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Canadian Champion (Milton, ON), 19 Sep 2013, p. 1

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.1à I-b-- We aremwi th Sevie tIAiS Rep. HAN__P1_ Gflm M"FnI* c 186 Lu maS7l Alns1100lies Hafton police issued an average of nearly 100 tickets a day for speeding in school or commnuntty safety zones dufing their recent£ road safety campiagn. In Pn>ject Safe Start which ran (rom Sep- tember 2 to 13 coinciding wtth the beqîn- ning of thue schooi year, officers handed out 1,908 tickets in just the designated zones across Hltori. Thie majority of tickets, 1,152, were for=~ speeding, foflowed by 142 for seatbelt in- fractions, 158 fcw stop ligi vwdl.tiom ni d o 456 for other offences încluding distracted 3 drivin. Sgt. Paul Davies of Traff.c Services suid the numiber of tickets issued for stop sugn vio- lations was particularly alarming.'As a colli- sion reconstructionist, that concemns me.' The fines for such offences as set out un the Hmqhway Traffic Act are increased in com- munity safety zones. Police say several drivers with suspended licences were stopped, two commercial ve hucle were taken out of service for severe mechanucal defects and dt least one persori was charged wuth stunt driving - gjoing more than 50 km/h over the speed limit. The arunuai MihonT"n Foxc Run was twld Suday morning at the E. Owury comph*m. Here, the Jmnlevich family - including (rom kef) five-yeaf-o4d Alex. two-year-od Zaci. Mekss. mnd Jaunie - haad out on the course for a réde. Ouganizers say nearly $27.000 was ratsed at the Milton event about the same as la" yarw t"tl y /S n * C he qiwu seiedPln Hatn sian Reglona Police (HRP) seized close to Si million worth of rna<îjuana at 14 cifferent outdoor grow opera- tKon lai week, aunrg thfee loca- tions un Milton. Det Paul Foley said his teamn of some 20 offiers lncludêg mnm bers of HRPS lntegrated Drug. Gun and Gang Unit, rernoved more than 300 mature marijuana plants inu Milton, ranging in Smz f(rri 6 to 8 fret tait, whut he con- siders ready for harvest The locations were on Tremnaine Road. north of Hwy. 407, Lower Base Line and Firit Line in Nassagaweya. A harid- fui of locations were on the border of Surlington farmlands in the area of Walker's Line and No. 1 Side Road. Officers had to trudge through rough terrain in swelteuing conditions for up to three kîlornetres to reach some of the plants, said Foley. «It was incredibly hot, at one point the thermometer on my car read 36 C'« * AM RUPERT e*ImLi 14 0*Wbgl MWs w Mde.un a "Mseo M et at busil1 h.. me 0".. OwuTb&% UwIIIAI aP lieh 0 116 "M d bd" 4w e eu .su MW . hl.l bée "h. ab,.. & 1m d ifs 0i fws le la u ie M"y *s dugMed. A bmud Mst uhuN hi San s li . ea f. en~.Ph.,hi. ismu hy siu e O "edli Hawhhs _____ rms . ~ ïRig"

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