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Lucky lottery winners tell the tale by Mart llolmn What does a person do when the lottery licket bought last month and forgot about suddenly becomes worth thousands or millions of dollars Do they start buying extravagant cars and homes Do they quit their Jobs and retire to an exotic tropical island Or do they calmly collect their winnings and carry on with their lives as if nothing had happened at all According to the Ontario Lottery it is a common misconception that big winners HID quit their jobs and retire to a life of leisure and indulgence In fact the Lottery Corporation s found exactly the opposite Most people paid off bills and mortgages and many invested their winnings to ensure a secure future Few of the big winners found people asking for money to be a problem and most winners found they received fair treatment from the media In an effort to find out about big winners in the Acton area the Free Press conducted its own survey and while many of the responses were similar to those found by the Lottery Corporation there were a few exceptions To begin with the Acton area has had 19 big winners in the past 10 years and all but one of the winners received their prize from one of the Canadian lotteries Lotteries here are about lOyearsold David Thomas and hut wife won in the Irish Sweepstakes in 1974 and after years they have none of the priie money left However Mrs Thomas remarked that If she had a chance to win all over again she would certainly do things differently The couple did what many big winners have done and paid off part of their mor gage bought a car and took a trip to Wales to see their father ll seemed like a lot of money at the time remarked Mrs Thomas But now it seem like it was that much One of the things Mrs Thomas said she would have done differently with the money was to hold on to It a little longer and invest for the future because shortly after most of the money was gone Mr Thomas lost his job They weathered the rough times and Mrs Thomas said she looks at the entire thing as a valuable experience They still buy lottery tickets and Mrs Thomas said I guess everyone buys lot tickets because they think they can win and if they didn think that way they buy lottery tickets and Roy Atkinson were Acton s biggest winners after the Provincial Lottery ticket they had bought became worth half a million hollars Of all the Acton people interviewed on the big win the Atkinsons were the only ones who left their jobs Mr Atkinson admitted that he like working in the tannery and the windfall paved the road out Despite giving up his job though Mr Atkinson had neither the will or the desire to move out of his home and he spent his spare time Investing his winnings stocks and bonds I have more than my original winning left said Mr Atkinson so I wouldn anything differently with the money even if 1 had a chance to go back and do things dif As well as investing Mr Atkinson paid off the mortgage on a cottage and gave half his winnings to his children The Free Press also asked Mr Continued on Page REAL ESTATE SERVICES LTD REALTOR 170 STREET GEORGETOWN One Hundred and Ninth Year Issue A METROLAND COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MAY 23 GEORGETOWN P0WT1AC BUKK TRUCKS GEORGETOWN 8770149 Thirty Eight Pages Thirty Cents Acton Golden Age Club celebrated its anniversary last week Hargravc and Annie Lambert Backn with a birthday banquet at the A C Stewart Five charter Reed and Bert Davidson members were there for the occasion Front row left to right Mrs George Hargrove Elsie Goden Agers celebra te 20 years by Isabel McDonald On Wednesday May members of Acton Golden Age Club celebrated their twentieth anniversary with a delicious roast beef dinner In Knox Presbyterian church hall served by the Ladles Aid Tables were tastefully decorated with a cake made and donated by Mrs Keith verm ore flowers and candles in club colours of blue gold and white helped to enhance the setting Rev Gerald gave the blessing Mrs Isabel McDonald president welcomed all who attended and introduced the head table the charter members and six visitors Mrs Kathleen Alger conducted In MemQriani and two minutes silence was observed In memory of 111 deceased members Mrs Jessie Roden sang In the Beautiful Garden of Prayer Mr brought greetings from Knox Church Greetings from the Town of Hills were given by Mayor Russell Miller and from Zone United Senior Citizens of Ontario of which the Acton Club is a mem greetings were brought by Harold Cook of President of Zone R Davidson responded for the charter members Mr and Mrs John Mr L Davidson Mrs Elsie Reed Mrs Annie Lambert and also Mrs Elizabeth Ralston residing in Centennial Manor and unable to attend Wilfrid thanked all who had in any way worked to make the evening a Several senior citizens joined the club in the sanctuary of the church where Mrs Edna Besley introduced and welcomed Mrs Hazel Shoemaker and the Wellington They provided the gathering with a splendid musical program of singing harmonica playing and even a group of whistlers They were much enjoyed and thanked by Mrs Gladys Davidson The choir of 30 seniors were entertained to lunch served by the club concluding another milestone In the Life of Acton Golden Age Club The floral arrangements were sent to Mrs Ralston and Mrs Irene Davidson who were unable to attend NEC opposes pit permit Town council found itself once again at odds with the practices of the Niagara Escarpment Commission NEC Monday night Asked by the NEC to comment on a development application for private Concession Highway near council toyed with the Idea of having NEC chairman Ivor attend a future meeting to explain some Commission practices Council voted to tell the NEC it has no objections to a development permit being issued for the construction of an 1 BOO square foot galvanized steel shed on the applicant I property Issuance of the permit will be conditional however on plan approval by the Town including Borne limitation on open storage and on the prohibition of any commercial activity on the property A well as the attitude toward public meetings on such applications council co centered on the proposed shed ability to contain a wide variety of good currently spread around the property Councillor Dare Whiting termed the Ue a at a previous meeting Although not Indicated on ap plication the applicant advises that the structure will be used to house used farm and machinery which will be offered as resale to the farming com deputy planning director Bruce MacLean told council in a report While the Town does not have zoning Jurisdiction over the property since it Is part of the Niagara Escarpment Development Control Area said it can exercise and enforce site plan control The planner noted that conditions on the applicant property have drawn complaints from neighbors Councillor Mike Armstrong endorsed the Idea of having NEC chairman attend future council meeting and ex pressed sympathy for the applicant a having to appease the town NEC and Credit Valley Conservation Authority simply to have a shed He said he planning to table a recommendation by which council might take further action regarding dealings with the NEC MacLean explained that the NEC shied away from holding public meetings on the Highway application because of conflicts with Ontario s Consolidated Hearings Act and the need to notify the public at large Inside KattmavJk It like Denlse DUaey of her experiences on Page were Ike United Empire Loyalist See Ike alary on Ike editorial Ike all Eden MUb mm kefewj redirected far a reaMeaee Story an Pale I atary an Nemmakcn If to lose weight dm tee a doc tor Acton woman helps foster family o verseas Give a man a fish and youll feed him for a day Teach a man how to fish and hell be fed for life is a saying that Pat ay Irving believes in That belief is one of the reasons that the 38yearold Acton resident and mother of two became a foster parent to three children and their families overseas Miss Irving who is an employee of the Ford Motor Company sends in Indonesia and to a family in the Philippines each year Many people ask why I do it remarked Miss Irving and I think the biggest reason Is because I believe that all mankind is part of my family and helping one family is an obligation that should not be taken lightly Miss Irving also stressed that her con are not charity The money I send to those people is to help them become sufficient explained Miss Irving not support them like welfare does here Miss Irving also remarked that she think that people in Canada could really understand what poverty is really like In Canada everyone usually has enough food and water to get by on and finding shelter Is not too hard but the people I sponsor overseas rarely have enough of the basics to survive Miss Irving stated As a matter of fact if only one dollar of the money I send gets to these people it will still benefit the families a great deal continued Miss Irving The money just go to the child it goes to the child s family as well and for education skills training like wood working and welding and medical aid provided for these families Miss Irving said she started contributing to the Foster Parents Plan years ago and her first family from has became selfsufficient Miss Irving said she was disappointed that she ge a good rapport going bet ween herself and these people but knowing that she and several other Foster Parents improved the family quality of life gave her a good feeling The Guaman family all spoke Spanish so their letters needed to be translated so could understand them but unfortunately the letters lost something when translated These people were also very serious and somber Even in their pictures they never smiled Miss Irving said Patsy Irving The other two families the Surotos from Indonesia and the Populi family from the Philippines were of a totally different nature remarked Miss Irving The Populi family wrote to me In English and they were constantly thanking me and asking if they could do anything for me They even asked if they could come and babysit far me laughed Miss Irving Miss Irving said she started giving to the underprivileged because she cares and she described her contributions as a happy obligation Many people ask me why I give to the poor of other countries said Miss Irving when there are poor people at home that I could be helping The people who ask these questions rarely realize that even the poor or this country have enough of the basics Id live The people I sponsor dan Miss Irving said that she has learned to appreciate what she has a lot more since she began to understand the conditions that her foster families live under don philosophize about what I doing concluded Miss Irving I Just it and I m sure that as long as 1 around 111 continue my brothers and sisters who arc less fortunate than me Acton student on environmental team Joe of Acton is a member of a team of students hired by Queens Park to tour the province this summer promoting outdoor educ ation Environmental Explorations was just launched recently and the member team of students will be visiting with thousands of children adults councillors and teachers in over 300 locations is a third year Earth Sciences student at the University of Guelph Brandt help Environ EiptorcUons crew members pack far leg tour be are to right Joe LacJwGIeada Ctaytta Notice