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Recommend accept Beardmore effluent in plant Hills planning board voted to let hook up to Acton sewage treatment plant when the addition is completed The final decision will be made by Halton Regional council The effluent must be brought to Ministry of Environment standards Councillor Ern Hyde summed up the feelings of the board saying if Beardmore is willing to spend money to further refine their own treat ment plant they should be allowed to use the town They ve been there for many years and should have consideration before any future development Councillor Duby claimed Canada Packers the parent firm is willing to improve the treatment of the effluent if they have the assurance they can use the town disposal plant We should remember the amount of taxes they pay and give them consideration before any new development Councillor Dick Howitt explained the Region wanted guidance He said the expanded plant would have a capacity of one million gallons while the present capacity is 6 million The regional councillor said would take gallons a day leaving 100 gallons capacity for any other development Now it up to us how do you want to use it Howitt stated the Ministry of Environment say Beardmores effluent cant be accepted in its present form Councillor Pat said Beardmore want to spend any more money if there was no hope of using the town plant Councillor Joe Hurst said the 10 population served by a million gallon plant be reached in years so Beardmore should be accommodated Planner Mario Venditti contended if every house and lot is filled in Acton the population would be 7 Mr said there was no indication Acton residents wanted the town to grow a great deal He said the town should do everything to commodate Beardmore effluent and claimed the majority of the residents feel the same way On a motion by Councillor Roy Booth planning board recommended to the region that effluent be accepted into the expanded sewage treatment plant if it can be brought up to Ministry of Environment standards One Hundred and F Ycir No 22 ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER fteen pi AGRICULTURAL SERVICE diploma is presented Friday to Mary Matthews and her husband Stan right by fair board president Ken Okay personal pages for Acton firefighters Urn step toward the lakm at Monday rutting Admmis tritium Committee meeting numbers the tor tin purchast personal pHfcis for tilt Alton Hit pages mill will In thi approximate a small radio fin ehitf Milk llolmts Mild month nil finfightir inn wear tit hi- Iwlt or hip potkit illumes sound ill i nut from pagi in Hit mill of fin ind summon mm to til Mr deemed pngis tin town was so tould not the fin Not night Hi xpliimiKlil thi turn that hi Genre low volunteers hid fire in Tin town dots not sound sum i lock it night Thi phones in ich id of tin inf sirens town Thi ton In jm rs ill to this he sud needing tin fin Murray left They have been associated with the fair for many years and are noted pony and cattle raisers See inside todays Free Press Fire chief in Quebec brand new fire truck will be in town by tonight Wednesday Fire Chief Mick Holmes went to Quebec on Monday to pick up the vehicle at the lac torv and is driving it back to Acton for pictures and a story week Free Tress department assistance tele phones existing number tied his wife the dispatchers put in actual ilarm Mr Holmes commented on the progress from the hand lull outside the town hall to tin beepers of today nil project must go council before The speedy reconstruction of Mill St is urged In a report submitted to Hills works committee Monday by assistant town planner R Burnett Engineer Bob Austin said the reconstruction slated for 1976 is necessary if down town Acton is to survive Councillors agreed they were very pleased with the report Mr Austin was directed by the committee to look Into the possibilities of a truck bypass for the town as well Comments The Chamber of Commerce and parking authority will re ceive copies of the planning department report with a request for their comments by January 15 1976 Mr Austin told works com mlttec members rcconstruc lion would likely start on Mill from Main to John and would lake two or three weeks with these blocks closed Next construction begin on Mill from John to Wilbur and this section would be closed in lurn The project is a priority item In the proposed 1976 bud get Councillor Dick Howitt felt this change could have the same Impact on Acton as the refurbishing of downtown had on that com Details or the planning re port follow There are a number of con corns w have voiced about the condition of Mill Street from the point of view of traffic circulation park ing pedestrian movement timing of reconstruction and ilternotivc routes during reconstruction Presently i former sum student Phil Wood in conjunction with Mr W McCabc Ontario foremost Commercial Market Analyst is preparing a report on Acton Cmtral Business District Wi have discussed with Mr Wood various compo nents of analysis expect December ami would hope to be able lo in elude the relevant aspects in re designing of Mill Street We sec no reason to delay selection of a Design Consultant as thi work could quickly be coordinated once one has bctn TrafTlc Circulation The creation of a Truck Route using Wallace Street would immediately improve Who owns bicycles Four run tin at the police office their owners unknown Staff Ward suggests people who have lost should come look over his supply the condition of congestion noise dust damage to pro perty and problems at the Mill Mam Intersection If this road is riady it could be tried on a temporary or trial basis during reconstruction Automobile Movement To improvi Ihc dangerous situation for public it will be necessary lo widen the traffic tones In r to accomplish it will he to sacrifice some or all of the prisent on stn it parking and or peticslriin strict irking lo for Ihi loss of on street spaces Off strut parking in detail ian be solved as being a major item from a location or financial point of view We would mutely prefer to set tin strict having no on street pirkmg but at present this would lie most Hence as an Interim mca sun we arc suggesting parking on north side only Ihus providing llie necessary or two traffic lanes Two way truffle on two Janes provides Inst for and futurt vehkulnr nl through the Ctntral District Hut Considerable eongestion is by movemi nl of along Mill Street Willi be of do from Gutlph to Toronto this may in ireasid resulting In mori danger to persons and might given to relocating Slop to either in front of the Post or tin front of the church but no Continued on Call council pension a great money grab One of the most unruly and hottest In the two year history of Re gional Council preceded council dceision to Increase benefits for members of the count The increased bene it comes In he form of pension phn region share of thai plan will tost per year and councillors drawing from that plan will reteivc New members for recreation stop signs in on Tuesday new subdivisions Collision I hi Mr llolmts siwril weeks ay i would still used during tin das but ph out in fin ilinf was tint of town whin eonimittii tpprosed thi and was for cummin hi is speaking to the Frit Press weeks ago on the r and thought this win a vers good Three members were lo the Hun dion Adst list night Tin with tni Mars inn and Ron Mitchell joined members lam Shi I don t Wood Pipil Ion with t Inn Dunn missing our rs art filling positions if people the nm lining com to in their IttUr of resign due lack of atUndame td Wood was elected as thurman of the after almost a year of rotat the position Hon Mitchell as secretary to lake and make up the minutes of each This was previously done by ne nation coordinator John It was fell this year that one of tht actual mi mbers should do Ihis job Mr is an ad lo the group further of the meeting see next week s paper The first snowstorm brought slippers roads and thire were minor fender hinder accidents in thi distrnt In town before Tuesday i eir proceeding down Bower ran into the parked police office owned bs Cons Tom Driver was image to the ear was estimated at and lo Ihe car at Cheques go out I- benefit ind rehabilitation cheques were in the These are both prosincial benefits Those which been picked up w i re taken over to post office and mailed going out on Tues day delivers welfare will be available at ihc next A total of 16 new stop signs will soon be going up in new subdivisions in Acton after Hills works committee Monday night approved engineer Bob Austin sug gestions for stop sign Tt was noted at the meeting that street signs are up In Acton Meadows but haven been erected yet in Kmgham Hill The town is going to look ii to what is holding up street sign installations in Kmgham Hill New stops Drivers going north or south on Acton Boulevard will tase to stop at McDonald while Clare Street will have a stop sign erected where it meets Division Street When exiting from Mason Boulevard drivers will be re quired lo stop McDonald be a stop sign installed halting traffic flow on where it meets Norman Ascnuc There will be stop signs on Norman Avenue one at Churchill Road and two at Aclon Boulevard to control traffic coming from either the east or west Twice Drivers on Storey Drive in Kmgham Hill will be forced to stop twice once at Road and Road Kmgham Road traffic will be halted where the meets Drive and a stop sign will be erected on Green more Crescent at exits onto Kmgham Road Two stop signs will be in stalled on Road one at Road and another at Mill Street Berry Road traffic w ill ilso be stopped at wo locations at Kmgham Road and at Storey Drive sice providing lilt outionstns it lot iksibility bint fit and a lint fit for widows or wittowtrs The debate on the two by I iws rapidly degenerated into nasly and session I he hill finally passed 11 with Milton and rcpre swinging the vote Chairman Mian bungled the count on Ihc vote for the first reading of the first bill He declared Ihi bill defeated but when his lount was challenged and a recorded vote called Ihe first nadmg passed on vote Had in intendment to the second by law backdating the pension plan passed the cost would jumped by an ad ditional Burlington Councillor council Ihe amendment would have pro vided councillors with an in creased non benefit of SHOO per councillor w is only one of eight Burlington councillors to p- pose tin pension Councillors and Jim Watson of both supported plan Milton Mayor Anni Mat meeting Hills Councillors Pat ind I rnie the pulsion while their leiguis it in the final vote ill Oak villi in p position Mom grab Oiks ille Coiinullor Anderson told of whole Harrington I know running railroad but w off in say whil you want this is i great lis as as that is he used guns Councillor Arihle shouted Carlrnkscn another Oik count illor told Mayor Hirringlnii tint he had been o say the restnet raises for regional employies federal guidelines When it eomes to staff you say restraint when it eotnis to program restraint but when conns lo our own poekels It s i story is irresponsible Whin thi third reading of tin Mil passed in Kit Morrow mi I ids is i tmJt of angry Bill Mason this ii Two weeks more school of this school is very si essful this year with ilass for nntiialls imposing a finan loss on some dissenters It s for you jusl to go dipping into Hit ta law would hi pulsion plan an I mere nglon cost passed first rculinghut itut by a strong on the second r iding it is igainst procedure Burlington Cotin illltrMirv convinced All in M to Continued on BEAMING RON 3 Acton accepts his trophy for the best water fowl in the show at the Royal Winter Fair The Northey Challenge trophy is presented to Mr McLean right by Mr Trimble left More pictures and stones on local winners at the Royal on Page B 1 Niagara commission hears 12 submissions The mid escarpment committee of the Niagara Escarp ment Commission NEC went Into overtime in order to hear comments from the public during the held in the town of Tuesday Nov The committee submissions expressing both sup port of NEC s development controls Many asked for direcuons on how to obtain exemptions from the commission control area Yvonne Christie a real estate broker represented Ken Lb ley concerning an exemption from the commission control area of some properly of Acton famish Ham son represented Milton Interests concerning another request for an exemption acres near Milton Mitchell of the Georgetown Probe office told committee it favored the NEC s objectives and also asked that consideration be given to ensuring the Bruce Trail is established as a permanent park THE Eramosa Medical Centre of opened when former MPP John Root un veiled a plaque in the centre Wednesday Nov 19 Giving Mr Root a helping hand on the right is building Duncan The inscription states the building was erected with assistance from the federal provincial and municipal government levels plus the Wellington Cooperatives Medical Services The doctor and dentist have not started to use the building