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OUR READERS WRITE The Quid Lammas Fair The cake and the icing Drive St Catharines Ont Feb Dear Sir As a parent of one of the hockey players you hosted this past weekend I to thank you and commend you for the forts The facilities first rate the meal was enjoyable and harmingly served the arena facilities more than adequate the handling of the draw quietly efficient the let the kids play hockey not shinny These aspects do NOT happen by The time and efforts of a good Acton has a big heart number of people over a period of time are involved Perhaps the icing on the cake was the warmth and interest shown throughout the town itself as we visited between games Please convey the appreciation of the players coaches and parents of to your branch and community at large You have every reason to be proud of your community Good Show Mission Accomplished Sincerely John A Ashley ex Troop Officer Superior Drive SiullSteMam Ontario March 197C Editor Acton Fret Press 0 Box Acton Ontario The Coach Manager and parents of the Sault Ste Mane Ptt Wet hockey team which played in the recent Acton Why close hospitals Tournament wish to thank all concerned for he wonderful reception and support given to them during their visit A special thank you goes to the Acton Legion Branch 197 for sponsoring a well organized tournament and to the parents who billeted the Soo hockey team Congratulations to all for a job well Acton may be a small town but it sure has a big heart Again this year Catherine Graham of It Llmehouse has written an interesting letter to the paper to coincide with the cele bration or St Patrick Day The Lammas Fair On the last Monday and Tuesday of August the tranquility of the little town of in Co Antrim is broken by crowds of people who go there to enjoy the Ould Lammas Pair is a seaside resort in the northern part of this county and or course Antrim is a well known part of Ireland or it was here that St Patrick tended his sheep on Slcmish Mountain Fairs in Ireland were traditionally held each month That was a day outing wc all looked forward to Here on the stalls you could find almost everything for sale linen china ropes and of course second hand clothes The latter stalls have disappeared en tirely People won buy this type of mer anymore The monthly fairs are held no more as they go to larger centres now but the Lammas Fair still continues Perhaps this is due to the Tact that a famous song was written about it by J and of course it is the peak time for tourists Whatever it is it is still Romp strong It dates bock years and used to last for a week There was dancing in the streets to the tune or the old lime fiddler- Hut has also changed the fiddlers lead a more sophisticated life these days in the ballrooms Sheep and cattle are still sold This fair has always been associated with two things more than anything else Dulse and For the benefit of those whoare wondering what dulse Is well it is a sea food gathered locally and dried It has a salty tang and it is not everyone who could acquire a taste for it In other words there would be little chance of you getting addicted but even if you did no harm would be forthcoming as sea foods are really health foods is a homemade sweet the recipe handed down from generation to generation It is made in large slabs as hard as granite You have to have good strong instrument to break it into mouth size tumps Good to give to a noisy child to keep them for quite a while To come away from The Lammas Fair without a sample of the latter two would be quite thinkable I will close with a verse from MeCauley poem At the Lammas Fair boys were you ever there Were you ever at the fair in Did you treat your to dulse or At the Lammas in The Acton Free Press Wed March 5 Courses for staff costs Fees for courses totalling University and the which will cost the town about for town works staff were town will pay registration approved Monday by Hal ton fees totalling for each Both engineer Robert Hills works committee man Austin and deputy engineer and D John Dunn will go to a two Ted Bollinger will attend two will attend the day garbage collection and days of the urban drainage C S Anderson Road School disposal workshop for two seminar in Toronto later this tor three days this May at davs in April in Chicago month a SPRING naturals have zing Why do you disagree Hon Mr Frank Miller Queen s Park Toronto Dear Sir I am writing an open letter to you with copies to Premier Davis Burlington Julian Reed and the newspapers of the Region on he subject of the closing of some Ontario hospitals and the cuts in expenditures My first question is why did you close hospitals in Ontario The closing of a seems to be a drastic measure done when all else fails therefore what were your preliminary measures to closing the hospitals What moncj saving programs were instituted previous to the closings Before closing the hospitals studies must have been done to determine what hospitals could be closed down without any drop in efficiency or degree of service to the com munity 1 would like to know who conducted the studies when they were conducted and where I can get a copy of the reports In case studies were not done I would like your reasons for not them and now you could make a proper judgement without proper information Eeny mo is not exactly the most way to decide Will the closing of certain hospitals in crease the efficient use of monies in the hospitals still in operation it happens In the future when more cuts in budget are needed to keep health costs down At the present time the most dispute is being made over the closing of Doctors Hospital in Toronto Doctors Hospital attends to the needs of many ethnic groups in the downtown area but while Doctors was closed neither Toronto Western nor Mount Sinai hospitils both in the immediate vicinity had budget cuts Why Asa member of the provincial legislature and a representative of the people of Ontario I would have assumed it was your job to work for better health care not try to lessen the availability of hospitals During the recent hospital workers strike the ministry of health stated that hospitals were essential services Now that monev is tight hospuals become money wasting in of which few are picked to take the full brunt of your budget cuts If 1 was to consider the health ministry as a person you are just lopping off on arm a few fingers and maybe a leg because the heart is too weak to pump blood to the whole body You are chopping budgets here and there instead of across cutbacks which would save money at all hospitals Not only would you not need to close any hospitals but every hospital in the province would have to tighten up What good is it to cut the grass in the front yard while the back yard grows to three feet high During your search for more money did you ever investigate other government departments to see if they were holding the lineon expenditures for example the Royal Commission investigating violence in the media I am seventeen years old and live in Hills If there is an emergency at my home the members of my family would be treated at Milton District Hospital In the future if it is found that by your method of cost cutting more hospitals have to be closed what will be the future of the smaller hospitals like Milton If Milton s hospital was closed the people of the Milton area would be forced to travel to Georgetown 15 to minutes Guelph to 3D minutes or to Oakville to minutes away I realize that people in other parts have to travel even farther than this and I feel sorry for them but I am personally con corned with Milton If someone has a weak heart is a cancer patient or is bleeding seriously that extra few minutes could mean their lives This is why I would like to know what the criteria were for the closing of the hospitals and I am sure the other members of our community would like to know as well That is why I am going to send this letter to the local newspapers with your answer as a fallow up Thank you Alison Brown Milton The Hon Stuart Smith it Party of Ontario We wish you service in this vital position of leadership in Queen s Park I note from a report in today Champion Mar having said of the Hen that wink admiring the determmition of their efforts you disagree with everything and for Renaissance is mm seel in in partisan citizens si mils for parent power which qipartntly isn the to agree Willi when you talking lo a leathers union lltnaiss was established to provide a phee of honor able independenee for ix piyers to stand in to exert their civilizing ind He influences in the decision m iking processes of our public system While it is ind able tint the reietioniry lis would disagree Willi Renaissance stands for it is pro pnate for the leader of the I party to find himself on the side of such repressive establishment Renaissance seeks lo be i voict seating the civilized of the silent and the civil righls of the minorities As its founder chairman there are m iny groups whose views I don person with but whose right to be he ird A review of to the Hoard to that Renaissance Ins the w to sine and new thy in public education there ire in mere number of respected jnninf the chorus we sumd lo sine calling for enlightened reforms in in educational system controlled by the wis doni of adulthood the moral of I think you should be aware that I MPP Reed whose battle for the civil rights parents the of the school w is supported by i vigorous Renaissance won his riding by the slim number of votes represented by the number of Renaissance members in his riding So its hard lo igme how you could re illy mean you said disagree ing with everything Renaissance st we d be interested know specifically al whit points you dis with us fashion r Iioom Pant Suits from In Milage Boutique Personalized service our specialty 124 Mill St East Acton 3910 Si The President Board of Directors The Childrens Aid Society of the Regional Municipality of Halton cordially invite you 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