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whats inside Your Hometown Newspaper Volume 12 No. 06 Thursday, February 12, 2009 T?? NEW Newstand Price 40 + GST ??? ? ? ??? ?????? ?? ????? ? ???? ? ?? ? ???? ??? ? ? ???? ?? ?? ? ?? ? ? ?????????????????? ?????????? ???????????????? ???????????????? ????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? T & A Automotive 108 Station St. 519-856-1531 Fat Cat Dog & Car Wash Rockwood Partners in preventative maintenance OIL CHANGE $36.99 CAR WASH Station St. Guelph #7 Main St .** Sales Service Leasing Parts T HE NEW www.georgetownchrysler.ca 336 Guelph St., Georgetown 905-877-0149 email: cwiddess@georgetownchrysler.ca Purity Life worker injured in 18 fall TO ITS WORTH THE DRIVE ACTON MOTORS 8531280 2002 Dakota ........ LOADED! SOL D By Frances Niblock The fight to save all of the McKenzie-Smith Bennett school site is admittedly an up hill battle, but one that the community has endorsed. Save MSB signs are appearing all over Acton and more than 300 people have joined a Facebook site to try to get the Hal- ton District School Board to reconsider it decision to add an as-yet-undeter- mined portion of the MSB site to a list of surplus property that is for sale. Regional and Town Councillor Clark Som- erville said many local residents are incensed with the Boards decision and are very vocal about it. It makes it interesting when you try to go gro- cery shopping. Everybody The Ministry of Labour continues to inves- tigate how a worker at Purity Life fell 18 feet from a lifting device, severely injuring him- self, in an industrial accident at the health food distributors Commerce Court plant at 12:25 a.m. on February 4. Purity Life Health Products is a division of SunOpta Inc. Although the company and investigators have not identified the man, a source told The New Tanner that the injured worker is John Thompson. He is listed in stable condi- tion in a Hamilton hospital, suffering from multiple injuries, including head trauma. Bruce Skeaff, a spokesman for the Min- istry of Labour, said their inspector has asked Purity for nine things, most of them paperwork related, including the certificate for the lifting device, copies of the lifting devices maintenance manual, personnel in- formation, minutes of safety meetings and health and safety accident procedures. SunOpta information officer Susan Wiek- enkamp declined to give any details about the injured worker or the accident except to say that the company is committed to employee health and safety and is fully co-operating with the Ministry of Labour investigation and had been in contact with the mans family. A source said the worker was wearing a safety rig, but it was not tethered to anything when he fell as he reached for something on a high level rack. Acton rallying against MSB sale Admittedly an uphill battle Continued on Page 2 See Letters Pages 6 & 8 Council questions golf water use Concern that two local golf courses, including one just east of Acton, could use excessive amounts of water for their ir- rigation systems prompted Town Council to again rec- ommend limits on how much water can be taken from two creeks, and for how long. There are so many water taking permits coming out of here, sooner or later were going to be dry, Ward Two Councillor Bryan Lewis said last week as Town Council debated how to respond to the Ministry of Environments request for comments on ap- plications by Hornby Glen Golf Course and the proposed Black Creek Golf Course, on the north east corner of High- way 7 and the Fourth Line, to take water from local creeks. Hornby Glen wants renewal of a 10-year permit to pump water from a tributary to Mid Continued on Page 3 A FEATHERED FRIEND: Upon returning home Acton resident Kim Martin found an injured bird on her front doorstep. Realizing the bird was still alive, she contacted a vet and received some vitamin water mixture to feed the bird to help him gain his strength. The little bird known as a White Winged Cross Bill spent a few days at Kims residence being nursed back to health, with the assistance of vets and bird specialists, until he was finally strong enough to fly away on his own. Traci Gardner Photo February is Heart & Stroke Month and The New Tanner has a fea- ture on Pages 4 & 5 as well as one on Page 13 for Rockwood Angela recalls her mem- ories of the MSB field. Page 6 Snowtube run in Eden Mills great for fundrais- er for eyesight. Page 13 The United Way is short of its 2008 goal. Theres still time to donate. See Page 15