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Food prices concern for Acton restaurateurs and retailers Dally fluctuations In food prices consumer buying power across Canada and most food retailers say they hae fett the pinch they cannot bolster prices lo match rising cost of food without fearing loss in business customers Iherefore the profit margin drops Hamburger recently ex a rise of almost percent clarified Mr but he is unwilling to raise prices lo match the meat suppliers The proprietors made one concession DriveIn proprietors to meat prices raising cost of analyzed the problem staling hamburgers per cent i breaking even Prices In Ed a Restaurant were ii muting food has nearly doubled in price it is impossible lo double prices without complaints from THE PRICE OP PORK may be way up especially for those who are living nigh on the hog but these porkers at the farm of Gordon Thomson 1 Acton don t seem to care Horatio the Boar left is highly suspicious about the whole thing anyway especially when he seems to be barred from the pig house where he feels he belongs The two specimens below seem to have no apprehension about one day landing on someone s table in the form of a chop roast pickled hocks or even as roasted tails Pork prices along with beef and other commodities have been soaring Farmers blame the high prices on the high price of feea wtiich has doubled in some cases coupled with a scarcity of meat Meanwhile the consumers budgets are way out of whack Photos by Wendy Thomson THE CHURCH OF ST THE MARTYR ills Anglican Corner Willow St and St AlbansDr Rav H J A J Ball A TH Hon assistant Trinity a m Holy Eucharist EVANGEL PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE PAOC Churchill Rd Thoman Pastor Sunday August 10 a Sunday School a m Morning Worship m Evangelistic Service Thursday Christ Ambassadors Psalm IB J The Lord Is my rock and my deliverer my God my strength In whom I will trust my buckler and horn my salvation and my high Excellent tree town bus for children and adults and Sunday School on Ihe All Red Bus Also rural pick up tor information phone or BETH EL CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH Churchill Minister Rev J Corvers Sunday August 1973 Sunday Worship Services at Pre School Sunday School during Iho morning service Sunday School during the afternoon service Nursery during both services The Beth El Christian Reformed Church Invites everyone I come and worship with us The Lord s Day Is a day the Lord has made Therefore Let us go to the house of the Lord Let us worship and bow down Let us kneel before I he Lord our Maker For He Is our God and we are the people of his pasture I Psalms You Are Other towns pay own lights Barn or shed Council will decide tuques Ing Council will meet In committee to decide whether or not If Hailed who resides on Highway east of will be allowed to keep a horse in a shed which Is very close lo the property line of his neighbor Mr told council Monday night a mare he owns had a eolt In the shed two months homebody he said about the situation anil the township building inspector paid a visit to the lluslett home A township by law for a foot for all barns What a barn Mr llnslelt asked council implying Die shed in which horses were be kept was Just that a shed A barn is anything you keep livestock in replied Tom Although Mrs pointed out horses were kept in the shed only one month Deputy reeve expressed opinion the need for a 100 Toot was at issue not whether the horses were kept inside or outside Mrs the shed had previously been used Tor rabbits and chickens Mr said he would like to get a permit to 1 low his wife to give private riding and Jumping lessons Hill promised the matte to curb Ihe downward profit margin With wages and overhead I was breaking een said owner Ed Huxley I had lo raise prices Mr Huxley considers monopolistic Kitchener wholesalers responsible for high prices in this area Kong Wong coowner of Royal Cafe admits he has had to often as they did for wholesalers Foot land manager Raymond feels the price Is cheaper Ihls year on various items of produce that it Is meat which makes shopping bills rise Below cost Keeping an eye on the com Mr feels he raise his prices but stated his cannot rai prices without losing business has not been affected by customers He contends there is It still a food price v and that he New owner of Watsons finds himself selling staple Items Restaurant George below cost says he waiting day by day for Supermarket manager prices lo drop He is concerned Don Lindsay says his business is with establishing a new business steady in spite of price increases and Is worried losing new though the sale of steak is down patrons if he were lo up his about per cent He rolionolUes prices saying people have lo eat Lowell admits business at Lot ell Brothers meat market mark up Ihe retailer has dropped off 30 per cent since has follow hc wholesalers the rise In the cost of meat I rc think Ihe peak spoke Mr Manes Lmell fill settle back next here is lllle difference In business meal has slowed up bit GA fixes prices The Lot ells found it hard to according to supplier Oshawa alter food prices in the as Wholesale The Acton Free Press Wednesday August 3 When the Town of three other municipalities suggested the town should pay the bill Itself The request came originally from ratepayers concerned about accidents at the dark corner and was taken loOak ilk Council which passed the mailer mi to the county roads cam County engineer I J Informed the committee last Week there was a lot of night accidents at the Intersection and it did not meet lighting standards for roads Newly appointed Terry Mannell suggested it was Ihe old story about no action until someone is killed and said the county should take before it is forced to by a serious situation He was informed by the Nassagawcya and I their municipalities paid for their own lighling Mac tiled new lights Ihe township lias placed because we feel It our responsibility EsquesmR Reeve Tom Hill added all Fstjuesing Mages except I oho use been lighted by the lownship nil cm county roads RENT HOT WATER HESTER AT ACTON HYDRO ALICE STREET Hie Sayings AS LOW AS full size BEVERLEY SIMMONS FURNITURE APPLIANCES QUEEN ST E MAPLE AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH Maple Ave Georgetown Pastor Rev Robert C Lohnes Sunday August IS a m Worship Worship lo a Georgetown ACTON BAPTIST CHURCH SO Mill Street Wsl Founded Pastor Rev Frank Byrne A Parsonage Cheltenham MM Church Of Sunday August 1973 Morning Worship at Churchill Community Church Everyone Welcome CHURCHILL COMMUNITY CHURCH Churchill Road North Minister The A Walter Fosbury 134 Tlday Avenue Phone 8532384 Sunday August 1973 0 Worship Service Sermon The Recoil Sin The Church on Ihe Hill is an I national gallon mlnlslerlng to the needs of Ihe community PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CANADA ACTON Andrew H B D Minister Mr E A Hansen A Organist and Choir Master UNITEDCHURCHOF CANADA TRINITY CHURCH ACTON Rev Or Wm Onions Minister Or George Elliott MA Ph Director Music Eleventh Season Combined Summer Services IN TRINITY 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