Does your dog like cookies? Ruffin’s Pet Centre is offering some sweet support to homeless animals this month. Throughout November, the Main Street pet store — together with its 12 other locations across Ontario — is selling all natural, homemade dog cookies in the shape of a doghouse.

Dateline is a free listing available to local charitable or non-profit community groups to assist in promoting their coming events. Dateline notices should be e-mailed to editorial@miltoncanadianchampion.com by noon Monday for Wednesday’s edition and 5 p. m. Tuesday for Friday’s edition.

With its wooden ceilings and limestone walls combining with stainless steel features and two-storey glass-walled public lobby, Milton’s new Town Hall received positive reviews for its blend of old and new during the official opening last week.

Halton Region will spend $3 million over the coming years to increase the amount of available beds and housing units for people in crisis situations.

Is your child on track? Halton Region recently launched a campaign with that name to raise awareness about the importance of observing early child development and responding right away to any concerns.

Have a story to tell? Have you or a loved one travelled to the United States for medical treatment, an MRI or any other reason? Was it because of long Ontario wait lists? Or because you could not get the type of care you needed here? Did OHIP pay? Or did you have to pay yourself?

Go Transit will honour veterans who served to protect Canada by offering them free rides on Remembrance Day. War veterans and a companion will be able to take advantage of the offer all day this Wednesday, acording to a press release issued by Go Transit.

Both the Town of Milton and Halton Region will likely be a little smaller but richer beginning in the new year.

A woman in her seventies is Halton’s first H1N1 fatality. Halton Medical Officer of Health Dr. Bob Nosal reported Wednesday that the woman was the first Halton resident to die from the flu virus.

Two suspects were arrested after a youngster was pushed off his bike in a daytime robbery. At about 3 p. m. at a park on Highside Drive, a 12-year-old boy was riding his bike when he was approached by a couple of suspects who removed him from the bike and took off with it, police said.

A woman in her seventies is Halton's first H1N1 fatality. Dr. Bob Nosal, Halton's Medical Officer of Health, reported this afternoon that the woman was the first Halton resident to die from the pandemic H1N1 flu virus.

A woman in her seventies is Halton’s first H1N1 fatality. Dr. Bob Nosal, Halton’s Medical Officer of Health, reported early yesterday afternoon that the woman was the first Halton resident to die from the pandemic H1N1 flu virus.

The federal Halton riding association for the Green Party last week acclaimed Matt Gilgan as its candidate for the next election. It will be the first entry into federal politics for the 33-year-old Oakville resident, who’s married with a young daughter.

It’s a time-honoured tradition for students to give their teachers apples as tokens of their appreciation. But when Jasmine Roswell attended an open house earlier this year at Our Lady of Fatima school to meet with her son’s Grade 1 teacher, it was she who received a shiny green apple.

By the numbers, the list of Milton’s Walk of Fame inductees is as follows: 10 athletes, four authors and media members, four artists of various forms, three businessmen, an astronaut, doctor, and politician and finally three judges of the Milton sort — a hockey referee, linesman and cattle judge.

It’s once again time to remember their sacrifices.

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Police are asking for the public’s help in finding two suspects who stole an iPod from a 13-year-old boy. Police said two friends were behind Sam Sherratt School on Laurier Avenue shortly after 4:30 p. m. October 21.

It was short lines and quick service for the majority of attendees at the first day of the H1N1 vaccination clinic in Milton Monday. The experience caught Miltonians by surprise as it was drastically different than what had played out in other Halton and GTA clinics in previous days.

Milton District Hospital on Derry Road holds a one-on-one breastfeeding clinic with a certified lactation consultant from 6 to 9 p. m. For an appointment, call Jill Hicks at (905) 878-2383, ext. 7610.