Turn the clocks ahead Sunday at 2 a.m. ILLAGE Rent-A-Car From Per Hour 856-0000 387 Queen St. East, Acton 286 Alma Street, Rockwood Ad rnin ee Jeep 336 Guelph St. Georgetown DTI Me eb georgetownchrylser.com LIFE MEMBERS: Newly appointed Life Member of Branch 197 of the Royal Canadian Legion, Joyce Buchanan, cuts the cake at the 73 anniversary celebration last Saturday. Assisting were Life Member colleagues Ed Footitt, Ab Irwin and Gord McCutcheon.-Ted Tyler photo. Cut a Present wee TOP coach Paul Edwards honoured at Day of Cham- Bi h 197 observes 73rd iversary. See P; £3: pion. See Page 19 for more photos. a aoe Bera ee oes Believe fire started from propane heater By Frances Niblock Easterly winds were whipping flames 75-feet high when Acton firefighters arrived on Bonnette Drive at ool:L8 Saturday morning to find three, possibly four, par- tially built homes in the Honeyfield subdivision fully engulfed by a fire that remained under investigation at press time. On Tuesday, Halton Hills fire safety specialist Dave Ford said the "preliminary investigating was focusing on the installation/placement of propane fuelled Salaman- ders (portable heaters) in the basement of Lot 202, for the purpose of drying and curing concrete," Ford said, adding the investigation involves staff from the Technical Standards and Safety Author- ity who interviewed construction workers on site, on Tuesday. "As you can appreciate, with the amount of damage,' debris and working condi- tions and information to be sorted, the process can be very long and tedious," Ford said. Earlier he said 'they brought the fire under con- trol "fairly quickly" by setting up water curtains on either end of the burning row of six houses. One house on either end of the row suffered heat damage. Burning embers hitting her bedroom window at the neighbouring Christian Re- formed Church parsonage alerted 10-year-old Kendra Vander Kooij to the blaze, and she woke her mother, Sue. "It really was scary be- cause there was like a rain of burning embers coming down and I was really con- cerned about the roofs catching fire," Vander Kooij said on Tuesday. "Fortunately, the rain had wet everything down and I think God protected us in that way, but I still thought 'up on the roof,' " she said, explain- ing that her husband, the Reverend Ray Vander Kooij, went up on the roof with a 10-gallon bucket of water to douse burning embers, some of which also ended up on the church roof. On Monday, Monmar Homes president Alfio continued on page 2 ; wae GET INTO GEAR. y pat ALL Le y h A. ZD YY 2 sr Sema Package Includes: AT ACHIL ES A EXCLUSIVELY AT ACHILLES Po 3.0L V6 Engine CHILLES "5 Speed Automate Tanaris ¢ ror Marcu Gmagpal (== 7 eee ¥ Aioy Wheels : ¢ Towing Package Xbox Bundle Air Condition / Dual Heating las 357 Queen St. (Hwy 7) ¥ 7 Passenger Seating ae Tumbie-under 3°° row seat Acton, ON < gene Seat > P 4yr/100,00KM 519-853-0200 7 AMMO Stereo 2004 MPV GX w/Conventence Package Comprehensive Warranty info@achillesmazda.ca " jeperesetst Very Well Equipped at only $28,070* ae on't delay! Sale ends Thursday April Ist at 9:00pm «piss Feigh PDE an Taken © Call for deals