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May is Hire a Student Month. Story on Page 4. Your Hometown Newspaper Volume 10 No. 16 Thursday, April 19, 2007 THE NEW Newstand Price 40 + GST Whats Inside The Towns Earth Week events include tomorrows 20- Minute Makeover when local businesses, schools and citizens are asked to take a little time to clean up their part of Halton Hills. During Saturdays community cleanup, the emphasis will be on parks, rural roadsides and ravines. Acton litter busters are invited to meet Acton BIA members at 9 oclock on Saturday morning in the Willow Street South public parking lot where the spring cleaning will begin com- plete with work gloves donated by Superior Glove. The Friends of Fairy Lake is holding its semi-annual Towns Earth Day activities cleanup of the shoreline of Fairy Lake in Prospect Park. You can help: wear boots and gloves and meet at the Boat- house at 9 a.m. *** At Robert Little School, the Earth Day festivities include the second annual Community Dig-In event and barbecue. School board designated Eco-School will also offer trail walks, tree identifi cation and worm feeding. Volunteers will continue work on the existing gardens and begin work on Phase two of the Celebrate You & Me Com- munity Garden project. Annual food drive another success 7,000 pounds of food for Food Bank By Frances Niblock Saturdays 16th annual Scout/Guide/Calvinist Cadet food drive generated ap- proximately 7,000-pounds of food for Actons Food- Share foodbank, helping to ensure that no one has to go hungry. The storage room (at FoodShare) is very full all the food was sorted and boxed and delivered by R/M Construction to us, FoodShare board chair Ar- lene Humphreys said on Monday. A small army of vol- unteers members of the Acton Scouting, Guiding and Calvinist Cadets went door-to-door through many of the streets in Acton, pick- ing up bags of donated food that had been left by gener- ous donators. Scout leader George Hen- derson, who handed out the last route just before noon to a team that had already done a route, said the food drive teaches youth to help out. We talk about citizenship as much as hunger. Some of these kids are pretty young, but they can help and be part of a larger group that helps, Henderson said as Continued on page 2 MORE THAN A FRIEND: Its hard to say goodbye after fostering a puppy for up to a year for the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guide program, but Actons Jean and Bob Jeffries know their help may result in a dog that can be a passport to freedom for a disabled person. Frances Niblock photo Open House for recreation, parks facilities Acton residents are invited to question and comment on the Towns proposed long term plans for recreation and parks facilities and programs at an open house on April 25 at Acton High School, and on April 26 at the Civic Centre. Following an overview by the consultants hired by the Town to help develop a Recreation and Parks Strategic Action Plan, the public will be asked how it wants to have fun in the future. The Action Plan will detail key demographic infl uences, trends in rec- reation and parks, current and future demands for recreation and parks facili- ties, programs and services and a summary that ranks the outcomes and fi nancial impacts and options. The public meetings run from 7 to 9 p.m. Local family fosters Dog Guides By Frances Niblock A gangly yellow Lab named Gage may be a passport to freedom for some- one with a disability, but for now, hes happy growing out of puppyhood and into his large feet at the Acton home of Bob and Jean Jeffries. The Jeffries are foster parents for the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guide program that trains dogs and matches them with people who need help seeing, hearing or caring for themselves. Pups usually Labrador or Golden Continued on page 3 Cancer can be beaten. See The New Tanners feature for Aprils campaign on Pages 13-17. A rabies clinic at Elmira Farm Service in Ospringe Saturday innoculated over 325 animals. See Page 19. Acton High School pre- sentes Murders in the Heir, a murder mystery that starts next weekend. See Page 7. Rockwood 856-2222 2000 Ranger XLT Supercab...................$7,777 $55/ WEEK 3 YEARS TO ITS WORTH THE DRIVE ACTON MOTORS 8531280 2003 DAKOTA - XTND 2WD