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2 The Adton Free Press Wednesday Nov 1981 Profile with Jo nn if or Borr When It comes to hockey and little boys Harold Townsley knows all there is to know He s been Acton Arena manager for the past 14 years hockey player all his life and coach since the year dot As one of Actons finest odd yean ago Harold was on the Acton Junior Team in 18 when they went to the all Ontario Junior quarter finals one of the youngest players tver Harold remembers they played the final in Bowmanvillc where snow turned to water on the Ice and they lost to Harold played well enough to go from Acton to Georgetown Intermediate then lo where he and Freddie Kentner pi on the international team until the folded He still plays hockey with the Old timers in Guelph Hockey was less violent in tin old days Harold feels I ve played years and never lost a tooth or broke a bone he says with a smidgen of pride A fellow Hirold Is for his out spoken opinions and nononsense attitude But his early hockey years were spent is peace maker for teammate Freddie When I lost my temper I sec so I decided it was no good not to know what you doing and I swore I just wouldn t fight His teammates though made no such v stones of the wild and wooly games played Kentner and Johnny Mowat are history two guys were going to fight they d drop their gloves and sticks Since masks came into use it seems an excuse to get the sticks up and at it Harold was a scooter Hartley Coles then Free Press sports writ remembers One picture in my mind js of Harold skating like mad up and down the ice with a member of the opposite team after him He finally Harold got him down and sat on him pounding him while Harold protected his face with his handsno Harold refused to fight did though Coles got into a shoving match with a referee in the dressing room after playoff game in In the early Acton Arena was closed and used as wool storage for the war effort Harold and his Acton teammates played in Arena around a pole at centre ice put there to hold the arena roof upl In 1947 then a member of the Acton Juveniles coached by Doc Sirrs and managed by wain Harold remembers a spectacular all in The fans got Irate and we got irate half were trying to get the other half we went up and down the stands and tried to get the hell out of town We go to the train at Gait and we find Jim McKnight He was found later some what the worse for wear leaning over the rink boards Come on Acton enjoyed the game every time I put my ska on Now as Arena manager Bantam coach for 17 years and old time player Harold compares the game then and now Hockey was more individual then there was more chance for assistance There as many play ens and you were lucky if you enough for a team Harold the help of Doc Sirrs and Les McSwain They were driving force of the all star team Kids have It too easy today they have it made They feel they can do what to do I always believed in please and thank you he says There are so many overequipped kids today competing for ice time and trying to stand out in a crowd Harold feels it was more fun when he and his chums played on ponds with a chunk of coal made better players too he says But Harold isn t famous for hockey alone He was a good ball player and loved the game He played with the Acton Junior Ball Team and was part of the Intermediate Team when they won IheCchampionshipin He Johnny Mowat and Harry were asked to try out for St Louis at their training camp in Thamesville Ontario He and Johnny didn t make it but Harry did Harold was a director of the Figure Skating Club in charge of he carnival and on the rccrca lion commission for seven years He also been a volunteer fireman for years and is heading for his 30 year pin He and his wife Dons have four children sons and Jeff daughters Karen and Julie and three ska Harold Townsley will go down in Acton history as one of the town most interesting hockey players but he 11 stay in my memory as one super dancer Study proposes great new took for downtown New street lighting planters and trees parking on a- wider sidewalk on one side of Mill and signs Incorporating the Leathertown logo give downtown Acton a great new look in the years ahead Last week at a special meeting Hills council and Acton officials reviewed with Interested citizens final report on a con ceptual plan for down town Acton as well as a core area study which will be incorporated In the municipality s now official plan Consultant Peter Walker of Walker Wright Young Assoc iates said action on the first phase of the plan should be started im mediately and will take one to five years to com He warned one the most Important aspects of the plan in acquisition of property for parkland and off street parking and because of cost It could be as long as years before all these aspects of tho plan materialize He said a long term plan for pro perty acquisition Is needed adding Ha Hon Hills must take a major role in this area downtown should be town area The trad phase two Is six to 10 streets around down BIA official Paul spruced up at Mill and character of years down the road and town sen noted he has been on Bower end Main Streets many downtown build by hat time he mun Ten years from now the steering committee north and south In ings should be followed icipality should re- the BIA should develop working with the con eluding landscaping and improved on both construct Eastern Ave an entrance to downtown since the study signs using the Leather Main and Mill when and develop parking on Main South and com began and town logo there is new develop- around the town hall on them on coming around the ment or redevelopment During the same years Main up with something work town hall and at the cor Most improvements to the report suggests Costa of able and attractive ner of MIU and Main building appearances continue street You ve put the ball In where the shop will be done by private scaping on Mill St up to prices for trees and our court and It up to now stands arc en- individuals and re3lor the railway tracks do for new street us to carry it You have visloncd in the plan of the traditional some work lighting Parkins showed us the first steps Park benches shade elements of buildings to on Willow north of Mill lo take and we should trees Information kiosk their original quality develop an attract lake them immed- and drinking fountains and Improvement of entrance to down lately we suggested premises and structures town on Main North The plan calls for Parking for 51 cars to current standards Is The last port of tho removal of parking on south of Mill and west of needed plan phase three for the south side of Mill Willow will likely be the some buildings simply years from now and between Main and John first off street lot need some repairs and beyond calls for the which will allow the eloped Parking for decorating changes of municipality to acquire sidewalk to be widened a cars near the signs and clean up In land and develop park bit as well as increasing town hall and behind some cases removal of of Mill and the width of the driving stores on north aide metal panels westof Willow Thetown portion of the road On of Mill west of Willow tile etc which have been must also look at tree the north side of Mill In are also building surfaces planting and replacing to parking lota Each of the entrances for signs and landscaping run about 000 development will vary likely about 1200 to 1 per parking space as well as K00 for each sign directing shoppers the same blocks the Shade trees curbing over the year sidewalks will be and new sidewalks are necessary substantially to urged for Eastern Ave Phase one of the plan give more space for on both aides of the to be completed in the pedestrians street five years calls for Planters shade trees A truck route bypass i to acquire and and ornamental of downtown to remove develop land for parking with tree guards are some through traffic south of Mill and west of envisioned at numerous from Mill St should be willow as well buy locations where space considered the study property for parking permits throughout states the town hall The downtown New street Rehabilitation and town should also recurb lighting at a lower level redevelopment res tripe the streets and smaller scale will Ing infilling of new build downtown to be mounted on stands or adjacent to or bet street widening on the fronts of ween existing buildings During phase one the buildings Traffic lanes downtown are urged in make on Mill should be re- the report Improve- Improvc- strlpcd allowing for a can be most develop walk four foot buffer strip effective if they are ways spruce up the en from the sidewalk within an trance to downtown at Walkways to the pro- overall design theme Mill and the railway posed off street parking based on the unique tracks and start work to lots behind stores on character of the down develop both sides of Mill will also need lighting the report says with signs showing the way lo parking lots 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