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Hi Police kept busy during power outage Hahon Region Police were out at the crack of dawn Thursday to monitor traffic at Halton Hills ma major concern was the morning rush hour ac cording to a police spokesman The intersections of Guelph Street and Mountalnview and Winston Churchill Boulevard and Steelea Avenue were guarded by police on point duty Police directed trat lie with flashing lights or by hand signals A third Intersection at Avenue and Trafalgar Road was a big concern because the traffic speed Is much higher than the other intersections said police And people exactly following the rules of the road at Guelph and Mountalnview added a police spokesman Police say the roads were in good condition once the ice from over night melted and that there were no accidents related to the blackout But they added that phone lines were plugged up all morning with people inquiring about school closures and asking when th power would return People should have portable radios and batteries handy said police They added thai since the source of blackout was In Peel their Information came from the radio Georgetown 11 Division Police Station on Gudph Street ran this morning with a backup Peel Regional Police called 111 ton police at II 30 a m to say Georgetown and Acton power would resume at p m The power was resumed at 1 m after more than eight hours of hydro efforts Police said the blackout was hand basically quite well but said they were too busy responding to the situation to answer peoples questions Schools finally close after cold dark morning Georgetown 10 public and three Catholic schools closed Thursday around lunch time after power was cut off by Ontario Hydro The hydro commission shut down electricity to the Georgetown and rural Acton following a transmission tower accident at Erin Mills Parkway and Highway In Mlsshnauga at a m The power source served Hills and Brampton The schools In the public Board of Education dosed the board emergency telephone net work said local trustee Bruce Georgetown three Catholic schools closed shortly before noon when parents were contacted said Roman Catholic Separate School Board trustee Irene McCauley running a despite I shortly after lunch after were contacted througl schools dose despiU power outage You couldnt listen to the radio to bear whether or not your school was dosed said Mrs schools parents a list of radio stations where they can listen for closures when school starts in September she said Cold weather a godsend for movers of meat Street in Georgetown came prepared It warn t a backup generator owner Dave Ogley bad going for him It was those hefty refrigeration unit which can keep meat frozen for up to hour It t effect me at this time of the year but I want it to happen in the summer The box freezers kept his frown meat so cold thai it dldn even begin to get soft Upright area quite as outage had airtight but they did the Job he The alternative was to store the meat outside or in the car he add ed But the power restored In time negating the need for such a The to worth of goods regularly kept In the store range from red meats to seafoods Asked at GesrgeMwa Marketplace DON SMITH ARNrjTT I was annoyed because we I bad a wood stove 1 bested It was a little chilly la the out of town My and I aide some coffee and We pat the fireplace to good use dentists appoint- tried my eggs Bot my drives It affected the kids They school bus so the blackout TV or play video games They her pretty badly ended up doing their stead menu that we bad to retook MARY VANDERBURGH MIKE CHARLES VALENTINE We bad so mack to do since 1 1 When yon drove through I woke abont the dock was before Christmas But It was Georgetown and there noticed the a bit on Ike very cosy here Keren any police anywhere I Jnst side I have fear ttrssteal but Flowers We bad at least tag figured It was kind at unsafe to have I started to think whether ar not they could si candles burning and Coleman no police oat at all daring the whether ar not they stoves One lady made coffee at her I was travelling to the cold My wife and home and la In n thermos ten to go to a mask shop worried bom the chilly Is and them Bell lines snarled with power blackout If you picked up the phone Thurs day and dead silence it was because the central station In Brampton was affected by the eight hour power blackout The offices in areas like Mlsslasauga and Brampton were hit by the power outage and had to rely on either or battery back up systems said Geoff Matthews Media Affairs Manager lor Bell OUR LANGUAGE by I hut recent I pelting Ai of Pukka proves to be gen top quality Among English from India th word is tcl pukka Bedecked appears dressed up or finely decorated Don t get into a fight about bedecked A No they re not li pi II depends on y kerb for long street Amcr ipill that word curb Unless you ting for a British reader the be kerb Is a practice that American writ should try to curb Canada In Ontario Mr Matthews added slowdowns caused dial ones longer than usual to connect So if you picked up the phone and heard nothing hanging on for a lew more seconds would have done the trick Telephones Ihemsilvfi were full while the rest of current sources went black daises of Park Public School presented concert production of Have A Heart night or an appreciative su all during a musical