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Council frowns on Nossogoweyabosed fire school A Joint plan by major lakeshore oil refineries and Sheridan College to use the bused Heavy Equipment School for an industrial fire training course was viewed with by township councillors Thursday night Our municipality t benefit except from the black smoke which will be used to simulate industrial fires Councillor Art Gibson told Dean Hamilton of the college and two representatives of oil refineries We won t get any taxes from It but the smoke will pose a great inconvenience Dean Hamilton informed council the proposed school would be a first in Canada He said there Is a definite need for one to teach industrial fire fighting techniques Only one such school exists on the North American continent now It Is in Texas Close to ref toe rles It was suggested the school would be best closest to the refineries and Dean Hamilton said that the Sheridan College Heavy Equipment school would be an ideal site with Its classrooms and space to set up equipment to make confined oil and gas fires of the kind which would be encountered in Industry Classes would probably be hours a week with approximately two hours when fires would be set to simulate real conditions He told council there would be heavy black columns of smoke issuing from the fires but it was considered that the air movement above the Niagara Escarpment made the site superior to anything in or Burlington where air some tunes lay dormant and could not be absorbed as well One part of the training would be to teach refinery workers how to cutoff the supply of fuel from a fed fire clad only In rubber coat and hat training which could avert a major catastrophe In a refinery At the school fuel would come out of pipes into cemented areas where the lit fires would be contained It was not as one councillor suggested a backward way of dumping Industrial sludge from the south of the county into Nassagaweya Dean Hamilton insisted One refinery wants to put every man the plant through the course he said When refinery workers were all processed the school would be invaluable in training men In other types of industrial fire fighting Different materials with less smoke making chemicals would diminish the smoke from training fires Attract Money Gulf Oil representative Jim Coulson maintained the school would attract motels and spending of money In the township He said it was next to impossible to book a room near the Texas school now and a similar situation would exist In If the school was established there Councillors generally were unimpressed with the arguments but agreed to consider the request further in committee Reeve Anne declared a conflict of interest since her home would be In the direct path of the smoke and she was already opposed to the scheme Councillor Art said he had already scon similar fires at Maiton airport and want a similar operation in when residents already had enough to contend with We have all the dams to flush out streams in the south and now they want us to flush out the air loo Councillor Jim displaying no for the school Councillor Cal said he couldn sanction the school unul the College had a clearance from the district fire chief the health unit and the Ministry the which in the case of the township dump raised oleomargarine when it raised clouds of smoke If council gave the school permission to go ahead classes would likely start in the Spring of 1973 Dean Hamilton said NinetyEighth Year ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JULY 5 Fourteen Pages F Coffeehouse home s community centre Weeks of searching for a suitable location In town proved fruitless and It now appears a downstairs meeting room In the community centre will became the home of Acton coffee house Hurley York University student who will supervise the coffee house with the help of a grant from the Department of National Health and Welfare a nonmedical use of drugs division told the Free Press this week a request to rent part of the station has been officially turned down by government officials They point out the station is still being used by passengers Work underway Although no definite opening night has been set for the coffee house Miss Hurley has been busy during the past two weeks arranging for the construction of wooden tables and seeking the support of local service dubs and organizations She already contacted people who have promised to help with the coffee bouse but shed be happy from anyone else Interested In helping at Well need a sound system Scholar motion supported Ontario Association of Municipalities endorsed a resolution originated by Reeve Mrs A MacArthur and supported by Halton County Council calling for the continuation of monetary awards for Ontario Scholars The group held their founding convention recently in Ottawa Mrs reported the action taken at a meeting of county council Wednesday temoon During her comments on the convention Mrs MacArthur claimed the voting had been stacked and some people who were not eligible were allowed to vote If they t voted in favor on the scholarship in question I would have declared the whole thing illegal They were lucky the reeve told her colleagues kids to bring records posters murals and even any new ideas she says Adults welcome Adults as well as teenagers and over will be welcome at the coffee house where coffee elder and doughnuts will be on the bill of fare and entertainment in the form of folk singers skits and movies will be available rhe function of the coffee house is to give kids and over a place to go at night where they can ward off other influences Miss Hurley explains Similar coffee houses already operating in Milton and Georgetown are proving very successful While in town Miss Hurley is staying with Miss Laura Wiles Knox Avenue Argos here Centennial Gold Cup Acton may have lost out in its bid to have the Grey Cup played in town but it is almost official that the Gold Cup will be played in Acton in 1974 Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League have agreed to play an intersquad BlueWhite game in Acton sometime in June 1974 in conjunction with the town s centennial and also as part of the Argos celebration A gold cup will be awarded the winner Centennial Commissioner Jack Carpenter has been meeting with John Barrow general manager of the Argonauts to arrange the football game A similar inter- squad game attracted fans in pouring rain at the CNE stadium this year The Acton centennial commission hopes to tie the game in with a special Dominion Day weekend centennial celebratioa However final arrangements can t be made until the 1974 football schedule is set CFL has agreed to officiate Meanwhile the centennial commission is busy planning other events for the day of the game tentatively set for Saturday June Wc have one of the biggest half time shows ever seen said commissioner Carpenter and they all tie in with the centennial theme Included in plans ore an ecumenical church service field and track events old home boys day and other attractions still in planning stages The big weekend will conclude with the annual firefighters fireworks display Plans arc being laid to bring portable bleachers to house a crowd of from to 20 for the football game and other activities from a Hamilton firm which CFL officials have recommended There will also be other problems parking rest room and eating facilities the commission is presently working on in bid to make Acton centennial the biggest celebration ever staged the town Construction of town houses the first phase of a HO home subdivision Hill Instates on the west side of Maui St near the Cemetery Hill expected to continue at once Acton Council passed a by law last week authorizing the mayor and clerk to sign an agreement with the developers Altco Construction Ud with an added clause that the developer agrees to carry out to the town satis faction all of the requirements of the Minister of Planning and Development Construction started two months ago but had been temporarily stalled It will be the first in Ontario where the federal tovcrnment has enabled people to purchase CMCH houses where the total salary is only The houses are two storey three bedroom units built on poured concrete basements and feature electric heat rhe entire development will be professionally landscaped and fan out from a main artery which joins Highway at point where the town works yard and water tower used to be on Main St S Summer playground to start Monday Acton Parks and Recreation summer playground program underway Monday July Wat 1 Playground Wendy Bell is in town this week planning activities and ironing out last minute details Registration for playground as well as for swimming lessons will be held at the community centre tomorrow Thursday night between and and Saturday morning from 10 a until 1 p m Registration fee for the six week playground program is per child or for more than one child in the same family for swimming lessons is per child or for more than one child from the same family There will also be a special combined rate of for children who wish to enroll in both playground and swimming Both Prospect and Sir Donald Mann parks will be used this Sprowl barn levelled Tuesday afternoon Photo by Gibbons Children said responsible for Sprowl barn blaze One of the Acton area rural landmarks the huge red bam on he farm formerly owned by John nurd Ijne of was levelled by fire late yesterday Tuesday afternoon ire fig liters believe the fire was started children playing with matches inside the barn Besides the bum the loss was confined to bales of straw to Frank Anthony 11 l I who rented the from Revenue Properties Ltd There has been no livestock or machinery inside for some tune Hydro has also been disconnected Gives alarm Mrs Tom Charlton who lives in the house on the property with her husband and family turned in the alarm She first noticed of fire in the barn while working in a nearby garden Although the blaze was well on its way by the time firefighters arrived the Acton brigade took every precaution to prevent It from spreading hosing down Seven Ontario scholars at Acton high school Acton high school has seven Ontario scholars this year a new record This six girls and one young man attained over per cent in their grade marks to win the provincewide awards Marks were released from the school Friday Top student in her final year was Carolyn Thompson with percent The daughter of Mr and Mrs Raymond Thompson St she attended MZ Bennett school and Acton high school Carolyne Mackenzie received per cent to place second She Is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Mackenzie 164 Churchill and attended James Bell public school Long Branch and Georgetown district high school before coming here several years ago Gordon Morris with per cent is the son of Mr and Mrs Harold Morris 132 Elmore Acton He attended Sherwood Heights school Hamilton Little school and then Acton high school Carol Patterson attained per cent Daughter of Mr and Mrs Patterson Church St she attended Robert Little and then Acton high school Ursula Fiedler has 1 per cent she the daughter of Mr and Mrs Fiedler R Georgetown Before Acton high school she attended Robert Little school Acton Blue Mountain school Ballinafad and public school Anne Cavlovic registered 82 per cent Daughter of Mr and Mrs Vinko Cavlovic Tyler Ave she attended S S Esquesint Holy Rosary school Milton and then Milton school before Acton high Angela Pries has 80 per cent to put her in the acclaimed group of students She attended Brook public school and is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Johannes Pries R R Campbell ville Last year there were three Ontario scholars Christine Bonnie and Jacqueline Lemon Stephanie Merrin had high marks but wos ineligible Highest number of Ontario scholars in any previous year was four The number in the graduating class is also unusually high wrecked vehicles and material In the bam area The Charlton house is located about yards west of the barn hire hoses stretched from the first fire truck in the farm laneway about a half mile north to a hydrant at the Seneca Apartments on Churchill where a second truck was stationed to aid in pumping water Was afraid Mr Anthony said later he had been concerned lately about children from the area who were using the bam as a playhouse Heat from the fire was so intense that firefighters said it was hardly possible for a person to hold their hand on the side of the house yards away when they first arrived firefighters answered the call at J and remained at the scene pouring water on the ruins until CAROLYN THOMPSON CAROLYNE MACKENZIE GORDON MORRIS CAROL PATTERSON URSULA FIEDLER ANNE ANGELA PRIES Police investigate minor accident Two cars were Involved In a minor accident Monday at Beckers Milk store Drivers were Gary Foster and Edgar Hiscock both of Acton Another accident on June occurred when David Hunter Acton swerved his car to avoid a dog and struck a tree This incident happened on Young St Police report a quiet week