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Revitalization study planned downtown A revitalization study will be mode of downtown Acton Members of the Business Improvement Area have agreed to hire Limited Planning and a con tract is being drawn up At a cost of S3 the com will study the downtown area and prepare suggestions for downtown improvements street sciping etc The members of the I A in meeting with the rep re of the firm lowers were insistent that the ideas should be practical ones functional as well as aesthetic Mr Flowers told them not only would his company make suggestions but they could also make separate estimates and oversee the actual work The first stage of the study is to assess the Functional and aesthetic problems of the downtown as well as any assets which could be developed as live Committee Illustrations will likely be made showing suggested changes to buildings A com will likely be estab lished to act on the mcndations which come out of the study The planner will be taining attitudes of officials departments in the areas of zoning public works Hies etc and the I A bud will be taken into account An ippropnatc theme might be suggested Parking will be considered IllbllnlKpluj Aflcr a preliminary study h is been will attend a metting to discuss the subject Then a draft report will Ik prepared and copies Then will prepare an impltmi ilion schedule on priority ratings prep ire final report and rations for public display I A Chairman Henry Strachyro says he hopes the drawings will be ready in time to be shown at the fall fair There will also likely be displays in store windows he said We re running on a modest budget and trying to keep it as realistic as possible Mr Stachyra said One Hundred and Second Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MAY 1977 Fotiv Two Fifteen Cents Centre funds set for year Plans are being made for a general membership meeting of the Community Services Centre At a board meeting acting chairman Peter Harks reported the financial cam paign was a complete sue cess The ct is being fin by from region from Hills and the rcmtming per cent of the budget from local donations More board members will be sought to fill vacancies Increased use of the Centre was reported by Terry Since nurse Shirley McKay has been granted a leave of ibsence the baby clinic can no longer be held at the centre Ms McKay had spe cial training as a nurse and is not being re placed by the Health Unit 11 unit motel addition Hills only motel The Cedar Springs R l Georgetown on Highway between Acton and George town is slated for a facelifl and an expansion Hills planning board decided last Tuesday the town has no objection to the addition of a second floor consisting of 11 units at the motel The town s decision will be forwarded to the Niagara Com mission who will have he final say In addition to the extra units the existing building will also be refurbished The owner Max also wants to build a home at the rear of the motel is owner quarters Councillor Peter Pomeroy urged planning board support the plan because of the shortage of motels in Hills Try for land separation fails An application for a land severance near s Corners was turned down be cause it had very little going for it Regional land division committee denied the ap plication or Steve and Helen for a severance on the west If if lot on the First I I v is for some 45 The decision was made at regular meeting at the Fsquesng office building on the Seventh Line Tuesday You re beat said com member Morrow to Mrs The application sought for mortgage purposes was caught between the opinions of reports from a lion authority and the regional health department The health unit requires land ill on the lots which it claims are too low On the other hand the conservation authority said no soil may be dumped on lands near the creek which feeds into Blue Springs Creek Other reasoas eontributing to a lesser extent to the com mittee decision were the were too short and the are not active farmers Mrs asked how the other houses located near the property got to be The committee informed her that prior to 1971 the rules governing separations were quite lax The meeting was the second for the Trutiaks At the first meeting the commit tee suggested the applicants may want to get a lawyer considering the wealth of reports going against them Inside Cemetery chapel get letters Honor Velma West Classified Rumania trip MZB field day Tour high school Arbicanniversary Rockwood Shecpkilled Tenders called Tinders have been called for grading drainage granular base and hot mix on Highway 7 from east limits easterly for miles excluding miles in Rockwood re surfacing on Highway from east limits westerly for miles and installation of sewers on High way 7 from to east limits for miles Tenders will be opened for this project at Ministry head in June Name committee soon to study town hall A committee will be named si on to discuss the town ill question the eitieas presentation to council last week the gathering of will nee from the re It his been that there will be five lot il people on the committee as well as represent of other inU rested groups JACK MITCHELL Milton looks out from the cab of his overturned tractor trailer through a maze of hydro wires on the line He was unhurt in the Friday accident hut the wires on his truck prevented mm from leaving until hydro workers had cut off power to the Volunteers busy with many fires Manufacturer employing 700 interested in locating here major com which minufaclures products for I shelves in Canad is inter in locating in North and is trying to gel the necessary land for a plant in either Aeton or Milton The company would employ 700 Gray wearing two hats is PC candidate in the eurrent election campaign and president of the George town Chamber of Commerce broke the news to George town Rotary Club Monday night in a big of assorted industrial goodies promised for Hills Gray said he received a phone call at 10 clock Sunday morning from a of the mnnu who indicated an interest In the Georgetown area for a labor intensive light manufacturing plant I he would hire 700 people It is a new facility of major Canadian company he said with popular products sold on retail shelves every where in Canad Gray said he acquainted the representatives of the eompany with the available land in the and they seemed interested in locating in either Acton or Milton be cause little land is avaihblc in Georgetown The land in Milton is described as being cast of Highway and north of in the proposed Milton industrial park The Aeton land is In the industrial park The company is a responsible manufacturing firm which ships to all parts of anada Gray told Rotor and they are interested in breaking ground soon on a new plant to take advantage of the lax break on equipment and lower interest rates was not interested in in the former I oh sir pi ml m Milton but is looking for enough 1 in I for completed fieilily Surprise It was one of sever sur prise indusln il goodies the PC Monday Others included the news tint the shutdown Dom tar Piper plant in Georgetown would very likely be opened soon by mother company employing us many as A large Gray said the company now investigating adding to the present plant and was not studying the engineering possibilities He also said West ft ronto Interested in locating In Georgetown had contacted him last week after they saw his election signs not realizing he was also pre of the Georgetown imber of into in entirely new line of steel ictunne ind would nut he closing its pi in west Inronto lie said hut would like to expand in to sud itions for porch ise the lit yirn plant on Iimb SI were pro ind it would me in mother jobs for II Hills Gray stressed there possibilities for m inuf in II ilton Hills with i pool and he thought this was at tnctlng manufacturers The PC candidate claimed credit for initialing nego tiations between the new interested in locating the former paper mill which closed down In April leaving em out of work Many have since found Jobs volunteer firefighters hive been busy the past two weeks A chimney fire it the home of Willow St on i was he first hire chief Mick Holmes reports no dam A done the rail road trucks two miles west of lown on needed the attention of the firefighters as did simllir fires behind Mowbny ice and Highway ir ihe first line all on the same date Another fire on May 7 on Crescent St his chief Holmes siisptctlne children that same ly firefighters were called fire in a gar bin it Hie Chicken and PiwaSpol Chief Holmes said is thrown into the I here was Johnson on leave Hilton candidate Hill Johnson has wnn i leave without pay from his job at CinadT Centre for Inland Waters in and won have lo quit the job to retain his 1isl lohnson irei resident of Milton was concerned bee iase he needed in official leave from work but found out he s supposed h applied for the leave before becoming a candidate Johnson is a candidate before he the new job at He vowed he would quit the job to keep the candidacy if necessary However the feder government granted the ive without pay fective 4 pm Ma 11 Senior citizens Citizen of the year HE COULDNT come to his own party Frank Oakes was told Monday evening by a Chamber of Commerce committee that Tie had been chosen Citizen of the Year for 1977 he was going to be out of own on the planned date of May so the Chamber hastily re arranged the dinner for evening June He a former councillor and school board member and recently retired from his veten nary practice Mediation for Disston mediation meetine is been called for union representatives of Department of Labour Union Brian McDonald told the Free Press Wednesday morning that the meeting has been called by the Department f I ltwillbeheldsome Mr McDon ild reported a pieket was called for J m ths morning and the union will provide a wiener r last at noon for pickc tors Enough applications to fill all 58 units in Ihe it the lime turned in the alarm A ir fire on I stern re Milled in the loss of to Wins ton on I here is no dam to a furnace it the home of Mow I on Holmes lined that Mr in id been furniee when it was flonde with oil Ihe out I the fire fighters irnved tie chief Scouts reported a fire in Ihe I east of Highway May 14 were by Holmes at mother fire Cres cent St on ir BIA board now official The bylaw been passed officially appointing members to the board of management of the Improvement Area commencing May On the A board are Henry Dave Terence Gwyer and councillor Pal McKenzic ilh luck at all Acton s unit senior citizens apart ments building proposed for I lizabethDnvcwill open late in the summer of Christ Hale Ontario Housing Corporation un oiled plans for the seniors residence for Hills phnmnc board last Tuesday night She originally the pro ject was lo be done in two pluses hut there arc now enough to fill the whole building so the whole project will be done at once Miss Hale noted several different igencies must still approve the project Hopeful tenders will be called in July she reported and a rough estimate calls for construction to start late this fill It will be completed hope fully next summer she said Miss Hale said its comple would llkcy coincide with completion of a sewage treat ment plant expansion in 1976 Regional architect Glen I iber said the site slopes up seven feet from Ihe sidewalk to the building and will have three floors and be shaped He explained as many existing trees on the property is possible will be kept and considerable landscaping will he done so the appearance will be attractive and in crease the value of neigh hours property There will be a ground floor a second floor and basement floor all with units Plans didn call for an Renovations over budget Renovations a t Acton torn munity Centre came in over tender but Hills council decided to go ahead with it Monday night The contract was awarded to Mike Mastrangelo at a price of The lown cost less sub sidies had been at while the bid price less subsidies will be 150 leaving lo bo financed from general revenue The Community Centre contract will Include new washrooms and storage rooms valor but pcrsuision by plan ning led to change the phns following Ihe meeting and include an elevator Councillors were very con the lack of in elevator not being in a senior citizens housing complex for residents with problems ind urged strongly an elevator he in eluded There will be recreation areas i garden for the sen room common room ind other facilities and the units will be square feet with bedroom a kitchen dinint room living room and units common facilities will be especially equipped for the hindi YOUNG JIM began breathing again after a car accident thanks to the quick thinking and fast action of Constable Brian Farrell Jim was in an accident at Crewsons Corners involving a car and two pedestrians When Cons arrived at the scene he was off duty at the time he was told a nineyear old had been killed He examined Jirn detected no pulse but began mouth to mouth resuscitation until Jim began breathing again Jim spent quite a while at Sick Childrens Hospital in Toronto and is now completely recovered He was at the Optimists Respect for Law and Order Awards night in Georgetown to make his own presen ration to Cons who also received a Law Enforcement Award His parents Barbara and DaveMcMuIIenofR Acton also attended