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HALTON HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARIES via Skyservice Roundtrip from Travel on June 13, 20 or 27 Return on June 13, 20 or 27 Transportation taxes, GST and related fees are extra. Subject to availability and change without notice. 379 Queen St., Acton 853-1553 -- Your Hometown Newspaper Newstand price: 40¢ + GST ACHILLES in Acton "PAUL SIMMONS, PARTS MANAGER 357 -- --_ 19) 853-0200 Halton Hills (Acton) °°) 453-8965 ee Stiff epposs to parking proposal Acton's Dave Lajeunesse, top scorer with Georgetown's Jun- ior A team this season, has been drafted by the OHL Kitchener Rang- ers. See Sports pages for story. I. What, a snap Yep, right here in Banca Hills. See story on Page 23 Two Acton residents were presented with awards for teaching ex- cellence by Prime Minis- ter Jean Chretien. See Page 3. By FRANCES NIBLOCK The New Tanner There are as many theo- ries about why so many twins have been conceived on Kingham Road as there are sets of twins. A check of cur- rent and former residents of Kingham turned up at least six sets of twins and another set due later this month. Al- though twins run in some of the families, in many there was no history of multiple births until they moved to Kingham. "We used to joke that may be there was something in the water or something in the air because for a while there al- most everyone who was preg- nant on the street had twins," said Jennifer Cole, mother of 8-year-old identical twin girls Brenna and Brianne. Mrs. Cole's husband's brother and sister are twins and Cole miscarried a set of twins before having her An Intergenerational Luncheon was held at the band hall on June 1. See Page 10 for photos. The 'Royal Canadian Legion presented a new trailer to Halton Hills emergency response unit. See Page 8. daughters. "I was very surprised to learn I was carrying twins after losing a set. Now that I look back there were twins popping up all over the street when I was pregnant and there have been a lot more since. It's got to be more than La? coincidence," Mrs. Cole said. Something in the water? Mrs. Cole's former neigh- bour, Thelma Kessler, gave birth to twins girls a month before Cole did and Cole also babysat for another neigh- bour who had twins. That neighbour was Teresa Rugg who had fraternal twin boys, Gordon and James, in 1992. "Even though my great aunt had twins and my cous- in's wife had twins I was still surprised to learn that I was going to have twins," Rugg SEEING DOUBLE: Maybe there is something in the water in the Kingham area! That's just one of the theories as to why there have been so many sets ba twins conceived on Kingham Road. Some of the multiples got tog Sunday. Back, left to right: Brénée ail Beanie ton (due with twin boys), Sarah and Alexandra Leitch. Sitting James and Gore Kingham twins multiply ether fo explained in a recent inter- view. "Maybe it is something in the water. I think that there are too many multiple births on Kingham for it to be a coincidence." Alexandra and Sarah Leitch, 4, are twin girls who live on Kingham with their parents Sandra and Peter who said in an interview on Sunday, "I'm pretty old and we didn't think we would have children. When we moved to Acton I joked to my wife that she shouldn't drink the water because she might get pregnant and sure enough that's what happened." Neighbours also know of another set of twins, a boy and a girl, who were born on Kingham in late 1996 but have since moved away, a young set of toddler twins who live around the corner on Greenore Crescent and a set of 6-year-old girl twins on Campbell Court. Suggestion to make area pedestrian friendly A proposal to ban parking on one side of Mill Street between Elgin and Main Streets on a trial basis this summer generated such ve- hement opposition from downtown merchants that the proposal will likely be shelved. Acton BIA (Business Im- provement Area) co- ordinator Janis Fread sug- gested that traffic be banned on the north side of Mill Street in an effort to make the area more pedestrian friendly and less congested with traf- fic. The ban would have re- moved approximately 22 parking spaces. "We want to create the il- lusion of more room in the area at the corner at Mill and Main where there is a tion of a bottleneck of traf- fic," Fread explained on Fri- day, adding that they wanted to planters or greenery on she was sur- prised at the total negative response from business peo- ple in the area. "Everyone who took the time to call after an item about the possible ban was included in the latest BIA newsletter was emphatically against the plan," she said. Some businesses said their customers expect to be able to park in front of their stores and others complained there isn't enough parking in the downtown area now. Fread said the issue of parking is a difficult one to deal with. "We want to encourage the tourists who come to Acton to walk along the streets and see what we have to offer, not just park their cars, go into a few stores and go home," Fread said, add- ing she was disappointed that merchants wouldn't consider the ban as temporary. Former Mill Street mer- chant, Jake Kuiken, whose son now owns Halton Hills Furniture, said a long-term solution is what is needed. "Ten years ago I said that something needed to be done to ease traffic congestion on Mill Street. I think they should make both Mill and Bower one way and that would allow for wider sidewalks and easier move- ment of traffic on Mill," Kuiken said on Saturday. Val Manes, co-owner of Acton Home Hardware, questioned the BIA newslet- there is a problem with park- ing in the downtown core. "T bet that nine out of 10 customers would say there's a problem finding a parking space downtown so I can't imagine that removing spaces would be a help," Manes said on Monday. 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