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Acton Bl A board opposes arcades bylaw change The Acton Business Improvement Area BIA baud of management is going to send a letter to Halloo opposing a change la the arcades ulatory bylaw which would permit these bus inesses to locate in the IAs only As the bylaw is now written no arcade could lo cate in Acton because It t be the required JOB metres away a residence or a church Last Wednesday the BIA board met and the next day members Paul Nielsen and Henry confirmed the board is opposed to the change SUcbyra said board members have heard from many downtown merchants who are opposed to arcades being located there as well as customers He noted there has been an application to the municipality to set up an arcade in the old AB building Merchants feel downtown is too small for more arcades Stachyra said Such a business could create a loitering problem though all arcade pat can t be characterised as undesirables He said boy scouts going to an arcade could still block downtown Acton sidewalks Stachyra said the needs the support of the public and other groups in Acton in their to the proposed bylaw changf Business people are down on It Nielsen said of the proposed bylaw change He noted Acton parents are concerned about the loitering and vandalism which has taken place downtown this summer Arcades are a legitimate business and have a place in the community but with traffic and people congestion downtown t the place Nielsen not there is already one arcade downtown Another BIA board member Larry Greaves said merchants shouldnt be put in the position of dictating where businesses locate that is a Job for the politicians The BIA needs to know what advantage is here in changing the bylaw There are more beneficial uses to the com for tbeoldAB building headded Salvation Funding approved for new Citadel Financing for the new Salvation Army Citadel to be built on Mill St East in Acton has been approved Envoy Douglas Vale said in an Interview this week the project which was announced last Jan He explained the Territorial Finance Com has approved the funding for the nearly church facility The architectural plans have now been sent to Col William Kerr of the Property Section for approval Envoy Vale expects tenders will be cat led far the project in September Miss Acton Fall Fair Cindy McGUhmay will be vying with over IM other girls from fairs round Ontario for the coveted title of Miss of the Fairs and Sweetheart of fairs at the opening of the Ex today This lathe lllb annual Saturday night she tried oat her speech about her year as Miss Acton Tor the borne folks at the Acton Agricultural Society appreciation night dance at Branch 1ST See story Inside today paper on her remarks More study of Beardmore chemical waste runoff The Ontario Ministry of Environment directed to have its consultants gather more data about chemical contamination of surface and ground water near the tannery The province received and reviewed a years worth of studies this spring Ministry and Beard more officials were to sit down and discuss ways of solving the chemical contamination problems earlier this summer but Ministry spokesman John Budz said in an interview this week Ihelr wanted still more information explained once the new study is completed he expects ministry and Beardmore officials will sit down towards the end of September or early October and review the problems and see what can be done In May after concerned at the ministry except the Toronto ground water section had reviewed the report said chlorides were getting into the Black Creek and killing fish near the tannery and was also chemical found in ground runoff posing a human health danger and he said the problem was very localized and fairly minor Repair Mill railway crossing for a week next month by Murray Mill St East at the railway crossing will be for about a week in midSeptember while CN rebuilds the crossing Councillor Dave Whiting reported this week the long awaited rebuilding of the rough crossing has been delayed because of a strike at the Belleville plant where rails are made and is way behind on its maintenance work He noted he has received numerous complaints about the poor condition of the crossing Last win a citizen raised the deplorable condition of the crossing at council drop in Councillor Ross Knechtel checked with the Town engineer and lound CNhadscheduledworklorthissummer tie also advised lis t go In and fix up the crossing Engineering staff have been keep in touch with all summer to make sure Ihe work on the tracks isn t shelved Whiting noted the tracks use now little sections but are tracks up to a quarter mile long When the work begins the old track will be rip ped up the road excavated tracks relaid and the crossing re paved Whiting noted the crossing has sunk and will be two inches higher com plelion of the work A Metroland Community Newspaper One Hundred and Eighth ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY AUGUST Pages Thirty Cents Trustee parents concerned No fencing between new school and lake By Cord Murray Free Press editor Halloa Separate School Board staff plan to pot up a fence between the hack the flew St Joseph School property and Fairy Lake but Trustee Irene McCauley thinks there should be a fence On August 3 at the property and planning com mittee meeting she raised the issue but trustees decided a fence warn needed Last week this newspaper was contacted by a reader expressing concern about the lack of a fence on behalf of parents pointing to the tragic double drowning at Fairy Lake earlier this sum as ample reason for a fence the beard from parents but wis expecting she would at the next St Joseph Parents Association meeting I told them trustees Ihal I will be backing the parents on this issue she declared The Hills separate school trustee urges parents call at or write to her at Elena Crt Georgetown If they are concerned about the lack of a fence Board administrator John confirmed there ore no plans for a fence and felt there is no grave danger for children It is 200 to feet from the back of the playground at the new school on Mill St West to the back of the slle and Fairy Lake he noted the conditions at the school will different lhanjU the Fairy Lake when two little boys drowned suggested If children want to get out to Fairy Lake from St Joseph fl a fence won t stop them they just climb it It is board policy that school property isn fenc ed except where it abuts the backs of private res Open space areas t fenced contended there are more hazardous con faced by children on their way to and from school every day such as railway crossings and traffic Lake The parent who contacted the paper said a tea cher on duty at recess t eliminate the dan of Fairy lake being so close Itwasalsonoted children use the St Joseph playground after school hours McCauley said she had always been given to understand the back of the school site would be fenced She said she Informed trustees one of the drown victims attended St Joseph and she felt the lack of a fence presented a danger Island mission for area man An Acton man spent two weeks n the Philippines doing doing missionary work for the Kennedy Road Tabernacle John Kent is a sound engineer for the Tabernacle radio program Rejoice Tapes of the IS minute show are sent to the Far East em Broadcasting Company FEBCt where they are broadcast to China and Russia According to Kent the Philippines is the on ly place where signals are allowed to go out to those two communist countries The Brampton group tapes are also heard in Japan Australia Malaysia and South Amerida Kent was one of 18 church members to go on the mission on the FEBC anniversary leaving May and arriving back home June 19 The purpose of the trip was for the Philip pine people to meet the faces behind the voic they hear each day The trip took him to Hong Kong first where he was amazed at the number of people living onJunka Thousands of people are bom rab and die on the floating homes and never know anything different exists In the world On June the Canadian entourage arrived in Manilla the largest city in the Philippines and started their missionary crusade They were booked engagements at the Inter national Cultural Centre Barrio Fiesta and the ministry to staff church and school HIT I f It was on to Legaspi home of the worlds most perfect coneshaped volcano Mayon where they did live radio shows and other public rallies small provincial city of Bacolod was next on the agenda with a rally school audi and private names home of the managing director of was where another outdoor rally took place Six to 10W0 people were expected to come out for show On June the group returned to Manilla with a tide trip to Pagsanjan Falls The river up to the falls Kent out was where the famous river scene In the movie Apocalypse Now was filmed June II had uV group In Even though Kent bad worked in the sham In Vancouver be had never witnessed any Una ike meets in Hong Kong and the In Canada the shims Is a choice Anyone has to chance to Kent and a woman from his group decided to visit two children hospitals while in The first one was more modern where people who could afford to pay for the rooms would go There were about beds in one area mostlyfllledwithtyphoidvictims The next hospital was provincial There were one or two nurses for every 100200 pat tents andqulteoften there were two children to a bed some of the wards if they were led up tbe sick would be slipped under beds so they be overflowing into the hall Even though tbe group took great ions on getting all tbe necessary shots before they left the country one person on amoeba and had to be given tour blood transfusions Kent owes his trip to an anonymous donor He explains he had already signed up for the trip wanting to go desperately but did not have the needed He prayed and prayed that the money would come way he said Then one day a donation had been made to the church In his name and be was able to go Only one other person in IS also r an anonymous Kent hopes to return to live the a capacity with tbe All be needs is tbe financial support Last Thursday night Camp Prospect children from Acton and Georgetown Heather Gage Kevin Caswell and Ian Callaway put together their camped out at Blue Springs and here Vlkki Callaway Laurie Gillespie Kim tent Photo by DAN Doug Mason retires following long career on local hydro lines by Helen Murray After 35 years two months and four days Doug Mason is retiring from his poet with the local dro commission This Friday Doug calls it quits on a career which has spanned numerous hydro commissions and seen technology expand to better serve community and make his job just a little bit eas Doug until this Friday the meter super for Halton Hydro has been a fam sight around town since June 16 1947 when the Acton commission of Charlie Hansen chair man Bob McArthur and Fred hired him He was engaged to repair lines climb poles read meters and whatever else needed done Doug recalls Doug came to Acton after four years with Hydro travelling gang He was a greenhorn and was taught linesman trade However his job took him from Windsor to the Ottawa Valley and sometimes be was gone for up to two weeks at a time young family back in Rockwood very happy so he jumped at the chance for a job in Acton He left a job paying cents an hour to come to tbe Acton job paying a year Charlie Wilson was the superintendent at the time Doug remembers with Jessie Walker and Jack were In the office Outside staff were Doug and Kerwin Acton had a pop ulation of about 500 people at the time with volts being brought into town Now he est there are about 7 residents wilh00O volts being brought in On October IS 1950 Charlie Wilson died and the next month Dong was given his job which be retained until 199 when Acton Hydro ceased to ex and Halton Hills Hydro look over For his added respomlWliUes In Doug was given a the past years Doug has seen many changes beside the increased voltage corning into town Transformers in Willow Street was used lor everything Now even before the regionallzation of the commission they had a line fleet of l rucks and other vehicles In Doug says Mill Street services were rip out and some placed underground some went to feed the stores and homes from the back thus improving the look of the street Doug and Marzo and Doug were hired about then to wire the new sewage disposal plant Abo in 1952 Doug and Kerwin joined Legion Both are still members Over Ihe years here have only been two cm who have stayed around for quite a while Doug says both long time employees who Doug has worked with and become friends with Both have worked for the Hydro for over years Life was very busy for Doug Besides his Job as hydro superintendent he was also a retiringonJum7 He was a member of the Men Club and the station nave been replaced and a new substation Masonic Lodge Eventually he left Iho Men built on Queen St Some of the larger industries but still maintains his memberships in the have their own substations now and staff now MasonlcLodgeandtheLeglon have pagers Back in Acton Hydro had one truck which Continued on Page Iff III MMJl Mason inside s Midgets won the Ltmchouse tourney See page District news is on page 1 Stan Matthews turns Story and photo on page C5 set a women race mark Story and photo on 17 streets want park More on page Neighbors lodged a complaint with the police over noise from the Yugoslav Centre Turn to pages 15 repairs have been planned for some time Details on pnge5 St shap ing up See This Week Thru tbe Lens There be a preliminary bear tag into the bell of bides case in October See page