Herb Garbutt

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Reporter at HaltonHillsToday.ca

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Crime Stoppers of Halton striving to reach new heights with fundraising

5 days ago | haltonhillstoday.ca | Herb Garbutt

Crime Stoppers of Halton has unveiled new fundraising initiatives and its highest fundraising goal ever. With two new events, Crime Stoppers hopes to surpass its pre-pandemic fundraising levels for the first time. Jan Westcott, a director for Crime Stoppers of Halton, recently told the Halton Police Board that many Crime Stoppers organizations did not survive the pandemic when the ability to fundraise was severely limited.
Crime Stoppers of Halton striving to reach new heights with fundraising

6 days ago | oakvillenews.org | Herb Garbutt

Crime Stoppers of Halton has unveiled new fundraising initiatives and its highest fundraising goal ever. With two new events, Crime Stoppers hopes to surpass its pre-pandemic fundraising levels for the first time. Jan Westcott, a director for Crime Stoppers of Halton, recently told the Halton Police Board that many Crime Stoppers organizations did not survive the pandemic when the ability to fundraise was severely limited.
'Left a pretty strong impression on the community': Teacher, coach, musician Neil Cotton remembered

1 week ago | haltonhillstoday.ca | Herb Garbutt

At 12:59 p.m. Tuesday, 25 players gathered around centre ice at the Mold-Masters SportsPlex and began tapping their sticks on the ice. It continued for a minute and then went quiet as the clock hit 1 p.m. It remained silent for the next minute as friends and former teammates raised their sticks in the air to pay tribute to Neil Cotton, the respected player, teacher and musician who died at the age of 79 Tuesday after a battle with cancer.
Council revokes music exemption for baseball games at Georgetown Fairgrounds

1 week ago | haltonhillstoday.ca | Herb Garbutt

Monday was the day the music died, at least for baseball teams playing at the Georgetown Fairgrounds. After a nearly hour-long discussion, Halton Hills Council voted 6-4 to end a noise bylaw exemption that allowed youth baseball leagues to play amplified music during games.
New body armour for Halton Police will stop bullets fired by rifles

1 week ago | oakvillenews.org | Herb Garbutt

Halton Regional Police is upgrading its officers’ body armour to comply with new provincial standards. The Halton Region Police Board approved the purchase of upgraded body armour following a presentation at its last board meeting. The requirement for the higher level of body armour for patrol officers was passed as part of the province’s Community Safety and Policing Act in April 2024.
Lacrosse star Daryl Veltman joins Halton Hills Sports Hall of Fame

2 weeks ago | haltonhillstoday.ca | Herb Garbutt

As the final seconds ticked off the clock, the pain from the repeated crosschecks faded away. The aches from running up and down the concrete floor vanished. For years his uncle Jim had told him how difficult it was to win the Mann Cup. Suddenly, Daryl Veltman got it. “He always said those Mann Cup rings meant the most and it’s because you work so hard for them. It’s a four of seven series instead of just one game,” Veltman said.
Nearly three-quarters of eligible voters in Milton ridings cast a ballot in federal election

2 weeks ago | miltontoday.ca | Herb Garbutt

It was billed as the most important election of our lifetime and voters responded by beating a path to the ballot boxes Monday. Nearly three-quarters of eligible voters (73.8 per cent) in the two Milton ridings voted in the federal election, with a total of 136,900 ballots cast between them. Milton East-Halton Hills South saw 73.6 per cent of eligible voters casting a ballot this year.
Three-quarters of eligible Halton Hills voters cast a ballot in federal election

2 weeks ago | haltonhillstoday.ca | Herb Garbutt

It was billed as the most important election of our lifetime, and voters responded by beating a path to the ballot boxes. More than three-quarters of eligible voters (75.2 per cent) in the two Halton Hills ridings voted in Monday’s federal election, with a total of 133,852 ballots cast between them. Wellington-Halton Hills North saw voter turnout jump by almost 10 percentage points, from 67.3 per cent in 2021 to 76.9 this year.
Adam van Koeverden holds on to seat in Burlington North-Milton West

2 weeks ago | burlingtontoday.com | Herb Garbutt

Early in the night when the first polls reported, a cheer went up at Adam van Koeverden’s election night gathering as it showed the Liberal candidate in the lead, but it tapered off quickly when they realized just how close the race was. And it remained that way for a long time. It would be closing in on midnight before van Koeverden was declared the winner of the newly-created riding of Burlington North-Milton West.
ICYMI: Town awards $2M contract to repave eight Halton Hills streets

2 weeks ago | haltonhillstoday.ca | Herb Garbutt

This article originally appeared on HaltonHillsToday April 20. Several Halton Hills streets will be repaved this year as part of the Town’s resurfacing programs. During its meeting this week, Halton Hills Council approved awarding a contract for a little over $2 million to Mississauga’s Pacific Paving to complete its pavement management and collector/arterial asphalt resurfacing programs in 2025.