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REA ERE RES Ge ON: Re. Ree me! Mee a. Jean Jefferies waits for the program to begin } at Knox Ladies' Aid } 110th anniversary tea. | See Page 6 for story and } photos. | The Beardmore water} tower may fall to the} wrecker's hammer un- less funds are found to rehabilitate it. See story}. 'alla tee tle Helen Dubeau was | among the seniors who did a traffic survey at the corner of Mill and Wil- low Streets, beside the | pedestrian walk. See \ Page 8 for story. The Town's Recrea- | tion and Parks Depart- | ment supervisors are ' planning summer camps } for Acton this year, some at the high school and others at Prospect Park. | See Page 7 for details. Flyers inside this issue | ad. ost stati Ltd. Queen St. E. Acton O Your Hometown Newspaper Newstand price: 40¢ + GST aner ACHILLES in Acton PAUL SIMMONS, PARTS MANAGER We Service & Ail Makes 8 Monola 357 Queen Street "**)853-0200 Halton Hills (Acton) ©) 453-8965 | Storm downs trees, hydro wires to visit Acton's Julie Wilson, widowed two years ago by a drunk driver, hopes that to- morrow's earn anti bly ioe Sieen ciagiae High ill oe en sibly-- sibly but she can thelpteek ; ing that it's a different group that needs to be educated. "Drinking and driving is still more socially acceptable with older people. Teens and young adults seem to have got the message, but I know that a lot of older people still think that it's okay to drink and drive and I want to tell them that it's not," Wilson said in an interview on Sun- day. The Acton High assembly, featuring the sister of girl killed by a drunk driver, is part of this week's Halton Hills Road Safety Challenge, aimed at making the roads less dangerous and deadly. Wilson, reluctant to talk at first because she didn't want people to "feel sorry for details of her husband's death after being hit by not one, but two drunk drivers, is a pow- erful message. "If there is anyone out there who drinks and drives, ' or anyone who. wants to help someone who drinks and gets behind the wheel, take a drive to the Eden Mills cem- etery and visit John's grave. That's makes it a little clearer," Wilson said. On October 19, 1996 John Wilson, 25, left his pregnant wife and his happy home to go to work. In the Highway 7 - Lakeview Avenue area John was hit head-on by an impaired driver from Cc Major expansion at ; North Halton Tool & Die All of the Town paperwork for the final approval of a site plan for a major expansion at North Halton Tool and Die is almost complete. The applicant has fulfilled all of the Town requirements and is waiting for a building per- mit to add an additional 6,300 square feet to its existing industrial building at 36 Commerce Crescent. Cc owner John Papp said that they are expand- ing their building by 150 per cent and hope to hire addi- tional staff to the 11 full-time employees they now have. The automotive industry, including Magna Interna- tional and Standard Products in Georgetown, are major customers of North Halton Tool and which has been in Acton for almost ten years. Pap said that he didn't want to talk about his expan- FIVE-YEAR-OLD Emily Schlieper, her bicycle destroyed by the huge! ainda tree which blew davea in Sun- day's storm, surveys the damage. Hen father Dooaaee was also smashed by th Widow invites drinking ier hus ie blow. drivers and's grave Brampton who was later sen- tenced to 22 days for im- paired driving and 22 days for dangerous driving. John phoned Julie who gathered her parents and in-laws and went-to the scene to find John shaken, but not hurt. As the tow truck driver and John swept the broken glass off the road a second drunk driver, John Ogden of Georgetown, drove through the scene, hitting John and sending him flying through he air. He died while being transferred by ambulance to Toronto. Julie said she and her fam- ily speak out about their trag- edy so that John didn't die in vain. "We beat ourselves up every day that we couldn't do more for John when he was alive, so now we are doing what we can for him. If just one person is touched by his horrible story then it will have been worth it for me to tell it, even though I know Would ever happen to this Maple tree destroys vehicles By FRANCES NIBLOCK The New Tanner It's all Debbie Schlieper can do not to cry as she stands at her back door and surveys the damage done by Sunday morning's storm when it blew down part of a huge maple tree in her The tree smashed her hus- band's uninsured motorcycle and her 5-year-old daughter Emily's bicycle and landed on top of two cars parked in ° the compound of neighbour- ing Acton Motors "We were sleeping early, Sunday morning when I heard a loud crack and then a crash as it crushed one of the cars next door," Schlieper said on Monday, in between calls to contractors and her insurance company. "Tt was a beautiful tree. My kids' swing hangs in that tree. I'm sickened by it," Schleiper said, adding they are unsure if the remainder of the tree will have to come down. All over Halton Hills homeowners are cleaning up after the freak storm blew through town just after 9 a.m. On Willow Street South a limb of a huge maple tree came down bringing with it the top half of a hydro pole and lines to three other houses in the area. In the backyard at 48 Willow Street an uprooted tree lifted part of a garage-shed. "Tt was the worst storm so far this year as far as downed lines and service interrup- tions," said Halton Hills Hy- dro operations manager Kurt Durski in an interview on Monday. Hydro crews worked from 9 a.m. Sunday to 3 a.m. on Monday, clearing away downed trees and restring lines. Hydro expected to have all power restored by Tues- day. 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