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The Acton Free Press Wednesday 1977 Dusty prospect Mill Main then No 7 A dusty picture of construction was given to the people at the meeting of Acton Business Association by town engineer Bob Austin Wednesday Mill reconstruction will be followed by Main reconstruc and then by the rebuild ing of Highway between Acton and He thought Mill rcpaving and sidewalks should be done by the end of Ma Main next Then after a few of respite the work on should begin ideally June to be completed by deadline date November IB The top asphalt coating on Main may not go down this year After the end of May there should be through traffic at Mill and Main till July and then all hell will break loose again Mr Austin predicted Merchants groaned softly at the prospect Mr Austin commented that although ho knew people t happy with the lion with all due respect I give King Paving a lot of credit He said a smaller contractor could have more inconvenience He said the sanitary sewer work on Main was completed that day Wednesday Since the region had done work from Mill to Church It was reasonable to add that paving to the job now too Additional app rovals are required Because of legal reasons he would not give an opinion on the reason the new curbs are crumbling However King Paving responsible and they will to up ilh a product that is good for the town Repairs should be started next week he Parts of Willow Frederick and will also replaced the end of per cent of the work should be done including the top course of asphalt Sidewalk The interlocking sidewalks are something new and well have to see what happens He did not know which method the contractor would take to provide walks for pedestrians and entry to stores during sidewalk in sta Main will be rebuilt up over the tracks to St There is a federal approval holdup because of the railway tracks but tenders will be called shortly and work would ideally start in June lira I torm The problem of rerouting traffic in the locality of the school creek bridge brought a brainstorming session from the merchants who sub mitted several ideas Water and sanitary sewers must be laid under the bridge as pav ng above The bridge itself will not be replaced There are major belms the engineer fore sees Detour considerations a bailey bridge at the site s lane traffic rerouting through the school rounds which wequirci reaction but shudders or the use of the recently built Wallace ex tension through the park north of town An idea to send traffic through to Eliza from beside brought the answer too much road construction would be required for the highway traffic there Mr Austin thought the con tractor would also consider working hours a day in the worst areas North of the railraod track the will be almost leel with the track he d It a big costly project I hope it not going to be as bad is it sounds Mr Austin concluded Meeting Wednesday Business Association sets up committees An important future began to take shape when coram reports were given Wednesday at the first gen eral meeting of Acton Association since its formation About 30 attended the meeting in the fire hall chaired by president Marilyn New committees and their chairmen are parking traffic Dan Lindsay finance ways and means John social John advertis and promotion Wayne town cleanup and sec Alma business standards Art Cooper membership and constitution Grace Robert son Ms is chairman of the executive committee bach committee chairman asked for volunteers to fill out the numbers in the group llrkl Don Lindsay of the parking traffic committee reported Hill and Mike Kinal arc working with him and they would be presenting a brief to the works comm ittec Monday night He read the letter which would come to council concerning park restrictions and enforce ment He also referred to the need for street parking on the former Hotchen Bakery site The letter is covered in the account of council elsewhere in the paper Ms Ottaway reported personal phone calls had been made by members of the town cleanup and security committee and some im had been noted Customers annoyed Don Lindsay reported i customers in A B Super I market complaining of I youths outside the store I annoying people in profanity j and even drinking beer In broad daylight In one In stance he called police but the officer did not arrive for threequarters of an hour and by then the offenders were gone It was reported by another merchant that the police office had said officers had started to walk their patrol on the main streets that day rather than travel by cruiser One person in the group suggested the annoyed customers and police should see what goes on at a m It was pointed out that these loiterers are not all teenagers and that loitering cases are dismissed in court causing some of the offenders to mock the merchants In their efforts to have them leave Discussion revealed people with radios pass on the location of the police to their friends Paul Nielsen recalled that police superintendent Sen said Acton needed two more men if a regular One businesswoman schedule of patrols were to be thought the reason the loiter- maintained at a cost of are there should be con- sidered She felt police Don Lindsay enquired veillance could challenge about the use of auxiliary them to a big dare police again as the O It was agreed more police had i coverage was needed Denture Therapy Clinic Gabriel DT COMPLETE DENTURE SERVICE Street Milton jbrtM BOWL for Pleasure fimeflt- BOWL for Health THE ENTIRE FAMILY CAN BOWL TOGETHER If the d IN Thing do GO BOWLING ACTON BOWLING LANES Main St Member B P A C DOOMED for destruc tion Former township hall where Halton Hills council meets now has crumbling brickwork People protesting council s decision to de molish Acton town hall walked into the building under the faulty bricks Monday BILL VAN DAM of Ospnnge shows off Jacket Fury after he won Grand Champion Gelding at the Southseaville New Jersey Paint Show recently The Van Dams are particularly proud of the four year old horse having raised him from a yearling Seniors invited to draw Plans arc well underway for he May draw to be held in Georgetown Memorial Arena which was renovated partly by a Win tano grant In the afternoon senior citizens will be invited to take iflLrnoon Norm I as dent of Senior cm Club I is tickets Ebenezer Baptism Sunday By Mrs It McLean Two lovely little girls were baptized on Sunday morning Jennifer daughter of Dan and Susin Jensen and Louise daughter of Russell and Carol Rev It based his Mother Day remarks on The Household of God Psalm 133 has just three verses How good it is when households dwell together in unity The essence of all re is gratitude to God The third verse shows bios takes place in you through Jesus Christ When we seem to make mistakes things happen better Lhan we hoped God brings His chief blessing which is love for ever Fivespeed bike swiped Thieves swiped a boy s flpeed green racing bike from the side of a Church Street 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