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rW-F--- - '- - - mon""M APPLE WmNSffIHELD-REMA S781 MAIN ST. #1 & 2,1 MILN 8764785 A Metroland Community Wekend fg I- iNewspaper Vol. 142 No. 18 Friday, May 18, 2001 36 Pages LIRRApy~ 'ns,. ,-Fast food employees taken to hospital in suspected gas leak Wendy ç assistant manager detected an odour of gas By STEVE LeBLANC The Champion A dozen fast-food employees were taken to hospital as a pre- cautionary measure following what may have been a noon-hour gas Ieak at Wendy's Restaurant on Market Drive Tuesday. Assistant manager Dorothy Kirkwood said she detected the smell of natural gas and feit a littie lightheaded at about 12:30 pr.. v ,Canadian Meter plant re-locating Half the workers at the Canadian Meter Company are expected to be laid off when the Milton plant closes its doors at the end of September. About 25 empînyees will be affected when local operations move to the compa- ny's Cambridge plant. 'We have a smaller plant in Cambridge and we're combining the two," said Kelly Coulson of the Milton plants human resources department. "Everyone received verbal notice of the shut down and layoff. The details have yet to be worked out," said Ms Coulson. Canadian Meter Company bas been in Milton f'or 44 years. Its sad (layotf) but we're reacttng to the environment out there," Ms Coulson said. -We cant accotl1tlodate the etitire 50> employces at the other plant.- She immediately contacted the Milton Fire Depariment and Union Gas before shutting off ail the gas lines and clearing out the restaurant - as welI as the adjacent Tim Horton's Donuts - of ail staff'-and customers. Neither the tire department or Union Gas detected any gas, although Ms Kirkwood is certain she smelled something. "We didn't <mnd anything harmful," said Captain Mark Cross of the Milton Fire Department. Following the noon-hour inspection, a contract company replaced gas uine equip- ment at the restaurant and operations were back in full swing by about 5 pr. Other than slight dizziness, ail Wendy's employees - as well as a few froro Tim Horton's - suffered no ill-effects from the noon-bour scare and were back to work the following day. Tlhe main thing is that everyone was okay," said Ms Kirkwood. "I've got to thank the tire department and gas compa- ny. They responded so quickly and were just amazing." Comment ........ 6 HS Report .......8 Lit estyles ...... 16 Datolns ....... 20 Sports....... 25-27 Classifiled .... .28-31 a Frldy,Ma 18 *MAM usais'0*cWauar*Sis eCristelos Village Mrkt* *Schuyrler Hom. Hardware' a The Building Box* *Ontario Lottery Corporation * Soirs* eFuture Shop* Saturday, May 19. eSears* *Selected areas only For ail of your Emissions Testing & Car Re A/C season Us here! o book your appointment! Stp.n..dle....rone tehicast*a yut spr evceFR OEINOMAINCAL 78 7 2 0RDOPI T 8CO MRIA T ...........wo'tleae ........... Photo by GRAHAM PAINE ,Fo11ow the -yeli-m-low brick road Htherfield Schaal presented a series cf plays, including the aid classlc the Wizard cf Oz, inside a giant tent an the Na. 10 Sideraad private schoal's praperty Wednesday. Above, one cf the 'Munchkins' Emma Lupinacci, 5, beams with excitement during her performance. Inset tram eft, Ryun Currie played the Lion, Andrew Welland was the Scarecrow, Emily Faster starred as Dorathy and Jamie Kennedy partrayed the lin Man. $ 1.00 (GST included) 1