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Swimming pool number one students centennial idea Before classes ended for the vacation grade eight students at the Robert Little School handed in essays on how they thought Acton should celebrate its centennial in 1973 There were a variety of Ideas expounded but one recurrent theme kept popping up through the essays a swimming pool Most of the students who wrote saw this as i real need for the town and as the time to ensure the town has one Heres a few of the ways the students thought we should celebrate in Acton Gibson thinks we I get busy and invite Prime Minister Pierre in for the festivities She reasons that Mr Trudcau spends a lot of time so he might as well come to Acton She suggests a real spring on Fairy Lake renovating old developing new thinks the parks should be cleaned up and more garbage palls placed there as well as benches and shade trees How about a new arena she asks or falling thit fixing up the old one She thinks people should busy cleaning up planting flowers and trees If my plans were followed and expanded says Patti many people would to stop and take a second look at the new Acton may be even Mr jcsley suggests Acton could use a movie theatre lifeguards at the swimming area more swings slides etc in the park says There is a need for a swimming pool for the older ones roads wire due for a real paving Job as well thinks lesley Ken Gallant suggested Acton should have a rid old swinging barn dance with everyone dressed up in old fashioned clothes to celebrate the centennial with hay and all the props After the dance Ken thinks there should be a hay ride and he sees the event on for several weeks Pat Kelly plumps first for a built in swimming pool near the park or In the Next she thinks Acton should have i bronze plaque with the names of Acton founders on it or else a statue commissioned showing the town first fathers Her last suggestion was a museum craft centre or something along that line Linda Deforest Is all for a drop in centre so the kids will have somewhere to go besides around the streets and restaurants She also feels a swimming pool is needed there have been too many drownings in Lake David ideas for celebrating Acton s centennial consists of every home owner get out and paint their home and really clean up the town He also for in all year round swimming pool and thinks Acton Fair could be i month lone deal with a roller coaster built to over Iake Kiren Cole suggests the Acton train station should be open to the public for centennial yeir the town decorate the like home of 1973 then hire ladies men to serve tea This would make friends for Acton and for people reasons Robertson would like to see a swimming pool for all of Acton not just a pool Two days should be set aside for celebrations with fireworks street dances and games She favors picking a Mr Mrs Centenniil at the beginning of centennial year and suggests a contest for the best kept home with appropriate prizes Phillips swimming pool is the number one need but suggests other things souvenir shop with Acton for sale and souvenirs of centennial a new with regular programs a week of wearing old fashioned clothing a store run by various to make funds for the Susan thinks the citizens of Acton should organize bike draws raffles etc and use the proceeds to construct a larger and deeper pool for everyone She is also in fivor of a centennial park with a two to four street dance along the street We ire ill part of Acton and if we are toiru to make Acton s Ccntennnl a to remember let ill buckle down now and work Susan concludes Ninety Seventh Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JULY Fourteen Pages F fieen Con PLAYGROUND Brench shows these three young lids how to put lots of umph into the ball when they re playing the gime Object of the game is to direct the bill between the legs of other pirticipnnts Playground opened yesterdiy Staff Photo Teachers reject Board offer County secondary school teachers have said NO to the Board of education s most recent salary offer for many reasons S president Tom said Tuesday Federation leader said per cent of the teachers voted against accepting the latest board offer There are secondary school teachers In the county said the board offer meant per cent were first year teachers and would receive no negotiable Increase except Fortyseven per cent of the teachers would receive a to per cent increase and 3J per cent would be entitled to a 5 to per cent hike In the last offer Raises offered teachers with four years experience or less would not keep up with the cost of Mr eh this would affect per tent of them Teachers also felt the were being pressured into a settlement before the school year ended and it was the fechnc the board could have come up with a better offer sooner It was similar to last action and the sour taste still remains Ramautarsingh also accused the board of dealing in bad faith Cure Ills Board Ins the peculiar ittitude that keeping teachers salaries down will cure the economic ills of the country said the Federation lender He chastised the board for not full of the grant system claiming the count was entitled to another in grants for the budget This sub of the rest of the province was unfair to teachers students and taxpayers added teachers said Peel County and other boards were awarded increases of to more than what Halton teachers are offered despite the fact Halton has a higher teacher pupil ratio than Peel Another sore point said was the board intention to withhold until a teacher secured a permanent position He saw this as a handicap to principals seeking qualified and experienced teachers One of the other sources of annoyance was the board s delaying tacUcs the Federation head claimed He said the board would call meetings to discuss negotiations and then schedule another meeting to attend so they t have much time for the teachers It was frustrating to come to meetings for negotiations and then hear the board could not carry on negotiations for any length of tune because they had mother meeting to attend sud would like to see negotiations start in April and end in May he declared Cant resign late settlement also worked to the board advantage said since teachers may not legally resign for the coming year after May He accused the board of locking them in their job Negotiations won start again until September and the teachers second committee set up to discuss working condition Both pirtics iLreed salary question should be settled first but now the te ichers would like to see their other settled is well They want more secret visual equipment and a reduction in the teacher pupil r The teachers want meaningful discussions which would end in meaningful decisions Mr told the I rcc Press Police intervene in walkway dispute Residents of Ijikcview sub division disputing Die of in Elizabeth Drive resident to fence off a walkway which the subdivision and Prospect irk were involved in two irate Seek meeting incidents Sunday w Ted to tear down the newly erected fence Police w those present to disperse Ownership of the rH is in instigated when dispute Acton Parks Board has lirmkicwic mil poll eludes w re I is a children no the settlement Want clear concept The Planning Association is seeking a mettinj with tin Minister or some senior official of Treasurj and Department of the Government Unit meeting the hope to some of the ramifications of Region I Inn for Development Planning Assoc is an informal bod members from of s seven will ask Count to seek a Joint with the department official Still vague the Plan affects ilif ft rent municipalities in different w and some of the points and concepts in plan Keen hay contest top 10 winners in the Acton Agricultural competition were announced this George Wallace he the list with points The competition was judged Robert Alexander Georgetown on June He termed it the closest competition he has had to Judge Sixteen fields were scored and all crops were exception good Following are the results George Wallace points Smith Griffin Alex Mc- and Son Norman Harris 5 Duncan Clarence Coles and Sons Ben 90 G and Sons Wallace ire still it is tin ition to draft a re Roberts issuntioii Burlington told tins paper Sum the questions th it still renmn are plaeedin i slow zinc mil restricted in its or whether it will be 1 1 in mother ione when is permitted This is question of irc it met for til future Burlington hopes to determine leth whin the recti p Mr ltd the pi m i died for iniournccd in and Bur restricted growth in Milton and with the other ire is used for the urb in When the pi in w is first sed i veir last Milton w is placed in zone two or i slow one Objections to th were m idt Halton 1 Jim Snow and town lis In December of list ir the Toronto Globe and M ill mil in i th it Milton had been lifted from the slow growth Government officials hive rem mum on the subject but not denied the Minister of the Direv lias siid i more find pi in would be in Oil fall ind Both tr imps on the Breeze llivood hive had full up situ itions during tht lust few weekends 1rci Press pirks bo 1 in Hue whin the issue w is to be resolved He said there was midline to discuss about the vv ilkvv Mr inkiewiezave them till to mrec to some form of rental of the properlv but Mr We ire not join to with him we don t believe he owns it In our opinion it is Be irdmore ropcrti counsel Ins advised the park were not a pirtv to e disagreement so the had no p in discussions Hi pi ice to settle it is in court Mr itterson Mr meanwhile he the propert has it fence 1 in 1 posted Coffee house A coffee house will be held it centre in the YM A buildup ridav and Saturda night in impbell reports re decor itinj inside the building has been almost completed this week he been bus amazements to have workshops it the centre A moviemaking club iv also be v amine trespassing property It is it that time he month he asked the parks boird suggested he would consider to half the cost of fencing the 1 to the board for since the borders on pirk fee of Acton man joins UN Ceylon team It ink Scott of Tler enuring the of ittrloo in September op duties the International I moving to he job Organization a branch of the United Nations Mr Scott will be part of an international im responsible fir est iblishinf tr mis for new industries in Ceylon An important aspect of the prognm is that each member of the te mi sent the United itions will hand over his to his Celonesc after up the proyam ensuring it is working 1 of absence Mr Scott has a leave of ibscnee from his present position Mrs Seott and Susan ill be to ton to join him plan to leave Canada July Meanwhile Nlelwillbe rhe plan to return to Acton when the contract expires MARY ANN an Acton District High student who his been active In the Acton Parks and Recreation summer pi program for the past three years will supervise this year program Working with Mary Ann s leaders this year are bus in Mills Val Mitchell Susan Brenda Kithy Cathy Dunn Caroline Merrin Diane Rick Rocher Playground opened yesterday Tuesday and will run until Friday August 27 two weeks later than in previous years Mary Ann is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Herman 3 Acton Staff Photo FRANK SCOTT JACKIE LEE his been for the summer by Acton and Recreation Committee to help recrea ordinator Brian Cimpbell with duties at the youth centre in the Y M A building Jackie was instru mental in organizing a coffee house for students at Acton District High School during the winter months She is the of Mr and Mrs George Lee Road Weeds in town especially in the business section are making streets look untidy Mondays rainfall inches to veteran wi itherm in liter of Corners Mond copious rains r iched depth of 1 st irted in the afternoon ind continued in the evening with lint perio is of drenching driving The rain helped relieve Monday thick humidity but w irm we ither Tuesday with its bright sunshine some forecast for the rest of the week is seasonable temper No concessions from minister Nassagaweya education rate up Wonder what theyre watching inside find out Photo A meetine with Ontario Minister of Robert Welch has failed to prov ide any education tax relief for Township Township officials met the minister in the middle of June in an attempt to point out the injusUCe they felt their taxpayers are subjected to Township officials have been unable to the minister to commit himself one way or the other since the meeting At night meeting township council passed a by law setting the rate of taxation For the second year in a row township residents will face increased education taxes The education mill rate for the township went up mills this year and over seven nulls last year County fire areas up Township ratepayers also face an Increase of mills for to the county and smaller increases to Milton and Acton fire areas The portion of the budget the township controls will increase by only mills following Is a summary of the assessment and mill rate to bo charged for 1971 Assess Mill Mill Amount Hate Rate 1971 Raised 797 354 16 Township Commercial 107 754 Township Res lownship Roads 7 964 67 Mills 19 376 2 11 Acton ire Area 1B6 1S9 Milton I- ire Area 151 Lie Pub Comm 1 107 67 Ele Pub Res Farm He Sep Res Farm 39 2182 Sec Acton 19 See Acton Res it Farm 2 700 17 Sec Milt Comm 1843 20 963 See Milt Res it arm 3 217B60 19