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The Acton Press Wednesday Nov 1978 Editorial Page Communicate please Another election day has come and gone with its usual surprises Not long after the polls closed the post began The way of voters are indeed unpredictable Often personal considerations may come into play instead of political suitability People an at a certain councillor will abruptly switch to vote for a newcomer they would scarcely recognize on the street Just one plank of a detailed platform may be the one that proves a politicians downfall And thus come the upsets and the results that will be discussed for many hours It wasnt simple for the voters to know who will represent our town and townships best Its not simple for the candidates to make themselves and their thoughts known truthfully to the public We hope we played a useful part in the Free Press through our in with each candidate The Chamber of Commerce candidates night was also well attended unless you consider 200 out of a population of 7 little low Many supporters have expended their best efforts on behalf of friends and family and people they sincerely believed in Other people who deserve appreciation are all those who voted Hundreds of those eligible didn t bother Well now its time to look ahead The people who have won the election are all going to do their best to represent us well For the newcomers this will not be ac complished in a meeting or two There is much to be learned We know from years of repor ting that our representatives truly want to know what we the people are thinking There will be irate phone calls tedious people with repitttious complaints People who dont and sometimes wontunderstand the situation will be determined to lambast the government Many will refuse to listen to the other side We know it happens to newspapers too So please electorate let your councillors and school board member know what you think Letters to the Editor are a good way Most reasonable people realize that too many phone calls are intrusive in the private life of the representative Since there arc only three councillors representing us personal contact on a casual basis ib not too likely Sewers aren the best thing to talk about at church May we suggest quick notes written and mailed to the representatives The notes neednt be literary gems just jot down what you think Please tell them when you think they have voted correctly or something is good for the region town or township Please communicate Day of remembering Remembrance Day observances on the proved a good decision for this year An excellent crowd attended the ceremonies on Saturday and the weather was fine Bitter cold beset the participants in Georgetown just the next day on Sunday Instead of the usual church service there was a community service in the Legion and it too was well attended There should be more of these mterdemoninational gatherings Many children were evident at the service Members of youth groups joined the parade and lined up right front of the cenotaph so these boys and girls could easily see everything that went on Wreaths were laid by some of these young people as well as by sentatives of many groups These wreaths are set out at the cenotaph throughout the year a few at a time lasting until next Remembrance Day For some Remembrance Day was Monday These were federal government employees and bank personnel who had Monday off since the holiday fell on a Saturday Although schools have the 11th of November off they did not have the make up a holiday Teachers and students were in school Monday Lack of banking and postal ser vices to the rest of the working populace on Monday seems questionable Of this and that How come there are more dances here than ever before but never any square dancing at them Ears perked up when candidate Ed Wood said at the Meet the Candidates night theres a suggestion around that the police office here would be closing up entirely What a disservice to the town that would Remembrance Day and election day are very close together this year Theres plenty to think about in that close association What did you do for your country Monday The Meals on Wheels program has been in full operation for exactly a year What a boon its been There have been 3 meals delivered in that full year an aver age of a day Through emergencies holidays and problems people who could be helped by home delivery of hot meals got their orders Much ap preciation to organizer Terry Grubbe and her corps of volun tcers No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries Any group has four kinds of bones Wishbones Those who spend all of their time wishing someone else would do the work Jawbones Those who do the talking and very little else Knucklebones Those who knock everything anybody else tries to do Backbones Those who get under the load and do the work What kind of bone are you With the annual problem of what to do with leaves many people have been wondering if they are able to burn them The answer It is against the law in Halton to do so in an effort to protect the environment Some people who do not usually exercise their votes decided it was about time they did something other than complain One dicapped woman in town who had not voted in many years wanted to see a change In local politics and realized that her one vote along with that of many others who feel the same way can actually change things She managed to visit her polling station in a wheelchair in spite of the cold and rain in an effort to vote for the candidates of her choice Did any healthy and able people use the weather as an excuse not to vote LEGION HALL was specially decorated for the in novative church service there on Saturday morning using components from the Remembrance Djy window at Acton Home Furnishings store Missing ire the wreaths which now ring the cenotaph Names Lest we forget of Acton servicemen killed in active service are hand written in the books in the background At the front is a portrait of Col John the writer of the poem In Fields Sugar and spice byBwsmiiey If tins column appears iwinli community two days two weeks or two months Hi mmt i font HI rut Hit post As I i lanadn is it it i In fairness hut grievincis Hut an mi that Inst might haw of pulilu support many strikts in so few their erstwhile Monsitur wo- full of trap whin he ditland Hun is union solidarity us it h of smalltown post sniffs hid tilhtr not out it all or wen to work obeying tin iw llowtvtr lint has little to ilo with Remembrance it pins to in ill those veterans who unit to war they wire for freedom nit it f I thought I hud on woni writing lolunins about I r i until I I it tilt mi morns the lump tin thro it is I ht I Jist Post was In tin thill Nil swapping of it hi hi rid Ihii II is w is bit miffed whin inn down in tin in ictusul mt in kiirtkuic tn lanidiin just I nisi did not up I rttorttd also In he hit it is ithir odd that a chap win is muted on of a war to should I I Will il in iwiakmoimnt irissef In two old win into tht I red to Must spt it the first Legion Get ready November is fish and seafood month Yep The government decided it Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed Ik Cod I number in 10G0 husband Jim I on a farm on Seventeen Ho id near Wt livid alone as our wo sons Ted and Gordon wen with their own res Hits Our dottor ills Jim had tamer and w is to work on the form Wi had no No of any kind 1 for i job ind I llmnk You God for your help I a job I to work it Mushroom Planl near Acton in Hut as I things worst for me Huns a and young nor will I worked the irregular hours tint win quired for this Job from six in morning until one or two nixt morning to finish picking and packing each crop his meant a lot of ladder climbing and stooping in top of this I had the tart of husband who was worse by this lime and Hit tare of a large house Out God 1 minnged with your help My troubles Our son not to get work movtd in with un in So problems as well He had a family of young children and another on the way years later Jim my hid deteriorated and so after month in the Guelph General Hospital You look him home I needed help again God and You there In 1969 our son Ted started to work at Jack Ridley Cartage Company In Acton which eased my load Thank You I touldn keep up with my job because my legs had become ry swollen and painful and all the time mally my son insisted I quit he pains my legs were so bad hat I had no choice but to do what he asked One night when I was In the bathtub re laxing a large blood vessel in my right leg burst It terrible 1 was sitting In a tub of bloody water I was so terrified screamed My daughter in law was in the house at the time and she came running She immediately put a tourniquet around my leg With great difficulty she got me out of the tub I was rushed to the General Hospital and began the long and painful road to recovery If You wee not with Cod I would not it this hi surgeon operated on iiKht It did not hi prop and rc- skin rifting Two I was suit I was limit and to get around on my good li stout it Inst ill weight on leg wftk my son Ted tame visit mi lit v tofindmi crying with irihlipaiu He t illtd the doctor and 1 w is to lit hospital Immedtatily Hi I was so afraid I would lobe my kg Hi so heavy I hud no Idea how would I was so and dissutisfitd with ph sitian God that I m afmd I old i in so I Don l you dure me or mi near again 1 mi for my lack of and iiiidirsluiiding But tht possibility of losing kg filled mt with fear and I had stvtrt in my leg and pain took on lib of in Irt it mint skin gritting whirl pool and therapy I kg Sinn then blood vessel In my left leg I and tht same surgery was it This time went smoothly I am living alone in my own little And have my Thty re not hut I am able to do everything My house is full of activity and tht lauejilir of my grandchildren and friends I tun get into my little car and go any win re I wint Think You for my legs Thank You for he gift of patience I can even actept my limitations Thank You God for being so lose and liar lo me I am truly one of Your Martha Ontario letter is shared with you because there are many people who do not know that God help Is an everyday experience Please share with us what God has done in your life by phoning Nancy at or write of your experience and malt to branch I joined on My wife wasn dial hilarious about the idea Shi a few instances whin I had up to no particular good with that partituiar inch Like the night I gol aftir a turkey raffle tot up he stairs called Look what I brought you swcelii and a pound and all promptly It mug on the floor in the embrace of a wry told vtry dead I recall wt dined not on hot turkey nexl day Or f brought home four ill insisted that they d made an honorary thief and to explain to her whv we hid to put Hum up for he night Or time I went off a one day zone rail with a neighbor a Great War vet a tharlir number of the and a rtsptctable citizen Andwi armed wo days iter looking and acting like couple of from War But not of kind of thing I tan in my speech No I have to talk comradeship the flag the fallen throwing the the many scholarships the Legion provides the lovely dinner prepared by the lidles and all tint Jazz we forget What nail like to do is discuss topics to the of Ihe average legionn what you could gel for a pack of smokes in in 1M4 how come a of mint who fought in North gets a bigger war pension from the German government than 1 do from Hit how many girlb here were to the square yard in Pica Circus on a summer evening how anybody who believed in democracy and equality could volunlttr to serve In such a f iscist outfit as the military Hut no That would never do Not with Auxiliary hanging around drinking in word And making sure their spouses drank in nothing except I probably have to drop in a few heroic and imaginary personal experiences stress he the boys in arms of Those At Home toss off an anecdote or two about Churchill speak in and reverent tonia of those who got the chop and belabor government for not giving veterans a pension that would put thtm within stones throw of civil service pensioners It going to be tough I am not revtrtnt person I still think it will be a great day for Canada when here art only five left in this country all of them in their nineties and they get together and sell the million of assets of Canadian Legion and squander the whole works on threeweek trip to Gay will mtan we I been In a war for odd years And it will probably mean that more Canadian legionnaires on the face of the earth But Ill do my beat I can always give the Germans a verbal humping and bewail the fact after being thoroughly licked could buy the whole of Canada tomorrow If they wished That should go over The Free Press Back Issues 10 years ago Taken from the sue of the Free Press of Thursday November In his maiden speech to Ihe House of Commons MP Rud Whiting criticized the decision to close Acton station Pupils at Bennett school heir new Elmer flag raised marking Iheir fifth year without an accident Corp Ray Mason presented Larry Quinn head of the safety patrol with another bar for their plaque A presentation was made to John Bruce now in his year who retired after being crossing guard for 12 years Mrs Anna Wilson has retired after years behind the counter in the general store at Eden Mills Regional government is inevitable says Warden William Hunter 20 years ago Taken from the Issue of the tree Press of Thursday NovcmberJO I95H MicroPlastics plant in Acton has been closed as the result of what company termed illegal by several on Monday morning Officials of the local United Rubber Cork I and Plastic Workers CIO CLC of America claimed members were justified in their three day suspension last Saturday of the afternoon shift working the plant Welcoming an audience which filled the public school auditorium for the annual high school commencement exercises Friday principal A Hansen declared We have reached our capacity in our present building Perhaps this next year we will have our own auditorium Council approved a call for tenders for paving and laying storm sewers in the Glenlea Subdivision following a re commendation of the road at the regular meeting Monday night Acton fire department received a tall a m Tuesday morning lo the home of Pat Dunn GO Main St when in over heated oil burner caused some alarm to the residents 50 years ago Taken from Ihe issue of he tree Press of Thursday November The wet and disagreeablt did nol a large crowd from attending he Memorial Monday he town hall The grave of each soldier it Cemetery was decorated with a silken flag The opening of the Literary took place on Friday orchestra played Get Out and Get Under tht Moon talk on was given by Miss Helen A piano solo by Miss Isobel and a mouth organ selection by Jim received hearty encores Mrs Archibald has sold her shop and business at fit corner of Mill and Elgin to Mr George Benlon Tomorrow is ax day and your to help keep Acton shipshape years ago Taken from the Issue of the Press of Thursday November Wonderful discovery Empress Relief the of Mankind Balm for every wound It cures rheumatism and Neural and cures all pain instantly It cures toothache neuralgia rheumatism sprains swellings mflama Hon burns cuts pain in sides pain in back pain in pain in shoulder coughs colds frostbitt chilblains dysenttry summer It ill cure he most agonizing pain exterior or internal in one instant of lime Price cents per bottle W Hill has just received a new supply with and the Lord Prayer They are really ful The skating rink has been prepared and as soon as the weather cold enough will begin in earnest Roads are fearful just now Mud Mud Mud Everybody is thinking of pelilmning council for sidewalk in heir particular part of town Clothes lines and wood piles have been frequently robbed of late Several of our vil lagers have missed some of their clothes and a quantity of wood It should be looked into THE ACTON FREE PRESS in PHONE Business and Editorial Office