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Two hour limit said second best parking Hal ton Hills works com mlttee has recommended council pass a by law to repeal the existing traffic by laws in Acton to bring in a two hour parking limit between a and In downtown Acton The new regulations will apply to Main Street between Knox and Mill on the west and St Albans Drive and Mill on the east side The two hour limit will also apply on Mill Street between Main and 100 feet west of Bower Avenue on the north side and on Mill Street bet ween Main and Wilbur on the south side Willow Street between St Albans Drive and Church Street and Johr Street bet ween Mill and Church will also have a two hour parking limit No parking zone on the west side of Willow south from Mill will be cut back from 125 feet to just GO feet while parking will be prohibited on the west side John Street feet back from Mill Street Parking will be Illegal on the north side of Mill Street 100 feet west of Bower and there will be no parking on the south side of Church Street between Main and Willow There will be no parking on the east side of Churchill Road North between McDonald Boulevard and Queen Street and on the north and west sides of Mill Street between Park and Cobblehill Road The town will also post no parking zones within 30 feet or each intersection It will take anywhere from two weeks to two months to have these new regulations approved by Queens Park after the by law is passed Engineer Bob Austin said the parking law changes were the second best solution to traffic problems In Acton He said he would prefer to have parking taken off one side of Mill Street altogether but this proposal would meet with too much opposition Don Lindsay of the Acton Business Association said he and other merchants would agree to no parking on one side of Mill Street If there was adequate off street parking but there t He said the drive for more off street parking progressing as well as it should be either He said there are people who won Invest In off street parking until such time as parking restrictions like Councillor Duby sold he hopes everyone realizes more street parking regulations will be coming once there is off street parking available Parking Authority will be asked to look over the parking restrictions committee ap proved and the town will ask police to enforce the new laws as stringently as possible One Hundred and rd Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JULY Twenty Pages Fifteen Cants Hydro looking at Essa power line longer than original ICG idea Ontario Hydro a kV power cor from Bruce to that would be longer than the one often proposed by the ted Citizens Group ICG an inquiry learned last week The ICG John Schneider introduced as evidence an Ontario Hydro plan from last year which shows a right of way from the Bruce nuclear generating station to Meaford in a straight line then takes an shaped route to link with a north south line south of Essa The north south is from near Sudbury to For four years the ICG has suggested taking power from the Bruce to Essi but cording to Hydro such a route has not been worth study Previous testimony from a Hydro witness shows the provincial utility has in definite plans for property near Meaford on Georgian Bay and also that Hydro owns MO acres along the coast at Delphi Paint near Collingwood Both properties do not figure in the shaped rlghtof way on the Hydro map The revelation of Ontario Hydro plans for the next years came from hearings in Acton Legion The hearings concern Hydros proposed Bradley Georgetown power corridor The only witness called so far in the inquiry Hydros Art described the plans contained in Planning of the Ontario Hydro East System as conceptual This is one of about a dozen considerations said One of the maps is 1990s Hearing officer Donald pleaded with Ontario Hydro to introduce evidence I a bled at previous inquiries on the but which Hydro lawyer Tom Marshall refuses to enter We arc required to look at alternatives and that the Essa situation But don t think we be allowed in any way to do that at nil said last November ruled that evidence con corning alternate routes could not be entered into an expropriation hearing The Supreme Court of Ontario however directed in in appeal by the hearing officers must listen to evidence about alternate routes Ontario Hydro is avoiding the of the court ruling charged ICG lawyer Leon Now you hit the nail on the head replied Meynck also rebutted Hydros contention that the Bruce Essa route was never considered In the Solandt Commission hearings in there are references to Hydro probes into the concept We invite Hydro to at least present to me a review of what was given to the Envionmental Hearing Board and the Solandt Commission on the question of the ruling pleaded Years ago On la no Hydro proposed taking power from Bruce to Kitchener the Nanticoke MAP SHOWS HYDRO S 500 kV rightof way from Bruce nuclear station on Lake Huron The route first goes to on Georgian Bay then takes an rath south and east to link up south of Essa The map shows Hydro concepts for the mid 1990s The Interested Citizens Group has for years called for a line from Bruce to Essa rather than from Bruce to Milton nearest large centre The take the power to Milton area cost of million resulted in distance would be about on a line that about 109 capital costs and line loss in miles Instead the then miles long having to switch from Kit energy minister Darcy Using rough figures ICG to Milton ruled Hydro must lawyer Paroian determined a Schneider pressed Hydro Mosher for cost of a Essa line after said the price of lines is an impor consideration in Hydros of routes Do you have if the cost asked Schneider Can you provide that cost data The answer is no Hydro lawyer Marshall stood up and replied for Mosher don t know if they can or thev con The is no Earl on Paroian the lawyer Hydro to study the ICG alternate while the hearings recessed There is a break unlit because of lawyers holidays and previous commitments In the time wo stand down they Hydro have an opportunity to study the alternate Paroian said Charges biased rulings sparked exchanges in the earlier sessions last week accused hearing officer of favoring Ontario Hydro while Meyrick maintained he was being fair Since the Supreme Court ruling Ontario Hydro has maintained a position of not bringing forth evidence or witnesses The hearings went for two- and a half days Toward the end of May Minister James Taylor granted Hydro the right or expropriations along the middle section of the proposed line from a point near Colbeck to just north of Highway Expropriation of lands has already started in itio northern leg of the line from Bruce to Colbeck near WALKING THE PLANK Sue Buchanan picks her way along the boards which construction crews put up Thursday Bridges allowed customers to get into shops while work goes on along Mill St Art Meunier Fear leads man to crime BIA improvements depend on parking Hydro power boosters A consultant hired by the Business Improvement Area told his employers he did not need the job if they Continue to bicker over moving some parking spaces The consultant Doug Flowers told a BIA meeting CRANE HOISTS A section of the old curbs at the corner of Willow St and Mill St New curbs have been poured and lockstone sidewalks follow If you re going to sit here and resist moving a half dozen parking spaces then get rid of us Because you don t need us and we don need you Mr Flowers and partner Dan Nixey of Limited Planning Consult ants were at last Wednes day meeting in the building to exchange ideas with merchants on what the downtown area Is to look like Also on the agenda was taxes but the chatter hopscotched onto parking the Christmas bus littering loitering and other downtown topics Parking dominated part of the evening discussion with Don Lindsay suggestion the lobby the Esqueslng and Georgetown councillors to get Halton Hills council to kick in 50 per cent of the cost of buying the Bakery land The Acton councillors are all in favor of the pur chase Mr Lindsay of A Market said Council last week turned down a bid for the town to pay half the cost of parking Mr Lindsay agreed with the consultants future beautiflcatlon of the down town core beyond the inter locking brick sidewalk hinges on a solution to the lack of off street parking In and near the core The BIA was created under provincial legislation late last year A BIA undertakes to improve municipal lands create an Image for itself and promote the downtown as a place for shoppers The BIA in town stretches from near the CNR tracks in the east to Park Avenue In the west The blocks flanking Mill Street are also in the area board of management came under heavy criticism for its handling of money Braidu Acton Home furnishings and Bert ton cent toll said they would like to have been told before they got their tax bills just how much money they ore expected to Pay Tax bills were delivered the Mon day and Tuesday before the meeting really resent not being told how much I had to pay Miss told the group of merchants I take great exception to raising for the rather than parking Mr said He also asked if It would have been too much effort for the BIA to print a proposed budget present it to members BIA president Henry said the group handled the budget the way it did for fear of criticism We had to do It this way because of fear of being accused of droggingourfeet And rightly so he said treasurer Bill ActonPharmacyLtd agreed with criticism of a lack of communication between the Continued on Page Art Committee defers new Hydro bid Regional Land Division Committee deferred for one month an Ontario Hydro bid to assemble land south of Avenue for two kV corridors planned to Intersect near Milton moved the hearing bo postponed because he said he was concerned over the lack of public aware ness of the meeting before the committee He said he was also concerned as were other committee members because the town of Oak planners had not sent in a report The meeting was in the Seventh Line offices Tuesday Morrow observed Ontario Hydro failed to post notices of the application Matheson appearing for Hydro said he was aware only the day before the meet ing that notices had to be set up for neighbors to read Notices must be posted hours before a committee meeting The land in question is acres in the south west half of Lot on the Fifth Line The area used to belong to Oak Mr contended that the use of the land by Hydro would conform to the official plan He had a copy of the bylaw for the committee to read However Mr said he would like to know how interpreted its official plan and also how Hills interprets Oak s official plan since the Continued on Pago An immobolizing fear of society kept Arthur in jail for years of his life Prisons were his only homes convicts his only friends until March 1977 when he was released for the final time On July 1 Mr moved to Acton with a bust ness partner and now hey are facing the loneliness of a strange town Mr Meunier s story has been told in every major newspaper in the world s race is familiar to every across North America and his experiences in prisons so invaluable he has been named prison ambassador and named to special committees invest gating various penal ins tit tions in Canada he says Problems start young Mr story began when he was three years old His parents were killed in a boating accident and the small child was sent to live under the care of the Catholic Church Because of the depression the church could not afford to keep him so as Mr Meunier says a childless couple was forced to adopt the orphan His new parents believed in corporal punishment and beat the child regularly They gave him nothing and taught him to steal Tor their own means He was only punished when caught then he was beaten When 11 years old Mr Meunier was caught by the local law enforcement agency at New Brunswick He spent the night in jail and put on two years probation When he returned home the next day his mother beat him black and blue as Mr Meunier recalls threw him out of the house She had broken bones and her last words to him were that she never wanted to see him again With no place to go no money bleeding and in pain the child had no choice but to go back to the police He asked them to let him serve his sentence in jail because there was nowhere else for him to go At this time there was no Children Aid Society to take him In Mr says and the police agreed It would be the best thing for Arthur Once in Jail the boy was accepted by the other prisoners They became his friends the first ones ho had in his life He was rejected as he was on the outside and he was not sub jected to the daily beating and abuse For the first time in his life he was treated like a brother or son He felt as if he had finally come home When the two years were up Arthur was 13 old with no place to go Within a few days of his release he stole a piece of lend and a watch fob and went lately to the police to admit his crime with the intentions of getting back into jail His plan worked and once again he ias put I The wis set and continued for m he grew older Mr crimes grew more Hi munh us caught for cheques jo nil AH this was doit with the deliberate of returning home to Mr en that not in 1 is entire life of me did he commit an He ever Continued on Page AFTER years m Canadian and American Arthur Meunier was released for the tune in March He and Richard the young actor who will play the ex convict s youth in a movie about his life are living in Acton and planning to write a book Will petition Very good was the assessment of the members of the Actonians for Action committee Monday when they surveyed petition sheets signed voluntarily In stores and banks by people The petition sheets will accompany a which will be presented to the provincial government The brier ap peared in the Free Press In full The committee will also be attending a of the regional committee which is reviewing 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