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Ten lots for parkland agreeable with Even w present funds tonculrethelond Credit Val ley Conservation is enthusiastic about acquiring ten lots cast of miry Lake for park purposes The Town of Hills has asked the C A as in purchasing the land from Construction I id who wish to erect semi detached homes on the prop erty Situated south of the beth Drive entrance to Lake view subdivision and north end of the northern bow of Lake the properly would provide a valuable ad to the C V C A chairman Grant CI ark son commented It a fantastic idea I II be glad to move it applaud Authority member Hazel The ten lots have a market value or IB each cording lo appraisals So we re looking at lotnl of queried Clark son Where are we going to get the money from this year budget Let get crocking with it anyway quipped ollio- get i the red tape we be into wheels of politics get through next year a budget anyway It approved by the Ministry of Noual resources the pro vince will pay percent of the total appraised price the Conservation pays per cent of the balance and Hills as benefiting municipality picks up the tab for the remainder At Inursdny meeting the Authority moved lo pro teed with seeking appraisals of land in question One Hundredth Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MARCH Thirty Pages Fifteen Cents Recommend Beardmoreuse sewage plant JIM SAXON AND Debbie were top winners in the Optimists public speaking at Georgetown Debbie placed second in the girls classes and Jim first for boys Both are Robert Little students One of the judges was their former vice principal Barbara Renmck now Kilbride principal Survey to see goals life style from tin yon should preserve our n community Unit on Hills planner Vuullti the recreation advisory committee Thursdaj bis office plans to lit discover what their mm munltv Is and wants to This summer two pi inning students will conduct a door to door survey in Acton asking a series of prepared questions will Rive a picture of what Acton people want and of how lliev want their com to be The will tie skid If wunt the town to and how for instance There will lie similar survey in tow but Mr Venditu thinks Hie picture that results will be com different in the two towns Well identify goals his room would cur have considered he prod These formativi years of regional government w 11 be tin most difficult and frustrating he told the present Diane Brendan Aherne Gil Mill and Peter However Hilts is a fact The questional will ask pinions on growth tran sewer and water and recreation facilities A consensus of life stjlewilliesult instance there can be more recreation lilies if people are willing pav for them higher tixcs Mr observed that if the community the sunt size it will stagnate I in growth from slow to modtrate if it s well plumed ill will benefit he asserted The survey will be well advertised in the press before it begins so people will be aware of its purpose when the caller arrives Although the feelings of the people ore being sought Mr remarked philosophically that there will always be people of vision who must look Planning must be done locally Mr stressed Region planning department with its larger staff does not know the needs of Acton There will always be a north south struggle We must fight for our policies he stressed Committee members were grateful for Mr Ven ditti coming and explaining various things Your department have achieved a wonderful thing Mr thought and Mr said It s been on education Council Tuesday recom mended to region that too gallons a day of Beard more effluent be when the extension to the Acton water pollution control plant Is built The Ministry of the will bo requested to carry out tests on the effluent before arrangements could be made to accept 100 OOOgallonsa day on completion of the addition Corporation would be analysing the sit uation at Board more When the waste water treatment plant was built at the company also hoped for relief through the town system Only a small amount of domestic sewage now goes from into the town system All other plants in town arc con to the town system Protreated The pre treated effluent from the tannery will hope fully be table In the newlyextended system The arc only part the effluent produced daily in the tanning system would prefer to dispose of all waste soon rather than hold It in beds Heard mo re officials have already had laiks with region officials and had hopes the effluent would be accepted when the new plant was built However when regional councillor Jack spoke on the subject at the Rotary meeting two weeks ago he felt the effluent would not be accepted Hills council passed the recommendation that the effluent be accepted M on motion of councillor Joe Hurst lie a rd more provides per cent of the industrial assess in At ton nil employs people Councillors do nit the addition f effluent would much alter Hie population limits set Ihc exit plant resent estimate is lOOOO people after tin new Plant step further A recommendition urging Maximum allowed iter in It V Anderson and Acting Regional vcstlt a j i g Associates be engaged for the Director Jack Corbctt in 1J75 will define hi ill gieal design of the Acton pollution dicatcd the 1 gallons problems relatim to control plant will before per day was the maximum In the mean regional council today the ministry of the time iff should et that Hie Public Works com Environment would permit the Allan pi is not iver mittcc has recommended Water resource data design work for an expansion collected to date would in that would see the plant dlcatc that although there is handle lOOOOOO gallons per minimal flow In Black Creek day rather than the he Acton sewage remains gallons per day That ex excellent pansion will accommodate a A caution is provided population of 10 about chlorine toxicity in Committee members ex Black Creek The field of pressed some concern with chlorine toxicity as well as advancing on what is con he field of Councillor Bill unknown ft is hoped that Mason if it Ihese chlorine questions will be more economical be clarified in next year to luild a expansion or two It Is possible that 9 I J cut down sail Added Mrs So much in the past months had been after the fact This has got lo be a step in the right direction We want to part of this community Hope for more public skat be summer hockey school and ncw once the new roof is on power skating classes there led were expressed at this summer Mr Cooper also Mr Papillon suggested Ihe recreation advisory com said a Legion hockey grant shrub growth along the shore mittee meeting Thursday has been recommended by behind Elizabeth The new roof will be extend Hills administration mg the ice season committee Recreation An umpires clinic will be John Cooper observed lack of held at Stewarttown hall Sun public skating time Is a com day April 13 Coaches mon complaint everywhere executive members and any Lots of kids would just like one associated with minor skate observed Peter Softball is eligible to attend There no cosl Mr Cooper The competition of hockey explained worries me added Brendan Moms and Tots skating and power skating are offered at Mr Cooper mentioned pub- Georgetown arena and Mr He skating is one main reason Cooper asked the commit for outdoor rinks tec s opinion on having them clinic here in the fall He will con The anna in George- tact the figure skating club town is coming along well and other groups for their Mr Cooper said There will opinions loo Members felt Trial put off Single accident There was only one car collision in town the past week A parked ear owned by I and I ford parked on Mill was struck an unknown vehicle About dam ee resulted The accident happened Tuesday of last week Chopper drops in The crew of one of helicopters dropped In on their colleagues in the At detachment Monday Corp Bob Arbour and Cons Bruce McVrthur went up to see the town from aloft and inspect ill the equipment available to the local force thc rt required One of the choppers hid visited here Roseanne Brown charged fore No walkway for Ransom St Skatathon with murder has had her trial postponed until the fall sitting of the Supreme Court of Ontario The counsel for Brown is out of the country and unable to which were to started Monday Mrs Brown was charged following the shooting death of her husband last November He was a five veteran of the They have alreadj been in use in disaster rescue work particularly in cm Ontario The helicopter on their last visit hid out best landing places and Monday chose Legion parking lot the park is i size and well located were con the presence of children during a landing there Springing for Spring I ROBINSON of Churchill Road was jumping for joy in the warm spring like weather on lilt weekend Turn down subdivisions Ihe huge proposed subdivisions which would have doubled size of Acton will undoubtedly he turned down planner Mario Venditu told the recreation advisory The the proposed ncw ad the pollution control plant limits the towns Hon to 1 vents this giant development pollution control plant addition even if speedily could lake couple of years to be However hi felt that ncw technology could be developed which could in the future Developments might permit ex it tided use of the Black Creek or new methods of sewage d sposil might be discovered I he i of the Creek has been a big constraint on growth here There cm be ml 1 more people before the addition mo iftcr Sr Citizens on Elizabeth lot of t and west of Mam SI pprovedbv Hills council as site for senior citizens housing in Ontario Housing has Lso the location liter looking at various sites in liwn Negotiations for purchase arc underway If the of is acquired developers for new senior citizens units will in the end of the lake valkdowntownwouldnotbetoodifficult In Ih location SHANE Mitchell practises to be a scuba diver at Beavers For more pictures see the Youth page Acton will not have the problems that have for viars if town engineer Peter Morris has his w The engineer recommend a w in single home on Ransom aid Ihev wire difficult to maintain and sometimes roated problems llav Wall of ttindland As told Hills Planning Board he was ling lo delete the walkway and raise the width of the road allowance from the on fret to feet as recommended the Councillor Joe Hurst staled Council had ruled Ransom Street be left open rejecting request to have it closed He said it may no needed in the future for another access lo cemetery Councillor claim Ihe road was town pro perty That piece was never included in the sale of the town owned land my knowledge staled Councillor Les Mr Wall said his company was now investigating the re location of services now run across lot 17 ounclllor said he was pleased with entran on the revised plan but claimed the question of lot 17 should be resolved time- Councillor Ric Morrow de manded know why Wind land Associates were bring their plan in piecemeal fashion it all at once when it com instead of wasting lime any long Morrow stormed Chairman Ernie Sykes pointed out the planning board can make no decision until there is a full report in cluding the solving of the ser vices running across lot There could be or young people circling the arena ice Sunday April when the Rotary club sponsors its first skatathon lupils from M I Bennett Robert Little Limthouso school and the high school will all be skating taps to raise money rom pledges Ospnnge school may also be participating The profits will be split half to the sponsors for their community service projects and half to the schools It is expected the schools will be using the extra cash for field trips The event is planned for the last day of ice ir the arena the day after the figure skating carnival Sports celebrities arc being contacted to take part and the organizers also expect some councillors and other interested adults former is one of the sports stars expected to be here on blades Croups of bo lo SO will skate together with two pacers A skater can drop time hen one group has done 60 laps another pack takes Kate increases are proposed The Acton Hydro Com mission is going broke and rate increases seem to be way in which to rescue it from its plight In the past two months the ihe earliest treasurer Rate increases have been looked into and if approved by would not be In effect until August at cording secretary THIS C CABLE truck was parked on the south side of Highway 25 near 22 Sideroad just outside of Acton last Wednesday March 12 when it rolled over with its bucket extended The cident occurred just before noon Damage estimated at to the crane section of truck according to Milton OPP They further report that nobody was hurt