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

Your Hometown Newspaper Volume 9 No. 33 Thursday, August 17, 2006 THE NEW Newstand Price 40 + GST Whats Inside Rent-A-Car Daily Weekly Monthly 856-0000 286 Alma Street, Rockwood ILLAGE 387 Queen St. East, Acton 336 Guelph St. Georgetown 905-877-0149 Georgetown Chrysler Dodge Jeep georgetownchrylser.com SUNFLOWER CERAMICS: Cindy McKinnon shows off some of her creations at the Leathertown Festival Sunday. An estimated 10,000 people enjoyed the festival which stretched down Mill St. from Main to Eastern Ave. We had a great day, BIA coordinator Josey Bonnette says, The weather was perfect, this was a record crowd and great en- tertainment. Traffi c was detoured along Church St. for the festival, for the day. The theme of this years festival was Gone Country. Turn to Pages 16 and 17 for photos and story.- Photo by Angela Tyler. You are my sunshine Continued on page 2 Continued on page 2 W ho spends summer weekends cooking out- doors for OCTRA Trail Riders? See Page 10. Four more pooches made it to the Dog Days roster and more to come. See Page 4. Where were you when the lights went out in Au- gust 2003? See Page 3. BLACKOUT 2003 Rockwood girls win ORSA Championships See Page 13. Mayor concerned trucks bypassing weigh scales, using Acton streets Wants MTO to increase inspections Halton Hills staff is looking to update the towns Heritage Register. Council was told that amendments to the Ontario Heritage Act last year allow mu- nicipalities to add properties to the registry that are not designated but which council believes to be of cultural heritage value or interest. The fi rst step in the designation process would be to invite owners of the properties to a public meeting in September, Town Clerk Karen Landry said. That way the owners can comment on the proposed designation. If a property is designated, the owner has a legal right to object, she said. Among the 33 properties of interest on the staff list are the Acton YMCA, The olde By Maggie Petrushevsky Truckers trying to by- pass weigh scales by taking Highway 7 through Acton may want to rethink their strategy if Halton Hills Mayor Rick Bonnette gets his way. Monday night the mayor asked Public Works Direc- tor Rick Henry to seek increased inspections from the Ministry of Transporta- tion (MTO) for heavy trucks entering the town. Disturbed by the amount of truck traffi c, particularly gravel trucks, trying to ne- gotiate Actons narrow main street, Bonnette speculated that a lot of them are try- ing to bypass MTO weigh scales on Highway 401. Maybe we can discour- age them if MTO was to come and do inspections on trucks entering the town. If the word gets out, they may think twice about their route, he said. Coun. Clark Somerville Staff updating Heritage Register