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i) THE NEW TANNER THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26,1998 RUFF RUFF: With the holidays soon approaching, Hawley Nutkins of the Upper Credit Humane Society was selling dog advent calendars at the Acton High School Craft Sale. - Angela Tyler photo Pete's Auto Paint and Restoration Cars and Trucks of all sizes For a free estimate call: Pete Hargrave Proprietor ~ (519) 856-9356 Singing Dog Cyele . Limited winter storage \ available, sleds, ' ATC"s & ATV's 4 WINTER RATES ON POLISHING (905) 702-0888 12488 - 5th Line, Limehouse fae a By FRANCES NIBLOCK The New Tanner What was an eyesore of blowing litter and scraggly weeds in the middle of Acton is now a tidy, newly sodded and planted property, thanks to Imperial Oil and the Acton Business Improvement Area. Prodded by BIA which wanted to turn the unsightly property into a pleasing gate- way to Acton, Imperial Oil agreed to pay to clean up its vacant property on Mill Street at the railway tracks. Imperial paid the $5,400 spruce up bill and the BIA has agreed to take care of on- going maintenance, includ- ing grass cutting and weed- Service At Its Best! McINTYRE FUELS LIMITED Sales * Service + Rentals « Installations p 8 Furnaces « Oil fired water heaters Li CoMN(Tetsa(CTiist=jpteye) ||) Automatic delivery of home heating fuels Full line of gas, diesel fuels & lubricants Flowers Say) It Best! | 24 Hour Burner Service 853-0800 44 Young St. Acton 46 Mill St. E., Acton 853-0000 eae WHEELS Driver Training Ltd. 245 Commercial St., Milton (905) 878-4135 www.learntodrive.com AU EDC TAM UAE AY CORWER With Village Constable Bill Riddle restaurant Family Dining & Pizzeria Licensed under L.L.B.0. 13-15 Mill Street East WS, 853-0300 @& erving The Best To Acton Since 197: DRIVING SAFETY HINTS Here it comes, WINTER, with freezing rain, snow, ice and cold temperattures. Great for winter sports, but m very bad for driving. Here are some ideas for winter driv- ing that could save your life or just be handy if you break down. a 1. Keep your gas tank full. Royal Jug City WELCOME SANTA CLAUS 853-2460 In the Glenlea Plaza 2. If you are stranded you are probably safer inside your vehicle. 3. Carry a call police sign. 4. If someone stops to help, ask them to call police. Only roll your window down about an inch to talk through. 5. Do not raise the hood on your vehicle. This may draw the wrong kind of attention. Also, a raised hood blocks your vision of anyone approaching. The following is a list of items which will prove very usefull if you are stranded. 1. A call police sign, usually available in the local hardware store. BN es 853-5848 24 Hour Service 2. Blankets and a large candle inside a car will raise the temperature about 10 degrees, and provide light to save your battery. Don't forget some matches. 3. A good flashlight. Make sure the batteries are good. 4. Road flares and a first aid kit. 5. Energy food, nuts, candy bars, etcetera. 6. A clean, empty tin can be used to melt snow for water. 7. A cell phone if you can. A last piece of advice. Drive with respect for the weather conditions. It my save your life and also prevent the need to use your safety equipment. YOURWAY Custom Pipe Bending. Lic. Safety Inspection Sin. 17 Agnes St. Acton 853-0900 Dan €. Dolliver ONTARIO LAND SURVEYOR Legal & Topographic Surveys 54 Mill St. E. Tel. 853-2502 Fax 853-1504 ing for the next five years. Imperial spokesman Don Dusseault they don't know what will happen to the Acton site. "We' ve got sites like this all across the country, Some of them we sell off, some we hope to develop and some we're just not sure what we want to do and I think this one falls in that category," Dusseault said in a recent interview. "We're hard-pressed to think that we might develop that Acton site as a service station, but you never know," Dusseault said, adding that this is the first time the com- pany has agreed pay to up- grade a vacant property. As the final sodding and planting was done on Friday, BIA general manager Janis Fread said that the property had never looked better. "This is a perfect situa- Corporate bucks, initiative | cleanup vacant site tion. Imperial Oil looks good and we look good," Fread said, adding that the im- provement on the property might encourage other va- cant property owners to take more care. Tuitman's Garden Centre did the design and landscap- ing and the Acton Horticul- tural Society, which plants and maintains flower baskets in the downtown, helped with planting annuals on the property. Texaco Canada operated a gas station on the site more than a decade ago -- the prop- erty has been vacant since. Imperial Oil purchased Texaco in 1990. In 1939 Acton's Emily Bolton Goodchild sold the property to McCall Frontenac Oil which became Texaco. Texaco opened a gas station on the property on December 31, 1940. CRAFTY LADY: Pat Allen of Acton was one of the many merchants at the Acton High School annual craft show. and sale Saturday. - Angela Tyler photo Redmen are runners up The Acton High School ~ Redmen junior boys' volley- ball team gave it their best shot but lost the Halton title Robinson Motors 546 Guelph St., Norval Complete Auto Service Smau sngine Repair Husqvarna Sale & Service OPEN -- WEEKENDS (905) 702-1825 Romanafactured lyr Se BBGTANKS) cylindige Beri A eee £26 el St Qinal. est fe __tulet Transport EARTH MOVING to Georgetown with 15-11 RR #1 Acton 853-0960 and 15-10 games played at a | ) ees JUST : MOVED? Serving the Community for 4o Years 67 Mill Street East Acton 853-1160 Phone a Call Betty Ann rae 853-1944 SKUNK AND RACCOON Ey REMOVAL 'Vetame an. GALL CHRIS AT eee ee (519) 853-0045 OucHostece' Gifts and Information are Se the Key to Your \ iin New Community Sheridan College in Oakville last Thursday. "Nobody played the game of their life and we needed several of those," said Acton . High physical education in- structor Dave Boycott. Acton took the lead in the first game and went to a 3-0 lead but Georgetown caught up. Acton battled to a 7-3 lead but couldn't hold it. "We played very well at the beginning of both games but for some reason or an- other we would stall out at around nine (points) and just couldn't see to get our act together to finish it off," Boy- cott said, adding the Josh Bowen and mark Chumley both played well. Acton finished the regu- lar season with a 5-2 record and advanced to the final by beating Iroquois Ridge 15- 11, 15-10