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MILTONI IJ2UC URAM%_ T.airI T l1,MLO 6 "tlcW l4ekend #r A Metroland Communitv NewsDaDer Vol. 140 No. 75 Friday, December 3, 1999 40 Pages $1 .00 (GST included) Pto Wy GRAMAM PAINE Tu ii nRr Depertment's Murray MeConnel (left), the. Knsmen Ciub's Ron Furik (cen- tre) end Captain Dan Broome of the Salvation Army hope to coilect non-perlahable food Items likm thes. tomorrow. The. departm.nt wiii drive tirs trucks throughout Milton and CampblivilIe, sounding.thhir sirens for Christmas donations. Tax hikes are 110W illegal in Ontario New bill prevents Ontario governments fromt raising taxes without public support By IRENE GENTLE "O The Champion Mm - Increasing taxes just becamne illegal in Ontario, said Halton. MPP Ted Chudleigh. "We passed a bill that prevents any (provincial) government from increasing taxes without a plebiscite from tise peo- pie," he said. Thse exception would be in thse case of a naturai disaster, such as the recent ice stoi in Montreai. But even then, funds shouid be drainied from an aiready budgeted misceilaneous fund of approximately $600 million befooe taxes are touched. 'If it were to exceed tisat we could mun a >Voman abducted, 'Buy a BuIb'- carnpaign almed atasuld lIghiting up services jor panierns Christmas has been a whole lot brigister at Milton District Hospital since its 'Buy a Buib' fundraising campaign began in 199 1. So far, $340,000 bas been raised througis thus festive fundraiser. lise money has been used to purchase hospital equipmnent. Donations of $10 or more are currently being requested to help Iight tise Toee of Caring. This year, proceeds wiII go toward a $69,000 disinfection and cleaning system for endoscopes and other instruments. TMs fundraiser foliows a 'Twelve Days of Christmas' theme, with omnaments crafted to fit tise lyrica of tise well-known song. A donation of $150 or more wil ligist a large string of bulbs on tise sake omament. isospitai tree. Omaments from previous years And donors in tisis range will can be purchased by calling Donna receive a glass bail depicting 'Nîne McLaugislin at 876-7014. Ladies Dancing' as a tisank you Chseques should be made payable gesture from the isospitai to the Milton District Hospital Foundation. Donations of $50 to $149 will set Foundation, located at 30 Derry a smali string of buiba aiigist. Rd. E., L9T 2X5. Donors in this category wiii receive Ali donors wiIi have tise opportu- a silver and green coloured sied- nity to win a hand-crafted wooden shaped omament sied, now on display at Jo'Leen's And donors of $10 to $49 can dress shop on Main Street. choose between an array of wood- Tise lucky winner wilI be pîcked en ornamients. taDcme21drw Residents are also invited o aaDecemer2 udaw.ni ofr remember a loved one with the AsotieFndtnisofrg purchase of a special whsite ligist a pick-up service for those interest- tree bulb. .ed in attending a Tuesday, Dec. 14 Tisese donors will receive a keep- tree-ligisting ceoemony. Halton Regional Police are investigating a violent sexual assault on a 21 -year-old Milton womnan last Friday. The young woman, a hearig-impaired student at- thse Emeat C. Drury. ScisoQi for tise Deaf, said ase was sexually abused by two masked men in a whsite car with tinted windows. The victim told police ase was waiking home from scisool on Parkway Drive shortly after 2 p.m. when ase forced into tise car by one of tise men. Sise was bound, blindfoided and bmought to an unknown location wisere the assauit took place. She was then dniven back to tise school and pusised from the car. Anyone witis information regarding the incident is asked to cali Det. Keitis Woudstra at 878-5511 or Crime Stoppers of Halton at 825-8477. deficit or increase taxes without penalty," said Mr. Chudleigh. "But it wouid have to be extraordinary circumstausces. Thse ice storm was man- aged out of misceilaneous funds." Thse new bill even takes aim at thse gov- ernment tisat created it. e sas SECOND on page 5 Charges laid in crash A Brampton man has been charged in confection with iast month's car- train crash that ciaimed tise Ide of one man and left two others injured on Thompson Road. Glen Zuest, 25, faces charges of criminal negligence causing death, impaired driving causing death and driving with over the legal limit of alco- hol in his blood. His driver's licence has aiso been suspended for 90 days. Mr. Zuest wili appear in Milton court December 20. *cumeiluo l* a PeiNs Ssol"*m *Communft Sole a 18A * aFoS Sboo* eCentmry 21* .MrS .tua *Home Harduro * eJohn PermRsmàx* *MARKETPLACE NOVEMUR la. PPL Mary Sam@* mue*t.** "~IV MUX& alUp ckwrsýtQas Wisco 4& AT JQJIEN S 224 MAIN ST. E. MILTON 878-0506 G IIIZ e C AS UA L a CLASSIC t t