Halton Hills Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), March 16, 1983, p. 9

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AHS doesnt Wait for everything from taxpayers GeorgetownActon Wednesday March by Beta Mam Aetna School are not alttiof watting for taxpayer money to buy them With enterprise like The Cloaet and Teen Cristate they are baying other things now with their own money The Halton Board of Education now cooskteringa plan which equip high a computer lab in the next five years The local secondary school students already have their lab which they started buying four yean ago with school raised funds The Closet a school store operating for the past 10 yean at least purchased nine computers while Teen Cuisine the run cafeteria bought three com puters The Closet according to teachers Boris Shean and But Coats first opened In the old high school on Acton Blvd about yean ago although they are not sure of tbe date It started out being operated from a Closet and when school changed mises they had their own specially designed store in the heart of tbe school Sales vary according to the weather Shean says and average about a day In nice weather student will walk to nearest store but during the poor weather receipts are up substantially At the oh school The Closet donated to tbe Indoor swimming pool Besides tbe computers the Closet money also goes out to other good causes In the school Besides candy and potato chips the Closet also sells school supplies They used to deal In grade 13 textbooks but now that there Is a book store In town they try not to cut into others businesses Coats pointed out school stores In tbe south of Halton have not been as successful as In Acton mainly because of stealing All the workers are volunteers Shean stresses and they usually number about although they have had as many as and as few as IS Teen Cuisine is also a unique program Headed by teacher Roy McMillan the family studies class and a handful of volunteers run the cafeteria Besides the computers Teen Cuisine has contributed thousands of dollars to the school such as donations to the athletic society tbe school year book computer accessories filing cabinets benches blinds and new last year a scholarship Actoniansto participate in peace demonstration Joan DeJoag works on a computer Acton High School Since its inception In the Teen Cuisine has made about net profit which has gone hack into the school McMillan explains that instead of having outside agencies come in and run the cat- teria the students do it as part of their family studies class They employ two full- time people and one parttime with the stu dents helping out daily In addition to training students In cafeteria operations Teen Cuisine provides nutritious food at reasonable prices It allows for student Involvement and pro vides profits for the school Their prices are markedly lower than in other schools In and they even offer meals not available in other schools such as western sandwiches Big Erica bacon burger and The only other schools where the students run the are vocational schools General Brock and General Wolfe In the south The money Is not given out freely either McMillan says A committee has been set up which reviews each request McMillan says the extra hours he and teachers Louise Krueger and Ruth Wilson put into Teen Cuisine are In lieu of other activities more visible such as coaching sports teams or putting on plays Acton school board trustee Bruce says It Is refreshing to see students who are willing to work for goods rather than having everything given to them for nothing In these days of soaring inflation and taxes every little bit helps Members of Trinity United Church will lake part in a Palm Sunday peace demon at Litton Systems In The demonstration Is billed as an Ecumenical Vigil for Peace and is being supported by Lutheran Roman Catholic United Anglican and Presbyterian chur ches El don Comfort organizer of the Acton delegation hopes a busload of Acton partici pants will attend the vfgil Organization begins this week The vigil begins at7pm on Palm Sunday March and continues hours until Monday at It resumes Tuesday and Wednesday from to The demon stratlon begins with a special ecumenical service The demonstration will protest Llttons participation in the manufacture of the American Cruise Missile More teachers wanted from Page 1 noted this year he was hearing exactly the apposite of what he heard at the dropin he attended in 1982 Last year every one wanted the board to cut the taxes down and were outraged by the per cent in crease This year however he is hearing support for staff and a demand for a lower PTR Jim Sheldon and a mother claimed they would be willing to pay a per cent increase if it meant smaller class rooms Bruce interjected that taxpayers with no children are not willing to pay that senior citizens are not either Some per cent or the board s budget is spent on teachers salaries Bruce said while admitted that the board was KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS BINGO Holy Cross Church Auditorium EVERY THURSDAY B4 numbers 600 numbers 400 66 numbers 67 numbers 58 numbers min in salaries In the IB large school boards across the province Fisher stressed that parents who have any problems with overcrowding in the classroom or anything else should call their trustees and let them know Robert president of the Halton Elementary Teachers Association will be at he Councillors Dropin Thursday March at p at the Acton Library Tools are stolen About worth of tools were stolen from a truck parked In the Hotel Parking lot lost Wednesday Guelph OPP say the tools were taken from a vehicle owned by Byron Timbers 112 Main St who lives beside the hotel TREE PRUNE NOW DECIDUOUS TREES 8530610 For groups of or more BLUE PLUS offers Or I BLUE CROSS Starts Friday II Horror Hospital 2 Ten to Midnight 3 Rash Gordon ARE HOW LIONS AND CLUB Working Together for Community Retirement and Public Service Hal John School Rnbowr neeiJi GriGuJdn fcximwd Niitung 1 hy id Conrunty GiiSailmg X Jloyrtn que The s News By Eileen Dlx Teli 8531070 iaaio lis i April IS J800 Hon Lifting l9r Remember 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