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The Acton Froo Press Wedn Juno Survey underway annexation land Annexation was again the main topic when planning board met last Thursday evening In the council chambers Secretary Grant Usher unrolled a big map which showed the ownership of land to the east comprising over acres Surveying Is not yet completed Is this getting the engineers priority Dave Muckle asked He mused the application would likely sit In Queens Park for a year anyway Done soon Mr Usher said he hopes the surveying would be complete before the rext meeting The feasibility study is next The survey includes whole properties rather than straight lines so whole farms will be Included in the application Some of the land is above No 7 highway some below extending out between the third and fourth lines Frank Simlonl suggested development might be better kept north in this area The disposal plant Is adjacent to the lower part The area will be stinky No getting out of it Do you suggest the smell will continue Mr asked No Mr Slmloni replied he was not speaking for Beardmore but from what he had read in the paper he didn think there had been any commitment that there would be no more smell Chairman Sid Salts recalled the general hope once the old filter beds were cleared up the smell would abate Mr Usher pointed out there is no smell from the town disposal plant also in that area Annex all Vic concluded the whole acres should be annexed at once avoiding double charges You can stand disposal ant odors better than tannery ter beds he said We can t stop development Mr Saitz said He pointed out complaints about the smell have ceased in the past few weeks He also mentioned the southern girt of the property owned by Corporation the former farm is hilly and near the railroad so not so suitable for homes anyway Outside concern Acton is located Just outside the zone of concern of the Niagara Escarpment task force the board learned by letter The secretary had to write inquiring about the scope of the study now underway Apparently Acton is within the zone outside the limit of the boundary actually affected That the answer we wanted said councillor Norm Elliott know the escarpment doesn t particularly affect our annex Road allowance A letter was received from the committee of adjustment out lining their recommended changes in an application from William Anderson Main Street for the addition of a front porch and carport The committee felt allowance should be made for future road widening and the set back was inadequate Only account paid was for for paper Present were chairman Sid members Vic Brlstow Dave Muckle Frank Simloni and Lou Bonnettc with council representatives arriving late after another meeting Mayor Duby Norm Elliott and Bill Coats Burlington mans Idea The government should set up on Ontario Land Corporation not only to buy escarpment land but to buy other lands that will eventually be used for development Don Mathews Burlington Planning Board chairman the Niagara Es carpment Task Force at a meeting Milton Wednesday Administration bnefs He said the taxpayer would be on example Mathews said the a sucker if he allowed the province would make enough province to buy parkland and profit on the land to finance the take the loss and then allow acquisition of escarpment lands developers to come along and By buying large sections of land make a profit on selling homes in and selling It to subdivides the new cities and subdivisions Using Cedarwood the proposed new community at Pickering as Ontario Land Corporation could finance more open space areas Cities need parks Following the meeting Mr Mathews elaborated on his scheme He said the cities were the reasons for the parks and it was the cities that cause the No deer season in HaltpiL At a meeting of the Halton County Administration Committee Wednesday the committee season in this fall However John District and for open areas but tt money letter money asinine to allow developers to pick up the profits District indicated a controlled hunt would be held but would not affect If the project is successful may be af Received a delegation from county hospital boards and J K Jamieson manager of hospital in future years grants for the Ministry of Health Discussion centred around the Recommended James grant system for construction of consultants be hired hospitals to do a County Solid Waste Management study at a cost not learned the Ministry of to exceed 000 The hiring is Natural Resources is not subject to the approval of the recommending an open deer Department of the Environment Welfare payments reach lowest ebb General Welfare assistance May The second highest month paid out by the Halton County in that regard was April when Social and Family Services was paid out Department reached the lowest ebb so far this year in May apportioning March was the highest month with being appropriated the comity committee learned last week Very little fluctuation was shown in supplementary aid special assistance day nurseries and nurses services However the department paid 1 for services during Assistance given Supplementary aid special assistance day nursery and nurses services accounts totalled slightly over for last month During May 132 employable people and 197 unemployable received assistance In all Board of Health future be discussed here A motion asking that Boards of Health not be abolished was passed at a meeting held recently in Toronto Board chairmen provincial appointees and medical officers of health attended the meeting They were acting in response to statements by the Ontario Minister of Health Richard Potter that indicated the boards were no longer necessary and should be replaced with regional councils Potter was unable to attend tbe meeting because of illness and decided against sending a delegate because he the matter was one he should deal with personally Halton County Board of Health will discuss the Issue at their next meeting The matter was deferred at the June meeting of the board Wednesday HSHOLMN OPTOMETRIST Cork St East Phone TA1TIH Come to your new dealer for brand new VOLKSWAGENS No dawn payment Guaranteed twice as long as any other economy car years or miles warranty Volkswagen Service and Warranty Repair Service Dept open Free courtesy car by appointment FOR VOLKSWAGEN COME TO Baz Motors 1500 students take nature study tours More than students from the Credit River watershed and surrounding areas Including Toronto have taken advantage of the nature study tours conducted by staff of the Credit Valley Con Her vat ion Authority at the Terra Cot la Conservation Area Inspected baby mallards on the took a neck In the robin s nest at four hungry little ones with beaks wide open compared the robin nest with that or the eastern I nearby found out just how you tell the difference between Poison Ivy ami Virginia Creeper how Catnip and Yarrow were used as medicines and generally had a whale of a time It learning all these Obituary things Indoors the students had a chance to examine closely a giant Canada Goose Owl Beaver several varieties of migratory birds They also checked various types of fungi rocks and an IBinch paper wasp nest minus the wasps Authority ground keep their eyes open for interesting Items which con be added to the display This indoor display Is a direct result of teachers workshop lit Id recently at Terra Cotta Conservation Area Suggestions from tilt are gradually heme incorporated into the display as budget permits CORPORAL ALLAN of the Stayner Dclichmcnt He was born in Acton and Detachment was one of eight officers ndtd schools in Acton He Is married with receivingrccognitionfor20yearsofscrvicein three children His mother Agnes resides at the O P at Barne recently A member of Halton Centennial Manor in Milton Assistant the Force since January Corporal Allan Commissioner H Graham General has been at Port Credit and Stayner Headquarters Toronto presents the medal to Detachments He was promoted to the rink of Corporal Allan right Corporal in 1969 posted to the Stnyner Mrs Gordon funeral Tuesday afternoon Use profit from development to finance escarpment parks plans private meet Council will hold proposals contained in the private meeting before report down with councils from Acton lorn Hill said Monday and Georgetown to further he had reports on the discuss regional implementation of regional government creates land value when they build trans portation corridors and the speculators pick up the capital gains he charged He feared the nature lovers would apply political pressure and have nature trails purchased for public benefit He said the nature trails don t make enough money to pay to have the litter strewn there picked up We would be foolish to buy unusable land and let the other go Buy development rights In other words he urged the areas required as green belt or open space be zoned parkland and the owner would be paid a certain amount to abandon the right of separation or development He said it was politically impossible to say one can sell his farm to a quarry or housing concern The local authority would get the dirty end of the stick that way It sail right to say we zone the parkway belt out but after two or three public meetings you run into problems Shouldn t be He said Burlington was housing in some cases people received assistance where they knew it be av0li right to development in some lands was wrongly given and should be taken away but not without compensation He advocated a system that would see rights to development bought either through tax rebate or outright payment He said it was easier to control developers than retired farmers in Sudbury and Waterloo and has noted things tie not to see happen in According to the reeve the town of Milton is interested in down to talk with all munic In North Hiilton A resident of Acton for years I dith Gordon Mam Si N died in Nursing Home on June 2j Mrs Gordon hail had a lengthy illness service was Tuesday at the Shoemaker funeral home conducted by the Frank Byrne Interment was in cemetery Pallbearers were Jack Cordon I Hamilton James Pa yn Henry Gordon and J- red in Mrs or ion was born in New in IB90 She is survived by husband wry I onion 37 Main Harold Mill St and Alvey Main St sister Mrs Inez brothers nl lee Hanson all of tYcderitton New DON r miss the f enters at the park Dominion lty Mary J no on Cnro Gnqnon L DonaV MacPnorson Sean chad I I Miry Anns Lnu a At the Adie Knox Herman Pool its 17 belly flops to 5 That s not a jump or dive score 1 7 out o 22 is how many kids the Saturday morn ng beg class at the Ade Knox Herman pool come from warm homes heated by natural gas And that s just about average for all the rest of too Where 79o of all homes and apartments use clean efficient natural gas for heat and hot water And after you ve splashed around in a pool for an hour that s Important United Gas