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4 Independent & Free Press,Thursday, July 7, 2011 England's Lord Johnny Acton coming to Acton Will open Acton Fall Fair and Town Hall speaker series in September By KATHLEEN DILLS Special to The IFP Ottawa might have Will and Kate. But Acton has Johnny and Lucinda, Lord and Lady Acton, who are coming to Acton for a 17-day visit in September to kick off a speakers series at the Acton Town Hall Centre. The high-profile line up of speakers also includes lawyer James Lockyer, best known for freeing the wrongly convicted, Toronto Star columnist Christopher Hume and the father-daughter duo of Clay Powell and Betsy Powell. She's an award-winning Toronto Star crime reporter and he's a lawyer whose famous clients have included Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richard. The series kicks off Sept. 18 with a dinner at the town hall featuring Lord Acton as keynote speaker and a menu with local Ontario food. Acton, 44, a pig enthusiast and author of 13 books on everything from sausages to hot air ballooning, will also open the 98th annual Acton Fall Fair. He and Lady Acton will be paddled across Fairy Lake to do the honours. Plans are As a writer, Acton also underway to have specializes in digging Lord Acton demonstrate up obscure nuggets of sausage-making as part information and makof the fair's Education ing complex subjects acDay activities. cessible. For a book on "We're very excited," the world's biggest food said Kathleen Dills, brands, for example, events coordinator for he discovered a certain Heritage Acton, which ketchup company inrescued the 1883 town sists its product pour no hall from demolition faster than .028 miles/h. and restored it to its forHe also spent a mer glory. year travelling around Other plans for AcBritain for a book on ton's visit include the the farmers who supEden Mills Writers' Festival, the Halton Fed- Lord Johnny Acton (right) with writing partner Nick ply products to Prince eration of Agriculture Sandler, demonstrate some of the sausages that he Charles' organic food farm tour and dinner is an expert at making. Lord Acton will open the Ac- brand, Duchy Originals. For many of his and a book signing at ton Fall Fair and kick off the Acton Town Hall Centre books, Acton developed the new River St. li- speaker series. original recipes with brary in Acton. solutely," which is often wrongly "This promises to be a fun- attributed to 16th century po- his friend Nick Sandler, a chef. filled 17-day tour not only for litical schemer Niccolo Machia- One of the recipes-- grilled pork Lord and Lady Acton, but for the velli. loin with rustic fennel and fresh citizens of Acton," said Mayor The series is a fundraiser for sage-- will be featured on the Rick Bonnette. menu for the Sept. 18 dinner at an elevator at the Town Hall. The name of the series was inLord Acton, who lives in the Town Hall, which is centred spired by a famous quote by the Goucestershire, England, keeps around a harvest theme and sea1st Lord Acton, an historian and two Oxford Sandy and Black sonal foods. rabble rouser in Victorian Eng- pigs, a rare breed also known as Tickets went on sale on Monland. He was the man behind the The Plum Pudding Pig because day (July 4) and can be purchased line, "Power tends to corrupt, of its markings and saved from at the Town of Halton Hills Box and absolute power corrupts ab- extinction 20 years ago. Office (www.haltonhills.ca/theatre), Tyler Travel Service Ltd. or from members of Heritage Acton or Acton Rotary Club. Tickets are $100 for a complete package, including Lord Acton's dinner and all speakers. Dinner tickets are $75. Tickets to individual speaking events, $15. Acton is putting the finishing touches on his next book, which comes out in November. It's geared toward the Olympics in London next summer, with amazon.ca promoting it as "witty" and "insightful." The book is called How to Watch the Olympics and get fanatical about fencing, hot for handball and switched on to synchronized swimming. It picks up on how the games most of the world knows, such as football, baseball and cricket, are either missing or have a token presence at the Olympics, the planet's biggest sporting event. In their place are sports most people have no clue about. While his trip to Canada might help him better understand and explain canoeing, it has to be in the publisher's hands by the time he gets here. But there's always the next edition, in time for Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Up to $750 Rebate^ for qualified college & university grads. 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