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THE NEW TANNER THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2010 2 38 Mill St. E. Acton, ON L7J 1H2 519-853-2244 www.activechoice.ca Dr. Dana Selby BPHE, CK, DC dr.selby@gmail.com Rehabilitation Centre Chiropractic Rehabilitation Acupuncture Kinesiology Custom Orthotics Foot/Nail Care Diabetic Footcare Custom Orthotics Home visits 65 Mill St. E. Acton, ON L7J 1H4 519-853-8557 Deanna Wilson BSc. DCh. Chiropodist Foot Specialist Treatment for: Fibromyalgia Chronic Pain Stress Headaches ...and much more. Naomi Bedell Registered Massage Therapy 65 Mill St. E., Acton, ON 519-853-8557 10th Anniversary Acton Jiu-Jitsu 5A Mill St. East We are proud to announce the 10th Anniversary of classes at our Mill St. E. location! (Previously we were located in Prospect Park for 3.5 years. - 13.5 years in Acton!!) The celebration is scheduled for: Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. All former and current students whom have shared in and contributed to this Acton Success Story are invited to attend this momentous event! Your Sensei, Linda Squires, humbly offers gratitude and respect to you all, without whom this would not be possible. 95 YEARS YOUNG Happy Birthday Z i y g L u t y Love from the family HEART & STROKE FUNDRAISER: Becca Maset, a Grade six student at McKenzie-Smith Bennett School held a very successful bake sale last week, one of many fundraisers Becca has staged for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, in honour of her grand- father who has heart disease. Submitted photo Grandfather inspires fundraising for Heart and Stroke Foundation By Frances Niblock Inspired by a grandfather with heart disease, Actons Becca Maset is a very successful fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. The 11-year-old Grade six students latest event was a bake sale at McKenzie-Smith Bennett School last week, which raised approximately $265. With another bake sale at her moms workplace and with donations made on her website, Maset hopes to raise $500 for heart at- tack and stroke research. When my Papa was sick in hospital with pulmon- ary edema, I asked my step-dad what I could do to help and decided that I could raise money for research, she said last Thursday, adding shes a registered fundraiser with the Heart and Stroke Foundation with a campaign called It Inspired Me. We had fun with the bake sale my friends came over and helped me bake, and my Gramma came over so I got to spend time with her. It makes me feel good when people donate and it makes me happy to be helping, Maset said, adding her grandfather is very proud. He said he was in the hospital (when) I told him and he said Becca, youre going to make me cry, but he was over the other day and hes a lot better now. Masets website is http:/heartmonth.heartandstroke.ca/ site/c.jhLOKYPDKqF/b.5205025/k.8730/Canvass_onlin Town offers to buy MSB land Its a fair offer - Mayor By Frances Niblock The Town will back up its fervent desire to save parkland at the McKen- zie-Smith Bennett School site by making an offer to buy a portion of the property that the Halton District School Board de- clared surplus and offered for sale. Although the Board voted to sell 2.5-acres of the school site, the Towns offer is for 6.2-acres to ensure the issue is settled, once and for all. In a closed door meet- ing on Monday, Town Council voted to make a formal offer to the board of education for the prop- erty that it needs to sell to be eligible for provincial money for new schools. I cant say what were offering at this stage of the game, Mayor Rick Bonnette said on Tues- day, adding it would be a fair offer. Earlier, when it was suggested by school board officials that the Town should purchase the property if it wanted it, local politicians point- ed out that the Town of Acton already bought the land more than 50 years ago. When asked about the change in approach, Bon- nette said, What choice do we have? The Mister (of Edu- cation) didnt want to intervene. I guess we have to save the school board from themselves. What would we do if we lost those three soccer fi elds and (the) ball diamond and theres no place to fi nd them in town, Bon- nette said, adding despite their anger and frustra- tion their backs are to the wall and they will make an offer, so someone else does not. Bonnette said the deci- sion to make an offer is just the beginning of the process. Melissa Secord, chair of the MSB parent council, applauded Town council- lors difficult decision, saying it is great that the Town stepped in. I know that its a dif- ficult issue because the town bought the land be- fore and questions why it has to buy it again, but 5,000 names on an Acton petition show that people want to save that land for recreation, Secord said on Tuesday. I guess the Town de- cided if someone was going to save the land it was going to be them and we urge the trustees to work with the Town and approve the sale, Secord said.