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By FRANCES" NIBLOCK The New Tanner Some Churchill Road residents hope a Town traf- fic study will prove there's a need to restore a heavy vehi- cle ban -- especially gravel trucks -- on the road. Their complaints about trucks and the deteriorating shape of the road prompted Z 9 0 G Mi 1991 NISSAN (Shortbox) Rockwood 856-2222 _ j After 32 years as a | jeustodian at Acton schools Irene Balogh has | {decided to retire. See the i istory on Page 3 Rockwood's only pri- vate school since | William Wetherald had | the old Rockwood Acad- jemy, the Wellington | | Hall Academy stresses cademics. See the story | on Page 8 | |. The hockey season is | in full swing at the new | traffic count that showed the prohibition wasn't needed because just three per cent of the vehicles using the road were over 5,000-tons. In a letter asking the Town to reinstate the truck ban Churchill Road resident Michelle Johnstone com- plained that the trucks are unsafe, noisy and are ruining the road. Foodshare receives | donations Thanksgiving is a time to remember the less fortunate and some area citizens did that without any prompting this past weekend. As a result Acton's Foodshare food bank is a cou- - ple of thousand pounds of food richer at a time when it was very much in need of that help. Foodshare chair Arlene Humphreys says there was no official food-drive here-over Thanksgiving but a couple of churches, Acton High school and St. Joseph's school col- lected for the food bank any- way. "We were very low on supplies and this was a great big help," Humphreys says, "but we hadn't dere any ap- peal because our campaign is always held the first Satur- day of November." That morning the Scouts, Guides and Cadets will be collecting donations from door-to-door. Eclectic Acton artist Wendy West doesn't know what part of her artistic life she likes best but she's s determined to make the most of her versa- tility. "T need it all," West said of her eclectic career as a re- cording artist and an award- winning songwriter. Her col- lection-quality paintings and portraits are hung in a smart Toronto art gallery and at the home of art buff and per- staff to update a two-year old been disturbed nightly, our cars have been put at risk and of infinitely grater concern, our children have been un- necessarily put at risk by the increased traffic from the quarry," Johnstone wrote. "This summer was terri- ble on the street because the big gravel trucks with the extra gravel box on the back were coming up and down "Our peace and quiet has here," Johnstone said in an interview on Friday. "All the back roads have signs that say no trucks after 6 p.m. so they use this road. This isn't like a residential area any more -- it's like an industrial highway." Town traffic co-ordinator Bob Butrym said that for 30 years prior to the Acton fire hall being built there was a heavy traffic ban on Church- Newstand price: 40¢ + GST ill Road. "Four years ago we de- leted the truck ban from our bylaw because now anyone accessing the quarry would use Highway 25 to the 22 Side Road entrance so the ban serves no real function," Butrym said, adding that "that road is no longer a magnet for quarry trucks." A 1996 traffic study done showed that 29 of 968 vehi- eC. EGG ART: Acton artist Wendy West (seated) has turned infertile ostrich eggs, produced at Debbie Simmonds's (left) White Rock Ostrich Farm, into works of art that are on sale at the farm's gift shop. --Frances Niblock artist hatches new equine paintings, portraiture and bronze sculptures, has no favoured outlet for her crea- tive talents. "J work and exhaust my- self on one thing and then I have to go to the other thing," West said in an interview on Saturday. "When I do my writing I put everything into it and it's the same with my perform- ing and painting. I need it all? ostrich eggs. A Rockwood ostrich farmer's ad for artists to work with the infertile eggs caught her eye and now three of her creations, a still life and two scenes, are on sale at White Rock Ostrich Farm's gift shop. "The two English country scenes are smaller reproduc- tions of two canvases that I've painted. I'm working on an egg with an antique car painted on it and also want project West is self taught and said her convent education in England stunted her creative talents which blossomed when she finished school. "J never liked school be- cause there was never enough on the arts. I always wanted to sing and paint, even be- fore I knew if I could." Another of West's recent projects is a collection of songs that she wrote and re- cles using the road in one eight-hour period were clas- sified as heavy -- over 5,000 tons - and that most of them were school buses. The town will monitor traffic for one week and count vehicles in three dif- ferent time periods totalling eight hours between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. JACHILLES| in Acton PAUL SIMMONS, SERVICE MANAGER (GHEGK RAD, OSES NEW ANTIFREEZE $49.95 | 357 Queen Street ©)853-0200 | Halton Hills (Acton) ©) 453-8965 Demolition report due Town staff is now evalu- ating bids from 20 contrac- tors who want to tear down the Prospect Park arena. The tenders were opened on Thursday at the Civic Cen- tre and the bids range from a low of $14,766 to a high of $187,143. Stone Port Construction of Richmond Hill submitted the highest bid and the low _bid from Marrex of Caledon, contained a clerical error which will be corrected: in The majority of the remain- ing bids are over $100,000 with several between $46,000 and $100,000. Tied to the tender report is the joint proposal from the Acton Agricultural Society and Heritage Acton to save the building. That group asked council for $200,000 -- including approximately $130,000 in the Town's budget for demolition - to put towards restoration costs. Agricultural Society Treasurer Daniel Varanelli said they have to wait and see if any tenders are accepted. "We hope that they will accept our offer to take over the building and develop it as a community activity cen- tre," Varanelli said last Thursday, stressing that the project hinges on the Town's. financial help. "If the Town says flat out no, the Fair Board will not come through... I personally as treasurer ofthe Fair Board would recommend that ifthe Town did not participate in this renovation to any signifi- | Acton arena. 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