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THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2006 THE NEW TANNER 3 Mill St. & Eastern Ave. (southeast corner) Vendors - $10~8 a.m. -1 p.m. Buyers - FREE~8:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. N ? Eastern A ve. olde Hide House Trunk Sale Mill St. Church St. Station Hotel For more information, please contact (519) 853-4299 or (519) 853-1550. The Acton Trunk Sale acknowledges the Town of Halton Hills for the use of their land we utilize. Will re-open this Saturday, August 12 The Acton Citizens Band will be in attendance at approx. 10am for your entertainment pleasure Second Hand Shop ?????????????????????????????? ?????????? ????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????? Open Tuesday - Saturday 11-5 CASH OR CHEQUES ONLY PLEASE. New Bargains Arriving Daily! ????????????????????? ??????????? Police/Fire Report Thieves hit unlocked car A Main Street resident lost $450 worth of belong- ings from his unlocked car, parked in the driveway of his residence overnight Sunday/ Monday. A stereo was taken from the dash, along with some CDs, sunglasses and two duffel bags filled with clothes. Bill theft An Elgin Street man told police someone stole 18 $100 bills while he was out between 11 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. on August 2. Police said the door to the apartment had been previ- ously damaged and was not secure. Storm calls Last Wednesdays storm kept Acton firefighters busy, beginning at 2:46 p.m. when a property owner reported a lightening strike hit a wheat field and started a fire in the Guelph Line and Eramosa Town Line area. The heavy downpour had extinguished the fire before Acton firefighters arrived at the scene. *** At 3:04 p.m. when the fire alarm activated at Sobeys, a store rep met Acton firefight- ers and told them it was a false alarm. The storm had caused the hydro to flicker and set off the alarm. The alarm panel was reset. Early morning burn An unattended bonfire on 22 Side Road, west of the Sixth Line caught the atten- tion of a passing motorist who called 911 at 4:15 a.m. last Wednesday morning. Acton firefighters found a small contained fire burning in a rock-lined pit and woke up the homeowner who said hed had a fire a few days before, but had put that fire out. The rules governing open- air burning including the need for a free permit were explained and the fire was extinguished before firefight- ers returned to the station. Eastern Ave. reconstruction back on schedule By Frances Niblock The watermain and ser- vice connections to homes and businesses on Eastern Avenue should be com- pleted by tomorrow (Friday) as the joint Region/Town reconstruction project is back on schedule. Ron Goddard, the Towns manager of engineering de- sign and capital works, said the sanitary sewer work, which was delayed a couple of weeks when a pipe was located where it was not supposed to be, is complete and excavation of the road- way will begin this week. We made up about a week and I think by the end of August well be back on schedule, Goddard said on Friday adding it will be close to mid-to-late September by the time the final landscap- ing is complete. Goddard said bi-weekly meetings with the work crew boss and regular communi- cation with local businesses has meant there have been no complaints so far from business or residents who have been disrupted by the construction. At the olde Hide House, vice-president Cathy Coles said theyve always had access to their parking lot during the construction and the dust and mud has been what we expected. Im very excited about how it is going to look when it is done. Its going to look so fabulous were going to have a sidewalk right from Mill Street past the olde Hide House, Coles said last Thursday, adding their traf- fic is not much slower than the same time last year. Across the street at My Cottage Dream, co-owner Carm Winstone said the construction has created a huge mess of dust and dirt for customers, but I dont charge extra for the dust, I tell them. Winstone said business is slower than expected, but the sweltering weather is probably to blame as much as the construction. Winstone advised regu- lars to park across the street, on York Street, or behind the store and she said the construction company was good about posting signs to indicate that businesses on the street were open. She said she had just one complaint so far during the construction the crew left a front-end loader parked right in front of her stores front door for one week- end, making it difficult to get in. Next door at Tanners Restaurant, fewer people are using the patio during the day, but the regulars are coming back for evenings and nights according to waitress Deanna Colgan. From Highway 7, we appear closed, so if people havent been here before, I dont think they are driv- ing down the street to see, Colgan said on Saturday. When they do find us open, they have to go through dirt or mud and they dont like it, she said, adding the lunches have been slower than usual, but the evenings have not been affected as much. Tan- ners has closed three times during the construction, once at the suggestion of the project boss and twice because the manager didnt think there was enough business to warrant stay- ing open. The total cost of the re- construction project, which includes roadwork on York Street, is $800,000 split evenly between Halton and the Town. Eastern Ave. as it looked Wednesday