Halton Hills Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), July 2, 1975, p. 3

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Julian Reeds hat in Liberal ring Willows weep The Acton Press Wod July 3 Dandelions Poor fish Jul in Reed colorful In the fight to Keep school open has tossed his hat In Ihc ring in attempt to capture the Liberal nomination for he Burlington riding Well known in his family have lived since Jultahu fame a farther afield when he sharked the battle to keep school open and rail led the whole village to the He is a member of the executive of Com rhunity Association who arc trying to leise the vacant school and grounds as a community centre an actor In television commercials his face is familiar to viewers In I beans Trident gum General Tire and in the Ben son and Hedges magazine ad where Mr Is shivering in his shorts He and his wife and three Christopher and occasionally appear together In lie is also an accomplished musician and singer and has appeared in many musical His latest being iddler on tht Roof where he played Ihc It role Mr Heed attended public school when It was a tworoomed school and later Milton High school He graduated from Ontario culture College now of Guclpli in animal In and now puts his knowledge to good use running the acre farm He says he con supply family with meat milk and vege tables and hopefully his own hydro power He Is now build Ing his own dam and gener ating station After graduating from OAC he was Eastern On tarlo salesman for Maple 1 cat Milling Co for ten years later wllh the Hogg Dawes Laboratories who produce chemicals for feed fortification From there he took the big plunge into show business after making his debut in light opera in a Gilbert and Sullivan production Mr Reed has been involved in music since he was eight years old singing in the choir of United Church and as soloist in many other churches Scouting has been a big part of his life and was founding skipper of the 2nd Hover Crew He was the first Norval resident to bo awarded Queen Scout honors He soys the battle to keep school may have been spark that made him decide to enter politics If you Iry to speak for people who mean the most to you In your community and you re whipped you can cither rc- Ircat into your own life or you can fight He said the of the wishes of all the Norvnl people was too much for him to stand The thrust of government must come up from the people not down from the government to the people boughs need cutting already I lawns growing highlight In j quickly this month OB Ihcy ii i these days M weekend In May K fish there nearly w wcek cottage country even seem to be resting JULIAN REED Suggest small groups for rural communities rural committees of Hills could have a chance for more citizen Input In the way of recreation if a suggestion by Doug Colllson recreation director and the Acton Advisory Committee Is by Council At their monthly meeting lost Thursday John Cooper recreation acted as proxy for Mr Colli son In raising the suggestion The idea was to have each smalt community form Ihclr own recreation committee to report to Acton comm ittce In this way any pro blems or desires in those particular areas could Ik aired Wants mode known It was pointed out by Wood that before Pom Shcl don of Speyslde joined the committee nooncrcitly con what the people In that area wanted now that Ihc residents of that area knew what they wanted but just t lie heard prior to Mrs Sheldon Join thc committee Areas such as Hornby I Glen Williams could have representatives get together within their own community and make suggestions of what they want or don want In this way no purl of Hills is without proper It was also mentioned at Thursdays met ting thot the present committee would help in every to BARBECUED CHICKEN smelled temptingly delicious as it was on the ovens yesterday afternoon Jeff of Hornby loads the cooked pieces into a foil lined box for distribution Speyside won battle but war still to come Committee requests additional court time The Area Rate payers Association have general public has the Acton Recreation Advisory on their side con corning tenni The subject was brought up at Thursday evening meeting of committee A present time the courts are only available Any other time if a member wants to play the person on the courts must finish his half hour and let tennis club members tune the courts Sheldon feels there should tie some lime over weekend for Ihc public I think It should that If they the town council do not give more public time they arc going to get lot of flak from the public and this committee from won thc battle but not war against thc quarry proposed by Consolidated Sand and Gravel according to ratepayers group lawyer Greg Cooper In a letter to Jim Sheldon ratepayers president Mr explained that the hag dropped by Consolidated until the Niagara Escarpment Com mission comes out with its master plan for thc area Mr Cooper explained this will tAcSEK Approve expansion of Duff Quarries only Councillor Miller opposed Hills Planning Board an agreement with J Duff allowing him quarry on Ihe acre Klines former Mines property adjacent lo the Duff properly on the Fifth Cine Miller opposed the Mrecmcnt saying he was in the mess Twin Windows He he saw no signs of there Mr Duff explained thc long range plans for rehabilitation called for estate residential Glomes after thc quarrying finished tic said had started at bock or the properly Where could sec but he said he had to start there Mr Duff said his company had not intended to move behind Twin Windows at this lime but were forced into it because had run out of stone He si id hat area contained large boulders equipment had to be built to handle them He predicted Ihc cleanup in that area could be started by fall Miller said there arc six homes across the road and three behind the area and termed it in Mr Duff said rehabilitation cannot be on a basis He pointed out thc new equipment he had installed was planned for Ihe ex pans Ion but froze all quarry expansion We would have run out last fall if we started our washing plant Miller admitted there was a great need for aggregate but ropeited his disappointment the mess in Mr Duff explained the Ministry of Natural Resources had relaxed their rules and now allowed way side pits with permits issued on a yearly basis He said they were forced into this action when aggregate became scorcc In this area and had to be brought in from Ihe northern area forcing the price up Under the conditions of the permit and the agreement with the town J C Duff as sumes responsibility for rehabilitation when the quarrying in one area is completed He said one lake or two ponds are planned He pointed out Ministry of environment would be in volved lo ensure the water flowing tnan be coming a stagnant pond Our prime concern this year is whether to leave that hides the operation from the road or whether to take it down level with the road said Mr Duff as he asked for a meeting with council members to hear their views He promised he would rehabilitate as much as he could as the operation went along between Tenth to 15 and High way to Nassagaweya Townline to be made Into a large quarry site Over a long term plan quarries would eventually be made Into three lakes with thc surrounding area developed into parks Thc land was purchased In for this purpose In Is li to postpone a scheduled Ontario Municipal Board hearing on tha grounds that hearing was premature land in question in the Speyside area fell within the boundaries of the Niagara Escarpment Commission special policy area Thc OMB in turn did not take this reason as grounds for calling off the hearing and planned to go ahead with the scheduled meeting Hills council in turn appealed this hearing to the Ontario Cabinet This is where the matter had stood since February until a few weeks ago when Commission released its preliminary development controls which will be in effect until Ihc entire plan is completed Consolidated according to Mr Sheldon has agreed lo adjourn ihc matter until such time as the full Commission report has been released has also taken the case off Ihcir calendar indefinitely NOTin TO SUBSCRIBERS Willow St Acton Its been a long time since we adjusted the subscription rate of The Acton Free Press but effective August 1 1975 the new rate for a one year subscription issues will be 7 It was in 1969 when the rate was last changed Since then there have been significant increases in all the costs associated with publishing You can renew your Free Press subscription at the old rate one year maximum until August 1 but after that date the new rate will apply Home delivery of The Free Press will continue at 15 weekly as will in store copies Subscriptions to the and other countries will be annually We hope we may keep coming your way eacl week with one of Canada best weekly newspapers July 7th to 18th am noon Children 514 are all invited and most heartily welcome Bible Study Games Crafts For further information contact REV j C0RVERS Held in the BETHEL CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH in Acton BROS RED 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