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i Sent The Free Press Wednesday Sept Baby robin makes home in basket Thinking her experience may help others Mrs of tells what it like to raise a baby robin Sweety The robins were restless on that morning in June but I t pay much mind They were making a fuss lots of times and at times when I but follow their scolding voices outside ready to shoo a cat or a black bird there was nothing there Later that morning Yuri and Nina our two dogs and I went for a stroll outside the house Nina kept going back to one particular spot and sniffing it There under the tall firs lay two baby robins one dead and one still giving signs of life I buried one and took the other in my hand and quickly walked to our drive shed where there was an empty robin nest 1 took it down put some dried grass in it and gently put in the bird In the meanwhile our dogs had gone back to the firs and Yuri and Nina made every motion to want to climb them I knew there must have been a squirrel up there While I was standing there trying to quiet the dogs I looked at the spot where the baby robins had been and to my great surprise there lay another baby robin He was the s congest of them all and he lay on his back flailing his wings Gently I picked him up went in the house and hunted fqr a little Easter basket I had all the time robin in hand who showed no fear His sibling was still in the nest I put him in and was oh so very quiet I found the little basket lined it with dry grass and put Sweety in it That was my name for him I put the basket on the round picnic table under the apple tree and took my crocheting and sat beside it for a while Sweety stayed in that basket for three days and let himself be fed At night he slept in the of our and for a couple of days on the backrest of one of the chairs our cat being well aware of what slept in the Sukie may not go outside the entire summer as long as there are babybirds so she was pretty non about the whole affair and while I writing this sitting under the apple- tree there Sukie sunning herself in the window I fed Sweety flies earth worms molhs mashed blue berries pieces of cherries ground raw dogmeat mixed with earth and he grew more each day His sibling had died Ballinafad Limehouse Visitors in area plan corn roast We regret that Mrs Kirk is in hospital again but hope for her better health by Mrs Winifred a banquet and dance early in won A recent visitor at the home October Mr and Mrs A f Patter of Mr and Mrs Gary Larson to the season activities son have returned from a few The first of the community weeks holidays at her activities for the fall season sin home at and her will be in the form of a com brother at roast and dance on Friday ThtWI met at the home of evening sponsored by the Mrs in last community centre board Thursday afternoon Further Congratulations to Mr and plans for fair displays and Mrs on the meetings were discussed and of their wedding the holiday business caught anniversary which they up Mrs Anderson convener on Saturday of Citizenship and World Lloyd Marshall and his In sister Mrs Jackson at Ho call was a tended the funeral of a would like to visit tivcinRockwell near London Zealand seeming to be WI meeting trip was iisler Mary Margaret of Cleveland Sister Mary Mar was godmother for their daughter Jenny Mrs Leo Jamieson has returned home from Scot land after spending a month with her mother and other relatives Mr and Mrs Wilfred Burt and Mrs I- rank Smith at tended the funeral of a Cliff at St Catharines on Saturday Die Girls soft In I ended for last week We extend sympathy lo Mrs Douglas Scott whose father Mr Wm Colt man formerly of Acton passed away in Toronto couple of weeks ago Greetings to Mrs whose birthday of last week was celebrated by lives at the home of Mr and Mrs Jack on Sunday Mr and Mrs Neil Anderson have returned from a lengthy motor holiday to Victoria MRS E of R Rockwood thinks her experiences raising a baby robin may help others who find themselves in the same situa tion Michael the pscudo- Persian has just caught a mouse He does it quite often and is pretty good at it He has sauntered out to the corner of the front paddock carefully picking his way through the long dewy grass Without a break he is back travelling the same path with a mouse in his mouth Usually this is an unremarkable happening but today Jimmy and Penny have seen him Puppy Jim and Michael are friends although Michael suffers his with the patience of a teacher Jim is intrigued with the treasure Mike has and bounces over for closer Inspection Michael looses his cool and lets go of the mouse Mad scramble to retrieve it without Now that he s got negotiate legs and licks as well as wet weeds the cat tries another tack he hops up onto a pile of cedar rails Bad move Now Penny Lamb is far too interested The cedar rails arc her special territory when she feeling in a mountain goat mood With incredible sure Penny leaps pirouettes and twirls over the rails while poor puss is making himself very small and insinuating himself over the other side Jim lollops his way around the pile and grabs Mike by he scruff of the neck Mike coughs spits and drops his mouse I can t see what becomes of it but by now the imbeciles have forgotten the original point of interest and arc thoroughly enjoying themselves cavorting over the pile nosing Mike along Resigned to his fate the cat has a perfunctory look around for his mouse shrugs and goes limp Rolling himself in a hedgehog bail allows him to roll to the ground with some semblance of dignity Flattening his body he races full tilt to the fence with pup and sheep hot on his heels Penny is having so much fun she bounds on springs all four feet together Will he make if Yes he docs Up on the fence top just out of reach And he sits down to wash his face the picture of the totally dignified cat just out for a stroll Not the least bit abashed Penny and Jim race off for more mischief Jim bounces off to the cedar pile hoping to find that mouse he remembers it now Penny ticks after him Jim stops suddenly thinking he found the goodie and Penny throws a cheerful hunt his way as she springs past catching him square on his tail bone and tossing him base over apex Whee The same thing will happen again tomorrow the first night He had refused food so I knew it would only be a matter of time Sweety was getting real chipper and he stood up in the basket and aired and stretched his wings Nina would always want to lick him the times he sat on my finger Sweety had found a way to tip the and hop out 1 knew then he would need other quarters that he would no longer stay in the nest for several days he stayed in a rabbit cage which we had fixed up for him One morning there vis great commotion and as I went to see there were four adults robins milling about the cage and Sweet gone I was glad that Sweety was free and mavbe had found his own parents I saw him sitting in the trees and when I called him he would come to me 1 fed him twin the day after hi had left with No money for land We can afford It say the Credit Valley Conservation Authority when offered a parcel of land just north of the Conservation Discussion at a recent Authority executive meeting centred around funds and lack of Authoril money for buying land not directly connected with Credit and branch sources General Manager Harry Watson described the pro perty as Nice property but not real source land Wl can t afford to purchase it he added We can afford it agreed Chairman Grant Clarkson We can only look at real source land I have a reeling we re going to be involved in flood control in Ihe future he said The property in question consists of nearly acres four lots north of Conservation Area on Con cession Described as having mostly mixed and cedar bush a branch of the Black Creek running through it and some summer build ings the asking price is 000 UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO Lectures in Orangeville FALL WINTER 1978 FALL 1977 ORANGEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY American Literature Wed 710 p 14 Sept 7 Dec DISTRICT SEC SCHOOL Introduction to Urban Regional Planning Tues 710 p m 13 Sept 6 Dec The History of French Canada Since 1867 Thurs p 15 Sept 8 Dec WINTER 1978 DISTRICT SEC SCHOOL Canadian Municipal Government Wed 710 pm 4 Jan 29 Mar These courses may be taken for credit towardsa university degree or attended as free public lectures For further information call 9410610 much scolding from the older birds rain time he came to mi they were in dismay and were miking a fuss though I v as glad that Sweety hid found his own I fell a little twinge of in parlinj with him The robins ire still but no longer do J ht in when J tall Sweety is Fewer folk on phone line hone subscribers will people on lira II In of the cable t rs switch from to fourpirt lines lints ilso in works I In is into tin round irtstl Hills lit ifth I mi north from the favorite Mrs Anderson told of her trips to the west coast of Canada and showed taken then Cin ad wis sung in closing and hostess served a tasty lunch Mr Mrs left for I this week after visiting their parents here Rob will be continuing studies towards his doctorate in Entomology will be leaching in university again Hob spent much the summer travelling in the an Terra Cotta pool problems I project the subject of understand people Wt woIcomc Mrs discussion at the Credit Val to the tost stated lnt V1 who ley Conservation Tut Harrison of Georgetown J overly ball team are planning to hold on Monday 25 pool fee more flak parks and recreation board Board vice chairman Acton member Gail brought up the subject saying shed heard lot of complaints from people who feel they should not have to pay the cent pool en trinie fee when they ready bought a season pass revenue commented irks i rank Leavers He union to add the hud maintenance problem with pool and were losing a it of money Unless it for itself we might is well fill it in he ill iltbv agreed sajing felt the pool as an added should paid by the Glen I umbers Acton Fall Fair PET SHOW KITTENS ONLY Old TIME 9am SHARP PLACE Spot On The Park DATE Saturday September FIRST CA TS A CCEPTED Judging Starts At PRIZES RIBBONS Cats must be clean and manageable Bring on a leash or in a box For Mora Information Call 877321 CARPET CORNER 11 MAIN ST NORTH- ACTON 8533620 You Headquarters in Hills for CARPETING CUSHION FLOORING Sturdy Light 3Piece Luggage