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The Queen is here Canada welcomes the Queen this year as she visits our country in the year of her silver jubilee She comes at the invitation of our government and unfortunately they chose a short five day stay limited to the Ottawa area only The rest of us read about it in the papers and see the Queen on tele vision Since our contact was limited we watched with particular interest her speech to the people of the nation on Sunday evening Equally in French and English it dealt primarily with national unity harking back to the history of con federation She spoke of joint efforts of and French speaking Cana dians Nowhere has this been more evident than in your Parha ment here in Ottawa where you have together developed policies to meet all the major challenges of your history she praised From the viewpoint of history this is the great Canadian achieve ment not just that you hae pro gressed and prospered but that you have done so as a diverse society and in peace While her words were impressive and no doubt true they were limited Was this really what the Queen wanted to say to her people here Even the commentators who spoke on television after her speech pointed out that it was written for her in the Prime Ministers office There in Ottawa much stress is being laid on national unity Some observers of the scene have even wondered if the government isnt sending up a smokescreen on this one issue obscuring more ser ious problems such as unemploy inflation and the world market woes Premier did not win his election solely on the issue of ation at all and surveys in Quebec show many opposed to separatism The rest of the country is filled with people who accept Quebec as they always have and certainly dont expect the country to break up Would it be the Queens own sug gestion to have her Jubilee marked in Canada by a 300000 endowment fund to benefit young Canadians who wish to study French Part of the value of having a monarch is the fact that a Queen is removed from politics She is a living symbol of parliament The stress of the speech on French and English speaking co operation would seem out of pro portion to the many of us who live many miles from Quebec and who have had no opportunity to see Her Majesty in Jubilee year How about suggestions Councd is wondering what to do with the former pump house building on Main St S near the Kingham Hill houses Although councillor Walter of George town suggests it is unwise to ask opinion of the nearby residents in case they are disappointed later we must disagree with him Recreation director Glenn Gray thinks hearing from people nearby is a good idea too Even if council does not formally ask for suggestions perhaps inter ested residents will have some ideas anyway We hope they would forward these to the Free Press or to one of their three Acton councillors The building is presently being usedforstorage Some good forward thinking is needed in this case and its not un likely that the best idea of all could come from one of the new residents right down the block ALICE IN WONDERLAND When Alice ate part of a mushroom in Wonderland she became very very small This is what the mushroom she ate must have Of this and that A flight to Chicago last week to attend the annual convention of the National Association of Printers and Lithographers took us right over top of the town of Acton about 8 30 Thanksgiving morning What an exciting sight There lay the neat rows of houses the straight streets with larger roofs of fac tones visible including the Free Press plant Most surprising were the lake which appeared large and beautiful and the quarry a huge gaping white patch on the ground below Onequarter of a million Cana adults and over 1000000 child ren were involved m the work of during the past year When Canada began 22 years ago volunteers raised a relativelymodestsumof15 In 1976 volunteer efforts raised more than October is nearly here start saving up your change Pictures of the past HEWETSON S FACTORY as it looked during the early 1920s The plant produced shoes in those days before being taken over for many years by Force Electric and more recently by Solar Textured Coatings looked like to her when she got finished shrinking Photo by Wm Stuckey Sugar and spice SOME OF THE gentlemen in this picture have been identified by its owner Tom Gibbons At the upper right is William Cooper lower left Duncan Mcintosh and lower right Tom McClure There is something delightfully si stent about most women which can make strong men moan and gnash their teeth but provides a certain amount of Inadvertent hilarity to those of us who have given up long ago After years of blowing every nickel we made the old battteaxc and I decided lo start saving some money for our old age Neither of us will make it I because the old corpus will likely cash its ticket before that time and she because she II never grow old But it seemed a good idea at the lime 1 had no idea what it would lead to But it did First tiling I noticed was that It cut down severely on my extra activities Hey sweetie is It OK If I join the poker club this foil They need me They play so many old women games that ihey want someone to teach them how lo play real poker It would practically be the same as teaching night school BUI you know perfectly well the an We can afford It We re trying to save money not throw It away No use reminding her that on the couple of occasions I played with these Infants or the game I came homo with so many quarters In my pocket she thought I d broken a leg as I limped in the door dear there to be an old fighter pilots reunion In Edmonton this October Golly It would be nice to sneak away for a few days and see some of the old What do you do at Ihosc reunions Besides tell lies and drink Well there s a whole program Speeches A dances Wives are invited Howjo like to go They re a great bunch Guys be there from nil over Canada and the States Australia Britain a thing all summer Let gel away from It all From what all You mean from me You know I wouldn t be caught dead at a fighter pilots reunion A bunch of boozy old men standing around half pickled waving their hands In the air What would it cost Well there just the air fare And the hotel And the convention fee And a few odds and soda For the two of us it would come to only about And If you were surcyoudidntwanttocome I could make it alone for Stony silence Not a word a gesture of encouragement She went off rather tight around the 1 to watch TV I sat and pawed rather wistfully through the rcun ion literature Next day when I came home from work it had all disappeared There was a pier of ashes in the fire place But that not all our saving hinge has affected I m not that selfish I not going to kick up a fuss just because my social life has been wiped out so that I can have a hamburger and a half instead of splitting one when I m an old dodderer No there a lot more My wife in her zeal to save money has started reading the food ads for the first time in her life Could any of my readers use pounds of flour The old lady used approximately five pounds a year for frying fish and stuff The other day because it was half price she bought a 25pound bag It sits in the kitchen moved from one location to another like one of the seven dwarfs sleeping off a hangover The house is filling up with bargains She bought cans of peas at per cent off We never cat canned peas preferring the frozen ones We II never get rid of them unless she makes a massive canned pea and invites all our friends lo dinner Wo would then have no friends she came In gleefully and dumped a whole bags full of razor blades in my lap Half price the time I get half way through them an orderly will be shaving me in some Sunset Heaven I go into he bathroom and literally by Bill Smiley slunmlc and fall over sticks of roll on deodorant which are spilling out of the drawers There wis a special on them and we have enough lo pass a few along to our undertaker Any day nov I expecting a truck to drive up to the back door and unload half a ton of potatoes because they are 10 per tent off when bought in bulk Open the freezing compartment in the fridge to get a couple of Ice cubes and you are liable to be brained by an avalanche of frozen 10 pounds of it at cents a pound wrapped In half pound packages That hamburgers I cat about four a year grudgingly I was thinking of having some brickwork doneon my house this year But bricks are expensive I think 1 II use frozen mnrgarlm instead We got a great buy on it cents pound pounds in the basement We have two beaten up old cars It was always decision which one should go in the garage No more problems Now they both stay out on the street The garage is full of turnips squash vegetable marrow and cabbage every one a bargain There no question We re saving money right and left And just the other day my wifcannounccdthecoupde grace If we move quickly we can get a terrific on a new dining room suite It s been knocked down from BOO to Any readers who are having trouble diving money in these troublous times need only drop a line At Smileys The Priee Is OUR READERS WRITE Youths not all bad Storey Drive Acton Ontario 1011 To Ihe Editor I would like to comment on an experience that reflects on some of the previous letters to the editor In regards to Acton teenagers On Saturday evening past a young man had the misfortune of loosing control of his vehicle while negotiating a curve in the street and subsequently caused some damage to our property On Sunday he apparently came to our house to see us about the damage but we were away at the time so he came back again on Thanksgiving Day We were aware that he was coming back but my wife and I had to be away at the time so we left word with our children to tell him that seeing he was honest and decent enough to come and tell us about his misfortune that we would fix up the damage There are a lot of adults that would not have had the courage to admit to causing damage to other people property so I think this young man should be com on his Therefore I would like lo say that nil of Acton b teenagers are not as bad as it my appear by previous letter There are still some good honest ones Ed Miller The Free Press Back Issues 10 years ago Taken from the Issue The October 18 1987 On Wednesday October the Acton Golden Age Club took another most en joyable bus trip this time to the beautiful city of London Fire Prevention Week in County was again a busy one and members of the Halton Fire Prevention Bureau reported It was a highly successful week continue to go to Expo right up to Its final days A chartered bus from Acton proceeded the school children by a few days and another group from town left Tuesday with an town tour The P party swept the miniature Halton West election at the Z Bennett school on Tuesday The students- polled 134 votes for Mac for Kerr and for Lush Joanne Pauli played Jack Lush the Liberal candidate with Debbie as her campaign manager Wendy Kowa was George Kerr with Kathy as her manager Sean took the role of D P candidate Ted Henry Wisscnz was his campaign manager 20 years ago Taken from the Issue of The Acton Free Press Oct Joe Hurst president of the Special Gifts Committee of the new Bennett school reports his committee has been quite successful in obtaining many satisfactory gifts for the school Committee members are Joe Hurst Herman Frueler and George Haggelt About members of the Acton Wolf Cub Packs last Thursday converged on the Acton fire hall for a two hour demonstration sponsored by the Acton Fire Department At 7 pm Fire Chief J Newton showed the early arrivals the equipment Renovations continue behind the wraps at the previous site of the Bank of Montreal but what type of business will occupy the budding remains to date a mystery Acton has something new in auction sales this week Farm sales land sales house hold auctions both in town and district are fairly commonplace any week Yesterday lots of equipment and furnishings of an industrial plant went or the auction block at the former plant of the Wool Combing Corporation in Acton Y secretary D reported on several activities In the C A this week and noted the Junior Hi Y have taken on the project of sponsoring the Teen Age dances commencing November 8 SO years ago Taken from the Issue The Press of Thursday October The Informal opening of the new high school will be Saturday evening When demolishing the old barn on Frederick St to make room for the new house Mr S is erecting Mr John It Watson found a number of Methodist Sunday School library cards printed years ago An extra number of lamps were added to the street lighting in which makes a big improvement On Thursday Mrs William of received for the first time since her recent marriage and was charming In powder blue georgette over flesh pink There were present about friends 100 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press of Thursday October IS Some person or persons made a raid last Friday night on Mr C Swackhammer bee house 3rd line of and took therefrom a hive of bees and a large quan of honey The plundered hive was discovered the following morning a short distance from the house minus honey and surrounded by a number of dead bees The guilty parties will probably be discovered before long Such acts deserve the severest punishment More than a year ago a surveyor was employed by Ihe Acton and cor porations to determine the proper width of the road leading from this village toward The surveyor did his duty put down stokes and was paid So far there has been no further step taken Winter will soon be here again and unless something Is done soon the same old trouble of almost impassable snow banks caused by the extreme narrowness of the roads will have to be contended with Over four thousand cigar makers are on strike In New York Black squirrel hunting now the popular THE ACTON FREE PRESS Business and Editorial Office