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Your Home Town Newspaper Newstand price: 40¢ + GST Wear a Nose Friday, February 6 7th annual Lighten Up Canada Day Just have fun! To get your red noses call the Lighten Up Centre (519) 742-7340 Fax 742-7350 Cut ribbon for new arena Sunday Sparkling new facility envy of visitors By FRANCES NIBLOCK The New Tanner Since the planning took a decade, it's only fit- ting that the grand opening party for the new Acton Arena and Community Centre will last all week. The official opening of the $5.1 million facility will occur at a ribbon cutting ceremony on Sun- day. That ceremony will signal the start of a week jammed pack with events -- everything from daz- zling figure skating displays, fast-paced hockey games featuring young and not so young players and a full calendar of events in the Acton Seniors Recreation Centre. For anyone who hasn't had a chance to visit the new facility there will be self- guided tours, free public skat- ing, free refreshments on Sunday. ; Acton Seniors now all set- tled in to their 1,800 square foot centre, have events planned for each day next week and invite the public to come and check out what's going on. Scheduled events include craft demonstrations, line dancing and skating, fund and fitness classes, lots of euchre and cribbage, shuffle- board and bingo. A shuttle bus, courtesy of Tyler Transport, will make regular runs to the Arena and Community Centre from the ing lots at Tyler trans- port, Queens Tire and the Christian Reformed Church from 11:30 until 4:30 on Sunday for the grand open- in; ig. Thursday night's Celebra- tion On Ice may prove to be the highlight of the week. Master of Ceremonies Ron McKnight will host a two and a half hour program fea- turing two 20-minute exhi- bition hockey games with | players from House League 'Tyke teams and Halton Hills Novice Girls teams. The Acton Figure Skating Club and the Halton Hills Skating Academy will show- case their talents with per- formances and the night will wrap up with a hockey game tat will pit the Acton Proud All Stars Team against the hockey tournament with The All stars team fea- tures many well-known Acton residents, including Councillor Rick "Bunny" Bonnette, Jon Hurst, Scott Malcolm. Janice Vickery, George Artem, to name just a few. The week's celebration will wrap up with a Peewee night until Sunday night. During Saturday's games the Acton Arena Fund nee opment Committee will give a chance to test their ockey skills with the Hockey Showdown. Operat- ing on the leisure pad the Hockey Showdown -- identi- cal to the one in the Hockey hall of Fame- tests a variety of relayed nee __ for participants, including reac- tion time and skating speed. Each hour's winners will receive Lea donated by he olde Hide House Bruce Hood Travel and Tim Hortons. All proceeds will go to the arena. UNITED FELLOWSHIP: The congregations of almost all of Acton's churches gathered at the Acton Legion on Sunday for the 1998 Service of Christian Unity. Taking part in the service were, I-r, the Reverend Jamie Shepherd of Evangel Pentecostal Tabernacle, the Rev. Shawn Brix of Bethel Chris- tian Reformed Church, St. Joseph's Catholic Church lay reader Helen Fowler, the Very Reverend Lois Wilson By FRANCES NIBLOCK The New Tanner With a message of unity, worldwide witness and serv- ice to neighbour, former United Church of Canada moderator, the Very Rever- end Lois Wilson, prayed with the congregations of all but two of Acton's churches at the Service of Christian Unity on Sunday at the Acton People in town said y Rockwood and area. Hello again! .. first issue of The New Toco as here's your week and be delivered to every areas. It will also be available 'We're glad to be back with a new publisher and new quarters at 59 Willow Street North. Our tel is 853-0051 and the fax number is (519) 853-0052. This is a first issue and there were some technical dif- ficulties experienced which kept the number of pages down. They are already solved but in order to be on time we chose to go ahead with 12 pages. We'll do better next home in Acton and in areas such as lephone number (former moderator of the Un Legion. A crowd of over 700 peo- ple attended the annual serv- ice to celebrate the Acton church's --- diversi om Wilson, who stressed their differences should not prevent them from hearing others, was aware that the congregations of two churches, Acton Baptist and the Salvation Army Acton Corp, decided not to take part in their service, but didn't comment directly on their ab- sence. Wilson's theology and that of the Reverend Bill Phipps, moderator of the Unite Church of Canada, who sparked a national de- bate recently with his views on the humanity of Jesus, his resurrection and the afterlife, prompted those two congre- gations to boycott this year's service although individual members of both churches did attend the service. In explaining his congre- comments and Wilson's the- ology triggered their deci- sion. "The congregation voted not to take part in the serv- ice, given the speaker's (Wil- son's) theology," explained Cullen in an interview on Saturday. "We decided to bow out this year, but we look forward to uniting with the rest of the churches next year for the ecumenical service," Cullen said. "We've gone through all the discussions with all the churches and there's a good feeling, or an understanding anyway, about each other's' position and an awareness that next year we'll have in- discussions and we'll go forward," Cullen said. Captain Jennings of the Salvation y, Acton --_ said the congregation made a unanimous decision not to take place in the an- nual unity service. "We have some problems i ion's absence, Pastor Tom SS ee a i Gallen of Acton Baptist with her (Lois Wilson's) the- ane He OE Se eet Sat Church said that Phipp's ology and a fear of what she BREADED Boneless skinless Fully Cooked 5.99 LASAGNA Sano los eee Kee Legs DICED _| CHICKEN BREAST ze! s 24 cor S11 | ae SHRIMP = |3 bs-$12.99 SW A oa BENT HDs __ 2 toe $16.99 | 2 Ibs- $5.99 les bs- $34.99 mm = Fresh Lean | Lean Solid Breast Meat | on) caer QS ONS fm =6 BACON:--- [GROUND BEEFY curt CHICKEN FINGERS |, yf i $2.29 / Ib 5 ibs - $9.95 HrAry bs - $10.99 . (| ¥ ss iat oy Only $1.99 7 Ib Plum Sauce 16-02 for 99¢ | 853-0101 SAL ee re a a a ited Church of Canada), the Rev. Mark Tiller of St.Alban's might say that will affect ee of our re tion," Jennings explained in an interview on Saturday. "She is a very feminist person and along with not only what she says, or what she - her thinking as a very liberal person. Also it's to do with what the moderator of the United Church has said as well about Christ." Jennings said the decision not to take part in the serv- ice was a one time thing be- cause they didn't want to "compromise" what be- lieve about the deity of Chri and the Trinity, Father ,Son and Holy Spirit, coequal in power and glory. Wilson recounted that as a schoolgirl she used to throw icy snowballs at Catholic stu- dents across from her school because they were the "en- emy." "That seems a long time ago now, thank God. The Holy Spirit has dragged us kicking and screaming into a new relationship with our Continued on page 2