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Acton Free Wednesday April 23 JENNIFER BARR Bob Stewart may be BO ears old but he s still a flirt and a charming flirt to boot Originally an Acton lad employed by the Acton Free Press in his youth he back home in after gallivanting all over with the Bell Telephone Company He been retired years and has been living on Rosemary Road for seven years gardening raising geraniums and still getting into mischief I visited Bob Stewart to do a story on his base full of geraniums and ended getting an interesting story of a fascinating lively man Born in the lovely red brick house on Highway south of Bob spent his youth until World War I around town He tells stories of Acton early days when the century was new going to the Stone School with kids who arc now Acton seniors learning from Miss Minnie Bennett Miss Bennett was always proud of her zero failure rate getting pupils through that last year of public school Bob is very proud that he was almost her only failure he left school before he could fail he says In he went to work for Moore that grand old man editor of Free Press Every 30 he stoked the fires and readied the offices for the day business He was there a half years and received a week during the first year with a raise of a dollar a week for each successive year World War I intervened and off went young Bob to serve three years Returning home in in one piece he once more went back to the Free Press working with A of Dills the new editor By 1920 Bob was with the Bell Telephone and there he stayed for 45 years travelling the try Another three years were spent serving in World War II being lent to the Canadian Air Force to build telephone lines in Newfoundland Twenty six years were spent in Peterborough with wife Ruth three sons and two daughters now have grandchildren Since returning to the home of his youth Bob has taken a real interest in gardening He main tains he gardened in Peterborough but his wife Ruth says all he ever did was pull up the per cnnials I planted The Rosemary Road house sports a brick drive laid brick by brick by Bob three years ago An Immaculate lawn flower beds and geometric paths form a setting for the famous geraniums which moke up the greater part of the Stewart garden Bob got the bug a few years ago back when he started hauling his plants indoors in the fall One thing led to another and now he s got 200 arrayed on swinging tables under light He s pinching them like mad trying to keep the blooms off before they go outside they re bush icr that way His varieties include all colours from white coral pink and red to apple blossom and Some are kept for their a few You gotta feed them says Bob with as is He feeds his plants so well they look like small buses And he plays music for them through a Speaker wired to the familyroom stereo Healso talks to them he says Although the house is full of plants all types as well as blooming geraniums Bob is most pleased when he gets to put his basement plants in the garden and stands back to watch them burst In bloom They flower better outside Knowing the tender loving core they receive from their master Bob Stewart geraniums will flower well anywhere Bob Stewart Educators aiming for twoyear pact A twoyear contract snag he Is to settle the is will be the result of a stint sue of negotiations between a mediator arbitrator and high school A date is to be set for the approximately week long of contract talks be tween the Halton Board of Education and District of the Ontario Sec ondary School Federation A twoyear contract expiring on Aug 31 will result from the talks Both sides In the seven month dispute voted to send It to binding orbit ration Mediator arbitrator Martin will work the parties through to conclusion on as many outstanding Issues as possible If there la a Need more martin houses keep Acton from being bugged by Jennifer Spring Is here and any minute now Acton re sident will start being eaten alive by Its the same every year Sprays electric bug snappers and bug repel lants are used to relieve the plague but it still virtually Impossible to garden after dusk with out slapping and swatting the minute pests One Acton resident who thinks she has the answer to the mosquito problem Is Elizabeth of Mill Street West who has pur chased a martin house These family bird houses attract the purple martin in great numbers and the only thing a purple martin snacks on Is mosquitoes and other flying pests Gus and live in an area plagued with mosquitoes and hope to spread the word of the martins efficiency to en courage their neighbours and other Actonlons in the endeavor They site the example of a town in Illinois that was so Inundated with the biting bugs all residents purchased martin houses and a local service club erected a large martin complex in the town square By fall fair time theaameyear the towns huge standing order of mosquito spray was can celled the town was vlr If Acton residents co operate and erect martin houses In their back yards the Snels feel Acton would become buglcss as well Martin houses can be purchased from a variety of manufacturers It s possible to make your own but the Snels say the aluminium ones are Ugh ter to handle main tenance free and The apartment like bird houses come in many sires from one that houses or colonies to a large multi unit house Prices start at around and increase as the size of the house grows Usually painted green and white to attract the swallow like birds these houses come with poles and a flag staff rope and pulley to facilitate lower ing the house for spray ing or cleaning A martin house should be placed feet in the air and Is cat proof The only time a home owner needs to take care of his martin house Is in the spring Units should be dusted with sulphur to bird lice and the watched for any in vading sparrows If spar rows set up house keeping the purple mar tins won t come to live so any signs of sparrows nexts should be cleaned out Once the martins ore Janet Fl mining and John Alllnson of the Acton Chamber of Commerce present Jim Be milieu Centre with a plant to mark the opening of Acton Photo and Camera Shop In Leather town New camera store Speeding big problem Something has to be done about speeding on a number of long streets in Acton Councillor Ed Wood told Halton Hills council Monday night He noted a resident from the Churchill Rood North and Norman Ave nue area came to the Ward One councillors drop- in Friday com plaining about the speed ing The resident Tom Oliver reported child was hit by a fast moving car last week after he rode his bike out from be tween two parked cars on Churchill Rood North Fortunately the child t hurt The problem is par bad because a rise north of Norman Avenue creates poor and speeding cars make the situation all the more dangerous Oliver suggested a stop sign is needed at Chur chill Road North and Norman Avenue and noted there have been a number of accidents In the area causing pro perty damage and it is only a matter of time be fore a child Is badly hurt or killed Seven fires Acton Firefighters hustled through seven fire culls since Saturday None of them were major Firefighters were called twice to extinguish grass tires on Dr David Van Der Bent property Monday morning There were two car fires About In damage resulted in the one at Nelson Crt Sat urday afternoon The fire started In the distributor wires Sunday there was a car fire on Side- road There were two other grass fires on Main St S on Saturday A grease fire broke out at Poplar Ave Mon day morning Fire Chief Mick Holmes said there was some smoke damage there Wood sold he also received a call last week regarding speeding on Cobblehill Road from Janet Fleming He recalled he has asked for reports In the past regarding stop signs being used to slow traffic Famed Canadian Donald Mann was born on March 1858 just outside Acton THE ACTON FREE PRESS Authorized as Second Class Mai Postal Registration Number IN AND AROUND ACTON Co mo otto I and G rota I to at Dlstr School at 30 m I 23 Wodnouday and Thursday Tho Nun from a School nmago Sola Si Church Hall Friday Apt I 7 Saturday Saturday 1080 North Ha ion lion or tho iy Row dad art rig ilia Ann a tho floyrrschnr Mi Rood MP Maator of Common to Inn dnnor sod door For or How now bus presented by of in dun try and Tourism and Halton Is L los Cent Thursday Apr I and the engineer variably recommends against stop signs Wood wants the town to ask the police to set up more radar traps on long run roads In Acton to try and curb speeding Karen Vnnlttm and Carlo tower house to check the Purple martins eat their weight mosquitoes every day and the Snels of Mill Street West Intend to have a summer moving refuse from their nests and carrying it for away so lawns under martin houses suffer Gus and would like to see more Acton residents look into martin houses rather than electric bug snap pers as a way of keeping down mosquitoes They said they purchased an electronic unit and found it useless They prefer to let nature do the Job established they 11 re turn every spring One martin can eat up to a thousand flying in sects a day If a home owner has a family house raising one setting of three or four young per season it easy to see how few biting bugs will be around one house Another advantage of having the pleasant birds around Is their sprltely songs and chirping They arc very clean birds re- Acton has a camera shop thanks to Jim Beau lieu who has recently opened the Acton Photo and Camera Shop In Leather town The first shop to locate In downtown s newest collection of shops on the cor ner of Willow and Mill Streets In the old Pro Hardware building the camera shop features much more than picture- taking equipment A freelance photographer from Jim has worked with photo graphic studios and has run a photo store in This is his first venture with his own store A two year course in camera repair at Hum ber College qualifies Jim to service cameras as well as sell them In addition to a full line of cameras Jim carries a wide variety of photographic accesso ries if I haven got It 1 get it for you fast The Acton Photo and Camera Shop features in stunt passport photos shot with a special light technique that Jim says at least makes you look half decent Jim is proud he can offer one day film processing on most colour film He still photographs weddings family traits and photos as well as vol work for social services An active member of the Maple Avenue Bap tist Church In Georgetown Jim says God is his silent partner This business is total ly committed to God He opened all the doors My customers can expect nothing but honesty from me I ma straight shooter Jim states he came to Acton because he saw the potential of the town His wife Catherine is a school teacher and Is expecting the couple second child Their first a daughter Catherine is years old to save you food dollars Price 26 We reserve the limit oz Aylmer ing size catsup Aylmer tomatoes coffee mate Bcjnnol soft lb coloured 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