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2 Wednesday June Tare HaHw to Linda Gibb lad Kate will be tab s with a Awareoeas at Water Safety The are carnally Water Safety and will be at meal Halton functions with for area swimmers Hydro office controversy Share workers Mary Van Dans Bea Cooper and were busy at a special craft the Carpet Corner Friday Autofest83 this Sunday Autofest 83 at the Acton High School Sunday is sure to have something for all car enthusiasm Sponsored by the Hal too Hills Street Machines all proceeds will be going towards the Big Brothers Association and Acton High Rods vans street machines and 4 will be featured and awards will be given for prostreet long distance hard luck best engine paint interior engineering club participation four cars or more and dash plaques The show runs from 10 a to 330 Car ditched A Brampton man escaped Injury In an early morning accident on Wellington North of Balllnafad Sunday at a According to Guelph OPP Robert Little was driving northbound on the road Just south of Highway when his vehicle swerved off the road to the right struck three guard rails rolled once as it descen ded the embankment before coming to rest at the bottom of the hill An estimated in damages was sustained to the car Present hydro petition to commission Friday A petition signed by hundreds of Acton residents urging Halton Hills Hydro Com mission to reverse its stand and make no bill paying service changes in Acton will be pre sented to the commission Friday morning Tom Watson chairman of Thursdays public meeting on the issue will present the petition on behalf of the audience of ned who have been circulating the petition The petition calls for Halton Hills Hydro to maintain all bill paying services In Acton as they existed until just recently including bringing a computer terminal head and staffer Marge back to Acton Watson observed the petition is being taken door to door in older parts of Acton and is also In most stores around town He said the petition Is filling up quickly many have been filled and replaced more than once Watson plans to speak very briefly to the commission on Friday morning at 30 a when it meets at the Alice St hydro build ing He expects some other concerned citizens will accompany him and also invites any member of the public to join him in attending the meeting Citizens came up with the idea of a tion to show that more than the ap proximately citizens who attend the meeting Thursday don t want any bill pay ing service changes They felt the Robert Little School auditorium would have been packed if a story last week s Free Press and other local papers hadnt announced mayor Peter had stepped in and was making sure there would be some place likely the downtown to pay bills In town after Sep tember Citizens felt many people thought the issue had been defused The mayors alternate plan represented a radical drastic revision of changes In bill paying services previously proposed by the staff and sup ported by some commissioners Citizens didnt go to the meeting because hey believed the mayors plan was the best Acton could hope for and it had been appr oved Also the rare lovely evening weather Thursday may have cut down attendance Citizens believe a petition signed by hundreds of local hydro customers would show the commission many citizens dont want any changes made for bill paying services here and that the mayors proposal to have people pay their buTo at the Town office downtown was only a second choice Haret How You Can A Lucky Winner For your chance to win a pair of tickets to m and th can hist Jot down your io following trivia questions Heres 3 Chances To Win Tickets For Two To See BEATLEMANIA the theatrical tribute to John Paul George and Rmgo returns to KEEFE CENTRE in TORONTO JUNE 14 JULY 3 3 Pairs of Tickets To Be Won 1 Name the only written and recorded by the thai o recorded by the Rolling Gaorge a wife now minted to a guitarist known as Sknwfiand Who a aha and who a her currant spouse Paul McCartney used to go out with tha inter frequent retort producer Who wetaher When fcd the Beet make then first S 9 Who preceded as drummer or it Drop your e at Georgetown Qua e Be sura to your name and phone number with every entry The Ira entries drawn each ticked for two The4thenrryw4lwwiaBoetiemanitT Shin Dairi4 188 GUELPH ST GUELPH ST REXWAY Da GEORGETOWN CaMac4 page Lou said be was astonished that Acton didnt deserve better bill paying service than a student for the summer not that he bad anything against students When a public body makes an Important decision like changes In billing operations in Acton instead of listening lo stall Ideas they should seek public input first He urged the commission completely reverse its decision and leave Mrs a person Acton customers can communicate with in Acton along with the computer He said the commission was trying to save and was going lo wind up frustrating customers to the tune of Don Lindsay said hydro office changes wont encourage business to establish in Acton Mason said industry wanting specifications and other technical informa tion would still deal with the Acton buildings staff but admitted later new resi dents and firms would likely have to pay deposits and make hookup arrangements in Georgetown Mason agreed with Paul Nielsen who reported Acton Hydro used to help industry by bringing service free from the road up to the building but now firms had to pay for lines poles etc Nielsen said this wasnt an incentive for Industry to locate here Tyler said what upsets so many people la that Acton has witnessed a steady erosion of services Council here the police arent here the fire chief isnt in Acton full time etc Tyler noted Theres been an erosion of the services and people we knew Had people got up and fought regional government as hard as they were willing to fight not being able to pay their hydro bills in town the community might not have the kinds of problems it has now The hydro building is alt thats left Tyler said describing planned changes in billing opera tions as the last straw Having the works yard here was only changing the direction of the parades citizens have seen for years with the municipal works yard located in Georgetown Mason said he has argued against hydro office changes from the start and Allison indicated he too has been opposed to any changes To save a bit of money hydro was going to offend the whole community Ed Wood said Acton was being hit by an impersonal staff attitude lot of snow on an Issue that amounted to a slap in the face to us again Bruce Shoemaker returned to the feeling that hydro office changes were just another erosion of the quality of life In Acton One thing has slipped away after another Various governments were removing vices from Acton without our consent A marketing study showed per cent of the people who shop downtown walk and they come downtown for many purposes including paying their electric bills and meeting their friends Nielsen said Acton wasnt just venting our spleen Norm Elliott said citizens were asking that hydro reconsider the whole issue Having a little faster service because the hydro works department Is in town was neither here nor there Moving the billing office from the Alice St building meant another govern ment presence was being removed Acton was calling and Georgetown for everything now they ban to call Georgetown to get hydro answers too- Hydro was trying to save a few thousand dollars and when the thing to do was keep all billing operations as they were for the sake of the community Mason said it was 99 J per cent certain there be some place people could pay their hydro bills in Acton after the summer and a resident shot back that arrangement will last only as long as Is AUison admitted be was surprised people t view having the works department in Acton as an asset He said all aspects of the ActonGeorgetown split of hydro ad ministration and works operations had been working well up until this ex ploded A resident fired back then there was no reason to make billing office changes in Acton He concluded the message of the evening was that people wont feel they are getting as good service as they were if they have to pay their bills at the Town office The answer was a loud yes A citizen said people were happy with the existing service and hydro should leave everything as it was Elliott added the computer and Mrs Loutett should be left here One resident who said she has lived here 10 years observed ever since they came here one thing after another has been taken away from Acton Citizens worried Acton would lose every thing when the Town and Hydro build a joint complex In the future Allison said there are no firm plans now and no decisions would be made for some time but allowed hydro must plan for the future Watson concluded a lot of minds had been eased by the mayors comments and what people heard at the meeting He said the audience was broad representation of Acton and Esquesing He warned the commissioners before they contemplate making a deal with Hills council for a tombstone in George town a municipal hydro complex a lot more facts should be made public Mason said afterwards theyll be taking the message they heard at Thursdays meeting back to the commission and will push to have the computer and Mrs Loutett moved back to town Allison observed the mayors new proposal to have people pay their hydro bills at the Town office had obviously satisfied the bulk of the community Flag for Township will soon have its own flag Township council recently approved the purchase of a flag and appointed Reeve Murray Cox and councillors Don and Jackson to act as a flag committee to design the flag Hire student week Hills has proclaimed the week of June to as Hire a Student week and On June IS canvassers will be knocking on Halton Hills residents doors recruiting odd jobs for students Both proclamations were requested by the Canada Employ which also operates in Acton Mrs of Acton era fatthcomng of their daughter Becky to Ron Moore ion of Mr and Mrs A Moore Acton on Saturday June 11 at at St Albari Anglican Church Aon man school ASSOC ENftweei2iwA ADMISSION Adults Students Kids under FREE