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The Acton Free Press Wednesday Oct 3 B11 Lawyer cautions Site A enthusiasm to me clan entrants to the Kockwood Trail Baby KlmlilUon Matthews and Kalhy Hunt Riders Senior Fun Day look more oil they put clowns officer Is is on Left to right John Booth the Lady guise Wood some tort of Canadian New Year Trying to figure what goes next Paul Cooper piles on clothes while Danny walls patiently during the Rock wood Trail Riders Senior tun race won tint place thing went during the boot race at the Rock wood Trail Riders Senior Day Grown men reverted to childhood as they scrambled for mixed up Cultural boost for RockwoodGuelph by A cultural boost Is In the offing for the area when the Stewart Art Cen tre opens its doors in about July 1980 A art gallery meeting international and en vironmental standards the centre is located in corner of Gordon hi and College Ave it will be able to stage and the finest exh ibitions of crafts and design Special children seminars studio demonstrations tours film and video events are planned or the new cultural centre Planning for the centre goes back five years when In December 1975 the Arts Council accepted a proposal to convert the abandoned Consolidated School into an art gal lery Actual construction got underway this Sep tember The Stewart Art Centre is a unique project Four public bodies the University of County of Wellington City of and Well County Board of Education came together to establish the cultural institution The School Board retains property owner ship and leases it to the Centre over a long term The County of Wellington Council provides an annual per capita grant The City of Guelph is negotiating an agree ment providing utilities repairs maintenance and house keeping costs plus a property tax exemption The Univer sity of will make Its extensive art coll available and pro vide professional and program support taff mated project cost million Approved government grants cover leaving to be obtained from public foundation and corporate sectors A capital fund campaign is underway with already pledged The Canadian firm Raymond Architects and Planners was selected for the highly specialized task of turning an out of date school into a modern art gallery The old schools classic facade will be kept intact to preserve the buildings the century charm The will be main tained and the red Price brick will be matched on the two new wings A three storey skylighted gallery will be the focal point of the buildings interior With renovations and ad ditions the Art Centres total area will number nearly square feet Consoh dated School history is an one The school founded by the tobacco magnate Sir William Canada s first true education philanthropist Around the turn of the century he saw the short comings to traditional one room country school house educations Want to equalize rural students educational opportunities he provided funds for the first consolidated schools in Canada At the school official opening in 1904 the love affair was over between Sir William He had also funded both Institute and Macdonald Hall part of the Ontario Agricultural College The school board I ad underestimated const ruction costs in planning the new school and consequently cut corners with Sir William money Design changes made without his know ledge resulted a plain building with a utilitarian facade He was so enraged that on opening day he refused to leave his carriage and on that same day left never to return A lew later the trustees raised enough money to embellish the facade with a classical wooden porch that boasted doric columns and the school a name proud l inscribed across the front This exterior will remain on the new art centre The board of education closed the school out dated second and third floors in 1972 and until 1378 used the first floor as a special education clinic Dai id Stewart president of the Stewart Foundation of Montreal continued Sir William interest in the school He encouraged he decision to preserve the old building and expressed interest in its restoration and as an art gallery The found ation pledged a naming grant in 1977 School Board Trustee George Day is one of the directors of the Mac Stewart Art Centre representing the Wellington County Board of Education i Tweedledum and alias Cindy and Allison Morgan of acted as ring clowns at the Trail Riders Senior Fun Day Sunday Regional solicitor has warned decision makers to temper enthusiasm over Site A with caution The National Sewer Pipe proposal should not be considered at this point in time as the answer to the regions sanitary waste landfill problems There is a long long road to go before the Nat Sewer Pipe proposal could come to fruition and be of some assistance in the regions waste posal program he said Mr Perlin who des himself person promoting the aquisition of any landfill tes as they come available said there are three areas which deserve special consideration The first and most immediate issue to settle must bt if the site is hydrogcologically safe Secondly he has urged the region to come to a good financial agreement with National Sewer Pipe To be satisfactory it is the Regional staff opinion that all of the measures mentioned and any others to be covered must be adequate and should reflect a total financial cost to the region to the way of tip- page fees capital itures and otherwise which are similar to or less than the proposed cost to the ion for Site he said Lastly Mr Perlin said the process will be a long and onerous one which toe ludes of the Parkway Belt Regulation in the form of an amend ment and environmental will have to have approval not to mention input of which may public hearings on both up problem or During the process the not known or antic to have in- at this time he put various bodies and said CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY ACTON BRANCH For fnformatio 8534225 Frontier Florist Garden centre CliNlfti Ont 822 2361 Rom Designs Waddings Rowers FRESH or SitK a beautiful way to show how much 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