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THE NEW TANNER TUESDAY DECEMBER 30, 2008 8 My Cottage Dream CLOSING SALE! Dec. 30 to Jan 11 Everything must go! All sales final 44 Eastern Ave. Acton 519.853.0092 bed & bath, home decor, unique gifts & cards Wishing our customers, neighbours and friends a very Merry Christmas and a Properous New Year. We will be on holiday until Jan 12, 2009 Tel: 519-853-8530 12865, Hwy 25 www.besttiredeals.ca Acton, ON. Quality/Service/Price Knox Presbyterian Church 44 Main St. N P.O. Box 342 Acton, Ontario L7J 2M4 (519)853-2360 In a world of change, come and worship the unchanging God. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Jan 4: THE POWER OF GIFTS - Matthew 25:14 - 29 Jan 11: GRAMMAS TOUCH - Acts 19:1 - 7 Jan 18: UNITY SERVICE - Royal Canadian Legion Jan 25: GOD WANTS US TO DANCE - Luke 15:25 - 32 TRY A TANNER AD THEY WORK! 519-853-0051 thenewtanner@on.aibn.com Looking back at 2008... Continued from page 3 to spend more time with his wife, Susanne. A For Sale sign in the window at their Blue Springs Flower and Gift Shop on Mill Street signalled the couples plan to sell the business that they opened eight years ago. Good nutrition and the good Lord receive equal bill ing when Actons Dorothy Rognvaldson explained her longev- ity as she celebrated her 90th birthday. Age has not slowed her down her weekly calendar is a whirlwind of community service activities including driving for the Red Cross, Wheels to Meals, work- ing with Trinity Church Activity Group, visiting people who cant get out and walking. The victims of an Ac- ton break and enter may get some of their stolen goods back after police ar- rested two suspects earlier this week for a rash of 27 break-and- enters across southern Ontario in the past six months that net- ted the thieves $324,000. In each instance, the vic- tims were either owners or employees of Chinese food restaurants and while police said they have a motive for the crimes they would not reveal it because it is of eviden- tiary value. A cure could be in the works to help fix the acute lack of family physicians in Acton, made much worse by the recent health-related retirement of Dr. Vanderbent. There is some potentially good news , Ange la Sug- den-Praysner, Haltons physician recruitment co- ordinator said, adding that she has a good feeling about negotiations now underway with two po- tential doctors. MAY Last seasons gruel- ling hard work paid off in spades for rhythmic gym- nast Emily Boycott, 25, of rural Acton who was named Female Athlete of the Year with a Disability at the 2007 Ontario Sport Awards on April 25 in To- ronto. Halton Hills Mayor Rick Bonnette has issued a warning to Acton skateboard park users that Halton police are upping security at the Tanners Drive facility in response to neighbours complaints about noise, littering and vandalism. Bonnette said that some kids are not leaving the park 30-min- utes after dusk, as directed by signs at the facility. No was not the final answer to Dover Flours plans for another silo as part of an expansion at its Mill Street mill. A com- pany official persuaded the Towns Committee of Adjustment that, despite a past expansion approval condition that no new silo be built, this plan would help alleviate noise and traffic problems with the mill that has existed in the area for approximately 150 years. Five years after Hal- ton began investigating the safety of pumping twice as much water from the Acton Prospect Park well to allow for growth, Regional Council voted to spend an additional $143,000 for a peer re- view of scientific studies done to date. JUNE Acton soldier Anthony Prince whose step-father co-owns Actons Galvcast Manufacturing Inc. suf- fered non-life threatening shrapnel injuries while on duty in Afghanistan. Price, 22, a member of the 1st Battalion Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group based in Edmonton, was treated for wounds to his back and arms in a Kanda- har hospital before being shipped back home. Actons FoodShare food bank distributed 27,264-pounds of food last year to the Acton hungry, steady usage compared with recent years. Year- end figures show there were 697 visits to the food bank from April 2007 to March 2008. The pro-party polit- icians on Town Council think Halton Hills resi- dents should be able to play music outdoors at their homes until 11 p.m., and before asking for pub- lic comment on changes to the Community Standards Bylaw, changed the turn- Continued on page 9