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By FRANCES NIBLOCK The New Tanner There is "renewed confidence" among members of the Acton Agricultural Society that this weekend's fall fair will not be the last one to use the old Acton arena for events and Homecraft displays. While the Society decided it alone could not try to save the old arena -- its consultant called it a "financial albatross" -- Varanelli said they might be able to make a go of itina combined effort with Heritage Acton which 8 G MOTOR PRODUCTS 1989 Caravan LE is working to save the building from demoli- tion. "With this additional support from Herit- age Acton in terms of people and expertise it has given us renewed confidence of maybe being able to do something here that we couldn't have done on our own, including the large task of obtaining donations," a crucial part of any plan Varanelli said in a recent interview. Varanelli said the Town has ignored a let- ter from the Society requesting that it prom- Ise, in writing, to act in good faith in ensur- ing the Society has a facility for next year. The Society threatened to use a 1974 agree- ment with the Town promising it use of the Prospect Park buildings for as long as there is a fair to block demolition. "I don't think it (the letter) is going to do us any good. There's been no response and they're going ahead with the demolition so for all purposes the letters been ignored, hasn't it?" Varanelli said. "Our last kick at the cat, so to speak, is at next month's council meetings when we'll present our letter of intent -- a quasi business [ Newstand price: 40¢ + GST] be proposal to save the arena," Varanelli said. Acting Recreation and Parks director Paul Stover said Town's consultant is currently working on the specifications for the tender documents. _ "Hopefully they'll be sent out to bidders in a week or so. Once we know when they're going to be finished to go out we'll be abie to establish a return date and dates for site meet- ings," Stover said on Friday, adding that they hope to have the demolition tenders approved at the October 26 council meeting. ACHILLES in Acton _P PAUL SIMMONS, SERVICE MANAGER "caer 29% 357 Queen Street (1) 853-0200 Rockwood ¢ 856-2222 Halton Hills (Acton) 5) 453-8965 Hae) _@x bills prompt flood of calls An Acton landmark for decades, the water tower at the old Beardmore tannery came down last pera the»photo sequence by] | Angela Tyler on Page 3. issue. New street names on | agenda After rejecting a royal theme -- Princess Diana Drive, Prince William Drive, | e "nal ew streets in a Georgetown development, Town politicians struck a new sub-committee to deal with the contentious naming to muddled From mad to muddled, from concerned to confused, taxpayers began a flood of phone calls to the Civic Cen- tre finance department on Monday as the Town's final i ))] r O 2 b pan r. ta Koopmans st all of the approximately 100 tax- payers who called wanted to know why their tax bill had changed so much. "We list the things that Lumberjack? See Grapevine on Page 5 for a peek at'one of the Acton Fall Fair's unique programs. a super save to help his team win the Under-9 soccer championship Saturday. See all the re- sults on our Sports pages, Last month councillors balked at using only histori- cal names for a proposed ru- tal estate subdivision at Crewson's Corners and last week they sent the proposed royal names back to staff for further study. Normally the Esquesing Historical Society has sub- mitted proposed street names to staff which made recom- mendations to council but now councillors want more input, earlier in the process. See STREET, Page 19 2 ¢& - ers de UNDER - 9 BOYS' CUP CHAMPIONS: of the Acton Soccer League Ron's Burner Service team members include : Justin Mota, Matt Ramsey, Ian Reid, Kevin Vickery, Dustin Pincivero, Ales Brake, Tyler McNiven, Josh Ceccotti, Thomas Glassford, Evan Colvin, Brynley Peregine, Jeff Somerville, William Acri, Jacob Loewen and Dave Colvin (coach). Missing: assistant coach Scott Somerville. More photos on Page 14. - Ellen Piehl photo Ask legislation to end strike The Halton District Catholic School Board has joined six other boards to ask Ontario's education minister to leg- islate an end to the teachers' strikes. The seven boards -- Hamilton- Wentworth, Toronto, Dufferin-Peel, Durham, York and Simcoe-Muskoka -- say they won't get settlements with- out intervention. Halton's 340 Catholic high school teachers have been picketing during the extra daily class they are required to teach and are refusing all extra-curricu- lar activities. On Tuesday teachers staged information pickets at the board offices and planned to protest at Tues- day's board meeting. Halton Catholic elementary teachers meet with their board Monday and both sides say they're willing to negotiate. No word when Halton public high school teachers will join rotating walk- outs. School boards will get at least 24 hours notice before a walkout so parents and students can make other plans. The union and the board resumed negotia- tions on Tuesday. Elementary teachers held a strike vote yesterday (Wednesday) and today with negotiations slated to resume Oct. 8. could affect their bill and di- rect people with assessment concerns to the province," Koopmans said on Monday. "A lot of them (taxpayers) are concerned or confused and a lot of them are not happy, but they're resigned at the end of the call after we explain that their tax increase is due to a shift in the tax burden to residential proper- ties and not because council okay a huge budget in- crease." Provincial reassessment means that 58 per cent of ur- ban Acton residential prop- erty owners will pay more in taxes. Over half of Acton's commercial properties will also pay more because of re- assessment and 42 per cent will pay less. 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