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OUR READERS WRITE Residents deserve consideration than sis months ago we packed up our belongings and with great joy and anticipation moved to very pretty spot on Elizabeth Drive In Acton After seven years of looking for a place that had both a sense of spaciousness and beauty yet not a rural site we found our present home I am afraid our toy has been short lived week the Free Press published the story that the lions Club wants to move the old station to the small portion of parkland on Elizabeth Drive I have parkland In quotation marks as I was told no uncertain terms fay someone who said he- knew that the property mentioned Is owned by the town I quote his words The town can do anything it likes with that property Is this the way Acton Is run The article said only three houses backed onto this particular area and one faced it In reality alotmorethanonehousewouldlook onto an old station Do you not think that these families who have put their lifesavings and then some into their homes deserve some consideration The residents here are proud of this area many have spent their own money and given of their own time trying to Improve the parkland much of it reclaimed land why not leave this spot open and let us help keep It nice not only for the people of but for all Actonltes to enjoy If the Lions Club members feel this building is really needed surely some method could be found to move It to Prospect Park perhaps along Park Avenue and locate it where It sit at anyone front or back doorstep Rather than take over the station could the members of the Lions Club not put their time and talent to good use and work with one of the other groups to fix up the or scout hall I understand that both of these places are In need of repair Sincerely The Acton Free Press Wednesday February approval of phase three Need water more than garbage Ont Dear Sir I am delighted to learn the city of Toronto may be going to dump thousands of tons of garbage in a quarry in North The timing Is perfect the site of the quarry and townships form the watershed of Halton County Soon these two townships will become North HaltonBegion and this dumping Issue will give the voters a chance to sec what kind of mettle likely candidates are made of Those people In who cried out against fluoridation claiming It would poison the water will surely have something to cry about when our water If filtered through Toronto garbage About five years ago I read that Toronto garbage disposal was a business per year It seems that Halton could be expected to suffer the filth whilst someone lines their pockets for the price a couple of dollars per year quarry licence and the miserable assessment of a few buildings One thing is clear to me Georgetown Acton Milton and points between will have to make more noise than the people of Mlnto or we could become the garbage centre of Ontario A Johnston YEARS OP HISTORY inches up the steep grade out of along 7 High way on a six mile journey to Black Creek Pioneer Village It took just over two hours to move the eight ton storey half home of the late Major A A Lex Mackenzie Major Mackenzie a former Reeve of and a member of the Ontario Legislature for many years lived all his life m the house He died in May 1970 The original log house covered with wood siding was built in the mid 1840 s by John Brown of Pennsylvania great grandfather of Major Mackenzie It was located on what is now the southeast corner of Islington Avenue North and No 7 Highway The landmark was donated by members of Major Mackenzie family and will form an integral part of Black Creek Pioneer Village There is also local interest since Mrs John Glynn of formerly Jessie is a niece of Mr Mackenzie and great great great grand daughter of the immigrants from Pennsylvania Members of Acton Planning Board are disturbed about a tongue of private land which juts Into phase three of the Acton Meadows subdivision They quizzed engineer Ken Hodges of DeLeuw Cather who Bantams bow in overtime Gary scored at the eight minute mark of a 10 minute over time period last night Tuesday to give Fergus bantams a win over Acton Firefighters In the second game of a best of five Waterloo Wellington league playoff series Fergus won the first game and Firefighters must win In Fergus tomorrow Thursday night to stay alive In the series After two scoreless periods last night Mark scored for Fergus at of the third stanza Joe netted the Acton goal four minutes later with help from Steve Buchanan and B J Legate Robin Inscoe was outstanding In the Acton nets was at the reagular meeting Thursday without too much success about the eventual purchase of the property by the developer So the tongue would not disturb the street plans The continuation of Acton Boulevard through the subdivision depends on the company procuring the property Members of planning board decided details were too sketchy for them to approve draft plans the engineer showed Councillor Norm Elliott was disturbed because densities were not on the map Bovls has sold 23 out of the homes in the second phase of the subdivision on the former Seynuck form before a hole was dug for a basement and are anxious to get going on plans for phase th Mayor Les said Mr Hodges said the company hopes to begin construction of phase three in late summer The Board decided more information was necessary before they could endorse the latest phase Urges region headquarters in North Halton location Warden undecided on 3 Warden Mrs A not decided whether she favors a four or a three borough region for County A recent story reporting on a meeting of the Wardens Select Committee on Regional Government suggested she had voted In favor of a three borough region The warden indicated she wanted more time to study the situation and ramifications of the borough proposals before committing herself to a position Atthemeetlngafewweeksago committee members Masson Len Cole and chairman Preston voted In favor of a three borough system The warden ab stained from the voting and Milton Reeve Bob opposed the three borough recommendation Instead of a vote as earlier reported the vote on that Issue should have been reported as with the abstaining Since that meeting committee has visited several regions already In operation 6M hopes to learn from mistakes made by pioneers of other regional governments and use their knowledge to bring about a smooth transition here Seek more parkland from Kingham Hill Bird chasers beat Milton Acton pairs won 19 out of doubles matches in an exhibition tournament against the Milton badminton club at the M Z Bennett school gym Thursday night Competing for the Acton bird chasers Pearl Sawden Marie Donna Joan Morris Stella Brunelle Liz Clark Chris Steen Don Price Dennis West George Lee Radovan Matanac John Bob Al Clark and John Mowat The Acton club provided coffee and doughnuts for players on both sides following the matches In a similar tournament at Erin the previous week the Acton club came home with only six wins in games Bans are underway to stage a three town tournament in Milton with Acton Milton and Erin taking part next month County Council should give consideration to locating regional government head quarters in North In order to stimulate assessment in that am luwn Reeve Morrow suggested at an Ad ministration Committee meeting of County Council Thursday Morrow pointed out OakvWe and Burl ngton already had substantial complexes that could be used as borough headquarters but there were no such complexes in North and one needed He suggested we headquarters couldbe combined in a building to house th- North municipal of Three argmfleoto Committee chairman Allan of said there were three ways of looking at the problem He said the Idea locating in the north to beef up assessment had merit but by doing so the advantage of being central would be lost He suggested that an argument could be presented that would see headquarters in the south to be near the greatest population centres Warden Anne said it would be necessary to know if It would be a three or four borough region before she would comment on the location of headquarters for the region On the suggestion of Burlington Reeve David Coons the matter was referred to the TECO committee for their advice Commenting on the size of the county staff in Reg on as compared to the population and projecting the same ratio for Coons noted the county staff would be increased to or people The county now employs 333 full time and part time people Halton Centennial Manor ac counts for the largest portion rs how Fergus bantams downed Acton Firefighters in the opening game of a best of five Waterloo- Wellington league playoff series In Fergus Saturday afternoon Steve Buchanan and Ricky Holmes scored for Acton Robin Inscoe and Mark Morrison shared duties 1600 c Engine Pick Delivery In Town Car by Appointment SERVICE OPEN THUHS TO PM New 73VWS 2198 ONLY 26 DOWN if you qualify HIGHEST TRADE IN ALLOWANCE FOR VOLKSWAGEN COME TO Baz Motors Ltd Valkswaaj on Guelph Geretwn Taranta 4S7 44i SUPERMARKET MILL ST ACTON Further steps were made to clear the way for more building at Hill estates when council last week accepted the recommendation of the planning board and approved phase three the clerk will proceed with nooning from to R4 subject to the recommendations of the solicitor In respect to the oondornlnium zone Three representatives of Associates attended council meeting last Wednesday with Mike BroHlgan spokesman When the representatives of Hills were there Regular rate Antique Arms Collec tors Association will be charged the regular rental fee of for use of the community centre for future gun shows Acton Parks and Recreation Committee decided Monday night Last year the association was charged only because the parks board made use of tables which the arms collectors stored at the community centre throughout the year Parks board granted the association permission to use the building tor gun shows on Ma 13 June July a and September and May June July and September Councillor Barry pointed out the dates might have to be looked at again by another board if regional government is in force by then Antique arms president Hank told the board that shows held in the community centra are the largest of their kind Canada FREDA HOFFMAN Optometrist St George Ont Telephone councillors discussed various problems and looked over site plans More parkland The subject continued after the delegation had left when council reviewed their hopes of obtaining extra land in the subdivision as parkland They will contact the owners to see if a block of land zoned conservation can be deed tothetown It is hoped there will be a continuous strip of parkland throughout the subdivision The developer is required to dedicate per cent of the property as parkland This would amount to 23 acres With the extra land sought Kingham Hill Estates would give almost 11 acres Reasonable request Councillor Marks explained the request is considered reasonable since the town has the right to take prime land for parkland and in this case is taking land worth considerably less He felt the actual dollar value would be about equal No development Is likely for this area For the benefit of reeve McKenzie It was clarified the same principle applied to Bovis Homes PUBLIC Indusmins proposal for the disposing of baled solid waste at its Acton quarry To be held at Esquesing Community Hall Stawarttown BEGINNING 8 PM Wednesday Feb 28th Indusmin cordially invites you to attend Ronalds second girl ate more once PORKI SHOULDER ROAST BUTT ROAST 85 BUTT CHOPS Schneider English Style LINK SAUSAGE 89 Town Club No SIDE BACON 99 Martin 48 Tins Save PURE APPLE JUICE NOODLE N 5 PI Heinz oz Tins Save 30c Maple Leaf 8 Canadian Singles Save CHEESE SLICES 2 79 Austral oz Tins Save BARTLETT PEARS 285 Duncan Hines ox Pkg Save 17c CAKE MIXES 2 89 PRICES EFFECTIVE FEB 23 24 lb Bag FRENCH FRIES 35 39 Bird Eye 16 Container COOL WHIP Blue Water FISH CAKES 311 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