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THE NEW TANNER THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2009 6 Distributed to every home in Acton and area, as well as adjoining communities. 373 Queen Street East, Unit 1 Acton, Ontario L7J 2N2 email: thenewtanner@on.aibn.com Mike OLeary Frances Niblock Angela Tyler Rebecca Ring Publisher Editor Ted Tyler Hartley Coles Editorial Contributors Advertising and Circulation Composing Marie Shadbolt Ken Baker Tracey Gardner By Angela Tyler (519) 853-0051 Fax: (519) 853-0052 Every effort will be made to see advertising copy, neatly presented, is correctly printed. The publisher assumes no financial responsibility for typographical errors or omissions in advertising, but will gladly reprint without charge that part of an advertisement in which an error may occur provided a claim is made within five days of publication. All articles, advertisements and graphic artwork appearing in The New Tanner is copyrighted. Any usage, reproduction or publication of these items, in whole or in part, without the express written consent of the publisher of The New Tanner is a copyright infringement and subject to legal action. Coles Slaw with Hartley Coles The old names are disappearing Those of us who grew up in a much smaller Acton, at a much earlier date often iden- tified parts of the town not only but street names but by other names as well. For in- stance, the area east of the CN Railway tracks along Young and including Mill, Peel and Arthur was referred to as Rosedale b some or simply as Over the tracks. Of course there was the Beardmore Crescent cir- cumscribed by Poplar Ave. and Crescent St. The south end of Main St was known as the Cemetery Hill with Fairview Cemetery entrance adjacent. Probably a few can also re- member the high hill which overlooked the village called Cobblehill When the Second Line was rebuilt as Highway 25 much of the aggregate for the road bed was a large part of Cobble Hill, It was raised to its present height along Cobblehill Road. At the south end of Mill St. a stream runs through a cul- vert into Fairy Lake from what appears to be a he swamp. It was always called Beaver Meadow, suggesting that it was once a Beaver colony. An older generation for Ac- tonians will remember these nicknames but were betting many of them have been lost in antiquity. Recently this scrib- bler was describing the scene of an accident to Angela Tyler You know I said, out on the highway past Manns Creek. She shook her head. Well its just past the Bannockburn corner. Still, no recognition. How about along Highway 7 between the Fourth and Fifth Lines? I tried. Recognitions dawned. Why didnt you say so in the first place? Angela said, or words to that affect. She really had no recognition of Manns Creek or Bannock- burn. The creek now known officially as a tributary of the Black Creek, the stream that flows out of Fairy Lake on its way to the Credit River through Dolly Varden, Lime house and Stewarttown. Dolly Varden? you ask? Its the area at the end of Churchill Road South where the street merges into the Third Line which skirts the big Dufferin Quarry on the south end and merges with Glen Lawson on its way east through countryside which has always reminded me of Wales or Scotland with a stone house sitting next to the inter- section Where does the name Dolly Varden originate? John Mac- Donald in his book Halton Sketches, suggests i t may have come from the name of a trout which were plentiful in the creek or the name of a lady famed as a singer. In any event the McDonald family of which John is a member, should know since their farm was in Dolly Varden, which in the 1800s was also a busy place with lime kilns. The area, of course encom- passes the Three Sisters, the large hills which line up north of the Glen Lawson Rd. Once they were popular with ski- ers and tobogganers and ATV trails, but now No Trespassing sign are abundant and stakes indicate some kind of develop- ment, possibly a quarry. And how about Warren Grove which is the name for the area beyond the band hall on Wallace St. familiarly known as the Wartime Hous- ing, a subdivision built after WW2 mostly for veterans. Another generat ion and the old names will probably have disappeared. Parts of Acton are familiarly known as Kingham, Lakeview, Bo- vis, Honeydale, Glenlea, the Downtown, Industrial Park, Danville and such, most of which are housing subdiv- isions built within the last 50 years. As the old saw says Tem- prus Fugit (Time Flies) and so do descriptive names. I will admit it. There are times when I am a complete and absolute sucker. It seems to happen the most when I am watching television. I also have a weakness for watching the shopping channel. I can sit there for hours watching sales people dem- onstrate product trying to convince us that we need to buy it. This is when I usually get myself in trouble. A few weeks ago we were at a flea market/yard sale and I saw someone trying to sell one of my earlier pur- chases. Do you remember those? I asked the Dude. It was the ab-roller which guaranteed wash-board abs. The stupid thing is after you bought it, tried it and stopped using it; it wasnt good for anything. It wasnt like you could hang clothes on it like an unused tread mill. Although I havent bought a lot, I have bought too many things Ive seen on TV. You would think that I would have learned after purchasing the pasta cooker/vegetable steamer (used under six times) or the food dehydrator, which I did not buy on TV. However, after seeing it on TV, I did buy someone elses reject at a garage sale. There was the pony tail twister thing that I ended up giving to a kid I knew; the space bag, the food slicer complete with some tool that would make a radish into a flower (never used), not to mention some of the half a dozen or so things I bought on the shopping channel years ago. After all my lessons learned with useless things Ive purchased, I fell vic- tim again. The dynamic duo, also known as the dogs, despise their nails being trimmed, like many dogs do. I dont know why. When they were little they had no problem, and their nails have never been trimmed to short, so there was no reason for the antics. Yet, the antics were becoming annoying to say the least. When I saw the Pedi-paw, as seen on TV, how could I resist? The dogs seemed to love it and it promised not to hurt them as it filed their nails not cutting them. It was exactly like a puppy pedicure. One of my co-workers even gave it rave reviews after she pur- chased it. When in the states recently, low and behold I came across the Pedi-paw selling for a measly ten bucks. As seen on TV it was much more expensive so, of course, I bought it. The Dude grumbled about me buying more junk. I was sure this was not junk. Upon our return, it was spa day for the dogs. I was all set. I had the bat- tery operated nail file and they were actually sitting nicely awaiting their pampering. When I tried it, it didnt seem to be working like it did as seen on TV. Whats that stink? I asked the Dude. It was horrid. Its their nail that youre filing off, he informed me. I stopped for a moment and the dog started smelling and licking her paw as if she was trying to get rid of the smell. I tried and once again. It looked much better on TV. I guess were back to the nail trim- mers. Come spring, when we have a garage sale, I think Ill use a new ad- vertising strategy. Instead of advertising collectibles and treasures, I can state that there are a large amount of items, As Seen On TV. gently used. As seen on T.V. OLD NAMES FOR ACTON: Acton once was called Adamsville after the founding fathers, the Adams broth- ers, Saddleback Methodist missionaries originally from the United States. They came to Acton around 1829 or 30 to settle on farms and take advantage of the water power from the stream, now known as the Black Creek, for a grist mill. As houses were built in new areas they were called by different names. The Adams legacy is here in street names such as John, Maria, Wilbur and Frederick,after their children