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2 THE NEW TANNER Station Hotel owners celebrate 25 years THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1998 Fair needs repairs Continued from Page 1 $250,000 in repairs but Ag- ricultural Society members have asked the Town to real- locate $110,000 earmarked last year for demolition and instead use it for repairs. The Agricultural Society has of- fered $80,000 of its money towards repairs. Stover rejected sugges- tions from Ward 2 Council- lor Kevin Kuiack that the budget committee should in- clude $17,000 for the sprin- kler system repairs in this year's budget, in case it's eeded. The structural engineer's report on the arena should be ready by the end of April. FOND FAREWELLS: Veteran Robert Little teacher Rosemary Black, (left) accepts a retirement gift from Robert Little school council chair Julia Roehrig (cen- tre) and Heather Morris-Stokes, chair of the parent group. -- Frances Niblock photo By MAGGIE PETRUSHEVSKY The New Tanner Station hotel owner-op- erators Nick and Maria Kekis and Eli and Martha Kekis are celebrating 25 years of oper- ating their Acton business with a pig roast on April 18. Originally from Yugosla- via, the families came to Acton from Hamilton where Nick was working for Dofasco. Although they had no pre- vious hotel experience, their mother's family members Dan C. 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The Lasby family and their descendants owned the hotel from 1907 until 1962. Then over the next 10 years it changed hands about 10 times, Kekis says. The build- ing was in sound but shabby condition when he purchased it with his brother and they renovated in 1974. The women run the kitchen with a couple of staff and the men handle the bev- erage room. They have 17 hotel rooms available for rent upstairs. The dining room is open to the public from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily (except Sunday), and Thursday and Friday evenings. It can also be rented for small gather- ings although they no longer have service clubs meeting there regularly. They stopped having regular entertainment in the 1980s because the bands cost so much and they disliked the racket. Now their crowd is split with an older group ear- lier in the day and the young ones in the evening. "We had a pretty tough crowd when we first came," Kekis remembers. "At one time I had 85 people cut off here. But now they know me. If the young people who come here are representative of this generation then they're pretty good." The bar business has changed greatly since they took it on, Kekis says, be- tween the new and longer opening hours and the pub- lic's penchant for suing bar operators. Public opinion has also shifted so that operators are seen as scapegoats for all manner of alcohol abuse. He'd like to see licensing controlled better so that get- ting a license was a privilege rather than a right. He would also liked to see Acton grow. It needs clothing and shoe stores and yes, another gro- cery and hardware store. "Good clean competition is always healthy," he says. a Sherry McClure, R.M.T. " Registered Massage Therapist * Certified Personal Trainer « By Appointment Only Georgetown (905) 877-8397 i = & E Station Hotel 25th Clhniversary! Come and help us celebrate a quarter of a century in business! Pig Roast Saturday, April 18th starts at 12 noon It has been our pleasure serving the community for 25 years Nick, Eli and families 853-0620 137 Mill St. E., Acton