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for gala parade of floats bands and many marchers The sidewalks were thronged with happy watchers Saturday shortly after noon when the traditional fall fair parade wended its way from the middle school to the fair grounds Bands floats horses cars and parades passed by in a well organized array welcomed by cheers Acton Citizens Band led the line as always with parade marshal fire chief Mick Holmes up in front as well There were two other bands this year as the cost of hiring bands has become too high to have more The Legion brought the North York Legion pipe band to town for the day and these fine players added a spirited Scottish touch to the route The other band was the impressive Dutch Boys Cadet Band from Kitchener These boys and girls with instruments flags and drill team delighted the crowds as they passed There were no separate categories for floats this year with all of them judged together In the first place was the float entered to brate St Joseph church anniversary Directed by John volunteers had con structed a huge cake and colorful trees Parishioners and twoaltar boys TimGartonand Paul South rode high on the float The entry won In second place came the Acton Hillbillies CB float The members of the citizens band radio group decorated their float well and the familiar sounds of CB radio conversations emanated from it They won In third place was the curling club float edged in curling stones and manned By club members It gets 15 Other entries that brought praise were put in by the skating club library Acton Business Association Acton Baptist Church Halton Hills Furniture Cancer Society high school Athletic Society Halton Hills recreation department and Tremaine Bnttania residents who oppose the dump Site Marching along were beavers cubs scouts brownies Girl Guides and many members of town teams in uniform Fair president Russell Murray Miss Acton Fair contestants and Mapleview Lodge residents rode along in cars Rockwood Trail Riders brought their own four legged transportation There were several old cars included as well as the old town fire truck Youngsters who entered the decorated bike and doll buggy contests were put on a huge float Dicky Dee ice cream salesmen got in there too The St John Ambulance got the time honored spot at the very end The Acton Free Press Wednesday Sept 21 1977 DUTCH BOYS cadet band color party leads the group of boys and girls from Kitchener ALTAR boys Paul South and Tim Garton ride on the first prize winning St Joseph church float ACTON MONARCHS IN uniform tarry their lacrosse sticks as they help swell the ranks of paraders Saturday follow their flags to the park in Saturday fine parade ACTON CITIZENS BAND led off Saturdays parade in fine style with a rousing selection of marches for the crowds that lined Mill and Main Streets EXPRESSIONS RANGE from very cold to horsing around among the troops as the Acton minor soccer association marched past In Saturday s parade ACTON MINOR SOCCER turrted out for the Saturday parade down Mill and Main Streets as part of the Acton Fall Fair activities BEAVER contingent v is he a be WAVE to friends en route to the park Riders added variety to the entertaining entourage that snaked through town BROWNIES had a hike Saturday right in the middle of the fall fair ACTON LIBRARY CREATED a bookworm for THIS HORSE is a friend of the members of the the Saturday parade with legs by McKenzie HIGH SCHOOL athletic society has the biggest Acton Business Association Inside news Chris Smith Middle School trophy of the whole fair weekend Wood and Helen Robertson CUBS AND scouts step out smartly on their way to the park I here were three bands in the parade setting the pace AND L Ford had a big display in the fair grounds Here Doberthem drives one of the new models In the parade MUSIC AND singing emanated from the Acton Baptist church float CANDY IS tossed from the Bank of Montreal float delighting the God is everywhere one of the signs proclaims youngsters along the parade route