Ontario Community Newspapers

Canadian Champion (Milton, ON), 20 Sep 1996, p. 2

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MILWTOWN rurty-eour yvésrt ayu [lb iatrieL z ucciii farced an 18 year aid Bill Rowney ta choose between taking aver the business his father started dlowntown Milton in 1946, or selling it off. Naw the Mîlton Machine Shop is cele- brating its fiftieth ye4r of business and Rowney is stili at the helm. The Mill Street shap has grown, cfmanged and evolved over the years*ta keep up with the pace of technology, but the nature of if's business has remained the same. Rowney say&the machine shap still daes metal working funictions it did when it apened; milling, tuming, grinding, and drilling. but over the years the machinery that does the work has become smaller and, lighter and the metals*tey work with more exotic. "We used ta havegreat big machines ta do things that Wléfted a tremendaus amount, Now we have smaller lighter machines that do the job fasterý he reports. - The location itself bias undergane the most "Vie stili do what we did 50 years ago," says changes over the years. Aecording ta Rowney proudly, "it's just that we do work Rowney thoee has been either a foundry or farther afield now, not just in Rffilton but in a machine shap on the Mill Street site for northern Ontario and narthern Quebec." .nearly 100 years exoept for the peniod dudng the wars. OIT A FRISOi STA'RT Gai SOWlT1ONS now W Credit Cord Problemns Judgement& Major Cash Flow Prablemrs Law SuîM Persistent Bill Collectors Foreclos4res lit I * Delin unt Taxes Repassessions ------ LsaiJal, or Laved One tEvictionsi Woge Go nishmnels Sherif's Sales elai la Divorce Related Financial Problemns 4«c n o ~~ PADDON + A ~Ij N. d-g. fýYORKE IN.C. Benter 9W 225 Main Street East (Main & Marttn St.) Milton I 0W ~WS LA O ~ 00 11JU-'y lO Tecourge I took at the Barrie location 2 years &go saved my life. I avolded a head-on collision because I was taught the "Head-on Collision avoldance" technique. E The police stated that without this drivlng skill I would have been uiled I feel the greatest thari The original building was built.by Rowney's. father in 1946 and added onto in 1949. Rowney himself expanded the shop in J964 building over and around the. original struc- ture ta make if into what it is now. The number of employees a t the Milton Machine Shop has also grown from one ta eight, althaugh at one time there vWe '13 people on th.4,aroI. As for what the future holds in store for the Milton Machine Shop, Bill Rowney leaves that for advancements in technology ta clic- tate. But Rawney's own future will follow te saine path oit took almast 50 years ago wheni he decided ta make the machine shap his lite's work. "I'm goirng ta stay aroundIZ Rowney says. «Teonology has changed Sa fast. The way it'sçChanged in the aest 10 years has been so gre'at. It' really interesting." hlh# rlocaed ue I o Itexoning Perm $5 Lokngnaîosen 0* 25dmeca S. 8624 it waa bis voicie I board in my hQad, telling me ta use "Head-on avoidance" I I feel that this course should be Iaw for ail new drivers. The life they rnay syve could be their ownl" or inJured. Young D sshouki go ta my instructor Andy, as YugDietl;0 o'd NEXT COURSE STARTS: Your license to survive. OCTODER 12, 19, 26, NOV. 2 4 DAYS 9:00 AUM- 3t43 PUi NOVEMBER 3 TUJESDAYS & THURSDAYS 4 WEEKS 6:30 -9:38 PUit Jillian Begg, rivera Oraduate

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