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Town council wants CRTC to keep Weather Network on basic cable Councillor Dave Kentner, mover of the motion at a recent council meeting. "We just witnessed (March 5/6-- the date of a double fatality accident) a perfect examHalton Hills council endorsed a resolution ple where weather information might have requesting the Canadian Radio and kept people off the roads and saved Telecommunication Commission their lives and a lot of property dam(CRTC) keep The Weather Network age." on the basic cable service. The request came to Halton Hills The CRTC is considering allowing council via the Ontario Good Roads cable and satellite companies to move Association, which has already lent The Weather Network to paid premiits support to The Weather Network. um channels. Pelmorex CommuniThe association stated having the cations Inc., the company behind the weather station on the basic cable is weather station, has made an applicain the interest of public safety and is tion to the CRTC to keep the weather a service to municipalities in planDAVE as a basic service. The company is ning their winter maintenance operaKENTNER requesting viewers and municipalities tion strategies for upcoming storm to send the CRTC letters of support. events. "Weather channel information is very More information is available at www.supimportant to a lot of people," said Ward 3 port.theweathernetwork.com CYNTHIA GAMBLE Staff Writer