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OUR READERS WRITE Maybe time people take action Rural Route Acton May 27 To The Editor The Free Press Okay lets face it Were in a mesa The letter in your last edition from Mr the reported comments from a clutch of local dignitaries not to mention the continuing stream of complaints from readers of the Free Press all clearly Indicate the grip has on the community And it wont do Why First in case anyone didnt notice lets point up the fact that more than one person in Acton holding elected office is on the payroll Thats significant Their loyalties are at best divided Maybe it isnt unfair to suggest that asking some of them to bite the hand that feeds them is akin to requiring Santas elves to accuse their employer of being drunk and disorderly in charge of a sleigh Or of asking the Seven Dwarfs to assault Snow White In some quarters this double allegiance is called conflict of Interest The Mayor however tactfully describes It as lack of embarrass ment we will be unable to achieve the I benefit of the new flue gas treatment system An elegant and oblique turn of phrase However it still Invites two questions neither of which alas I see any elected representative asking on your front page Why werent much earlier steps taken to clean up the lagoons And In that connection the word conjures up visions of Treasure Island and Tahiti the real epithet is of course or effluent disposal ponds And exactly what are the partial benefits we are enjoying The impli cation In Mr statement Is that somehow matters are improved Thats what a benefit implies But matters arent being ameliorated No Mr Coles it Just wont do If the residents of and other areas want action it seems theyre going to have to turn elsewhere than either or council to get ft You sec the Mayor Isnt at all embarrassed by complaints although as mayor ho should be He even goes further than that by warning us that there will likely always be a swamp water smell Has he stopped to ask himself why there should be or If Beardmore has any right in law to create anything of the kind And the deputyreeve is divinely sure that a mis understanding has been cleared up Perhaps he deliberately avoided saying- that the air has been cleared And Councillor Marks is even better He Is happy with this form of public relations Sad to relate everyone except the hapless corres pondents In your columns is Just too happy for words Well maybe the time has finally come for people to take action Perhaps were beginning to realize that Beardmore is in the last analysis answerable to its share holders Not to the population of Acton And that some of the council have more than a minor allegiance to Beardmore Maybe were commencing to recognize that the press release over Mr signature is like many such corporate blandishments Perhaps were starting to see that if Beardmore wont come clean and If council wont squawk we should do something Theres an Air Management Branch There are federal and provincial representatives Theres Pollution Probe There are your fine columns There are the major Toronto dailies The television stations Radio And there are petitions to which an aroused body of public opinion may subscribe Isnt it finally about time we really brought Beardmore to task Or are we forgetting under the miasma of effluent and euphemism that Beardmore Is as answerable to the law of the land as any private citizen And theres more The Beardmore Bouquet is symptomatic of a wider smell Remember It It isnt the tannery its the drag strip if Its not the quarry and the gravel trucks Its the Township sanitary land fill site The latter is perhaps best described as Voltaire once pegged the Holy Roman Empire neither sanitary land fill nor a site Well we all know that every selfrespecting township dump should have at least two fires a year Just to let us know Its there That every tractortrailer Jockey from Guelph to Scarborough should be at liberty to careen through our village school zones at 60 miles an hour on the wrong side of dangerous gravel roads That every quarry operator should have carte blanche to rape the countryside with only the barest semblance of control That every Toronto entrepreneur Oh well you know what I mean Mr Coles The fact is were in a right royal democratic mess And it wont do The stink not aroma as you delicately call it is a symptom Acton could be a beautiful and tranquil country town the sort of community Wendy Thomson writes about with wit and eloquence A good place to live But it Isnt Theres still an outside chance it may be But first somebody or a whole lot of somebodies will have to get together and straighten out Mr Creighton and Mr and Mr and Mr Marks and Jim Henderson Question value of Addiction Research So the Addiction Research Is going to help us in Acton That scares heck out of me Weve had help before with a drug education program supposedly for parents Many were discouraged early because they could barely understand the language used Toward the end it was more of a talk group for a few young people These kids needed professional help but Instead they talked and the adults seemed to think it was the IN thing to listen Those that were left that is To me it was almost a sick situation on both sides We also had help this past summer and managed to make headlines on the section of the Star discussing our high rate of delinquency 1 seriously question my tax money supporting some of the functions of AD particularly our youngsters being counselled by people with courses in social work or by other mixed up youngsters hired by the Addiction Research Their standard line Is to help our youngsters understand what is wrong with their parents Acton and society general We can live without such help In Guelph signs are posted saying contact the local health unit for help with alcohol and drug problems I checked on this and although the unit does receive their addiction program is run by the health unit They employ an especially trained public health nurse as community and a qualified social worker Both are responsible to the medical officer of health of Wellington county If any of my youngsters need help with problems I hope they steer clear of personnel from the Addiction Research Foundation PS Just found that the community co ordinator in Guelph was an Acton resident Hie went to the University of Toronto for postgraduate work sponsored by the County Health Unit When she finished university in 1965 the health budget wasnt allowing them to hire nurses even though they had sponsored some She moved from Acton to take a position with Wellington county Still hove to face the hot summer Acton May Editor of the Acton Free Press Dear Sir- Wilds letter to the editor certainly was well expressed Weve been protesting for years without avail evoking only a raised eyebrow or an amused Oh are you still on that tannery kick Just wonder how long we could get away with spraying our sewers contents on our property before we would be ordered to clean up or else Yet heres mores allowed to extend the time ordered by the Ministry of Environment apparently indefinitely Every day they polluted the countryside should carry a heavy fine and I wonder then how long It would take to dean up their The company didnt install that fancy equipment because of their concern over the people of Acton and district but because they were ordered to do so Maybe heavy Ones would sharpen their endeavors to hurry up the process This has been a terrible month for odor emissions from Beardmores and we have still to face the really hot and humid summer months Do you really believe that we wont have this problem next year Come now you must surely be aware of one of lifes realities one law or the rich and one for the poor Dont waste your time phoning The number to call is Air Management Control Ml Youll be apt to get a better reaction from the people there Ive listened to Beardmores alibis for years oh yes they are very nice gentlemen and so sincere about their efforts to resolve the pollution problem Know what My well water Is rotten too Too much salt Beardmores again ac cording to the OWR Anyway we could nuke out with water from an unpolluted well but its surely bard to get a decent nights rest with that rotten odor And yes if the water being sprayed out on the fields Is so pure how come the air stinks so much when the sprays are working Free Press Wednesday May JIM of Acton and Julie Stevens of accompanied the Hon Ron Basford minister Woodstock have maple trees bearing their of StntcforUrban Affairs In planting a maple name at Ottawa They were two of tree bearing their names along parkways of students taking part in the annual Ad- the National Capital Region The program Is venture In Citizenship program In the capital sponsored by Rotary and the National Capital As a token of their participation the students Commission REACTION Hydro chairman Says empire building Acton council dealt with a variety of matters at its last regular meeting Councillors learned of some decisions via the minutes of the committee meetings Council agreed to proclaim June both Decoration Day and John Memorial Day The actual date for John McCrae Memorial Day is June Representation was made at a meeting of the administration committee when the Acton branch of the Legion requested the proclamation The council chamber were arranged In triangular formation as council continues to debate which seating la best Councillor Elliott Is accumulating prices on new tables and chairs has been budgeted for more furniture The matter was again discussed The purchase of 1800 feet of plastic pipe for Installation at the cemetery was approved at a cost of approximately The public works and utilities committee of council had made a tour of the town roads May s and some repair work was ordered A letter was received from the Department of Transportation and Communications informing council they are scheduling traffic counts at the highway connecting links to review the signal times and subsidy agreement The bridge leading to the library will be painted and maintained To remedy a drainage problem on the road at Building Products two fire hydrants will be relocated back of the property line The department will pay half the cost A letter was received from V Anderson Associates Ltd requesting assistance in compiling supporting evidence in favor of a grade separation on No and No highways Information on accidents will be sought from the police Countys Technical Co ordinating Committee recom mendations concerning regional government for were no sooner released than charges of empire were levelled Give bulk to region from HI Recreation eventually says recreation should eventually become a regional responsibility Region Conservation Authority should eventually be abolished the report says Public cemeteries would best be dealt with locally according to the report Local municipalities should not be in competition with each other and business and industrial development should be a regional area of concern Social and family services should continue to be operated from a regional level Trans portation should be left local but reviewed two years to see If It should be turned regional The scheme would see the region collect and levy most of the taxes and take care of capital financing The region should assume responsibility for all capital financing with the region and would assume responsibility for all debts as yet unpaid for those functions assigned to It Dog licences lottery and local business taxes would be the only taxes levelled at the local level under the proposals Receives Milton Hydro Commission Chairman Bill Rowney suggested it would appear the committee is empire building He was commenting on the recom mendation that hydro become regional responsibility A report established by various hydro commissions In recommended strongly that hydro be left at the second tier of a two tier system and not become a regional responsibility In their report hydro com missioners argued costs would go up and efficiency down If hydro was dealt with on a regional basis disagreed with that recommendation County meeting report will go before Hal tons municipal councillors at an allcouncillor meeting in Milton Saturday and if eventually approved on to the provincial government said it was obvious that If local commissions were abolished top level regional staff people would have to be hired at an expense to the ratepayers I cant understand why it has worked so well for so many years and now all of a sudden It Isnt any good No answers said the questions of good management had not been asked and no answers provided He Indicated lot more study in the area of hydro should be undertaken They havent said what theyll do how they will do it what saving will be realized or how thatsavlng will be effected Ho wncy indicated the men who submitted the hydro report had over years of collective experience on hydro com missions Three of the senior members alone have over He suggested the hydro group with its experience would be in a better position to recommend the fate hydro than TECO How can they be expected to know as much as the hydro group they have never had the exposure OPENS SHOW STARTS AT DUSK NOW THRU SATURDAY Ryans Daughter Starring Trevor Ho wore Christopher Jonas John Mllli Leo Sarah Mile Next Sun Ho threesome DRIVE IN THEATRE SUPERMARKET 9 MILL ST ACTON medal The annual St John Ambulance Review was held at the Rebecca Street arena in on Thursday May The remaining seven members of the former Acton St John Division who now belong to the Milton division attended and took part Mrs Robert Hart received her year service medal Acton members attending were Mr and Mrs Robert Hart Mr and Mrs George Har grave Mrs Carpenter Mrs Doris Cooke and Miss BellaMae Air Flight Insurance Accident Baggage Insurance Trip Cancellation Insurance Acton Milton Toronto 3641034 Agent for Travel Insurance Ltd Underwritten by 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