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One Hundred and Second YearNo ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1976 Twenty Six Pages Fifteen Cents Approve 50000 subjects taught study of streams here AHS principal With the prospect of a Business Improvement District being established In Acton It seemed timely to look at some of the town s un Ique features that are too often forgotten by eyes too accustomed to seeing them Acton has Its share of things that are seen only here Sometimes however there Is a tendency to fall to appreciate that which is quite fami liar so we set out to find and picture some of those things which are specifically Acton that are within a hop step or Jump of the towns core They may be seen on this weeks edit page4 Therearemany morebuHhefewshown indicate the town has a nucleus for improvement and for enhancing See this weeks editorial pagetoofor our comments on the planned Business Improvement District A be spent on tin Silver Creek firm has won approval from study and is si for the Credit Vulley Black Authority for a proposal designed to study hazards and erosion control on the Credit River Subject to approval by the Ministry of Natural Resources lotten Sims will be awarded the contract not to exceed Hie study will outline hazard ureas and suggest erosion control while mapping fill and construction 26190 in permits 1iiri is IJU in lug permit In or of In Hills Thei Hat thru Silver Creek ind Black reek areas will be included in the study A projected of the total figure will Mine i it Imt solemn In ir Ontario due ition Minister nomas Wells announce mini that a core of subjects must be Liken by high school students next year will mean Unit change for pnnci pi lc in says In this because it s so small we have core of subjects that he more or less obliged to I Mr fink in an interview There lire students it Hit only significant tlnncc for us is that there II hive to be records kept Mr Accomplish nothing Terry Manned blasts Human Services Councillor Terry blasted Hum in Services Council for failing to fulfill its mandate when Chairman Peter Marks several members of the Human Services Council a meeting of Hal ton Council Wednesday had attended the meeting to comment on the successes ind failures of the Council over past funds months the present Councillor said the usual response to of this sort is lo thank the delcgition and lit them on the job they done but d is not in this ise 1 want to say I appreciate the individual efforts and contributions but I am dis at the result You had a mandate and a clear one that wis supported this council fur others There have been dollars spent with no good results Tins will make it difficult for others elsewhere to have the same opportunity Mr Mannell said the id spent over pist two vtars ill it hid lo show for was ftw press releases hat si every one- except Human Council itself tome and jour request is somt funds That a tragedy It is an nnsstd I m disappointed and 1 don feel that will be by a traasfer of CSC to impress Region by raising third of funds The Community Services Centre CSC aims at enhancing its chances for renewed Regional funding by presenting the top tier of local government with a third of its budget ahead of schedule Administration committee at the Region will be looking at how successful this group will be at money locally If we re not successful it be difficult for hem to renew funding Pat told last Wednes days CSC meeting in the building The meeting chaired by Gail passed a budget and aired ideas on bow to make itself better known to schools and churches in town Half the CSC 12 man board attended the meeting Firsthand The board decided to canvass local and out of town Industries and service clubs for funds School principals and the new viceprincipals phis clergy members will be invited for a first hand view of the Centre Mill Street office and consulting room Peter Marks who drew up the budget but missed the meeting said later that the Region normally budgets in March We would like to go In January or not of sen ices in the region because it did nol have a clear man from regional council lit icknowledged under questioning that the hid never asked Regional Council for a more clear mandate during the two year lerm Coordination Director of Dorothy Craig told the council there is still a job of coordination for someone to do is for a body lo relate In all of the social services in the region she said The Human Services Council is suggesting that il be is a group hut the llalton committee of council Human Services Council Chairman John ham said the project was of lis kind in Canada and had stirred a lol of i merest tie said the group liaii give impetus to the United Way boundary change the group had made two major errors the press publicize what we did Con we hid no public support Secondly we did nol enlist the support of the policy Tinkers and that was a mis lake he said report No decision was made or direction during the meeting but the matter was referred to the regions ad ministration committee for study and a recommendation The experiment basically was aimed at eliminating duplication and filling gaps in social services field in the region Mr Marks told the council that it wasn until a l But he said that the bookkeeping would be difficult It s easy to set up administration procedures to sort these things he said queen Starting next grade J and 10 will be required to lake two in m Canadian history or geography plus science course Students will selctl additional subjects to fill a slatt of tight subjects the education minister said last week it Queens irk Mr I ink said the core of subjects offered it MIS is almost indentic il to those outlined by the minister as next year The the core are art music trench and iris said In realitv it makes liltlc significant difference to the programs of per cenl of kids in school Mr J ink All students lake and Canadian studies and the principal said that he sure tint less than ten students do not mathematics at Virtually student lakes sticnce he added The minister s statement in House included trench and Physical Educition as subjects which high school principals would encourage students lo lake The absence as a required subjttl is viewed with regret by th Acton High School hcid one disappointment is thai I sec Physical Education is a subject that should he Mr The thrust of Iht education ministers policy change was directed high schools though traced revisions in education policy to lary schools A 2 menlrht tormativt Years introduced changes in public school curriculum lasi yt ir II strongly re stressed Hit basic skills rcprtsented by the three Rs reading writing arithmetic spelling and so onand ilso covered all of other curriculum areas make for well rounded ind prepared child Mr Wells Politic public school pnnci pals in town welcomed Mr Wells statements The isics have never been in this ire i in schools Robert I II Mlcnsnd I concur with of Continued on Page 11 Isabel Watson work recognized iftv of service to the library and resi dents of the town wen ricoj as over people attended ind dance at the I honoring itizcn the forl07r Mrs tsther re id speech Riving Mrs history wilh Her begun as young girl moving to from Hot point near Milton Upon first moving Isabel pure is id her first t Not loo many she went to work for Hit sime institution housed in the old municipal Through she saw m inj in tin world vtrlnlim of Miss tin be found in tod paper I ricndri tails Mrs Adamsona life long friend of the Citizen of broughl i Mrs V it lied childhood mud pies and pranks played Mrs herself was over wiihtmotion had to tut short her talk It was at the banquet by library board members that the board room in Ihe of the library would be renamed The Isabel Watson Room in her honor a picture of the Citizen of the ear pi iced there It was jokingly torn me thai in Mrs sense thildrtn would be have jusl at sichl of the Other speakers were Lou mil lor on of hospitalized of Hills Tom Hill lulnn member of the provincial parliament who read Itltgram from Premier William Cr iv president of the Lb of Commerce various members of the Acton Chamber of commerce and the Hal ton Hills library Sever spoke of tht of keeping identity this time of regional government some thing which is important to Mrs Watson presented Gifts pi flowtrs and itlcgrirns from as far away is 1 tntjind were showered upon Mrs ilson as she bee ihe Citizen of the Last vtars honored citizens the of Hit ichmcnt of the Ontario Provincial Police Corporal Hob represented the new disbanded force evening ACTON CITIZEN OF the Year Mrs Isabel Watson listens intently to tributes extended to her Friday evening at a special banquet honoring her for 50 years of service to the Acton library A plaque from the Acton Chamber of Commerce was the first of the recognitions to be presented to her Alejandro Guereca Mexican student here for language February if we can raise per cent of the budget he The meeting started with the post of finance committee chairman open hut Judy McLIn CSC agreed to fill the job In the mean Bill Coats will be approached about ing on the task of heading up the finance committee chair man said Mrs indicated rankled doubt that the Region would feathers renew its funding They I that Continued on Page 2 Altxi would ralher sit anil listen lo the people iround him thin do Ihe talking himself II is not tint Alex is shy is be cause he speaks no I nclish year old high school student arrived in Acton on documentation had been Saturday from Monterrey lift Mr It is looking forw lo is in ity it only ills one day gathered that the Human vices Council realized had become another add on body admitted some of the press rtleascs sent con tamed information Marks said Mexico an student 1 in is fluent in will help in k she em is looking forward i iil irnmc how to ski ind lie lie isktdltachtr Keith s is very different one of the men re if Mixieo He irnved sponsible for his being here it his for next ftw when snow wis going lo with the it lorn I fellowship Buffalo Spanish is only lanjuajt he but is able lo communicate with others v la ye old Ariel Leal Ariel ind his family moved to Acton from Toronto and to Toronto from Argentina and Mrs ind firmly ninths Mr on Tidey unit I I lie food was very different but Iht autumn colors art new to Alex he says through his interpreter hut he was not aware llu would fall off the trees before winter Loads of gravel for Wallace St Hills works com decided Tuesday night lo put some more gravel on Wallace Street so the road will be usable The received letters from Paul Nielsen and Councillor Pal signed by numerous Acton businesses and industries all calling for Wallace Street to be brought up lo standard and provincial money available to the street pa as Councillor Hyde noted the committee has discussed Wallace Street in the past and considered making It a gravel bypass possibility of Wallace Street being used as a truck for the next works committee meeting Austin told the tommlttcc plans for proper construction of Wallace Street call for quite usable for ibout a month it spring Austin told come and how long it lasts I he duly routine hours are ilso to Alex In Mexico school classes last from nine a m until with el starting in Aug runninc through to hint is eight dock lunch it noon but dinner until or eight p I hero is usually a tea five pm he says Alex is enthusiastic about the I nglish lang and Canadian customs he is unable to said he I think home for Christmas because engineering plans could be of lus contract with the Inter completed for early construe nition fellowship used as a truck route Nielsen letter noted over 100 vehicles are using road as it is now each day He suggested there was enough traffic now lo warrant letter indicated of property in the Minister of Transportation Mill and Communications James Boulevard and Main Street Snow has said there may be areas PI anil started He said the engineering for Wallace Street ihext irsoatonsulting engineer should be hired I finish it and deal with the big problems likt drainage and intersection design The committee it fill put enough gravel on the and the town should plans for Wallace were rood to make it passable apply for It right away started last fall but haven I said he would have requested been completed yet engineering report on engineer Robert Austin pre- We could put a few loads Wallace Street for the next pare a report dealing with the of grovel on it and it would be meeting However he is looking for wird to Canadian Christ mas and comparing with tint of Mexico The student is also glad he is totally immersed In the language This way ho says through Ariel he must learn Ihe language in order lo communicate Continued on Page ALEJANDRO ALEX GUERECA standing on left a visiting Mexican student attending high school in Acton speaks to interputer Ariel Leal a former Argentina resident now living in Acton and teacher Keith Black the man responsible for Alex being here Seated are Michelle and Jones members of the family with whom Alex is staying