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BEAMING SCHOOL board trustee Tom Watson inspects plans of new Acton high school with board chairman Judy Alexander last Thursday The school will be ready in Detailed plans and artists sketches of the new 4415000 Acton High School slated to open in September were unveiled at a Halton Board of Education meeting Thursday Superintendent of Business and Finance Bruce revealed the 98000 square foot building will have a pupil load of 850 and it will cost per student to construct the new school In addition he told the board it will cost 37 50 for each square foot of the modern facility II is costing the board over to acquire the Tor the new school which la located on the west side of Churchill Road North across from the Acton Curling Club A of acres has been purchased for the new school it a lost of if an acre report to the board showed will coil WTO to construct the new high school and 000 equip it Trustee Bill Iawsou noted the cost of equipping new school Is fnlrly low since a lot of the acre site In addition lias been set aside in a contingency fund and leyil fees and other expenses will total The board will spend another paying federal sales taxes on building materials but hat will be refunded by Ottawa facilities in the new school will Include classrooms three science labs two art rooms three shops a theatre arts elass two home j economies rooms four areas equipment needed in a high for studies two school will simply be moved from Iht old Acton High School The old high school nil become a middle school Architects fees will coal and is going to be spent develop Ihc rooms and two music classes One of the music classrooms is for vocal studies and he other for instrumental music Other features of the new school include a double with rooms a library resource centre a ad ministration offices areas set aside for guidance and health facilities and a staff room I indlcy Informed the board construction will start in spring of 197G and the school has been designed to slope in Hie same way the site docs Library space Trustee Kill who was worried loo much in the library wis informed in the area of the book stacks the floor space met board criteria of Just a little over three square feel of space for each student in the school Trustee rnic said he was worried about loss of boohs from school libraries and wondered if any special design was used or the new school to curtail thefts He was told the book stacks area was all enclosed and oilier supplies would be locked away noted Ihc staff for Ihe new high school had been involve in designing the building Director of I noted wis Ihe first lime an entire school staff had been appointed years ahead of the time the school will open Staff rooms said he thought staff rooms conducive lo teachers doing work and thought maybe small offices would be more praeticil He noted office areas would be valuable those teachers who don I have a permment I poinled out Inert were four work rooms for the teachers and Ihe teaching staff who hod worked wilhtht board on plans for the building thought this was more than adequate brought up the subnet of thefts from student lockers ind thought the of putting all locktrs together not he a good idea but Acton lorn Watson said putting the lockers in one central made it easier for the leiehers to keen an eye out for incidents of thefts tlson natal lockers ire in wide open area and easily from the teachers dining room and other areas Theatre next Mr Watson wondered if my provisions had been made for in iddition of a theatre in case the town of Hilton Hills wanted to build one at ihe school conjunction with the school board the pooh arc built i schools Then have some suggestions this might be the best for the lo gel much needed the lire hill Mr I said thoiirc mild easily I built the double Trustee he would like to sec more work ire is for stiff room a resort aria He le should i it with the is a timing room I hey should students Students Mi lonely oodin said He Hided it He more family lypt itmosphere ii the Ik wis informed the tchors considered not having a staff dining moot rciitted from Coot SOUTH ELEVATIOH Acton high school One Hundred and First Year No 16 ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1975 Thirty two Pages 15 Cents Merchant input Mill rebuilding merchants eon program Hi si lit south of the Nil with possible loss of that engineering principles crossing on Main St North It parking on Mill St I isl due from standpoint of mov as Ihc rebuilding Ihe proposed rebuilding of traffic dictated that the of thi intersection met would be widened iv 7and25i In fire hall and agreed to However this idemng of the present their opinions to Hal stdeuilk would reduce tht travelled portion of the road to such a point that no park ing would Ik on one side of the street It was this loss of parking the district u WKI Ion Hills council Recommendations for Hills to consider are embodied in three resolutions passed the meeting In Ihe first resolution a pass of the Mi i requested with most distressed the com chants Mr Nielsen tint the proviso Ix applied port of his concern land along the studies indie that The second resolution re- of business be me that Hills pro- conducted in the business dis north west corner of town would make this feasible Wayne Mass suggested a system of one v streets in tht downtown arei could illnw the continuation of lwe- side parking on Mill St How tier he didn I think it ad which to suggest what streets would carry the sup- through triffie diverted from his Mill Si vide additional off street parking in the business area in the near future The final was that the parking ban prcsenlK force but not being enforced on Ihe south side of Mill St from John St to Ihe tracks be res Paul Nielsen called and chaired meeting of about merchants and Themett was original called Mr Nielsen and a committee to the pro- In his opening remarks Mr Nielsen reviewed the unices of i street re- amounted to maliK eight million dollar in with a growth to possible million dollars me attempted lo suggest a less ip- roach to Hilton Hills suggesting he to approach tht council was through the wirds elected rep resen la lives However he was limbic to this Police commissioners meet in Acton Thurs the erosion of parking plices in Mrs Kalherine Kelly who the area noting is presents redeveloping that parking spaces had former I premises on been lost at a lime when Main Si indicated lhat no annual growth rite of Acton public parking would be was between per unliable al that site in the innuallv future Input were Mr now will lttenl presented lo and discussed at Iht committee nut tint of Iht high ghw iy of l traffic in which through traffic would be along Wall ice St atlheCN crossing going through the industrial nark emerging im Main St North and rejoining No COUNCILLOR Pat was a happy host when Halton Regional Police Commission met in Acton for the first time last Thursday He offers sandwiches to chairman Glen Magnuson Georgetown left and Maor Harry Barrett of Oakville right Unrest accusations are hurled at meeting passed al the so tint of thi merchants will im in tht ring of the project tentatively foi I96 months of joined Recreation Co talked about the same things inic to a held John Cooper in the never accomplishing when the Wards one and two municipal anything Committee recommends aid for MultiService Centre building for what turned met to be an hour long discussion than month silence of what is going wrong with the committee and a certain Wood ind recreation program in the Spcysuie irca Mrs Sheldon told this newspaper after Ihe meeting that she went the meeting with the express purpose of airing her beefs and did not intend to stiy for the regular agenda She was infuriated at the lack of i newspaper ad asking for new members for sick of having lea Continued on I or the first time Hilton Regional Hoard of Police Commissioners met In Acton Regional police duties in Acton Sept 1 Acton regional councillor Pat assumed the duties of host and welcomed commissioners to the library meeting room Thursday afternoon He had arranged sandwiches pickles and made tea and coffee for a friendly half hour after the meeting Attending line meeting were commissioner Glen Mignu son Georgetown acting as chairman commissioner Harry Barrett mayor of Oak vllle chief Skerrctt and Secretary was Mrs Isabel Bourdon Staff Sergl the cton precinct joined them Since the police com mission meetings are regularly attended by reporters from the south of the county there were more newsmen and photographers at the meeting in Acton than oners There wire reporters present in eluding men from the Toronto Star and Hamilton Spectator The commission meets in but members decided to move around from time to time to see the different precincts Dead spots on police radio reception in Acton will be corrected with- the of a booster aerial on the water tank commissioners learned Chief reported on exhaustive tests done in Acton when ear and ridios could not be throughout Ihe whole Permission had been given by to install booster the com missloncrs will arrange in coverage Breakin charges and juvenile officers District One commander Superintendent loyd win this week that thi irrcsts of three juveniles three youths stem from eases involving two house ins in break in at tht high school and several inci dents of being stolen from The arrests were madi on October Police sin the theses caused WOO damage to iht homes which re I roktn in to and hid stolen worth more than si f the stok it goods i bet n cohered police We don want to go back to the red light system iff Sergt Ward comment d Beardmore to meet of Tanneries In Aeton will meet with officials or Region s Public Works Committee at the next regular meeting of the committee The company officials have requested the committee to consider allowing the firm to have some of ihe tannery effluent treated in town pollution control plant once the plant is expanded The committee environmental consul to undertake feasibility tests to sec if problem could be solved or illevialed The report in even a small percentage of the plants effluent would cause the pollution control plant to lower quality of the ef fluent In other words the region can keep on operating plant and produce a high grade of effluent providing it docsn allow any of Heard more heavy industrial to be treated in he Hills Council finance and personnel com si last night day to recommend to council financial support of the proposed Acton Sen ice Centre on a trial basis for 1970 to a maximum of S3 Appearing on behalf of the centre steering committee Peter Marks and presented the com with copies of their proposal and explained they hoped lo receive per cent of their proposed 91S operating budget from council Marks pointed that the provincial government Ministry of Community and Social Services had given the leering committee tion of support but asked to see some sign of local Inltia live He said he hoped the provincial government and Region could each provide to per cent of the proposed operating budget He said a general pre sentation has been made to the region and a second meeting has been scheduled In budget Councillor Harry I explained that council hands are well tied as far as grants go for this ear since similar requests were considered only before the budget was struck He felt any financial support from council would have to be for Is to be a permanent thing or a stepping stone- to a health unit for Acton asked Councillor Ernie Sykes Marks replied that it is hard to say If the centre was found lo not needed after a year itwouldbedissolved he said If it needed to be amended it could be He said the committee hoped to have open on Nov ember centre would on its board of directors persons from various social agencies In answer to a question from Councillor Sykes he said it would be one of Acton on swers lo the Georgetown Con tact Centre He said the Aclon centre would work with ihe one in Georgetown on joint raining ventures or refer- How essential would it be to have a full time asked Councillor Levy Marks replied thai the committee had first hoped to use volunteers but on the ad vice of medical doctors had decided on hiring a pro fessional person of total would go towards the salary of i He expressed the opinion that a lot of people with degrees In ii work would look at such i job as a challenge over i one vear Support Rev Ihe steering committee researched similar programs and had already been promised use of an office at Ihc Acton as well as use of a large room for counselling at a fee of Si per He said groups such as the Firefighters and Police and service clubs have lent support to the project in the form of work Councillor Pat McKenzie wondered it a small portion of the S3 could not be paid this year to help the centre get going Several months ago Ihe present committee the members chance to get out of ihc group by handing in Iheir letter of resignation Utters were received from Brendan Gil and Diane Spiel The latter had resigned some weeks prior to the request It was assumed Barry was leaving the committee is there was no response from him At the last meeting in early September Mr Cooper had told the group he would have an advertisement placed in local newspapers asking for replacements for these people The d was to run for two weeks According to Mrs Sheldon SseJoreSw A RACE FOR THE PUCK Acton Sabres held won because of their superior conditioning out tending Recreation meetings their first exhibition game at the Community skating the Hornets in the second and third when it was the same three Centre Friday evening In front of over 200 fans periods More photographs on the sports page people each time and they AUiston Hornets The Sabres