Halton Hills Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), June 9, 1982, p. 2

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The Acton Free Press Wednesday June 9 Plans to bring back St John Ambulance A Georgetown area man wants lo resurrect the St John Ambulance in Hills In a letter to lull council which received without comment Monday by town fathers and mothers Colin reported the new branch would serve the Acton and Georgetown areas and he has already discussed he project with a number of local residents including a in Georgetown SI John Ambulance disbanded in Acton after many years of service some time ago The brigade wax named Citizens of the Year once during the 60s noted the Milton branch has been coming to Hills event as it is able over the years but that is becoming more difficult George and Mane of Acton in their uniforms with a Mdton St John Ambulance van have been a familiar sight at many local events FOR ONE WEEK ONLY ALL QUILTED FABRIC 25 SELECTED butterick patterns OPT Fabric MILL ST ACTON Tuesday Saturday 30 Thursday Cross country program involves Acton students Brownies flew op to guides fail week Front row Lisa vandal Colleen and Kathleen Montgomery Second raw Kerrl Loll Leigh Whiting Cynthia let Global news Acton plain lost First Acton lost Its Identity and now it a just plain lost according to Global news The television network dispatched Queens Park reporter Gordon Donaldson to Acton Monday afternoon to do a piece on Acton being left off the new Ontario road map and it aired for the first time on the news Jan Tennant in troduced the item saying Ontario has lost one of its small communities and the residents here were furious Film during the short item showed Donaldson pulling into a gas station to get directions to Acton since he couldn t find It on the map The at tendant said it was Just up the road and looked surprised when he couldn t see Acton on the map he was shown by the TV reporter Donaldson noted Acton was an easy mile drive from Toronto If you know the way Six years ago It Is actually eight the community lost its identity he reported and now it s just plain lost In the first local scene Global showed the town hall and a close up of a squirrel in an at the town hall Also the cenotaph with a of the words Erected by the Citizens of Acton was seen The Century old town hall is going to be torn down now that Acton and George town and some smaller places have become the scattered new municipality of Haiton Hills the viewers were informed A shot of the building with the Hills Municipal sign appeared on the screen The people don like the change more than a century of tradition has gone down the drain but the worst insult came last week when the name vanished from the map Even Georgetown got a bigger anonymous dot TV watchers saw the front page of the Free Press showing the large headline in last week edition New road map insult to Acton as well as the title on the new road map and the stylized let tering Ontario in the form of the provincial flag and the words your to discover Shots of the smokestack and the water tower were shown on the screen with an overview of the tannery as Donaldson told the audience ft the centre of the leather Industry with a tannery which was once the biggest in the British Empire and it been trying to lure American tourists Next Donaldson interviewed Steve Dawklns of the Hide House outside the side entrance of the building Dawklns said when Acton Is left off the map it certainly do us much good in the way of getting independent tourists people who are out driving looking for something to do In Ontario It s a major setback for our plans David Whiting who was identified as a Counsellor not councillor for Acton and president of the Chamber of Commerce lamented on camera We were going along so well It really just another slap in the face from the province again They took away the town s identity when we went regional and we been fighting back against that to retain some of our Identity and as I said we been going along quite well and now we get left off the map so Whiting punctuated his final remark a discouraged frown and shrug Shown on Bower Ave Donaldson gave his wrapup and in his signoff stated he was reporting from and then paused to look down at paper and stated Acton with something of a question Of being left off the map he said Apart from the affect on business It s a blow to civic pride and doesn t do community spirit much good when after a century you re suddenly reduced to a dot on the map and then wiped out altogether There were a lot of new faces around town last week when pupils at Middle School and Robert Little public school took part a stud ent exchange program McKenzieSmllh s guests armed last Tuesday from Richmond C and were billeted out in local homes The students visited Toronto seeing the CN Tow Ontario Place the Legislature and City Hall On Tuesday they had a more local tour going to the Hide House the chocolate factory and the ultural museum and electric museum Friday saw them touring the Niagara area including Niagara Falls the- Lake Brock Monument and Laura Sccord home Saurda the students and the billeting families visiting Canada s Wonder land On Monday the group visited the Ontario Science Centre and the Metro Zoo Tuesday before heading home they went to the rock gardens in Hamilton as well as Castle They left for home in the evening Meanwhile Acton students from and Acton High School also left on Tuesday for a week Richmond Today Wednesday they are having a bus tour of Richmond and meeting with Mayor Gill Blair Thursday they will be visiting Victoria on Van Island the B C Legislature and the B provincial museum Friday the Acton students will be taking a train Remanded to June 28 Five men charged in connection with the theft of about SIS In hides from Beardmore will appear in Milton Provincial Court June to set a dale for trial Mark Gourlay John Jordan Allan and J Robinson Monday on charges of theft over and con Nick Mannos faces only the conspiracy charge The men were charged by Regional Police recently when it was discovered skins were being stolen from between last September and December and taken to a Toronto shoe repair shop police alleged Two of the accused men are former employees of Beardmore two are former employees of Tyler Transport and Marino is the owner of a shoe repair shop Water safety week It water safety week and there are a number of activities planned in Acton by Haiton Hills lion department to mark the occasion Water safety day in Acton is June 12 and movies will be shown at And if you its important to swim with a buddy the buddy swims free from 11 a m 30pm Waller Safety will make an appearance at the pool to demonstrate rescue techniques and give advice on water safety trip to and visiting the C mining They will return to Vancouver that evening Saturday they will visit fish hatchery Grouse Mountain on the and Cap llano pension bridge Next Monday the tourists ill visit Stanley Park Vancouver Aquarium and Chinatown among A morning flight bring them back to Ontario by m Tuesday Students participating from Acton are Laura Les ley Christine Lee Joanne Barrow Debbie Battel Joyce Loucks Ann Grime Thornton Betty Lou Doreen Hep- bum Sonla Sabine Jen niter McDonald Mike Randy Mclnlyre Jack David Ted Morissettc and Scott The Robert Little exchange was only four days and was with students from Ste Rose Quebec about seven miles from Montreal The students arrived on Monday and Tuesdav visited Reliable Sweets in and Wednesday they saw the Tower and ario Place with Niagara Falls and Marin eland on Thursday Friday they headed home Some Acton students left Monday for Rose and will reiurn home Friday According to their schedule yesterday Tucda they visited the Olympic Stadium Botanical Montreal Mount Royal and St Joseph Oratory Today they ore in Chertscy a camp in the Lauren turns where they will be going on nature walks and canoeing Tomorrow hey will go to a dog race show and Rose Acton students participating are Tina Oakley Paul Sargenut Jennifer osier Tammy Jason Debbie Pitc Jamie Lowrle Marly McAfee Angela Davis Chrissy Poulsen Cos mo Ten Christine Jennings Amanda Tracy Hag gelt Christine Duff Maureen McGillivray Troy Winters Scan Coleman Sean Warren Jason Sean Tim Nicole Karl Andrews French exchange for two Two Acton students will be spending the month of July participating In an exchange program with their peers in Quebec Ed Athcrton and have chosen to represent Acton in the Summer Bilingual Exchange program The pair will slaying in Quebec from June until July Their twin from Sherbrooke will then stay in their homes from July lo30 The boys will be totally immersed in Ihe French language and culture the same as the trench students will face English for two weeks The pair are among 44 pupils from across who arc taking pari in the program As a fund raising campaign Ed and will be selling garbage bags door to door this month and this Saturday they will be selling roses Replace misspelled sign has been misspelled Blvd will be replaced according to Mayor Peter Pomeroy A number of readers Robert Austin said brought the error to the he had received no calls attention of the Free and aware of the Press last week Mayor mistake Pomeroy had already said there Is heard about It but eng no question the sign will be replaced with the cor- for Hills or by the reel spelling and noted firm which makes the he is looking into the metal plate signs Austin matter to sec If the error confirmed signs arc was made by the person sent out to a company to filling out the requisition be made The Convenience Food Store that has it when you need it Sugar Free Tub Or Sprits Or COCACOLA OR SPRITE CHECK OUR SUPER FOOD VALUES IN OUR FLYER DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR THIS WEEK BY THE FREE PRESS CARRIERS IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE YOUR FLYER CALL THE FREE PRESS OFFICE AT 8532010 J Acton Photo Camera VBsga Acton TRUST US with your prdau picture SPECIAL JULY 31 8x10 COLOR ENLARGEMENTS 2 fe m open I mondavsI PUKES EFFECTIVE FROM WEDNESDAY JUNE CtOSJMQ TUESDAY JUNE ACTON JUG CITY a MAM 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