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The Acton Free Press Wednesday Feb 1979 Wednesday by Inland Co at Sireoi io Telephone Subsci pi S finis copes each year Canada n all ma Canada The Act do Free Piatt a one of ho Inland Pub Co L of suburban news which Include Tho Picket News Advertiser The Guaidian Tho Post Eloblcoko The Independent MatkhamThornhlllEconomiilandSun The Itan Canadian Champ on Tho The Newmarket a Eta Oakvlle Qshowo This Week Oshown This Weekend and The Founded in Don McDonald Publisher Advene accepted on on that the event typographical error portion of advert una space occupied by the erroneous item with reasonable allowance for signatuia will not bo charged or but the balance of the advertisement will be paid tor at cable rate In event of a cat advert a ng goods or services at a co goods or services may sold Advertising s mo an offer thd il Number IE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor Hartley Coles New Editor Helen Raportarf Photographer E c Sport Editor Rob Inscoe ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Advertising Manager Cook Classiflsd Advertising BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE CIRCULATION Meryl PHONE Business and Editorial Office Meeting tonight important The future of Acton will be on the block tonight Wednesday as Halton Hills Planning Board adjudicates a public meeting over the proposal for a plaza at the east end of Acton The board has twice turned the development down but public pressure from an often vociferous section of the public has forced council to send the proposal back to the board for further consideration Acton official plan does not allow for commercial growth in the area which is projected for Churchill Road South and Highway 7 The official plan calls for future commercial growth to take place in the downtown area where several blocks are zoned commercial to complement the existing business section However developers have not expressed an interest in locating a large food store and several other business outlets in the downtown area although businessmen have said through the Bust less Im Associaion they would not oppose such a plan Developers want develop the plaza on Actons eastern fringe and they have- succeeded in convincing many people it is a good idea Last week a consultant for the developer was so insistent on being heard at a meeting of Hills council that Acting Mayor Roy Booth ordered his expulsion It wasn executed because the spokesman sat down and order was restored but it was typical of demonstrations which have taken place in favor of a plaza in the east end Hopefully tonight s meeting will be a reasoned intelligent clash of opinions on the proposed development There are two sides to the issue and both should have ample time to make their points without demonstrations or pres sures on the board The dispute does show that a lack of adequate shopping facilities exists Acton However the question is clearly where should it be located A survey conducted by students at the high school concluded that the people of Acton like the convenience of shopping locally with its personal service and friendliness but many are disenchanted with the variety and prices of local stores The way to attract shoppers back to town is to improve service and add more stores with prices so money is kept in town We think all business people and public would agree this is the first requisite for a successful commercial area not just turning down a proposal which happens to be in the wrong place Hydro issue not settled The Ontario Municipal Board s decision to allow Ontario Hydro to proceed across Halton Hills with their 500 kV corridor was a redevelopment most people ex The OMB decision included a sentence which said a route through Halton Hills is essential to the system and farming can still be carried on in a safe manner under the lines The Board took Hydro s word at face value For instance the decision reads The evidence of Alan Watson for Ontario Hydro was that the Bruce system is not being operated in a prudent way at present and the Belwood connection and on the 230 line were never intended to be per manent In his view the connec tion through a Halton Hills is absolutely essential The major concern of the board was the effect the route would have on agricultural land The decision does not consider the request for an independent study to determine whether Hydro is putting us on In view of some recent Ontario Hydro statements and subsequent revelations it is difficult to accept the word of Hydro spokesmen An independent study of the Bruce to Milton corridor would have set tied the question once and for all The question naturally arises Why has an independent study been consistently denied the people along the route of the corridor Energy ministers have paraded by in step all of them answering there is no time or money for such a study Meanwhile five years went by and tens of thousands of dollars in lawyer s fees and delays in construction plagued both land owners and the public utility which went full steam ahead knowing Hills had a bylaw which prohibited high voltage hydro lines crossing agriculture land Hydro figured they would steam roller their way across Halton Hills flattening them as they went The decision by the OMB suggests they have got their own way but at considerable loss of public support Is the issue settled We doubt it It won t be either until there is an independent study You tell em Bill Bill Johnson the irrepressible Milton councillor more popularly known as Wicked Willie had a bug in his ear last week It took some fast shuffling at Halton Region to swat it Inveterate letter writer vivant candidate twice in the provincial sweepstakes en vironmentahst and spearhead for garbage dump fighters resident Johnson was more than a little upset when he discovered discussions in the new Halton headquarters committee rooms could be monitored by the chief administrative officer and the region chairman It brings up thoughts of and Big Brother he said this week and I object strongly to it It seems the new Kelly green Halton headquarters has microphones in the committee room which the chairman or the CAO can use to monitor meetings they cannot attend Bill Johnson objected and suggested Big Brother still had no place in Ernie the chief ad mintstrative officer laughs the objections off The way the system works we can only hear if the microphones in the committee room are turned on he said If they on we cant hear anything Or words to that effect That kind of explanation cut no ice with Johnson He wants no part of someone monitoring conversations he may hold in that committee room If it can happen there he says why not somewhere else Of course he is right If there is a microphone there relaying discussions to the chairman and CAO there should be some notice explaining the mikes alive Any other way it is plain snooping And sometimes thats not encket Postmans delight Photo by Robin I was overlooked for the GGs job I vc bitten my lip until I drew blood I ve tried not o let the hurt show But my close friends have noted something behind the toobright smile the overlycasual manner So I might as well let it out No use getting an ulcer I felt slighted the paint of humiliation when Ed Schreyer was named Governor General instead of me I too disappointed when Trudeau enough decrepit enough or liberal enough But I t think his petty vlndlet iveness would go so far as to overlook me for the job Just because I written a few columns suggesting that Pierre Elliott is something than the Second Coming There were only the two of us in the running obviously but I can I figure out why the Prime Minister turned his back on me Perhaps lo garner a few hundred votes In the west which is probably all he get come June I have nothing whatever against Ed Schreyer as a person 1 don believe in even when It comes to a sinecure Bui let look at the record and you may begin to understand my bewilder ment at mistake of century Ed Schreyer is politician Governors General should not be ex politicians I am not now never have been and never will be a politician Score one for me Ed Schreyer is too young Governors General should be fairly ancient and look wise even if they I am in my prime and by the end or my term would be ap proaching the drooling earnestness that my would prepare for me And for the second part of the above qualification I am perfect for the part I can look as wise as an owl about things in general while having the intelligence of a rabbit about same Score two Ed Schreyer is a family mdn So am I But I II bet my kids a lot more rotten than his arc and I coped with them And how many grandchildren docs Mr Schreyer have I wonder it gave any thought to the millions of grand parents In this country when he made his abominable choice Is Ed Schreyer a war veteran Well I am There goes Ihe whole Legion vote which you might have got if you had your head screwed on right Letters Disappointed in Free Press January 1979 To The Editor I have been disappointed over the last few weeks with the quality of content of the Acton Free Press Although the regular features still appear there has been a noticeable drop in the coverage of local events accompanied by the usual pictures Specifically after making and keeping a special with a Free Press photographer three pictures were taken the presentation of the Santo parade trophy to a representative of Indus in in Well per haps they didn I turn out or were placed by a Dominion The same photographer took many pic tures at the Speyside School Christmas concert Next week one very small picture was in the paper and no writeup at all Well maybetherestwerelost by an Eaton ad Still undaunted again your photo grapher came to take pictures this time spending an hour or so photographing a session at the Figure Skating Club Next week not one picture Well maybe he forgot his film or is a Knob Hills Farm more Important Also what happened to the special page in the New Years edition lhat feature faces which have been in the paper over the past year keep our local paper just that a local paper for and aboul local people Make Free Press Day a day to look forward again Yours sincerely Linda Acton Editor note The Free Press Is a local paper for local people Linda Space requirements sometimes mean some items are not published but It has always been thus and is on all newspapers The advertisements of course pay the bills Without them no newspaper could publish without going deep Into red ink The staff is trying its best lo make Free Press Day one to which everyone looks forward Business slow at licence bureau Business is slow at the motor vehicle licence on Victoria Ave according to Bud Kent Mr Kentner who has been managing the licence business for two years said there are a large number of people who haven picked up their stickers The price of the licence plate stickers this year will be 30 for a four cylinder engine MS for a six cylinder for an eight cylinder and for over litres or cubic inches These prices have not changed since last year It is now 40 for me Do you begin to understand my astonishment when the no doubt worthy but undistinguished Mr S was chosen over me Schreyer was a failure He couldn hang onto his premier job I have never failed at anything I gained my pilot wings in took an honors degree in the toughest course in University was a successful if poor weekly editor have risen to the astronomic height of deport head in a high school and have been honoured as Outstanding Columnist in Canada Ed Schreyer is in politics An Endeepecer I have voted for all ihree major parties some of them several times Though not a politician I have been closely Involved in politics I have been man for a liberal an hope ful a Tory The Liberal won twice Both the other guys lost It obvious Trudeau didn check my dossier Much attention has been given to the fact that Mr has an ethnic German Austrian ancestry So what I am not from one of the socalled founding races either Scottish Irish and a little splash of Danish when some sailors were wrecked in the Hebrides a couple of centuries ago That sure aln t British nor French Speaking of French does Mr Schreyer Well Both my parents were born and grew up there My mother spoke fluent French And I spent the first two years of my life in Shawvllic County Quebec Never mind that there was not a Jew a China man nor a Frenchman in the village It was still in Quebec Perhaps you think that as a former politician Mr Schreyer knows more about Nonsense When I was the linen man on the dear old on the Great Lakes before she was burned at the dock at Samia I knew the rapes Give the Chinese cooks a couple extra bath towels a week and you ate belter than the passengers I don I want to go on and on like this pointing our Mr Trudeau folly and Mr Schreyer shortcomings But it is a fact that I am better known in Canada except among media and politicians than he Ask anyone in Kamloops or or or They ve never heard of him Schreyer have a son who is devoting his life to Ihe spiritual of the Third World and speaks five languages Or a daughter who can wheedle thousands out of her father without even asking Or two grand children who can reduce a fine old house into an ancient ruin in two weeks Let him answer that He has a good looking wife who cooks exotic European dishes I have a beautiful wife whose grilled pork chops with canned mushroom soup spread on top make you weep with gastronomic delight Score About It a sorry day for Tredeau when he mistook gold lettering for solid gold Back issues 10 years ago Token from the issue the Acton Free Press of Wednesday February 19 1KB An estimated 1 500 applauded Behind Castle Walls the Robert Little school oper etta on four days last week Taking lead parts were Bonnie Bristow Peter Buna Louise Harms ma Sandra Denny Frank Houston Jim Colin Price Sutherland Ian Strange Kevin Jim McNnbb Danny Manes Debra Bous field Bill Ricky Carol Jones Sandra Ross Ken Withers John Ashley Karen Manes Sam Schonnop Dan McGilloway Tim Mclntyrc Ralph Lands- borough A full choir of directed by Doug Makeup using Mr Parker kit was swiftly applied by Mrs L Mrs J Mrs Bruce Shoemaker and Ross Tolh copped highest spot in the Sweetheart bonspiel Exactly years ago the Free Press switched to putting news only on the front page instead of small advertisements North Halton urban board debated regional government at its meeting last week but members Acton Milton and Georgetown found It a difficult subject deal with 20 years ago Token from Ihe issue the Acton Free Press Thursday February 12 1959 Altogether Robert Little public school children entertained a auditorium Tuesday and Wednesday evenings when they presented Mother Goose Birthday Party and M S Pinafore for their an operetta Glenn Banks wrote and pre pared the Mother Good numbers and kindergarten teacher Alice Sidcy wrote one of the songs Janet and Gay White on a picnic are confronted by Ihe nursery rhyme characters Carol Evans was Mother Goose Mary Tinker bell and the old witch Taking leading parts in Pinafore were Craig McMullen Christopher Denn John McNabb David Ryder Jim Mary Bra am Patricia Graham Susan Heard Kenneth Mclsaac Douglas Ford Barry Wilson Ronald Henry Patricia Mary Beth Elliott Helen Benton Stage settings were arranged by Price and makeup by Mrs W Sproston R Parker B Shoemaker and Mrs N Frank The growing popularity of the Scottish Dance Club was effectively demonstrated Saturday when despite the inclement weather call of the pipes produced a gratifying number Joining in Ihe dancing were Pipe Band members June and Joyce Rennick Mary Lou Creighton Peggy Mac Arthur Laurence Duby Michael Ross and Andrew Knox 50 yeats ago Taken the issue of the Free Press of Thursday 1929 The seventh annual concert and dance the employees of the Shoe Fac was a success in every sense of the word Taking part in the program were Miss Florence Ford William Coleman Cross Ernest Coles Mrs Allen Lloyd Masales Viola Waller Leslie Martin Ruth Gibson and Joe A twoact play was presented and Joe led the Sympathy orchestra A very pretty wedding was solemnized In St Joseph church when Nora Elizabeth third daughter of Mr and Mrs James Gibbons Acton became the bride of Mr Pa pill on Acton The bride looked charming in a dress of rosewood flat crepe black hat grey stockings and black velvet slippers Miss Mary Gibbons acted as bridesmaid coal bins are now looking the worse for the season s constant shovelling The valentines arc now even prettier than they used to be although some of those ugly onecenters are still considered amusing by some people Thanks to Co Ihe Scout troop now has a club room that will be Ihe envy troops for miles around Scouting is beginning to play an active part in the life of Acton Anyone interested in Cubbing should get in touch with Mason years ago Taken from the Issue of the Acton Free Press of Thursday February 1878 Hair switch swindles are operating all over country They gather together all the loose hair lhat the young ladies have saved from combings promising for a very small sum lo moke it Into switches and then they steal out of town Watch out for them A log was brought to and Moore lumber and saw mill at which contained 1912 feet In the whole tree from which the log was cut there were feet Can anyone bring a bigger log than that Those lucky fellows who run drug stores and sell Infallible cough medicines ought to be making a fortune Just now The County Teachers Association meets for three days In Georgetown next week Every teacher in Ihe county is required to be present Subjects include true relation of psychology to education grammatical analysis moral training geo metry English literature rending and composition