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Page 2 THE HERALD Wednesday February 1989 Facing charges An Erin man faces four charges following a threecar col at Highway 7 and Trafalgar Road Tuesday night Police say a van driven by an Erin man was eastbound on Highway 7 when it turned south onto Trafalgar Road and entered the northbound lane The van struck a Mazda driven by a Toronto man and a Chevrolet driven by an Erin man 33 The three vehicles received moderate damage Police report no injuries in the accident The driver of the van is charged with leaving the scene of an accident careless driving an impaireddriving related charge and is also charg ed under the Canadian Automobile Insurance Act with having no vehicle insurance Singlecar crash A 16yearold Acton female is charged with making an proper lane change following a singlecar collision Churchill Road and Glen Road in Acton Friday afternoon Police say the 1984 Dodge Charger driven by the female was south bound on Churchill Road turning eastbound onto Glen Road when the car went out of control and rolled over once lafl ding upright facing westbound traffic A passenger an Acton man was taken to Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital where he was treated for minor injuries The driver and the cars two other passengers were uninjured Car demolished A Ford Mustang was demolished in a singlecar colli sion near Stewarttown Feb The car by an Acton man 23 was eastbound on Sideroad 17 near Sixth Line when it crossed the roadway struck a cable guide on the north side of the road across the road am struck a speed limit sign It final came on the north shoulder facing southbound traf flc Police have charged the driver with careless driving There were no injuries in the ac Escape injury Two Acton men escaped injury when their cars collided at Mill Street and Fellow Street Satur day afternoon Police say a 1980 driven by an Acton man 37 pulled out of a private driveway on Mill Street striking an 1964 Ford driven by an Acton man 20 Both cars received moderate damage The driver of the Datsun is charged with not yielding the right of way Gas taken An unknown person stole gas and batteries from two cars park ed at Armstrong Avenue sometime Friday night or Satur day morning Halton Regional Police say gas caps were taken from two cars and gas was siphoned from the tanks A case of batteries was also taken Total value of the missing items is Charges laid Police laid two shoplifting charges in connection with items taken from the Olde Hide House in Acton on the weekend A 17 yearold female from Toronto was charged with theft after she allegedly took a pair of leather gloves valued at from the leather store Feb She will ap pear in court March 23 A 36yearold Bolton woman will face charges of theft in con nection with a missing blue leather purse valued at from the Olde Hide House Sunday She will appear in court March Tanks missing Two tanks filled with oxygen and acetylene left on a construe site at Alice Street in Acton were apparently removed over the weekend of Feb and 12 A worker left the tanks and a cart valued at on the site say police The tanks were reported missing Feb 13 Bank machine smashed An unknown person using what is believed to be a hammer on the Royal Bank machine on Main Street caused damage Friday The person smashed the keyboard frame and plate of the machine according to Halton Regional Hook Police The incident took place The same night a note placed on the machine enclosure door by an employee was knocked out when someone smashed the door where the note was located causing damage Police say the smashing place sometime between 7 Feb and noon Feb 18 sometime between 3am and 3 30 am Police continue to investigate Police cruiser demolished A Halton police cruiser was demolished when it was struck Saturday night by a car driven by a Georgetown woman Halton Regional Police say an of ficer had stopped a driver for a Highway Traffic Act violation at Mountainvlew Road and Arm strong Avenue around 8 p m when a third car struck the police cruiser from behind demolishing the police car and causing damage to the other car Total damage estimated at Fire officials remain on the scene following a fatal accident yesterday morning Tuesday around am on Winston Churchill Boulevard north of Five Marguerite 20 of was killed when her southbound 1983 Pontine Acadian col with a northbound Pontiac driven by a Scar borough man Regional Police are continuing to investigate Hills second traffic fatality this year Herald photo Group wants showdown with premier A local citizens group has joined with several other environmental organizations in calling for a meeting with Ontario Premier David Peterson to discuss their concerns about the environment POWER Protect Our Water and Environmental Resources is one of 11 groups which plans to ask Premier Peterson for the The idea was initiated by CONE Coalition on the Niagara Escarp ment spokesperson Mac Mtllan during a daylong seminar entitled EnviroWatch held at the Holy Cross Church Hall on Satur day POWER member Rita Landry who helped organize the seminar said groups learned from each other how best to approach a fight similar to the one POWER now faces POWER is fighting a pro posal by Reclamation Systems to put a landfill site capable of handling 20 million tonnes of waste in 20 years in the Acton quarry The landfill would handle waste from surrounding municipalities possibly including Metro Toronto POWER says the Acton quarry is hydrologically unsafe to handle garbage During the Watch seminar each group gave a short presentation on the fight they now face The approximately people who attended the seminar then split up into several workshops The seminar was so successful Police report no injuries requir ing medical attention as a result of the collision A Georgetown woman is charged with careless driving STORE HOURS 9 30 a m 6 00 except Thursday Friday m 9 City Styles Close To Home 211 Guelph Street Georgetown 8777361 Available at The Herald Office in either 8x10 or 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