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Something for everyone at Back to Acton Days very thing but the red Among the booths set up of Acton will be made and i ival at the old town hall The den Is of town will be arriving Doug Freed vice chair opening at a closing at will be made at m Satur getting Into the pet is being rolled out for will be a Chamber of Com presentation of past mayors Walt Disney production The at the old town hall after man of the Save the Acton The pit barbeque and day things many of them weekend Back to Acton information centre in at the old town halt will take Computer Wore Tennis Shoes running from the Glen Town Hall Committee and beer garden open at 2 pro Babysitting will also be heading various Everything but the red carpet is being rolled out for this weekend Back to Acton Canada Day celebrations The calendar of events begins tomorrow Thursday at noon with the opening of the booths Various organ Ira tlons In Acton and district will be having booths put up in the mall area from the railroad tracks to Main on Mill Street and between Mill and Bower Ave on Willow St Among the booths set up will be a Chamber of Com information centre in the Real Estate build the corner of Mill and Bower Ave and a the Town Hall Committee in formation booth at the Senior Citizens room in the old town hall Willow St Here in formation on the history and proposed future plans can be lined A of the Town of Aclon will be made and presentation of past mayors al the old town halt will take place it 7 m A blue grass festival will also be taking place this time and the Citizens Band will have roving concert until Booths open Friday the actual anniversary of Con federation at noon close al J Starling at I p m thin will be a blue test at the old town hall The Walt Disney production The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes will be shown in the at SI regardless of age This will begin at 1 p m both i- and Saturday The movie Woodstock will be shown at the same place at m both nights for per person At approximately members of Ihe Aclon Track Club and various other res dents of town will be arriving at old town hall after running from the Glen Williams town hall deliver messages and flags from residents in that community Glen Williams runners will In turn be running from Acton to the Glen also delivering messages and flags It is hoped Miss Acton Fall I- air Charmalne Louis C ho rlebois president of the Chamber of Comm Doug Freed vice chair man of the Save the Acton Town Hall Committee and various town officials will be on hand to greet the runners A pit barbeque and beer garden will be held at Mill St between Fellow and Wilbur from 5 p m to mid night A street dance at the same location will take place from 8 m to midnight Saturday the action slows down a bit with the booths opening at 10 a closing at The pit and beer garden open at 2 pro Sunday sees Prospect Park being utilized with a fish derby during the day and fireworks during the evening Two draws will be held one draw supporting the town hall and the other for an made and donated by Linda Nellis owner of the Acton Yarn Barn also for the town hall fund Both draws will be made at 5 m Satur day Babysitting will also available at the Y throughout the weekend compliments of the Acton business Asoccia lion The blue grass concert will be featuring such groups as Hills Dare Devils Kent Tocher The Country Earl Burt and other prise guests Most town merchants arc getting Into the swing of things many of them In fact heading various committees for the weekend However some have pledged to contrl a certain percentage of their day receipts towards the town ball fund the threat of town hall demolition Halton Hills the celebrations may help restore some of Actons identity One Hundred and Second YearNo ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JUNE 29 1977 Twenty Two PagasF Cents Mill mess- repairs soon Marks RETIRED EMPLOYEES of got together on Thursday for the annual Retirement Party Old friends were reunited and stones caught up on Sitting at the front of the picnic table are Charlie Lands borough Stan ley Cripps and Albert Ware Back row White Percy Evans Theo and Robert Turner standing Mill Streets crumbling curbs and sidewalks shouldn be around much longer Councillor Mike Arm strong told Hilton Hills Mondiy night of last week Councillor Peter asked man of works committee whit was going lo be done iboul the problem said the com date on Mill Street work is June and noted the contrite for the curbs and suit valks wis supplied by a firm Hi txpl the firm says isn its faull town says it isn ihe mumcipalilv fault cither Ik iid results of lists on the ire due soon There is some suggestion the con crete is deteriorating because work was done in cold weather at the own s insist to facilitate the Santa parade and Christmas shopping Armstrong said the solicitor has been in louch with the general contractor indicating the work must be repaired and added the con suiting engineer has also talked to the builder or sidewalks He said he expects a resolution of the problem by this Friday Marks asked if this meant Ihe town would either fix the sidewalks soon or the firm responsible for the mess would said yes Storm brewing over Region bldg It appeared last week hal Regional Council had jumped the last in a series of hurdles on route to getting the new regional headquarters building project off the ground But now a week liter the project is far from being free of problems Peter Lush the region s current landlord and he president of a large develop ment firm based in Burling ton announced this week he has a motion before the Supreme Court of Ontario asking that the law passed by the region awarding Ihi contract be quashed The motion will be heard In a telephone interview Lush told this newspaper that there had been a lot of con us ion concerning whether or not a third reading had been given to the b law confusion about a parkwav belt exemption and confusion about the report coming out of the building committee Mr Lush said the of the building worked out to about per square foot he claimed that is about 10 Three calls on weekend Three fires on the weekend saw little reports fire chief Holmes A call on to Dillon saw no damage as an over healed dip tank gave off fumes There was no sign of fire the chief says and firefighters staved it the plant until the tank cooled down Ontario Hydro was in to make repairs lo a hvdro pole which caught fire on Saturday The pole locited on Sideroad between the and the Sixth line was damaged alter a short in the lead in wire caused sparks and set the pole on fire Firefighters pulled the transformer switch disrupting power to area homes and waited until Ontario dro came onto the scene Firefighters rushed to the corner of Mill and Main Sunday when a car driven b Wilfred Love of had smoke coming from under the hood Mr Holmes says there was no lire just smoke and fumes when the car overheated first diss Triple office The for the building doesn i lend itself to pansion for building lo i i pregnant Mi ft building one bedroom house don know the forum rttonil nil ike slid one government will evolve leider of the opposition sajs if In premier he II 1 bin 1 or curtail po of the regnn bo it dnisn I or 1 ibtril region is to ihingt lu is ritual the region for the overage in the should lo and said sticking on the mill rate next is just with He said Ihe to be in such i rush to get the building up it paid no He sud the region still hisn go on I Belt and it will need zonmg for the tv That tike two irs The whole exercisi i lei region shoul hi I t tht lush told i budge il Iiiil the and should do thi sune If the enough momv t provide ilequile spiee the injection mienl be unrt Bui is per more llian il business ire I ivme for iripli Institution I past but 1 don I think we can afford that kind of con slruction and waste he said Lush said lhat some people will say his interest in the is purelj There had been no mention of any problem with an ex cm pi ion during the last council meeting On Friday the region was advised by the Ministry of Housing that an because he is the exemption would be required president of company that it would be advertised ind then there would be i waiting period of two weeks Main Street sewer work starts Monday Main Streets inlirsectton with Mill Strett be Hit target of work n Ihi north south road next iteordmgtotowningmierBob will hnd north is got ihe whuh is valued it undtrSBOOOOO Mr of will be handled block block Mr said solution to the route of traffic has lo be determined hi said when work gits in the neighborhood of School Lam Street off Main leasing space to the But he said he hoped reconsideration of the building lould be arranged Mv motion the court is for the good ind welfare of ill citizens ind on discussions with some councillors and press reports lush said it ippeartd not all of the in presented lo council I hope ill of the information can be prepared and the matter reconsidered he said Burlington Mayor Mary Munro opposed the awarding of a contract at the last meeting and altempted to hive a special meeting called to reconsider the matter bee she felt a lot of members had not understood vhat had been presented She attempted lo have sign a petition for special meeting to be called ihe had of the signatures before she learned lhat Regional Chairman Hie Morrow had signed the contract two davs before the deadline without idvismg following the two period if Iherc are no ob jections Ihe provincial treasurer could authorize the exemption or refer to a of Burlington hearing The region has already got an extension of the deadline w ith Ihe contractor from June July If work t started then the contract is considered null and void That would leave the region in a position where it would have to award a new contract possibly at a higher price Chief Adminlslra live Officer Ernie said staff had been preparing an application for exemption since the beginning of the year He said he hoped exemption could be an prior to the deadline for the contract July He said it is possible lhat another extension of the deadline could be agreed upon Mr noted the region had bought the land from the province for use as a head quarters site He said that while staff knew the application would have o be made il had been implied that the approval wou be there when was During a meeting of Milton the region gets an Councll night council exemption from the Parkway passed a resolution asking to Belt the building could be lsec the dates for a delaved with or without the hearing concerning the her The Burlington Major was furious told reporters lhat Morrow action was both irresponsible and lacked court motion before the court exemption TOWN RESIDENTS ARE getting into the mood for this week first ever Back to Acton Days Activities get underway at noon Thursday and carry over to the annual Firefighters fireworks display Sunday evening Gord above and Cathy set the trend with near period costumes for Friday sstreet dance and Bar Suggest town pay for offstreet parking The question of financing off street parking in down town Acton caused a pro longed argument at Hills financeadminislratlon committee Councillor Peter Marks suggested town owned land in be sold to raise 000 and the merchants would pro vide the other He said merchants who already pro vide their own ample parking should be exempted The Marks claimed each municipality brought lia 1 ihties and assets to Ihe imalgamation He said Acton brought in an arena thai was completely paid for downtown benefits more than the businessman and said over tht years the merchants had contributed much more in taxes than they received Councillor Roy Booth is paying debentures for Cordon snd vmaa Georgetown which provide for Gordon He said he ant to get into a paro chial discussion He said Ihe merchants have lo know a rough dollar cost to each of them so they know what they re doing Councillor Peler Morris property has been purchased contended off street parking three merchants who said normally provided the they would sell it back lo the business community can another town at the same price The set gelling into a cost sharing merchants paid but scheme it would be the motion by Marks to have demolition legal fees and beginning the town pav half the cost of casements will cost 7 Councillor Walter land purchase easements Marks described it as an pointed out plazas provide and demolition from the sale unique situation their own parking and said he townowned land Chairman Miller said see how Ihe town other naif their own parking I can see how we can justify spending tax dollars lo pro vide parking for merchants agreed saying it would be dynamite to sub sidize one area and not could subsidize other parts from the business merchants Marks claimed a thriving was defeated Two depts want same Acton office DAY CAMP LEADERS left Friday for a one week training session in Bolton There they will learn everything from crafts to child psychology Front Colleen DeBruyn and Lynda Back row Karen Glenn and playground supervisor Rick The joint use of the Y MCA Councillor Roy Booth asked building in Acton the town if the fire chief could move to and Acton Community Ser the fire hall ices Centre ran into a bit of Chief Holmes said the same difficuitv Monday night at problem would arise as Hills financeadminis sparked his move in the first tratlon committee place there would be no The problem hinged on or telephone for Fire Chief service Mick Holmes and the is the Fire Chief department who in the being kicked out anyway words of Councillor Peter demanded Mayor Tom Hill Marks want the same office Acton Community Ser at the front of Ihe building vices are not trying to kick The Fire Chief has been anyone out they were merely using the office for the pas trying to share the renl three years the town to reduce cost said Recreation Director Glen Councillor Peter Marks Gray said the storage area He said the idea had been proposed for an office for that Acton Community Ser- recreaUon vices have one side of the coordinator was unsuitable building and the town have for full time occupancy the other side Chief Holmes pointed out Councillor Peter Moms the recreation department is claimed the town would then being looked now with have 1 square feet they out being in the front of the don need if the Community building The deserve a fire office to them The mayor asked why Acton Community Services Centre can t find other get a grant from the region Marks said the town rent would be instead of if the area is not shared The mayor contended they should negotiate with the and not upset the apple cart with the town staff In other words Services were not there wc can rearrange the office The committee agreed to try to work something out and held over the BIA to meet with special consulting firm The preliminary proposals give the proposals Bob Tor the Improvements and Austin the town engineer and beaut if cation of the Acton Mario Vendetti town plan- business centre will be dis and local councillors will cussed next Wednesday July also be present at a public meeting in Ihe The BIA is encouraging all merchants representatives The new Business Improve- of service clubs and anyone telling the Acton Community Association is holding else interested in the well Services to fly a kite the meeting at which the con- being of the community to retorted Booth suiting firm will be on hand to attend