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SURVIVORS SUCCESS: Cancer survivors pre- pared to set off around the track at Acton High School on Friday for the Survivor's Victory Lap to kick off the Relay for Life to raise money for the Canadian Cancer So- ciety. -- Frances Niblock photo See Story Page 3 Ea oad 7)-1) OTOR PRODUCTS = z rz z 2000 XTERRA 4x4. Section on Pages 11, 12,13, 14,15,16 Bum Steer: Officers from Wellington OPP had an unusual chore this week. See Page 17. Time for Home and Gar- den. See our section on Pages 19, 20, 21, 23. Due to technical prob- lems a number of photos and articles meant for this issue were held over until next week. Rockwood * 856-2222 - Pros, Boys stuck in the mud Halton police are asking parents to warn their children of the "inherent dangers as- sociated with construction sites," following an incident on 10 Side Road and the Ninth Line at 11p.m., April 29. Five Georgetown boys, 10-13 years old, had been "adventuring" in an open construction site, police said, when they became stuck in heavy mud and couldn't free themselves. Fortunately one was able to contact a parent by cellphone to alert emer- gency services because they were out of sight of passing traffic. Emergency Services and police responded and ex- tracted the five boys from the mud. One, a 13-year-old; was taken to Georgetown hospital where he was treated for hy- pothermia. 7HIZ. KIDS: Samantha Russell, left, and Amy Poirier pose with their winning proj- ect at the MacKenzie-Smith Bennett's Science Fair last Thursday. The girls won first place in the Life Sciences category. Missing from photo Makayla Eaton-Kent. -Heather Mclsaac photo. Special tributes to Vets today Today, Thursday, May 5, 2005 is being celebrated in Halton Hills as a special tribute to all our War Veterans and to those who kept "the home fires burning." At 8:45a.m. a monument will be un- veiled at the Halton Hills Civic Centre on Maple Avenue just east of Trafalgar Road. This monument will recognize the sacrifices of a generation that fought for our peace and freedom. During the ceremony, hosted by Mayor Rick Bonnette and mem- bers of the Dutch Canadian Remembrance Committee, the Dutch flag will be raised in celebration of the 60" anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands by the Canadian Army. The monument is donated by grateful Dutch Canadians and J.C. Duff Ltd. Mayor Bonnette will host a recep- tion following the ceremony to which the public is invited. At 10a.m. between 700 and 1000 school children will hold a special Candlelight Tribute at Remembrance Park in downtown Georgetown. Each student will personally thank the war veterans in attendance and place a lighted candle on the cenotaph as a -- Passing of the Torch. his ceremony will be repeated at Glen Williams, an adjacent village, at 1:00p.m. with the 235 students of the Glen Williams Public School. In the evening the same day, at 7p.m., Silent Walks combined with Candle- light Tributes will be held in Acton and Georgetown. In Acton, two processions will meet downtown, at the cenotaph. The Georgetown procession will start at Cedarvale Park on Maple Avenue. The public, and especially families, are invited to participate in these Silent Walks. Refreshments will be served at both the Acton and the Georgetown Royal Cana- dian Legions following the ceremonies. On Friday, May 6 the Royal Canadian Legion, Georgetown, will host a dinner and party for all war veterans. Remember 2005 -- "Year of the Vet- eran" TO 1997 DODGE RAN.....GO BANANAS! ACTON MOTORS tte 75-10 cons of transit debated Community bus service contemplated By FRANCES NIBLOCK The New Tanner Love it or hate it, there were no halfway opinions from | those who commented on Town plans for a public transit system at public information meeting at the Civic Centre recently. 'hired to prepare a North Halton transit strategy, is a five-year plan for a community bus service. : ENTRA director Dennis Fletcher told the 35-plus peo- ple in the chambers, including most of the councillors and several staff, that public transit surveys elicited three main responses in Halton Hills. "There're lot of people in this community that want tran- sit, there are some people that don't want transit, and there're a group in the middle that doesn't want transit that looks anything like... a big diesel belching 40-foot bus that's driving around half empty," Fletcher said. He assured the crowd that what they propose is a go slow approach with incremental increases in the ActiVan service. 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