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GeorgetownActon Wednesday Oct Met TELE 5198532010 Buuvm and Off Founded In vary try Mttrotond Ltd Acton Twjpraon 519J Stngto MCh S3D CO in than Canada Ken Bellamy Don Ryder Hartley Coles Director of Advertising Managing Editor Trie Acton Fft Pre of arxl Ltd group ot rwwtpiperi wtnch Th Aurora Banner Th Brampton Guanban Tria Tha Waakand Pent Tha Eiobtcoka Guardian Tha Georgetown Independent Tha Wanhworth Post and Sun Tha Tha Mtwanauga Nam Newmarket Era Tha North York Minor Baaver Beaver Wart Tha HulThorrioUI Lberal The Scarborough Mirror Tha EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Cottar EdRor Murray Seen Mark Darkroom Waney ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Cook Sal MdOnnon Sandra Clatalflad Art thing Debbie MecOouoat BUSINESS ACCOUNTING OFFICE Managar Jean Go get em The region cant have it both ways When the region and Hal- ton Hills were born they assumed The Town of Ac tons assets as well as its liabilities However in the process the region didnt take over the Kingham phase one and two town- houses private sewage system Some the details of how this mess resulted are un clear records passed on from former municipalities not just Actons seem in complete on many mat ters However it appears clear that the sewage system for Kingham wasnt at all adequate and someone con nected with the old Town of Acton approved it Therefore in our view the system regardless if it met regional standards should have been taken over with the rest of the Acton sewage system by the region Any and all mistakes created by the former municipal governments in Halton are the regions responsibility After all one of the rea sons the region was forced on us by the province was that small municipal governments like Acton Georgetown and supposedly couldnt afford the kind of professional staff and expertise needed to run modern municipalities By creating larger municipalities with broader tax bases the theory was that all local governments could then af ford professional engineers planners etc The region and Halton Hills must honor obligations and commitments made by the former municipalities Its also true that the newer municipal govern ments must solve mistakes left over by their pre- the residents did petition the region for a new sewage system and agreed to the local improvement charge about twothirds of the cost of the project it would appear that was the only way they could get the region to listen to them and take some action If its fair for the region to try and shirk its responsibility for assuming the bad things about Acton as well as the good features of the former municipality then it would seem equally fair for townhouse owners to now try and avoid paying up for the sewage system which should have been up to snuff and owned by the public from day one anyway Go get em The big lie It has not been our prac tice to answer letters to the editor or those submitted in these columns but public ation of an answer to the local HAND group from the Soviet embassy has created a precedent HAND wrote the Soviet embassy deploring the shooting down of the Korean passenger jet and urged the Soviets demon strate their professed desire for peace at the Geneva arms talk A letter came back from the embassys press officer parroting the by now well known Soviet line the Korean jet was a spy plane and the Soviets were within their rights to shoot it down Gullible people may be lieve the Soviets thought that Korean jet was a spy plane but it boggles the imagination to think they could not tell the difference between a jet filled with passengers and a plane de signed to spy Its the big lie being peddled as truth In truth there may have been an accident or a slipup at a Soviet air base and over zealous personnel but it points out how slender the thread is that keeps war at bay The least the Soviets could have done is to say they are sorry for their er ror and the tragic loss of life All they do is try and justify a barbaric action which horrified the whole civilized world Any real ef forts they now make for peace will be viewed with suspicion and contempt Actons Neighborhood Watch produces drop in burglaries You break my heart mister Maybe youre one of them Are you one the people who call me on the telephone or me a letter to tell me my officers are stopping motorists and giving them tickets for no reason at all I wouldnt never give me your name You tell me youre a good clti- and a safe driver Just using Ben Schoeman Freeway for what it Mas intendedspeed And that dumb cop gave you a ticket You break my heart I hope the next time you re tearing down the road 140km that officer cat ches you again I hope he gives you another ticket and the magistrate takes your licence away I hope he catches you before you smaih into a concrete abutment at 120 kilo metres per hour and he has to pry your lifeless body out of that crushed speed machine of yours You really break my heart when telling me you dont have time to go to court about that ticket Iwishyoucouldcomewtth me to the scene of a wreck sometime I wish I could make you stand and watch a man writhe in the gravel on the shoulder of a freeway while he waits for an ambulance that will get there too late to do anything but carry him to the morgue I wish I could make you help scrape the bits of bone and flesh of a whole family off the asphalt and into baskets Youd vomit Just like my of ficers do but youd think differ ently the next time you climbed into that car of yours You said you Were driving safely when the trooper stopped you The road was clear and there was no harm In edging over the speed limit a few kilometres per hour you said Im really impressed with your ability to Judge road condi tions Im only sorry that the of ficer wasnt at that place a few months ago when a man with a wife and four children had an ac cident at more than lOOkmh He might have slowed down and his children would still have a father and his wife a husband Oham I making you mad at me again That man might have been furious if the officer had slopped him He might hove writ ten me a letter still be alive Your letter doesnt bother me friend What bothers me is that you apparently have not learned your lesson And who gave your kid driving lessons You Then hes pro bably been at the receiving end of a couple of tickets too Its no wonder he weaves in and out of traffic speeds and leaves strips of burnt rubber at stop lights I hope we catch him too mister before we have to call you and your wife to come to Identify his body at the morgue And you say you want my of ficers to let you off with a warn ing What you really wont Is for us to stop doing our jobs Youre mad because you got a ticket and you have to take time off to go to BREAK MY HEART MISTER Reprinted from the Jan Feb 1982 issue of Robot A South African Safety Magazine coies slaw Colors breathtaking but falls not the same This has been one of the finest we have had for several years In this neck of the woods with beautiful weekends to boot It that it should fallow on the of a mild winter when this scribbler only bed use a snow shovel twice and then only tor white stuff around ray ankles instead of my deniere aa it usually is It has also been up to now a remarkable fall both for weather and brilliant colon provided by be millions of leaves shedding their green for coats of yellows oranges scarlets and russets mingled with the dark green ever greens and the brilliant sumacs A release from Hackman of the Federation of Ontario Natural ists notes that ever since ibe birth of botany scientists have wond ered what sets off Ibis seasonal dis play of color It cool weather long nights or some inborn timer that turns the leaves Or Is It a combination of them all Who knows No one yet ap parently What scientists do know Is that Lb green stuff in leaves Is at Uw centra of the ac tion A th actual fall color change results front a breakdown In when proteins to which mole cules art bound Into their no laager these proteins It disintegrates losing its color and allowing the intrinsic color of the remaining leaf to appear An additional factor accounts for the brilliant reds of maples and sumacs such as we see in Ontario The accumulation of sugar In the leaves and its complex conversion into a red pigment known as antho- cyanln happens when cool autumn nights restrict the flow of sugar out of leaves while the bright sunshine promotes sugar synthesis and the conversion into acid The break- proteins and resulting adds go Into the stems and roots when their nitrogen is conserved for use the next season Why am I boring you with all this Well apparently an Interest ing sidelight of ongoing research has shown there is a parallel between this aging process La plants and our own A slmUlar breakdown proteins appears in elderly people who tend to lose protein faster than they can replace It Unfortunately or fortunately we dont turn Into brilliant color as we age unless the end of our nose starts to glow Even then nose as some called it has now been shown to be nothing more than a breakdown of some thing or other la he skin So the colors this year bare been breathtaking In places Even now when It almost over leafy lanes sad rural roads are a veritable by Hartley Coles Managing Editor fairyland lb me fall Is the gor geous time of the year although it hasnt got the smells the anticipat ion or the ambience it used to have when most people had and people preserved their vege tables pickles and fruits On you remember when the smell of pickles and chili sauce used to waft through the kitchen It greeted you Just as you entered the door from be keen air outside That was the time of the year when everybody burned lesves Smoke signals billowed up into the misty autumn sky from countless bonfires The kids gath ered op horse chestnuts and threw them into the Haines Just to bear than pop Usually there were crisp apples In the cupboard to sink your teeth into and some gathered walnuts and beech nuts to roast in the oven The family chewed and listened to the hockey games on bath night on the mantel radio or Lux Theatre Monday nights The old rain barrel in the comer which grew countless little slugs and bugs during the hot summer had a thin coating of Ice in the bright fall mornings The Ice had to be broken before soft water was available The old cook stoves were the centre of life some of them with reservoirs of warm water for morning ablutions they were the focal point in the kitchen and had voracious appetites for fuel from the wood pile The wood pile which again is becoming a fact of life was activa ted In the fall and one of my chores was to ensure there was always some split maple or other hard wood ready to feed the stove with It wasnt cold enough outside yet for a coal fire A large chunk of hardwood would keep the house warm in the evening and the night chill off bedrooms ideal for quick Dressing hi ibe mornings I guess we tend to remember all the pleasant things about the fall and forget the unple things like the mad dashes to the outside was usually situated at the end of the yard beyond the garden and in position lor its annual by Halloween characters after were out and everyone was snug gled between flannelette sheets That dash got progressively worse as the weather got colder Few in Acton and environs of that time had inside conveniences and privies were a fact of life Few museums think theyre worthy of preservation And Im with them We must have been a hardy lot How else did we manage to keep from reeling when the winter descended and those unhealed out houses became inhospitable ice houses Where a residence of more than a few minutes could turn derrieres several shades of blue I thought of that the other day when I visited the site where they are constructing an Indian village over at Crawford Lake on the Gueiph Use and Series Nstive peoples lived in long bouses They were pieces of business to begin with Just pieces of bark wrapped around lodge poles with fires burning in the middle Dont ask me what they did when the snow was as high as the long- house and the temperature was down around below zero They had no shovels to dear a path to the latrine Must have been terrible But the privies were a step above latrines and Inside bathrooms are so far above them those who have never espertw the others wouldnt they Yea weve come a long way baby wd some changes have been tor the best 10 years ago October The Rev who went to school in Acton as a boy returns November as rector of the Church of St The Martyr Mr who is 59 years old and was ordained an Anglican priest in 1970 has com pleted three years al Cayuga and York Churches A future plan of subdivision for Ac ton Legion property was agreed to in principal by Acton Council Tuesday evening The plan of subdivision would create building lots in the town of Acton and 14 lots in Township 20 years ago October Halton Countys population jumped to a new high of 128005 during the past year according to figures released by the County Assessor Ford Rogers Fire Chief Mick Holmes appealed to Acton and district residents to use every precaution when burning leaves The areas rainfall had been minima for October and most of the summer as well homeowners invaded by gangs of city hunters have burnt up the telephone lines to the game warden and provincial police with complaints of bullets whining by cattle homes and even children One man lost a dozen pet ducks be kept in a private pond near his home years ago October 19 The Rev A G Stewart of Toronto a former minister gave splendid an niversary sermons at the an niversary of Knox church MissEd- Hinton and Mrs and a quartette A Mann Win Burton SaltandG Monday evening attended the fowl supper and concert Churchill United Church was the scene of a pretty wedding when Graff became the bride of Mr Francis Freeman It is said that this was the first wedding ceremony ever performed in the church In its years since establishment 75 years ago October Councillor Williams chairman of the town hall committee has given the hurry up notice for belter lighting in the town hall A new three cluster electrolier will be in stalled over the stage and the auditorium lights will be improved The burning of a pared of poster announcing Dr Harrisons meeting by an active member of the opposi tion caused quite a furor in town The man was charged for setting fire to the parcel but was rdeased when the authorities found it was nothing more than a prank The temperature during the week was degrees The overage for this timeof year is 15 degrees cooler 100 years ago It was reported a man went to the house of Mr Dunbar near Rockwood while all members of the family were absent except Miss Annie Dun bar The man taking advantage of the circumstances chloroformed and supposedly outraged her When Mr Dunbar returned home he found his daughter Insensible on the floor All the Information that could be gotten from her was issued in broken sentences The next day Mr Dunbar left the house in the care of Annie and the villain returned First he demanded all the money in the house and when he had it In bis possesion he again chloroformed Miss Dunbar Miss Dunbar recovered her senses a few days later and described the man was missing a finger on one of his hands The perpetrator of the deeds was still at large 100 years ago A man named Charles Drew a once respected resident of Lowell Mass was married and bad two children Mr Drew eloped with a young woman who was once a servant his home and took his two children to Hamilton From Hamilton Mr Drew and bis assumed family found their way Hornby where they took up resid ence at the borne of Mr Matthew Howson under the name of Jackson A month alter coming to Hornby however Mr Drew died suddenly His assumed wife took the children back to Lowell where she was to obtain Mr Drews documents The woman never the documents and was never seen again The true story was told to the childrens real mother who made her back to Hornby