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THE NEW TANNER THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2009 8 905-877-6986 Inn on the Hill We welcome your visitors this holiday season. Recent winner of the Directors Award for Quality Only 10 minutes east of Acton 365 Guelph Street Halton Hills (Georgetown) (Hwy 7 & Delrex) www.bestwestern.com/ca/innonthehill Featuring: 64 tastefully redecorated rooms, meeting room and fi tness centre, complimentary continental breakfast, wireless internet access and much more. Kitchen Closed The Cook is Sick... ...Sick of Cooking! Dining with You is our pleasure! Are you a senior who is Sick and Tired of Cooking? Cooking for one? Cant face eating the same leftovers for days? Try our Dining With You program. As a member of our daily meals program, you can receive hot meals, or frozen, all at a reasonable cost. Lots of meal choices and delivery is free! Gift Certificates available for Christmas Call Anne 519-853-3310 To the editor What are you doing Saturday, December 19? We are very proud to be one out of only 1,000 communities all across Canada that was chosen to have the torch go through. The torch will start at the Fourth Line and Hwy. 7 at 7:57 a.m. and follow Hwy. 7 to the four corners at Mill and Main Street to finish at approximately 8:15 a.m. We hope you will join us in welcoming the Olympic flame as it travels through our town. I urge you all to put your RED ON, bring your best wishes signs, cameras and we will see you on the street for this possibly once in a lifetime opportunity. See you there! Sincerely, Dolores Black and Kathy Verbeek Olympic Torch Ambassadors Ready for the torch BIA Booster thanked To the editor As the Chair of the Acton BIA, I would like to thank Mike OLeary for support of our wonderful downtown. The Acton BIA Board works hard to ensure that we have a beautiful place to shop and that we promote out mer- chants. With the dedication of Josey Bon- nette - BIA Manager we enjoy beautiful baskets (year round this year!), flowers and our Parkette has taken on a life of its own this year. I see people enjoy it everyday! As a small business owner I also would like to thank Mike OLeary as we REALLY do appreciate our custom- ers and we try very hard to earn their business. Small town business owners have a passion for what they do, they would not taken the leap if they didnt! Take the time to stop in and chat with them/us, Im sure youll be pleased! Mike is correct, with our customers we would not be here. We thank you for YOUR support, and then we in turn try to return that support within our com- munities. Thank you again Mike for your never ending support, it is truly appreciated! Nancy Wilkes, RO Acton Optical Cure for SMA one step closer Dear Editor: On Saturday Novem- ber 14, 2009, we held the fourth Annual Angel Gala for SMA at Glencairn Golf Club in Milton. It was the best Angel Gala ever. We raised $75,000! Every year for the past four years, we have had a sold out crowd of 250 people. Members of our community have rallied around our cause, which is to find a cure for Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Spinal Muscular Atro- phy kills more babies than any other genetic disease. SMA is incur- able, untreatable, fatal and underfunded. The gene is carried by seven million potential parents, unknow- ingly. It is a neurogenerative disease characterized by the dramatic loss of spinal motor neurons, resulting in muscle weakness, atrophy and in the worst cases, the loss of the ability to swal- low and breathe. The mind remains unaffected while the body wastes away. Our little girl, Rebecca, is affected by SMA. She is now ten years old and at- tends Grade 5 at St. Joseph School in Acton. Although Rebecca is in a wheelchair, she is a happy child with many friends. Since Rebecca was diag- nosed eight years ago, we have raised $1.5-million in her name through the Rebecca Run for SMA held every July in New- market, the Angel Gala for SMA and various other fundraisers put on by our wonderful community. We have a dedicated volunteer committee who contacted many local busi- nesses for donations for this years Angel Gala. And, what a response! Local merchants gave so generously that we ended up with over 200 items in our silent auction. Please help us to thank our spon- sors by patronizing their businesses. You will find their names on our web- site www.angelgala.com. To find out more about SMA, you can view our video on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=U0Rr1uJrV14 or go to www.curesma.ca. Sincerely, Theresa Van Fraassen Together we will find a cure for SMA. To the Editor I would like to thank everyone who helped make the United Way of Halton Hills 2009 Holi- day House Tour such a success. Four beautiful homes were showcased on this years tour, and a luncheon with decorating demonstrations was held at St. Georges Anglican Church. Thanks to the home- owners for opening your homes to the many people who supported our event and to the volunteers who helped in the homes. Thanks to all the decor- ators, both interior and exterior, thank you for your expertise, and your contributions of time and talent. Many visitors went away with fabulous decorating ideas. Mos t impor t an t ly, thank you to the commit- tee of ladies who spent countless hours coordin- ating this years tour. The United Way of Halton Hills is fortunate to have so many great supporters in our caring commun- ity! Sincerely, Janet Foster Executive Director, United Way of Halton Hills Holiday House success To the editor Whatever the Natural Heritage System outcome at Region Council was on December 16, rural residents have been re- minded once again that rural-oriented north Halton has very little in common with the urban south. Many thousands of man-hours have been spent by north Halton people in public meet- ings, reading Region documents, discussion, and responding to Re- gion proposals. When the NHS battle is settled, more time must be spent to digest the many pages of planner-speak that will regulate rural lives and property. Perhaps all of that north Halton time and energy would have been better spent organizing a project to exit Halton Region. The rural-oriented north could then be governed by a Council of peers with similar interests and an understanding of the area. The quality of life folks and environmental zealots in the urban south would be left to squabble among themselves over the shape of their urban utopia, or search for new targets to dominate. Gary Ellis Rural Milton NHS Unintended Consequences