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THE NEW TANNERTHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2009 3 23 kg (50 lbs) Put waste at the curb by 7 a.m. the morning of your collection day, but no sooner than 5 p.m. the evening before. Containers and bags should weigh no more than 23 kg (50 lbs). Items that are too heavy will not be collected. Do not put material out in cardboard boxes. Stack your Blue Boxes and place heavier items such as phone books and magazines on top of loose papers, or bundle and tie papers. Flatten and tie large cardboard boxes and place securely underneath or between your recycling boxes. Tie cardboard in bundles no larger than 76 cm x 76 cm x 20 cm (30 x 30 x 8). During the winter, ensure material is free of snow and ice and is visible to the collection crew. Do not place material on top of snow banks. Winter Tips Tanner Feb 19 09 The Regional Municipality of Halton www.halton.ca 19020 91151 Bronte Road, Oakville, Ontario L6M 3L1 Dial 311 or 905-825-6000 Toll Free 1-866-442-5866 TTY 905-827-9833 www.halton.ca St. Alban The Martyr Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper Tuesday February 24, 2009 6:00PM St. Alban's Parish Hall 19 St. Alba'sn Drive Acton, Ontario 519-853-2711 A free-will offering gets the whole family in! St. Alban The Martyr Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper Tuesday February 24, 2009 6:00PM St. Alban's Parish Hall 19 St. Alba'sn Drive Acton, Ontario 519-853-2711 A free-will offering gets the whole family in! St. Alban The Martyr Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper Tuesday February 24, 2009 6:00PM St. Alban's Parish Hall 19 St. Alba'sn Drive Acton, Ontario 519-853-2711 A free-will offering gets the whole family in! St. Albans Parish Hall 19 St. Albans Drive Acton, Ontario 519-853-2711 HAPPY 80th BIRTHDAY NANA Love always , Your Family & Friends HAPPY 85th BIRTHDAY Come celebrate Gord McCutcheons Birthday Open House Sat. Feb. 28 2009 2pm - 4pm Acton Legion Lounge All levels of government pay for Stewarttown bridge A joint announcement from MP Michael Chong, MPP Ted Arnott and May- or Rick Bonnette on Friday, Feb. 13 confirmed that replacement of the Stew- arttown Rd. Bridge will be one of the first projects to benefit from funding for all three levels of government and reduce the amount of red tape to get shovels in the ground sooner on the project. The federal and provin- cial governments will each invest up to $276,500 in the project while Halton Hills will contribute the balance of the total eligible project cost of up to $89,500. Emphasizing the im- portance of partnership to accomplish significant change, MP Michael Chong says, Because we know our communities have immediate needs our gov- ernment is accelerating the funding process to ensure that money flows faster and more efficiently, words substantiated by MPP Ted Arnott. We need to work together and continue to make sub- stantial investments in new infrastructure, which will strengthen our economic competitiveness and pro- tect our environment over the long term, Arnott said. Mayor Rick Bonnette welcomed the new level of cooperation, noting the investment will allow the Town to improve its infra- structure and increase safety and mobility in Stewart- town. The project is one of 289 across the province that are slated to soon break ground thanks to the federal-prov- incial-municipal investment of more than $1 billion Name OMHA trophy after Ron McKnight The Ontario Minor Hockey Association has announced it is naming a trophy after Actons Ron McKnight, always a popular figure in Acton. In future, the win- ner of the OMHA Atom E championship will receive The Ronald Mc- Knight Trophy. Ron was presented with the OMHA Honour Award for his outstanding contributions to minor hockey in 1984. Then in 1998, he was named win- ner of the Georgetown Hockey Heritage Award. He worked as a time- keeper for the Acton Minor Hockey Asso- ciation in the 1970s and later became secretary of the Tri-County Minor Hockey League for five years. Among his many contri- butions to Georgetowns Hockey Heritage, Ron has served as timekeep- er for the Georgetown International Bantam Tournament for 12 years. Ron was the timekeep- er for the Georgetown Midget Tournament and also volunteered as timekeeper for the Georgetown Intermedi- ate A Raiders and assisted with fundraising for the Junior Golf Tour- naments. Ron became the Sec- retary-Treasurer of the Georgetown Referees Association in 1977, and has been their President since 1984. In 1983, Ron was awarded a Life Member- ship in the Georgetown Referees Association. Ron is a resident of Acton. While he lived in Georgetown during the early 1990s, he has since returned to his roots in his home town. OMHA letter Dear Ronald, On behalf of the Ontario MInor Hockey Association, it is my pleasure to advise you that the OMHA Board of Directors has elected to name a trophy in your honour, in recognition of you contribu- tions to the OMHA and Minor HOckey. Once again, please accept the sincere appreciation of both the OMHA Board and Membership in the hopes that this will, in some small way, serve as a lasting reminder in acknowledgement of your contributions to the OMHA. Sincerely, Richard Ropchan, Executive Director Discuss culture... Continued from Page 2 -clude arts, culture and heritage everything from natural heritage like the Bruce Trail to events like the Acton Fall Fair and places like the library and cultural gallery. In studying cultural plan- ning in other countries and communities, Sharkey said they found that it is usually done in a partnership involv- ing individuals, businesses and the municipality. The other piece that we found very interesting was some communities are empha- sizing very much the economic benefits of cultural planning other communities are focus- ing on social well-being, so they are talking about sense of place, cultural fabric, a great place to grown up and live Sharkey said, adding that cul- tural planning can help make a community recession-proof. She said that one of the cul- tural planning tenets is that attracting creative workers to live within a community makes it more recession proof. People within these occupations often have a higher level of education, are self-employed, are more in- dependentchoosing to live somewhere that they can feel that cultural connection to and having them within your com- munity is going to have ripple effects Sharkey said. While Halton Hills does not have a one-stop round table focus on culture, the town does have many of the activities that other communities want to build, like the artists colony in the Williams Mill in Glen Wil- liams, arts tours and promotion of the Bruce Trail she said. Sharkey said they came to a number of important con- clusions at the symposium including the fact that Halton Hills is very well situated for attracting creative workers, both geographically and for what is already here. The Town has more vis- ual arts groups compared to performing arts and more significant natural heritage sites, although compared to similarly sized commun- ities, Halton Hills has fewer designated heritage sites, and the three sectors arts, cultural and heritage, are not well known to the com- munity or connected to one another, something that leads to missed opportunities and overlapped events. Sharkey said the commit- tees draft goals are to look at a round table model, de- velop a marketing strategy and work with Town Council to develop a more integrated way to look at arts, culture and heritage. She said they will prepare a final report for Council, ensure they have consulted with everyone, reach out to the community with presen- tations and start to look for funds.