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Fair president advocates tight rein on finances TH- Wednesday January is The new president of the speech at the society Acton Agricultural Society meeting Brent Marshall promised Monday thai other referred to one unspecified community organizations will no longer bo allowed to take help the financiallycrippled advantage of the society by fair board by staging a spring relying upon Its facilities and dance the event will special events to raise funds be announced later he said for thems In a inaugural Other clubs however must Acton Chamber elected Jake the proprietor of Hills Furniture on Acton eastern boundary elected unopposed to fill the post vacated by Louis as chairman of the Acton Chamber of Commerce The Chamber biannual election of officers also saw Kovln Conroy and John McNabb chosen as first and second vice president respect Ian retained his position as treasurer while Janet Fleming will continue to handle Ihe secret anal duitcs a task she under took lost fall with the depart of former secretary Belly Eastwood Town to fete hockey team Hills will pick up the Lib for ceding the Yugoslav team committee decided Monday As well the team will get the town crest which they will be able to sew onto the Raider hockey club they will be presented with besides j pre game gift embossed with the llaider logo The dinners will cost a Dave a llaider Hockey Club executive told the Tickets dinner are on silt to the public at each and Focal I id and Canadian Tire Ltd have written cheques to be applied to the expected deficit Mr said The cost of such a bin quel usually is a ticket The Haider hockey club expects a profit on the dinner of about 175 Mr Kentner said In reply to committee chairman Miller who what Focal Properties Ltd All five new officers were recommended by a ting committee headed by Dave Nominations from the committer and floor filled directorial posi lions Those chosen were Mr Cory Van tin John Paul Towler Ed Wood Elmer Dunn and Mar Special at the meeting Tom Hill swore in Ihe new nt along with vice- president Conroy while out go president Louis Charle- looked on Mr McNabb was noi present the b made aware of the society a continuing economic troubles through rank disclosures Mr Marshall said We been clouding the issues regarding the present status of cash flow he commented We can I meet these Issues by hiding truth We a lot of money in 1977 and no one to Ma me but the board of directors They must let he organizations sec what happening lo us We re helping them but they re not helping Mr Marshall added thai all business coming before the board will be thoroughly un derslood by all members so that no confusion and conflict arises Items such as the unpaid Hydro bill for a transformer which was discussed at the meeting but could fully explained he said will not be in the coming year Mr Marshall staled thai the society not curb its ex pcndilurc3 now that the fall fair has qualified for a replied that the firm wanted to get themselves some goodwill in the municipality at a time of stress for hem Heart Fund canvass begins Georgetown Heart Fund canvassers will be knocking on doors beginning next week seeking a target of nearly double what was donated last year This year are going for because heart disease remains the number one killer Helen Held publicity director year the fund raised BO during the 30day campaign Donations in 1976 totalled and 3 91 In 1973 The canvass will be con ducted by more than volunteera working under the direction of 16 area captains Marilyn Micklelhwalte has been named campaign chairman Wife abuse discussed Residents in Region will scon be seeing a television program on wife abuse through Hie ivc efforts of Burlington Cable Television the Secretary of Slate and the Commit tee for Media Education tHCME was formed following a seminar on Issues Affecting Women in held at College in Oakvillc last fall and initialed by Secre tary or Stale sub committee is looking into feasibility of establishing a shelter for women In crisis The other lee will be exploring ways of letting Women and their know about vices thai are now available Don Program al Citizen Coble Tclcvi and Maureen Dawson Program Coordinator for the station will be technical ad visors for the program which will deal with the various aspects of wife abuse Profess from the social service will assist In ihelr areas The program will be proces on and will be made available to cable tele vision stations throughout the well as being libraries and social MVmafoncles In Hallo Chess Mess By BRIAN MneLI- The Toronto Closed Qualifying Tournament was held recently at the Heart House Chess Club at the University of Toronto on January 15th The field was extremely and included seven experts The top four finishers qualified for the Closed and the next qualified for the Toronto Reserves Three Georgetown players took part in the in which enter your rating had to be either or above or if you are below 18 and up There were no surprises by the Georgetown players as ihey all played up to par Round 12 5 T Steve MacLeodl l l Brian 1 TonySmithdSUi I The following is from the third round containing a different line of the French Defence While MicLcod1765 Black trench 1 Nc3Bb44 Nc6 with equality Nf6 10 Be3 11 12 14 Nc6 IS BaS 16 17 b4 IB gf8 26 Kf2Nxf429 Kh6 and white went on to win with his passed pawns The Chess team played against White Oaks recently and despite missing their lop boards still managed lo beat Georgetown by a score of Georgetown however was missing boards 1 and 4 from Iheir team but hope to field their full team for the playoffs Here Is how the match went Board White Oaks 1 Tom Lawrence Tom Lawrence Mark Kingston Jim Harmon John Smith l Total Georgetown Brian MacLeod Dave Nichols Kevin Neill Kevin Ken March wit Bill Shaw Jenny Smilh Default CANDIDATES Victor the Grandmaster who defected to Holland iron Russia has won the Candidates matches by a score of 104 over former World Champion Boris Korchnoi goes on lo meet World Champion lately Karpov of Russia for the World Championship in the summer PROBLEM While at d2 at P at e3 K at at Black to play and draw SOLUTION 1 Ke3 3 Ke4 Bh5 draw equals Drawn South J Berrv Toronto 1976 classification despite its financial losses Prize awards must be Increased in value so that government assistance grants will do likewise MP We Marshall contended got keep plugging away The new president also appealed to the ladles fair board to exercise more care in its planning of fair events and to the numbers general form and support a steering will assume a stronger role in the fait- organization Murray stepped down from the executive two years as society president recalling that Ins home telephone was nearly burned off wall but numerous calls during the weeks prior lo last year fair In his final speech as president Mr Murray asked or continued operation among the organization committees now that Actons annual show is Ttic fair popular beer lent not a small fair lost money for the first time In anymore three of operation a It takes a lot of change which members organization to run it he blamed on Ihelr own Incx let personal diets interfere 11 we jnn going to gel far John Howl who was re hired Monday the society s only salaried member explained thai Ihe Acton Fair can now be advertised a class having achieved required prize money attendance totals for Ihe past years the escalation has not ye been officially approved Asiriesof revisions in the fair ministralion must first be madL he Mr Howes annual report showed that fall fair suffered a ml loss of more than despite an in crease fimncial grants over the previous year Attendance receipts dropped from in to last Lessons have been learned Lister ex plained and the should make profit from now on Report- from chairmen were almost all favorable Lack of space and funding and unco operative weather were main complaint Improvements to the Prospect Pork track and a second access road Into the park arc two items further consideration by the Marshall on society executive ire first president Brian Evans and second vice president Bill All were chosen uncontested were all members of the new hoard of directors They are Stephen lister Paul Thompson and Bill Murray W Brian Hammond Irene Robert Murray Ted Brown Jr Bert Robert son Gary McEachem Stccklcy and Maggie Hall The 197fl Acton Fall Fair will be held Sept 15 18 and OUT A BUSINESS SALE news By Mrs Herald correspondent Sorry Last column I rne the display Area V I Convention was by 4H but was by W I School suffered again due the snowstorm No buses ran on Tuesday so five local children only were present al the morning class The needlepoint class met on Jin it to prepare for their Summary at Church on Feb Mrs Ralph Turner his re from an extended visil with her daughter husband and iney Cubs HANNAH The Cubs are back in full swing since hoi Idays They finished up Dec ember by miking Christmas ends under the guidance of Benton attending Georgetown little Theatre production of The Straw and hiving i Christmas party The red six losl the least inspection poinls during the all so were Akeln house go tobogganing skiing play games and have hoi chocolate and sandwiches and cookies The following week all Ihe boys with skits were invited to house Two hours were spent skiing followed by lunch again A hike was planned last Saturday had lobe cancelled boys are working hard on their slurs badges Alan Scoll has his team player and pel keeper Craig Armstrong and John Benton musician Tim Rock artist Roger swim Mike Hannah pet keeper house and Stephen Let Foster house orderly The Scouts a party before Christmas too Sinn then they hate gone cross country skiing with hoi ale back the Rock house Last weekend they worked up at Rock on a klondikc sled which will be used for their camp this coming weekend This Is the annual winter camp for all Scouts in Guides By Mm several postpone the Guides candlelight enrollment ceremony was in ally held on Tues Jan 17th 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