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B The Acton Free Press Wed November Ho ho ho and all that jazz Santa Claus Is coming to town again The annual Santa Claus Parade will be held on December and this little lady will once more be dragging her donkey down Mill Street I sure don want to be alone Last year there was quite an uproar when it looked as If Acton wouldn have a parade at Everybody and his brother came out of hiding to help organize the event and it turned out to be the best darned Santa Clans parade the old town has seen Let do the same this year trying to contact previous entrants but hope for many mora Horses and riders ponies buggies small floats clowns bikes you- name- It all are needed Please phone Dana Coates If you re Interested The Royal- the largest agricultural fair on the continent iscoming up In fact it will be half over by the time this goes to press The dates are November through November 21 It s always such an exciting time although this is the first year we exhibited for ages However instead of horses chickens Erica has entered some of her prize birds and dreams of international acclaim If it wasnt for a couple of very kind gentlemen who took an interest in a little girl with a fancy she t have the basement full of freshly washed chickens now These two gentlemen have been feathery godfathers to Erica making sure she had really good birds and knew how to care for them The result of their patient teaching is a happy girl who spends hours talking to caring for and grooming her birds And this is one grateful mum Birds In the basement Mind you I wasn t so sure about gratitude when we spent several hours soaked to the gills shampooing chickens The Silkies are small and used to it so all the soaping rinsing conditioning bleaching and drying weren too bad But the Buffs were something else They re a huge fluffy bird with exquisite golden feathers It quite a disappointment when they lay ordinary eggs you d think they d lay golden ones at least These birds are so large they wouldn t fit into the rinsing had to be dipped bit3 This isn easy with a co operative but when you re fighting a belligerent rooster the size of a small pony who doesn take to this washing all Within minutes our bathroom looked as if the Titanic had resurfaced and I was in no shape to receive visitors I said words like darn it and Oh golly while Erica cooed Dear little Reuben is she holdingyou too tight Dear little Reuben and his pals are now in temporary pens in the basement so they won freeze their little feathers before the show and we re startled by cheerful crows floating up the furnace pipes Sure wakes you up in a hurry The things we do for our children Silverwood October rain 240 in honor bridal pair Tax reform Dont want handouts Halton farmers say ANNE HOLMES of Georgetown gives a roof seat brake a the century coach belonging to J D Pemberton of Acton a final polishing before the Royal Mr Pemberton entered most of the coaching classes with his fine Gelderland horses pulling several antique vehicles candidate install meets her voters traffic M Chamber Candidate for the provincial riding of Wellington Duffenn Peel has been out and about in widely scattered parts of the riding during recent months meeting voters and timing their problems She his found rapidly ing support for the and she finds wide in ill areas of the on the necessity for new solutions And people ire more and ni feel the should i chant is bttominj in involved in assist ing who hovt trouble getting through the racv of dcrn government Recent cases she has taken up on behalf of those visited had included ones dealing with Workmen Citizenship and High w Improvements Mrs Chambers has fluently been requested to hold public meetings for in Mount and Mono Mills and these she hopes organize boon as well as continuing with her visiting program throughout the riding Retiring Andy the unofficial Mayor of Milton for the three years he is planning to retire from Chamber of Com meree work By Alicia Scott October rainfall inches There were also plenty of snow flurries which were not measured Mr and Mrs Lindsay opened their home to a party to honor Sheila Henderson recently The couple was pre sented with a card table and chairs Euchre was enjoyed by a large crowd and winners were Muriel Miller first for ladies Don Maveal first for men Sheila and Klaus Klooster were married November Silverwood I held the November meeting at the home of Mrs Glffen on Thursday evening November 11 at p m Fifteen members answered roll call My favourite kitchen gadget The president read a poem of Rudyard Lest We Forget I invited members to attend a short course on dairy food Wed November at Several W I members attended district day at Ash grove and a member gave an account of the activities to those who were unable to Ho ho Erin Santa Claus parade will be Saturday Nov sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce It begins at m Mrs Giffcn gave current events It was decided to hold the annual Christmas party Dec Mrs Anne was candidate to the area at Kitchener and gave a full report of the meeting Mrs read an ar tide on coffee The first coffee advt appeared in 1652 and down until present time its increase in use is 97 million pounds a year The meeting closed with a social half hour Community sympathy is extended to the Burt family on the death or Mrs Daisy Foster Pearl Burt mother Get Well wishes go lo Mrs Wilda Breen who is a patient in Georgetown Hospital Its no bull- he was rented The bull got the best deal on this farm commented Credit Valley Conservation Authority member Ken Whillans of Brampton referring to the dispersal of Authority owned cattle on the Vaughn farm in the Silvercreek Conservation Although the remaining Hereford cows heifers and steers are to be sold the bull is rented from Reg Cooper for an annual summer fee of He is transported the five miles home each fall Authority Chairman Grant C larks on was upset when he learned the cattle were still on the farm even though the deci to sell had been month ago CVCa executive are currently discussing plans for the maintenance of the farm and its possible future use as an educational centre Toronto restauranteur John Arena previously leased the farm and had applied for a long term lease In order to raise pheasants The Department of Natural Resources turned down a lease of longer duration than a year and Mr Arena backed out WELCOME SERVICE If you are new in town or know someone who is PHONE 8533902 HOMESTEAD We are one of the stores in the new Guelphview Square Building in Georgetown At the present time we are in the process of moving into our new location However we are still able to do business with you We still have a number of good low deals on home furnishings Drop in soon and see us Street at corner and Mountainview Jomestea- INTERIORS FURNITURE signal 11011 Public Works Committee recom mended accept nee of tender from l for the of riffle signal lights it the interscc tion of Inf ltd Hornby Currently that intersection is protected by a four stop The low tender imc in it Including nginecrmL the job is According to the President and two members of the Halton Federation of Farmers don t want government handouts We want to pay our own way We don want hand outs Harold told Regions Plan Committee He was commenting on the proposed Reform of Property Tax in Ontario The proposal would see farmers taxed on Town orders clean up Hills council wants Durarle to stop dumping junk on his land on the west half of Lot ID Concession ive following numerous complaints from neighbors Councillor Rust Miller the owner who lives In Tor is turning his land into a wrecking yard and residents want action He will be sent a registered letter if the junk isn t re moved within lo days the works staff will be ordered to on the property to clean it up their home and building but the tax on the farm lands would be based on market value assessment and paid by the province to the munid polity Mr said the farmers are concerned that they may have to pay back large sums of money if and when they choose to sell their land After 10 years of farming we could find ourselves SCO in debt North Burlington farmer Tom told the committee He said the farmer t want any further on his land He pointed to capital gains sue cession taxes land transfer taxes and a host of other taxes the to face when he sells land Productive value The delegation told the committee farm lands should be taxed on productive value of the land not market value Market value assessment would be to Hz times greater than the current assessment A staff report indicates that there are properties in Halton assessed as farms In all there ore 397 farm acres in the region Mr Middlebrook told the committee he waB concerned that the public would look on farm land as public land if the taxes were paid by the pro vince Snowmobile clubs have already gone to the province asking the use of farmland or if the taxes are paid from the province he explained In spite of staff opposition the committee agreed to sup port taxation based on pro ductive value of farmland as opposed to market value assessment Planner Bob White the committee He noted that property taxes on rural lands set at next to nothing served as an five for urban people to live in rural areas More specula Lion He submitted that exempt farmlands from the market value assessment would lead to more on land By imposing market assessment the region could enforce us declared aim of preserving prime farmland He claimed more land would be put into production under the new ax system Farm representative Norman Bird said farmers were concerned about the uncertainty of the effect the reforms will have The government gives the impression that this will help the farmer at government expense Farmers feel thdr problems are being multi plied The planning committee is seeking a meeting with Provincial Treasurer Darey and Minister of Agriculture Bill Newman in order to present a brief and discuss the proposed 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