The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

---i MitnsCommunity Newspaper Since 1860 iPWeekendEdaion IUpoholltery Repairsý 'Wndshield Repaïrs, 78 ANST. #1 & 2. IMILTON 876-4785 N EW S Mike Boughton is recovering S PO0R TS IceHawks oust Mississauga in four A & E Nia Jam gets people moving -Taficsafety upgrades 4 ~ ~ jproposed for roads GRtAHAM PAiNE / CANADAN CHAMPION NATURE NUT: Grade 3 J.M. Denyes student Connor Lewvis, 8, a member of the schooi's Nature Nuis Envirorimental Club is burted tin stuffed antmais. The school's annual used stuffed animal sale raised funds for the adoption of a yet-to-be determined endangered spectes. By Melanie Hennessey CANADIAN CHAMPION STAFF A slew of traffic safetv improve- ments hase been proposed for Town roads. The potential changes -lîke lovver- îug the speed lîmît hv 10 km/hl tin cer- tain ruiral arcas and imipi s îug pasec tuent markiugs in st hool crosstug zones - vverc outhuied at the commu- iV services committec meettng Mlo day esening b\ iTrans ilonsulting. sshich recenul coipleted a traffîc engi- nrrring practîces sîudy for the Towri-n -Champion up for awards The ( hintpion's shuîterbug hias once again earued disîtinction. (,raham l'airie has hecri uomiuated for Photographer of the Year tin the I0 n t a r io Co m m u n i t y e wx sp ap er s A ss o cia t ion's Better Newspaper Awards lor 200)5. He took, the honour tin 2002 and has no\N- heen nomînated thrc Also iii Graham Paine Champtoni is tin the ring for the OCNAs Best iUse of Process Colour award. ssith a Delacourts advertisemenî that tan in July eamting a nomination. Overaîl. Metrolands Halton Diviïsion - whîch includes The Champion. as well as sister papers Oa1,vtlle Beax er and Burltngton Post - gamnered 15 OCNA nominations. That means theNlre in the top 3 of ail entries amorig communty ne%%spapers tin Ontario. The winners xxiii bc auuounced ai an assards banquet Apnil I The studv presents recommended alterations to the Towns existing poli- cies w&hen nt cornes to things like ail- way stop warrants and rural and urban traffîc engineering practices. These suggested changes. which the commrittee supported. include: - lnstalling 40 kmr/h speed limits along ail elcirncntarv- school frontages Paliînting tsso sets of parallel fines ai designated -soperviscd school cross- ingsý ti addition to painting large blocks on either side of the crossing. - Reducing the speed himit hv 10 km/h on lovven rural roads woqhin 1.5 kîlometres of a paraliel regionai road vith a lowser posted speed himit. and wvhere demonstrated -cuî-îhrough traf- [te' (commoters) is measured - Painting centre fines on aIl rural roads that arc at least six metres \&!de and edge fines on horizontal and verti- cal curves and in areas susceptible tri - see RESIDENTS on page A3 Insideàn Today's Champion OPINION A6 DATELINE A16 CLASSIFIED A24 RAL ESTATE B5 - naito-isearch.om www.miltontoyota.com GORRUD'S AUTO www.gorrudisautogroup.com