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The Acton Free Press Wed July 7 1976 Celebration Sunday Thanks to the firefighters and Rotary who devoted many hours to making a celebration for Acton last Sunday Their efforts are appre ciated Miltons program was rained out Georgetown had nothing spe cial planned Acton s worked out just right in terms of date and weather Thurs day July 1 was wet and quiet with all stores required to close Most people in industry were at work though Many concluded a pleasant weekend by enjoying the program at the park Starving the birds The No Feeding signs are up now at Fairy Lake When the lake was declared a bird sanctuary several years ago all birds were welcome No longer There have grown to be too many of them They were fed sheltered and watered and they wanted to stay So each winter a few more just hung around Acton and didn feel the urge to migrate south at all FEED WILD FOWL So the official decision has been made Don t feed the birds when they begin to starve they remember about migration The people who have grown to love these delightful birds are sick at the callousness of the decision To starve birds that have been tame for several seasons and hope they will move on is surely not the kind of tactic that spells conservation Yet it is the decision of the Credit Valley Con servation Authority If Esther Taylor says the birds are hungry we believe it She says at times they are overfed they then ignore food She wonders if there is enough food for them here at any time Feeding had been done regu larly with the town paying the bill some of the time Compassionate neighbors in particular Miss lor fed them themselves when the town did not Feed t cheap either It is easy to understand not feed ing them the summertime For the past two years some of the birds have been caged and fed in the winter But to suddenly abandon the birds we encouraged to stay and refusing to feed them seems needlessly cruel Teach French early Well Canadians can fly again now after the latest dis ruption in public service has been temporarily settled The costly program of bilingual ism introduced by the government met with only mild complaints around here but with the pilots issue people became more critical They tell us isn t the issue but to most people that s what it seems to be With our post office signed in French listings in French pur phone book and labels in French on many things we buy people here seem to think that s enough Despite what we learned in school the language of French still seems foreign to us N est ce pas Certainly it give us any feeling of its belonging to our her tiage or culture The best solution would surely be to teach French thoroughly to school children beginning in the earliest grades Children who are more bilingual would hopefully not feel as strange with the other mother tongue as we do A retirement prayer An Amen to Senior Citizens week is this apt prayer Lord Thou knowest better than I know myself that I am getting older and will some day be old Keep me from getting talk ative and particularly from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion Release me from trying to straighten out everyone affairs Make me thoughtful but not moody With my store of wisdom it seems a pity not to use it all but Thou knowest Lord that I want a few friends at the end Keep me from the recital of endless details give me wings to get to the point Seal my lips on many aches and pains they may be increasing and my love of rehearsing them may be becoming sweeter I ask for grace to listen to the tales of others pains Teachme that occasionally I may be mistaken Keep me reasonably sweet I don t want to be a saint they can be hard to live with but a sour old person is impossible Help me to extract all possible fun out of life There are so many funny things around us and I don t want to miss any of them Amen Teenagers and jobs Of the nearly persons work in the latest Statistics Canada figures almost half of these are under 24 years of age The grim picture painted by the statistics still does not fully reveal the anxiety of those who before they even enter the labor force are faced with the kind of desperation that comes from a lack of meaning employment Add to the already dismal statistics the influx of students seeking summer jobs to help them winters studies and we face a situation that could thoroughly dishearten some of the most important people our society Homeowners and others will often resort to the uncertainties of the yellow pages rather than hire responsible summer students eager to provide services ranging from babysitting to housepamting In Acton an attempt is being made by the Community Services Centre to help these energetic young people ROW ON ROW OF healthy green corn stalks stand straight and high in this farmer field which abuts Eden Mills Presbyterian Church on the outskirts of the village It i week from i former who is to present seminar in i urn ilism course she s ikuit Slit w ml 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the Sunset Home in i elimuiL oik with ir lmdif 1 irti luiu quel of forget tin nits I ttv I from the di tsed I sure Ik II Hie survivors is wtrt inv in iblv known series of suth 1 tided to writing little eilumn in I didn ive tope with the dull if Hit storj the supposed jettivilv the or the pitfalls of Hit Kidding try quagmire SiiLar ind as it w is first lined i numbk little of teuton where one Bill spoof the world needle his wife damn ill vint to Ins rages In short where he eould it ever he v without hiding behind the inrniymity of the news story the editorial we Although it i slim lo try hide behind in i ill town when everybody knows exactly who wrote the editorial and wlnt s wrong with his to have such an opinion the column caught on for vinous reasons One wis that men en joyed mi pointing out how peculiar women irt was women enjoyed me Of this and that The town flags werent up Tor Dominion Day Canada Day Some homes had their small flags flying though f Smith is one name suggested for the new middle school Obvious former principals and Elmer Smith An old timer suggested the other name H Stewart school Mr Stewart was principal here over So years ago but some remember him with affection Sugar and Spice by bill smiley stupid mm art I- mt pointing how tbvsnully idiotic ins ire 1 hen we re other re isons I didn mind i spade shovel I didn I mind what in I is 1 wrote ill the ordeals it iry people to through lived ones I wrote in ind children and nuns mints mothers firmtrs fishermen lends iblj still power in Hit witklv business in the in times He urged and tut ur friends Ins I thinned t riLLcd lolumn of opinions into i short issi tntd sumtthinL wnhoul thing I knew pipers were running m eohimn of the sjndii itcsgol They are not bv the much interested in beginners m ikes it might tough to break in Sot from writing it 1 hit slurd work If it rent it would It renting md if it was it for lone Hut 1 had great joy from the know ledge that I occasion illy brought some plcisure or surcease from pain to some one One ancient lady wrote painfully from her old folks home that she had laughed until she cried il one column A amdian worn in in New Zealand wrote that shed been in despair every Hunt had read column in her hometown piper had laughed aloud and hid realized thai God was still in His he if she laugh I won tell you the rotten letters I vc received They re few thev re usually bigoted don me Now Gran journalism student in tncedote from mv dis is weekly editor Here s a trueone If iw would vnu cover it us i reporter hud i fight with his wife got ill drunktd up ind told her he was going lo commit suicide She told him lo go ahead Ik irehed out to his ir went roaring i drove right off the town dock and that tekness that ids for all of us Next mi rning they found him Sound asleep in his tr which had landed on a barge tied up lo the dock His wife had the last six or seven hundred words OUR READERS WRITE Calling wartime crews lo the I he Commonwealth Wartime will plate in pig September J to We are sure Hi it miny of readers ill be interested in this event as there is scarcely corner of Hit world where of ommouwe ire not to he found After a similar reunion in 1J70 the only in ijor received by the organ iers w is from those who hid not beard about Ihc event until after the We are attempting therefore to ensure that this time Hit word gels the widest possible dis tribution If would like to have more in form ilion please contact us Yours truly Alex Publicity Chairman Box Winnipeg Men we need you Can you help us The Wellington County Museum needs men with a knowledge of tools and construction methods to help develop a lool oriented program If you know tools wood working or It ithtr and have a few hours to spare please give us a call We would like to hear from you To volunteer your assistance please contact Mrs Ellen I at More spice than sugar Hit Editor Dear Sir Mr Smiley article Sugar and Spice May 12 lackinginsugor built is spicy and Interesting and gives the reader food for thought My thoughts are not in accordance with the writer s Unlike Stewart in whom he quotes I believe a large percentage of Canadians ire still quiet sober decent people He mentions violent strikes in Canada as proof that arc nol the decent people we once were But how many working Canadians have never engaged In a strike How many have quietly continued with their work on loo small pay for these expensive limes rather than make a fuss How many have run chance of losing their homes because of a desire to be quiet and sober rather than step out bravely voice their com plaints It the wheel that does squeaking gets the Tease and there is 1 lot or truth in this old adage When teachers and postal workers everyone of them educated and none of them violent are forced to strike there is something wrong with ihc manner in which both departments are conducted Don I you think so Tocontlnuc he infers that our Canadian soldiers in England in World War II were unmannerly and vociferous In turn the old boys could retaliate with The one place where we had real hospitality was in Scot land One day a group of boys back from Ihe dirty muddy unhealthy trenches were resting their weary bodies on the Brass in a park In England A policeman spied the restful scene and ordered them off Not a move was made if we are good enough to fight your battles we re good enough to He on your grass There I have given Sugar and Spice of May 12 the drubbing which it deserves but I continue read this thoughtful spicy column Yours truly The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press July Bruce Andrews won the mile and a half midget race when members of the 1 track club met some of Canada lop competition at the ninth annual Blue Water marathon at on Dominion Day a German Shepherd owned by 1 red I feifle of won three first awards it the show in Burlington last Saturday The dog plated first in the senior puppy class best of Canadian breed puppy in breed ind the walking class Jaik Walker was present in Theatre evening when his name was announced as ihe winner of the In the club draw He hid bought his ticket No for four cents Conservatory f Music examination results were announced this week in Aeton piano pupils tried their results follow grade four theory first class honors Watson trade three theory pass Helen grade two theory first class honors Ella Jany grade nine piuno piss Helen grade seven piano pass Margaret Armstrong Joe Elizabeth Jany grade four piano Robert 1 A trade two piano first class honors Kann Heller Steven Wolfe pass Barbara Symon and Wolfe Visiting in over Mr and Mrs Janit and David and Mrs 50 years ago from of lulK IT very pretty wedding was solemnized in Baptist church feronlo on it high noon whin Margaret Sophia daughter of Mr and Mrs James Gibbons became the bride of Wilfrid son of Mr and Mrs Wilfred Coles of The bride wore peach crepe chine and picture hat and roses and lily of Ihc valley Miss Nellie Gibbons sister of the bride wore orchard crepe do chine Mr Gatc- I reslnu assisted the groom borne of those who were promoted with per tent and did not have to write exam mitions wire- Teddy Hansen Has sard Clure Garden leithiim Margaret Arnold Gibbms 1 1 Joe que wtarj months Miss Lottie Speight I in pun ind anguish with in incur ible ailment home of her sister Mrs Moore lltr was peace Sin was a diughter of pioneers of this own ind was born in the Speight home ste id at thi of Willow ind in 1H58 She ihfied is i and taught at I but when her sisters married she wis needed in the house tor ibout she was in the 100 years ago I from the Issue of tin Press lune The street and committee of Hit count il hive let contracts to Mr for repairing the hills on bast Main St and for making a sidewalk on a portion of Mill St Wt that the work to hi put on Hill is to only cost This is a poor kind of economy The hill is in very bad stale and being one of our leading thoroughfires certainly deserves something better than be trifled with The opening of the new Methodist and the entertainments with thin will probably be the principal events in our village on Saturday next are being made for tin of large numbers of people grind dinner will be served Saturday at one clock in the basement of the church Roast turkey chicken beer and lamb with ill other necessaries for a first class dinner w ill be provided in abundance Tickets cents In the evening at clock there will be a stnwberry festival to be made up to com the payment of the building The meeting of the Disciples of has been held it the stone church on the line of rin We are told there were it least luo thousand people present Tlurt were seven noted preachers there Births At Crew sons Corner the wife of Mr Morgan of twins daughters One of them his since died THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE 2010 Editorial Office Found STacanaan all or wrong withdrawn l printing and Ltd Dili Copvnflhl