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School creek cleanup keeps 10 students busy Acton school creek Is beginning to flow at a normal rate of speed again as a result of the efforts of 10 Acton High School students who have now completed a week and a half cleaning debris from the creek bed on the first leg of a summer- long cleanup project Frank Oudoaluys David Hodgson and Mark Nielsen grade 13 graduates Maxwell who will begin grade 13 In September Glen Lee Sharon Barber Diane John Klngsmlll and Roger McBachern grade 13 students and Emily Hodgson grade 10 arc undertaking the project with the benefit of an grant under the federal government s Opportunities for Youth program Work progressing Work began Monday June on the portion of the creek near Wallace tit Students plan to extend the cleanup west to the area of the Centennial library cleaning out debris dredging silt and squaring off and building up creek banks where necessary They already completed their work down as far as the tracks Later in the summer the group will tackle the creek which flows from airy Lake east underneath Mil Church and Brock Streets to the Beardmore plant half ton pickup trucks loads of debris Including everything from wooden logs to a child tricycle were recovered from the creek last week and hauled away to the dump students are acting on advice on creek cleanup received from officials of the Credit Valley Conservation Authority as well as information they learned In their environmental science lasses at school Tools necessary for the Job are being loaned through the courtesy of the town works department and Tyler transport I td The government grant provides for a salary of per week for the three graduates and GO per week for the seven students who will be returning to high school next fall as well aa approximately for equipment a Ninety Year No 53 ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JUNE 28 Eighteen F ftoon Conts Suggest Centennial project survey In a resolution opposed only by Councillor Bill Coats and Mayor Lea Duby Acton Council has suggested to the Centennial Commission that since all citizens will be contributing to the Centennial project a detailed questionnaire be mailed to all residences or a home to home survey be made for as to the ultimate project At a public meeting held in the community centre last March a majority of the 40odd people In attendance favored renovations and additions to the community centre as a Centennial project Not lair Councillor Peter Marks said last night Tuesday he feels the people who attended the March meeting do not represent a fair crosssection of the town Council endorses the Centennial Commission whole heartedly and their enthusiasm is far In excess of what I thought it might be Marks made It clear This resolution Is just to suggest to them that we vc heard a lot of static Marks said ho thinks most people wilt express themselves on the project more readily in the privacy of their own home If a survey Is taken Additional benefits Councillor Mosaics pointed out circular could have other benefits In that ft could draw many additional ideas from residents about the program his opposition to the resolution Councillor Coots said lie feels the Centennial Com mission took adequate action to ask people of the town to respond by Using the March public meeting to the vote Coats recommended that if the solution passed It be delivered personally the chairman of the Commission Conts represents count tl on the Commission but lie be holidaying In Western Canada for the next two months Questions delay on engineering WHAT DOES A GENTLEMAN DO when a lady wants an assist onto an open air streetcar Takes her hand of course and skirt a lift up as well If she happens fa be your wife Mr and Mrs Bill Watson were right into the spirit of the occasion at the official opening of the County Radial Railway Museum Sunday afternoon when hundreds gathered to see the first electric cars traverse the northern tracks Turn inside for story and more pic tures Coles Photo Apply for dispensation on Bower Ave work Acton Council has passed a by law authorizing the reconstruc tion of Elizabeth Drive from the entrance at sub division west to Elmore Drive However roads committee chairman Earl Masales says work on the project this year will be confined to the laying of a sidewalk Councillor Peter Marks questioned the public works committee delay in having engineering done there claiming time could be saved by having it done now even though a transfer of land between the town and Elisabeth Drive resident Ted BranMcwfcz is not yet officially completed The town is trading land on a road allowance which runs through the verandah of the Branxiewlcz home in exchange for a parcel directly opposite on the south side of Elizabeth Drive The intention of the reconstruction is to widen the road making it safer The sidewalk will run along the south side of the road from Main St to Elmore A curb and a boulevard arc also to be installed Frosty remark Marks charged the town could be laying sidewalks when the frost is in the ground If they don start on engineering now Personally I can see doing engineering on land we don t really own Mayor offered Explaining the fact no engineering has been done on the project yet Masales said up to a month ago his committee was still not sure whether they would have to expropriate or not Acton council has inserted an advertisement in this weeks Free Press applying to dispense with a rate of electors for the reconstruction program on Bower Avenue Residents will be given days to complain about the proposed improvement of which must be raised by debenture Construction will affect 1750 feet of the street from the Willow St corner and Includes excavations to new placing a granular base placing catchbasins and connecting to existing sewer system constructing curbs and sidewalks constructing asphalt Dr Onions new minister Clerk Joe Hurst said that In the event anyone complains the work could be postponed for another year The town has been anxious to make improvements to the street which Is rapidly deteriorating New minister of Trinity United will be Onions who will come here at the end of July from New Brunswick Onions and his wife will be living In the parsonage A native westerner hi has had charges many hundreds of miles apart in Suggest moral development course Moral development could become an optional course in Halton County elementary schools An ad hoc committee on Religious Education recommended Thursday that the County Board of Educa tion establish a task force to develop a sequential course in moral development for kindergarten to grade eight children The executive committee of the board will consider the matter prior to the board authorizing the development of a course In November of the board passed a resolution supporting a published on World Religions and recommended schools consider the development of detailed courses of study A course outline Values Inquiry has been developed The committee recommended it be made available to teachers and be used in the teaching or moral development if the teachers want Half hoar The committee urged one half hour a week be attributed to a course for moral development In the elementary schools and the committee asked the board to contact the Ministry of Education concerning their attitude towards towards the development of a Continued on Fit Fireworks Sat July Acton and district will celebrate Canada 105th birthday combining the Firefighters of fireworks with a garden party and band concert at Prospect park this Saturday evening Acton Citizens Band will lead oil the celebrations with a concert starting at The garden party which also includes an amateur show will start at The Choraliers and several local and district soloists will entertain Fireworks will begin at dusk The firefighters will have a refreshment booth on the grounds and are asking people to being their own camp chairs or other conveniences to sit on during the show There is a small admission charge of for adults and for children In the event of rain the show will be held Sunday July 2 Winnipeg Bermuda upland and the Mantimes and Mrs Gordon Turner and son Scott moved Tuesday from Acton to Oshawa where Mr turner is going to Harmony United church He has been minister at Trinity for the past four years son Scott is a kindergarten student at the Ijttle school Agnes fury spent when she visited Agnes left a trail of destruction and grief in her path up the seaboard of the United States but outside of brisk winds a few branches knocked down and a power cutoff and several days of rain this area was relatively untouched by the hurricane The weeks loi spell which had started to turn grass brown was relieved by welcome rain which started Wednesday and leared Sunday afternoon Power was cut off in some sections of Acton for two hours evening due to the high winds Streets were littered with debris from trees but no serious damage was reported after winds abated HIGH school report cards go out this Friday although school has been out two weeks CLERGYMEN AT THE anniversary Native the Rev Laurie services at St Albans Anglican Church preached the sermon replete with mutton Sunday morning included the Rev Ritchie chop whiskers and long tail coat McMurray left rector from who Parishioners entered into the spirit of the celebrated the Sung Eucharist present rector occasion in a medley of centennial styled Rev Harry Dawson middle and the Rev clothing Turn inside for more pictures Phillip Sawyer who was rector from 1926 to h Coles Photo Strawberries sold out early at country mart Despite intermittent rain squalls there was an even larger crowd at the Country Market on Willow St last Saturday morning All the stall renters were back again for the second week except for Caroline Nurseries while Mower Mart took a stall for the first time A highlight was strawberries freshly picked at Farms by the market organizers They were all sold out by 9 a and the people promise they pick more for next Saturday Despite the holiday weekend the market will again operate on Saturday morning as usual Bread added Last week Bonnie Gillespie sold out of homemade bread Janls expects to have home made bread for sale this week Four of the booth renters have signed up for the whole season Hopping Hill with vegetables White Oaks ceramics who eggs and the Maxwells wilh eggs and Jam fhe organizers now have an off ict in a small room behind the council chambers which will be open from 9 to Monday through Saturday Phone number is cans Flyers advertising the market are being distributed this week The group is also making planters and arranging for cans Oil recycling hopes to locate here Schools out Friday I Town council has received an offer to purchase on five acres of land in the industrial basin from a firm which wishes to establish an oil recycling plant there AND ENTHUS4ASM for carefree summer days is showing These girls blithely skipping down the bill at the Robert Little equires a railway siding and schoolknow that the last few days in the classroom are remj prepared to guarantee the CNR a breeze No more pencils no more books no more teacher s 300 tanks of oil per year shipped inquisitive looks He said the company would have to follow stringent regulations laid down by the Air Manage ment Branch of the Department of the Environment The plant would employ 10 people the first year and as many as or after three years Councillor Jack Greer councils representative on the Acton Development Commission explained bis reasons for voting against the proposal at the com mission level The selling price was below the price we set for land in the industrial basin and it would be the choicest part of the basin be said Greer also pointed out the town would not gain a great amount of assessment from the plant since underground storage tanks associated with It are not assessable according to law It is believed the company Is the same one that tried to locate in abandoned kilns belonging to the Rockwood lime Company recently Possibility of delays in getting land in the village rezoned led the company to seek the alternate site