Halton Hills Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), October 26, 1977, p. 2

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The Acton Free Press Wednesday Oct Daylight saving time ends Sunday Daylight Saving Time le you turn all night This Is he ends In Acton his Sun clocks and watches weekend you regain day Oct 3d at precisely HACK one hour when that hour of sleep you a in you go to bed Saturday lost last spring Firefighters ask onstreet parking Liquor Refunds due but how Several liquor charges were laid by Acton police On street parking for Acton parking committee during the past week and one firefighters was considered Councillor Marilyn drug charge A man was again by Hills works saying we have charged with being in committee Monday when been pushing this off asked possession of a knife councillor Miller the engineers opinion Bob A mailbox was reported raised the subject throuth a Austen staled he is opposed to stolen in the district He also spoke to the the parking proposal He sold A Kingham Ml resident subject saying the Acton he hoped the committee reported someone hod gained firefighter again asked him would ask the opinion of staff entry to the home to relay their request If when making their decision was mining merchants and customers are ERIN FIREFIGHTERS were first on the scene of an early morning blaze in a home on Highway south of Osprmge Owned by the Grand River Conservation Authority and occupied Brian Clint the house sustained an estimated damage Acton and Hilisburgh firefighters also fought the flames believed to havestarted from overheated pipes Pumphouse testing to begin this week How should customers get their refunds due them because of Ontario Hydros million surplus Acton Hydro com mis Thursday discussed the three alternatives credit on their bills holding off a rate Increse until next April or giving a lower Increase in January If bills only show a small in crease in January consumer will feel a terrific impact Inter when rales go away up An increase of per cent is expected in 1979 or per cent over both 1978 and Commissioner Bob mentioned the amount of book work that would be required to give a credit We discuss it and digest it and do what is In the best interests of the customers said commissioner Attending the meeting were ehairmun Wllf McEachern e m Is I and Brown dent Doug Mason and treasurer hart Water warmer indoor pools Work on the new pum next to Fairy Lake is complete and testing of the water it produces will begin this week according to supervisor of design and con stmction Peter Under the terms of the contract the testing Kill take seven days It standard procedure to clearance on water quality from the Ministry of the Environ ment said He estimated the pump- house will be in- full ition within a month but added It s not that critical at this of year It is more in the summer In summer months lawn watering Is the biggest dram on a water supply The is riled to pump one million gallons of water per day at its maximum The is safety margin in case the need should ever arise for amounts of inter is it would for big fire in sum According to Mr there is no possibility of water Tree zing in the The building is designed to take tare of any problem Basically we got heat in If there should be any con laminate we would chlorinate We don any problem he added The is a safety device which is normal itirworks practice Police buy copier without clearance Police methods of buying came under fire from Police Commission last week at Oak lie The police commission the forces governing body covered police bought a new Xerox copier without ap proval from the commission Our commission had nothing to do with it Judge K said during the meeting Discovery of the purchase the commission went through the accounts in an earlier meeting Though the purchase puts the police budget into the red Inspector Waller Southward argued the machine would end up saving in the long run The commission ilcuded to try out the machine until the end of the year then decide what to do with it The purchase ime as the police are studying methods of cutting down on the cost of copies The officer in charge of the study Southward was vac whin Xerox ap proached the told police according to Southward hi cost of thi new machine would jump by in July of this yeir chief V Oliver aware of Southwards search rciommended to chief Ken lehine be bought an earlier commission meeting dir the machine be returned to Xerox Commissioner Harry Bar rett said I m not convinced you get the best service The purchase of the machine would be spread over years Whit happens if Dec ember the commission die ides to return the mathine According to Southward Xerox has no policy on the return of a maihine Swimming will be more comfortable at Georgetown and Acton Indoor pools The water will be kept at temperature between fll and degrees Fahrenheit and the air temperature at Recreation Coordinalor Karen King told the Advisory Committee of the decision made jointly by the Board of Education and the town recreation depart at the last meeting of the committee Committee members Barry Gambles and Clare Iticpmu said of the parks they felt there had been an improvement in appearance since the hiring of park dan Is during the summer The committee mended park attendant be hired on a part time basis during May and October to keep the titter cleared up They also suggested the now vacant position of facilities Superintendent be revised to include greater parks orientation The Recreation committee backed the town decision to reclassify the Gem In is and Raiders thus reducing their Ice rates They said they recognized the intertainment value to the community but the groups should exercise more fin in cul restraint Find costs of Rec facilities Hills finance committee wants to know how much It costs to muintain all facilities not only arenas and pools in interested in finding out how much it takes to cover the maintenance of parks for soccer ball clubs ind of community halls Piter Marks said list of users of all facil ties was drawn up by the rcirntion director at request to review the obtained by the town I here has been a hue and cry for that recre bt self sufficient wc know there a large number of people who don to use some facilities Director Glen me muniei chirgi for the use of fields and dressing request 240 A letter from Phil McCristnll secretary of Acton Firefighters tion asked Hills finance committee for to cover the cost of rental of Acton Bond Hall Mr said they need the space to hold two annual functions normally now under reconstruction Councillor Peter Morns wondered why they couldn t come the seven miles to Georgetown fire hall Councillor Pat Patterson said they t leave the town in ease something happened while they were away Councillor Hoy Booth said Georgetown firefighters and Georgetown Volunteer Ambulance Service held one of two functions while their halls wen under construe and raised the money themselves Councillor Peter Marks said the request should come from I Ire hicf Mick Holmes if they were going to follow town policy Morns said he was amazed there would be no one on duty when the functions are held Marks reassured him there are always members of the department on standby at all timis The request was turned over to the fire chief New date Since the Chamber of Commerce has called its public meeting for Wed November the Business Association is postponing its regular meeting to the following Wednesday Thi A meetings are always the first Wednesday of the month Thi A executive in m iking the change ex pressed the hope all their members would attend the public meeting of the called to air current issues l J 1K1 IHK HAM l parking on Bower there is no reason they could not change and park on Church which is no farther from the shopping the letter stated Mr said parking is the first thing firefighters want to discuss urgency of it Councillor suggested spots on Willow and Bower for emergency parking for firefighters only He pointed out parking on Bower is already restricted Councillor Pete suggested Mr should meetings of the special WEEK DAY SPECIAL BUSINESS MENS LUNCH AND UP HOURS Monday m Friday Saturday 10 am H l if Telephone 8532060 njniln I 1 1 lJ I nil lJ I nQ rh Jackies LADIES WEAR PLAZA 877 GEORGETOWN WINTER FASHIONS Shop for the HoUays FUN FURS HOUSECOATS LOUNGEWEAR PURSES FRENCH PERFUME JEWELLERY Drop In to Jackie s and see for yourself stylish winter fashions at reasonable prices Bouncing cheques Hydro problem Hydro accounts in arrears can range from to secretary treasurer Audrey told the Hydro Commission Thur A recent problem is bouncing cheques she added The Commission had been having a problem with some customers for whom they dldn ever get an meter reading However meter rcadir George Cook has been making calls after school when children are home and in the evenings to get in and read the meter Mrs told the com mission She also described the new method of sending a letter by registered mail to inform a consumer and owner if power is to be cut off for non payment Commissioners discussed the free servicing of water heaters and wondered if this could be phased out after five years Superintendent Doug Mason informed the meeting the men will no longer service them in private homes on weekends but commercial tanks could be serviced on overtime days Secretary treasurer East end Continued from Page the sewage plant Mr Marks pointed out the large strides made at Beard more in improving the and predicted progress to the point where the effluent could be accepted in the sew age plant I would hesitate to designate an area rcslden tlal that would close the door to our largest Industry He said an increase of one or two thousand people might be acceptable to the towns people The discussion was brought to an end when councillor Pete pointed out there was a special meeting scheduled on revisions to the official plan where this sub ject would be rehashed com siid thire is no longer in Milton but i flat charge of l per call plus costs There are more w iter heater rentals than sales she said We have looked after water tanks com mented tnairm in Mcfrnehtrn lomn Mai suggested the members think it over The new computer for the office ordered two months ago should arrive this week Mrs reported ft Lprcsenta lives from union and management will a half day session on peasion plans Nov Says no to increase At least one regional has decided not to accept a pay increase recently voted upon by Regional Council Burlington Councillor Ben has written regional treasurer Don Farmer to Council voted on the per cent increase after the Committee bad recommended scrapping the increase for this year In his letter said he found It difficult to justify the let alone accept FOOTWEAR Infants Children and up Boys Mens Womens w Shop Early for Good Selection of VINYLS URETHANES and LEATHER SHOES o BERNINA Hailed as a modemage breakthrough Swiss craftsmanship has done it again swept the market with the new electronicallypowered needle Betty from Bernina will be demonstrating the world famous Bernina sewing machines this Saturday October 29 from 10 am to 5 pm at our Open House HOBBY CRAFT LANGCRAFT SATISFACTION GUARANTEED O YOUK MONEY SUPPLIES

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