The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

8 THE NEW TANNER THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2006 Halton MP Garth Turner who was well known for his town hall meetings when he served as the Member of Parliament for this riding in the Mulroney government, has developed another wrin- kle to communicate with his constituents an interac- tive, live town hall meeting broadcast over the Internet from Turners Parliament Hill office. The hour-long online forum, featuring real- time video takes place at 7p.m. on Thursday, June 1. While this is definitely an experiment, I am very excited about how webcast- ing can help make peoples voices better heard in Ot- tawa, Turner says. This meeting will also allow me to introduce to people in Halton some key players in Ottawa, like the Speaker of the House of Commons and several cabinet ministers who will be appearing live with me. MP Turner has converted a small room in his Hill of- fice into a webcasting studio in a joint project with the House of Commons, and is the first member of Parlia- ment to broadcast live over the Net. Turner paid for the broadcasting equipment personally. Viewers will be able to watch a television-style program on their comput- ers, and have the ability to send email comments and questions to Turner and his guests, for real-time answers during the show. I am hoping this will be a useful way for us all to stay in touch while I have to be in Ottawa, the Halton MP says, and it also gives me a chance to invite a number of my MP colleagues into the studio so people in our area have a rare opportunity to speak directly to those folks. Turner says the goal is to use technology to give government back to the people, and that this is a logical extension of the town hall meetings the MP conducts in person across Halton riding. Since being elected at the end of January, Turner has held seven public forums for constituents, the most recent being seminars on family finances follow- ing the federal budget. Now that most house- holds have high-speed access to the Internet, it seems only natural that we use this tool to make politics better, Turner says. Interested? Log onto www.garth.ca at 7p.m. June 1. To the editor, Reading this weeks Tan- ner I see that the community is being asked to help raise money to replace the MSB playground. This playground has been falling apart for a while and surely the school noticed its desperate need of replacing. I question why the school/ school board has not bud- geted to have it replaced. My children will be going to that school next year so I am glad to see it gone, but very disappointed that there was no immediate plan to have it replaced. I guess they would rather wait for the community to rebuild it. I dont feel this should be up to the community to replace it for the school board. Stew. To the children of Acton: On Thursday, May 4 we celebrated our 4th Annual Candlelight Tribute. As al- ways we were so pleased to see such a good turnout, and that you cared enough to give of your time to attend, along with your families. Each year we look for- ward to spending this time with you. In 2007 we will be meeting May 3, the clos- est Thursday to May 8, V.E. Day. When we look forward to an even greater turnout, we encourage you all to show your ongoing support of this important event. We do hope to have more information in the schools for you. Thank you once again, most sincerely. Acton Branch of the Halton Hills Candlelight Tribute Committee. To the editor, As you are aware, May 16 was Census Day in Canada. I am writing to you to ask you to remind your readers, although census day has come and gone, its not too late to send in their census forms if they have not already done so. Statistics Canada will be taking late census forms without any penalty for the next little while. We want to ensure that everyone everywhere is included. If residents have not received a census ques- tionnaire, or if they have misplaced theirs, they may call the Census Help Line at: 1 877-594-2006 or for more information visit us online at www.census2006.ca. Enumerators will be in your neighbourhood soon visiting households to follow- up on census questionnaires that have not been returned, as all households are le- gally obligated to complete their census questionnaire. Person(s) refusing to com- plete a questionnaire can be fined $500 or imprisoned for three months, or both. In order to be as accurate as possible, Statistics Canada makes every effort to ensure that everyone fills out their form. The census provides the only detailed source of com- munity-level information for economic, social and demographic conditions and trends occurring in Canada. Data are used to plan im- portant services like public transportation, health care, education and fire and police protection- all a part of our daily lives. Preliminary population figures from the 2006 Census will be released in February 2007. If you require more infor- mation, please do not hesitate to contact me at: 416-973- 9545 or by email at lily. eisenberg@statcan.ca. Lily Eisenberg, Communication Officer Statistics Canada, Central Region 416-973-9545 Garth Turner pioneers live town hall meeting from Hill School Board should replace playground at MSB school Not too late to send in your 2006 census forms Children thanked for their role in Candlelight Tribute DISNEY DELIGHT: Michaela deWolff, a Grade five student at Robert Little School starred as the tea pot during her classs song from Beauty and the Beast at a spring show featuring songs from Disney musicals last Thursday. Frances Niblock photo Garth Turner Halton MPP Take it to the dump yourself... I guess in a way its like garage sale signs. I get soooooo irked when people who have garage sales on a Saturday or weekend leave the signs posted to hydro poles and such for weeks on end. I want to take them to their home and yell at them that the day has long passed. If you have enough energy to put the sign up then have enough energy to take it down. I think we all need to take a stand. We need to tell our neighbours that if their trash hasnt been picked up its time they need to take it to the dump themselves. Why should we put up with them cluttering up the neigh- bourhod. Take that old fridge to the dump. Bring in that old barbeque and get rid of it yourself if the Region wont pick it up. Take down your garage sale sign when your sale is over. The time has come. Its time for adults to be responsi- ble. Its time that neighbours tell other neighbours what they think. Hey you at the corner of Danville and Wal- lacetake that refrigerator to the dump yourself. The guy who is at the entrance to the cul-de-sacget rid of your barbeque. It wont be picked up by the Region. Youre cluttering up the neighbourhood. Put your garbage out when you are supposed to. If it is large garbage day pick-up then pay attention to what you can and cant put out. Be a responsible home owner and your neighbourhood will respect you. Ive ventednow I feel better. Of course, now I know my neighbours will be paying attention to my trash as well. Continued from page 6 Halton MPP Ted Chudle- igh introduced a Bill in the Ontario Legislature on Tuesday, May 16 which, if passed, would require the Province of Ontario to get municipal consent for the use of municipal landfill capacity. If Michigan refuses to allow Toronto trash in its landfills the threat to Hal- tons landfill and Halton taxpayers is significant, said Mr. Chudleigh. The Provin- cial Minister of Environment could direct Torontos trash to Halton, filling it, after only a few short years. This issue hangs over our heads like a guillotine. Halton taxpay- ers deserve some peace of mind. Toronto has not had a land- fill site for several years since the Keele Valley site reached its capacity. Toronto city council has run into roadblocks on several pro- posals and has only recently begun talking about a lasting solution. Currently, Toronto trucks its garbage to a landfill in Michigan but legislators in Michigan are working to close their border to trash shipments on security and environmental grounds. Halton fought a bitter and expensive battle to create its landfill and has managed the site carefully to extend its life, said Mr. Chudleigh. Toronto has not managed a long term solution for their needs. Municipal taxpayers should not be penalized by Torontos lack of vision. It is not equitable to impose a cost of that kind on any munici- pality without its consent. Chudleigh Bill to save landfill