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Police looking for restaurant arsonists Halton Regional Police Ontario Fire Marshal‘s Office Detectives in Burlington and the are appealing to the public for Thurs. Jan 14, Sat. Jan 16 1992 Call for reservations 16 Lakeshore Rd. W. Oakville Join us for our 5th annual Wild Game Festival Jan. 7th ‘til Jan. 30th JANUARY CLEARANCE 125 Cross Ave. On Tues., Dec. 22 at approxiâ€" mately 10:00 p.m. Halton Regional Police responded to an alarm _ at â€" Bloomingdales Restaurant at 1124 Plains Road, West, in the City of Burlington, Ontario. Upon arrival the offiâ€" cers observed a fire in progress at the rear of the premises and the Fire Department was immeâ€" diately notified and responded. The fire was limited to the rear and basement area of this buildâ€" ing. During the investigation of this fire it was determined by the Fire Marshal Investigator and Detectives that the fire was an any information that will lead to the arrest of SUSPECT(S) responsible for an arson (fire) that occurred at the BLOOMâ€" INGDALE‘S RESTAURANT in Burlington, Ontario. STATION Indians did take up the practice and in some tribes the taking of scalps became a symbol of warrior status. Scalps were usually taken from the dead, but in some cases people were scalped and still lived. Some were then allowed to return Apparently by the 18th century, the British were paying for French scalps, and viceâ€"versa, and both paid for natives‘ scalps. A. Yes. Although old Hollywood movies would make you think othâ€" erwise, the practice of scalping went back at least 2,500 years ago to the Scythians of southern Russia. According to the book, Heritage of Canada, scalping in North America probably began with a governor of the New Netherlands colony who wanted Indians killed. He paid for the scalps and believed they were good proof of the death. Q. Is it true that North American natives did not invent scalping, but learned it from white settlers? They broke in quickly and rode off quickly into the sunset with close to $5,000 worth of cigarettes in a Marlborough Court variety store breakâ€"in early Thursday morning. Scalping not invented by indians SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1993 â€"4 p.m. Margaret McCarron* Sales Representative Call 464â€"6753 2171 LUMBERMAN LANE Determined thieves broke into a Pinegrove Road thrift shop to gain entry to an adjacent jewelry shop Wednesday night where they stole $5,000 worth of jewelry. Halton Regional Police said thieves broke a large glass window at both the front and rear of the Mississauga/Oakville Thrift Shop at 501 Pinegrove Road and then pried open a rear metal door to get inside where they kicked their way through the drywall and into neighboring Estrelle Jewellers at 503 Pinegrove Road. If you have any information that leads to an arrest in this, or any other case, you may be eligiâ€" ble for a cash reward of up to $1,000. You need not give your name and your information will be treated with complete anonymity. Please call 1â€"800â€"668â€"5151 or 825â€"TIPS (THAT‘S 825â€"8477). Police said the steering columns and door locks of five vehicles were torn out sometime overnight Cigarettes worth $5,000 stolen from store Wouldâ€"be car thieves ripped steering columns from five cars parked in a Marlborough Court building‘s underground parking lot last Wednesday night. Cars vandalized in underground garage Determined thieves nab $5,000 in jewelry * 3,400 sq. ft. » Many upgrades $299,900 OPEN HOUSE Irwin said mechanization of the post office did not reduce jobs at the post office. However, the introâ€" duction of postal codes did result in a leaner workforce at Canada Post and the introduction of elecâ€" tronic equipment is expected to cut more Jobs. _ > ; _ In Vancouver, it is sorted by machine into a letter carrier‘s "walk" before human hands place it into a bin to await the carrier. The final set of hands to make conâ€" tact are those of the carrier who places the letter in your mail box. The human touch reâ€"enters the picture when a postal worker takes the letter off the sorting machine in bundle form and places it into a wire cage for transport to Vancouver. The cage is loaded onto a truck and eventually moved to an airplane for its flight west. The first point of human contact is the postal employee who clears the mailbox where the letter was deposited. The piece of mail is then transported to a mail sorting plant where machinery takes over for the next few steps. It is mechanically deposited into a machine which cancels the stamp, before being automatically sorted on another machine. A. Since the post office mechaâ€" nized its sorting process in the late *‘60s and early ©70s, human hands have had considerably less contact with the mail. With today‘s techâ€" nology, Canada Post spokesperson Ida Irwin of Ottawa says as few as four people will actually touch a letter from the moment it‘s dropped in a mail box in Toronto, until it is placed in a mail box in Vancouver. Q. How many people touch a piece of mail sent from Toronto to Vancouver? home as a warning of what could happen.