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THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2007 THE NEW TANNER 9 1151 Bronte Road, Oakville, Ontario L6M 3L1 Tel: 905-825-6000 Toll Free: 1-866-4HALTON TTY: 905-827-9833 030807 The Regional Municipality of Halton www.halton.ca Halton Region has implemented a mandatory odd/even water restriction on outdoor water use. Odd-numbered municipal (or street) addresses can water on odd numbered calendar days and even-numbered municipal addresses can water on even numbered calendar days. Watering is permitted only between the hours of 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. This restriction includes the watering of lawns, flower/vegetable gardens, trees and shrubs. Vehicle washing is also included in the odd/even restrictions. Please refer to Haltons website (www.halton.ca) for specific details on exemptions/restrictions or contact Halton Region at 1-866-4HALTON. PLEASE AVOID ANY UNNECESSARY WATER USE WHENEVER POSSIBLE ODD/EVEN WATER RESTRICTIONS IN PLACE iRecycle . - Campers of Town of Halton Hills Eco Adventure Camp because it protects the planet. Before putting milk cartons, drinking boxes, pop cans or water bottles in our Blue Box, we make sure they are empty so we can keep our Blue Box clean. Acton Computers 56 Mill St. E. Unit C, Acton 519-853-8888 actoncomputers@cogeco.net THIS WEEKEND 25% OFF ALL IN STOCK ITEMS SAT & SUN ONLY 50% OFF ALL REMAINING INK FINAL DAYS!OPEN 10-5 SAT & SUN for Jessie Brown & Gavin Hall Sat. August 11 7:00 PM Acton Legion Tickets available at the door $10 per person. Stag & Doe Canadian Blood Services urges residents of Acton to help boost the blood supply by keeping their appointment to donate, or if they have ever thought about donating blood, to do it now, during the challenging summer season. The next clinic is on Thurs- day, August 16 at the Acton Legion Hall, 15 Wright Av- enue from 4:00 8:00 p.m. Patients will routinely de- pend on the generosity of donors, for transfusion sup- port with their surgeries and treatments. One blood group will al- ways remain high in demand O negative. The reason for this is that until a patients blood grouping is deter- mined, hospitals must use the only compatible red blood cells type O Negative. (Type O negative is also used in neonatal and trauma situations). Canadian Blood Services needs to maintain a substan- tial O negative supply for immediate surgeries, espe- cially during the summer months when traumas on our roadways and waterways traditionally rise. As part of this summers efforts to boost donations, Canadian Blood Services has launched its campaign Save Lives, Make Memories. Donors are eligible to win a Kodak EasyShare X530 Digital Camera at all clinics across the country and are encouraged to share their do- nation stories online at www. blood.ca/memories Canadian Blood Services encourages Canadians to call 1 888 2 DONATE (1- 888- 236-6283) for blood donor clinic information, eligibility information or to book an ap- pointment today to donate. O negative blood in demand at blood clinic A silver EGO paint-ball gun worth $1,500 was stolen from an unlocked apartment on Ransom Street between 4 and 7 p.m. on Tuesday in what police are calling a suspicious incident. Police report the hom- eowner said she left her front door unlocked while she and her teenage son ran some errands and while they were out, someone stole the paint ball gun that was left in plain view on the 17-year-old victims bed. Other valuables were not touched. Light broken An Elizabeth drive resi- dent reported a front lawn light fixture was broken off a pole in front of his house overnight August 4/5. Dam- age is $30. Holmesway fire Acton firefighters extin- guished a small fire in the ditch in front of a residence on Holmesway Place at 2:08 a.m. on Holiday Monday. A passer-by noticed the fire, possibly caused by a discarded cigarette butt. Short circuit An electrical short circuit may have caused a fire in the engine compartment in a 1998 Dodge Caravan parked behind 18 Mill St. South at 1:53 p.m. on Holiday Monday. The family had just re- turned from holiday and parked the van when the fire broke out. It was quickly doused by Acton firefight- ers. B y Frances Niblock Someone could have been killed when they pulled a natural gas pipe off the wall to get up on the roof at Blue Springs Funeral Home early Monday morning, according to funeral director Ian Pasmore. Kids use the natural gas pipe to boost themselves up onto the flat chapel roof, but early Sunday morning they pulled the pipe from its fitting, leaving natural gas spewing into the air. When I came home I could smell it, and if someone had been smoking with the gas blowing, or if the furnace its an air con- ditioner as well if it had been sucking in air to cool the funeral home, it would have pumped it full of gas fumes and any spark would have levelled the place, Pasmore said, adding he doesnt know why kids like to get up on his roof, but he had seen their footprints on several occasions. In the past, Pasmore has put purple-co- loured grease on the pole to prevent kids from shinnying up to get to the roof, but he forgot to this year, although there was just enough of the grease to leave traces. If some kid has gone home and the mother wonders where the purple grease on their hands and clothes came from its because they were climbing up my gas pipe, Pasmore said on Tuesday, adding a prank could have been deadly. They really could have caused a big problem here,he said, adding Union Gas came and capped the service until repairs can be made. Police/Fire Report Paint gun stolen on Ransom Gas scare at funeral home Heartsick cat owners are using psychics, posters and newspaper ads as they search for their beloved pets missing in recent weeks in the Acton and Georgetown areas. Daytona, Bagheera and Bentley are all missing from their Halton Hills homes, but their owners dont think their cats have been stolen, although Halton police have investigated reports of stolen pets in the past. A psychic told Actons Dar- ren Williams who is searching for Daytona, a two-year-old female brown and coffee- coloured Calico, that seems there is a child holding this cat back and not letting it go. Williams, who moved to the Danville Drive-Hill Street area three weeks ago, said Daytona is an indoor/out-door cat who suddenly disappeared on July 23, but hes confident shes safe, based on the com- ments from the psychic who works with his girlfriend. She thinks the parents (of the child) dont realize that somebody owns the cat that its not a stray and its just a matter of time before they see a poster of an ad, Williams said on Friday, adding the psychic is right about 70 per cent of the time. Williams is offering a reward for Daytonas safe return, as are the owners of an expensive Maine Coon Cat (Bagheera) and a Scottish Fold Cat (Bentley), both miss- ing in Georgetown South. Although there were sev- eral reported sightings of Bagheera in Georgetown last week, Bagheeras owner, Louis Archambault does not discount the four or five re- ported sightings of his cat near the olde Hide House, by the railway tracks, on July 30. Maybe someone picked him up and dropped him off. The Acton reports were pretty accurate, right down to the red collar and gold tags. We wont stop looking, he said, adding Bagheera always slept outside at night. Rewards are offered for information that leads to the return of all three cats. Both Daytona and Bagheera are microchipped so any vet- erinarian can identify them and contact their owners. Psychic helps in cat search