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4 Independent & Free Press, Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Long Weekend Special 2 fore 1 Green Fees Friday, Aug. 31Monday, Sept. 3 Erin Heights Golf Course Scenic Challenging 9 Hole Course Just 20 minutes north of Brampton Dundas St. W. in the VILLAGE OF ERIN Call for starting times (519) 833-9702 The Glen Williams Minor Ball Association would like to thank the following for making this years "Canada Day Breakfast In the Park" a huge success. Nursery school gets funds TransCanada recently donated $6,000 to Hornby Coop Nursery School, to offset operating costs of the facility. On hand to make the presentation were (from left) Halton Hills Mayor Rick Bonnette, Ken Lawday of Hornby Area Rate Payers Association (HARP), Hornby Co-op Nursery School past president Meaghan Christie, TransCanada Commercial Manager HHGS Vanessa Sherr, TransCanada Project Manager HHGS Mike Dunn and Hornby Co--op Nursery School treasurPhoto by Ted Brown er Rob Crowe. ·McMaster Meat & Deli ·RCSS ·The Van Ryn's ·Food Basics ·Independent & Free Press ·Georgetown Market Place ·A & P ·The Hobby Horse ·Mountainview Residence ·Neilsons Dairy ·Golden Griddle Pancake House ·GFS ·Starbucks ·Glen Williams Town Hall & their Volunteers Also a huge thank you to everyone who came out. See you next year! Neighbour's complaints a surprise to Limehouse gravel pit operator LISA TALLYN Staff Writer Concerns raised by a Fifth Line resident about a gravel pit in Limehouse at a recent council meeting came as a surprise to the company that owns the operation. Melanie Horton, Property and Resource Manager, with St. Mary's CBM Aggregates, owners of the pit, said Tania Lediard who complained to council members about noise, hours of operation and safety on the roads as a result of the pit, had not contacted them about the concerns. "We rely on our neighbours to tell us what is going on with our truckers," said Horton. "Because once they are out our gate, we can't see which route they take." She said they encourage people to call the scale house at the pit with concerns about trucks and to copy down licence plate numbers. Horton said since Lediard appeared before council they have contacted the Town and a request by the Town that Fourth and Fifth Lines not be used as a truck route has been passed along to the drivers. She said, however, the trucks are still forced to negotiate some steep grades on the way to and from the quarry. She added the company has sent a letter to the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) requesting it do a traffic analysis at the intersection of Hwy. 7 and 22 Sideroad to see if traffic lights are justified there. In the letter to MNR, Paul Hartnett of St. Marys said "a loaded gravel truck requires a fair bit of time to get out into traffic and up to speed." "It is becoming increasingly difficult to do so safely at this intersection," said Hartnett. He said the company's concern "is for people accessing our site, and the general public as well." "It would be a shame to think that a tragedy could have been avoided for the want of a set of traffic lights," said Hartnett. Lediard also complained to council about how infrequently St. Marys was washing the road in front of the quarry. Horton said St. Marys keeps its water truck running steadily to keep the dust down, as part of its day-today operations. "Our records show that on hot/dry days the truck waters on average nine hours a day," said Horton. She said they have also arranged to have the Town sweep the entrance to the pit (at St. Marys' cost) when the sweeper is in the area. Horton also said the number of trucks coming into the pit loaded with gravel from other locations-- a concern of Councillor Bryan Lewis-- should decrease significantly (by about one-third to one-half of what it was last year) when the company receives site plan approval from the MNR that would allow it to extract gravel from additional areas in the Limehouse pit. She said that was expected to come in June 2007, but has not been received yet. Caregivers Need Care Too How do you find time for yourself when someone needs you? ­ sometimes around the clock. 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