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Close off Mill Street Sunday for day long celebration See Pages 8 and 9 for whole story Newstand Price 40¢ + GST ILLAGE Rent-A-Car Daily e Weekly e Monthly x] CHRYSLER pad Jeep 336 Guelph St. Georgetown 387 Queen St. East, Acton 286 Alma Street, Rockwood Ui = 7 es 'Aometown Newspapek BOUND FOR BRAZIL: After a year in Canada -- most of the time in Acton -- Rotary exchange student Luane Tavares is going back home to Brazil. The 17-year-old is excited about the whole experience and says it helped her develop more apprecia- tion for her own home, country and culture as well as helping her to "grow up." -- Frances Niblock photo Rotary exchange student: returns home to Brazil Rotary International exchange student Luane Tavares couldn't pick just one thing when asked what she liked best about being in Acton for the past year. "T was excited by everything. The whole experience was great -- I learned so much. You could-spend four years in high school and not learn as much as | did in one year here in this country. It's not just physics and history -- its more the life thing, learn how to handle things and how to make friends and to choose right and wrong," the 17-year-old from Brazil said on Monday, as she counted down the days before she returned home. "It (exchange programs) should be law. You start thinking how good is your country. I saw how nice my family is and how nice is my country, my friends and everything that I took for granted." Tavares said "all of my life it was a dream to visit another country," and when she told her father that she wanted to take part in an exchange program, he suggested she look into the Rotary program because it is well-known, respected and safe. ' Continued on page 4 905-877-0149 Pre Cn ad Fighting West Nile Treat Acton catch basin By FRANCES NIBLOCK The New Tanner Halton health officials are not spooked by the arrival of West Nile Virus (WNV) in Halton, as confirmed last week when the virus was found in a dead crow found in Burlington. "Tt tells us the virus is here and reminds us that we must protect ourselves from mos- quito bites, said Matt Ruf, Halton's supervisor of Envi- ronmental Health in Friday. The virus has turned up in dead birds in Halton since 2001, and monitoring for the virus is just one part of the Region's fight against the deadly disease. Mosquitoes can transmit WNV to humans after be- coming infected by feeding on the blood of birds carrying the virus. There have been no human cases of WNV in Ontario yet this season. Halton's 2005 program, budgeted at $1.2-million, re-emphasizes public educa- tion so residents can protect themselves from exposure to mosquitoes, and learn how to reduce mosquito breeding grounds. The program includes monitoring and surveillance for the presence of WNV in dead birds and mosquitoes and implementation of a larviciding program when necessary in known areas of standing water and catch basins. Ruf said a municipal storm water retention pond on Fair- view Avenue in Acton was larvicided during the week of July 17-23. Larvicide has been applied to standing wa- ter in 18 locations in Halton Hills, and in 75 locations Region-wide. "We had no positive crows, jays or mosquitoes in Halton Hills in 2004," Ruf said add- ing they had no positive pools of mosquitoes. Tips to protect yourself against WNV include: eavoid areas with high mosquito populations ewear light-coloured, loose fitting, tightly-woven cloth- ing, including long sleeves, pants, socks and a hat eto cover. exposed skin when outdoors from early evening to morning, or any time when in wooded areas euse a mosquito repellent escreen all windows and doors in your home ereduce mosquito breeding areas around your home by draining areas of standing water on your property like old tires, pails, toys, and wheelbarrows that may col- .., lect water % echange the water in bird- baths weekly ekeep your eavestroughs clear to avoid trapped water Japanese woman heads home after year in Acton A once-in-a-lifetime adventure in Canada ended on Tues- day when Hideko Tanaka flew home to Chiba, Japan after a year in Acton. The 30-year-old came to Canada on a work visa -- because of her age she can't get another work visa -- and as she packed to go to a cottage for her last weekend in Canada, she looked back at her jam-packed year. "The best part was many things," Hideko said in a tele- phone interview on Friday. "The nature, I think, Banff, the ice fields, the cranberry marsh, they were all beautiful. Not like at home," she said explaining that she lives about an hour outside of Tokyo, and really didn't know what to expect before she arrived. Hideko met her host in Acton, Fran Morris, through a friend when Morris visited Japan in 2003, and said it was easier to come to a strange country because she knew some- one here. Asked if she was brave to give up her life and job in Japan to take a year off, Hideko said she always liked adventure and always wanted to travel. "There are lots of working visas that we can apply for, but we are limited by our age. I wanted to come to Canada -- it is so different than what I know," Hideko said. She had hoped to get a job in her field -- she worked in a computer company as a secretary/salesperson/ shipper -- but said without a university degree she couldn't, so took a job at Sobeys in Acton where she made lots of friends. "The time went so fast. I was never homesick, but I wish I had done this when I was younger," she said, adding she plans to stay in touch with the Acton and Canadian friends she has made. / i ACHILLES VmazpDa 357 Queen St., Acton 519-853-0200 _info@achillesmazda. 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