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The Acton Free P Wed February 1976 Metric challenge for Leno Braida at HQ Building Products of Canada in Acton bid farewell to plant manager with a party at the Acton Meadows Golf Club Braida is being trans ferred to the company headquarters in Montreal where he will assist in company cross Canada conversion to the metric system He will also act on behalf of the company with the federal government Braida his wife and several guests were dined for the evening received several gifts including a calculator and a brief case Braida replacement Brian of Chemical Canada in Sarnia starts at the end of March joined Building Products in 1969 as a production manager He eventually assumed the position of plant manager the follow year Pr or to joining Building Products Braida was plant manager of Poly bottle in His assignment in Montreal is expected to last between two and four years and is considered quite important by company officials For many years Mr was chairman of the Separate School Board and an active member of the Oak villc Aquatic Club He the son of Mr and Mrs Abele Main S m He grew up here and attended FOOT LONG cigar was one of the gifts presented sthoois before going to Friday to Leno Braida who is transferred from receved the Acton Building Products plant to Montreal Recommend Booth suggests itmutd page problem to the downtown merchants in Ward 1 and bring lo council a mendation that reflects the concern of the merchants and res denls of Ward 1 as well as the through traffic on No highway Perhaps now is the time to consider Parking Meters not only on Mill Street but on side streets such as Willow John and St Alb3n s Drive for your consider concerns express regarding Parking in the down town part of Ward 1 Yours very truly G W McKenzie letter Dear Sirs receive this letter of comment as an additional source of considered that may be helpful lo the Committee as a whole a support to Councillor Hurst in conveying Ward concerns and further comment that may interest Mr Austin our Engineer in consider regarding By law of which 3rd reading was referred back at the recent Council meeting of February 1976 On the strength of con terns expressed to me re cently by individuals person observations etc please tonsider the following Parking in v of the recent approach to Council by Acton Merchants and the Sending reconstruction of III Street we might be well advised to defer regulatory parking until both or these matters are further resolved The matter of parking has changed considerably in the past two to three years If parking areas provided had Been fully utilized I was always convinced parking was adequate Due to growth in population and recent observation the existing lots are now used extensively and I do recognize growing problems regarding parking Therefore in the recon of Mill Street it create it on if alternate parking were not first and traffic rerouting that will be required it the lime of construction would com pound this situation 2 The with drawii of parking on Si Drive by Si Sales employees seems to have rel the problem there and perhaps a second look at the situation may suggest restricted parking on north instead of the south side from 1 to Willow Street The critical area as I see it it present is he parking it the several intersections We should entertain eliminating parking of one car each side of Willow Street John Street Street Street ind Wilbur Street on Mill Street To el minale parking on all of one side would require the area of a fair sized park n itself Therefore i Since there will always Ik the bottlencek at Mill Long route for card It took a long time for Mrs Laura to receive one of her Christmas cards It was muled December 17 and she found it In her box on January It was from her neighbours Barbers four doors away on Cobblchill ltd Although it had been mailed in Acton it bore the postmark Halifax when it finally brought her Best Wishes for a Merry Chr si Return to preregion Recreation Boards The return to recreation commissions as they existed before regional government was a topic thrown out for discussion at Hills ad ministration All recreation commissions and parks boards were scrap ped under Bill 151 which set up the Region of Halton Booth said it would call for an amendment of the bill and asked members to think about it He said We have advisory committees we have groups in Norvnl Horn by and Glen Williams who don have any funds budgets or responsibilities the buck still stops here These groups don t relieve us any rcsponsi He suggested a recreation commission for the whole town with perhaps four mem of council on it He said this group would draw up a budget and make recom for capital ex penditurcs Councillor George said if the administration committee had the power to include the present recrea tion advisory committees in budget discussions the same thing could be accomplished We would have less control than we do now Maltby contended recrea advisory committees should include representa from the Glen ball club Hornby and Acton minor hockey and soccer groups Booth said he was not a big group like that Councillor said recreation commissions and parks boards in the past were separate entities who could pass bylows and draw up and spend their own budgets It would almost eliminate Ihis Centre gets committee the Hon committee We would be left with five Councillor Morrow said it would not only eliminate most of the administration committee function but would eliminate percent of the reason for having a town of Ballon Hills Recreation is the only thing not duphcat at the region he com mented He said the members could stay home and predict that might just happen within 15 years if the region takes over local govern ments claimed he ham lets feel ignored now having no direet input in Ward re creation affairs Maybe one answer would be the of a third recrea advisory committee he suggested said he just wanted members lo think about his dea Mill Main collision Vehicles driven by Car la Wood Acton and Brian Lakeahorc were in collision at the Mill Main corner on February according to Regional Police Police say that Baylan large semi trailer ana truck was backing up to moke deliveries when it when it was collision with the Wood vehicle travelling west on Mill St E An estimated in damages was incurred to the right front fender and light of the Wood vehicle report police HOURS Thurs 8 i Sat 11pm Sunday Noon Tel 8532060 Street ind Mun Street I would rtcommei the re construct on of Mill Street in Us form with same dimensions of roadway and sidewalk The relief required for Ih route would be an sludy and approval by the nislry of Transports ion Communications for a In pass for trucks and through traffic To facilitate the detours will be required shortly may I suggest you entertain oneway traffic Albans Drive from Main Street to Willow Street and one way traffic on Street from Willow Street to Mam Street The of as much parking on Mill Street as is reasonable until new irk are available I A Dubv License plate taken A license plate and bracket reported taken from a car the parking lot at the arena feb 19 An Acton man rcporled the theft to police nunuiii from page I suggested more of the funds should be coming the province Hill answered If the project is successful Queen s Park might be willing to increase its share of the funding next year In response to a question from Councillor Jim Watson McKenzie said a board of dir has already been up to run the centre Councillor Mac Anderson said he could see the need for a start up grant and agreed it should be a once only grant He was worried this project would be like many others started in the past which wanted a start up grant and then Just kept coming back year after year for more money Anderson suggested since Hills was giving the centre the region could show its support for the pro ject by giving or 500 He added the reduced grant would encourage people con with the project to get out and raise funds In the community Another alternative he pro posed was hold up giving the centre any money and if they ran out of funds to give a grant then He added giving any grant was con to regional policy suggestion of a grant of MOM won commit lee approval and he noted If the on gave less than project would have a tough time getting off the ground The grant is still subject to council approval Pebbles Lane not likely Hills going to name an unnamed street in the area until it lakes over provincial prop erly there later this year There is a small parcel of land wh has been a road side picnic area at Silver creek which will be given to the town by Queen s Park later this year The park t used any more since the route of High way was changed to go by the area The street Richard and Elizabeth Rock have asked the town to name Pebbles Lane is pari of old Highway Silvercreek The road YOUR HEADQUARTERS FOR Quasar Television Works in a drawer FIRST LINE TELEVISION SALES SERVICE Mill St E Acton Choose ft TILDEN ANDREW MURRAY MOTORS Road N GEORGETOWN LATEX Home Hardware Price gal More Than 20 Off SALE SEMIGLOSS Home Hardware Price Gal Mora than Off HOME DECORATING SALE WALLPAPER SALE 20c COME IN AND SEE OUR LARGE VARIETY OF SUNWORTHY PATTERNS SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR YOUR MONEY CHEERFULLY REFUNDED dead ends near Highway 7 and leads to Councillor fern Hyde said if the street li named should have Ivcrcreck in the name The lonim will delay the any name until t lakes over Ihe road park Car swerves A single ear collision Feb on 24 caused minor injury driver Grace The car swerved out of control on icy highway striking guidcposls on the side of the roadway eaus ng damage the ears and posts LAKEVIEW CENTRE Cat fit and On Staff pot from CELANESE VENTURE CALLAWAY Had Surface and ARMSTRONG AND F lull ISTIMATIS Lakeview Centre ACTON HILLS CREDIT UNION 273 QUEEN STREET ACTON HALTON HILLS ONTARIO PHONE 853 iii ANNUAL MEETING DANCE SATURDAY FEBRUARY Acton Band Hall Wallace St Acton MEETING 7 30 p 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