's Milk store in Georgetown early Saturday morning. A masked man entered the store on Mountainview Rd. S. at 4:57 a.m. on Saturday. He produced a handgun, threat- ened the clerk and demanded money. The clerk complied and handed over an undisclosed amount of cash. The suspect fled the store to a waiting ve- hicle and left the area. The suspect is male, white, 5'9" to 6' tall, medium build, no accent. He was wearing a light gray puffy bomber jacket, blue jeans, and a ski mask. He was armed with a black, semi-automatic pistol. He was driving a maroon Pontiac Sunbird. i Medical Pharmacy (in the Medical Building) 93 Mill St. E. Acton 853-5780 * No $2 copay (for eligible ODB) ¢ Free Medication Advice * Free Local Delivery * 10% Seniors Discount EVERY DAY Employees at Harbison- Walker (formerly AP. Green) are worried about their jobs as they wait for formal con- formation that their company has been sold to an Austrian finn. The Perth Street factory, which employs between 15 and 20 people, produces as- say crucibles for the mining and refining industries, com- bustion chambers for oil- burning furnaces and other ceramic fibre products. "We're the only plant in Canada that makes the cruci- bles, so we hope we' re pretty secure, but eve is wor- ried about their jobs," Acton branch spokesman Orville Walker said on Tuesday. 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Yourway welcomes NEW HOURS OF BUSINESS: Mon-Fri 7:30am to 7pm Saturday 9am to 1pm ( Town Digest Plans feared The prospect of Brampton --the fourth largest city in On- tario -- doubling to 600,000 right across the Winston Churchill border with Peel should "strike fear in the heart of everyone who lives in Halton Hills," said Acton Councillor Norm Elliott "T don't know if whether growth for the sake of growth is something everybody to Start to question, because it that happened, there won't be a green space in Peel, to the east of our Town boundary, left at all," Elliott said in re- sponse to a Brampton deci- sion to look at downsizing and restructuring. Councillor Ron Chatten asked what would happen in Halton Hills if Brampton ex- panded Highway 7 to six lanes to handle the growth and said it's critical the Town committee looking at truck J municipalities are talking re- structuring and amalgama- tion, Halton politicians are taking a wait-and-see ap- proach. At last Wednesday's Halton Council meeting, three Notices of Motion, suggest- ing ways of dealing with re- structuring in Halton, were put on hold by their authors until Council receives the Chair's report on governance. Acton senior recovering Edna Graham, the 78-year- old pedestrian struck on Mill Street on Dec. 1, is recover- ing in Guelph General Hospi- tal. 'Daughter Carole Ann Norton says Mrs. Graham was transferred from Sunnybrook to Guelph in early January. M..s. Graham is talking a litte, her sense of humour is still good, and she can receive visitors although she tires easily. ae H's that time of the ygar again! 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