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

casa americo WN Ç 8.88 144 Main St. E. R EA L E S See what' the market: bJt (s anabtau (CVJamptoî Milton Community Newspaper Since 1860 Named Canada's Top Community New.spaper T AT E inside S PO0RT S Silver lining for Springer www.miltoncanadianchampion.comn C O M M U N I T Y Memorable trip to Haiti A e.ln ei ru ulcto o,12Ný1 Tu , Ma 3, 211Qgs - $1,0 (c. .T) GRAHAM PAINE / CANADIAN CHAMPION A jubilent Lita Raitt gets a big victory kits from sons John Colin (left), 9, and Billy, 6, at she arrives at ber victory party last night. Halton Riding voters re-elect Raitt By Christina Commisso CANADIAN CHAMPION STAFF Dubbed 'Landslide Lisa' by bier supporters, Lia Raitt steamrolled bier way to victory once again. "Clearly thse people of Ontario wanted wisat we were talking about," said Raitt from bier campaign party at Multons Ned Devines, wbere about 100 supporters, cheered, cbanted and hugged thse nigbt away Sweeping ail tise early poils and riding tisat lead to, the decisive Min, Raitt secured about 55 per cent of Haltons votes, as of midnight, up eigbt per cent from the 2008 election. Despite the Conservatives dominance in thse province, Raitt said tise nigist was nerve- wracking. "My numbers didn't corne in until the very end, and i was surprised to, see bow well we did in Ontario." First on Raitt's agenda will be addressing bier core campaign issue - jobs. "Thse number one tbing l'mn going to, do bere is get myseif engaged in thse Halton 10 year economic development project in a seri- nus manner and make sure 1 understand exactly wbat's going on," said Raitt of the esee VOTERS on page A3 Liberals edge NDP By Steve LeBlanc CANADIAN CHAMPION STAFF Disappointed, but flot detcrred. Amidst a somber tone late last night at Sboeless Joe's - with a deci- sive defeat to Tory incumbent Lisa Raitt rapidly taking shape - Connie Laurin-Bowie took solace in what she viewed as an overail positive cam- paign. The campaign was bier first, but perbaps flot ber last. "l'm in this for t.he long haul," said Halton's Liberal flagbearer, speaking to tihe possibility of running again. It's (campaign) been a great expe- rtence. At first a lot of people were saying that we didn't need this elec- tion and that people didn't care, but that's not what i beard at the door at ail. People were engaged." Despite looking back on thse past six weeks in a positive light, Laurin- Bowie couldn't mask bier discourage- ment - and surprise - at the nut- corne. Greeted with a warmn but subdued esee EARLY on page A3 #-votes L295 of 329 _polis) Lisa Raitt 37,440 Confie Lau rin-Bowie 1 7,237 Pat Herouxil,6 Judi Rem!ip __ __2,430 Tony Rodrigues 206 FbR Jhedý & MW* 340 Main Street Miton ;Ceequaffl), andsl med 88-43 www. fl oorsf rat. Co m/tieale ma nsinte riaors 8 83 3 Ille j