Your Hometown Newspaper Volume 10 No. 18 Thursday, May 3, 2007 THE NEW Newstand Price 40 + GST Best and brightest students honoured at annual celebration Bryan Bartle Limehouse P.S. Zachary Kroezen Robert Little P.S. Sabrina Loeprich Brookville P.S. Scott Morris MSB P.S. Julie Mersereau Acton High School Sarah Waldie St. Joseph C.S. The 23rd annual Celebration of Student Excellence is tonight (Thursday) at Acton High School. See Page 2 for story. Rockwood 856-2222 $75/ WEEK 4 YEARS 2001 Celica GT........................................$13,131 TO ITS WORTH THE DRIVE ACTON MOTORS 8531280 2003 SEABRING - GO TOPLESS COVETED QUILTS: With a generous crowd and help of head auctioneer Ken Clapperton, an afghan crocheted by Gramma Rowena Manes fetched $550 at the Rotary Club of Actons dinner/auction at the Legion on Friday. Ted Tyler photo Garden to bloom in Max MacSweens memory Horticultural Society honours late leader By Frances Niblock Hostas, day lilies and all manner of fl owers and fauna will bloom in a memory gar- den named for the late Max MacSween, a Master Gar- dener whose green thumb is evident all over Acton. The garden with a lime- stone screening path, bench, arbour and lots of plantings will extend the existing Rotary Park walkway lead- ing from Main Street into Prospect Park, a joint ven- ture between the Town and Rotary Club that MacSween spearheaded. The Acton Horticultural Society first broached the idea of a garden to honour their former president and long-time member Mac- Sween knew of the plan before he succumbed to cancer last year. MacSween, named 2004 Actons Citizen of the Year for his endless enthusiastic efforts to make Acton look a little prettier, once said he Continued on page 2