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Engage recreational coordinator for summer Acton Parks and Recreation Committee has selected 21 year old Brian Campbell a community college graduate from Oakvllle from a field of applicants to serve as recreational coordinator for Its brand new summer program Mr Campbell who has had four years background in organizing programs and In the words of program committee chairman Peter Marks submitted excellent references will begin his duties next week He hart been hired from June 1 until September 1 at a salary of per week plus a car allowance Open centre A new recreational youth centre which will be open four nights a week from Wed S Year No nesday to Saturday probably in the building will be the new chief responsibility The centre expected to be open from until midnight Wednesday and Thursday and from until 1 a m on weekends Plenty of activity such as arts crafts pool ping pong records and probably karate Instruction will be available Participants will not be charged to Join A board with youth representatives will be set up to govern activities Proceeds from a refreshment booth at centre will go towards program expenses Jackie Lee a Grade 12 student at Acton District High School has been hired to assist Mr Campbell at a salary of per week Miss Lee was primarily responsible for organizing a coffee house for local youths Addiction Research Foundation has agreed to provide an experienced person who has the means for the proper referrals to work In the youth centre free of charge A children playground which will be held five halfdays per week will also come under Mr Campbell jurisdiction A maximum of leaders will also be hired to im with this facet of the program Mr Marks reports Mr Campbell is quite work with senior citizens groups as well and is prepared to work hours a week If need be to make the program a success The new recreational coordinator will keep a dally log of times accomplishments Incidents and damages and will submit a written evaluation of Acton a recreational needs at the conclusion of the program in September Parks and Recreation Committee adopted the new geared to all program on the recommendation of Mr Marks and program committee member Barry Inscoe both of whom have done the preliminary organizational work Mr Marks and Mr felt Important age groups were being left out In the previous children s playground program which has operated every summer Commiltee has authorized spending of for purchase of equipment and general administration of the program ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MAY Pages Cents Wadin pool Wants prime time for open swimming against anyone taking swimming Instruction monopolizing that pool the lone distaff member of Acton Parks and Recreation Committee Diane Spielvogel told colleagues Thursday night Mrs was replying to report from program committee chairman Peter Marks that swimming Instruc tions in connection with the new parks and recreation summer program will be held at the wading pool in Prospect Pork Mrs Spielvogel also objected to Mr Marks suggestion that the wading pool may have to be closed during hours a new lifeguard and swimming Instructor is required to be at the swimming beach In Fairy Lake Guard on duty According to Mr Marks plana called for the guard to be on duty at the Fairy Lake beach Saturdays and Sundays from noon until or at night During those hours it is hoped she can walk back and forth between the beach and the pool to keep an eye on it Signs would be posted at each area to let swimmers know whether or not the lifeguard was on duty In Mrs view the wading pool should be open definite hours each day for open swimming That poolwas put there by the of this town not the parks rd it should be open she told the board Mrs Spielvogel went along with a suggestion from chairman Hugh Patterson the pool should never be left unattended as long as the gate Is open She felt a responsible teenager could be hired to supervise and that the pool could be open from until in the afternoon each day There are a lot of little children who consider swimming lessons they should have an area to swim she pointed out limit finances Committee member Barry Inscoe agreed the pool should be Convention in Acton Tonight Wednesday Is a high light for Act with the first nominating convention ever held in town at the high school Halton West Progressive Conservatives decided a few weeks ago to hold their convention in Acton and five cabinet ministers Including this ridint Hon George Kerr will take part In the program Also there will be the Hon Bob Welch Hon Leo Hon Richard Potter and the Hon Jim Snow The convention is slated to start at preceded by a parade through town streets led by the huge Burlington teen band and followed by a host of supporters Conservatives are hoping to lure to Acton from Burlington Nassagaweya and There 11 be hi Jinks and color but the convention will also have to contend with the serious business of nominating a candidate to contest the next Ontario election The Hon George Kerr is the present member for the riding and it is doubtful he decline open but wondered how the committee would be able to hire additional help with the limited finances they have available for the summer program Do you have to be an instructor to handle a pool Councillor Orval Chapman queried You have to have the qualifications Mr Marks replied Mr Marks said he would be against hiring a student unable to handle an emergency to supervise the pool On the subject of open hours Mr Marks reminded members there were no more than five children at the pool during open hours on any given day last summer The pool was open from lOajn until 12 noon Public swimming Is Important but this girl must be given prime hours to teach it he said You ve got to have somebody to help this girl Mr Patterson maintained I would suggest you vc told us to spend more money Mr Marks remarked Stands firm Mrs Spielvogel stood firm on her earlier claim there should be a proper swimming time for youngsters who do not wish to take lessons Diane has a valid point about the pool Mr Inscoe conceded The Committee selected 19 year old Wendy Bell of from a field of three applicants to teach swimming and to serve as a lifeguard at the Fairy Lake beach on weekends at a salary of per week Miss Bell has taught swimming In the past and has five years experience working at day camps Swimming Instructions will be given five days a week and will be open to adults as well as children See inside pages RINGMASTER MARTIN right gets some help from one of clowns at the Z Bennett circus The program had 15 acts Staff Photo Will run Y program New program at the who started Monday is Mrs Mary of Wellington St Mrs mother of three has been hired by the board to run and Initiate programs in the has been no full time employee there to run programs for several years Mrs took youth courses when Involved In the Strectsville arid was secretary to the chief of staff of the hospital Meets board A short Y board meeting is planned for tonltit when she will meet with board members It hoped her programs will tie In with the recreation committee school and the Guelph Various possibilities arc being discussed Blue S To open new lodge The Honorable Bob Welch Minister of Education will of ficially open the new Boy Scout adult training lodge at Blue Springs Scout Reserve R Acton this Saturday May 29 Construction of the Pan Abode building was done by volunteer help from training colleges and throughout the province Many donations of cash and furnishings enabled the provincial council of the boy scouts to establish the lodge There are conference and sleeping facilities for people In the lodge and they will be used in conjunction with other older facilities on the reserve Cost of the building was shared dollar for dollar between the membership and friends of Scouting It will be available for Saturday ceremonies will be the training of the 14 boy doubly significant since this year scout leaders currently Involved also Is the year of Scouting in in the Ontario program Ontario Fencing shrubbery at Pioneer cemetery Flowering shrubs have been planted this spring at the town old Pioneer Cemetery behind Knox church The Decoration Day committee purchased of shrubbery for the cemetery which was fenced in last Four Robert Little students have been enthusiastically working in their spare time at the site John Nessett Kevin Payne Stephen McGllloway and Delphin Roach Mrs H Force has also been helping with the cleaning up and planting Broken glass First task for the boys was the picking up of many many pieces of broken glass Town workmen have looked after any necessary repairs to grave stones The arena staff will be looking after cutting the grass outside the boundaries of the new fencing Decoration Day No burials have been made In Pioneer cemetery for many years However in the last few years Unas always been included in the program on Decoration Day when a few people made a point of going there to plant shrubs The Decoration Day committee discovered there are apparently who don know where the town old cemetery is It is reached off Knox Ave back of the Presbyterian Church Decoration Day is observed at all three cemeteries Fa St Joseph and Pioneer the first Sunday in June Will stock Fairy Lake with bass Department of Lands and Forests will stock Fairy Lake with large mouth bass this year In a letter to Acton Parks and Recreation Committee the department reported a 1970 survey of the lake found It contained small mouth bass and pike but that it was not suitable for cold water fish tike trout The committee wrote the department last month to ask about the possibility of having the lake restocked Bad cheque A bad cheque was reported passed at the I G A last week A similar incident happened in Georgetown Cons is still investigating Pileup near dragway results in 850 damage A three car pileup on Fifth Line Esquesing near Monday resulted in 850 damages and two charges being laid by Milton OPP officers The incident occurred just south of the Golden Horseshoe where the three cars bad Just left en route home CANADIAN FLAGS were presented by Lakeside chapter of Mrs Hazel Mrs H Hinton Mrs J Jocque and Miss Evolved were cars the I O to classrooms at Speyside Lime- Jessie Coles The presentations were made as near to Victoria lLarSe of house and Stewarttown schools last week Here at Speyside Day as possible Chapter members had learned few district MSewfaSSltRe school last Thursday principal Gary and student schoolrooms had Canadian flags Staff Photo Debbie Cook R 3 Georgetown accept flags from regent The Evers car sustained an TWO BICYCLE BELLES Tired of travelling by train plane and bus Pauline and Coby Van Gaast of decided to make the trip from their school Calvin College in Grand Rapids Michigan back home by bicycle The girls passed through Acton yesterday on the last leg of the mile journey which started last Wed nesday morning Photo Skeleton staff at Mason Knit Although employees at Mason Knitting Company have been reduced to three from there is still a mood of cautious optimism about the fate of the Acton company Those in charge of liquidating the company s assets told the Free Press supply and demand for employees will vary as Inventory dwindles But it Is evident the plant will be all but closed until some new development occurs There are people interested In buying the plant and getting it on its feet again but these negotiations take time said one of two accountants looking after disposal of stock He said however there Is cautious optimism about a buyer Meanwhile the latest layoffs have affected employees who have been with the company since it was founded years ago and many others with lengthy years of service They Join employees who numbered 129 when the company operated at peak production The company got into financial difficulties several months ago resulting In a takeover under the Banking Act Production was shut down Inventory seized and is being sold Employees have been gradually laid off with the present skeleton staff all that remains GLENN HOLMES SUSAN CLARKE degree Honors estimated damage to the Lariviere vehicle and to the Hutton auto One car mishap Milton also investigated a single car collision Saturday where a car driven by Korzock of 6 Elizabeth St Georgetown careened off the road and struck two guide posts The incident occurred on County Road Two The car received an estimated damage but the driver was not injured In accident At Waterloo Lutheran convocation Sunday May in Kitchener Memorial arena Glenn Holmes received his B A degree in sociology and geography He received his degree from the chancellor the Hon Ross MacDonald who distantly related to his mother Mrs Jack Holmes Attending the spring convocation were Glenn parents Mr and Mrs Jack Holmes brothers Ruddy and Jackie his fiancee Miss Barbara and her parents Mr and Mrs McEachern his grandmother Mrs Grant Mc Donald or Orangeville Miss Helen Holmes and Near The address was given by the Hon John Roberts who received an honorary degree Glenn attended the Robert little school and Acton high school After graduation the Holmes entertained relatives and friends at their home In a double celebration Glenn a graduation coupled with his parents silver wedding anniversary Susan Elizabeth Clarke daughter of Mrs Clarke Elizabeth graduates from the University of with a B Sc honors degree In zoology Convocation will be May in Guelph Susan attended the Robert little school and Acton high school Assault charges Two local youths have charged with assault by arena employee Don Price following a at the arena last Wed nesday night A district youth bad been charged with minor consuming earlier in the evening He and an Acton friend later went to the arena During the ensuing fight Don Price broke the nose of one of them Police were called and Con Investigated Mr Price laid the charges