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THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2007 THE NEW TANNER 7 Tanner The Regional Municipality of Halton 1151 Bronte Road, Oakville, Ontario L6M 3L1 Tel: 905-825-6000 Toll Free: 1-866-4HALTON TTY: 905-827-9833 www.halton.ca This Earth Day, before putting items in the garbage, think of ways to reduce, reuse and recycle your waste. Earth Day April 22 Plastic grocery bags dont go in the Blue Box. Use a reusable bag or bin for shopping instead of accepting plastic bags. Or, instead of throwing plastic bags in the garbage, take them back to your local grocery store many grocery stores have a bin to collect clean plastic grocery bags for recycling. Remember, every day is Earth Day! Return your liquor bottles (glass and plastic), Tetra- Pak and Bag-in-Box containers to The Beer Store to receive your cash deposit. This is another way to increase the amount of bottles being recycled. By returning bottles to The Beer Store you free up space in your Blue Box which means youll have more room to recycle other materials around your home. If youve been spring cleaning in your closets, dont throw away unwanted clothes, books, toys, linens, paired shoes, kitchenware and undamaged furniture. Give them to a reuse charity so others can enjoy them. Theres a Salvation Army drop-off located at the Halton Waste Management Site; for a list of other reuse charities in Halton, visit www.halton.ca/waste. Household hazardous waste paint, varsol, stains, car oils, cleaners, pesticides, and solvents should not be poured down the drain because they can contaminate our drinking water. If you put them in the garbage, they could actually mix together and catch on fi re or explode! Bring your household hazardous waste which also includes batteries and compact fl uorescent light bulbs to the Household Hazardous Waste Depot at the Halton Waste Management Site, where it can be properly refi ned, recycled or disposed of. This is free for residents. REQUEST FOR TENDER Bid documents for the services listed below, addressed to the Manager of Purchasing, 1151 BRONTE ROAD, OAKVILLE, ON L6M 3L1 will be received until 2:00 p.m. Oakville time on the specifi ed closing date. Bid documents can be seen or obtained through the Purchasing Division of the Corporate Services Department, same address as above, telephone 905- 825-6000, extension 7011. If long distance charges apply, dial toll free 1-866-4HALTON (1-866-442-5866). Documents will be available for pick up on and after Tuesday April 17, 2007. There is a non- refundable deposit of $26.50 (includes GST). Bidders who request documents to be shipped from the Purchasing Department must include a courier account number (the documents will be shipped collect) and a handling fee of $10.60 (includes GST) for this service. Please be advised that this particular bid document is also available for purchase and download from the Region website at www.halton.ca/shop for a non-refundable deposit of $10.60 (includes GST). Bids will be opened in public at 2:15 p.m. on the closing date specifi ed in the Nelson Room at the above address. Those submitting bids are invited to attend. Under no circumstances will facsimile or late bids be accepted or considered. Lowest or any bid not necessarily accepted. Halton Region relies on this advertisement to provide public notice of this business opportunity and is not obligated to notify any potential bidders in any other manner. T-047-07 SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF VARIOUS LIGHT AND MEDIUM DUTY TRUCKS / VEHICLES CLOSING DATE: TUESDAY, MAY 01, 2007 M. Scinocca, Acting Commissioner A. Mindenhall, CPPO, Corporate Services Manager of Purchasing Services www.halton.ca/shop From the April 20, 2006 pages of The New Tanner. One year ago, A major food drive and a move to a new headquarters will keep officials with Actons FoodShare food bank busy for the near future. No goal was set for the annual Scout/Guide/Cadet food drive to stock FoodShares shelves officials are grateful for all donations. In other news: Electricity bills jump by 11 per cent on May 1 $11.92 cents more per month or $143.04 annually for the Acton homeowner who uses an average of 1,000-kilowatt hours a month under new rates released by the Ontario Energy Board. Armed with scathing proof that Ontarios assessment corporation makes mistakes, a group of Acton tax fighters will continue to battle for municipal property tax fair- ness. From the April 18, 2002 pages of The New Tanner. Five years ago: Two teenaged Georgetown girls were terrified, but not hurt, after running from their car after it stalled on the railway tracks south of Glen Lawson Road and was hit by a VIA passenger train. In other news: Officials with Halton Hills Community Support andIn- formation expect an unhappy crowd with lots of questions at a special meeting to discuss the announced closure of the popular, but financially insecure, Off the Wall drop in centre on Mill Street. The Town of Halton Hills celebrates spring with the third annual Earth day celebrations, including a community cleanup and sales of saplings at the works yard. Murders in the Heir at AHS next weekend By Frances Niblock With eight potential killers, clowns, and cast direction to go big, or go home audiences are in for fun at three Acton High School presentations of Murders in the Heir next weekend. Director Jenn Ross wants the cast in the murder mys- tery to find the funny during their performances, and for the past few months, 21 students have been hon- ing their acting and improv skills to fill what Ross ad- mits is a tall order. Im a math teacher with high expectations. Ive told them not to hold back and I think the audience will have a great time because the cast is having fun with it, Ross said. After the first act, audi- ence members will decide by ballot who they want the murderer to be, and with eight potential killers, thats when the casts comedic skills and line memorizing skills will be evident. Ross said it was difficult to find a play with an ensem- ble cast that could showcase the skills of a lot of students, and they had to change the play-within-a-play format, replacing some characters with clown characters. Its not Barnum and Bai- ley, honk, honk, clowning. Its more (clown pioneer Richard) Pachinko, buf- foonery and French dark clowning, director Jenn Ross said of the clowning on Monday. She said they were able to draw on the skills of local actor/clown Brad Bor- bridge, who for the past few months has worked with the actors cast as clowns. Ross said the murder mys- tery is a comedy within a comedy, and within the past few weeks the actors have found the farce in their char- acters and it is funny. I told them that back- stage, thats when you are a professional. On stage thats when you have fun and try choices and they started getting bolder with their choices and the farther they went, the funnier it got, Ross said. Producer Cecelia Coulas thinks the murder mystery will be well received by the audience because its broad appeal will be funny to young and old. Students from other Acton schools will be treated to a rehearsal, with key scenes, on April 24. Tickets for the April 26, 27 and 29 performances, at 7:30 p.m., are available at the High School, 519-853- 2920. HUNGER HELPERS: Approximately 7,000-pounds of food and $381 in cash was donated during Saturdays 16th annual Scout/Guide Calvinist Cadet food drive to stock the shelves of Actons FoodShare food bank. These volunteers helped sort and box the donations as crews, that went door-to-door to pick them up, delivered them to the Scout House. Frances Niblock photo