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10 THE NEW TANNER THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2006 ?????????? ??????? ?????????????? ????????????? ?? ??????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ??????????????????? ??????????????? ??????? ??????????????????????? ????? ???????????????????????????????? 372 Queen Street, Acton (Sobeys Plaza) 519-853-8123 373 Queen Street East Acton ON (519) 853-0558 TYLER PROPERTY & MGMT LTD. AN AUTHORIZED DEALER 20 Styles to choose from! 3 n S t E t A n N ( ) 8 TYLER PROPERTY & MGMT LTD. AN AUTHORIZED DEALER 20 Styles to choose from! NEW Cell Phones including Pay-Go! Christmas Prayer Vigil St. Alban Anglican Church, Acton December 8th - 8pm to 8am December 9th Please join us for 15 mins., 30 mins., 1 hour, 2 hours etc. Length of time and time of participation is determined by you, within the twelve hours. For further information call 519-853-0133 From the December 1, 2005 pages of The New Tanner. One year ago, Police Chief Ean Algar Haltons first chief to work his way up through the ranks to the top job announced he will retire when his contract expires at the end of 2006. Algar served with Halton police for 38 years. In other news: After almost 32 years delivering mail in Acton, Lloyd Smallwood retires from Canada Post, just in time to miss the winter weather and Christmas rush. Acton High School grad Jeff McEnery won the Tim Sims Encouragement prize for best new comic, which includes $3,500 and the chance to make a film for the Comedy Network. A 29-year-old Main Street North man was charged with robbery and weapons dangerous after he held up a teen for $1 with a 14-inch butcher knife. From the November 29, 2001 pages of The New Tanner. Five years ago: Six Acton High School grads, including Lindsay Almand, Chad Foreman, Tara Hargrave, Laura Ko- bsa, Kristina Mitchell, and Tiffany Pursoo received Aiming for the Top schol- arships from the province. In other news: Acton firefighters col- lect $5,770 in donations for the New York 9-11 disaster relief fund. From crayon scrawled requests for a baby brother to wishes for the latest video games, hundreds of letters to Santa were forwarded to the North Pole by Acton Post Office workers. Instead of offering rewards for reporting acts of vandalism Town council votes to budget $1,000 an- nually to support the Crime Stoppers program and for pubic anti-vandalism edu- cation. Lawn signs urging resi- dents to keep Christ in Christmas are sprouting up all over the Acton area, one part of an ecumenical initiative to counter a grow- ing tendency to secularize the religious holiday. Led by the Acton Min- isterial Association and all Acton and area churches, the signs will soon be joined by a large billboard on Mill St., proclaiming the same message. The lawn signs project originated in Oakville where an attempt by the Knights of Columbus to erect a banner proclaiming Keep Christ in Christmas was turned down as too controver- sial. The Knights took their cue from a similar Edmon- ton, Alberta turn down and had lawn signs made and distributed in Oakville. Jay Raats, a member of the Acton St. Josephs Knights of Columbus, was impressed by the Oakville initiative and approached St. Josephs pastor Father Bob Bulbrook about doing something similar in Acton. Bulbrook, in turn broached the idea of an Acton pro- gram to a meeting of the Acton Ministerial Associa- tion . It was enthusiastically endorsed and over 300 signs were ordered for the various churches from Oakville. The idea of conveying the message through a large billboard originated with Rev. Ray Vander Kooij of Bethel Christian Reformed Church. He approached Petro Canada which owns the lot and billboard at the corner of Churchill Rd. and Queen St., beside the church, for permission to rent the next space. Petro- Canada, however said the message was too controver- sial and refused. There were no objections from those who own the billboards on Mill St. beside the CN rail- way tracks so the ministerial association procured it. Meanwhile, Jay Raats, who sparked the project is enthused by the reception the lawn sign project is re- ceiving. He sees it growing, snowballing all over Canada and taken up by all Chris- tian denominations. Raats says an Oakville multi- faith group asked Muslims and Jews and other faiths groups if they would be offended by the lawn signs. There were no objections, in fact some said it was time the Christians stood up for themselves. Lawn signs with message an Acton ecumenical project