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Increase in calls for firefighters The Acton Free Press Wednesday August 3 1977 B3 calls have increased almost per cent in the first six months of 1977 compared to the same time period in 1976 There have been 72 calls put into the Acton Volunteer fire department from Jan to June this year up from In with gross fires having the greatest increase over last year Grass fires for the first half of totalled 18 while in 1976 the figure was only one as the biggest increase with car fires being the next biggest Increase from eight in to this year Although there were seven house fires in the same time period of both years loss totalled Inst year com pared with this year Radio and television fires stayed the same at one fire each year Clothes dryer fires In creased from none last year to one call in 1977 and false alarms have incrcsed from two lo three Garbage in VICTORY TROPHY for the winning playground in the swim meet Friday was a huge chocolate cake leader Debbie Wilson accepted the award from Judy Shadbolt Cheering their playgrounds championship are leader Cyndy Anderson Stacy Kirk Roddy and Tracy Hamilton Lome and Lorraine Buckrell and Kathy Hrkac Ken Toyne and Lara Goldsack Balhnafad garnered 31 point to 30 and Robert Littles 29 CAS waging budget battle with ministry s Aid Sot iet Hoard of Directors will not back down from a battle the board has been wag me with the Ministry of Social and The battle centres over Ministry unwillingness to i per tint in crease in the budget and the refusallo accept the per cent increase that the Ministry is willing to prove CAS Director Hon told this newspaper that the board had discussed the pro blem at a meeting night and rejected the per cent offer The had originally asked for per cent We are not satisfied with their reasons made allegations bout our operation most of which they ve backed down from and they are now our operation is as efficient as most or in the province The use to sup port the allegations is ex iremely flimsy The board is very angry about and the members have demanded in writing grounds for the allegations said the province failure lo approve the budget and Ihe many delays that have been in jeettd into the process is a Car damaged A car travelling down Line damiged its under car riage last Thursd iy morning According to police he tar driven Philip of lid ran over a rock damaging the under carriage piece of strategy He said that the province feels he longer it stalls final approval of the budget the monov can be spent this explained the is now working on a line of credit and having to borrow to the bills Ik noted the had lured nine new people this and won t let them go We have more kids in care now than in the history of the Sot let The crazy part is if hey don t us pay some street won get off wilh pacing a eent less but the kids will suffer a heck of a lot more summed up the nature the problem I don t believe our arguments anil wt don t and so we sit down calling other liars said he hoped the board could arrange an vith Kin McDonald of the Welfare Department and al that tune have all the fails laid on the table He noted two Ontario Agencies embroiled in a similar fight with the Ministry last year and it took until of this to fin ally gel it ironed out It is jus stupid has ilrtadj gone through a long drawn out to have the budget approved by the Regional council It was at that point the two parties negoti aled a that reduced requests from Gil per to per iqtrtase In other the region or his fated much smaller more requests and has held a As a result IAS officials the agenty and ihc services of it have fallen behind THISTLE CUSTODIAL SERVICE Complete INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL CLEANING Own opuratid Charlie Chyni PHONE 8531846 PHONE GEORGETOWN FARM ft HOME CENTRE Your Headquarters for Lumber and Building Supplies HOME COMMERCIAL UC CO Off SO Georgetown Farm ft Home Centre IS 333 St E OPEN Fit Stores has been the scene of three fires so far this year with only one in the same lime period in Chimney fires increased to three from two Three areas saw calls this first half which hud no calls year These were Mutual Aid Georgetown gas ion and apartment fire In garbage which saw one call each Last in the first half there was one fire in a garage and none this year fires increased this jeT There were two fires in garbage in a factory last year and Iwo in garbage this However there was also one fire in a dip tank tails also increased two tails and seven to Milton This saw five calls in Knn and nine Milton I ire Chief Mitk Holmes laid Ihe General Committee through his semi annual report that though fire calls had in creased ihe actual damage was down by approximately The chief expressed con over Ihe high number of grass fires These increases in incidents are mainly in the area of grass and vehicle fires and in my are due to the Increase in the built up rural area and more and more vehicles on the roads Vehicle fires are mainly defects in wiring and the grass fires arc usually during a clean up period on a windy day the report said Mr Holmes reports fire prevention officer Larry and deputy fire chief liobcrt Hyde are a real asset to he department and the men will be concentrating their efforts on the excessive grass and vehicle fire inci dents Press files for the first quarter of show fire loss was up severely in the same time period from In 1970 from January I to March were nine local calls with damage In the same period of there were seven local calls with damage In both years there were also calls to accidents car fires and out of township calls Mr Holmes explained at the time however that the larger fire loss amount was due to a fire at the Dominion hotel Meet in Sept The Acton Business As sociation held their July executive meeting last week The August meeting will be cancelled and the group will gather September In the meantime any concerns can be taken to any member of the executive WANTED For This Weeks Shows Please Phone The 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