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NinetySeventh Yoar No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MARCH RR Parker in 19th year with Credit Authority MURRAY HARRISON I think the community centre would help the young people If I had a choice I would choose the community centre as I am youth oriented It can also be used by older people Yes we should further the community centre Murray Harrison Scoutmaster M A now town hall would be a greater asset I think It Is on Immediate demand Parker HARDING We definitely need swimming pool one for children mid one for the adults Tome this Is the main project for Mrs rem Harding BUI Building a swimming pool is not a bad Idea It is Rood for the winter I think thoy should fix up the whole centre Hill rough FRYI It I think they should fix Iho Ice and build a swimming pool The don I have much to do and they don very many places to go Thoy need some more to do Margaret Community centre centennial choice 1 1 think wc should flnlRli the art tin an I build a pool mod swimming pool In 14 r 13 ago put up nor icy swimming poo an 1 lliLy built wading I airy I like in llrty I my nm tilt re I Mills The Valley Conservation Authority unproved a 1072 budget of Oil Its Inaugural uniting Wednesday III this DOS Is ear- marked for various flood control projects on Creek In MiislsHiiugii Mains Creek In Ittstrvolr Drainage iirnjeit acquiring floodploln land In channel Improvements and mapping in watershed areas not covered by existing mapping In Conservation Anils will take up and Niagara I scarpment Administration will cost 1J7 IRQ a large am unt will be used the waterfront study land inquisition ill velopmcnt Ontario shoreline Hi muni levy which lor with I rovlneliil yarns mi kis ii lit working of will toil he 10 in II i for 1 WW assessment New Three new members were welcomed to the Credit Valley Conservation Authority by Chairman K McMillanPaul Moore of Mlasuuauga Ed Black of Caledon and Jack Kavanaugh of Brampton rhreo charter members of the Authority Robert Parker of Acton A M Hap of Port Credit and White of Mono Township are starting their year with the Authority J Jack of Brampton la beginning his 17th yoar and Chairman McMillan hi 15th year In the service of Conservation The same executive committee In 1071 was reelected The advisory board chairman along with the Authority chairman ana vice chairman make up this committee Include A J W A A M and Howard along with vice chairman Parker and chairman McMillan Forbidden education Irish hedge schools supplied knowledge Each year on the nearest publication date to St Patrick a Day Mrs Catherine Graham of writes something about her native Ireland This year Mrs Graham has chosen the famous Irish hedge from a time in history when the native Irish people were barred from regular schools She wonders whether the disaffection of some of today students could be cured by cation of some of its principles The Hedge School Inherent in the Irish race has always been a love of learning and down through the ages Ireland has had many famous schools The first recorded were the Bardic Schools before the coming of Christianity When the Irish were converted to Christianity by St Patrick In the fifth century many schools and colleges sprang up Here students came from all over However a few centuries later this trend was reversed When Trinity College opened Its doors in 1591 the real Irish people were barred from attending Naturally thoy looked towards the continent or had to as all other schools were more or less closed to them also Many young Irishmen left their native land at this period and attended the universities of Spain France Italy and Prussia Here they received a classical education and came back to Import their newgained knowledge to their less fortunate brothers at home This was the time of the Hedge School were found all over Ireland Here with only the blue sky for a roof the green fields for a desk and the song of the birds in the background the Irish children were taught by these men not only their native Gaelic but French German Latin and Greek borne of Ireland a greatest scholars had their beginnings here especially some of her song writers Today we are far removed from The Hedge School but arc all well aware of the confusion that exists in education All Is not rosy In the classroom especially amongst the more mature students They seem disillusioned by schools and courses In general speaking from a little experience suppose no one has the right answer Perhaps something less elaborate in the make up of schools would bo more appreciated When our children attended The Stone School they seemed very happy there often speak of It still This was one of the many oneroomed schools that dotted the rural landscape All have disappeared Perhaps a summer school weather permitting for today students with Mother Nature as an added Incentive to learning might be a worthwhile Innovation Ihls week the run Press enquiring reportrr asked he Acton Centennial project Should the Commission build a new town hall complex with council chambers etc or finish the community centre fixing up the arena adding on swimming pool tic Here a the reaction I think they should finish the community build a swimming pool Anonymous rhe community is better I very body swimming pool Mrs Helen done We need some recreation In tills town They have built a park but there was no supervision All the tough kids scared the little ones and they have taken all the down It would give the teenagers something else to do rather than hung around tin street corners Mrs A Reynolds will be able to voice their choice of a centennial at a public meeting to be held at the arena Sunday March at 3 P sponsored by the Centennial Commission Obituary Gerald L Kean I an passed In Hospital on In hi Ml the eldest son of All in K and Ismenla mid livid at Sodom in township where 1m attended lite and No 3 In lie married in iilso of Nnssuguwoya and together they farmed at i I ramosa till 1068 whin they retired to ljuelph In IJW1 celebrated their ii ding anniversary Mr Kean health was greatly Impaired in alter he experienced a very polio Illness complicated by llu flu In spite trim ne resumed farming after he r measure of and fortunately he active though in a limited wuy until the last few weeks He was In hospital only a few days Survivors Surviving are his wife and three children I loyd of Mr John Bird of Georgetown and Vera I Mrs E Packer of also five grandchildren In his own family of two brothers and four sisters three are living Mm Alleen Royal Oak Mich Mrs Toronto and Hugh of California riie funeral was held Wed ncsday March 1 and Wllkle Funeral Home conducted by the Rev Donald Sinclair of Eden Mills Presbyterian Church and burial was in the Eden Mills cemetery Pallbearers were Ben Hoiking Borden William Ulan Stanley T and Norman Bird