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The Acton Free Press Wednesday Juh20 1977 Editorial Mr Hinton could refuse pay Bert Hinton thinks board of education members should serve without pay He has contributed many useful and thought provoking ideas during his months on the board but he loses credibility when he ex trustees to serve without remuneration If he himself wishes to serve without pay he could follow the example of others in the past who simply chose personally to serve without pay They did not accept the cheques Mr Hinton has rejected suggest ions he do the same He claims he can trust the board which he says is prone to wasting tax dollars He does not answer reporters who ask if he donates his pay to charity From the reporters point of view it appears Mr Hin tons reluctance to answer questions and back up his proposal with personal example leaves him open to picion of using the motion for pub licity purposes It was evident the motion would never pass as it was not even seconded Maybe some taxpayers do feel trustees are overpaid How many voters if fact know what their representative receives Board members are the stewards of over million and it is only reasonable to expect they would receive remuneration to make it worthwhile Premier can stop fiasco Ontario Hydro is up to its old tricks at hydro expropnation hearings in Acton refusing to di vulge information regarding a study on the Bruce to Essa corridor alternative suggested by the In terested Citizens Group This in spite of a Court of Appeal decision that alternative routes for the corridor must be examined Art an expert in land use and environmental planning the only witness produced by Hydro in the hearings said he believed the only study report on the alternative had been thrown out Hydro s lawyer Tom Marshall told the hearing that even if it existed he still wasnt going to pro duce the report on the grounds it isn relevant In fact Marshall said Hydro would produce no witnesses or documents relating to the alter native Leon the Windsor lawyer representing landowners from this area accused Hydro of conducting a cover up operation and stonewalling He also accused Hydro of avoiding the conse quences of the Court of Appeal decision Chairman Donald agreed He appealed to Hydro to provide the information Imagine having to appeal to Hydro to provide information to study alternatives the Supreme Court of Ontario has ruled are part and parcel of the Expropriation Act Obviously Ontario Hydro does not want people to know the truth of the matter since earlier Marshall admitted the Bruce to Essa power line alternative had never been seriously studied If there is no thing to hide Hydro shouldnt be worried about trotting any documents out for the inquiry to see It is the only way the inquiry can get at the truth of the reason why Ontario Hydro wants to avoid that sacred area of ground between Essa and Bruce As hearing Officer pointed out Hydro s refusal to call expert witnesses on the subject was going to make it impossible for the courts wishes to be carried out That is obviously what Hydro wants while they continue to steamroller their way through with a corridor that may cost millions of dollars more than it should It is time for the Ministry of Energy to step in and set matters straight instead of sitting in Toronto and issuing jubilant state ments about approvals for part of the corridor There are big clouds of suspicion hovenng over the necessity for the corridor at all If the Minister of Energy hasnt the intestinal fortitude to demand an investigation then Premier Davis might well assume the mantle of investigator and order a commission to study it independ of Hydro such as he did when his friends in and King townships were upset over the of the to Pickering corridor Things might go faster then instead of dragging through face- saving hearings and appeals which only serve to embarrass Hydro more and give citizens an oppor tunity to show their revulsion for tactics which should have gone in theiath century Georgetown Independent Of this and that Thursday July 7 marked an event which occurs only once in every eleven years one month and a day Thursday July the day month and both digits of the year were all the same number The date would be written 7777 The last time the numbers all lined up like this was June 6 1966 and the next time it happens will be August 8888 You can drive many miles dnd not find a more pleasant place these days than Acton s park There are likely hundreds of people in town who seldom go to our own park llhkeit Hills is going to be left out of the picture when the Brampton- Halton Hills riding is renamed The new designation is to be Brampton Georgetown Columnist Wendy Thompson reports from Alberta she received the May and May 11 issues of the Free Press on June 9 May 25 and June ion June 10 and the June issue on June Where do they all sif And what a lot of reading all at once had the town hall hassle complete from beginning to end But the news from the eastern front is different Toronto readers say their delivery is greatly lm proved in the past two months One Free Press was even delivered in Toronto on the day after tion the Thursday of the same week An honor guard of clouds watches over Cemetery Sugar and Spice by bill smiley Weddings ore for women During the entire ritual as practised in our society men arc inarticulate inept and in the wiy This was my conclusion after attending thi recent wedding of niece Not that It wasn t lovely wedding It was She a grand and beautiful girl lynn Quell of and with thi aid of her young sister her remarkably calm mother her fairly distraught father she came through the with flying colors did fairly well for herself as wiusedtosiy Shi hooked a doctor Well at any rate a medical All she his to do is support him forlhreeor four ye and they II be rolling in medicare He seems like a decent inoffensive chap like all the other males at the wedding At least he had on a shirt and tic t to married in jeans ind beads and i like so man young punks these days He doesn even have a beard so he may be OK But hi was practically unnoticed there was such a craning of necks among the women to sec what and why each other wis wearing Please don t get the iden that I down on weddings I think they are fine and 111 go down to the church on a nice summer djy with the best of them and get a prickling at the nape of my neck and reach over and hold the old lady s hand whin the parson intones for better and for worse in sickness and in health for richer and for poorer all that stuff that makes your hair stand on end with hindsight I don mind the two or three drid It cost mi to attend Not at a last widdmg I was at my daughter cost five times that and all I got out of it is two trandbabics and the establish of thi Bill Smiley Benevolent Fund I Johnson The Church of Canada There are almost four billion people on the earth today But we are told that there are more stars in our galaxy than there are people on the earth The mind and heart arc staggered by this disclosure about the world of people and the world of things to which we belong To see the of the world of things and people could have a demoralizing effect upon us When I consider the stars what is man that you would ever give him a thought God But we have our place We are linked in wonder love and praise with all that is When we stand beneath the starry host at night we may Think Separation and feel dwarfed by It all or we may Think Link and experience ebb and flow of all creation passing Into our own heart Think link we are links in God chain Paul in his letter to the Ephesians says that in the body of Christ each piece is fitly jointed to the next piece Under His control all the different parts fit together There is more in the Bible about people becoming a perfect part than a perfect whole It Is our participation as a member of the body not our splendid development as Independent units that marks us as I stood at the corner day waiting for the light to change An inebriate wob bled up beside me and put his hand on my arm He smiled weakly and said It a wondcrfulday isntlf Just for a moment I experienced disgust I wanted to with draw But the disgust passed On second thought he looked so human He had a strong need to reach out cither because of his condition or In spite of it In that mo ment a link was forged The whole human problem was for me In Just a second or two Whenever we encounter humankind we will cither forge a link or establish a space Think Link it is a simple saying that reminds us that whenever we relate to others we may think In terms or binding or splicing or linking rather than in terms of breach or gap a rent split rift crack or separation Think Link Think link The concept of the Link reaches deeply Man Is not alone He lives in God world Written for his newspaper by the Iteverrnd I Johnson minister or Pork United Church umhcrland Ave Saskatoon Fiveday clubs success WHAT S COLD white and smooth and isnt vanilla ice cream Can you remember The Editor Acton Free Press Acton Ont Dear or Madam Because I have just seen the spectacular success of the 5Day club activity recently 1 should like to share the information with your readers Children attended regularly In spite of the extremely humid weather and the llona of organized swimming periods They worked at studying their homework came of their own free will each day were lent and said Can It be longer than one week Parents also commented on their children Interest and study with plea sure and themselves returned to learn more Since few churches have Bible Vacation schools or even Sunday school in the days due to numerous reasons but mainly due to lack of interest I felt Sir that parents would be glad to hear of the club and In the future would support it by sen ding their children Children receive the equivalent of a Continued on page which caters to indigent daughters their husbands and any offspring they may have Nor did it bother me in the slightest that I hid to drive GOO miles round trip to sec my niece given away There was a torrential rain all the way there and heal a hangover from a magnificent recep tion ill the way home but that goes with the territory What I did mind just slightly now was frenzy of preparation during the three weeks before the wedding from the beginning I was aware that I was going to be stuck for a wedding dress one of those creations that women can wear once and never again unles they have some sense which most women don have when it comes to a wedding However I just shrugged this off You can take it with you no matter what route you choose to go But little did I realize that my wife was to do three things simultaneously create her own costume for the wedding lose 10 pounds and get a tan Just try it ladies She is one of those people who don know their own limitations demand perfection drive everyone around them straight out of his skull Since she started sewing a year or so ago she thinks she can tackle anything in the haute couture line I granted that she could whip out a golf skirt or pair of and knock off shirts for the midgets in the family while dishes were soaking but I was leery about her tangling with a wedding dress First week was sheer hell I told her to knock out a little white dress for the wedding and she came up with some old wives tale that you can t wear white to a wedding that reserved for the bride In addition the sun didn t shine for tanning and the diet seemed a dead loss Second week was a repeat But she did a panic trip to the city to buy material the sun shone for one day and she lost a pound and a half Third week The material she chose was raw Indian silk Great to work with Look at it sideways and it resembles a newspaper that been left out In the rain But the sun shone She stole a half hour a day from her 10hour sewing stint for sun bathing And suddenly the scales began to work instead of sticking as they had been for two weeks In the midst of it all so wound up about weddings are women she found time to dash out and buy me a pair of pants and a fine new white shirt I was going to wear my old gray flannels that I bought three years ago for and a clean golf shirt The pants are a bit lumpy around the pockets from carrying keys in change and golf balls and the shirt has a cigarette bum In the collar but otherwise re fine There was no way she was going to get shoes so she said 1 could wear my hush puppies and she d say I forgot my dress shoes Not only did she finish a real of a skirt with a matching vest but a polka dot blouse to go under it New shoes or course a tan and believe it or not a brand new figure with almost 15 pounds vanished Into thin air She was a knock out Why don t women put all this creativity and willpower Into something besides a wedding Free Press Back Issues 10 years ago Token from the Issue of the Press of Wednesday July 10 1967 Four men are charged with assaulting police and the driver of a vehicle has three additional charges to face following a chase with police at high speeds through town and No highway to the Eden Mills corner over the weekend Constable Bruce McArthur sustained a fractured left cheek bone when hit with a whiskey bottle as he attempted to arrest one of the suspects as well as re quiring stitches to close facial gashes Con stable Bob also required stitches for facial cuts and both he and Constable are sporting shiners as the result of a struggle An estimated 1500 people were on hand for Dairy Princess contest and gala variety show at the Hornby ball club annual garden party Saturday at Horn by Community Park Of three girls entered in the coolest Carol Swack hammer daughter of Mr and Mrs Wallace Swackhammer of Acton was named winner and 1967 Dairy Princess for County The other girls entered were Laura Hen derson of It I Georgetown and Lois Murray 18 of Acton The winner will go to the Canadian National Exhibition in Tor onto After five years at robishcr Bay the Rev Douglas Jean and daughters Ruth four and Christian two are moving to in the western Arctic They have been visiting in Alton with his mother Mrs Laura 20 years ago Taken from the issue of the I- Press of Thursday July is I9j7 Mr and Mrs Ronald Douglas and their two children spent j few minutes as a lightning bolt streaked within inches of them and roared through three rooms of their cement block home at Cor late Sunday afternoon Recalling the experience Mrs Douglas pointed to holes in the wall board of the three rooms where the bolt sought outlet and a splintered hard wood floor at base of a steel bed where the bolt finally escaped to the ground Sr suffered severe to his left hand the weekend when he was adjusting his power lawn He reported he wis adjusting the cutting height of the mower at the time and had completed the adjustments on one side In making the on side of the mower he somehow caught his hand Threeyear old was res cued from flooded Church St drain Sun day after a thunderstorm filled the man hole with storm water Mrs Josie Kcntner who had been sitting on her dah was responsible for the rescue by Bob Angell the storm had dislodged the boards of Ihe wooden man hole cover and the child on his way home trod on it and into the water In falling his el box had lodged between two boards and this kept his head above water until the res arrived 100 years ago Taken from the issue of the I- ree Press Several of our farmers seem to be trying to excel each other in piling on big loads of The best yet Mr Wm Shaw of at a load The melancholy occurrences Montreal on the 12th of July will be deplored through out the whole Dominion That men should be shot down In cold blood on the public street of a Canadian city in broad daylight for the offense of protecting a woman from violence is a fact which must stir the in dignation of every right thinking law abiding citizen The bloody deeds were perpetrated by ruffians over which the church had no control We regret to learn that Mr Bell living near s sawmills in came to a sudden death on Thursday He has fallen oil a load of hay and injured one of his fingers which the doctor had to amputate He gave Mr Bell a bottle of car bolic acid to bathe the finger w and Mr Bell wishing to take some brandy in mistake took the carbolic acid He leaves a wife and five children Mr James Gibbons near this village has been made the victim of one of those heart less swindling dodges hat arc so frequently perpetrated upon innocent farmers by smooth tongued strangers He signed a document purporting to give his son the agency for Section Grinders It was afterwards discovered the note was a ment offering to pay Geo A Zimmerman THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE853 Business and Editorial Office Copyright