Halton Hills Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), January 15, 1975, p. 4

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The Acton Free Press Wed Jan Wi We must tend our flocks The birds on Fairy become a delight in the past of years To walk along he and watch these charming birds in a refreshing experience at season of the year and In all kinds of weather However it nun advice is needed in feeding and perhaps preventing That our sanetuan has run into problems should be surprise It was an inexperienced group who undertook the with the best of From all we learned at school we all thought birds with undipped wings would fly south In the fall But it just didnt happen Our birds are still with us perfectly content despite the weather ami calendar At Kortright wildlife in director Mrs K Ham mill says their birds all winter If the birds hae open water and feed makes no attempt to persuade their boarders to head south And they dont do am thing about the obvious either They have a feeding formula which includes wheat and duck pellets Corn Mrs ispivtl itiMoiitnu in lint lot of the Ducks in lit ai givl 111 gelthvuiiUUUal a little a pound of letnt leotlingn a linn allow to feed he and on i too html the to iliHest At lake the laige lilnls half to a of a pound ami and he dinks a a pound or In the town and add theli own o thesupph to it the goes on despite lwlidaNs Site she adds about M pounds of feed own iLiih Hie whole town has an iissol In birds and owes a debt of to Iavloi More dne mm is needed If feinl is requited wiiainl the town should it not Fax lot we are to protected wildlife we must look hem das a week and all Stopping by the woods Editorial on a snowy A good way to start A pat on the back motorist- who gave he police so few problems over he holidaj weeks In fact our local police detach ment found a prettj pood group all And the on the street poll in last week that tomans like then point to stait a new Near that just may us a new polite via region Wheelers Glen focal point Of this and that i inter lew P Hon Jim Snow has predicted a is Jud in Acton for Ontario and building of i units this Yet the Legion l manage to interest needs here when the old jo building was available as a downtown location A new needs will of course again reveal people who want senior allien housing But where will a fine site be found f Education Week on Smoking is here from Januarx 11 to 18 The Tuberculosis and Disease Association has of literature available like to give to anyone interested They can be contacted at their main office Balsam Dr 450858 It s a service provided free of charge through contributions to the Christmas Seal campaign The problem firefighters have with numbering of rural roads could be very serious indeed The fire chiefs have told ton Hills administration committee that some country roads have two or three names and it s confusing for people phoning in fire alarms Working out a solution will be an important move Just when Actomans have be come accustomed to saving their newspapers and glass for collec The Outers have decided they must discontinue the service Their project was an excellent one It provided the school group with funds But it also involved the community in a project that every one agrees is needed The day will surely come when papers and glass are collected separately with the regular gar bage collection for automatic re cycling lt luliiiMilliiiiiilit II was Williams ami family mm IiiloIh Imntv In Is mm known us Mm humid iiinudWIlllimslHirgailu Its until post was istahhshid itmMl lotlui Willi mis lltli llu WIN l lllPIll ilng Willi family was rcspnnsihk for iiiituslnilduilopmint tin inmmunih if ml mills llu luib if in tarlui is llu hi Til like pi i is an In slim whs ii nuns ill iiiitid i IN wit wai jmti infidiDi d Win ll slut win pair in sum slon It wis ilsn a lomtminily wire In supptr r tin wen stun ku r was simuiiiii iiiulil talk I alimil Ins iiud as as In ippnnihalilc tin anil sh in i slim Willi tin won I In wmilil liifj at ill I iy wlnli iniiiH I in tin mlillli of stun IdIiii it I inn In 1 it I was kit of iiji win Ills 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llaralil Wlnckr to Ik Hi that thin wiih a bail If twji imu ml i Winder Mori and only am hail would both candy liuyN Hill Marty with Ion llulr kins llu Wluslirh Ins inn at John hurtli inn hands don I Hit i I inn Hun many lunit risldintsof lh who mhtrlhi of hi Wlutlir family If injur I hi win run Ho fur Many of host in rcsnltnls of lit IckI in Whtikr s Sugar and Spice by bill smiley This Is being written in lhal car hiatus Arid lam writing it pre natal position the hiatus between being and bring alive It rattier awkward at my elbows keep hitting my knees and vice versa My wife has been away for three days that life has been rather peaceful in the domestic confrontation field On Ihe other hand we are plagued with that Infernal eternal thing invented by Alexander Graham Bell and any moment t expect and hear the beloved but expected voice on Ihe other end pleading The house is an absolute mess As matter of fact the house looks as though a shipload of Vikings had spent the weekend before going on loot and rape somewhere else wit I am equal lo these occasions and repb Irmly I vc just finished the dishes dear Brunhilda at the other end the phone line docsn t know that this means I drooped and smashed a huge of Worcestershire and fine old Woolworth Japanese But she senses something Some people have a great sense of smell or taste My wife has a great sense of sensing sound funny she 11 say What arc you up Well I chuckle It depends on what you mean dear At the moment 1 m up to the phone la the fairly recent past 1 ve been up to the bathroom and up the dairy to gel some milk Just hi thought she say The house is an absolute mess She seems to get some strange vicarious satisfaction out this idin If the house is a mess our marriage is good and solid and I am to be trusted You are quite right I retort knowing the formula our daughter and our son in law just left and son has Just arrived he is going to Paraguay to pioneer the faith and Paraguay is full of snakes and tortillas and enchiladas and and the Green Hell and he This is what is known as intercourse e what the next move is and there is no con fusion clumsiness or frustration I shudder to think what it must be betwetn single people Well that was an imaginary if wife The rest of this column is cold fact My daughter was home with Pokey and that other fellow she hangs around with I changed his diapers six times Pokey while his father slept and his mother played contemporary musicislabs and chords on the piano The kid and I had our usual super time 1 must be getting old and sick and stupid and queer because he s the only person 1 have any fun with any more We wink solemnly smile cly crawl under the dining room table and bump our heads and hold out our arms to each other when everything else palls He likes whisker- rubs and I like satin checks According to his grandmother he and I have the two sets of most beautiful eyes In the world His are like two huge dark grapes with a devilish light in them Mine are blue bloodshot fallen angel type We also share an affinity for doing things other people think we should not do He rubs Ihe the wrong way ruffle my liners I il hive liked to had him for Christmas but his grandfather was pacing the floor hitting his head agnnst tiling and threatening to call out if he see his grandson so I had to let him go I was not to be left alone and lontly loitering as t had so much looked to during he holidays My son Hugh armed My son is a bird of paradise or bedraggled sparrow depending on how ou fetl I was a bit in the sparrow mood following the receipt a few days before of his big and baggige lo the tunc of express collect he is going to Paraguay lo spread the faith Inst year he went to the Holy Land Arabs didn git him Neither did the he is there ire enchiladas and Men in Paraguay The enchilada is a corpulent scorpion If you step on one while he is resting in your shoe and him you must cat him and this results in a disease called which calls for the roof of jour mouth to cave in And of course if you step on a Men in the course of spreading the faith you get This does not cause the roof of your moulh to fall in but the front including teeth At any rate Hugh and I dined in lonely state on Christmas Day from a capon We werentlonely but he as castrated rooster in the joint MAIN STREET in Glen Williams during the 1890s shows Wheeler Store behind the team of horses which is drawing barrels of some kind of produce To the extreme right is the old frame hotel My Little Blue Gown cc my clothes and Then sat me in a chair tried to cover up things Then I gave up in despair di parted When I donned the pale blue gown Tht dropped curtain up in front promptly hid down I was open then for business need to run There as room for my mignesia To turn its Ite fun Rut to wrap It needed less attention When I felt blue and had to do The things I dare not mention Now they tune taken back my little gown don t need it now you know For had to cover up things Before they lei me go But they promised to keep one for me If 1 slide off track And there II be lots ventilation Especially round the back The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago Ihire mi ninth tin public grounds an last Hint a skating ly organized for only illil bring Hull In Hoinc or tin in dull llu way on lawns anil Si in hi ill llir of llttlr aral Ann Win rvllli r Mr and I kii In KnoN linn morning win lunik town Mr and Mm Mr A I rank llvllk and Mr ml Mm irgf l A Ml u a mini fill In I Hill i a in si Ink kill k I nil- i f r ft- I I hi i I a ii I aiil I I I i l a MI Ikit I yean aqo J Mini- Id I mil 1 i r if part on V iAj r ic a tin JoAtifill kiting wi Hail In- a J frim j- f link tin i whir and Ijs jr 1 llu past if lit win rested ft- llii is jffnat aril 1 ws V til A lr don As a iiik tin nuiubir of still Iwust brought from run stag publii light Hi anlnioH for of tin ir Aorks fid al Ai kin this hoi I la Hilt Co idiju and In to hi built at A dm 75 years ago from the Hit htrt Mr who w is yi irs Hi ndi ami o will to lurn his from I yplmld at I ind say on tht of an III nissof i ftw days Mr Andtrson wis head J I Ik Has grral Mrs John of the Maples has turned visit her William Coleman and familv in also her brother in alt who we in sorry to ly is not improving in Knox w is favond with a visit Sabbath from Itev Robertson Superintendent of Missions in the North llissirmons muth and his lalion of the progress of the church in sections of tht very Tlie is a if Mrs Janet Anders n Main Sin l who is Justly proud of the import position by kinsman Mr Thorn is Brunt has been appointed caret Methodist hurch His pre decessors Mr and Mrs Mann were in charge of the lor twelve years Mr Brown At ton wis last offered the J SOU for fine form tin fourth line THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE isinessand Editonil Office

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