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A new high school will be built northeast of Churchill to open in September providing Halton Board of Education wins approval for the project from the Ministry of Education Its initial rated capacity will be 850 to 900 pupils but provisions will be made for a possible addition The old high school will become a middle school housing grades six seven and eight and the Robert Little and M Bennett schools will have kindergarten to grade five During the name discussion at last Thursday Board of April at the request of Acton Education meeting the board area trustee Tom He postponed the building of a had become annoyed when he new Milton high school until heard Acton would That school was be bussed to new schools In originally slated to open in the south Subsequently an ad 1975 and was later postponed hoc committee on facilities to 1977 was set up with chairman school needs In Noel Cooper trusties Wat North was begun In son and Cooper and members Iavcndir and Gentleman Elghl portables Noel Cooper chairman of the committee told the board last week that Acton schools have three portable class rooms now and will have In September The high school has two now and will have two more In the fall Noting that there has been considerable growth In Acton recently Mr Cooper said 1 ton sec problem going on much longer He noted Ihe Acton school is overloaded while the Milton school ii still within capacity and has not portables yet Some pupils could be bussed to the new Lester school until the new Milton high school is ready Acton nigh school has a projected enrolment of for 1975 and a rated capacity or The effective capacity for the school Is set at about Of pupils at A US now arc bussed Milton high school has a enrolment of or September and a rated capacity of 220 Trustee Crosier wondered what effect the postponement of Ihe Milton school might have on the discussed Integration of the trainable retarded into the new Milton school Trustee Bill Priestner pointed out the Board had not yet developed a policy on integration of the trainable retarded That should be done soon he said Trustee Auger said the move to insert Acton the priority list was shotgun planning must have had figures earlier How have Ihcy changed and arc we go ing to have to face the same situation somewhere else ore tight on space In the north and alt wo can do in stamp out the most immed late fire If we went by tics and projections alone the Millon school would have been built Mr Cooper ex plained Trustee Dill Law son said the committee did look at plans of a subdivision pro posed and registered but even that get an accur ate idea of secondary school student yield Home empty He pointed out there ore homes In bulll and Continued on Page 2 One Hundredth YearNo 51 ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JUNE 18 1975 Twenty Eight Pagei Fifteen Cent From drags to estate homes CAPTAIN PAUL Petit and his Bovis subdivision neighbours try their hand at sailing in Fairy Lake Mr Petit is captain because he owns the boat The remainder of the crew are Al Green Al Green and Peter OMeara Study effect on plant of Beardmore effluent Hills Planning Fifth Line board approved the switch Walter Sopinka solicitor from to estate rest for Medallion Aire Estates dentlal homes Tuesday claimed at least half the night when they approved an residents would use ihe amendment to the Official Line and probably more Plan since most of the houses arc Studies are currently to determine whether or not the Acton Pollution Control Plant will be able lo handle effluent from the Tannery The studies arc being con ducted by Pollutech Pollution Advisory Services Limited Earl tests indicate that when per of sewage being treated at plant comes from the tannery the effluent discharged at the plant is deteriorated This Investigation is underway and results and conclusions will not be able for approximately four In the meantime the early Indications arc that the per cent mixture was excessive and that a severe deterioration in effluent qua would result As soon as this indication was observed an additional unit was started up using a cent mixture of waste from the tannery and these studies are proceeding without any conclusions to date the report said hat effect Until now the tannery has been responsible for ingot its own waste Prior to regional the town said there is no capacity In the phnt to handle the heavy waste from the tan Hilton Region officials felt Ihe some way The region has however asked the consultants to see what effect up to gal Ions per from the tanner would hae on the plant The report points out lhal a per cent mix it the plant can be tolerated but it Report says be possible treat 10 per cent or possibly more if the Is properly rented on the site The consultants point out the need for some clarifica Hon between the rated city and the actual capacity The region has been work on the basis lhat the rated is gallons per and the expansion would increase the capacity to gallons per day The limit of 1 was said to because of limitations enforced by the Ministry of the Ironically enough the tests taken by indicate plant is actually handling a consistent of about 1 gallons per day twice the rated city Need better arena seating In actual Tact the plant la capable now of handling most double the rated of the plant and still pro a good effluent During observations over several weeks at the plant recently the flows through the plant have been consistently higher than the proposed plant ex the report said Ray Cripps a regional pub lic works official said one of the reasons the plant In Acton could operate over rated capacity and continue to pro duce a good effluent was the fact that the greatest portion of sewage being treated is domestic sewage That s the easiest type of sewage to treat according to Mr said It was not unusual for a plant to be operating beyond rated city during storms and heavy runoffs but it usual for a plant be operating that far over capacity on a tent basis The Medallion Aire Estates plan shows estate homes on over two acres lots on the 145 acre site between the Fifth and Sixth Lines north of Highway E Marshall a Sixth Line resident asked if Increased traffic on the Sixth Line had been considered He claimed there were no houses on the Fifth line and suggested there be only ope access to the property editing the Need blood clinic set The first blood donor clinic in Acton in several years will be held at the legion on June There will two shifts each two hours long for those willing to give blood From two to four and from six to eight are the limes All types of blood are in constant shortage at the Toronto depot ana all poten tial donors are urged to al tend this clinic Buoys mark area swimming area repair closer that road Mr Marshall contended there would be at least loo more trips a day on the Sixth Line He claimed the Fifth Line had been improved to handle the dragstrip traffic while the Sixth I is in rough shape said the the traffic generated by the would be far in excess of the traffic from 49 homes Planner Mario Vcndlttl suggested most or the traffic would be on the Fifth Line since most or the homes are at that end of subdivision He said there is a possibility the would be paved down to Highway Councillor Morrow said the developer should be required to bring the Sixth Line up to standard He said this developer would not be sewers and water lines as developers in lown Sopinka pointed out a developer in town would build to homes on 145 acres while his client was building only At council a suggestion the density was reduced from homes to J Marge Us also of Sixth Line said he was there to second Mr Marshall objection at this public hearing Councillor Pal McKcniie said he hoped the concerns of the people would be recognized Mayor Tom Hilt claimed the hearing was simply to amend Ihe official plan to change the land from rural to residential Councillor Dick Bald Ihe objections can be solved in on agreement with the developer since no one was objecting to Ihe change of land use The amendment up proved with only Councillor Joe Hurst opposing Improved selling for the Acton is among listed lown I in report to the general administration com of Hills The report of resulted from bus lour of Hills recna facilities re creation advisory committee of June The also suggests that the of curtains on the windows of the upstairs auditorium could room more useful for wed ding and dance There are facilities in the refreshment booth Installation of a new roof on month is wind up pre gram which began withshorii gup of ihcwills in to combination of vandilism and poor vcntilatbn has led the men change room at thi new 1 ions Pool in vcrv poor shape The describes the actual swimming is vcr met i viewing for the public be a fine but is not a top pnont item breakdown in pool has caused ihe witer tempera to drop and forced can nation of public swimming for past week The Georgetown ommit tee found Prospect Park to be quite neat and in good order Speyslde may be in the farthest comer of Hills but it is not forgotten by Hills council Monday night they decided ids lhat scrub brush re- spend between and from one side of Fairy MOlo fix up a ball diamond mallow the public a bet at Speyside school j Councilor said he Continued on Page 13 Dr D Garrett ends practice here 1 Garrett ho has been In practice in Acton for moved with his wife to Toronto on Tuesday fie had gnduallj retired from practice but regretful patients kept coming him right up until the last Ihe first while after he came to Acton his office was on since then it has always been at the front of his it the corner of River and Willow Thet fourchildrcnand two of Ihrm are still in Kale Mrs Norman Elliott and Steven Town to Speyside diamond was bringing the request to council because there is a ball league in Speyside but have less than adequate facilities Speyside is remote from the bulk of our services he explained Councillor Dick said Ihere Is no question of Ihe need Third base is on the asphalt Mayor Tom Hill asked if the Halton school board would contribute since it is on their property Councillor Pat said the school only has grades from kindergarten to grade five so would not need a ball diamond for their own use Councillor Harry Levy said he had been told about this before the budget waa struck and said there was no problem with the money Council unanimously to fix up the ball diamond PAULA AND David Leslie outstretch their arms in a sing song during graduation ceremonies at Honey Pot Nursery in Glenlea plaza Sixty nine tots took part the year end exercise 69 graduates from nursery Provincial grant for band drives Wet wires school band I paper and glass rnery with financial aid from iheMtDJttryrfEBVironrorat government summer board eoruMrvation author- idea museums and art gal- The Acton assistance will be- the sponsoring of the high monthly drive and Ontario Ministry projects to matt such as cctnmtttee That includes ren tal at track payment of drivers and gas The grant win be to excess of and will enough to provide tor i who be making the Saturday a drive was the lint of the government sponsored with the remaining two In July and As in previous months the drives will take place on the second Saturday of month David Sale the schools told this paper that the summer raUectteoa XL cause fire enough in September Mr Sale Is hoping there win be another interested group in town to take over the faction In the faQ It there he would like Stem to contact at the high school The week session from Jury to August is all those the goal Because of this they wiU be terminating their be dents but there wttfba no Acton volunteer were called out in the rain Sunday evening when a hydro wire near Building Products was blown down The wire in contact with the wet ground caused sparks to fly setting a nearby cedar bush on ire The fire fighters extinguished It before anything else got a chance to catch Pot School held graduation ceremonies for kiddies conclude yeir activities The graduation wis held Monday Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of last week with each class separately depending on their class times Parents were invited and watched their tots sing and get their diplomas Graduating Monday even from the three mornings a week class are Andrew Barton Peter Bray Bridge Jenny Crawford Curry Douglas Jane and Michael Cindy Dunn Jeffrey Kim Heather Hewitt Kelly Hutchison Knsty Gail Mullen Anthony Pcrsaud Andrew Scott Sproat Jason Stahhnann Deborah Tuck Kimberly Usher Christopher Vi illmott Andrea Johnston Cathy Hamilton and Tuesday graduation was for kiddies who attend two mornings per week They are Ball Barry Scott Brown Kan Lynn I ripps Geoffrey Tanyn Valeric Kekic David Leslie Paula Jeffrey William Heather Robert Peel James Redman Steven Robertson David Rosen Margaret Sale Paul Sankey Kevin Scott Michael Williams Scott Williams Snarls Woods Cheryl Ann Marie Franklin Julie Butler The Wednesday graduating tots were Christopher Corngan Carrie Gallant Kelll Scott Marshall Christopher Vickery Joanne Tina Harvey Thome Paula Mitchell John Lee Barnes Glen Billington and Lori LI lead SHARLA WOOD is one of tots who graduated from Honey Pot nursery on three days last week Sharla graduated Tuesday evening