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The Acton Press Wednesday Oct No fire calls during Dog masters to pay for livestock pets slay fire prevention week Halton Hilla general ad ministration committee wants to put the bite on dog owners for damages caused by their pets The committee recom mended the money the town pays out in one hand to far mers whose herds have fered dog attacks should be collected with the other hand from dog owners Provincial law lets council hold an inquiry to find out for sure the dog owner Identity The Dog Licencing and Live Stock and Poultry Protection Act allows a council to tain owners of a dog that has kilted or injured livestock or poultry The act also permits council to recover Its money Inquiries would be held under the Public Inquiries Act The committee motion last week was prompted by the reaction of livestock owners to two recent attacks An ewe belonging to nor Branch was killed in one attack and chickens belonging to another farmer were the victims of separate attacks The town paid Branch based on the live stock report for the ewe Last month the town paid 30 farmers whose livestock have been attacked by dogs Peter Branch told commit tee of a night of broken sleep and shooting when a dog killed one of his wife sheep He wounded the dog with gun fire on his second check of the yard He had another alarm hours later In addition to the killing and injuries suffered by the flock Branch said the sheep are getting agitated during the peak of the breeding season The attacks also have social affects Mrs Branch said the experience is ter Neighbors arc not speaking now she told the committee The cases are the first In a decade where the name of the dogs owners are known deputy clerk French said A town official told com he heard one dog owner admit the guilt of his animal The owner was said to be also willing to pay The committee t go far as Branch would like He argued for the town to take dog owners to court to collect damages He also wanted the municipality to force dog owners to have guilty animals put down Under provincial legisla tlon a dog owner upon finding out his animal has killed is to hours deputyclerk French Replace posts with beams in new Acton fire hall Posts included In the plans for the new Acton fire hall could cut the space so that a rescue van cannot be accom modated Councillor Buss Miller told Halton Hills coun ell Monday night He said he had been asked by the firefighters to seek councils approval to have beams installed instead at an Increased cost in excess of Councillor Pete said he was not trying to blame anyone but felt this should have been foreseen when the plans were drawn Mr see this Miller claimed this was requested by the firefighters originally but when council insisted the cost would have to come down he understood it was changed Councillor Pat McKenzle pointed out they were building for 25 years ahead and felt it would be worth the added expense pointed out every extra cost is added to the supervising engineer share of the total since he gets a 10 per cent fee Council agreed to the placing of beams rather than the posts Block Parent town will have signs soon Acton is a Block Parent town and strangers who might have warped ideas will likely be warned to stay away Subject to engineering department approval of locations signs will be going up soon at entrances to Acton warning there is a block par ent organization Councillor Pat said other towns which have block parents organizations are announcing the fact with big signs He explained it is an excellent way of telling potential child molesters the town has a system to work against them Suggested locations for Town council against porn Hills council came out against pornography and salacious publications Monday night when they endorsed a resolution passed by the Ontario Trustees Council In the lengthy letter the Ontario Trustees council said As educators we must be concerned at the pouring of millions of dollars into publications for marketing which give a distorted im pression of the social accept ability and normalcy of sexual deviation It is obvious that the market is being exploited without restraint even to the extent of child porn and freedom is being abused to the detriment of public morals The letter was forwarded to Hills council by Halton Separate S Board which asked for its endorsement Councillor Pat McKcnzle a former school principal said council should do everything it can to battle Ine problem Fireball funds if any snag Hills general ad ministration committee last week hammered out a fund formula to keep work on Acton fire hall going If a snag appears Committee put a lid of on contingencies not covered In the contract Zeegen consulting engineer is to get agreement from fire chief Mick Holmes and com mittee chairman Runs Miller for additional work All ex pendltures are to come before the committee later Zeegen said there is a fixed contractprice but added that it d be unusual If there extras For example he told com we found things we dldn t know existed in Cedar vale Zeegen said he was speak of large items such as one or two thousand dollars 1 m worried about holding up the Job he said Construction on the hall second storey Is underway Just because the money is there doesn mean it should be spent committee chair man Rum Miller told Zeegen Town treasurer Ray King said It been his experience leeway of a ACTON RESIDENT Nan Hurst pushed one of the buttons at the program in Milton last Thursday She teaches at Milton high school where the draws were made The dog which attacked the Branch flock was destroyed committee was told Acton councillor Peter Marks was reluctant to have the town take dog owners to court Small claims court is OK until the dog owner says prove it Then he could take us to court Marks said Georgetown councillor Walter Bichn said morally the town should spend to collect the 90 We are spend of taxpayers money t we at least bill the dog owner Dump truck flips over A dump truck driven by an Acton man flipped over after he tried to make room for other vehicles on the First Tuesday Oct Paul Forbes Arthur St was at the wheel of the truck which was travelling north Police say he saw couple of vehicles heading towards and Forbes pulled over Police estimate in damages to the truck Dusty trucks The fire truck was driven down No Highway Monday night but there was no alarm The truck was out in on effort to blow off some of the dust accumulated during the construction of the tire hall add tion special period Firefighters were called out Monday night with their but the alarm did not sound A women with j breathing distress recovered There were no fire alarms all the schools in town and at after being given oxygen and Speyside school during the was not taken to hospital prevention week says fire chief Mick Holmes Deputy chief Bob Hyde and fire pre- yjj officer Larry Bras- sard conducted fire alarms at MI- IUSTAI M Police tower being tested The police communications tower at is currently undergoing tests and will hopefully be In full within two weeks according to Inspector Southward of IT the Regional Police The inspector explained IT that most of the work Is com Telephone land wires are also being tested WEEK DAY SPECIAL BUSINESS MEN S LUNCH AND UP HOURS Monday toThursday 10a ll Sunday 12 noon m Telephone 8532060 J signs are Highway and ents In Acton should be in- WallaceStreet Highway25at In the north end Kingham Road Highway 7 at of town can t go up until after Churchill Road and Highway road construction is finished decided since FOR FALL WIMTR Choose from our selection of C01D WEATHER in the vicinity of Committee subdivision this proposal is a precedent in Deputy engineer Ted Halton Hills a report is said the Block Par needed from engineering Haton police at officers funeral Three North police A massive manhunt in the officers travelled to Colling town resulted in three men wood on Saturday to attend being brought into police the funeral of Sgt Ron headquarters for questioning McKean of that towns Two 21 yearolds were police force The three joined charged with first degree other police from murder the south Ladle and Con Ron was stables M Michalski and T gunned down outside a Nicholson of North Colhngwood hotel last were just three of the more Wednesday evening while than GOO reported policeman working on a tip there were from across Canada and the two escaped convicts on the United States to form an premises Police chief Carl honor guard the dead Johnson says the sergeant man funeral was shot at point blank range McKean is survived by by a shotgun his wife and three children We Stock and Order McCALL STYLE SIMPLICITY PATTERNS HINTONS to 00 STORE FREE CURLING EVERYONE WELCOME If you would like to try the game of curling and see if you like it come to the ACTON CURLING CLUB THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 24 Draw for One Free Membership to a NEW Member For Membership Information Contact Steve Ormsby 8532372 CLOTHING Snow Hals Etc to teens powwow jtcrM 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