Halton Hills Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), June 6, 1984, p. 2

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ESS Goy remembers DDay B2000 TRUCKS Economical to Buy Economical to Run i remap OUR MOST POPULAR NEW CAR TOTAL PROTECTION PACKAGE- Upholstery Guard Present Rust Rebel for Inside outside and underside Abo lot used cam SUNROOFS NOW BACK IN STOCK CALL TIDY CAR FOR THIS MORE Tojcthm paint Sunroofs Sptesh guards Steam and dry Vmyl roof restoration SAME DAY SERVICE LBS YOU CAN BET YOUR BUMPERS ON IT N GEORGETOWN 8776136 NOTICE To Property Owners Town of Halton Hills THE ONTARIO WEED CONTROL ACT a to persona within of Unlet noxiou wood a destroyed by June 11th 1984 and a often as through out aeeson to prevent the pen of their and daperwl of their pollens the Town of may enter property and deitioy those weeds The costs be charged rat the property owner and collected in the manner of Municipal Taxes Thistles Chicory Poison Ivy Ragweed Wild Carrot and Milkweed are among the weeds considered noxious and mm be destroyed wherever found Com plaints regarding Ponder on and w II not be accepted as these are nut considered noxious under the terms of tha Wood Control Act Anonymous complaints will not be accepted KEITH LESLIE WEED INSPECTOR TOWN OF HALTON HILLS North Halton Association for the Mentally Retarded Annual General Meeting TUESDAY JUNE 19 Herigate Inn Chlsholm Avenue Mitton 7 30PM BUSINESS MEETING 8 30PM RECEPTION A brief business mooting be fol lowed by a special t on of in and groups who gave exemplary support to dur ing the past year An informal reception will follow ALL NEW USED CARS ARE REDUCED SCIROCCO AMFM leather seats REDUCED VAMMOM REDUCED CAMPER REDUCED JETTA Automatic fully WE HAVE A LARGE SELECTION OF USED RABBIT DIESELS OUR CARS ARE YOUR BEST INVESTMENT LOW COST BANK FINANCING fa0joiyatloUmlM 1984 HONDA 2 DOOR ACCORD Demo speed SAvet 1982 MAZDA ACCOM EX DEMO 1984 4 DOOR ACCORD Automata SAVES 1982 ESCORT Finished In tone pa at automatic door very low m km lionew leaded knotty mas 1979 MAZDA RX7 Silver Coupe COMPLETE SERVICE FACILITIES FOR ALL IMPORT R DOMESTIC CARS CALL TODAY 8775285 Baz Motors Ltd Georgetown Honda 199203 Gulph Strat Georgetown SALES SERVICE PARTS LEASING BODY SHOP page I shelling the tons of hells we threw at them there were still a lot of those guys left sod ibey were sole to make life miserable So as the Infantry hit the beaches the was firing from heir landing craft to keep the Germans heads down Then the artillery hit the beaches too Goy remembered that because of the wreckage on the beach the artillery exits were blocked so they wound up being deployed on the beach for about four hours The Infantry was relaying back various targets to the artillery and John estimates that between the action from the water and on the beach his gun crew fired about to rounds For John was a bombardier he became a gun sergeant about four or five days after DDay and continued that Job for the rest of the war As a bombardier be commanded part of the gun crew while the sergeant s half of the crew rested One of the slightly humorous If anything could be humorous in the life threatening situation our troops found themselves in that day episodes Involved checking for mines on the beach It was the Job of Goy and an officer to start sweeping for mines as soon as they hit the beach finding any since the machine never stopped screaming because there was so much metal lying around Not a very efficient way to find mines For the 5th wasnt that big problem they took their beatings is vartom inland villages the following days On i Day out of about men were killed ant another to SO wounded from the Because many of their officers hit the beaches with the infantry Goy recalled brass took a bit of a beating With all the firing going on one would expect the din to be so intense that il would have been difficult to even think Not so John says The noise was something they all got used to pretty quickly One necessity was to promptly learn the difference In sound between the Allied guns and German arms There was so much confusion and gunfire you werent really aware of all the noise You ended to disregard it you Just got used to the noise pretty quickly While many veterans are going to Europe for several weeks John trip is just for a dozen days and only six will be spent on the DISCOUNT More Every Day Discount Prices PEACHES 109 PINK SALMON mum ah CHICKEN LOAF SEAFOOD cocktail LUNCHEON HEAT 13 99 irracman reosraG SALMON SPAGHETTI SAUCE PORK BEANS Mot CAT FOOD BOOTS FLAVOUR MORSELS 129 BAH ik TOILET PAPER flroU 179 AIM TOOTHPASTE lOOmL 99 OPEN MOW to SAT SUNDAY HOLIDAYS 14 BUILDERS AND HOME OWNERS THE PLACE TO SAVE Dominion Windows DIRECT FACTORY OUTLET NEW OR REPLACEMENT WOOD WINDOWS WOOD PA 7JO DOORS PICTURE WINDOWS ENTRANCE DOORS RECT FACTORY PR CES OFF SAVE MONEY Dominion 30 SAVE ON All AND All CUSTOM ORDERS SAVE OROERNOW1 fiomt and SIZE- LIST BRING IN YOUR PLANS AND IDEAS SIZE LIST ATTENTION WE HAVE ESP EXTRA SPECIAL PRICING LET US QUOTE ON YOUR JOBS IMCUMUDUMTS SAVE UP TO ON VHitOtrSftOwrwun M on to Fit SltM WEALSO INSTALL 1AA GEORGETOWN PHONE THE PLA CE TO SA ON His regiment has a full bus load for the trip and while they will be going to Omaha beach where the Americans landed for the big service and ceremonies today they also be visiting the beach where they Ian ded John said his unit would be visiting at least two Canadian cemeteries as well as attending a big reception in Caen put on by our federal government He expects theyll get within yards of where they landed and he s looking forward to seeing the many little monuments on the beach marking where various regiments from all Allied nations landed including the Part of their trip will also take members of the to little hamlets such as Rots and where we and the infantry had a particularly bad time was worse on plus four plus five and DDay plus six than it was for the actual landing They the French villages were dirty little holes and we were In noisy bailies there For many veterans it will be a tremendous emotional experience because its their first time back to those beaches However John doesnt expect be cuile as moved since he returned in 1969 with his wife Eleanor for a visit and toured all the war scenes At the same time he expects hell be remembering fallen comrades He says it highly emotional to walk along a row of identical graves and markers and realize out of men the oldest was perhaps John observed that to most people a veteran is some old guy sitting around guzzling beer but the real veterans are all those hundreds and hundreds of young men who were killed Someone you soldiered with for four years killed you were struck by the sudden finality of it It gets to you first night John unit dldn I get to its primary objective of Caen but they did wind up at Barville their secondary objective While the Infantry had managed to move five to seven miles inland the artillery was only about two miles in from the beach Another reason this week Is a highly charged emotional situation for so many men is that it means seeing old friends for the first time in yearsand maybe for the last time Goy noted that 10 years ago the had a mailing list of over men Today it s down lo How big will the mailing list be in another years he wonders In summing up some of his feelings Goy pointed a stanza of a poem written by a padre who was there for Day Stanley who hailed from They do not ask a golden casque or a tower of graven stone But that men may live in a world set free from guilt by their blood atoned You know the veterans of World War I spake of keeping the torch of freedom lit World War veterans were similar but we said we wanted a free world How do you relate these thoughts to the 1980b I think those in military graves are telling us today that If we can t find some way to peacefully share this planet then wo can ail share their graves They will have died in voin Police beat Police believe the same person may be responsible for two Incidents of theft under that took place Saturday afternoon on Mill St East A shopping bag containing about worth of goods left briefly on the counter of the Acton Submarine and Donut Shop at 19 Mill was stolen at about 12 13 Just over two hours later a bag containing Jeans and other articles valued at lis was taken from the front of the Royal Cafe at 10 Mill Police had little trouble keeping the peace at a Cameron St residence where they were called in about a domestic dispute Saturday morning An estimated worth of damage was done at the International Peace Camp near recently apparently by country side partyers Police learned this week that sometime between May and June a truck was gut ted by fire two picnic tables were destroyed and a telephone was pulled off a hydro pole at the camp Legion happenings by Jimmy lllgglni To facilitate any problems or requests any member may have you are urged contact the executive member the problem con Following are areas of responsibility for various executive members membership Ab Irwin poppy drive Harry Norton sports and property Fred Allen and Bob Doyle entertainment J Phillip press reporting officer Jim crew chiefs E Waller and A Waldie special events Gord James sick and visiting Fred New and C Baker President Shone will continue to order Legion supplies Sergeant at Arms J Milne has an acute problem men are urgently needed for the color party If you are interested call Jim uniforms are essential Tickets for the annual barbecue will be on sale shortly so keep June 23 open is hoped we can charter a bus for a very good musical show Hamilton Place on JuneZ2 the bulletin board or Jim Phillip

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