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B4 Acton Free Press Wed June To reenact part of church union by Wendy Thomson One week from today on May Ill bo heading for the airport and supposedly leaving all my cares and worries behind for three weeks That might bo the case but Ive sneaking suspicion thai therell be enough aggravation and frustration over the next week to mako up for it What I might do Is keep track of whats going on each day Thursday I found out when phoning for car rental verification that my cheque of May had been misplaced or something and I wont know lust where I stand regarding a car Tor driving around Scotland until Just before I leave Friday Ran Into town and lad a wash wear permanent where it will bo a great help when the weather is damp or even downright wet but my Is having a hard lime stifling chuckles when ever ho views my woolly mop I suppose I cant blame him My head looks like a rotund poodle whkh now sits up and speaks Instead of lying down to play dead Happy again Saturday Today like a good day to sit down and write a few let tern and catch up on a few bills 1 wouldnt want Cord bothered by the dog catcher to see why the dog licences werent renewed or by Ihe OP to see why I didnt pay my traffic fine We spent the evening wall papering the kitchen and were long Interludes when nobody In the will speaking to anyone else its done now and everyones happy again Sunday Today Thomson reunion was held and I met two of the Scottish branch second cousins to they must be who will be wafting for in Aberdeen when 1 land there for the Highland games yes I to been staving free of promises to drop In on anybody up till now but by June I should be to slow down and visit Also Id like to stop by Hay in Aberdeen shire Apparently there a around years of the Thomson family burled there Monday and Tuesday just Press darkroom singing about High roads and Low roads and travelling over the sea to so on At home the kitchen carpet was put down to the great delight of he dogs A dllly Wednesday was a Do you know that there arc seven shoo stores in Acton George town and Milton not counting what Is In the department type stores It took mc over four hours to cover them all to find a plain pair of brown shoes itli a small heel And I mustnt forget the ten minute stop to up my ear rental reservations which finally arrived Now Im all sit I think All have to do Is Thursday like that last comment In order to pack It set ins I must do four loads of washing drying and Ironing Of course most of that is to make Mire Cord and tho hoys have dollies to while Im gone And as soon as this Is typed Ill be off to the cleaners to see If they can put a In a sleeping bag for when no goes west this year then on to the customs office to fill out some sort of form for my More pound Next stop Is the office to pick up a couple of pay and trot them down to the bank them to pounds Im quite pleased to see that 1 1I he able to not only buy meals once In Scotland but can afford a hit of shopping on the side Speaking or shopping think I d better with mc grocery shopping today hes the one who It be doing nil the cooking for three weeks hes home on holidays Incidentally to just buy carton of macaroni and a case of canned tomatoes but I know how soon they d be fed up with that Well there all that to do It now going on one oclock and 1 must do tin Ironing before leaving here five- thirty or so 1 think Id better get a Several special ceremonies are planned for Acton United church tills Sunday morning when the anniversary of church union is celebrated The oldest member of congregation Mrs lambcrt W will cut a birthday cake Members of half a century Marguerite Taylor and Orwell Johnston will take part In a enactment of the presentation of the rolls of In coming members from the Methodist churches Here about Methodist families and JO Presbyterian families formed new United Music A member in tho 1910s playing the trumpet oboe nnd organ I School scholars will take part they have made special for the occusion he firm part of the service will reflect and the lust half will be Still It is there about 1 church members who Joined that day w years ago Other district United are also observing the anniversary In special ways Golden Agers enjoy western armchair trip I a bus to Manor for An armchair trip through their Party on the Canadian provinces of Ontario Saskatchewan and was provided by Mrs Alger who showed pictures que slides of interest and also gave commentary on the Irln with ho aid of the secretary at once Proposed Midland trip The one picnic is being held at Iji Salle Park Bur liugtou on June Mrs Dennis reporting hit dummy Chester recited for the Transportation miltee stated the proposed lion of flea Circus Thl young performer has quite a future In store for him Thanks and round of up plouse were tendered Mrs Alger and Stove vie representing the Lions Club reported that the club would again provide trip to Gnnnnoeque too long for one day so further information Is being procured Birthday greetings were for Mrs Forest The evening concluded with lunch being served and social time spent CANADIAN GIRLS In Training held their anniversary tea at the United Church Saturday Nancy Shoemaker pours tea for Dorothy Allen Beatrice Parker the first leader of the Acton group attended the celebration The tea closes the year for CGIT 4H girls model at meeting Senior members asked to pioneer luncheon The Diocesan Centennial Committee of the Church of St the Martyr Acton In conjunction with Senior Citizens Week in this area invite all retired senior mem bers of the parish and their spouses to a Pioneers in the Parish Hall after church on Sunday June at 12 noon vlded necessary from points within a reasonable distance Acton Anyone not personally con tneted is asked to call Mrs Penny or Mrs before this coming Mrs J McCulloek was tho hostess for the May meeting of the Womens Institute with 17 members and nine visitors prist Mrs It Sinclair presided Invitations were rmii from Dublin I to an ten June and from the ltoekalong I for June J llvn 1enroii expressed timbers her a It badge Mrs thanked all for the Mr and Mrs John Van Den Brink arc enjoying the company of his sister and brother in law Mr and Mrs Van Schnlm Mr Mrs Mulder of Holland for the next three Mrs Lid ken and her friend Mrs Mnrg Tophon of Richmond Hill motored to New Hampshire and visited with Mrs brother Mich and for a week Returning they brought Mr back to Acton dropping in at Cornwall where they visited with a sister Mrs Smith Mrs John Allan visited her daughter Mrs Joyce Bel wood and attended the Spring ten Mimosa United Church Mrs Obbic McAfee Ransom Apts has returned home from General Hospital DEBORAH LYNN Hamilton and Ross William Carrol were married on April in Churchill United Church The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Ward Hamilton 2 Acton The groom is the son of Mr and Mrs Donald V Carrol London The newlyweds are now living at Alberta Photo by Stuckey National Y has woman president Highlight of the C A conference recently attended by Acton board president Helen Van was the appointment of the first woman president of the nations V M C A The conference was held at Geneva park near from May to June 1 According to the local representative the appoint ment of to the position was unop posed She Is a 30yearold lawyer from Moose Jaw Saskatchewan and prior to the appointment she served for two years as first vice- president Henry Davis of Ottawa a lawyer was made the new first vicepresident conference Much of the conference was discussion on next years event slated for September 1976 It was decided it would be held In Montreal The date will represent the 125th an of the in North America The Toronto Star Saturday carried a long story about Acton born Cam McNab and his new Job as chairman of the Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority This smart new wonder man was formerly Ontario deputy minister of transport now says writer Frank Jones hes the provinces biggest booster of public transit He advocates the rebuilding of Union Station Cam and his wife visit friends here once in a while and they mlng back to the fair Carol Patterson returned Inst week from a wonderful visit with relatives at Perth Scotland Mike and Sue Bullock of 137 Churchill welcomed Sue s parents Mr and Mrs David from South Wales Great Britain to Acton Acton Friends hope they enjoy their vacation here Mrs Mill St celebrated her 75th birth day on May two days after her actual birth date A parly was hosted by her children and Helen Bar beau and and Anne Benton The home In Burlington was well decorated with seasonal flowers Mrs Bentons family brother Jack Birns and sisters Sr Madeleine of Abbey Toronto Aileen and Van Anders Anders of Buffalo Mrs J J Smith and niece Barbara and Lloyd Leslie of Guclph Gus Kenil- Paul and Linda Connor Burlington also fnends and neighbors from Islington Toronto Oshawa Kitchener and Burlington were among the many guests attending About guests enjoyed a sumptuous five clock complete with birthday coke A May clay was enjoyed by all grandchildren and their friends too A resident of Acton for a couple of years many decades ago Charles Line of New York has never forgotten places and events of those long gone days He was back in town Tuesday with his daughter Mrs Muriel Met of Clarence He came here in and worked in the tannery where his father worked loo He was Hand was no longer required required to attend school They lived in the last house on Cres near the bark stacks which Merc huge In those days He used to trap In the valley and sell them to Morris for a quarter each he remembers His brother enlisted in the army here with Fred Coles Mr 1inc vividly remembers the at the drill shed in the park then He was a steam fitter for many years in New York state and was in the union He treas old photographs and Free Press clippings loaned some of them for the special Acton centennial edition of the Free Press J KKSTAlKANT I foftmrly G T Hid Chips HOURS Mon Thur Frl 11 pm Sunday Noon pm Tel 8532060 TRINITY UNITED CHURCH SUNDAY JUNE 1000 AM Celebration of the Anniversary of the United Church of Canada Reenactment of the Roll Presentation Sunday School Participation GUEST SOLOIST Norman Gibson Coffee Hour Afterwards 1973 Pontiac Lemans Lk No ENCV43 Cadillac Fleet wood Lie No BZM23I Buick Limited Lie No DVK370 Cadillac Coupe DeVllle Lie No 1972 Ford Ton PickUp Lie No T1W3B Sate lite Sebring Lie No FZVSW 1971 Vega Auto Lie No Mustang Grande Lie No 1971 Torino Dr Ht No 1971 VW Bus Lie No DHF574 Oldsmobile2 Dr Lie No Firebird Lie No 1974 Toyota HiLux Ton Lie No D19497 1973 Celica St Lie No DRW375 Corolla Auto Lie No 1973 Corona Auto Lie No Corolla Wgn Lie No HAL721 1971 Corolla Auto Lie No 1970 Corolla 5printer Lie No Corolla Sprinter Lie No DRJ7B1 MO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED SEE US TODAY ALL TRADES ACCEPTED Family Page Members enjoy trip Forty members mid friends of Acton Institute enjoyed bus trip to Pickering and Ainx on Monday June with Tyler Travel vice arranging the lour and providing the transportation stopped for tea at Scarborough visited the Pickering generating station and had a buffet luncheon Holiday Inn They toured the McLaughlin Car and a most en lovable hour at K P VVlndneldn Farm There they many new colls taking their find steps with mother Members are commended Nellie Church Si Acton hosted the May im cling of the Arts mid Crafts of Twenty member if attended with Mrs Dorothy presiding Mrs lluth and Mrs Agnes Hive were commended for their paint logs and prints lively in the curient Juried nrt the llrnmpton Art Mrs Ithcl llessem also won honorable recognition for her gold Jewellery a cent handicraft display tin home at Third In On Wednesday May ven members of Acton Wo attended the annual meeting of the Womens Institute Acton came third In the quilt ton lest District annual delegate a were president Mrs Grace district director Mian Dorothy Simmons Mrs Mario Visitors were Mar Jorlc Hall Miss Nora Kcnney Mrs Agnes Holmes and Doris Cooke Mrs Mario Hargrove wan returned to office of the trlct for family affairs DANCING Every Saturday pm to 1 am at the Acton LegionlL June Rocking Horse June 14th The Shaynes I June 21st Ross ADMISSION 00 PER COUPLE Mrs J gave lite current events and Mrs J Addhon lite meditation Ihe roll coll was a plant you have grown all winter auction I he girls Johnston Katharine Sharon Page dates and Mctniislaiid under the appreciation to Mrs rsMp of Mrs Hen for her thru years modelled the outfits as president and on behalf of hey had taken at their dress iking course- Mrs the and Mrs J conveners were in of the auction of plants Mrs Mieullock ailing as auctioneer A lovely II girls Tor coming the hostess anil all who took part I was served by Mrs K Patterson 1000 won In the Georgetown Elks bingo was won day June so the number is right buck to the beginning again MANAGED FOREST TAX REDUCTION PROGRAM The Ontario Government has set up a program of lax lions on land The purpose encourage proper management ol such land and to ensure productivity Qualilying forest land owners will receive grants equal the 1973 74 municipal and school levied on lores properly This program will be of interest to anyone owning land that not assessed as pan of a II is for the relief of landowners who manage Ihfir lor the produrti wood and wood products and lor habitat wait r prevention of ere on For further information and in ration phone 416 or write Branch Ministry Treasury and Intprgovernmenldl Affairs Welk Street West Toronto Ontario Ministry Treasury Economics and Intergovernmental Ontario Affairs