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* om . *At Zm A Metro firs deli in( By STEVE The Cham, After year Naidoo-Han Her stor pound, dirci ered at. 3.26 tie girl nar broadeast jo Randy Hamr of 1999. This is the have a four-q "She wass througbout Harris from Monday. "SI but now ev very happy, boy and a gii flie local CBC and plamied cea bound durinj in recent hiat Thievbea storage co between Di Regional P The unit man. *Free wu feel. 45 Ont land Community Newspaper, Vol. 139 No. 87 Friday, January 8, 1999 28 Pages rton's t baby ~vered )akville LeBLANO Wion aof covcring Uic ncws, Indira isbas finally made some. revolves around an eigbt- a-ounce bundie of joy dcliv- p.m. New Year's Day. The lit- ncd Oriana - born 10 thse 'umaliat and bier buaband Dr. s - was Milton's firaI baby couple'a second child. They ycar-old son namcd Galen. a litIle late so wc weoe on hold lic holidays," said Ms Naidoo- Oakvillc Trafalgar Hospital sie had a bit of a fever initially zybody'a doing juat fine. I'mi now I'vc got onc of each (a nother - a reporter wiUi boUi ÉFMT - cxplaincd that a ircan section kept bier bospital g the area'a worst snowstormn ory. *MOTHER on page 5 k-in at a MoGeachie Drive mplex occurred sometime ecember 15 and 21, Halton olice said. was rented by a Milton fo-Ann McKinnon 750 (GST included) A front-end loader scoops Up Sflow t b. trucked away from the Main and *Ontario Street Intersection Wedn.adlay, as the town'a dean-up crew atili atruggled to remove the huge mounda accumulated from 1a weekend's storm. Snow creqd&;ws battie a second assault By lAgINE GENTLE The Champion Day3 after one of thse largeat winter storms in recent bistory dumped 25 cm of anow on thse town, Milton's snow removal teain hit the streets to bat- tde a fresis load of the white stuif. Forecasters predicted another six to 12 cm of snow would likely fail on the town starting Wednesday. TisaI meant no resi for the 21-person crew, which bas been working 16-hour shifts to cicar away the heavy snows that brought much of Milton'to a grinding hiait Iast wcckcnd. Tise crew operated 15 plows and worked day and night t0 clear Milton's massive 650 km net- work of moads. "This is a nightmare. Lt just keeps coming," said operations supervisor Jim Finn. "It's even worse in Campbellville. It's blowing so you can't see any- tising." Mr. Finn dcfendcd bis crew's performance, flot- uat aewsce /inaurafice replacemient e Direct bilin to imsurance companiea witomner pick-up and raun 0 Major Leasing Cardas accepted a wievudilty ef carrant mal* v*idl.s 818m4131 ado St. N. Qust.onh of d td ing that the streets Wcre clcared in time for the start of the work weck. "Everybody went 10 work Monday as long as Ihey had dug tiscmselves out of their own drive- ways," said Mr. Finn. "In lesa than 48 hours, no one was stuck at home. These guys have donc a super job." Sidewalks werc more of a problcm. Coews werc only bcginnîng 10 clear a swatis through pathways buried under almost a foot of snow when the sec- ond snowfall began. Many of the employeca are atarting to show tic strain of slugging it out with a aeemingly tircleas mother nature, said Mr. Finn. "Everyone is trying thcir best but they just gel so tioed," said Mr. Finn. "Wc have two guys off sick now. One bas pncumonia. I wanted 10 send him home Monday but bie said no, be'd stick il out." Mr. Finn worried that another massive snowfall could bring down more of bis staff. Wisile moribund macbinery in Toronto bas been Moat notable for breaking down in the face of the stormn, Halton regional trucks bave performed fair- ly welI. "We've bad one major breadown but it's back on tise road now," said Mr. Finn. "Wc're kceping our lingera crossed." Mayor Gord Krantz aaid the Town bas donc as welI as any otiser in digging out from the ycar's first major wintcr atorm. 'Il tbink wc fared as weII as any othcr municipal- ity in the arca," hie said. Mr. Krantz reported that bie received as many as 40 calta at bis home ovér Uic wcekcnd inquiring if the roada would be clcarcd by Monday morning. A handful even called 10 question if the mayor's atreet bad been plowed [iraI. Lt wasn't. "I went 10 bed at 11:30 p.m. on Sunday nigbî and il wasn't plowed. 1 woke up at 6 a.m. Uic next day and il was," be said. "There is no special treat- ment for the mayor." il cARMai 1ur5#AU U~ v-, b.- é~. $~j at ~teoewaC ount