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4 The- Acton Press Wednesday June 1980 Don McDonald Publisher Founded In Subscnpi on Smnli cacti ir ill jn Canada Free Pros is tho Inland Co led group of suburban news Advertising is accepted on that In of error portion of tho advertising apoco by item together w th reasonable allowance tor will not bo charged of but tho of bo for at tho applicable In tho of a typographical advertising goods cos at a wrong price goods or services may not bo sold Advertising is an of to sell and may ba withdrawn at any Whitby News Brampton TIip Post Thn Gcoioctown Independent Thornhllbconom find Sun Tho lion Canadian Champ on of Tho Audi Bureau of on Canadian Community Assoc and Weekly Newspaper Association Era Ohawa Week Ths iniTliStoifMoTnbuno Second class mail Registration Number EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor Murray EncElstono SponafWomon Diana News Jennifer Contributor Helen Murray Darkroom Ken Qualm ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Manager Bill Cook Sales ClBBslfiodAdvonlllnQ BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE Thornhi I Carolyn Art McAnh CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Manager TELEPHONE 853 Business and Editorial Office Why leave it to Beaver One of the tallest hurdles for a student looking for a summer job or a new graduate for a path into the work force is the lack of work experience For many jobs an applicant needs to have experience How ever if one cant land that first job how does one get experience Educators have had a hand in helping students break that no- expenence no job circle At Actons High School for example teachers have taken on some ex tra responsibility in addition to their regular duties and en couraged students to operate the cafeteria Students have learned about nutrition the handling of customers and money plus the calculating of profit and loss all from day today experience The student staff cafeteria has been in operation for some time ever since Beaver Foods was bumped out of the school Beaver Foods operates cafeterias in some other Halton schools Now Halton s Board of Ed ucation has undertaken a study in cooperation with Beaver Foods to examine the advantages and disadvantages of having a cafe teria run by the school staff and students According to Haltons Director of Education Em Lavender its prudent to look at the staff time and responsibilities as compared to the advantages Indeed it may be prudent evei the approach of the study stretches the credibility of any ad vice Beaver Foods will give the board Surely it is too much in Beaver Foods interests not to produce unbiased opinion There are arguments the board can produce m defence such as one must go to the people with expertise the field under study Beaver Foods however can be seen only as a competitor in the eyes of the students and staff On a larger scale can one en vision the Ontario Ministry of Consumer Affairs asking Simp sons to assist in a government study of Eatons merchandising If the board needs expertise with the study why not at least ask some other company for ad vice Or better still ask the real ex perts at AHS the staff and stu dents Cool heads needed Market value assessment re presents a threat of creating much ill feeling between new and old Acton homeowners As the de bate concerning the advantages and disadvantages of one tax sy stem over another goes on resid ents ought to adopt an attitude of understanding The general from each side are old m nature Theyre been raised before else where Older residents say the newer people should pay the cost of their homes plus help pay for streets outside of the subdivision Newer residents are of the opin ion why should they assist with the cost of road repair in the older parts of town when they already pay for in their area the streets sewers water mams sidewalks plus the lot levy for sewage capa city and schools On the surface the shift to mar ket value assessment appears to mean little Out of 1815 resid ential properties in town would not change 695 would de crease while 823 would increase The size of the increases in tax bills however would to some older residents likely mean hav ing to give up their homes Taxes in some places would increase many tunes over The best bet is for officials and residents to get as much inform ation as soon as possible then take their time with a liberal dose of understanding to square off as many of the inequities as possible It likely will not be as easy task A public meeting is to be held June 16 at the Acton High School to discuss market value assess ment Town and region officials are likely to be there as well as many residents The meeting will not likely see the end of the tax controversy however with cool heads it may be the beginning of the end Right now the town does not appear to have enough inform ation to decide whether or not to take on the new form of tax For one thing no one knows how the new form will affect industries The province has given the town some bits of information con cerning market value assessment and if there is anymore in formation residents want to know about its time for the provice to help quickly and efficiently Mosquito spraying protest To the Editor Dear Sir I would like to protest the proposed spraying I sympathize with the problems of those with allergies and with the wish to be rid of such pests However we are very gullible If we believe that it Is possible for any agency to recommend a safe spray The hazards of these chemicals are not known It will be too late If we find out In five or 10 years that an other regrettable mistake has been made And what about those people who will have allergic or other reactions to the spray My advice to Mrs Houston and her Is to protect themselves with Insect sprays by staying Indoors and by working to eliminate possible breeding sites In this way toxic chemicals will not be imposed on people who do not want them Lynne Wilson Presentation appreciated Paul Tamblyn Acton District High School Dear Sir It was a great pleasure and a distinct honour to be present yesterday during the presentations made by your students Miss Miriam Beaton Miss Paula Ruppcrt and Miss Sandra to the Niagara Escarpment Hearing Officers In Ancnster I have had the opportunity of sitting through numerous briefs made to Officers and can only say that yours was by far the most Interesting and certainly informative on the brood sense of the you nger generations views You and your group are to be highly commended In that your efforts have certainly brought a great deal of attention and respect to both your school and the Town of Halton Hills As you know I represent our Town both on Local Council and Regional Council and I your representative on the Niagara Escarpment Commission I feel there fore qualified to personally and on behalf of the Town congratulate you for a Job well done As 1 Indicated to you if there Is any way that I can be of assistance to you please feel free to contact me through the Town Office at your convenience Yours sincerely RE Booth Regional Councillor Niagara Escarpment Commission Commissioner Town of Halton Kills Separate holidays make domestic cage bearable It bewildering when you think of the number of things that can break up a marriage that began in heaven and ends up in the other place Sexual or emotional incompatibility disparity of Interests rotten kids de sertion booze insanity to name Just a few of the serious ones Then you work your way down to the aspects that seem trivial on the surface but can be just as rending over the grind as the big ones Stuff like halitosis dandruff body odor nosepicking digging wax from ears or jam from toes and similar physical foibles And then there are the basic differences In genes that shatter many a case of connubial bibs Some people are yawning until the tears spurt at and are wedded to other people who Just begin to hit on the cylinders about the time the late movies begin Thats bad enough But the former ore the type who leap out of bed at six a enrolling Here hath been dawning an other new day think wilt thou let it slip useless away And the latter have to be dragged out of bed at the crack of noon with a block and tackle Not much chance for them Then there are the poor devils who put on a pound Just by reading a menu and bitterly resent their mates who can shovel In the chocolates pastry whipped cream and beer and go around remarking blithely and smugly I have to eat like a horse to stay even Grounds for a hatchet murder Some people mostly men look when they are married and still look when thoyaresixty Others mostly women look when they are married and when they arc 40 This can lead to a certain amount of savagery And there is plain old body temperature Somelikeithotsomclikeitcool Thus we find running battles as bedroom windows are thrown wide or slammed down as the thermostat Is viciously wrenched up to BO and the moment the back is turned Is triumphantly twisted back to Another of the fractious items In the con stant domestic skirmishing is the question of who does the most work A man let say a barber bleats that hes been on his feet all day and theyre killing him His erstwhile soul mate retorts that shes been on her knees all day and she 11 kill him if he doesnt get out and mow the lawn In the same vein an executive will reel In from work collapse in a chair after mixing a triple martini and go into a re citation about the overwhelming stress hes under a fight with the boss a client lost Inefficient underlings And his darling sugar or hon of 30 years ago will come back like a tigress with her stress the phone rang 13 times today she had a fight with the plumbers the new drapes dont match anything except puke she had to take the new car to a garage because some turkey creased her to the tune or in parking lot Heck I could go on for an hour listing reasons that people first begin to get on each other nerves proceed to dislike and end up in a glor ious blare of pure hatred And I m sure every one of you gentle readers could odd to the list 1 do a 30000 word thesis on it someday But for now Id like to add Just one Item to the list that is seldom mentioned by either sociology professors or Ann Landers This cause of fractured marriage is too much togetherness when a married couple spend too much time together they not only begin looking alike but talking alike thinking alike and all the other As a result they become twoheaded calls Siamese twins freak vegetables with two carrots growing from one seed Repeating the same old things bickering about the some trivial things chewing their cabbage twice they lose their in dividual and become both boring and bored They are the end when they start calling each other Mother and Dad and can spend half an hour pat disagreeing over a thirdrate TV This was no great vision on the road to Damascus It came to me when my wife went off for a few days in the city and I was alone all all alone on a sea of beautiful privacy Nobody saying Lights out dear you have to work tomorrow midnight just when Im getting into the guts of a novel I know I have to work tomorrow Two nights she was away I read until six a m Nobody telling me what a day shed had when Id had a worse one And vice versa She thought Id eaten the cooked ham she left me I fed it to the squirrels and ate a lasagne that almost killed me Dill pickles Ice cream coffee a spoon would stand in Unmade bed unwashed dishes cigarettes with no filters Bloody Marys for breakfast When she came home of course every thing was span But she loved me so much she almost strangled me It was mutual Try it It cost me about four hundred Worth every cent About once a year I do the same take off to a convention or Into the woods She doesnt miss me loves the solitude and Im delighted to be home Separate holidays might make that domestic cage of yours bearable No pun intended Total Chamber of Commerce mem bership now stands at 106 The following ore members Achilles Motors Acton Bowling Lanes Acton Automotive Acton Chicken Pizza Spot Acton Community Services Centre Acton Free Press Acton Home Hardware Acton Hydro Electric Commission Acton I G A Acton Photo and Camera Acton Precast Concrete Ltd Acton Rent All Acton Tool Die Acton Transmission Acton Travel Ltd Acton Welding Marino Service Centre Alllnson John Aquatic Enterprises Bank of Montreal Bank of Nova Scotia Beardmore Co Ltd Bell Canada Build Products of Canada Ltd Com Catering Canadian Imperial Bank of Commence Canadian Tire Corp Motor Homes Commercial Shearing Ltd Corrles Hair Place Daly McGregor Dovies Truck Equipment Ltd Dennys Insurance Agency Dons Lock Service J C Duff Ltd Eds In Vnr The Fabric Facey Dr frcy Family Cleaners Family Restaurant First Line TV Sale3 Service Fourth Line Flower Shop Nursery Construction Glenlea Drug Mart Glenlea Medical Clinic Dally Mercury Goy Car- tago Ltd Grants Motors Ltd Halls Custom Carpentry Shop Halton Hills Custom Upholstery Halton Fur nlture Appliances Halton Hills Veterinary Services Parlour H Jon Hurst Electric Indusmln Limited Inland Publishing Co Ltd JT Sports Alec Johnson Limited Industrial Supplies Ltd L C Maintenance Electrical Services Construction Lakeview Centre Liquor Control Board of Ontario Meats Ltd Lyles Family Barber Shop Mabley Kim MacKenzic Chapman J MacKcnzle Son Ltd Mushroom Farm Ltd Maple Rock Shooting Range Press Murray Memorial The Music Stop Construction Ltd Nielsen Clothing Noble Phil Nor Park Bar J Enterprise Queens Restaurant Bolton Raceway Motors Collision Ltd Nick Masonry Contr Richs Service Centre Rogers Insulation Ltd Rons Burner Service Royal Variety Schumacher StedmanB Department Store Superior Motors Swct man Dave and Alma Telford R M Thompson WR Tom Thompson Toddlers to Teens Toronto Bank Garden Centre Landscaping Tyler Transport V AW Contracting Vncform Plastics Ltd Vincent G Whiting David J Wilson Electric Wooden Heart Inn Goodwin Roy Ron Saunders Excavating Back issues 10 years ago Taken front the lime of The Acton Free Press Wednesday June ID 1870 The hour rotating strike has affected the staff at Acton Post office where they didnt report for work Friday Hard work good livin and lots of cigars Thats the formula for K Browne Actons grand old man passed on to friends at his 100th birthday party Although attendance seemed lower than usual a Targe crowd gathered for Decora tion Day An evergreen tree donated by Acton VYT was dedicated by Rev Harry Dawson Dr Allan Buchanan and Fred Wright were presented with their 40 year service pins by life member George at he Legion council Is seeking legal advice in its opposition to the hydro line through the township Roy was declared the winner of the demo derby at the speedway 20 years ago Token from the Issue of The Acton Free Press Thursday June 1900 Sandy Best announced that tions arc almost finalized to acquire part of the Dominion Hotel property and land owned by Jack Smith on Main N for a site for a new post office Charles Kelly Browne celebrated his birthday A campaign for artificial ice has been sparked by the towns newest organization the Lions club A cairn was erected at the Robert Little school by the Home and School Association a cement base housing the corner stone from the demolished school topped by the old school bell High field day champions are Carol Goodwin Janice Gardner Bonnie McDougall Jackie Dawe Bob Foyers Pete Hurst Grant Baker Sheldon Blow Jon Hurst Peter Homer Rev A Callaghan of and Oustic churches has been years in the priesthood Superb pitching by Denis Gibbons led the midgets to a win over in the Reason opener Murray McBrlde was ordained as a minister 50 years ago Taken from the issue of The Acton Free Press June 1930 Rev W J Hamilton has taken charge of the Baptist church For a number of years the ladies of Acton Womens Christian Temperance Union have been actively engaged in encouraging the study of the evils of Intoxicating liquors tobacco by the students of the schools The annual presentation of prizes took place In the United church The prize in the oratorical contest was won by Bar bara Taylor followed by Vera and Johnston Barbara Guthrie Isabel Swltzer Beth Harrison and Elwood Johnston read essays were shown by Davidson Edna HInton Ruby Allan Vera Coxe and May Water- house Miss Minnie Bennett announced the winners of awards In the Sunday schools Norman Gibson Laura Hall Teddy Han sen Harvey Hassard and Lucy Seventeen aeroplanes flew over Acton In a squadron travelling from Michigan to Kingston to take part in a rally There were originally but one crashed The pilot landed safely by parachute There arc now pensioners In whose applications have been passed Several of the streets in town are receiving liberal coating of gravel 100 years ago Taken from the Issue of The Acton Free Press Thursday June Undoubtedly Mrs S A ha3 the most tastefully laid out garden in the lagen filled with the largest assortment of flowers The new Band Stand is to be erected on Bower Avenue at the head of John St Dr Morrow having kindly consented to have It on his property there A new sidewalk will be built on John St from Mill to Bower Ave A number of young men make a practice of congregating on the at the entrance to the different churches as the congregations are dismissed on Sunday evenings to the annoyance of others especially the ladles Considerable sickness in Several fatal cases among children Creditors are mourning the sudden departure of Herman Clark who rented the mills from Messrs Hague Bros Mill and Main streets are receiving a coat of gravel A certain class of persons have lately engaged In the disgraceful practice of decorating the walls of the offices In the school with drawings cuttings and pencil- lings of an obscene character Any who engage In this filthy amusement will be ex or prosecuted