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2 The Acton Free Press Wednesday June 1980 bummer supervisors for Recreation Department are front row Us a Basset Nancy Alice Arm strong and Carole box on Back row Carney and Recreation supervisors are planning summer activities With only one month left in the school cal Halton Hills Re creation Department is busy preparing for summer activity programs to be run in town Julv and August The department will be running eight summer programs including four day camps a sports school the leadership development program and a new program known as Tot Lot for children to years old Supervisors have been lured to organize the pro grams and hire leaders to run the activities Many of the supervisors are well known around town I worked with the department for a number if summers Smith summer activity has been with the department for six years both as a supervisor and inator summer pro grams A recent graduate of Master University in Physical Education Brendi says she is looking forward to working in this Commun ity she grew up Daycamp supervisor for the second year is Carol Saxon The Acton High school graduate and university student working on a teaching degree has spent four years with the depart The known as Camp Prospect is held In at the park and run in two week sessions Summer programs arc not new lo Nancy who has worked as a playground leader a day camp leader and an assistant supervisor before taking this year position as a Sports Camp Supervisor She wilt also be involved in the Sports and Fitness School which will be held in conjunction with the Board of Education Nancy recently graduated from unlvers with a BA In Physical Education and Is actively Involved in community sports Moving into her second year the Depart ment Eva Carney is once again supervisor of the Music Art and drama MAD program While attending Georgetown High school she was in volved in athletics and drama Newcomers to the supervisor scene are year old Alice Armstrong and year old Lisa Alice will be operating the Leadership Development program this year She was act ively involved in sports and student body leader during her lime at Georgetown High school and is entering her second year in at the University of Waterloo She coaches girls and has attended the Ontario Leadership camp Lisa will supervise both Ihe play mobile the mobile pro gram for rural children and the new Tot Lot pro gram for the deparlment this year She worked as a leader on the play mobile last year A graduate of the Unlvers ity of Western Ontario Lisa has taught English as a Second Language on a voluntary basis and will be attending teachers college in the fall Thick hedge equals pool chain link fence A swimming pool surrounded by a foot high and three foot thick hedge That a bulldozer couldn get through should not need an add chain link fence Councillor Mike Arm strong contended at Hal ton Hills councd Monday night He said he was de scribing Ins own pool and said he had no in lention of erecting a chain link fence around the hedge His comments came during discussion on a bylaw to consolidate all bylaws governing the fencing of pools in town Armstrong asked for the deferral of the bylaw for further clarification Councillor George contended the wording of the bylaw saying any privately owned body of water lo cated outdoors jounds as a private lake must be fenced If someone swims In a p of the river running through their land does it I ave to be fenced He suggested the bylaw was not clear enough to cover the rural area The bylaw also states above pools do not have to be fenced In their entirety as long as entrance is fenced or there Is a retractable ladder which can be locked Timex WATCHES 20 Triple Head Philips Phlllshave Famous PHILlSHAVE roiary oclton with Ihroo floating 12 Easy fliptop donning 39 Mens RINGS ESPECIALLY FOR DAOII Gifts Cards try MILL STREET EAST ACTON 8531730 JENNIFER What do you do when a massive fire razes the barn on your new farm destroying all your stock feed tools material for home renovation bicycles and equipment You cry for three days then you start again Frances and Alan Burns who farm acred south of did just that after suffering such a fire in February It all happened too fast one cold morning after Alan had finished feeding the ewes and lambs and sows Lightning was blamed for the rapidly spreading Inferno that was out of control before anyone could Alan said Fire Chief Carl Meadows was on the scene before they could call had already telephoned Frances and Alan did Start again and now ahead but then the Burns arc pretty que people City slickers seven years ago ports Since 19C7 Alan and Trances and their three children IB Amanda and 11 purchased 12 acres in and built a room house Alan Is in con struclion so he just brought his work home with him The house was rapidly filled with fosltr child as well as the Burns own three They ran a group home with nine youngsters seven of them teens Frances works with Children Aid in Oakvllle We had more kids than animals en comments Alan Farming came to them Frances was presented with ten bantam hens and she popped them in a shed The next morn tog the shed was full of eggs and she was de lighted Three little pigs followed the hens one of them a young sow that Alan felt should be bred The rest of was typical A 100 acre farm found with a nice old house to bo renovated and the Bums went into farming with great enthusiasm until the fire all but wiped them out One good thing you can say about it the fire say Alan and Frances found out how good our neighbors were There s I of nice people this area bo many good people The Burns tell of neighbors pitching In clean tog their half mile with no bill pres tnted lending equipment for rebuilding pit In and helping with the Frances was devasted by the loss of all their pets The cleanup was the worst part The re mains were just too awful to bury so Alan kept the fire burning for a week as he tossed partly burned beams and wood into the gaping hole to form a pyre A shiny yellow steel barn stands proudly on the foundation of the old bam row and the skeleton of a machine shed compliment it as Alan spends every spare moment building the farm he dreams of Working toward dream Both F ranees Alan work full time to pay for their dream of to an operating arm when their children are grown When Alan t mending fences working on the barn When he gels fed up with that he works on the house he says He has acres under cultivation and pasture now and plans to renew ten acres a year of the almost fallow rear farm land until all acres are In production The sheep herd is back up to ewes pigs are kept at sows with the cut reaching to a total of four shortly the Burns find pigs too much work when they re out all day Fourteen goats have Joined the sheep as nucleus for the goat and sheep ranch the farm will eventually become Frances handles the house that dales back lo 1841 in one section and lBWinthe new part As well as the three children the Burns also have two foster daughters It s hard to tell which children are which all are noisy and cheerful The house is a comfy muddle of animals and people satelliting around Alan and Frances who issue instruction with matterof fact humor They joke about their chaotic introduction to farming and the wild things that have happened You haven lived until you on the back of a pound boar laughs Frances we ought to write a book house now occupied by the Burns family the former Tosh home is hountLd by a ghost led George Lights go oft and on In the old log construction part of the house radio stations arc changed basement doors are opened and lights left on when no one home seen the ghost in a mirror and is the only member of family who is upset about h presence The rest of the Burns seem to treat him as just another dinner guest Raised in Liverpool England he Burns love living in Canada and comment on how lucky tl consider themselves and how native Canadians don appreciate what they have Everyone always complaining ays with awe in her voice She just returned from a trip back to the old country and is appalled at tht of just n living in England Everything costs at least twice as much as here she says What you pay in dollars hen you pay in pounds over there a pound is currently worth Wages are only half what they art in Can ado only thing higher over here Canada and lower there in England is the clouds says Alan with that of that Alan Burns has been able weather the knocks Frances and Alan are the type of hardworking cheerful people you hope will fulfill their dream Frances and Alan Burns and friends Carton Club assorted flavours 2410 soft drinks Mounta n Blend 1 lb bag ground coffee in cream style com or sweet Weston of 6 raisin bran muffins Am Mr Sm ths frozen cream pie SAVE 34 128 liquid bleach ravioli Diitfs COOkieS 450 Bcp Hive com syrup il salad cooking Oil Del Monte cocktail Gold Seal Cohoe salmon lemon jUICe 675 paste eg flavour Crest loom bonus pack Scope nil lb diapers 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