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4 The Acton Free Press Wednesday March 30 1977 Not part of community A recent survey conducted by High School teacher Boris Shean s first semester marketing class and the Free Press not only told us a lot about our readers but also of our non readers A certain part of the questionaire asked those who did not receive the paper to give their reasons The answers varied but two particular responses were startling Some people said they did not work in the area and were not in in Acton This is indeed sad How can they a com as small as Acton and not be interested in what is going on around them Do lhe not can about rising taxes board of education news bargains in the stores or even what their children are doing in schools Do their out of town jobs mean so much to them they cannot deeop a life i from their work and get to be part of a community nude their home in Another phrased reason it Can t be bothered Once again it boils down to apthetic people who are too bus watching cops and robbers on the boob tube to sit for half an hour on a Wednesday evening and read about their friends and perhaps their family Is the world getting so impersonal that a 000 home is nothing more than a place to bed down for the night similar to a traveller who stops in a strange motel late at night not knowing or caring what town he is in Other reaons were more under stand ible than the two above No time wis one but we 11 bet dollars to doughnuts a few of the people who said this spend an hour wat lung liarlie Angels or listening to afford it whs another excuse and who are we to this If people save the 15 inayearthey would enough to get half a tank of gas provided the price tribe twice in the year People having no time or money is understandable People who are not intt rested in the community around them are less un ders laudable to reach these people through editorials such as this one ire fruitless for they do not read the paper to read about themselves Are you an Easter person Spring is a good time for Easter with its resurgence of life life bursting from every patch of soil every branch Spring is a good symbol of Easter when Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and remember that the tomb could not hold Him that He came alive for evermore An important fact of faith Proof It is not a matter of documents of witnesses Like most important things in life the an swers are not something you know but something you live Not something you discover you have a part in creating The proof of the resurrection is in people living the resurrection living their lives conscious of the living God People living for others daily relying on the strength the insight the presence of the living God They are Easter People Some Easter People are well known like Mother Teresa in Calcutta giving her life to the poor Most are not famous You can recognize them though They are fresh springlike alive people people with a touch of the eternal in them now they a great per spective on seeing beyond themselves beyond today Easter People are a breath of spring after a long winter a light in a dark room Easter is about being alive and living Unchurched Editorials Of this and that The appointment of an industrial committee will reconvene a group like Acton s old development com mission Its dissolving left a gap which can be filled now It was the commission which arranged for the blue signboards at the outskirts of town They have been taken down within the last couple of weeks We have had a series of fund raising campaigns in town again this winter all for excellent causes Each one seems to strike a chord and people give generously each time It s good news that the middle school will be named the McKenzie Smith school The deci sion was unanimous and one that finds popular acceptance Those sheets of Easter seals have dwindled down to just six per cus No matter it s the donation that counts One of the nicest things about conscience is it on your side It never bothers you until you had your fun SPRING HAS RETURNED FOR ANOTHER round Waterhouse are glad it did The works department and Tammy Oakley Gillian Fryers and Lisa has just put up the playground equipment at the park Sugar and Spice by bill smiley stems ihjl is trying lo llin w irt into mi thest I must admit it imi 1 too difficult rt inf 1 run ill of oil out of these trump iht Not to men li n toil ind praclicallj everything 1st ill il licit 1 hat silt id fnm now silling in front of finpl ict feeding Iht bil of Hie into turning to lie old lady Whit now Iht i pills Various ministers of lell me mi n itmglv that if I on smoking die horrible ith I don I give up ilit drink I lose i many brain cells thin Ik n lhi but i putk of jull behind ijtlrows I tun mists el urn that if don l Mini mont for Id I wind up tinned food Other economists inform it if I do sive money for my old ilion will erode it to the point win I won l even be able to afford ring mi if tin revinue time a warning thai if I dim within Ij days some sirusi document which I already sent Hum ago myster i in driadful will happen They will I wonder which pari mi will idjust and how pain it will be My nisi use ijutbtt itis iccording lo he pundits nil kinds of ghastly things will Hill bill will rise along with hi mil my arthritis will soar to heights I II have trouble raising a ftw billion next I try to float a bond issue in iht St itis wife i probably mt because I spent the first two my lift in Quebec I II dt il in money with Saint Kent s on my roof will lalth bee nest i f and thin won 1 any renin on iht back my tin Iwx fall worsi thin death is rising I im assured th it nobod is going lo an old lazy highly trained like me there are ill ihosi lazv trained people till im in it whin the mil infl ilion lonlrols time off then going such an almighty allCanidnn grab for tin buck thai God is going to up grumbling wondering whit d there And 1 II he lift lurth bit on will lit thetnsih is be dumped on than in streets and Ix thrown in thi Imii things art ihrcittntd corgi having disposed il fat tailed Boy fildslun might decide to i anil i rem itch with Ah it of speaking of I Toronto with if tin worst foot ill teams in amid i ineiniillj inept liwkc team lias now i major league nam It will incut be promising for thi first Hun whin soars from last in tin to second last it will become pennant bound Toronto Blue jas So much for sports ftirs const frighten mi I dry skin falling hair trumblmt teeth bid and high armpits This siiftst I stupid if I don rush right out littiry and become in instant imllionniri And just other day read in iht paper that the South African doctor who started I tic heart is prepared if there ire no human ones N thanks doc You can me the of pig or a chicken would suit my personality But ivi ever seen from the rtir i it flaming orange Newspapers lell mt Ind the Canadian firmer is down the 1 i quart milk and it gone up a nickel drain virvhodj is Hiking about forthcoming his scares mi too I cant si in I the pdilicians we now Why replace with losers Will 1 decided that I vt had iih I being half lo ill If the human race it in the North is to perish for lack healing I south I nj to go on smoking and will hi m to a who will write a specializing on toast with 1 11 et senile from drink it s lot mort fun than just getting If m dii worry about my 1 1 I i i stcik now let t il afttr I feds ihrow me in j ill over my in t Id citing at somebody 1st expense fir i change And you get wetkenl It ly If separates 111 rip out the phut which 1 lo do ihost billion doll loans which f seldom do iwij if I l get a job I go on unemploy mint and laugh all the way lo tin with Ihi rest of the boys OUR READERS WRITE Vic puts his heart in it REMEMBER ACTON high school in Back row Ivan Kirkness Bill Wilson Todd Henderson Leslie Swackhamer Allan Marshall Cap Cook Mac Stewart Fred Day third row unknown Miss Frances Hurst teacher Miss MacDonald Principal Miss Bertha Nephew teacher Margaret Brown Blanche Smith Grace Skilling second row Marjorie Switzer Kathleen Kelly Meryl Gnndell Gladys Scarrow Hazel Cox Doris MacDonald Dorothy Campbell Marjory Garden Roberta Kathleen McComb Front row Nellie Barber Violet Currie Sena Isabel Young Mildred Holhnger Helen The picture is lent by BertHinton Grant Ontario March To the of the Acton free Press Elox 120 Willow St Acton Ontario Dear Sir Today your reporter Helen Murray kindly took a picture of our Acton Chair Mr Viclor Iiristow presenting the Heart with a beautiful check for ZOO over last year total arc very to your paper for tremendous support Each year Vic really His Heart Into doing an outstanding Job raising money Tor research but when we try lo praise his efforts he quickly points that he Ins success to loyal canvassers who work so hard through their selfish help Is he able lo head up such a Whin we know that Canadians died last year from cardiovascular disease we rcallzi that search is vital This money must come from con who believe that they are all rail ri sponsible for helping their fellow We art proud or your Community your your paper and particularly Vic They were ail behind this year a drive one hundred On behalf of nil those afflicted with heart disease a great big thank you one and alt Sincerely Dave and Stewart Hamilton District The Free Press Back Issues 10 years ago Taken from the issue the Free Press of Thursday Mirch 1967 In a variety of projects the Robert Little school has raised a total of for the Red Cross Principal G an nounced this week Centennial Citizen of Ihe Year will be honored a special evening In Ihe band hall on Saturday April The annual event is sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce Although there has been a response already director Orval Chapman would like to hear any more suggestions for Citizen of the Year Oulof town students spending Easter weekend in Acton with their families in cluded Jill Hurst Terry Waterhouse Vivian Smith Norman Bill Reed Janet and Nancy Lauder Vicki Newton David Ryder Jill Bagby Paul and Gary Murr Linda Braida Carol Swackhamer Sue Radford Gay White Don Long and Laurie Duby Linda Braida and Sue Radford students at Teachers College nave been assigned lo teach at the M Z Bennett and Robert Little schools in the month of April Linda will teach grade and Sue grade three and four The other Acton student at Lakeshore Carol Swackhamer is assigned to Milton 20 years ago Taken from the tissue of the Free Press of Thursday March 1957 Mrs Marion Bauer with a 10 per cent coupon received and Douglas Price the award at the Saturday afternoon mer chants draw March A car driven by Norma of Main St Acton proceeding south on Highway towards Milton early Monday morning went out of control and rolled over the west ditch Estimated damage to the car was according lo investigating officer Harold You mans At approximately 1 on Saturday a 1950 pick up Iruck was found abandoned one mile easl of Acton on No 7 Highway Constable Harold Youmans of the County detachment reported the vehicle had left the road turning over and breaking part of a rail fence The truck is to be stolen and the driver has not been apprehended Kitchener police are continuing the investigation 100 years ago Taken from the issue or the Free Press of Thursday March A little after seven clock last Thursday evening quite a lively interest was created by marching down Mill Street from the station of what looked like a company of fomed soldiers with swords dangling by their sides piloted by our town band and torchlights It soon became known that these were the representatives of the honorable order of the Knights of Pythias and that a lodge of the same was lo be organ lied in Ac Ion The doors were locked and even the Press admitted to report proceedings Nevertheless a Utile bird has whistled in our ear the particulars of how thirteen of our highly respectable young men were put through the trying ordeal of ridinf the goat and otherwise initiated into the sublime mysteries and mythical honors of knighthood The following are the officers elected for the ensuing term Z A Hall PC Secord CC J Hill VC Smyth 11 Storey K of Geo of C S Smith M of E Isaac M at A J Wilds J Burns C J Davidson D D G C Head the story on the first page of the ree Press headed Living Too Fast It is ihe confessions of a young man who had been robbing his employers in order to keep up the expenses of stylish living and who was forced to from the country Of this and that The teacher asked the class to name six great Canadians All but Johnny promptly handed in their list Arent you done yet Johnny asked the teacher No he replied I cant decide who to put in goal THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE 853 2010 Business and Editorial Office Copyright