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The Acton Free Press Wednesday 1980 No damage was reported by Acton firefighters who responded to Sunday chimney tire on Road Churchill publishes book Churchill Community Church long known as the church that t close is immortalized in a book History of Churchill Community Church put out recently by the church committee and printed by Printing and Publishing Acton The cover picture a pen and ink sketch of he church was done by Hazel an Acton resident who spent most of her life living close to Churchill The committee spearheaded by Irene Swack hammer Vera Denny and Harold Griffin have a produced a charming 36 page edition telling the IjO year old history of a church that has seen days a Congregational Church a United Church and now a Community Church The church that wouldn close was so named by the United Church Observer in September 1973 after the crisis of closure by the United Church of Canada The church has continued as denominational ever since June 15 to has been proclaimed Senior Cit wens week in Halton Hills Following a request by the Ministry of Community and Social Ser vices the Town recently made the pro Tennis court surfacing The town is going to spend 630 to surface the Acton Tennis Courts Monday night Halton Hills awarded the contract for the job to Country Club Tennis Court Co of Mississauga There were five tenders for the job which Acton Tennis Club will pay half of the highest being and the winning bid of the lowcit Hills will apply to the province for a per cent grant to cover the town half of the paving job Recreation director Tom Shepherd noted the work ii the last stage in the con stmction of the courts and not being done because the present surface is In bad shape Beer garden approved One of the attractions at the Back to Acton Days celebration will be a beer garden in Pros pect Park sponsored by the Acton Chamber of Commerce Monday night Hills council approved the beer garden provided the Chamber meets Liquor Licence Board regulations and Regional Police Halton Regional Heallh Department and town fire department require Works department will review a request to close Mill Street from Main to Elgin Friday June Saturday June from a m to midnight Fair thanks town Words of thanks to the town are far and few be So Hilts council was delighted Monday night to receive a letter of appreciation from Acton Agricultural Society for the organization grant from the municipality This year fair wdl be September 19 and and with many improvement should be bigger and belter than ever Car stolen burned Regional Police and firefighters were called to the scene when a stolen tar was re ported in flames in a fourth Line Nassagawcya ditch soulhof25Sideroad The 1974 Chrysler Newport owned by an Acton man and parked in front of a Mill Street home was found Saturday The fire in the front end gut ted the vehicle police say Youth charged in theft A 16ycirold Acton youth who stole a Honda motorcycle from a John Street residence has been charged following an by Hal ton Regional Police The youth stole the 1974 bike in April and was arrested last week Board to sell school Halton Board of Education says it has no use for the Sunshine School property on the Seventh Line and has asked Hills council if they are interested in buying it Council asked for a staff report on the school The Acton District Council conducted a seasons closing ceremony for all the Movement to express our feelings about the values believe In states a council Guides Brownies Pathfinders and Gulders last week About ISO girls showed up release Many skits songs poems and stories unfolded during the evening under on the grounds by the library Many parents also attended A Brownie Guide the tries Pathfinder and Own provides on for all of us In the Guiding Downtown mall development collapses Continued from page 1 Mario VenditU tells Doug Rosart who was unavailable for comment and McLaughlin came up with plans for a a square foot food store a major chain drug store restaurant bowling lanes a theatre and other stores and offices McLaughlin claims negotiations were pro gressing nicely with a major theatre chain for a small cinema in a semi enclosed mall when plans went down he drain Other firms In in locating in the mall included Itobbins and Tim he said Canada Trust which was going to assist in financing the project was going to ate an office in the mall ft was a really good looking plan M declared noting there would have been walkways special store awnings other decorative features There was parking for Oils saying the most food store as it is Lums Business much different story He economical and at den said adding he Area and had planned to plan is the one objects to his firm be invite local merchants to McLaughlin and containing the mall large ing brought into the Issue expand their present and urged they bring supermarket and theatre and hence operations by locating in plans to the town as soon He maintained the plan AB have IB as possible He says his fell apart because of months to run on the department eagerly municipal objections present lease and awaiting a site plan bent over back option for five more He says when he and wards to help them We years den observed other town staff received have said give us a site the developer would have the plans for the mail though the to buy the building from containing the theatre appears the present owner we were anxious to dead now Vonditti plans to proceed proceed as soon as sae Maybe If there McLaughlin l y is an approved site plan rejected by the proposal some will come for ex pans on plan He says own S Vendiltl stated that ward and take it the pro he has an option to buy original proposal is not the drain McLaughlin and with the existing lease heaririB Ut true came up with the option He has op tions for all other joining properties another tar and a half to run on the r tenant in the present building Space been for a 10 ft building options have taktn on all the properties Apparently Canadian lire will expand store only if this other proceeds as originally conceived man wouldn want to such plans including a build on the east side of small cinema and office plans spice Trust by council who iv is yj to put up id will be subject of an for the pro the semienclosed mall McLaughlin said obvious there is a need for business expansion in Aclon or else wouldn be interested in plaza developer Jerry When staff first re plan the plans for the stores and much smaller mall containing the supermarket theatre a review was However that plan has started hut no meeting of also collapsed development com McLaughlin says they signer or a major store took place with the Lumsden which will guarantee to or McLaughlin Brothers who lease the remain in the develop The plans building and for the life of the to the eventual sublease it to the owners mortgage e had a covenant but it seems When the whole subject five was raised briefly at Hal ton Hills council Monday by night Councillor Ed Wood had a he thought the from Tom staff that Council approve It wher He pointed the finger of blame for this proposal falling through at Hills development committee consisting of town plan municipal department heads who met with art to review the plans McLaughlin claims was told by town staff that their proposal Vcndltti of ABFoodland described as having been rejected the expansion substantially revised plans What they brought William Lumsden said was plans for an ex the developer he remember M store from to 13 name wants we would go ahead with cither plan I would say it is itac enure pro until we find a covenant We re in a McLaughli came council reviewed the of the May 14 Alton Board of Manage ment meeting Those minutes the Lumsden expansion pro at the cast end of town is apparently d Negotiations have broken square feet and a row of too rent for the dared He added he and down and they ha Stores at the rear There was no longer a theatre declared He said the developers felt they get the clients for a larger including practical It the theatre was a much larger They said they made development than Acton the revisions based on needed downtown M economics the planner says they w ere declared told by titan and there would be numerous traffic problems He said staff urged a smaller food store with a row of shops like a strip plaza at the rear of the property on Church Street Planning director McLaughlin expanded store He Rosart hive been search recalled the developer ing for a new covenant came to a vice president with no luck who is no longer with the McLaughlin said oil firm with a proposal for leases and negotiations an expanded store for the other stores in Lumsden never initiated either proposal were con the expansion of the on a larger super supermarket market than currently The last I heard they exists were going to proceed He said he received with the rest of the pro strong support for his and just leave the plans from the Aclon THE ACTON FREE PRESS Authorized as Second Class Moil Postal Registrat on Number 0515 PUMP PROBLEMS We are equipped to handle ell jot and Cad BOYES For At Voir Plumbing BOYES PLUMBING Were As Near As four Phone FURNITURE LIQUIDATION SALE Mix arid Match MATTRESS BOX SPRING Limited Stock FIRST COME FIRST SATISFIED THERAPEDIC ELEGANCE SLEEP SETS Halton Hills Furniture Appliances 352 QUEEN ST EAST NO 7 ACTON 8530211 FOR SHOPPING IN ACTON TAXES Acton business community pays substantial This helps lessen the load on residential property When you spend your shopp ng dollar in you encourage expans of business which broadens commercial tax base Your money stays in Aclon JOBS Increased business activity provides more full and pari time opportunities for people Your money stays in 3 LOW COST HOUSING Most business establishments have low cost storey They provide affordable rental accommodation which is not otherwise e to low income earners young couples and people with children When you shop in you encourage expansion and upgrading ol facilities Your money slays in SPORTS A OTHER SERVICES Most Acton businesses support many sports and social programs in many ways such as p of team advertising in prospeclus donations and many give of Ihelr lime or coaching and activities Support your merchants and invest In your children and your community as a lull is bound be more generous canvasser than an empty one What do you get from outof town stores BI A Business Improvement Area merchants and profess onals pay additional taxes above and beyond those Imposed by the municipality This money is being administered by B I A Board of Management and Is spent for such things as hiring students for downtown clean up planters benches and flowers Improved sidewalks we used to have asphalt sidewalks parking facilities Santa Claus parade Iree bus service during the Christmas season to name only a lew When you spend your shopping dollar in Aclon It stays In Acton IT IS NOT SENT TO SOME HEAD OFFICE SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESS which supports YOU