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THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 2004 THE NEW TANNER 13 HARD AT IT: Construction crews were busy replacing fill with clean sand preparatory to starting to pave Rockwood's main street next week. Meanwhile high hoe operators with a bevy of supervisors and observers work on opening the trench along the Manse easement between Main and Carroll Streets to replace the sewer and water service. Barring complications, crews expect to begin the repaving by the end of next week. -- Maggie Petrushevsky photos Break-ins, thefts keep OPP busy on weekend ~ BY MAGGIE PETRUSHEVSKY The New Tanner The Rockwood Rock- ets Soccer Club recently received a big boost from a couple of Rockwood merchants. Jason Baldwin and Paul Curran, co-owners of Curwin's Pub held a fundraiser for the club at their bar on August 7. Be- tween three auctions, a ia fri MAKING MONEY: Curwin's recently presented a $1,000 cheque to the Rockwood Rockets Soccer Club. Seen with the cheque are front row from the left: Nathaniel Gibson, Michelle Gilmour and Tom Timmings. Back row from the left: Laurie Martin, Brad Purton, U16 coach Gary Smith and Curwin's co-owner Jason Baldwin. -- Maggie Petrushevsky photo 50/50 draw, raffles and selling tickets to see the band Dixie Chicklets, the merchants and the club raised $1,000 for the league. Coach and vice-presi- dent Gary Smith said the league involves 450 youngsters and is grow- ing by 10 per cent a year. The league functions with two fields and needs at least two more, Smith says. While the munici- pality has prepared two new fields for the group for next year at Eden Mills, those fields aren't ready yet. And when they are, the club will lose two fields at Rockmosa where they currently hold all their games. Smith said the group approached council in the spring to discuss their problems and hope to visit them again in Sep- © tember. Wellington OPP officers were busy in the rural area of Erin over the weekend re- sponding to calls from residents whose homes had been broken into. Last Friday, August 13 at 5:57. p.m. an unknown person(s) entered a residence on County Road 124 (High- way 24). The home was monitored by an alarm system which activated and scared off the culprit(s). Nothing was taken. The same day between 1:30 and 6 p.m. a residence on the Fourth Line was entered through an unlocked door. A laptop computer was stolen. Again on Friday between 1 'and 7:30 p.m. a residence on Sideroad 17 was entered through a back garage door. Between 7 and 8 p.m. a resi- dence on the Fourth Line was entered through a screen door and a computer stolen. In Eramosa Township into the morning hours of Sunday, someone entered a tool shed on County Rd. 29 and took a quantity of tools, police said. Anyone with information about these crimes is asked to call the Guelph detachment of the OPP at 519-822-7250 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222- TIPS. In the Eramosa case --. please call the Fergus detach- ment at 519-843-4240. Hey Everybody! Don't forget to visit us at Incorrect assumption in article To the Editor, Re: Approve rezoning despite neighbour s concern The New Tanner, Aug. 5, 2004 I have just read your very well written article about my rezoning application. Unfortunately, there were a couple of quotes from a deputant that are based on incorrect as- sumptions. He suggests that I had broken my word by shifting the road access to the back of my property from the 7" Line to Highway 7 and that this will lead to development on wetland and "... a road which will impact the weltands and come closer to another neighbour's horse training track." Nothing could be further from the truth. Two of the rea- sons we changed the location of the subdivision road were that the road allowance off the 7" Line would have had to cut across a wetland pocket and be situated within less than 10 feet of the horse training track for a length of over 100 metres. With the written support of the owner of the horse training track and the support of the Grand River Conservation Authority staff, we have gone to consider- able expense to purchase an access off Highway 7 so that now the subdivision road won't come any closer than 100 metres of any wetland and will come no closer than 50 _ metres of the horse training track. We have never asked for nor would we ever contem- plate industrial lots on wetlands. The GRCA has rigorous standards (including buffer zones) to prevent any devel- opment on hazard lands (wetlands). Tenclose a copy of my letter in response to the deputant's letter which were prepared for a parallel process at the County level. Yours truly, Graham Mudge our NEW location! >) Four D's Pets PETS AND SUPPLIES 126 Main St. S Rockwood, ON. 519-856-4246 PUREBRED PUPPIES AVAILABLE ¢ Pugs ¢ Shih Tzu ¢ Lhasa Apso All had Ist shots, de-wormed & Vet Checked *Pekingese ¢ Border Collies Cross. COME AND SEE US FOR ALL YOUR PET SUPPLIES! We also have Kittens, Small Animals, Reptiles, Fish & Birds. Locally Owned & Operated By Dwayne Hitchcock