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The Acton Free Press Wednesday August 3 An exciting vision Surely no one can inspect the draft plan for a of the Acton Business Centre without a feeling of excitement Here is a plan which for reason able cost will improve the town immensely for the good of all of us It is for something like that the Business Improvement was proposed The business people in the blocks imohod did not organize to object and so the formation of this novel group got underway First their project was the inter locking sidewalk stones next they contracted the which was recened last week ami is outlined fully in todav Free Press The tasks of the BIA are financed through the business taxes of the merchants and business people including even doctors in the blocks of the downtown area It is not surprising that when the first tax bills arrived with their per cent hike in business taxes to cover the BIA budget some of them were surprised and upset But with the arrival of the study just a few weeks after there s no doubt that all of them can join to gether in looking ahead to a good future for our town Downtowns are drastically different from malls In a plaza situation a manager simply tells the stores what will be done How they will look when they will be open where the flowers and benches will go outside their front doors Here individual store keepers and business people must agree and of course that is never Through the BIA though a good start has been made The sight of the sidewalks which cost the merchants money proves they can together The plan obviously will benefit all of us if it is implemented The idea of promoting the town as a leather town is particularly appealing Can you see us as a tourist attraction With stores that specialize in leather goods Booklets on the history of the dustry to be purchased Small souvenirs in hide shapes to be bought Craftspeople fashioning leather articles at the Saturday market Acceptance of the report is the beginning of a dream that can go a long long way Enough is enough Not only Actomans Esquesing and residents com plain about regional government Here is an editorial from the Bur Gazette on Tuesday The incredible saga of the at tempt to build a new headquarters for the regional municipality of Halton continues to unroll and it gets more difficult to believe with each new step Provincial Treasurer has approved an to the Parkway Belt regu that will allow the region to build its 2 7 million headquarters building near Bronte Road north of Queen Elizabeth Way The province sold the region the land specifically for the headquarters site after two years of council debate over the location of the building then required the region to apply for an exemption Does anybody at either level have the faintest idea what goes on at the other level The region itself has shown itself to be totally inept throughout the entire process of choosing a site choosing an architect and keeping costs within the original 2 million target Perhaps the most difficult pill for taxpayers to swallow over the whole affair is that the region let alone the province would be so foolhardy as to proceed with erect ing a monument to regional government in Halton after the results of June provincial tion Surely the province must realize that one of the reasons the Conservative government was re turned with a minority and that Dr Stuart Smith s Liberals were elevated to the official opposition was the regional government issue People are simply not satisfied with the way it operates Burlington South cabinet minister George Kerr said on tion night that any area that wanted a review of regional government would likely get it still Halton batters its way ahead building a foundation for a structure that may change entirely over the next few years It s been almost four full years since the first regional council was elected in Halton Council has achieved none of its original aims and has thoroughly botched such projects as the headquarters selec tion and the attempt to provide adequate garbage disposal for the region Enough is enough let have the review Happy birthday Miss Bennett Greetings and thanks again to Minnie Z Bennett from four generations of students This woman who was young and lively when she taught her first class of students will be 97 years old on Friday The town appreciates what she did to educate our young people and the way she provided a splendid model for Christian principles and behaviour She has already been named Citizen of the Year and she has that plaque with her in Central Park Lodge Kit chener She hasn t been able to come back to Acton for quite a few years now but she is well remembered by hundreds of people of all ages Some of her students are neanng Others who know her name are the four and five year olds planning to start into kindergarten in the 1VI Z Bennett school just a month from now What a wonderful span of in f luence she has had 500 BALES OF HAY tower over their six foot tall collected the foot long by foot wide 14 foot tall collector John Andersen Mr Andersen makes haystack since January He uses ha7as one of the custom compost for mushroom farmers and has mam ingredients of his compost Stranded in the airport limes Taylor The Church of Docs really want bid things happen to people I find thai hard reconcile with i loving Godbut me people disaster is will Or verse in St I ml to tin in Home In everything works for good lhat to someone who his just tone through or lost job is like pouring a ctass or vinegar for someone dying of thirst It not what Jtsus would do Ik didn the blind or he him or the woman in adultery that their or punishment wis for own eood Ik with thim fortdn them cured them could you say to someone whose child id t been pulped hit and run in ten thing Owl works for If tin what happened sympathy compassion yet inert times when verse makes stnst ikt Ihrrithind Or ike his of irs Huh to inula frtmi in mi the British South sprint Ins parents mil his in I sisters decided to join m They bought tickets obtained isas to hi I indtd immiraiits on the great d i w out to in in plant doors dosed is reithtd it id hut on hoard win nter jivtn in ex w is on hi pi nt Alt thty hid wis tht wearing honu it id been sold to buy tickets Iht family id divided up among friends and relatives Thai w is when something clicked in the The visas He had forgotten them They win still the desk in the church where he used to be minister id they gotten onto the plane without those hey would almost certainly Hive been turned back by Canadian im miration They would have had to reapply from i For my size of family said Mr hit would have cost mi another which I did not have Their visas expired May That same day they taught a substitute flight to Toronto At ii one hour before the limt of expiry they cleared immigration Richard wife were waiting to them to their new country In thai case maybe God was working for in what seemed be a tragedy OUR READERS WRITE Has a personal project What beats me is who painted the bricks yellow Sir well publicized lion Premier of New Brunswick had appointed mi to Royal Commission organized to investigate the Jul ire it St John I which took 21 lives i had Ih it is I felt I could he a fnctor in the investigation dut to my previous experience of ytirs incnrcerition mteting with Call in the army Just i suggestion on the road bypass on St Why tan call In the Army Royal They can build a Think of it The Ontario Humane Society has sent out a press release to news papers urging motorists not to leave their pets in parked cars during the hot summer months The society notes the sun can quickly heat up the interior of a car so It resembles the inside of a fur and the result for an animal locked inside may be tragic Criminal charges could be laid in such cases where animals must be removed from locked ears In most cases it is just a matter of to think of the animals well being which impels motorists to leave pets in cars and the law is rarely implemented Well meaning pet owners may think the problem is solved by leaving the car windows rolled down slightly but this often does not provide adequate ventilation The Humane Society advises motorists when they go shopping or elsewhere in the hot months to leave their pets at home If you must take your pet with you leave the windows wide open parliimenlimns in llttn last week on matters involving penology tht of Commons Sub involving he inidtin Itnitenlnry Svstem I find it to decline Brunswick to en mt to my study and reply to the House of through the Minister of and Solicitor t of sild report currently sub is recommend to the Mouse of I too preoccupied nth tht pontoon or Bailey bridge It would hi good for would t less than a day ours truly lohn I pripanlion of my biography from which a movn will be produced and I will leave Acton in the next few days for Winnipeg at of the Provincial Government to confer officials in Manitoba on Corrections Also I am in the process of obtaining a Charier to found a Canadian Hoys Town on the National level It is ex I will initiate this program in this ire subject lo approval of the Regional Hit tost of these projects is mated to be about j0 million dollars within period of the next five years and I will utilize the capital acquired from the bio graphy and movie for this cause toward my to Juvenile Delinquency and Vandalism everywhere but all especially in this Region This will be a long dreamt of project Sincerely yours Arthur J Maimer A A 14AJohnStr S Box Phone CLASS PICTURE taken May 1925 at Acton public school was donated by Ernie Broughton of Bracebridge Front row left to right John Kerr Bill Williams Stewart Lantz Herb Woods John Barber Howard Switzer and Charles Holmes Second row Gordon Bob Hall Gordon Hansen Gibbons Glen Ryder Taylor Jim Hurd Terence OShea Ernie Broughton and Frank Winters Third row unknown Bruce Clara Bauer Olive Rookes unknown Velma Blair Irene Cross Hall Kathleen McComb Lois Atkinson Kathenne Stewart and unknown Fourth row Nora Beryl Tucker Mary Gibbons Phyllis teacher unknown The Free Press Back Issues 10 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press of Wednesday 1967 Within a month work will begin on the repaving of Highway from the Mac Freeway to Acton The project will Lake approximately three months and includes a twofoot widening of the stretch between the 25 and Campbellville A surface similar to the present one will be applied a spokesman said Residents looking for a centennial project of their own are getting ideas from the Burlington Public Library The library Is urging citizens to donate new book to the library on which the donor name will be inscribed The gift books are expected to help stock a new main public library which will be underway next year Mr Victor Wells of England is on a lengthy visit with his daughter Mrs Janet Bird lBOTideyAve Mr Wells and Mr and Mrs Bird are flying to Houston Texas next week to visit his eldest daughter whom he seen in years This is a retirement gift from all the family in England 20 years ago Taken from the Issue or the Free Press Bruce Andrews IGycar old son of Mrs and the late Hank Andrews emerged top runner in the twomile road racoon Monday held at Bruce defeated the two first class runners in Canada when he crossed the finish line in nine minutes seconds with Ed of Hamilton close behind at 10 minutes and four seconds The way was cleared for development of a acre parcel of Industrial land when Acton council Tuesday approved purchase of an estimated 10 acres of land for roads and future water site approved extension of water and sewer lines and called for specifications on a culvert necessary to install the extended McDonald road A B and Mrs George Ware of Nova Scotia are visiting with his parents Mr and Mrs Ware Acton Mr and Mrs Mickey Holmes made a visit to this week after taking their daughter Julie Dorothy and Marilyn Lemon to the Glen Mhor Presbyterian camp near years ago Taken from the Issue of the I- rec Press August 2 One of the most serious abduction cases that ever happened in a civilized com unity occurred in Guclph a few days since A well known widower lured a young girl into a snare and forced her to marry him a full column and a quarter of small type follows with all the details Now is the season for sunstrokes but for protecting the head against the rays of the sun a wet folded handkerchief is better than a brick A drunken tramp who was using pretty strong language on Saturday evening got what he well deserved He got a good sound horsewhipping If the same thing was meted out to more of these fellows possibly the country wouldn t be inflicted with so many of them The Agent is on his travels and with unequalled pertinacity fails to neglect Acton At first there meanders through this section a imok agent then an insurance drummer then a tree man a patent medicine individual then two tramps a thief or two then a salve man then half a dozen duplicates of each and finally the wire clothes line fellow and then the light rod demon incarnate Last week the Kilbride woollen mills with all their contents were destroyed by fire A promising young man of this village who wears auburn curly locks and parts his hair at the zenith is not in the hands of the Philistines but in the hands of her Whose Bright Smile Haunts Me Still A report was current in the village last week that The Free Press had changed hands and that a young man who was hanging around here was the purchaser We can assure our friends and all others concerned that there is no truth whatsoever in the report The stranger referred to gave his name as S and who no doubt set the story afloat proved himself a loose falsifier as well THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE 2010 Business and Editorial Office inciter Mary unknown unknown Mrs Moore Gordon Anderson Gordon Currie and Copyright 1977