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50 cents (+GST) Circulation 22,500 Wednesday, August 27, 2008 44 Pages www.independentfreepress.com Acton woman devises method to keep recyclables from blowing away Page 7 Parenting special section 8-Pages Theyre back! Raiders hit the ice Page 14 Town CAO has 2.4 million reasons to smile Page 4 INSIDE A Halton Hills family is living in a Milton hotel after fire gut- ted their Sixth Line home Sunday morning. The Waller family lost every- thing in the blaze and is cur- rently looking for a home (preferably rural) or trailer to rent while their house is rebuilt. Family friend Sheri Klutt, who also lives on Sixth Line, has established a fund for the family at the Laurier Centre Scotiabank branch in Milton. Donations can be made at any Scotiabank branch into account # 68452 0405825. Lynda Waller said she and her husband Simon were away at their Gravenhurst cottage cel- ebrating their 10th wedding anniversary, and their three children, aged 4, 6 and 7, were staying at their grandmothers cottage in Kincardine when the fire started. Police and firefighters were called to the home, north of Steeles Ave., shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday when a passerby noticed black smoke and flames coming from the rear of the home and alerted a neighbour to call 911. Milton Fire Department were the initial responders to the call due to the location of the home, then Halton Hills firefighters responded. Editorial 6 Gary Carr 10 Entertainment 12 Calendar 13 Sports 14-17 Classifieds 21-23 Three area women are hoping to open an orphanage...in Haiti. For details see Fridays edi- tion. FRIDAY... Realty Specialists Inc. Brokerage Top Producer since 1985 www.mariabritto.com MARIA BRITTO Local: 905-873-9255 GEORGETOWN CALL THE GEORGETOWN HEADQUARTERS 905-877-7818 or 905-877-8375 0% financing on all 2008 models. See us for details. i i ll . f t il . 33 MOUNTAINVIEW RD. N., GEORGETOWN 905-877-6944 GEORGETOWN CHEVROLET COBALT SS model shown MSRP $21,195 NOW COBALT LS Purchase fi nancing up to 72mths. OAC with GMAC www.georgetownchev.com For breaking news go to: www.independentfreepress.com Halton Hills award-winning newspaper Lynda Waller was joined by her children (from left) Vanessa, 7, Shannon, 6 and Brady, 4, as they survey the burned out shell of their family home on the Sixth Line, south of Georgetown. The blaze started in the early hours Sunday morning, while the Wallers were out of town for the weekend. The Ontario Fire Marshal's Office is investigating to find the cause of the blaze. Photo by Ted Brown Blaze levels rural home Two Halton residents have been stricken with the same strain of lis- teria linked to a deadly outbreak of the bacteria that originated at a Toronto meat plant. Halton Region health inspectors have been asked by the Ontario Ministry of Health to visit area hos- pitals, long-term care homes, day- care centres and independent stores to ensure that meat products at the source of the outbreak have been pulled from shelves and are not being used by the service industry. The affected residents include a woman in her 80s and a man in his 60s, said Matt Ruf, Halton Regions manager of food safety. Both patients live in Burlington. The department would not identify the patients, who are currently under the care of their respective doctors. He said the patients doctors ordered lab tests in July, which con- firmed the presence of listeria, a potentially-fatal bacteria that can lead to fever, muscle aches, nausea or diarrhea. It is a reportable health disease in Ontario. Locally, staff at both Halton Hills Extendicare and Mountainview Residence in Georgetown, have been in contact with Halton Region Health Department about the out- break and said that neither facility had purchased any of the recalled products. Over the weekend, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) received lab results from Health Canada that confirmed a link between meat products pro- duced at Maple Leaf Foods Bartor Road plant in Toronto and an out- break of listeriosis in four provinces. The plant remains closed and more than 220 ready-to-eat meat products recently shipped from it have been recalled. The products are packaged under various well-known names such as Hickory Farms, Schneiders and Shopsys. Listeria scare hits Halton Region LISA TALLYN Staff Writer See FAMILY, pg. 11See HEALTH, pg. 3 JASON MISNER Special to The IFP