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Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), December 5, 1979, p. 2

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Tho Acton Freo Press Wednesday Doc With JENNIFER Prof Ilea are interesting assignments You expecting ones lory and with another Such was the case with Elizabeth who lives near the Acton Meadows Golf Course Elizabeth David and their sons spent many years living in Australia However after we started talking I realized this story had belter be about a world traveler not Just an ex Aussie Elizabeth has touched more countries than you and I have even dreamed of and she lived in many of them As a young nurse In the late let England her native land and took off on a work holiday round the world In covered most of the United States and was on her way to work in New Zealand when she met her future husband David in he middle of He was going to work in Australia while she was heading Tor New Zealand but they kept in touch until joined him in Australia to get manned there are lots of in I the knot was tied Elizabeth look off for England by way of Singapore Greece Portugal and Prance I was on the ship after two months hurrying back Australia o marry David she com The ravelling stop because she had sett led down David is also itchy footed and with a long list of as a forester much loo limp a description of his world wide work Elizabeth was destined for a life of ing back and forth across many oceans Off Again Deciding to meet each others families the Lamdcns shipped on a French freighter to Scot land then to Tahiti Los Angeles and Canada That s probably not the correct order but it gels more confused Seven months pregnant with Robert now 16 Elizabeth landed on her brother in law door step in Los Angeles By the time young Rob was IB months the were Canada Davids native land With second son James on the way the Lambdens hot footed it over to Eng land to stay in the Cotswnlds Back to Los Angeles over the polar route the La md bens went when David was offered a teach positional Berkley University James and third son Andrew now 14 and 13 were born In San Mateo California where the settled down fora short time However they found life in America loo materialistic So they crated all their furniture packed up the three boys Andrew was only three months old said goodbye to their dearest friends and put their family station wagon on the ship for Vancouver Hawaii Fiji Tonga to New Zealand They were very glad to have that station wag on It provided the youngsters with a homelike security for some time Driving across the North Island the family settled in Wellington for twoanda half years renting a church sponsored house living among the Maoris while David worked with the New Zealand government Life was far from though Despite Davids good position Elizabeth found they lived a meager distance The house was damp and cold Ihcir station wagon stood out among the old tired Volkswagons of their friends and the cost of living was high The wanted their own but afford it in New Zealand so David sought was offered a lectureship at Ihe University of New South Wales in Australia Selling the station wagon for enough to put a down payment on a house in Sydney he Lamb dens in for a six year stint as Australians Australian country is very beautiful cording to Elizabeth with wide variety between red earth salt lakes and multicolored flowering trees and bushes on the river shores Plies and mosquitoes were not as much lem in Sydney as here in Ontario they feci however there was an abundance of large in sects snakes and lizards all poisonous that the children had leant to beware of The Lambdens thought Sydney and Canberra fantastic appreciating the beaches coastline and he vast open ranches Elizabeth only rcgrcted the move at Christmas when she wanted a Northern Hemisphere celeb ration everything round the right way But the heat she loved finding It a dryer heat than here in the summer All the speak with affection of Ihe Australian sense of humour and some of the antics their friends got up to However there wo go again David fell Ihe pull or family in Ontario and when an invitation to teach at Ihe University of Toronto came he and Elizabeth did the Fiji Hawaii Vancouver Winnipeg Thunder Bay Toronto trip again lo They did and pulled up stakes again to settle in Acton while David teaches survey law in Toronto Elizabeth nurses in Guelph and the boys finish high school in Erin They have no regrets says Elizabeth although she like driving in First for Halton Police Civilian on police association A civilian has beer- appointed to the Halton Police Association for the first lime He is 58yearold Basil Cormier a summons server with the OakvlUe Cars towed away in mishap Two cars were towed away following a two car collision at Mill and John street Saturday Kenneth Mason Blvd was west bound on Mill in his 1978 Pont lac when the col a Toyota occurred The Toyota was driven by Florence MoeColl Cameron Street A passenger in the car Ron Maria received minimal inj uries Damage to the vehicle is est imatcd The car had 800 damage division of Halton Regional Police There has been some concern by the board of directors that all representatives are police officers ex plained Constable Bill Gall president of the association The sevenmember board will be changed to accommodate the new civilian director next year Until then Mr Cormier will serve as a representative of the association sold Con stable Gall There are civilians employed Ihe re gion s police department Const Gall said he felt civilians should have more say in civilian related matters Includ ing contract negotiations Mr Cormier will be a member of he bargain ing unit for the civilian contract next year Hie retired salesman has been employed with the police department for the past three years He said be was pleased wilh the appointment but added he felt there should be a second civilian reprenUtive Columbus in should have two representatives he said Mr Cormier has served on the Oakville Separate School Board and is a past grand master of the Knights of Chief I takes seat I Acting Police 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