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In oldfashioned Acton everybody is somebody By CHI a Saion The move to small town has been somewhat of an for our three young sons having lived most of Iheir rowing years in the sterile suburb of Here the people are friendly trie houses have charm We all the advantages of country and city living right here on our In Acton the boys have discovered everybody somebody and cry body and everybody part of It Here they ve found were an identity Our present distinction being that new famifj that moved into the Bradley house next to the arcm Shortly we hope to establish on identity of our own as the of Knox Avenue Peeler Saxon audio visual consultin our Mom he reporter those three little with the nuisance dog from the end house Jim Geoff will be known as the boys in the band Steve our cartoonist and actor and all three belong to the skating club The decision to move to Acton was triggered lost summer while was making a promotional film strip of County to be shown the international ploughing match in County The family travelled with him immediately foil in love with the countrywide and the warmth and hospitality of the residents Wc fell belonged here as though wed always been hero So wc vc moved In Without further ado 1 11 let the boys tell it in their own word Steve Acton is a small old town ind we would like to keep it that way We have the lake the park right beside us and nil the stores ire right around tht corner The people are friendly When to Glint the house vie mode million iven moved in I the old band shell right in front of our house And m glad I got to be in Hit two old fashioned school house My Dad says don t ifn but if we re in this old fashioned town to their I verybedy says crick Instead of creek Jim When we lived in wehadloRotverywherohyear hut now vm can walk to arena Is close the bowling tin just around the corner slots of I wish there a theatre and Acton looks old fashioned than There no high rises and big In suburbia ill the houses apartments look the same and the people filed by number All the houses arc fur same say In people have nice old furniture that was their things that they like we do All my Mends I ids ire somebody important 1 Ike a store the of Hit hotel And tverybody wanted to firm so we could hint Hut now wc cm Invi our liorsi litmus then lots of plans where have fresh unit a bench In tht witittr there In snowmoblllng on the lake Wo would like to on the lake if they tlear a space Ijiurn Wiles makes best fruit and nut cookies anywhere She Ins lots of stories to tell about In Hit olden days bemuse time here In IR Her house lias ill old fashioned things llkt old things but picking up Oil mail every day is a bit too old fashioned Mr I is teaching my and mt to play the drums and the Hi took us the big old organ and showed us ihe pipes In everybody is anil t v rybody is part of It Now that my Mom Is working for the I Press and my Dad has in nil from with her us I a ml tlirri- live Klin ltd his studio hi It too 1 to it Is KP Long long trail awinding lan Photo Bill SMILEY mix Sonic art Thty thirst but in ikt vou fee I a bn loccv and vou wind up with hud Others are likt in to 1 told drv and thiv hit between the eyes This is an sting mitnphor but I think I it other daj Like when I is crumbled hack into sounding board or malt hold vour breath in for lhat column thin I v is the sordid lift of who is it Newspapers ill over the floor ishtravs looking like Mount Vesuvius dishes in the sink piled so l see the taps I like seemed to be so f gruidson that I thought Ihis on for months make a dutv nil second night or so and a malttr course her if she missed me No replv got timed ind told her that 1 missed hi do ihe chirruped Well vouknou It without vou thinking of the facts a pile of soiled socks down to last shirt Ihe one with tht peekaboo look here the seams ire ripped nothing but tecccch dinners for the last four She look another romantic meaning and it didnt help when I added in jest I sick of I hit big strapping blonde I had to hire to do the housework Maybeshesonly28 but think lhat bosom obscene She should be in burlesque My wife was home on the next bus It seem to help her normally furious Sht wis unsympathetic I got home at midnight and explained hour telling her that I d hid to go through usual t of thiw gum gum in inillts and recipes for cheap wine that we male have put up with after each game was reading a book whin I time in sign Hello Hill without looking up Icicles kiss was of fend a forehead Thin the dam deluge began as a low penetrating monotone and built up into something akin to a fin siren How can you bt so filthv This was tht Iheme of ihe t monologue during whith faithful servant stood with rosebud mouth and blue eves agape an innocent abroad Now look Then a dirty dish in sight though she did find some in Ihe cellar Id run the carpet sweeper couple of spots on Ihe rug 1 have no sense of smell so how could I know that the whole joint like a cat house 1 hadn t made Ihe bed for three weeks but hell we changed our sheets only in prison camp So OK her plants were dead but who think of watering plants when his mind is filled the anguish of Ihe human race and whether or not the Leafs are going to make the What am I supposed to do just because her feet go Squish squish when she walks around the kitchen floor It never bothered me 1 wore toerubbers Beer bottles What beer bottles They re all down the cellar except those three on the counter cm vou 1 hid torn my guts out for it minutes sprucing up tht so i mess to to I didn mike that mess the downstairs toilet and thin pull the lid down to it The tat did I didn t th it siuci r in her set Tht tit did I didn I put it burn hole m the It wis the cat Hi is smoking a butt hi picktd up on street My wifi is tin who has the kitihen floor so can at off it So who wants to off floor THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office New concept for human services Ex deputy reeve Peter Marks is excited about the new Regional Human Services Council which was inaugurated at the Centennial Manor Milton last week The council is considered to be a new concept in the delivery of human services and has been endorsed by the Hon Robert Welch Minister of Community Services who has also offered assistance through the various departments or his ministry The goal of the new Human Services Council is to promote efficient effective economic and humanitarian use of all available health education judicial correctional and social resources in the Region a laudable ambition The member council is comprised of two elected regional councillors and representatives of statutory and voluntary Members receive no remuneration a fact which already sets them apart They were selected for the posts from applications by a nominating com set up by County Council last year Mr Marks notes that both pro vmcial and county personnel in volved with social services have noted problems associated with increasing costs duplication and the inequality of sou il service dis Inhution through They devised the council as a pilot project It clear up Ihe problems Those who have been actively associated with social services in have long complained of the inequities of the old system The fact they saw the need for change recognition services can be proved upon and aehieves the first part of Ihur goal Implementation of their jcctivcs will be difficult and fraught with difficult problems but we are looking forward to an ad vanced of dealing with social ices in which the province can use for a model Boards fine financial report Blowing your own horn is not an exercise which the public generally appreciates but in the case of the Halton Board of Education recent financial edition of the Education News it is easily forgiven It shows the costs per student in the school system are significantly below the provincial average even though some boards offer only the bare necessities of education Halton of course is known throughout the province for the quality of its educational system and the ability to adapt to new innovations Cutting the educational pie into pieces first of all requires a knowledge of the ingredients which make it up The biggest share per cent comes from the province and accounts for 28 666 of the total 46 759 906 of Ihe board revenue Municipal taxes make up 38 per cent of the total accounting for while other sources supply the remaining two per cent which is still a healthy 1 235 Slicing the pie into six pieces should be a relatively easy task for the efficient housewife but becomes a more complex job for the board once the per cent of its revenue goes for instruction which is teachers salaries and sup porting personnel classroom supplies equipment books etc It totals 842862 Debenture charges make the next piece 11 per cent a trifle larger than the 10 per cent slice plant operation takes Transportation takes a relatively minor three per cent but represents 131625 a figure we find astonishingly minor when one considers the amount of school bus traffic seen on the roads Other expenses account for another three per cent while business the expense of the business office and elected trustees takes a relatively minor one per cent or of the total The Halton board provided education for 500 elementary school pupils secondary school students 12 trainable retarded school pupils 1696 summer school and adult education students The board is often criticized for its alleged and real deficiencies through the course of the year think this is one when the accolades should flow and fietly Complaints about teachers 1 7 I I mi It i to torn pi mum in of His hut nerve to d iv I like a mob dtimistrilinj tximptt of in inn I in our children ill ju tht ilmiehtv doll in I more mi off Back Issues of The Free Press 20 years ago Taken from Ihe issue of ree of Ttiursdnv 11 I9j4 rites for the father and two of an Acton womin were held in s St Stephen church on Tuesdiy two ifier and his Beryl 18 and I perished in wind flames which charred and levelled their area home in less thin in hour In fair condition In Milton hospital ifter from in upstairs window irekeithU Gordon u was treated for shock and It Plans for assistance to the familv Mrs June of is another daughter John has wheel on d spliv at and Homecrafts show in Toronto people attended aft denominational fireside gathering in Knot church Ernest West Kitchener addressed the presentation for Mrs Percy Smith and Mr and Mrs was made in the school the Highway Department hive been with improvements on ihe approach to bridge over the river New posts the pipe railings which have been damaged on two occasions by motorists crashing into the bridge New president Mrs Stella presided for the meeting of the Mrs Mane is moving Winnipeg was presented with a cup ana Acton enjoyed a travel talk on and by Fred Wright who spent the past year in Ihe British Isles need some new signs at the highway approaches to Acton years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free 11 factory is now to be run the Machine Co The business of Thomson Motor Supplies I and Acton Machine Company for several years has been closely related as the former had purchased 1 irgc share of the output of the latter company The two companies have gotten together and formed an arrangement by which Machine Co will take over the new Thomson factory and machinery will hold the Thomson Company to the terms of ihe agreement lhe entered into and will hold securities given to them lo cover Ihe guarantee of the bonds Tor which the bylaw was passed last year With Messrs Blow ana Harrison at the head a business and considerable employ of labor may be confidently looked for over years a worthy honored and useful George J wis caller to his eternal rest On Thursday fore noon the flags on the town hall and post office were to be at half mast t brought out the sad fact that Mr for years associated with in her church municipal and private life had been summoned to the great tribunal from which none return He was a pupil of the revered Robert Little A he went into business here with his brother Charles In the old post store Patterson the meat man has a supply of buffilo meat from Alberta this week ft has been on menu in a number of homes the past week Who says Acton is not cosmopolitan Our population comprises Canadians English Irish Scotch French United States Polish Swede Russian Austrian Maltese German Chinese Ukrainian 75 years ago Tjhcn issue of the rht last pict of lighting 1 nit rj w is in power mornlne ind on Saturday the eumnt is turned on both the dome si ic circuits ill michinerv is and the ilhtion of llii w is it was surnnse ivirything vint without hitch thit the plant was continued in operation from dusk until midnight on its first day The dchghtid that at last electric likhl as an fact lhat the streets wt re I lighted meverv part of town The contrast over the old coal wis inking Similar on was ilso by our mtrchmts hotel men the majority of whom have installed lights their is will as by those who it put in their residences d credit is duo Reeve and the tire Jnd light Mrs Jennie who has been handling the bread of Weston Toronto for several months is making a success of business The pioneers of Acton and vicinity are rapidly being called to their rest and today mourns ihe demise of her longest continuous resident in the person of Grant Esq He came from Scotch Block to Acton in 1838 when there were only two houses on the present site of the town those of the Adams and merman families He enjoyed the hunting and fishing and often recounted to the generations Ihe fact that he had shot deer on Main St He was appointed Justice of he Peace over years ago and was associated with the Knox church since its inception