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Trucks driven over graves The Acton Press Wednesday 1982 7 Cars and trucks driven in Cemetery are going right over graves Harriet He I wig attended Friday councillors drop- in to say she was sick to see graves driven over and grave markers damaged Councillor Terry Crubbe said she has observed tire track marks between gravestones and added part of the problem ma be sometimes town trucks arc too wide to navigate narrow cemetery roads Big trucks be taken into the cemetery Councillor Miller declared Some of the Brown in who Mew op to Second Acton Monday evening wrrr Sherry I Hopkins Heather III mot I Jill Prystasi Jennifer Johniton Billlnglon and Drown Is retiring Meeting fails to wring concessions from trustees meeting last Tuesday between the finance committee of the Board of Education and representatives of councils and Chambers of Com across region may have opened new lines of communications and relieved some verbal frustrations but there were no promises from trustees to reduce the controversial million budget finance chairman Hill the crusty separate school representative from Burlington suggested the board may be able to effect some economies when the new school year in September that would benefit taxpayers next year but thai was the only concession majors reps across could wring of I hi board The meeting was held to discuss the budget following written requests from Hills Dak vilkand Milton town councils to the board asking a review The board also received earlier requests from the and Burlington Chambers of Commerce to review the budget Trustees decided to invite eouncil and Chamber representatives to a private meeting with the finance but tin meeting was later opened to press and public Councillors Levy and re presented II ilton Hills council while Ihe Chamber of wjs represented by Georgetown president Doug Georgetown trustee Belly I- also it tended but only lis an observer She saw little that was new in the objections and discus except an assessment proposal from Milton mayor Krdntz to alleviate the education levy in his town Councillor Levy said he considered the meeting start to open Up the lines of lions between the board municipil councils He thought it was first time the concerns of municipal councils hud been brought before the board and vice versa and felt it opened the doors to fulure cooperation Ross the St Albans Learn about crime prevention The May meeting of prevention preceded by St was an interesting film on held in the Luxton the same subject Memorial Hall with Officer referred ladies in back to when the first The meeting opened police force had been with the prayer formed in Britain under followed by a Scripture Robert Peal noting at reading by Irene that time the function of Holmes the police was to prevent Mrs June Tribe chose crimes not only to the Lord Prayer as the prebend and punish topic for her meditation criminals She pointed out that we He noted that to this could feel a deeper in day British Police carry volvement in the prayer only night slicks or if we interpreted it as a not guns He dialogue with a loving recalled how difficult Father instead of a was for him to get used to an unseen carrying a gun after being It was suggested he came to Canada to wccouldfecl serve on Ihe force He the receiving end of the felt that experience had prayer instead of just shown that punishment sending our petitions to a was no to silent listener A friend crime and more and of Mrs Tribes Ethel more forces were going Pell of Hamilton back to the original idea assisted in the of crime prevention discussion Citiiens arc going to be The minutes of the last more than just onlookers meeting were read and in crime prevention The adopted and Marion idea of neighborhood Storey gave a complete watch is being revived treasurer s report which was also adopted tuvenilM a ffi he vandalism noting lhat I lhc the Daffodil Tea In April thanked all the ladies who had assisted in any Officer Pringle gave a way in making the affair great deal of credit to such a success They the Chief of Halton reported the winner of Regional Police for his the draw was dedication to the Dianne Low of Ihe Bank vcnlionof crime not just of Montreal staff and the punishment of Ihe draw on the lea criminals He reminded tickets was won by Mrs his audience of the board or their gracious approach to meeting and for listening to the criticism He said he could appreciate their dilemma more now and noted Ihey had turned down a computer program as a cost measure an action he appreciated since he felt they had no place in school rooms Such a program would useful purpose and If it was done should be on a user pay basis Most of the meeting was laken up v ith a review of the boirds budget and questions were aimed at particulars which the figures represented There was some political posturing acknowledged on both sides but no resolutions to change the million budget trustee Florence in an speech suggested councils and Chamber reps devoted to selling their communities which includes the educational facilities would not want to sec programs cut so fell behind the limes Oakville mayor Harry Barrett on the other hand suggested the board must do what mun cipal councils are doing lowering Marlene Lott Continued from page 1 Kymm Lakin who said gets to be good friends That first day after meeting 270 strangers Marlene sec how that could possibly be Iruc But by the end of the four days she loo felt a sense of closeness to the others in program At the closing luncheon a youth from Quebec cleared up what the young think about and the rest of the country thinks about Quebec Marlene said Canadian sense of national just do not shout it out tike Americans do It takes something extremely unifying such Terry Fox for Canadians to verbally say they are proud of their country While the western representatives talked about the east and the cost talked about the west during the four days the interesting point they realized was thai Manitoba feels like its neither in eastern or weslern Canada They feel left out because they are not class led new friends light felt the centre of national government should be moved to Manitoba so it is in the the country The four days in Ottawa for Marlene made the government seem less she says You can actually do your port was impressed with the organization of including transportation to and from various places the whole thing was just great she conclude Population up According lo figures and Inst year released to Hills The population grew council by Statistics from in 1076 to Canada the results of the last year The national census population of shows there was l per jumped per cent in cent population growth the same time span In Hills between from 497 to GEORGETOWN 122QualphSt on DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC J KohanDT J Novak DT Phone 8778974 or 791 2314 Lillian Cook shortage of manpower In School- P lull and day programs f children HotL Provided thnt BRAMPTON GEORGETOWN Loma Clark gave her the force and the need report on ine Laving civilian assistance in Message Plans were crime prevention He made for the June stressed the fact that meeting which Is to be there will always be the usual pot luck criminals but it is up to upper The business the public to lessen the part of the meeting opportunity for crime closed with the following a lively Benediction question and answer thanked introduced Officer Scotl officer for an of the Crime Interesting discission Prevention branch of and invited him to Join Regional Police the ladies in the tasty who was iguest speaker lunch served by Officer gave a Irene Holmes Pearl very informative and Holmes and Winnie interesting talk on crime Brooks FREEZER FRENZY Mill Strict Eist Acton OPEN DAYS A WEEK Mrs said she knows she isn I only resident concemnl about the use of vehicles in the cemetery She said she was terribly upset when She went with and Councillor Ross Kncchtel to inspect the cemetery also Iked ith engineer Robert Austin over the phone twice and reported in some areas grates have encroached on the road In some spots he noted shrubs have been used to prevent vehicles from cutting comers The engineer will be looking at ays to solve the New retail outlet opens at Toronto Wood Treating firm While the si ping economy Is blamed for closing down stores and businesses in downtown Acton it is responsible for at least one new opening in the in park Toronto Wood Treating recently opened a retail store at their Commerce Court property help spur business The company owned and operated by David Phipps movedtoActonsixyearsagofrom Thunder Bay Increasing transportation costs forced the move south closer to their market Until last month business was restricted to pressure treating wood for various customers to make it last longer Some wood they purchase them selves treat it and resell it Most is owned and sold by others They are also the largest manufacturers of guardrails in Ontario They sold to a few retail customers ad mils but did not encourage this type of business However now with the lumber business at such a slow pace they hoped the retail end would help the company make it through the slowdown in other So far response to their new store has been good said People enjoy the cash and carry lory outlet for lumber for fences decks and patios They ha no plans for moving this outlet lo another location closer to town Phipps says he feels people Obituary Edwin Watson A former prominent Acton businessman George Edwin Watson died In Hyde Park Nursing Home May Mr Watson was born November 19H the son of William Robert Watson and Ada Grace Watson Cleave On August 193G he married Florence in Rock wood Mr Watson retired a few years ago having owned Watson Music Store for He was one of the longest time merchants in Acton upon his retirement In his some years in business Mr Watson and his wife gave music lessons for thousands of youngsters spanning at least two generations Mr Watson was also well known in lown for Ihe Motor Vehicle License Bureau from his store Left to mourn his loss are his wife of Victoria Ave children Del mar Lcnore Vickery Acton Harold Cambridge Lowell Bell and GuclpfJ and one sister Norma Hall Milton Funeral service was Mid May at Shoemaker Funeral Home with Rev officiating Pallbearers were friends Fred Phi el Wynne Dunbar Horace Art Diamond and Ed Vickery Interment was at Cemetery Bannockburn Wl Learn value of milk Worn speaker Miss Marilyn en s Institute met at he McNabb the Halton home of Mrs Stan Dairy Princess who Matthews on May at chose as her topic the m The president Milk Marketing Board opened the meeting with She distributed a poem entitled What sheets from the Can I Do followed by Marketing Board to sec the roll call An idea to how well everyone knew improve our Institute the food value of Dairy A committee was Products In the diet She appointed to arrange the also suggested each Fall Fair display Final member bring a recipe arrangements were including milk to the made for a bake sale on next meeting Mrs June to be held in Sinclair thanked Miss Zeller a store in George- McNabb with a small town Mrs Dorothy gift Hilton gave motto The meeting closed Mrs Ada Sinclair then with the Institute Ode introduced the guest and the Lord Prayer want to see entire operation and know the organ The retail end of business will only be selling lumber Phipps says because have one product wc know a lot about and they prefer to sell only what they know a bout Toronto Wood Treating has already made a marketing commitment to produce flame proof wood and firm just waiting tor certain equipment New Walkin Natural sandals BY NATURALIZED Colors of oak brown navy white Colors oak brown or whits fit Our NATURAUZEli 36WYNDHAMST DOWNTOWN Wind Surfing on Fairy Lake has become popular this year and lessons will soon be given at the lake Harold Post mo Harold Postma is new Credit Union manager A lot of people hive misconceptions about Credit Unions according to Actons newest manager Harold 1 a I in a Postma come to Acton three weeks ago to replace John as rmnafier of the Acton branch of the Community Credit Union 1 Id was promoted to the Milton main branch where he is in charge of loans Many people think his banking institution is totally payroll deductions and loans said While do offer Ihey also offer chequing and ha teller ice as in other banks he pointed out Postma tomes to Acton from the branch Before that he worked for Continental Bank in Kitchener which was born from IAC Limited Born and in Holland I came to Canada in to visit relatives He never intended to but he was ho impressed with the and he wide open spaces thai he decided to quit his bookkeeping job and immigrate to Canada enjoys working at the Credit Union lie feels there is a lot more personal contact with the members and because the staff have held their positions for so long they are well known in the community all the members names A variety of membership services feels his operation competitive wlh downtown banks Shires share eerlifieatcs insured savings lerm deposits and short term deposits chequing are just a few of services feels the general public is not aware Ihey offer is looking forward meeting all members of the Community Credit Union Limited in Acton A YS A VA ft A III I FORD BLASTS TRUCK PRICES ON AMERICAS BEST SEUING TRUCKS Mows the tone to in a Ford light truck Ford is cosh rebates up loS2 from Ford Those are not any trucks those Fords quality that has made Ford most successful truck I no in North America Got tul Is on ths tod offer from any Ford or DeaJor Thero is a modified rebate plan tor fleets PRICES