Halton Hills Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), March 11, 1981, p. 9

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Trio Acton Freo Press Wednesday Mar Kim from Holy School Milton took place honor In the North Hal ton Intermediate public speaking contest hosted this by rancid of School Georgetown Congratulating Kim are second runner up Lisa Swailci from St Peters In Milton and Johnson first runner up from Slcwarttoun school Back row contestants Greg Centennial Georgetown Sharron Atkinson I Dick Milton Monica Victoria Rodriguez St Josephs Acton In grid Fokkens Georgetown Christian School Busche r Holy Cross Georgetown Beth School Milton and Leah Gannon ileSmllh Acton Taking park in the World Day of Prayer at Knox Presbyterian Church Friday afternoon were seated left to Goden right Penny St Josephine Force Trinity United Alice Baptist Coles Knox Standing lert to right Gladys Davidson Presbyterian Mary Dickinson St Josephs Barb Prltchett Sol vation Army Beatrice Cooper Christian lie formed Isabel McDonald Presbyterian Earth belongs to all at World Day of Prayer Milnes celebrate 61st anniversary Approximately peo ple heard the annual World Day of Prayer Service held at Knox Presbyterian Church Friday afternoon This years theme The Earth la the was prepared by Native American Indian women who represent Indian tribes from throughout the United States According to the World Day of Prayer booklet native Americans were the first Their reverence for nature and their relation of kinship with all creat ures enable them to teach us how to live Justly respectfully and in har mony with our world and each other Members or the local churches took part In the service Rev John Robertson in welcoming the guests said World Day of Prayer service Is of great significance because people worship God with other Christians throughout the world at the same time He also said the Earth is the Lords Is a wonderful significant theme all the earth belongs to all the Lighted street signs will be phased out Illuminated street signs in Acton and Georgetown will disappear over the next few years Hills general committee de cided Monday Committee accepted he recommendation of town engineer Robert Austin that the signs and the signs in Georgetown be phased out as they become defective or damaged The illuminated signs will be replaced with reflective white lettering an green background aluminum plate or blade type street signs There are currently of these types of in Acton and In Georgetown The blade types of signs arc the only kind used in hamlets and the rest of the rural area The illuminated have been costly pro blem to the town for sev eral years now The plas tic lenses ore a popular target of vandals and cost to replace Last year the town switched to a more expensive type or Tens which was also much tougher While vandals found they break the lexan lenses they kept on damaging and mantling the illuminated signs Buried hydro cables have also proved to be a problem with illuminated street Hills Hydro must send staff out at night to find the cause of sign outages over three or four block people Rev Robertson ex plained since there was no heat In the church t the thermostat was broken members would have to keep close together The service will take us away from the cold air Into the warmth of the spirit he said Members from each church read selected passages from the pamphlet Taking part In the service was Penny of St Albans Joseph I no Force of Trinity United Alice of Acton Baptist Church Mary DickmsonofSt Josephs Barb of the Salvation Army Beatrice Cooper from Bethel Christian Reformed Isabel McDonald and Wiima Coles from Knox Presby terian and Gladys Davidson also Presbyterian With the singing of Canada and the Theme Song Jean McLean at the piano the Golden Age Club opened its March afternoon meeting at St Albans The delegates to the International Senior citizens Association to be held at the Prince Hotel Toronto May 1921 were changed to Isabel McDonald and Alice Pllklngton Three new members were welcomed to the club A short sing song was enjoyed after we had been entertained with a piano solo by Jean McLean Irene Davidson Emily Mclntyre and Margaret were the Birthday Song recipients while Mary and Max Milne received a hearty applause on celebrating their sixty first an niversary A quartette from Burlington Senior Citizens Travel Club were present and showed slides of different tours which were in Those who won prizes besides the Birth day Trio and the an niversary couple were Lambert Harvey Young Jean McLean Kay Ball Tom Berry Syd Morris Isabel McDonald and Graham At the March evening meeting we will be seeing slides of the Northwest Territories and the Dew Line etc These slides belong to Mr Anderson a son in law of one of our members Sue Pink and we hope we will become better acquainted with our extreme north through them St Patricks Day music will also be en Joyed Two posts filled at Region BINGO EVERY TUESDAY Two new regional department heads have been selected and will come to sometime early in April Gerry Lawson Peel Regional Director of Financial Services has been named the new Regional Treasurer Matthew Fischer Executive Director of the St Catharines Downtown Association has been named the new Halton Regional Business Development Director Following a brief in camera session last Wednesday councillors approved a recommendation to hire both men Mr will be paid about a year for his services almost per year than former Treasurer Don Farmer who stepped down from the Job last September In the wake of the surprise deficit with the town pay ing overtime bills This problem could be sot by revamping cir cuits but at a cost to the municipality of Energy costs main tenance like washing the signs annually and bulb replacement further push up the expenses associated with having the luxury of Illuminated signs Last year Hills spent over on the Illuminated signs and the own must also spend to put up each lighted sign By contrast it only to erect a Wade type street sign and costs for maintenance are small They arent as susceptible to vand alism last much longer and are strong and dur able There have been some cases of these signs being stolen in the rural area CANADIAN ODEON THEATRES A GEORGETOWN 3 cpope fi Co 232 Guelph Street 877Q984 JACKPOTS Gorno 15prt Rags Hall FOflFHEE TRANSPORTATION CALL 8631 V ROLLER SKATE at ONE OF ONTARIOS MOST LUXURIOUS ROLLER CENTRES PD DAY MARCH 18 100 pm400 pm SKATE RENTAL I AOWOW EXTRA Hospice care meeting The group formed last month in North to study care for the dying will hold its second meeting at Milton Hospital April at Over people attended the first meeting in Glen Williams A nurse at Milton Hospital Is researching hos pice care and the hospital staff is interested and supportive They arc looking at possibly selling up a hospice care program in the future said spokesperson for the group Eva Sansom The speaker at the meeting will be Rev Clinton Rohr of West Park Hospital which is a chronic care facility His subject will be grief and bereavement GOLFERS Bolton and Georgetown Golf Courses have a tew memberships available lor season Membership as low as Special discounts before March 15lh By joining one golf course you are automatically a member of two SOME TOURNAMENT DATES STILL AVAILABLE For more information call 8572050 INASQUEEZE If tax time puts you the squeeze remem ber las year the trained specialists at Block took the pressure off for over threequarters million Cana dians by preparing accurate tax returns at an average cosl about That a good return for the money And a lot less pressure This year sura HR BLOCK- THE INCOME TAX SPECIALISTS 21 Main St N Acton HO to fun WMkdaT wit Saturday NO PPM7VTOM Opera SUNDAY ONLY 1 Sex Ward 2 Jet Sex 3 Sex Fever Skateathon this Sunday Hundreds of local school children are expected la skate for Acton In this Sundays annual Rotary Club at Acton Community Centre Funds raised at the Kill go towards Rotary community projects and the schools its happening Here FOODGREAT FUN LA RIVIERA Dining Lomge STEAKS SEAFOOD ITALIAN CUISINE Reasonably Priced FuDy Licenced TAKE OUT SERVICE Come Dine With Us IN A RELAXING ATMOSPHERE The MILTON Cine NOTICE TO VOTERS HattoftBurfagton The following people have been duly nominated as candidates for tho Provincial Election March Followed by the names and addres ses of official agents 1 FRAMBAINES JULIAN REED STARTS FRIDAY MARCH 13 Cry Havoc and let slip CHUlSrOPHERWALKlN ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS Including BEST ACTOR Paler O PETER OTOOLE J FRl SAT ISA SUN TO THURS AT ONLY WED THUHS MAR 11 ONLY FORT APACHE THE BRONX at will make you care make you and make you cheer NEIL DIAMOND LAURENCE OLIVIER gTHEjJM SINGER Help keep the promise of Ontario Elect a Davis government Ontario is rich in promise We have people resources the initiative and the vitality make Ontario the envy the world Bui promises do not fulfill them selves To build the future we need strength and leadership Premier Bill Davis has demonstrated that leadership He has shown that he has the under standing and the vision to identify the priorities in Ontario future and to take the vigorous action needed capitalize on them The Davis Government new B I L D plan is a comprehensive economic program desiqned to stimulate the economy create and to realize Ontario future potential The B I program provides for the necessary planning and assistance to create growth in all the following areas of activity energy independence develop ment of resources including farming and forestry industry human resources new emphasis on training for skilled and professional employment transportation and communications tourism every aspect of Ontanos economic lite And the B I L D program is backed by solid performance the Davis government in economic activities which have created new Ontario jobs at the average rate of 100 per year lor the las live years Ontario needs the and expert ence of Premier Bill Davis as its leader On March you will have your chance to support the B I L program to keep the promise of Ontario through support ol your Davis candidate On March 19th elect your Davis candidate Vote Progressive Conservative FRAN BAINES HaltonBurllngton JACK JOHNSON

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