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J lens Jane well perform The Acton Free Press Wednesday Apr 1982 3 Cottage levelled in Saturday fire A young woman is homeless after fire levelled the same collage in which she was living Chief Mick Holmes reports Ihe home of Ann Dawkins about one and a half miles below Highway 7 on the Fifth Line of Nassagawcya burned to Saturday night just after There was home at the time of the blaze Holmes said the cause is undetermined and there is no estimate of damage Miss Dawkins lost every thing in the fire Holmes said He does not know where she Is living now Obituar George Holmes Long time resident George Holmes died suddenly at General Hospital on March He was in his Born in Acton December If 1914 Mr Holmes lived here all his life except for years when his family moved to Vancouver He was the son of the late Charles and Florence Holmes He attended Acton Public and Acton High schools and worked at Heard mo re for 47 years Mr was highly regarded for making things out of wood and metal and he could manufacture parts for almost any thing making he also liked work with machinery reading fishing and mounting his prize catches music and played with the Acton Citizens Band as well other bands He made a tractor for snow plowing by hand and it was shown at the Acton Full Fair Mr Holmes is by his wife Pearl Blanche Oakley whom he married on June at St s The couple and their family in the home they acquired in 1945 at Main St North They had iwo sons William of I- erg us unit Danny of as well as a daughter Muriel or Also left to mourn are his sisters Mrs Ivy McCarthy Voncouver Mrs Lottie Tuck Kingston Mrs Gladys Vincent Owen Sound Mrs Daisy Kings hot Mrs Ann Lambert and brothers David Charles and of Acton as well as grandchildren He was predeceased by a brother rank Funeral service was held March M at Shoe maker Funeral Home with Rev Art Tribe officiating Pallbearers were Jim Oakley Burlington George Chuck Harold Oakley Harold Hams and Pete Holmes Acton Interment followed at Fain lew Cemetery HOME AND GARDEN B34B Reed asks for General probe Ha I ton Burlington MPP Julian Reed has yet to hear why a IByearold youth was forcefully taken from a group home south of Acton last February Reed asked Secretary for Social Development Margaret Birch in the Legislature on April why Brad General was removed under duress from and G Group Home and taken to another group home In Hamilton Reed wanted to know if it was common practice to take someone under the legal guardianship of the Ontario government who Is happy in one home and up root him to put him in another Is It standard procedure for the official guardian to prevent the building of emotional security which is a part of any normal home life Reed asked The MPP asked if the removal General was standard procedure will the minister investigate the wisdom of such procedure and if it was not will steps be taken to prevent rcoccurcnce General was removed from D and G Group Home on February and taken to Dawn Patrol in Ham On February General disappeared and was not given shelter again until March when he was arrested and Jailed Tuesday yesterday Reed told the Acton Free Press he had not heard any answers to the questions he put forth in the legislature but admitted he had been out of the area the day before and had not a chance to speak to Birch to sec If she had in gated the matter Mosos And The Freedom Fanatics A Biblical Musical SUNDAY MAY 2 Trinity United Church Acton 10am For Our Trinity Congregation 30pm For Our Community Friends Directed by Karen Millson Jean Beaton JOIN US FOR A MUSICAL AND WORSHIPFUL I 12 PRICE SPECIAL APRIL MAY 1982 JOIN WEIGHT WATCHER FOR INSTEAD OF THE REGULAR SIB ON YOUR first McrriM and fee W SENIOR CITIZENS NTS JOIN FORMSO S3 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL 8269200 CAPITAL FORDS BODY SHOP Silver Crook Tower n Geo 877 PATHWAYS TOURS 3 DAY TOUR mom DAY TOUR 23Sfvmi 3 OR DAY TOURS DEPARTING JUNE S AND JUNE 1982 CHICAGO ILLINOIS TOUR INCLUDES Two local firms named polluters Two Ha lion Hills industries arc among six companies reported to be polluting Hal tofl Regions sewage system uith toxic waste according to a report from Halloas Public Works Department Frank Heller and Co Limited of George town and Canada Battery of Acton were both identified in a report from Public Works disclosing the names of six com panics discharging heavy metals into the regions sewer The other four companies named are located in and Burlington Frank Heller and Co which employs people in Georgetown and ISO in an Acton plant was issued a violation notice earlier this month after negotiations with Mm re over three years had faded to resolve the problem of toxic waste in the sewer system A spokesman for the company said a meeting has been scheduled today Wednesday with the public works department According to the regions report with the firm have been earned out since late when high chromium levels were first discovered In the plant discharged waste The company in at Student staff get pay raise Hills General Committee last Tuesday night passed without comment the new pay scale The pool supervisor will be getting the bulk of the additional salary going from a base of an hour Increments to plus increments In a report rom Tom director of recreation and parks it was pointed out the supervisor position now demands more direct responsibility with the elimination of the Aquatic Supervisor Hon Other changes were the rink attendant and the arena staff from minimum wage plus 30 cents max to minimum wage plus 20 cents for the alien dant and minimum wage plus cents for the staff An aquatic instructor will be going from base minimum wage plus increments to base plus eight per cent plus increments Assistant ski supervisor salary goes from a halfday to K a hairday Summer supervisors now making J a week will go to to Summer coordinator wUlgofram170toS180tofI70toSlBS Cultural staff now making minimum wage plus 30 cents vill go to minimum wage plus cents to find a solution had hired a con late in 1981 lo examine their pro cesses recommend appropriate trcatment facilities to handle the waste discharge problems The report noted that due the recent economic conditions which affected Heller Limited extensive financing for the plant improvements hate had to be post poned ThcfirmhadbcengucnaMarch3t deadline to the problem The public works department has been making routine biweekly checks of the effluent at the company According to regional procedures recommended in the public works report three consecutive violation notices will result in prosecution Canada Battery of Acton the department was reported lo have levels of lead discharge in the plants fluent prior to October i960 The company has spent about to upgrade it facilities re sulting in a lower lead content Since January 1902 no violation notices have according to the report Up lo this month the names of firms under investigation have been kept con by the Public Works lo give the firms the opportunity to the problems Bill Johnson Milton regional councillor and chairman of the region Works Committee said he has been in fa or of divulging the names of the companies in violation since they have been found to be in violation of the set by the province some cars ago Johnson said some of the companies have spent up to lo improve the luatlon Those companies who have spent the money should be given re cognition he said The heavy metal discharge is dangerous in the sewer system because lnated sludge from the region s sew age I realm en 1 plants Is spread on farmland as crtilicr If metals are in high concentration in the sludge they are absorbed in the end are consumed by people As for the possibthly of plants be ng Forced to close due to the regulations Johnson noted he have a small amount of unemployment in an area large number of sick people SPR1HO FOOTWEAR and ACCESSORIES The latest ladies styles by Thomas Wallace Celebrity Andrew Plere and Continental new men sstytesby If Brown Bee J ays and 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