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The Acton Free Press Wed Decembers 197o Farmers challenge Minister at BruceHuron meeting Chriatmaa 76 this Is a very short eulogy to a house for something kind warm loving and comfortable It been four years since our little log cabin emerged from a pile of cedar logs Sounds very pioneer but it actually a modern made from B cedar However the spirit is there and wood Is one of the cosiest warmest of building materials This little house tiny by conventional standards less than ft feels like a friendly rabbit warren to me Every time I come home pull It around me and dive into Its safe depths this way before it must be home Cupboard but After years of renovating huge ungainly farm houses to plan a compact residence with CLOSETS and wall space was a dream We had such fun surveying the ten acre Bite choosing the angle of foundation and watching the hole dug Mack merely built the house To me fell the enormous Job of making endless phone calls organizing assistants and shaving the pennies off the budget We were plagued by strikes The house was weeks late having sat on a siding in B all that time held up by the lumbermen strike When it finally arrived we had only three weeks before we had to leave the farm We were Informed one Friday that a car load of lumber for us was at the station and we could remove it when we wanted as long as It was soon All day Saturday with the help of many friends we carted pieces of house the seven miles to our site For days we sorted the endless jigsaw puzzle gazing awestruck at the great pile of logs and the minute instruction booklet Actually the house was designed so well very few instructions were necessary If you thought in terms of I OWnSnlD building blocks it seemed very simple Three weeks later the house was up and we moved in In fact I was moving boxes into the basement the day after the cement floor was poured I was even carrying furniture up the stairs as the carpenter was laying the last steps The fact that we have hydro or plumbing remember the seem We were home Four years later the bouse has settled We probably never be able to remove the penny I stuck between the logs during building the penny that indicated we d never be OSPHINGE SCHOOL CHOIR sang Christmas held last Thursday The gym was filled to carols at the annual School Chnstmas concert capacity with parents and friends anxious to see the efforts of every class Elmer McKinnon closes a chapter completely broke Being log construction the house is alive and moves as the logs contract and expand with moisture Itsquiteeerietosee the thermostat wire become slack or taut depending on which way the house is travelling kind of like the tide It now comfortably decorated in early kitty litter The living room is done in gold shag rug and beige cat hair Plants and wood are everywhere The only exception to my very strong anti animal skin feelings is an Icelandic sheep skin rationalized by the fact that the animal was killed for meat anyway It drapes over a chair in such a way the Himalayan cat finds it a good place to snooze Unfortunately she the some color as the rug and rcquently gets sat upon A great deal of the furniture is Mack made the rest is just old and pleasant The walls are with horse pictures and family nostalgia The focal point is the central fireplace forming the wall between kitchen and living room Made from old colonial brick it adds warmth and makes an In teresting conversation piece A lot thank The people who made this house possible will be always remembered Alec Johnson for patiently finding the property June Warner for whimsically referring to the land In transactions as our 10 acre ranch Don McDonald then TD bank manager who engineered the financing Joe Bcnham and Bob Jestin carpenters without whom we would be living in a hole in the ground and the many friends who tossed logs around in return for a beer Christmas Is a time for sentiment and nostalgia and It seems as if I m doing my share I only know this house is special and we become more aware of these things at Chnstmas From all of us from Mack Jenny Pat and Erica all the animals and from Merry Christmas Johnson wants better bussing not cutbacks Jack Johnson for Welling Duffenn Peel spoke out strongly against the threatened reduction of bus service to Western Ontario I II oppose any cutbacks right down the line what we need are more buses not fewer Mr Johnson said The future of bus service such centres as Fergus Orangevilte Mount Forest and Arthur is tain in the wake of a recent Ontario Highway Trans Board decision per Greyhound lo run buses on the lucrative route Gray Coach which had pre viously enjoyed a monopoly on this run claims that it stands to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue as a result and that it will be forced to reduce or abandon unprofitable West em Ontario routes in order to break even Senior citizens students and other people who don have cars need to be able to get around and the bus vice we have now Is already very limited and often venient There was not much the Province could do when the federal government allowed the railways to cut off service lo this area Mr Johnson said but there is a great deal it can do about bus service and I intend to push strongly for improved routes Mr Johnson was critical of the decision saying a com like Greyhound be allowed to come in and make a lot of money from one busy route without providing service to smaller less profitable ities I not that strong a sup porter of Cray Coach either Mr Johnson pointed out They claim to lose a lot of by Doris Fines On December Elmer McKinnon will close the book on a chapter of his life that began years ago His municipal career started in 1952 when he assumed the role of Welfare Officer for Erin Township then he spent years as tax assessor Meanhile in 1962 he accepted the position as Clerk of the Township moving up to Clerk Admin istrator by Many changes have taken place since those first years Assessment of Erin Township has tripled but they are using the same basis as In 1964 Taxes have increased from 60 per thousand assess mentinl96Z to in 1976 90 per cent of the increase Is for educational purposes and for the county Erin Township taxation itself In creased very little During that time the road budget has Increased from to around On council years ago Burt and Albert Wheeler were reeve and deputy reeve and when Elmer took over the books In 1962 the reeve of the Township was Mel Barden and deputy reeve was Robert Rowan Councillors were Stan Fuller Harold Griffin and Alex Jackson Elmer was born on the money in providing service lo our area Maybe this whole uproar will make Ihem realize that the way to avoid losses is to improve service so that more people will be willing to rely on the buses I convinced that if the vice were good enough there would be enough customers to make it pay Mr Johnson said he was glad the Government has sent ihc matter back to the High way Transportation Board for reconsideration and that he hoped that this would solve the problem farm lot on the line a son of Mr and Mrs Ned and has lived there all his life He fanned until when he sold it retaining a lot on which he and his wife Grace have built a house They have one daughter Marion Beside his other Elmer has been associated with the Erin Agriculture Society serving as director president and secretary manager and the A and B section of Ontario Association of Agriculture Societies serving as dent of that body in He is the only one from this area who has worked on that Board Loves horses Elmer is a lover of horses He has judged horses at fairs all across Ontario and Que bec and earned his know ledge In that capacity by raising and showing his own horses at Erin Acton and Rockwood Fairs and the Winter Fair Now as the pages of the book arc turned over Elmer says it has been an inter esting Job and he has met many nice people He has always been interested In municipal affairs as his fore fathers before him and like as not he always Will be ELAINE SHAWN CORY- PEARL- CATHY Acton era ACTON CLOSED NOTICE HOLIDAY REFUSE PICK UPS normal lv picked up Monday 1976 picked up Tuesday December 1976 Further refute noimolly picked up Tuesday December 1976 1976 Refuse normally picked up Monday January 3rd picked up Tuwday January Refuse normally plckodup Tuesday January 1977 nil be picked up Wednesday January THANK YOU TOWN OF HALTON HILLS ACTON LANES Proudly Presents For The First Time Monday Dec 27 Joan Knight Tuesday Dec 28 Jackie Parker Wednesday Dec June Beusfleld Thursday Dec 30 Jackie Friday Dec 31 Pat Wood GLOBAL TV CHANNEL 6 There was more indigestion for BruceHuron members of the Ontario Progressive Con servative Association at their annual dinner meeting In Formosa Wednesday Dec ember according to Jim The reason was a group of 15 Bruce Grey and Welling ton County farmers who the normally placid gathering to protest plans of the Davis government and Ontario Hydro to place a volt transmission line corner across their farms Main target of the fanners was Ontario Energy Minister Dennis Timbrel guest speaker at the dinner meeting Mr Timbrel has stated several times that this line whose route from Bruce to Milton was set five years ago will proceed- regard less of objections from any one had just finished his speech ridiculing the New Democrats and Lib erals when a young farmer Andrew Dunlop stood up and asked Why have the far mers had no independent study of lessdamaging alter routes Despite being ruled roder by the chairman Dun lop then asked Why is Hydro so determined to push this line diagonally across Town of Halton Hills Recreation Department Christmas Ice Skating Program in Acton and Georgetown Acton Community Centre Georgetown Memorial Arena Gordon Memorial Arena PUBLIC SKATING PUBLIC SKATING PUBLIC SKATING Dec 23 28 293076 January 1977 1 m 3 m Admission per person December22 1976 900pm December 1976 30 3 30 p Admission 35 per person 1 25perfamily Dec 23 28 30 3176 1 30p 330p Admission 35 per person FAMILY SKATING FAMILY SKATING FAMILY SKATING December2430 1976 1 m 340p Admission 35 per person 25pBrfamily Dec 1876 Jan 877 1 15pm 300pm Admission 35 per person per family December 19 26 1976 100pm Admission 35 per person SHINNY HOCKEY SHINNY HOCKEY SHINNY HOCKEY 29 11 30pm 1 30pm Admission per person Dec 23 24 27 283176 10 00a Noon hour Admission 91 person December29 9 30a 30a Admission 91 person PARENTS and TOTS PARENTS and TOTS PARENTS and TOTS Decembar29 1976 9 11 20a Admission 35 per adult December 22 130pm 330pm Admission 35 per adult December 1976 930a 11 30a m Admission 35 per adult Season Greetings to all our Patrons from your Arena Managers Harold Townsley Doug Vivian and Don Gosling Note The Arenas will be closed December 1976and January 1 1977 to allow the Staff to enjoy the Season prime farmland especially when it could pose a safety threat to farmers and their wives and children living and working near if By this time several more of the uninvited farmers were on their feet One of them Harvey Wilson demanded to know why Hydro insists on sending Bruce power to Milton when It isn needed in the Toronto area Timbrell refused to answer the on the grounds the matter Is now before the court referring to the Em prise breakdown late last month of a Hearing of In Acton near the south era end of the proposed line The Hearing at which Hydro was to show that its taking of land is fair sound and rea necessary col lapsed when the chairman refused to hear evidence challenging Hydro route decision Lawyers for the farmers rejected this and have taken the whole matter to divisional court Substitute Some researchers conclude that the custom of sending Christmas greetings developed from the tradition of visiting friends on New Year s Eve When a wellwisher discovered that person he wanted to visit was not at home most likely off visiting someone else he would leave a note and a card as a reminder of the visit Choose ft en TILDEN ANDREW MURRAY MOTORS Mount Road GEORGETOWN Last Minute Specials SELTZER r r r r 77 NEW GILLETTE RIGHT GUARD DEO STICK TONI HOME PERM CLAIROL80Z FINA NET WIG CREAM SET of 6 GLASSES r 249 LB TEA TIME COOKIES 399 PHO ALBUMS 12 BOWS and F RIBBON ELEC SHAVER CLOUDS of HERBAL J ESSENCE ATLAS MAGICUBE FLASH CUBES JUMBO CANDY CANE 66 PEN LIGHTER 179 ARID BATH TOWELS PAIR FRAGRANT FRUIT BUBBLE BATH We Wish Everyone A Very Merry Christmas Acton Pharmacy L