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WATCH WHAT YOU HEAT Cooking is the #1 cause of residential �res COOKING FIRE SAFETYTIPS: FOLLOW THESE FIRE SAFETY TIPS TO ENSURE YOUR SAFETY IN THE KITCHEN 1. Stay in the kitchen when you are frying, grilling, broiling or boiling food. If you must leave the room, even for a short period of time, turn off the stove. 2. If you have young children, use the stove's back burners whenever possible. Keep children and pets at least three feet away from the stove. 3. Keep potholders, oven mitts, wooden utensils, paper and plastic bags, towels, and anything else that can burn, away from your stovetop. 4. When you are simmering, baking, or roasting food, check it regularly, stay in the home, and use a timer to remind you. 5. When you cook, wear clothing with tight-�tting sleeves. For further information contact: Mark Burger-Acting Captain - Halton Hills Fire Department Phone. (905) 873-2601, ext. 2115 Email: markb@haltonhills.ca a 1978...in the news • Gilbert (Gil) King, a proud full-blooded Iroquois Indian, is the new postmaster at Georgetown post office. He replaces Bob Burgess, who retired. • The Four Season 144-townhouse de- velopment behind Georgetown Market Centre has been approved by the On- tario Municipal Board. • Truckers from the Indusmin quarry stay on 17 Sideroad and the Town ap- pears no closer to a solution than six months earlier when talks began with the residents and truckers. • The blizzard of 1978 in January wreaked havoc through Halton Hills when snow and winds up to 100 miles per hour moved in around noon on a Thursday and six hours later more than 400 cars were stuck. Stores, banks and schools closed by mid-afternoon. • A five-car train derailment just under the Maple Ave. bridge, blocked both tracks and prevented the GO trains at Georgetown station from leaving one February morning. * GDHS rebel Peter Fournier won the all-Ontario high school wrestling cham- pionship. 1978...in the news • Georgetown residents will be asked to start separating their garbage into tins, paper and glass in April. The pro- gram is voluntary. • S.B. McLaughlin Associates is suing Halton Hills for $27 million for breach of contract in its battle to build 1,740 homes south of Silver Creek. • The Town's Library Board, lost its OMB hearing to build the new library in Cedarvale Park, and instead will expand at its current location on Church St. However, in June, the board changed its mind and held a meeting at the high school determined to select another site. But after more than 60 people with signs, and a dance group perform- ing a protest dance, created chaos, the board adjourned to a staff room. • The Nov. 8 edition of The Independent was the last one under the helm of the Dills Printing and Publishing Company. The Nov. 15 edition was under the new ownership of Inland Publishing which later merged with Metrospan to form Metroland. • In November the OMB gave the go- ahead to the Jehovah Witnesses to build a headquarters on Hwy. 7 just outside of Georgetown. A sheep is put to work pulling a sleigh (and youngster) Actor Michael Douglas signs auto- graphs (above) and gets to work on the set of 'Running' which was filmed in downtown Georgetown It was a balmy fall as these young- sters were caught raking leaves in mid-November 8 • The Independent's 40th Anniversary Special Section, Thursday October 17, 2013