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Oasis no air conditioned watering hole I know I know Nasty minded readers are already il some kind watering hole for dry old Smiley One of those airconditioned bars that are so dark you can t see a thing Tor live minutes and have to count your change by the Krai lie system Not so I dislike those joints Most of them are dark and dirty and blink They have a few poor lonely souls who have nowhere else logo and very often a construction gang or rodd gang and beer swilling and profane il up on the company time Nope I avoid those places like the plague The Oasis is nothing like thit It t have a braying television set foul mouthed roisterers and told eyed wait resies It just the opposite True it is conditioned Hut not the kind that makes you wish you were wearing a fur coat after five mmutts And true It is not brightly lighted But there is enough light to sec you are imbibing count your change without using your fingertips and read a book or news paper And that a exactly what I do there and Why I think of it as Tht It a charm ing little place to stop and refresh oneself to cool out and meditate a bit and gossip and just plain before plunging out into the desert of lire What The Oasis provides for the wan bedouins who stop there is a little peace and quiet It has none of the plastic jazz of the chain hamburger and submarine joints But it has a number of the things those places ean never offer charm friendliness good manners courtesy The customers are not made to feel that Die management is doing them a favor by serving them They are greeted warmly are served quickly and efficiently they are thanked graciously when they leave even though they spent only cents ami taken up a seat for half an hour if many public to eat and drink ire there like that in this country You could count them without taking your socks off ladies who frequent it homemade pies butter tarts muffins loaded with calorics Part of the fun for me Is sitting there getting a jolt from my coffee and listening On the Sure we have fancy restaurants In this country where can pay 50 for a soso dinner for two and be patronized by the wine waiter And we have seven llious snack bars and lunch bars and where everything tastes the same Hut we have any places like I he Oasis It snot much physically Just a half dozen or so tables in the back of a store Very much like the sort of tearoom you can still find In England if you get off the beaten rack he menu varies little but there a good soup jour good coffee and hot tea fresh made sandwiches and a lot of goodies that are baddies for the many little old ladies and all the vulnerable young Town backs farmer in severance bid Despite a planning staff recommendation Hills planning board voted unanimously not to appeal a tion given Casey Boss so he can sell land for the hydro transmission corridor Councillor Miller summed up planning board s feelings when he said Boss had formed too acres at and the fourth Line for years was an excellent farmer who had fought the hydro line with his own money Then the line had fought to have at the rear of his land Losing that fight he now wanted to sell the land to Hydro and make a bit of money Planning staff opposed the severance permitted by the Land Division Committee since it would ercote an eight acre lot fronting on Miller said Boss had never had any separations and was entitled to it This way he would have a small farming lot when he wants to retire The land Is already cut In two by railway tracks and the piece wanted by Hydro is mostly swamp land said Miller He pointed out Boss has sows on the farm and farms 100 acres in Erin By refusing this we be punishing the Hydro we would be Boss Mayor Pete with Miller and contended if for some reason the hydro line does not go through then Hydro would simply own that piece of land Morally Boss should have this separation Planning staff fell the hydro should be granted an easement only so there would be no separation but where for hydro eorridor are allowed should be condition lyinj it to the of the hydro dispute The planning report said this had been done in the ease of other separations for the same use so that if the hydro line is stopped the sever are null and void but if the line goes through the severances ire In force Dick solicitor for Boss explained the route does not go along the rear lot lines because Solandt who selected the route wanted to go through a notch in the escarpment Just a pot of tea thanks Well what arc you going to have Ida You are Well whatkinddoyou have Well maybe square of pineapple cake And just one butter tart to get started And half an hour later those two gentle ladies are walking out with about calories they need Each when The Oasis is busy there is no sweat No barking of orders No getting cross There time to laugh and joke with old customers be pleasant to new ones and make sure nobody is being neglected I vewatchedtourlstscomcin a little un easy because they re not used to such in formality They tentatively order soup and a sandwich find them excellent wind up witli a whacking great piece of pic pay a modest bill and go out looking as though they t believe what had happened to them It s a place that brings out the decency In people Seating is limited The other day four people walked in and there a table for four A young couple with a babe in arms offered to move to a table for two that had just been vacated transferring their food utensils and baby The new comers were so shocked they could scarcely say thanks Very often The TicketSeller Is there He self tickets on every tottery you ever heard of He loves children and jokes and talks to the little guys in The Oasis He drinks a coffee displays his tickets usually selling one or two and hits the street The Columnist observes Two teenagers grab a table The Colum listens So I said to him not on your life Giggles So guess what he says And so on Despite what my wife thinks I am not enamoured of the lady who runs The Oasis though she does have a beautiful face figure and In Tact she t walk She sashays am in love with a little place of sanity sense and serenity in this Increasingly ugly world An Acton woman has recently had her first book published Mrs Hazel Ugh tie 35 Mowbray Place has writ ten Riders on the Plains the saga of the early days of the North West Mounted Police and the hardships of the western trek of Mrs delves into the heroes of the rebel lion their trails and trials of a vast lonely prairie George Howard a former ser geant wrote the forward He is a former editor of the MP Quarterly a position he held for year The book is written in verse and copies my be obtained from Mrs Anyone who entered the poster contest for Back to Acton Days may pick up their art work at Hills Furniture All the posters can be found there The Georgetown and i 51 NUMBERS District Christian School paper drive is back in business after a few months In limbo News papers can be left In the Hills Beckers plaza on Saturdays only starling the beginning of September All proceeds go towards the school for further information call Sid Ademi For the second time two weeks sympathy is extended to a well known family in Acton who have lost husband and father suddenly The of Bill Campbell who died Monday evening at his Nelson Court home be reassured the community is supporting them during this trying time McKenzie Sn Middle School principal Gary Daw kins died a few weeks ago also very suddenly MORE THAN THE PLACE TO BUY TIRES car Firestone services your we back up our work and our products with a Nationwide Tire and Service Warranty that honoured at 172 company owned Stores across Canada I you have service work done one town and a problem arises In another you don t have to worry Your Service Warranty coven all our work on alignments brakes shocks tune and batteries No extra charge for cars with air conditioning or torsion bar adjustment Correct castercamber In toe out adjust steering box I centre steering wheel 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