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In Acton Everythings not coming up roses There a a story hoary with age that gleefully tell among themselves about the town s unmistakable odor recognizable on wet or humid days The scene is a passenger coach where a lady with a baby sits by an open window as the train rumbles through green Ontario countryside At the far end of the coach sits the conductor weary with holiday passengers and drowsing contentedly between rounds of ticket collecting He has a contented smile on features hardened to all types of emergencies Suddenly the quiet of the coach Is broken by the wall of the Infant Without hesitation the young matron turns Johnny upside down While Idle passengers watch she hurriedly changes his diaper Then without thinking she tosses the used one out the coach window At this time the vagaries of the weather ployed another quirk A sudden gust of wind catches the diaper carries ft along outside the coach and blows It in another window It lands flat on the conductor face Without hesitation the wizened railway man stood on his feet and bellows First call for Acton And that is just about how newcomers unused to the aromas generated by the making of leather react when they get their first scent of tannery effluent It is the real bad days that people remember and although it can be recorded on tape photographed or written about with any accurate degree of description the town of Acton has made an indelible impression on many noses around the world Noses come in many shapes sizes and lengths but this has no bearing on their efficiency as Because one of the largest tanneries in the world is located at Acton It is predictable we get more than our share of It Periodically the distinctive reaches out and envelops almost the entire town but ordinarily because of the favorable nature of the west winds It Is restricted to the eastern end of town Residents there especially newer ones react with understandable horror ACTON CLERGY ASSOCIATION Announcement for ill Roman Churches WEDNESDAY NIGHT ECUMENICAL WORSHIP SERVICES primarily though noi exclusively for those away from Acton on weekends Wed II 8 Acton Baptist Church Worship Rev Byrne Sermon Rev Gordon Turner Weil August 18 Acton Church hip Rev rank Byrne Sermon Rev Harry Dawson Some gag others we are told bring up Still others develop symptoms of headache and severe nausea But they are few and far between For most It Is just an undesirable smell they d like to get rid of quickly However It wasn t always this way At one time there was a strongly held belief that the smell in Acton was good for the health People pointed with pride to Beardmore employees who lived well beyond the normal life span although often were employed In some of the I and smelliest jobs Imaginable In that era a man worked 10 hours a day six days a week and he wore the same clothes home as he worked In Effluent from the busy tanneries was pumped into filter beds which sophisticated engineers now refer to as These ponds of brown effluent did a good job of filtering the that accumulates in the leather making process On wet days however the odor that was hidden deep down in the bowels of the beds escaped and with Indescribable speed spread an umbrella of foul air over the town A tourist passing through at this tune would understandably react with great speed to put as many miles between himself and Acton as possible His stoi ies of the horrible smell he encountered going through Acton were pounced on with considerable glee by the rumor monger who managed to expand them to listeners could picture the cesspool like air with appropriate holding gestures On another occasion probably nine tenths of the year a traveller would have a problem discerning any more than the usual aromas associated small community About two ago Beard more and Co installed perfume dispensers at several places in town and nearby countryside to counteract the smell where it seemed to accumulate with a vengeance People moved in amongst these odd looking machines with a pleasant smile snuffing orange blossoms while those without the pole gagged There are to the smell which the outside world is not aware of to the same degree as the natives Weary fog bound travellers need no neon signs to identify the precincts of the community and on certain days the odor has the delightful smell of new leather It is equally true that other communities have odor problems has oil refineries Georgetown has a sulphite smell associated with a paper mill Hamilton has a soap factory that makes the Acton odor seem like Chanel No in comparison Toronto waterfront smells like all the sewage plants in the city spilled their effluent on certain days Perhaps the farmer is the one branch of society which has smells as a necessary and promising part of life As he spreads manure on fields he can look forward to crops which will bloom in abundance after the smell disappears Cheerful have the Mime outlook After the smell is gone it will only be a memory The Acton Free Press Wednesday August 11 1971 Bronte Area newest project A provincial grant of Ml to the Region Conservation Authority for the purchase of land to be known as Bronte Conservation Area has been announced by The Hon George A Kerr Q C Minister of Energy and Resources Management The parcel to be acquired comprises a total of acres and is bordered on the south by the Queen Elizabeth Highway and on on the east by Bronte Road Halton Region Conservation Authority will distribute automobile litterbags to vehicles entering the Authority conservation areas as well as put 000 litter stickers on their garbage receptacles and adding metal litter bins to their present supply The project is part of the program originally designated and designed by the Packaging Association of Canada and adopted by the industry members of the Littering Control Council The main aim of the program endorsed by the Ontario government Is to keep Ontario clean Any person Come with us Mrs BETH EL CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH Churchill Rd and Hwy 7 Minister Rev Brouwcr BA BJ Next to Church SUNDAY AUGUST 15th Sunday Worship Services at 1000 am Pre School Sunchy School during the morning service both services This is the day which the has made let us rejoice and be glad in it P- 24 You Are Welcome ACTON BAPTIST CHURCH Mill Street Founded 1842 Pastor Frank M Byrne Parsonage Church Office Wed 7 Choir Rehearsal SUNDAY AUGUST 1971 1000 Union Service with Churchill Commun Church in Church during August 1100ani School in Baptist Church Open ses sion A Cordial Invitation To All THE CHURCH OF ST THE MARTYR ANGLICAN Comer Willow St and St Albans Rev J Dawson BTh SUNDAY AUGUST 1971 Trinity 1000 am CHURCHILL COMMUNITY CHURCH Churchill Rend North Minister The Rev A Walter Ave Phone SUNDAY AUGUST 15th During August 1000 am Union Servi with Baptist at Baptist Church Acton Visitors arc Welcome at All Church at the Church on the Hill MAPLE AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH Maple Ave Georgetown Pastor Re Robert 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