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The Acton Free Wednesday March One thin that I find It almost Impossible to do it set aside a book better Just to leave It alone it time to read something right through Im thats why Im so pleased to brochures small the Free Press of course In the null Hint means minutes of reading or an hour of heavy reading then I done and can return to scrubbing floors or whatever Instead of becoming engrossed In the latest Dorothy mystery and leaving the scrub bucket for somebody to tall over or Into Trail ties Anyhow yesterday The Western Tennessee Walking Horse Journal arrived In the It had only pages so sat right down to It and was quite surprised and pleased to see an article on a friend from the trail rtdes in the Rockies Once I d read it had a bit of a chuckle because It bore out what been telling people about the folks that go on these rides Whenever asked What kind of people go up there I always nave to say that I don really know When you get a group of people in old boots and Jeans and scruffy hats all you can say is that you like them or you There no telling what profession a person is in unless you come right out and ask him I always say that the rides are a great leveller With everybody dressed the some you cant snub the guy nut to you Just because you bare a Cadillac down in Banff He might have two There no telling Anyhow this friend John Boyette we knew to be a business man of around or so He was quiet dkktt say much about himself and it was easy to assume that he was Just an ordinary Joe who was livening up life a tat with the ride Anyhow as it turns out he a led quite an Interesting life John and bis wife have been plantation owners In the deep south then spent en years in Alaska where John was a bush pilot over Alaska Shirttail navigated Plans unusual When they left Alaska John passed his time by developing a Village shopping centre complex In Washington Once that was done he took to trail riding covering hundreds of miles in Canada and the States including the historic horse Chief Joseph Now the article concludes planning an unusual ride but it t say what Oh yes and he does his trallering a half Arab a Morgan an Appaloosa and a Tennessee Walking Horse In a Caddy Which all goes to prove that Old saying about not Judging a book by it s cover At the front of this little magazine was something else that amused me Here now it goes doing a little bit of sub stituting Once a man was too economical to subscribe for his Acton Free Press and sent his little boy to borrow the copy taken by a neighbor In his haste the boy ran over a stand of bees and in minutes he looked like a warty summer squash His father ran to his assistance and failing to notice the barbed wire fence ran into it cutting a hole in his anatomy and ruinlngapairof trousers The old cow took advantage of the gap In the fence and lulled herself eating green com Hearing the racket the wife ran out upset a four gallon churn of cream into a basket of chicks drowning the entire batch In her haste she dropped a set of false teeth The baby having been left alone crawled through the cream and into the parlor ruining a brand new carpet During the excitement the oldest daughter ran away with the hired man the dog broke up 11 setting bens and the calves got out and chewed the tails off four One shirts on the clothesline Save yourself trouble Subscribe Mr and Mrs David Cohen have returned home after spending two weeks vacation In Tobago West Indies which Is known as Robinson Crusoe a Island They travelled throughout the Island by car and were Impressed with the coconut and banana trees growing In abundance and the many vnrictiea of flowers and shrubs oblate with colors They also visited the famous coral reef and went snorkel diving to view fishes and varieties of coral a sight tlity will always remember along with the old sugar mill now abandoned On Tobago ti watched local fishermen hauling In seine nets by hand one of the few places in the world where this is still dona Fish are divided up equally the families Temperatures on the Island varies between BS and SO degrees with soft winds adding to the enjoyment Mr and Mr the weekend In Kingston visiting Peter and trend and grandson Peter Robert Miss Doris and Miss McClure have returned home from a holiday trip to liermuda Miss Janice of Owen Sound Is visiting with Drive for the school winter break vacation Notes from BARBIE AND KEN In the Toyland section of the Acton Figure Skating Club Carnival Carrie McCrlstall and Tom have been practicing hard as the big day draws near Carrie and Tom will skate a duct in the carnival scheduled for the community centre Saturday April Photo by D Gibbons Consider full time employee to knit Acton services together Family Page WJ Beatty Laurie Pierce speak to Dublin Institute By Janice This week students are enjoying their winter break The winter part was a little Inappropriate as we have had such lovely weather lately Thursday the school was really in a good mood It was the first day the sun shone warm and bright Friday the school had a hum of quiet excitement about It Thirty six students and several teachers were preparing or their trip to Spain Everyone going had to at the school by clock on hi mi Services Councl were Saturda there a bus took A pilot project aimed at funds allocated to the Human the multitude of Services Council and one that agencies providing social or would see the relationship human services in the county between the Human Services may be embarked upon in the council and the Regional Council near future defined Reporting on behalf of the Human Services Council chairman John Graham said the Graham and David group was formed because of a concern over the lack of adequate Service Committee services in some areas the over of the Human lapping and duplication services In other areas fragmentation of services the JJ f apparent first in the province Coons noted The regular monthly meeting coming year A first and second who gave on Interesting talk on requirements for the first year of Dublin I was held at the choice was picked from each tanning industry and the tofte lrf human are estimated at m hiai uu panning in home of Mrs Twenty two members and one visitor answered the roll call Name an Product A food forum entitled Around the World Dining is to be held in St Pauls United Church Milton on April A discussion took place on the next leaders training school food form and the short course which are being offered in the planning 1 services Province excited Graham made his presentation to the Community Services m Committee of Ha I ton County lunch committee Council Monday Graham noted students about the semester School competition Her subject Mrs C Davidson Mrs D had been concurrent evaluation of Wem and a general view of as Martin I King Hunter Mrs N Douglas and Presented to MPP Jim Snow compared Topic for this meeting was Hostess Mrs M Nellis with community needs group Mrs Norton gave out the cancer kits for canvassing in rural areas Miss Laurie Pierce was called on to give her speech for which history of Co with which he was connected for so many years The meeting closed with the singing of O Canada A bountiful lunch was served by the white paper According to the white paper the group sees its objectives as being to make best possible use of that they are having a great time On Tuesday the senior math contest was held Ten students from Grades 11 12 and competed Results of the contest will be out In about a month Visitors from Central Peel Secondary School were here on Wednesday They talked to si Canadian Industries Mrs Courtesies were by Mrs Davidson called on J J Dennis hears from boy in Viet Nam YMCA News and Happenings GLORIA BROWNF VMCA Program Coordinator Unit Trinity United met in the ladies parlor of the church with Mrs presiding The meeting opened with a poem An Ancient Prayer followed by the Purpose and the Prayer Mrs Barker had charge of the devotionals and took the Bible reading from Corninthlans hymns and 148 ending with prayer Rev Dr Onions took over the program in the absence of Mrs Shields A film was shown on world development which impressed members knowing all churches are taking an active interest in the poor of the world Onions also showed slides of his former charge in New Brunswick it being the first Protestant church In Canada Reports were read and approved and the final decision on carpeting the church was approved by all Viet Nam benefit Mrs Shoemaker gave her report on the sick and shut ins Mrs Force read a letter from the unit boy In Viet Nam He and his family are all benefitting from Trinity UCW care Also We wish a speedy recovery to our program Mrs Browne who has been sick the past week We sure do miss her Our 3F girls require the services of a nice lady to help out for only one and a half hours 10 to 11 am on alternate Saturdays All you ladies wishing to help the girls please phone Mrs Shirley Broostad at There will be no this Saturday due to school holidays but it is back as usual Saturday March 31 Our annua auction is due again this June and we will be making pickups during May so how about those items too good to throw away but know what to do with Watch this column for further information We dont see much of our youngsters parents so how about dropping in some evening and meeting our instructors and voluntary supervisors Who knows you may find something of interest and even get interested enough to enter some of our activities They are not all geared to the younger set We would be pleased to see some of our young oldsters Join in the Sum and Trim and the fencing Both will help you to lose weight and trim those forgotten muscles CHESSWe have several good platers suggesting we start a chess club Anyone interested please phone Mr Newman at 856- and give him your name and phone number Maybe Acton has a potential world champion and you may be it So young and old lets get together Why should other places have a club when we have the best players Ys Menettes prep for fashion show read was a letter from Allan Lauder thanking the for a bale of clothing sent him The week of prayer is to be held in Trinity Church starting Sunday April 15 and continuing Tuesday and Wednesday with communion on Thursday Roll call was answered by 22 members Twenty three home and 14 hospital calls made during the month Mrs ended the meeting with a quotation Happiness adds and multiplies when divided with others Dr Onions closed with prayer and then a pleasant halfhour was spent over the tea cups presented to MPP Jim Snow and George Kerr and cabinet minister Robert Welch and he said all three were quite excited about the proposals Key recommendation in the report was the hiring of a facilitator It was noted this person would be responsible to the human services council The facilitator it is proposed would be a full time employee devoted to bringing about the best possible use of existing health educational correctional social and community services Recommendations that will be considered by county council include forming a committee Representation would be from the regional council statutory services in the region from voluntary services as well as from Social Planning Councils United Appeal and from law and medicine Provide funds Other recommendations included a move that would have initiate action to fill gaps in community service to plan and Implement a cooperative approach to preventive programs to investigate and review legislation affecting human services and help pro mote constructive change where Mr SansomandMr mistook some Theatre Arts students and some Grade 13 English students to the St Lawrence Centre in Toronto to see the play tra last Thursday From all accounts the performance was very good Dwiesan president Urges CWL to get involved The held their monthly meeting on March 12 at the home of Mary Lea Ball Members had fun during their roll call a swap night in which such things as scrub buds were swapped for Instant puddings Club president Lynn Robertson gave her monthly report and members proceeded to outline In detail their biggest annual project a spring fashion show to be held May at the Z Bennett School auditorium Tickets may be purchased at the door or from any club member A dessert and coffee time concluded the pleasant evening Enjoy party Last Saturday evening the and their husbands enjoyed a St Patrick Day party at the home of Al and Louise Clarke The evening was enjoyed by all especially the men who had to buy their surprise packaged lunch from a lady auctioneer and also have the pleasure of dining with it 5 owner The gal who prepared it The profit naturally fell Into the hands of the Y s and was certainly a fun and easy way of making some extra money for the dub 4th Line Flower Shop on Esq Line An excellent choice in Cut flowers Potted plants Hanging planters Flower arrangements For All Occasions SPECIAL SWEETHEART ROSES 8532739 Open Day ptr Miss Dorothy Schnurr diocesan president of the Catholic Women League last week urged the C of St Joseph Church to get actively involved in the Speaking at the regular March meeting In the church hall on Tuesday March Mrs Schnurr defined the League role in the Georgetown represented A Georgetown company is represented on one of the latest Ontario Government trade to the southern United States Eight businessmen will take part in the mission which left for New Orleans March 18 Carl J BJerkelund sales manager of Northern Vibrator Manufacturing Ltd of George town will be selling industrial vibrators for bolkubadlng in a Pitch to get the dollar community detailing some of the useful pursuits In which the ladies could participate Thirty members were present for the talk which was preceded by a short business session The speaker was thanked by Barbara Smith A number of the members expressed an interest In attending the annual diocesan meeting in Gait April President Pauline Gordon presided A social time followed Members were reminded the annual election of officers for the next term will be held at the next meeting WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY Choose It TIUDEN ANDREW MURRAY MOTORS U Row N GEORGETOWN GUARDIAN DRUGS JOHNSON S BABY SHAMPOO cm rev grew soma RAIVI ULTRA DMIV 90ZWITH boil MORE i GERIT0L IBSunuio1201 SUGG 11 ST n TABLETS- Acton Pharmacy 8531620 Glenlea Drug Mart 8532220