Tag: milton

  • Update on Oakville’s New Hospital

    Continuing on the “hospital” theme of my posts today, I read this article from Oakville Today and a conversation with John Oliver, the CEO of Halton Healthcare Services.  You will find his name familiar as HHS is also responsible for Milton District Hospital.  This article gives a good synopsis on what it took to get…

  • Family Day In Milton February 21 2011

    As I sit here and go through my calendars (yes more than one) scheduling in meetings and other work related items, I just remembered that February 21st is Family Day (ie: a day off)  We haven’t had a shortage of days off in February with our snow day last week and the PA Day’s from…

  • Milton Police Blotter – February 3 2011

    From the Milton Canadian Champion Trucks, wire stolen Between 7:45 a.m. and 5:26 p.m. Monday, the Hydro One site was broken into by thieves who climbed the firm’s Lower Baseline fence. F250 pick-up truck with 2366 RW plates and a Ford Ecoline truck with 161 MF plates were taken.  Also stolen was about 1,000 pounds…

  • Region Of Halton Approves 1.4% Increase

    Again from Kim Arnott Region settles on 1.4% tax hike In a budget that will see close to $1 billion spent on infrastructure, programs, services, regional staff and police, Halton’s council was hung up on about $190,000.That amount represented the difference between capping Regional staff pay increases at 2.25 per cent, which was the amount…

  • More 2011 Budget Feedback

    There has been lots of discussion on the Hawthorne Villager web forum on the aftermath of the 2011 Milton budget that was passed by the committee on Monday.  You can follow it here. I made a comment on one of the threads regarding the importance of public involvement in the budget process that I’ll post here…

  • Molson To Move Beer Vats This Weekend

    There has been some talk recently about Molson transporting 6 very large vats through the area towards their Toronto location.  This will be happening on the weekend. The transportation will start on January 7th in Hamilton and end up at Carlingview Drive by Tuesday January 12th.  There will be some disruption to traffic in Milton over…