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Summer festival urged for town A long summer festival In Hills to officially open the summer season proposed Monday to finance administration committee of Acton regional representative or Ontario Arts Council the festival scheduled for June 3 would be for the entire town and not just Acton or Georgetown It would combine the visual and performing oris with horticulture and handicrafts Mr Howse said The festival would open with a parade and plans arc for It close with a fireworks display There would be hourly bus tours of gardens for which there will be a charge The evening would have continuous en tertalnment Estimated coat of the festival the first or its kind in Halton Hills is about Mr said The money will come from the town and the Ontario Arts Council Mr said Halton Hills Arts which is spon soring the festival were not asking the town for cash but would accept services instead Such as lighting parking policing and insurance to an estimated total of Day president of the Credit Volley Artisans said the summer festival is on opportunity to pull together all the arts groups in Halton Hills ON THE HOME FRONT Slowing time SUSAN It was not so very long ago that I considered the item of my life to be firmly established Two people husband and wife and Inevitably becoming a nucleus of three four and eventually five I was mother my rol was clear and the future years of stretched ahead appearing to be a permanent arrangement Not an unwelcome one but a choice that once having been made had no forsceablc ending 1 was convinced they would never be anything more than Utile people spreading Joy peanut butter and rice around the house and it was inconceivable to me that they would never grow large enough to go to bed withoul a goodnight kiss However while the trail of peanut butter and rice has never over the years a lot of other quite unexpected changes have taken place Suddenly an unpleasant reminder of the passing years hit me squarely and without mercy I look my eyes off these children for just one careless moment and when I looked again it was to discover that my two eldest had suddenly acquired height equal to my own Do you realize how is to yell Belt up To a kid who lb looking you straight in the eye and If I am finding it difficult to retain righteous parental wrath In an to confrontation now what will all the tomorrows held when I will be forced to direct the volume upwards to reach them My near future is obviously destined to be a permanent crick in the neck another first occurred recently when Louisa asked to borrow a sweater this coming from a child who has three limes as many as her mother and the tables were turned for the worse keeping a lonely midnight vigil w home from a lite baby sitting job Now if all these terrible changes ore suddenly taking can there be more to come Is it possible no one will be bursting through the front door to pile mitts scarves and hats all over the hot vents In the hair Can this Job of motherhood 1 once felt offered security turnout not to be perm after all merely part time What will I do to fill the sudden void in the absence of fingerprints on the walls potato chips in front of the TV set and cupboard doors that remain stubbornly and unnaturally dosed What do a husband wife talk about after years of such conversational gems as Guess who performed on the potty today or The dentist thinks Teresa may need brace other such nitty gritty gut issues pertaining to the worrisome years of Whin no longer each school morning for money dances yearbooks plays and ski trips will the sudden accumulation of jingling coins in my pocket help to cover a silence unbroken by the familiar and welcoming Hi Mom I m home Hey kids let slow time down little huh NEEDLEPOINT DISPLAY COURSE This quilt a needlepoint display at Church which featured a slide presentation by Sylvia of the Stltchery Guild Tin display was part of a day for for Beginners a course in needltpoint sponsored by the home economics of Ontario ministry of agriculture Nancy Schmidt above models a cloak embroidered by Sybil of the Guild who is standing in background The cloak was decorated by sewing on flowers cut from colored net and a long stem was embroidered down the back In the white thread THE HERALD February IS Pixel Actonians expect no reply but its coming A spoketman from the more Information provincial treasurer office Hill says that the Ac ton lam for Acton group should be receiving a reply from Dnrcy McKeough to their second application for a review of regional government in within a few days A spokesman for the group says they are not expecting any reply Norm Elliott vicechairman of the group says I think he going to sec our second tetter as simply expressing our view of his first reply 1 dldn ex him to reconsider our request At present the Ac too group Is biding its time and planning its next move Mr Elliott says Since the chairman will be away for time they have no concrete plan for further meetings until his return The group intends to take a more positive approach to the situation he says and collect all of of how much Acton money has been spent outside Acton Up until now our in Some people seem to have lh formation has Just been on how impression that all we want tax money has been used to do is break up the status quo subsldiie projects in Acton Maybe we can get more data he says on the financial picture when There has been no analysis the 1BT7 figures are available GLT rehearses thriller Georgetown Little Theatre In the early 1050 sand is is now In rehearsal for Murder Mistaken a by Janet Green This piny is GLT entry In tho Association of Community Theatre s drama festival Pat Joynes is directing the production with a cast of Joyce Holland Vera Macdonald Joe Ashley Windsor Marie and Val dart A newcomer to Ashley Windsor is playing the lead role of Edward Bare the vil lain of the piece The play was originally pre- Council seeks study on town hall safety being ployed in costume of mis period This involves research by Dorothy Hunt responsible for One prop that Is proving difficult to find Is an old gas fire and if anybody knows of the whereabouts of one Pat Joynes would appreciate a call Murder Mistaken will be presented at Wriggles worth school on Wednesday Thurs day Friday and Saturday March I to Adjudication night is Friday March 3 Tickets are available limited numbers left for day and Saturday J Provincial task force review called for once again in Halton The provincial ministry of labour will be asked to conduct an investigation Into Acton old town hail to see If the building is safe for public use finance administration committee decided Monday The fate of the twostorey brick structure built in he latelBSOs Is currently under a cloud A group of Acton citizens la trying to raise an estimated to repair the building but some want to raze it The first floor of the building the Acton detachment of regional police and a senior citizens dropIn centre But police ore currently negotiating with tho town to move onto Mill Street Finance administration committee decided to request an investigation by the ministry of labour because consulting engineer Alan says In his report a detailed examination of the structural floor systems would have to be made prior to a final assessment of the load carrying capacities of the TV TOWERS ANTENNAS I0HALS HARDY ENTERPRISES CO Block Parents meeting The Georgetown chapter of the Block Parents program will be holding a meeting next Tuesday Feb to elect the new executive for 1B78 The meeting Is at the Elks Hall on Road North at Anyone interested in Joining he executive should plan to attend The program is stilt looking for volunteers to become block parents Those interested in joining as block parents also attend the meeting Herald staff writer Bill Review Committee has called for a appointed task force to review regional gov in This is second time the committee has called for a provincial review rtgionj government Burlington Walter made the recommendation at the final meeting of thecommittee mg III kind or effort we undergoing is utile The committee met to decide which recommendations would be passed on to regional council which will in turn vutt on the recommendations to be passed on to the provincial government Committee members were warned prior to the beginning of the meeting that this would be the last meeting and all recommendations would have to be dealt with Coun Laurie Man criticized the report pre pared by the regional staff He said he would challenge number of statements contain in the report being blanket statements and It a regional staff report and naturally it a going to be biased he said Everyone has to Justify his own tence Manned said he disagreed with the statement in the report which said region but it isn ine he slid He lis criticised the stiff cum minis ilxiut the problem of the of water implication that Ihe was solved ly by the region assumption here is that if we I region the people In would never had water he said Well 1 don think that s so think the councillors In Hills or whatever up would have found a wiy Insliid of bringing things up In the highest common rigionalgovernmuithas brought them to the lowest common level Mannell Hills Mil said hi finds it difficult to justify regional government back in the municipality when taxes have doubled But maybe would have done that anyway he said I think a lot of the problems with regional government arc Ihe fault of the politicians and we won town up to it he said It the politicians got off their butts because if they don regional government Burlington Mayor Mary Munro pointed out We said at that our purpose was I to destroy or dismantle regional government but to workout some restructuring I think we should be asked he province for more powers and greater autonomy When the province estab lished regional government it refused to give the regional governments the financial lools necessary to do the job said in ling for 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