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Endtoend hike along Bruce Trail Members of the Toronto Bruce Trail dub are preparing for their sixth annual endtoend hike of the 26mile Hal ton section of the Bruce Trail for which the club is responsible It will be held on Sunday April and the strenuous hike is expected to last all day Hikers are to meet at the Fifth line Just south of 30am Theyll leave their cars there and be bussed to Terra then walk back to the cars Fred Turner Is leader for the annual Nature Walk Day The club has planned a hike from to Speyside on Saturday May to celebrate Nature Walk Day The Federation of Ontario Naturalists has proclaimed this as one day when all organizations or individuals interested in nature conservation or outdoors should show their interest by planning walks The clubs bus will pick up hikers in Toronto and transport them to On the same day some Toronto Club members will be taking a mile In the section near Mono Centre Only Bruce Trail members are eligible to receive a chevron for completing that walk I Visitors A hike dinner and social evening with international con notations are being lined up for Saturday May when members of the Genesee Valley Hiking Club from Rochester visit the Toronto group for a days hike and social weekend The Rochester group hosted many Ontarians to a hiking weekend recently The Rochester group will arrive on Friday evening and spend the night In homes of Toronto members Hiking starts at t am at the Halton Country Seventh Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY APRIL 12 Inn on Sixth line and the two hikes are being of fered one of six miles and one of eight miles in length Both hikes will end at the Inn and the day wilt conclude with a steak dinner socializing and a slide talk on a hike to the Mount Everest Base Camp in the Himalayas by Don Sutherland A June 4 hike will follow five miles of the old GuelphtoActon radial line trail Report confuses health board continues campaign for improved health service OZARK DAYS APRIL to DEMONSTRATIONS r Home Improvement paint ration Antiquing can bo and easy See how on evening and Sot fern the front of the Troost Pipe Display Have your picture taken In the Rack free by a polaroid camera Jl purchase of merchandise required Frl Sot April sponsored by Reeves Watch the Zellor Fashion Show presenting the latest In Spring and Summer Fashions on and evenings at and Saturday affcrnoon at and 4 Acton Deputy Reeve Pat Health Unit to improve health McKenzie Is far from satisfied service the northern part of with efforts by Halton county the county Near the end of a somewhat exasperating meeting the County Board of Health where this matter was discussed tore up a written report on the subject drafted by Director of Nursing Grace J said the report did not indicate how the unit was attempting to provide solutions Members repeatedly asked Medical Officer of Health J Chamberlain how many Public Health Nurses were on staff and how many the Health Unit intended to hire but after the better part of hours discussion they were unable to determine a clear picture of the situ ion Free Press Spurred on by an article in The FREE FREE FREE APRIL to 19th pat Mckenzie Health and the Health Unit were In need of a real public relations Job He told of a chance meeting with a public health nurse in Owen Sound who remarked to him about the problems In She referred to the grey listing which occurred in 1966 McKenzie felt money was a small part of the problem of hiring nurses He felt nurses were being overworked in the northern part of the county and couldnt physically do a proper job unless more nurses were made available to share the load Challenges report He challenged a point in Mrs report that said each public health nurse Is in her respective schools as long as she is required McKenzie principal of an Acton Public school said there was a nurse in his school for Our Skillet Hillbilly Morning Chow GRITS APPLE CIDER TAKE HOME CHICKEN Buy for and ft 1 STMWBERRV SHORTCAKE FESTIVAL CORDUROY SLACKS hi Good assortment of sizes and colors CARTONS OF CIGAI Perllly Cigarettes packs toacifton ALUMINUM Di 610 INSTORE SPECIALS MELAMINE DISHES 10 SPEED BICYCLE Zelco Racer Front and Rear brakes Drop Style handlebars Mini splash fenders Reg Sid Assorted Colors and patterns Special POLYESTER FILLED PILLOWS 2 LONG SLEEVE STYLE DRESS SHIRTS Reg price up to 400 CIRCULAR SPECIALS 88 JOGGING whole family blue racer I sols Cushioned III Si fjWflHEIfSs CHECK 01 in REXALL 1 SALE THE MAIL THIS WEEK ZEUERS NO IFS NO ANDS NO BUTS YOU MUST BE SATISFIED WITH TOUR PURCHASE OR TOUR MONEY REFUNDED Zellers County Fair NO GEORGETOWN OPEN MON TO FRI 10 AJI TO 9 SAT 9 AH TO travel in Ihc north and the ratio TrS7S should bo not The To oSr S Champion about throe months ago McKenzie tins been Interviews with righting- battle to have health ta services increased in the ESS northern part of the county re S to provide a He claimed Inadequacies XL comprehensive accurate report in the positioning of applicants Wanted to know what nurses noting there was one they would receive as pay nurse for every people in Because the negotiations are one for every in underway between the nurses Burlington and just one serving the county no specific and Acton with a Joint answer can be given he said population of about He said there was additional said the Board of on the number of nurses employed on leave and about to be hired and where they will be placed I want it to come from you Miss has us so confused we dont know If were coming or going If she wants to write any more reports tell her to put them In file Small rate increase Esquesing township Esqucsing township ratepayers in all three fire areas will face a small mill rate increase as a result of the budget approv ed by council at a meeting last week Farm and residential mill rate For ratepayers in the Acton fire area will be 02 an increase of 81 over last year Commercial and industrial rate for the Acton fire area has increased 1 mllb Milton fire area farm and residential rate is up mills to from last years lowest of all three areas then Commercial and industrial rate the Milton area jumped 1 to Only fraction Hates in the Georgetown fire area are up only a fraction of a mill Farm and residential rate increased only mills while commercial and industrial rate is up only slightly over half a mill Reeve Tom Hill revealed major road improvement plans council has in mind to account for the slight mill rate in crease Council added exactly one mill to the roads budget We have a new bridge to construct on the Sixth line and a new culvert to Install on the Third as well the reeve pointed out We re also going to continue our program of paving streets In the hamlets as much as we can Pave road Hill said a stretch of the Fifth line near I from the conservation area north to the location of the Twins Wood working shop will be paved this year Residents have complained to council about the stretch Decreases in the elementary school levy for all parts of the township helped balance off the necessary township levy hikes of approximately four mills school rates increased a fraction of a mill Milton Heights residents will hate an additional 1 mills placed on top of their rate to pay for street lighting which will be installed there Ratepayers Williams Stewart- town and where street lights have already been portion of their total mill rate installed will welcome small Halton County decreases on street lighting levy rose leu than a mill OF PROPOSED MUX RATE FOR 1972 1971 Proposed Mill Mill Rate Rate Change TOWNSHIP Farm and Residential 1156 30 Commercial and Industrial 14 34 law 462 COUNTY Farm and Residential Commercial and Industrial 722 45 PUBIJC SCHOOL Farm Residential 23 as 2155 Commercial and Industrial SEPARATE SCHOOL Farm and Residential Commercial and Industrial 453 16 29 Commercial and Industrial 1610 18 73 STREET LIGHTS Glen Williams Norval 181 169 429 400 Milton Heights 165 HUE AREAS Acton Georgetown 191 Milton 165 TOTALM1LLRATE WITH THE LIGHTS ACTON FIRE AREA 181 Commercial and Industrial 45 95 GEORGETOWN FIRE AREA 14 Commercial and Industrial 68 MILTON FIRE AREA 59 97 Commercial and Industrial 21 6895 174 by Ted Men are slightly better news paper readers than women per cent as against per cent according to research ARTHUR A JOHNSONod OPTOMETRIST UAAillSt E Acton Wednesday Saturday Milton Main St