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Acton resembles construction camp Acton Is like some huge construction camp summer as houses apartment buildings street reconstruction and underground installations work goes on at almost all points the A ROUSING RENDITION of When the Saints Go Marchln auditorium Pictured to r TO in by the summer playground leaders capped off Thursday supervisor Wendy Bell Susan Mills a nights windup program at the M Z Bennett school leroy and Barb McNabb Photo by D Gibbons Traces history of local company Five model homes being constructed by the company are almost finished and ready for Inspection along Wallace St and promise to be Just the prelude to the first phase of SO homes to be built there this year Heavy equipment crews are working on the site levelling land constructing new streets and a new creek bed Twenty of the homes being constructed along Churchill S have already been sold realtor Alec Johnson told the Free Press The houses are partly occupied Lawns has been sodded this week Work continues on the five storey apartments built on the site of the old Beverley House property on Church St Several tenants are already in the units Another large apartment building is to be started on the same property this summer Meanwhile Church St is torn up for storm sewer installations adding to the din Exterior work Is almost completed on the Golden Gate apartment on Ransom St situated beside Cemetery Workmen are busy getting the 31 unit building completed for rentals Almost beside the Golden Gate development are the Klngham Hill Estates on Main St where basements of the first unit phase of town houses are being constructed Some units have been erected and only require Interior finishing The houses are two storey three and our bedroom units on poured concrete basements and they fan out from a main artery which Joins Highway at a point where the town works yard and tall water tower once were It is expected reconstruction of Bower avenue will begin today Wednesday to thestreett pave it build sidewalks and curbs Trenches have already been excavated to hold the underground wiring for hydro and Bell telephone lines Personals Mr and Mrs Jim Greer Peter David and Beverley of Kelowna BC have been visiting with Mr and Mis Jack Greer Mm Masales and Scott Mrs J A and Mrs J Frank visited last week with Mrs Tom Job Mrs Helen Mainprise Toronto visited on the weekend at the parental home with Mr and Mrs Lome Masales Mr and Mrs Rob of Kingsvllle visited with friends and relatives in and Acton aver the weekend The Adon Free Wednesday 1972 Second ami Mall Number WIS By Mm Trousdale history of this area written by Today we take fire Insurance John Ramsay we find the for granted following It is interesting to read of Its In January being present origin In this district From a at a meeting of Division Grange NOTICE OF NEW LOCATION R M TELFORD D C wishes to announce the relocailon of his CHIROPRACTIC OFFICE from 39 Wellington Street to MILL ST E Corner of Elgin FOR APPOINTMENT CALL 8532483 Obituary Mrs Mary Marks dies suddenly Funeral mass was said at St Josephs Church Acton for Mary Agnes Marks who died suddenly on August while attending a dance at the Acton Curling Club Active and personable Mrs Marks belonged to the Lakeside Chapter or the the Acton Curling Club and the Catholic Womens league of St Josephs Church organisations which she gave her wholehearted effort to during years she resided In Acton She was a devoted Catholic with strong interest In parish activities and her home and family Mrs Marks was stricken with a heart ailment but made a remarkable recovery after many weeks in hospital resuming many of the activities she loved Her sudden death came as a shock to many friends and acquaintances Born In East to John and Margaret Crisp she married Ernie Marks at Weston The family moved to Acton where they operated a grocery business on Mill St She leaves her husband Ernie who lives at the family home 115 Mill St and five children Marilyn Mrs K of Pauline Mrs Kent of Georgetown Mrs A Harklns of Acton Martin of Burlington and Peter of Acton A brother William Crisp of Seabright Ont and two sisters Ann ot Weston and Ttmpson of Islington also survive Father JJ Gillen celebrated the funeral mass at St Josephs Church on Tuesday August 15 assisted by Father Michael Bennett a family friend Pallbearers were also family friends Harry Kerwin McPhall Max Storey Ray Arblc Robinson and Tom Watson Burial was in Cemetery No 36 held at the feasibility of organizing and for a licence to start a iters Mutual Fire Insurance was discussed and the necessary legal steps taken to carry It out the Division Grange No agreeing to provide the funds necessary for organization and loan After overcoming some opposition and friendly advice warning us that farmers were not qualified to successfully manage a business of that kind we suc ceeded in getting a licence to commence business and took the first risk on the first day of April The first Board of Directors elected by the people for the several townships named were Erin George James Kirkwood John Warren Paul Kennedy William Dredge Eramosa John Ramsay A few years later there added to the territory the townships or Trafalgar and Nelson which made it necessary to add three more directors to the Board George Fisher Henry Cook George Gastel The name given to the Company was the Union Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company and It has so far proved successful having reached the four million mark and been means of saving to the members several thousands of dollars Dont miss out ELECTROHOME Tangier stereo console Not many people are going to resist the beautiful Spanish styled Oak cabinet by Or the remarkable stereo performance from the chassis featuring stereo radio Dual 1211 automatic changer and six- speaker sound system And heres the hidden extra the Tangier glides smoothly on Shepherd casters A nice elegant touch m aa A great look listen buy CFL SCHEDULES AVAILABLE HERE Salmon centre