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i Melon tree Kress Wednesday Aug And the wall came tumbling down Halloa Hills works department employees dangerous from the scene Including lone standing wall at the buildings were on the scene the tragic fire at the Dominion Sunday morning north end A tier the fire was under control the wall seemingly held together by Works department employees removed any rubble that could have been eons id he fire escape was toppled by the machine Marons get severance An A Acton farm family got exactly what It wanted from the Regions Land Division Committee last week despite a report from planners The granted the application of Adolf and Elsie Moron northeast half of Lot 21 First Line The split about five acres from their acre farm for the use of their daughter Trudy and soninlaw Much of the farm is rolling field with stone Trudy the daughter told committee she and her husband had not decided exactly what to do because of the nature of the land She indicated they want to either add to the lot or buy out the farm Were not interested in severing Father would not like a stranger living beside him she said The parents were at the meeting The town planning dcparLmcn had no ob jection to the severance but as its report stales the parcel Is overly large and will be sus ceptible to further frag mentation- The planner recommended a frontage of feet member George Harrington observed that if wanted to fragment the lot he would have asked for the 125foot frontage Fellow member Joe said the request for five acres is legitimate be cause there is no lot size specified in Official Plan Mrs Lemiski also pointed out she preferred the larger lot The fooier would be dous because it would mean a driveway opening onto the road with a steep hill A neighbor Lime Van Venn 4 Acton Spoke in favor of the severance application to the committee LDC member Hairing ton a former Burlington mayor also took issue with the regional plan ners report which states the bid meets the Rcgion- Plan if the applicant establishes that both he and the soninlaw ore full time employees for the farm What kind of nonsense is this asked Harrington Where in the official plan does it say you have to be a full time employee The committee chair man agreed with him There are no previous severances Former Acton police officer resigns after charges laid by Fat A veteran Feel I Detective has resigned from the force following allegations that he stole approximately Si worth of property from a Divisional storage room The officer resignation was tendered Inst week after Peel Police laid criminal charges against he year veteran of police work The charges ftfter a two week internol Investigation headed by senior personnel in the police department The stolen items unclaimed merchandise from police invest i gat ions Included electrical equipment and clothing None of it would have been needed for future trials police said and would probably have been disposed of by auction Entry to the storage room was gained with a key readily available to all senior personnel at the division Officers at the station at and 10 discovered the merchandise was missing at the end of ultimately charged with the theft had left earlier in month for a plan vacation with his family in Britain Following the reported theft an internal invest headed by Staff Superintendent Bert Collins Inspector James and Detective Dan was launched at the beg inning of August A warrant was issued August of Detective oy Wood of Georgetown Ontario travelled to Britain last Monday to execute several search warrants and returned this week Searches wcie also con ducted at a number of residences in Toronto area Collins said and resulted in the recovery of most of the stolen items Investigators believe the goods were given as presents and not sold for profit No one found in possession of Hit as charged with a criminal Chief told to nail speeders by John The fight to slow down automobile speed freaks has been step ped up Complaints by residents of hot rodders terrorizing the elderly in sections of town made some noise at t Police Commission meeting Thursday in Acting Police Chief James Harding was told to increase his efforts to nail trouble makers through belter of the role the public can play Harding issuing instructions to his district commanders to help residents help the police When callers phone in to complain they will be told they can aid by coming forward with inform license numbers gar and driver descrlpt lions times and dates and by appearing in court at conviction lime Commissioner Alf Oliver suggested Hard ihg shorten his instruct Ions and make them tabic to the public ugh a news release other Commission members agreed The del eg Ion from Stewart Street at appeared before general committee lasl to complain about speeders was not sure public cooperation was the answer We do call the licence plates in and the police says its off a stolen car said Reg Adam Hill said he like being asked to do a policeman s Job I ve my own job to do Oakvilte mayor and police commission chair man Harry Barrett says It going to take a little bit of sacrifice on peo ples part to clean this tKing up A brought by the Stewart Street alien stated If no atten tion Is given to this mat immediately the res idents may lake the mat er into their own hands In telephone inter view Barrett said I don want people to get speeders some of them not all can be No interest no Mug Teenagers alert Do you still want your dropin centre The Mug After 18 months of operation and birth pangs in the spring of 1978 it seems if there the need for a dropin centre as originally indicated according to Helen Children Aid represent who operates The Mug Wednesday night dances have been attract Fewer and fewer keen teens Last week dance fate was attended by about youngsters A meeting will be held this Wednesday at at the Mug with the board the Mists Club who are interested in keeping the coffee shop going a coordinator from Used Net work Service who will advise and a group of Interested teens Any other young people who care about the dropin centre are welcome Friedman said Funding for the Mug Is not a problem explained the operator unless special events an requested when enough participants attend not sure the need is there for a weekly dance perhaps we should run a monthly one she commented Active the inauguration of the dropin centre were Mark and Beaton Debbie Well wood Susan and Rick Van Fleet quite vicious If the public would just gel the information and leave the rest of the job to the police Barrett admitted It was difficult sometimes to get information It pretty hard to lake down a lie number when you re getting run over meeting he did not wont to give the on people had not been reporting incidents In this year there have been complaints of moving traffic viol at ions and 41 per cent of these have been cleared through cautions or court action by police We have all kinds of complaints about furious driving from residents in Burlington it very prevalent in Acton and it a problem in George town said com issioner Barrett offense a British subject remains in the United although his family has returned home According to law a British subject charged with a criminal offense in Canada cannot be deported Extradition procee dings arc possible but are only allowed after petitions to the Federal Crown Attorney and hearings between the two countries mis nofjknown whether will return voluntarily to face the charge The year old detective joined the Peel Police I- orcein Jan Previously he spent years with two other police forces in Ontario including a stint in Acton Are you looking for a NURSERY SCHOOL for your child CONSIDER i4rie Childrens House For Information call 8776751 ITS JUST A SHORT DRIVE TO GET THAT 31 DERFUL FEELING OR TO MAKE THAT SPECIAL OCCASION REALLY SPECIAL DESSERT ICE CREAM STORE Halton Hils Shopping Centre 235GuelphSt Georgetown 3312 NONDRINKERS CAM GET SOBER INSURANCE RATES Choose your savings with 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