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B2 The Acton Prwa Wed Saplambr Review on regions Regional government may not necessarily be here as an irreversible fact There will be a review of regional government in Niagara Regional government was established in Niagara in and the council there decided a couple of months ago it was time for a second look An independent commission is headed by William Archer a former Toronto councillor Hell study political systems and ad ministration the boards and commissions how things work Perhaps a study of this kind will be instituted in Hnlton some time At least one of the candidates for office finds not too much con cern about regional government as he meets the people these pre election days Our complaints he finds are mostly about the opera tion of things and not about the basic restructuring of government itself Youngsters change time Acton and area youngsters are now changing their tunc from no more pencils no more books to its off to school we go And the morning rush hour Vacation for motorists is over Commuting to work during school days particularly just after classes open offers safety hazards not encountered in the summer Once again the Hamilton Automobile Club has launched its School s Open campaign to remind drivers to be extra alert for children making their morning commute to local schools Colourful Schools Open Dnve Carefully posters are posted throughout the four counties of the club to reinforce the message while motorists are on the road Bumper stickers and pldcemats also carry the message Motorists are urged to exercise the Drive Carefully slogan with special emphasis when confronting these school related traffic conditions reductions in speed limits in school zones crossing guards and safety patrols helping students cross streets children on bicycles children crossing unguarded streets children walking on roadways youngsters darting out from between parked cars toddlers on their way to school for the first time parents stopping to let children off in front of schools school buses stopped to load or unload pupils Motorists are also reminded of the new school bus law that went effect September 1 Monday Traffic in both directions is required to stop for a school bus with flashing red lights regardless of the speed limit in town as well as in the country Our commonwealth cousins Our commonwealth cousins from almost countries are eli gible to vote In the Ontario if they have lived in the pro vince for a year Some of those from nonCom monwealth countries such as Eire the republic of Ireland South Africa and Bangladesh are also considered British subjects And those who are associated with the United Kingdom and Can ada in the Commonwealth are Australia Bahamas Barbados Bermuda Botswana Ceylon Cy prus Fiji Gambia Ghana Guy ana Hong Kong India Jamaica Kenya Lesotho Malawi Malaya Malaysia Malta Mauritius New Zealand Nigeria Pakistan Rhodesia Sierra Leone Singapore Southern Rhodesia Swaziland Tanganyika Tanzania Trinidad and Tobago Uganda Western Samoa and Zambia The magic of names Do the children in school know where all these commonwealth countries are Better still do their parents know Isnt it strange that we see nothing of them on television read little in our papers while were flooded with American news All these countries share a Queen yet we seldom see her on TV or in our newspapers Whats the reason Dont we share more than a right to vote 1400 gallons for you Canada uses gallons of water every day for every man woman and child says a new book out Canada Water Year Book 1975 Environment Canada did the research that reveals the whopping figure Dont feet too guilty about wasting water though The book says 50 gallons a day per person is for personal use The other are for manufacturing cooling municipal services agriculture mining and other activities for instance the towns largest industry came here because there was plenty of water and there still is We use water daily without thinking where it all comes from But gallons Of this and that This weeks Years Ago column announces that Bertha Nephew is joining the teaching staff Just last week the Free Press carried her obituary as Bertha Buchanan Another coincidence was the choice of the picture of the Buchanan home on the front of the Marketplace real estate section of the paper Schools in and sos the new school bus rule Remember motorists you must stop for a school bus with its lights flashing Campaign time During the election campaign can not promise to print letters to The editor dealing with the campaign The Editor The big blue signs at the towns entrance now bear a friendly message Hi welcome to our town The billboards had been bare for quite a while and the improvement is pleasant A damp and gloomy way to end the summer holidays was the rain drenched weekend just past Its enough to make everybody happy to get back to work and school The park was nearly deserted each day of the threeday Labour Day weekend The government wont approve compulsory seat belt legislation so people must legislate themselves Seat bells have a proved value but theyre of no use at all unless theyre used That means always A little harder to legislate for our own families would be lower speed on the roads AS STUDENTS TEACHERS and summer vacationers get down to the hustle and buslle of the working world mother nature paints her fall picture with rolling hills and fluffy clouds Soon trees will be littered with color temperatures will become moderate and animals will prepare for the winter That includes skiers Sugar and Spice by bill smiley Just clearing off my desk before head ing to Saskatoon for a convention of weekly editors Boy am la bum There must be letters stacked here unanswered First of a there arc two piles of letters about the metric Celsius nonsense hose who agree with me form a much deeper pile But in fairness those who disagree are much more literate Dots this have any significance The more literate letters art on the whole much duller than the emotional ones They treat me as a backward child or a old man I am neither Sample from Gary Wharton of Out There are things ing his spelling in this world that from the sounds of your column you en begin to comprehend Things are dealt with on a world wide basis now and in do ing so we need a common unit of measure weight and volume And so on Baloney If that is so why don we havcacommon world wide language and a common unit of currency We have neither The argument holds no On the other side Gilchrist of Perth Out is equally lacking in logic The metric system should never be intro duced in Canada because it Isn t Canadian I want my children to grow up in a dlan Canada not a Foreign Canada An Canadian that accepts the metric system t a Canadian Well now 1 go tint far Thai means that I could never enjoy fish andchlps French fries chicken chow mcin southern fried chicken and would be condemned for life to drinking Canadian wine That way madness lies There letter from Mr and Mrs Knott of Man The guy that In vented this stuff Celsius and metrics so why t it die with him as it sua docsn make any sense Wc are only two out here but I know there are many more in this area Go to it Bit send out petition or whatever it takes to stay as it was 1 fore A June editorial in the aterloo icle by Mike Roy is headed Some ml Please He then attacks rm ideas about the mi trie system Hi on to state a lot of facts about the I s population makes a desperate attempt to link these to the need for a metric system and Tails I just take back my remark tint letters urging a metric system are more literate than those against Herts a long witty oft bawdy letter from Harvey Malcolm a farmer pal politician and correspondent from for the Statesman He wants metric Have the twinkling of an eye with a ralepajcr breathing over our shoulder how mnn lots or such like can be found in an umpteen acre field No I haven t Harvey But 1 Imagine it could be done with a calculator in about three minutes by a teenager of overage intelligence What the big rush to find it out anyway Somebody only wants to make a buck Let him wait Leaden of Rosedole British Columbia says that he often disagrees with me wholeheartedly but en this is on my side In port he says speaking of poll They lake out money and they screw it all up until you con t tell one bdl from another except for the good old deuce and I suppose they soon get rid of that They shove French down the English throats and English down the French and now they drop this Celsius bit on us poor long fenng Inslnrds Whit dowe want that for Sounds more like a disease than a degree of temperature Another brief letter from Western couple stamped envelope enclosed says Tell us whit to do our or whit and we II do it Well folks hats a good to start but don he surprised if you polite brush off To try to sum up my own feelings would require another whole column and would just touch the subject firstly I agree that is easier Any idiot knows that liut don t lr to snow me with mciiLs i economic future he me trie system Our economic future like it or lump it is tied i tint the which is not metrie file metrn should have been In trodueed years aeo It wasn Now is not the time to do when Inflation is terrible on May be it s years too soon We Just cm of ford it right now Celsius is silly 1 don ire what the tempenture is in Outer Mongolia or what system use I ml lo know whether it 10 below or above ihrenheil The uses I The radio and TV alone the border use both The British continental temperatures in Fahrenheit lit change to metric and Celsius seem lo reflect that old applies in everything from education It some thine like this Let drag our feet for while until else has tried this thing out Then we II jump In go the whole hog whether the thing worked or not fleck ith both of them I only hope when I to it been summer spe for when and it fish I don eatch northern will not be les than two metres in length Looking back AN IMPORTANT part of Acton s history is reflected here as members of the Acton platoon of the lfrlth Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary pose in The platoon is one of eight which made up the Battalion and also included troops from OakviUe Georgetown Burlington Milton Shelburne and Grand Valle LOOKING CLOSELY long time Acton residents may be able to recognize Acton citizens who were once members of the Acton Platoon of the Battalion of the 1916 Canadian Expeditionary Force Members of the Battalion are seen as they trek from Camp Borden in Oct 1916 under leadership of Colonel Donville The troops are on route to Barracks in Hamilton for winter of 1916 pnor to leaving fur overseas on April 5 1917 The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago the Free Im IKS A bylaw which shift Saturday t hour to Friday night for at tit Alton wax read a find time In Mi night after mem vrtt wiled with u petition claim ixrti nur port for the new In eliminations it listed Although funlce linker nor her family ha anything about ft a list of winners of admission scholflnships to the University A Induden her name Hi lint of awards released this I v linker of Acton in hud won a Irlh The hi nil school Is Jammed this week with on of pupils and the new still t a for occupancy It is ex thai th new classrooms will be by next werk for lh overflow crowds In tin sehwl and will then lust mil lib according to the Acton mi we colled out venina to control an unspectacular but stubbornly fir the western end of the rising view subdivision Work men it the subdivision ruid earlier in the bee horning off brush and scrub Con ruble smoke was rising from the bush lire apparently burned out control shortly supper hour and came catching on to a small of ever greens before it was put out 50 years ago from the Issue of the Press The regular meeting of the Women In will be held on riday evening Sep tember at m sharp at the home of Mrs John Mown Main Street A good pro gramme I- welcomed The Acton schools re opened yesterday and two new teachers took their places on the high school staff They arc Miss T Craig Athens who is the new principal in and Miss Nephew of Kin- who takes the position of Assist ant formerly held by Miss Tisdale The start of the public school mains Acton Church was the scene of very delightful event on the afternoon of August when Mildred eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Morgan re of reasons Corners was married John of Milton J Acton was the officiating minister The bride was attended by her sister Miss I- dm The bridegroom was sup ported by Mr Alexander Mclsaac of Acton Last Thursday evening Acton Citizens Band played for the second time this at Milton and gave a concert In Victoria Park there A parade of the Milton and Ac ton hands and the Boy Scouts was formed marched from the town hall Aclon Citizens Hand Mr Joe Williams com a Toronto pianist and soloist put on the programme the park years ago Takrn from the Issue of the 1ress 1900 letter from Gunner Gould of Second Royal Canadnn Con South Africa to his Acton friends says he lias been in that godforsaken months and has it last had an engagement We left Pretoria with a column of fighting men for the pur pose of either surrounding the Boers or them back a regular artillery duel lasted in hour then all we are getting tired of the work and wish it were oxer The putihc school reopened Tuesday with the following staff in places T Moore pnncipil Miss Miss Jean Miss Tena Miss McQueen There was a good attendance of scholars the Toronto Exhibition has kept a number from being enrolled this week When the stump of the big willow which had grown for nearly half a century at the comer of Mill and Willow Streets was be ing removed few weeks ago the tar of the Old Pupils Reunion committee the idea of securing a section of it and having souvenirs prepared and sent lo each of the old pupils Last week pieces of the old willow were posted out with a printed message team of horses attached to a seed drill became frightened at machine shop Saturday and ran at J speed up Mill St the third I me Thevbelong ed to Mr Robert Watson line The Disciples at ire having evangelistic services Four converts were recened last week Mr Hughs McDonald plot of wheat on the farm of Mr Robert prow I with gram which he grew in while working on the Darling farm at Mil ton THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office Copyright