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Regional Councillor Pat One Hundredth Yea No Views differ on first year Acton three tat Ives to area and regional councils arc Just completing their first demanding year In office How do they feel about regional government now The Free Press has asked the same set of questions of each councillor In a special New Year round up McKenzie the retired former principal of the Robert Little school represents Acton on regional council on Hills council and is chairman of the finance committee I the former nnyor of Acton tits on Hills administration committee while former Acton clerk administrator Joe Hurst sits on the works committee The Interview these three men begins In this week Issue and will be con cluded next week The men reply In order What has been the inoit outstanding success of regional government The only success date must be provincial In character The province succeeded in having its way with municipal reform and alter only one year we at the new area government level are simply embroiled in long range planning and interim decision making as we feel our wiy under the new ad minis concept Hurst The outstanding success to date has been the holding of the mill rate at a reasonable level McKenzie Our former system of Municipal Government with a council every township village and town and a County Council to control some of the needs that concerned everyone had been in effect for 100 years It needed updating Some Counties are restructuring their local government Oxford County and the city of Woodstock and others are accepting Regional Govern ment as we did Success In a major change cannot be measured in one Continued on Paaa ACTON ONTARIO MONDAY DECEMBER Goal reached Outers end drives and take a look at the view of Acton in the background BRIAN OLSEN and Brent McNiven take a breather from riding then bikes through snowv Death for hybrids just freeloaders IMirid walcrfottl In tons sill In whin official arrives to designate huh arc tin Tin birds know to si villi the II in Id Townslo I Tin Hit low must iltstrtived is bit if Hit ir hum in biologist I tin minium Wild life nit lmlronnunt his Our sir lints not our of wild with it Out arm I ililude reasons art singly lb it once a tradition becomes nipt id man hot onus siblt irthi innmtnnit of tin origin il turds doc nits that learned to So tin birds at tarn Like must en Wild it lake introduced in Jnlv 13 whin Karl J Bit an At It ithir mil a group of begin Iht project with wild mall us wood dinks scion tan Ida wings wing the wild ciulitnt mi grate first winter Problem But from time to time would pop a while farm into lake said Ta lor of Mtin St The inter breeding of the white farm ducks wild waterfowl produced a number of hybrids of which eight or ten are known Another problem with the lake to lis the access to feed Mr Townslcy Mid These I stupid thc know when the food Tht birds are fed in the morning fitlont to thru of pound if urn tin ducks rtttnt oik pi pound Mr art fed morn nig Hut Hit mini feeder Hit w iterfowl lor said she idds lbs of bur ted tliiK for tin birds Shi sin the birds twin ihil in tin tin mine in tht tuning dock Mis- luyl it in mi rinn inttu lis 10 lbs of r own corn and lo id m tin in sht distribute lbs of Ilk mm 10 lbs own Shi itj0i month for tin ind tin rt sin is the feed is 1 suspect Hurt Hit ftttl bill I tit I I i it Mud think I n If rt tat hill and 1 dun l Hum said it ducks Mr he thinks should hate fted in fall would migrate Hi soil the birds arc fat some M ill weigh is much is lbs Biologist id A ittrfowl will con sunn times the of food they require lo thcmsel in condition birds at the lake turfed It depends on the number around at feeding Taylor said that art tlost to birds in tht evening ind Mr Town quoted the mumbtr of birds r loo to It hard to tell re spread out so far he Miss Taylor questioned the destruction of the hybrids during the winter but Town said the birds mated spring so time to get rid hybrids Is now This supports tht winter works Miss Taylor considers the dinger of the hybrids a re- mot t because don fly and they wtren successful in this spring only want to see the poor ducks make it through the winter sht said They can I go now its past the migra In places as well as in Acton Canadian geese are t hinging ibeir migrating habits If the can get food here why the hell go south and fact American guns The Acton high school Outers club have ceased their monthly paper and bottle drives The group had been operating a newsprint and glass recycling project in the town for the past year and a half During this time the commit mem of local citizens lo the program has been the key to its success and the club wishes to thank all those who have participated in this project purchased Glass and paper drives have been used by number of groups as fund raising projects and the development No rent for hearing Ha I ton Hills council ber will be available to the Ontario Highway Transport Hoard for a hearing with no rental charges asked Councillor Hyde de manded they pay rent and asked Why should we do late our council chamber The truckers pay good money for these licences Councillor Harry Levy said he would agree under normal circumstances but pointed out the hearing was mainly to change the names of the three to Hills on the licences of the cartage com names This enables them to enter any part of Hills legally Hyde a creed to the free use of the hall when the Hon wis offered Councillor Morrow a policy for future ren of the chambers be decid Councillor Dick recommended the caretaker be paid extra since extra work would be involved This should be charged to he group renting the space he concluded of the Outers program at the school required equipment purchases This need led to the adoption of the recycling program as Initiated by Keith and his geography students During the past year and half the Outers have pur chased about worth of outdoor equipment therefore their initial objective has been fulfilled Community response has Increased steadily within the duration of program Tht tonnage of glass and paper was sufficient at the December drive to keep the crew of working to m Regrettably the success of has led situation winch cm no longer be handled by the relatively group of students In volved The Outers therefore arc cancelling nil further paper and gloss collections sincerely hope that any persons or group Interested in continuing this community service project which yields per month will take up the project Information information concerning markets prices and other details is any member of Outers The Outers would licuhrly like to hank people who have signiiicinlly to this recycling program Dills for the use of his truck paper Bin larsen for the use of a for gloss and I Johnston and Alan Trcmills for storage for paper Actonians sleep Holiday accidents as sirens sound No one was Injured In a Christmas morning fire In lot concession road Nassa at a m The chimney fire caused no damage Chairman steps down Bill Priestner a charter member of the Board of Education and board chairman for two years will not stand for re election when the board holds Its Inaugural meeting Jan Dies at arena Percy Hughes of Ave Toronto died Friday afternoon after suffering what believed was a stroke in the parking lot of Acton Community Centre of the St John Ambulance service applied mouth to mouth resuscitation Mr Hughes medical record shows he has suffered two strokes previously He was in Acton to watch his grandson play hockey in the Acton Centennial A Tournament A Toronto man Percy Hughes 71 of Ave suffered what was believed stroke or heart attack at the community centre I- were called with a resuscitator were called to Mam St at a m Sunday but no fire was found Mam St S and Mill Street were checked the call Was tigged a false alarm At Monday morning the air raid emergency sirens in the TorontoHamilton area sounded to sleepers The sounding wis due to i malfunction in the system a short in the w system at Borden Sirens sounded in Georgetown and No one was injured in a two car collision on Queen St Dec at 2 p Warren Craig of was driving the vehicle which was In collision with a vehicle driven by William Knight of Acton The Craig sustained in damages lo the front end and the Knight vehicle sustained MOO in images to the rear A vehicle driven by Oral of Queen St Acton failed to stop it the Bower Aye and Willow St intersection a m morning and skidded Into house at Willow The vehicle sust lined to the left side and property damage tolillcd New baby female a Christmas bundle The only Christmas baby born at General lo in Acton or district parent was a daughter to Mrs of Main llockwood Sht give birth to it or eight lb 53Chnstmas morning No babies were born at Christmas St Josephs broken into SI Joseph Roman was broken into between I and Christmas morning ac cording to Ontario Provincial Police here Persons unknown broke Into church by way of a basement window but no vandalism occurred and nothing was stolen The tabernacle however was found on the floor with the casing dam god Father flowers that were altar were carefully taken off and placed onto the floor He said that It would be im possibli for a person lo tarry tabernacle but two could lift it down St Mary s Church in was broken into ihe latter part of this year Three digits for regional roads THE HYBRIDS dont know enough to fly south and theyre freeloaders said Harold Townsley arena manager The blond duck may be one of the controversial hybrids The confusion of different road numbers for local roads and regional roads could be eliminated if a suggestion made by committee is implemented Citing the local name and Road names The committee eaten Regional roads couhThavi three digit numbers the local roads remain as they have been known for The idea was turned over examples the finance both fire chiefs and the works committee pointed out fire committee for a report and and ambulance calls can be the Regional council will be slowed down by the different asked to consider the change PA PA Jim Coles and Barry Buchanan played the sousaphone and tuba back stage during the annual concert at Acton High School