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The Acton Free Press Wed March 1976 By Wendy Thornton In my last column I mentioned that someone had ob jected to the way I portrayed life here Maybe an explanation is in order An Acton reader had sent one of the first columns I written from Alberta to Joanne Benger in Drayton Valley note that both being writers we might have something in common Not so stated Ms Benger to me in the first page of four I pride myself on ACCURACY and TRUTH Good heavens what have I written to deserve that I immediately hauled out the first few Alberta columns and pored over them to see where d gone wrong Aha when I inaccurate I do a good job With my very bod habit of thinking one word and saying another like instructing to turn left when I know I mean right I wrote that Buck Creek is 90 miles east of Edmonton It not We re miles WEST We must be we can see the Rockies from the top of the hill down the road After much reading and soul searching I can find no other inaccuracy and or untruth Actually it all boils down to the fact that Ms and I have a totally different outlook on life and I much prefer mine While I sit and listen with great interest to the tales told by hunters from Ponoka etc the Bengers hold anyone hunting on their property until the RCMP arrives And while I was fascinated by the story of legs Ms writes How dare you depict us as so primitive It good thing I hadnt followed that story with the one about the naked government official behind the oat stock Ms Benger hoped for equal space to tell about the progressive things in Drayton Valley the color televisions and washers and dryers and curling rinks etc More Interesting Well I not knocking the importance of plumbing and hydro and a progressive society but neither am 1 hooked on it I just think there s more interesting things I ve kept track over the past couple of weeks of things that made me pause a bit There the The end is near Acton mall order of the Eaton Company have received letters thanking them for their patronage over the years and Informing them of final dates lor placing orders from the catalogue and collecting the same April is the last day on which you can place an order from the catalogue and all outstanding orders must be collected from the Mill Street office by April The order office will close its doors April 24 The period between that date and the May 5 close out target date will be used by Eaton employees to com any Acton business Mr and Mrs Jerome Hunter and Mrs Hilda Ashley of spent Sunday with the latter daughter son in law and granddaughter Mr and Mrs Jack Couture and Bonnie of Guelph celebrating Mrs Ashley birthday She is 80 on March 24 Just a few of the croup from Acton were visible on the Tommy Hunter show on TV Friday night They had taken a bus trip to Toronto to see the show filmed a couple of weeks Many people are off to warm places in school break How about a phone call to let us know the news Winter vacations are happy events we like to share Mr and Mrs George Bowman and Mr and Mrs Chaa arrived home Friday evening from a fourteenday bus tour in eluding Washington St Augustine Kennedy Space Centre Orlando Disney World Miami Beach St Petersburg Gardens and Tampa Firefighters and their wives enjoyed bowling together Saturday night Everybody went back to the fire hall for a late supper of chili and thicklycut fresh refuses to sleep unless he s rolled up in a blanket preferably flowered Hi belongs to a family that has bees and a whimsical pony affectionately called Nicolas P Registered Wonder Horse I vc come across and learned a bit about the Two by two religion and watched a farmer take brief aim with a handgun and shoot a coyote in the middle of a furious fight with his black lab Folks in this area have been telling us about the day in 1967 the wind chill factor took temperature down to 104 below 1 and livestock froze where they stood and I ve driven Into the mountains late at night in a windstorm That was an interesting experience all right particularly as I didn know where I was half the time A gift Last month I started writing an entirely separate column for the Drayton Valley newspaper The day after the first one was printed I found a charming old gentleman on our door step with the paper in one hand and wo chocolate bars in the other Coconut he explained Folks need roughage too lies read my account of our arrival in Alberta and come to welcome us and stay for supper We all had a truly interesting evening Shortly after waving him out the door nine clock we had to bundle up and go push him out of a small snow drift Five of us were hefting on the front and getting ab solutely nowhere when it was discovered he was in first gear while we were trying to push him back As we tottered back to the house all covered in snow looked at me in half amusement half and said only My wife I know my writing sometimes provides more interest than we re ready for on a cold winter s night but I really don t think we evei have it otherwise WINTER PROGRAM OF Yoga a high school night school course is winding up for this term However the course will have spnng classes and will continue on to June New members will learn the various poses of the art Shirley Krause doing a full twist Marshall the full lotus position and Lynda Krueger doing the alternative leg stretch show what can be done a reasonable length of time at the classes The legs in the background belong to Karen Johnson in a shoulder stand with Brenda Gignac being assisted by instructress Bray in a head stand Love communication way to raise children relationships was the topic for March meeting of Greenock branch of Women Institute held it the home of Mrs Chester Allan Mrs Sinclair presi dent opened the meeting and read from the Home Leon news what Mrs Lor raine Holding Home had to say about nut meals Good nutritional health can be maintained by following Canada s food guide Mrs G Leslie gave the cur rent events The roll call was a child rearing tip or saying and the motto was how the twig is bent so grows the tree Mrs of family ana consumer affairs gave a reading on children learn what they Social workers Mrs Wayne Aitken intro duces Miss Olive Anstice and Mrs Barbara Green social workers They work with the foster home finding homes for teenagers Miss has a university degree from England and post graduate diploma After coming to Canada she worked with adoption for years and for the past 4 years with the foster home and par department Tor teen Miss a fluent speaker gave many pointers on rearing children Love and communication with children arc the basics Kids need wis tolerance encourage ment and a sense of humor in order to grow up to shoulder responsibilities also never expect a ctnld to be a carbon of Shi recommended a book People Making by Virginia for parents Mrs Green who has been a foster mother four years gave few ideas of what her work with teenagers is like A social time was spent after the meeting Mrs G Wallace and Mrs A Gates were conveners of a delicious DANCING Every Saturday 9 pm to 1 am at the Acton Legion MARCH 27 THE WHEELS April Generation Gap Country Pedagogues 10 2 Country Ds May Country Pedagogues Admission 4 per couple ENTERTAINMENT IN LOUNGE EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT 9PM 1 AM GERMAN CANADIAN CLUB BOCK BEER KM DANCE Band Nick Pine St United Steel Union Hall Saturday March 27th Lunch Tickets available at the door A A D A I Walking comfort in slip on wafer or front tie All leather with crepe sole heel Ladies sizes 5 to 1 AA widths Willi t- Reg shoes Downtown Acton FREE ADMISSION BINGO EVERY MONDAY 715 pm UP TO CASH PRIZES International Jackpot MUST GO Funday Jackpot MUST GO BRING THIS AD FOR Douhl Card for 20 Cam Cill INTERNATIONAL CENTRE AIRPORT RD and DERRY RD MONDAY IS CARD Margaret Mackenzie speaks at WI meeting The March meeting of the Dublin Women s Institute was held at the home of Mrs Ken Smith Sixth Line with a good attend of members and visitors on a snowy night Public relations was the topic this month and the wo men were pleased to have as guest speaker Miss et Mackenzie Actons newest lawyer As Miss Mackenzie had to leave early she was the first item of business She conveyed to the member ship the importance of a last will and testament Her subject was estate plan ana she gave a descrip tion of the dependents relief act She stressed not only the importance of having a will but making certain it is in a safe place namely a lawyers office so it is easily accessible upon death Everyone rea lizes what a messy situation It is for the family when there is no will or if it isn found I thanks After thanks was extended to Miss Mackenzie the women proceeded to officially open the meeting with the Institute Ode Mnry Stuart Collect and the Lord Prayer led by the president Mrs Norton The minutes and dence including a letter from the provincial president vas read by Mrs D Hunter secretary Due to a change of secretary in mid winter some of the correspondence was delayed in rea china us The following items of bus were discussed the members are invited to at tend the anniversary of SilverwoodW I in the form of a euchre March in Slcwarttown district meet ing to be held April 1976 Officers Conference to be held May 5 and in Water loo Their delegate will be Mrs E Norton home econ forms were dealt with whereby the branch has ask for needlepoint for ncrs and personalize your pattern These are training schools They voted lo say yes to a food forum called Poultry Please Mrs E Wilson at tended the recently held can workshop with Mrs A Diamond representing our branch a sizeable donation was given to the Deed Acton newly formed club for handicapped per Mrs G McMillan had an interesting contest awaiting the ladies and the winners were Mrs A Near and Mrs Kirton The meeting was closed with the singing of O Canada and the Institute Grace after which Mrs E Wilson gave the branch courtesies thank the hostess and the social committee of Mrs Mrs B and Mrs J Vandenbcrg During the love ly lunch Mrs K Smith hand out the cancer kits to can vassors A welt attended and busy meeting came to a close French Knots plan covers The Dublin North French Knots held their sixth meeting at the home of Mrs Anne Dodds on Wednesday March 17 at The meeting was opened with the pledge then Bonnie Methcral took the collection The next meeting will be at the home of Penny Kirton at 7 on Wednesday March 1976 Roll Call was what ideas they had for the exhibit on achievement day Each per son put their own answer Then they began to show our leaders what they had down on learning stitches article They helped with any troubles Mrs Dodds showed how to fringe Later each thought what we would like on the covers One was chosen Then they decided the cover for booklets They then had their snack ON FINANCING Popular Yoga course is extending into spring Spring Yoga classes will be held at Little school soon in conjunction with the high school night classes Yoga is the only course which will be offered by the night school in this season All other courses have finished or are near completion of their winter classes This popular program has been wolf attended for the past few years and anyone from beginners to advanced are invited to attend Some women sign up for the pro gram in September and stay with it until the summer learning various poses and exercises Some have stuck with it for several years Melanija Bray will once again be the instructress Bona Shcan the night school program has more information for those interested of the pictures taken by the tree Press the fa show are are on display In Marilyn Boutique ACTON COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTRE AT THE Y 8533310 ft OPEN House ft at the new ACTON COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTRE in Murray Memorial YMCA to 4 pm SATURDAY MARCH Member of Participating Service Organizations and CoOrdinalor will bo there to answer question EVERYONE WELCOME Or ROXTON ROXTON ROXTON CONTINUED TILL END OF MARCH WAREHOUSE SALE il necessary to reduce our ROXTON inventory in Order to facilitate 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