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TOWN OF ACTON becomes the town of Halton Sue Lockerbie Mrs Clarkand Ron will works staff drove to the west end of Hills and Acton town office furniture was trucked the office here to take sewer and water Hills Monday to take a of office furniture to its Monday to centralized offices in Georgetown and accounts issue dog tags take parking fines etc designed locations under regional government Greg Moody Esquesing township hall Packing up are Mrs and help Acton people find the right business Dave Herman and driver Clifford Scott took Clark Heather Joyce Pickles and departments of Halton Hills loads of files and furniture from the hands of Grant Usher Hugh Patterson and their office staff here to load up their truck It not yet decided what will fill the empty office space in the former quarters The three Acton Halton Hills councillors hope to have an office there where they can meet to inform each other of committee decisions Mayor Hill out of puff Mayor Tom Hill who wonted to attend all three Kills committee meetings scheduled for Monday night puffed There s got to be something done He felt he should be at all three so he would be aware of all recommendations due to tome More full council Since committee meetings hove assumed respon nihilities of former local boards such parks board recreation committee planning boirds there arc more meetings and they ore open to public Present schedule has full Hills council meeting every other Monday night in with all three committees meeting on the alternate met Monday Tuesday and Wednesday this week works committee met Monday and Tuesday in hall and finance committee Monda in Georgetown NINETY NINTH YEAR NO ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16 ml Ed Ml TWENTY PAGES FIFTEEN CENTS Firemen backed in unanimous vote Esquesing hydro line opposed Another brief has been Tor warded to the SoUndl Com mission objecting to a pro posed line route through township along the fifth line The brief was submitted Ihe end of the year the 1973 township council and had been prepared councillor Sandra Sym mes Dolly Gordon and Our brief was very time ly Mr Maltby said has been flying over the route The brief says the proposed line route would Bring the line through unspoiled Niagara escarpment land through fine home and over arms The has been designated agricultural The brief prefers the con of concentrating com mumcalions utilities and transport in one corridor al Highway where per cent of the traffic is trucks ind the average of passengers fewer than two in a cur An overwhelming major of groups submitting briefs and survey returns have strongly recommended that Ihe Hignwav Ml crossing be used for Ihe power cor If public ing in selecting the route is to have meaning this over whelming consensus ion be ignored brief concludes Hills council gave a unanimous vote of con fiilence to the Acton and Georgetown area volunteer firemen Thursday afternoon The statement con fidence was en to he press following a closed meeting or council Mayor Tom Hill called for a vote of council on closing the meeting He said the meeting was called to discuss a letter he had received from the It was the same letter published here last week Councillor Roy Booth suggested the meeting be closed in the initial stages since personalities woulabc discussed He said the press Councillor Ernie Sykes out the letter had en published in the press so was public knowledge Councillor Hyde reminded council that statements arc made when tempers flare which are better not published He backed Councillor Booth stand to close the meeting Councillor Hie Morrow said there was nothing he Intended to say he t say in public The whole reason art here today is because there have been too many com ments to the press retorted Councillor Hyde The vote showed Hie Morrow Miller I rnie Sykes Mike Armstrong and Levy opposed to closing the meeting Tilt letter from the members of Acton firefighters Association said fell Mick Holmes hud been maligned Mr Holmes has headed the fire department for the last we feel our record ne must something ibout the demons of the man ii i very and the letter stated firelighters said they had ilwayscnjoyed the faith trust of district residents It now appears from reported statements in the press that there are members of council who have absolutely no faith in Volunteer iref ightcrs said the letter The Acton firemen asked tint a committee of council meet with them to discuss phasing out of the department if council licked confidence them they had mis understood and hod the full confidence of council they would ask for i vote of Council gave them the vote of confidence and will appoint i committee of council to meet with the firefighters to their fears Council rules on permit renewals Well work it out Alf Duby promises All building permit renewal requests submitted to Hills building inspector nought Sargent will least for a while have to be referred to council Works committee of decided night to pursue this course until engineer Peter Morns has lime to draft up a new building law for Hills one which would take consider Jtion the old laws of Acton and I Councillor Mid he did not think it fair for the building inspector to stick his neck out unnecessary in certain when ap proval or rejection is ream the responsibility of council Chairman Councillor agreed council is responsible for making dec Building have been enforced in different wajs in Acton tsquesing ind in the past Peter Moms also suggested thil council con dnw up i plumbing law Things will work them selves out promises Alf when asked about due to the amal of Acton ind Georgetown work forces Changes are noticeable in Acton already ill ho ugh the former town men are almost ill still here The men of Ihe three for mcr crews are gradually gelling to know each other and hive begun in a small nay the that is to evolve Were Irving to become knit together as one group Mr s men will be going to and for just a week to familiarize themselves with streets staff But it expected former staffs will in their own municipalities for a That where they an most familiar with and equipment One of the mam changes so far is m garbage collection Collection now begins at Mondajs and continues till it finished Since the routes in not complete deter mined Mr suggests put out their gar goo i and early iorcctown s garbage packer be coming up hen on ge to Jo n the packer in On staff of OPP Hi pi Wood tins Hon It his joined the of tie DPI lie has been v th the for six and a all of them with the M Hon detachment Hi has lived n on with his wife mil s ih I for the past a They lived Milton goes to assist with George town on Tuesdays Wednesdays and The Acton landfill will beopenfivcdavsfromfla m to pm and on Saturdays from 1 to noon Dumping will continue here for trie time being Permits ire issued for six month periods at time The first snowstorm Hills birth brought and plowing begin ere late Mr explained the annoying reisan the men in had not been told how to use the new phone system and to contact Mr However plowing II begin when is it has before or I through the night The nor mil work Hi the union it to earl unless it Com on FROM Acton Firefighters after 23 years and vufe Laura were honored Saturday night at the firefighters ladies night at the Legion For the couple there was a beautiful table lamp and for bouquet of roses and a birthday cake suitably inscribed with question mark Former chief Jack Newton Toronto and district chief Holmes add congratulations Nielsen hopes Four plants by June 30 i miv hive four new member the night his firm He isked the commission to draw up a letter verify ng the of they can supply so thit he lid is presently can present it lo the with four different plants prospective Industries He woul lrsl that industries toooosquare feet but must know whether or not three would ex thtj need to build sun to WW squire feet stations in iv in i purchased the I i i from town list year toll Nightmare experience ends with commendation Now it can be told and a nightmare experience which has haunted a district woman for the past three years has been absolved in a letter of commendation received last week from the Manitoba Police Association The letter praised Patricia Ann of Rock wood lor her quick thinking in an incident where she helped save the life of a Winnipeg boy My husband Stefan and w ere on our w ay out est on a family camping trip with our nine year old son said Patricia Ann It was to have been Michael s first big CERTIFICATE OF commendation is held proudly by Patricia Ann Rock wood She assisted at an accident three years ago and just received the unexpected certificate last week Don be reluctant to help she urges others camping before but Michael was just old enough to really enjoy the outdoors that she said but in one sweep it was ruined Pulled in Mrs tells a horrendous story of how she and her family stopped off a laundromat on the outskirts of the city of Winnipeg to catch up on two davs travelling time of soiled clothes Two young were at the laundromat when we arrived she said and while we were putting our clothes into the washer were loading theirs into extractor The machine have been working properly She explained that when her clothing was ready to be taken from the washer the extractor still cut off The boy opened the lid but it continued to spin and as he reached in to grab the clothing it become entangled around inn and him into the machine severed We heard i terrible thud all I could think of was that he had lost his head Mrs Woloshyn slid that she turned considered running out she was so shaken m laundromat ran as fast is they could she said then I heard a the boy wis thrown awav from the and screamed when he saw that his arm was severed from his a few inches from shoulder In a flash her years of St John training to the fore and Mrs said she kept hearing the words of her Instinc lively she checked hi lo see that his ft for realhing was normal she applied pressure on the pressure points to stop the for blccdine ind wal closely to identify the S for shock identifiable by choking if the tongue should fall back All the time she said she kept talking to him like a mother consoling him that everything would be ill riRht I I put a towel on his injury in case it would stick she said but kept my fingers on the pressure points to arrest the bleeding Jmrrgencj Ambulance While Patricia Ann looked after the boy her husband ran next door and summoned the ambulance The boy was taken the Winnipeg liner Hospital seven minutes liter mi police car the wis del The limb was retrieved after Mr the extract removed it ripping clem towel police had to assist in stopping spin was a touch go ration by a learn of Winnipeg surgeons who restored limb to his but Mrs has never hod confirmation in complete arm uscage week letter from the police association came as a great relief to Patricia who said thit for months she had suffered nightmares remembering the terrible us she recalled her rules Don put on bandage until doctor amves pressure Somehow she had been warned not to mention the incident in case she had been responsible for doing the wrong thing ind could be Mrs s word now is i pica to who backs away when someone is in trouble This letter of commendation from police has proved to me that we can assist she said should help out other people when Ihey can The lady feels that people arc too often In and afraid to help or get involved but wonders whit would have happened to her small charge if she kept her head The Woloshm have lived in the Hock wood area for Ihe six years Stefan is employed with Porter Compan and he and his family came with them on their move to Acton from Toronto They lived in Acton ten years prior lo their move and Ann used to leach Ihe first 1 Brownie Pick moving up from Tawny Owl to Brown Owl She credits her cool per severance at the time stress to her training in St John Ambulance and a course in Red Cross courses and will be even when she knows for certain thai Theodore Is tuallv able to use his arm