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Poor turnout but good pancakes Srs benefit too The Acton Free Press Wednesday Dec 14 The fresh aroma of pan cakes and maple syrup filled the Scout hall last Saturday morning The first Acton Venturers along with their adviser Rick SaviUe organized and carried out a Pancake fest as their first fundraising activity The boys were up blight and early Saturday morning preparing for the day They bought orange drink crystals from McDonald in George town who also supplied cups and a dispenser The 50 charge included the first beverage and an un limited number of pancakes Ford Alton took the record for eating the most pancakes after putting away seven of byUsaGUUss The past week has had a lot of bad weather which has caused the bus students to miss two days of school On Friday December Mr Magwood and Mrs Williams phoned all of the parents of the Afternoon Kindergarten children to cancel the after noon session The weather was so bad that many parents of children in the other grades kept their children at home This has been a busy week for many of the Grade students Mark Beaton a Grade student has been doing some experiments with them at noon hours for a class project Christmas is upon us again and the students of many grades have started Christmas crafts and cooking activities A great many parent volunteers are in volved The teachers are very glad that they are able to help out for without their willing ness to cooperate the ac tivities could not be operated so well The pupils are enjoy ing these activities very much by Carole and Chris Parents and students are reminded that our Carolling Night will be on Monday Dec We welcome you at 30 at McKenzleSmith for our warm up followed by carolling in the streets We hope everyone has an en time On Thursday Dec 8 the grades and visited with Mrs Jennifer Barr the writer of Five for the Free Press in our Resource centre Since we are taking about Canadian Authors and work involved in writing we were impressed hearing about her writings and especially her first book And the Lord Rode a Donkey We enjoyed listening to her many tales about and Bojay and have decided that a donkey would make a fine pet Some classes have started decorating the school with many beautiful decorations for Christmas Due to the bad snow con the school was very pleased with those people who came to school The student councils Christmas dance for December wo3 cancelled due to the lack of com munlcatlon on the Student council behalf We hope our January dance is more of a success than our December dance them The Venturers were some what disappointed with the turnout of only people for the However not easily discouraged the boys HEARTY EATER at the Venturers pancake breakfast Saturday was Tim Garton He d just finished playing with the Atom hockey league and needed refuelling FLIPPING PANCAKES at the Venturers break fast on Saturday are Eddie advisor Rick SaviUe Robert Rowe and Jim Saxon JOAN PHILLIPS joins the family for pan cakes and syrup All you could eat A girls best friend but not in Canada by Janet With Christmas only days away the school is looking more festive Acton High received their Christ mas tree last week It was placed in the bear pit and decorated The school store The Closet is really something special with Christmas lights and gifts in the display window The library has also taken on a festive look with snow flakes and other decorations adding to the decor Classrooms will soon be decorated like the rest of the school Yearbooks were on sale last week At this time students could order a yearbook for next year The class with the highest percentage of sales yearbook wins a pizza party before the Christmas Holi days Tonight the Athletic Society at Acton High will be holding their annual Sports Nile Come out and support them I m sure you will have a good time by Ward University of uelph In spite of what the gossip columnists might lead you to believe the biggest pile of diamonds In the world isn to be found in Liz Taylor hank vault but underground In South Africa More than geological structures called pipes have been found there and munj of them contain diamonds The pipes are In reality long narrow funnels that cut through the crust of the earth and allow rocks from the earth s mantle layer be low the crust to intrude up wards towards the surface Klmberllte is the type of rock found within the pipes and really It a rock made up of thousands of angular frug ment3 of other rocks wtldcd together during the high sure and high temperature process of being squeezed up the pipe Some of the frag arc pieces of the crust through which the intrusion has been forced but many come from one hundred miles or more within the earth where pressures are at least times greater than at That means every square Inch has a force of pounds on it Under these many common substances take on new and denser forms The substance carbon Is a good example of this Carbon Is very common at the surface of the earth It a necessary component of all living things and when an or dies and decays some of the carbon that it contains becomes into sediments that over thousands of years solidify into rocks The stable form of carbon this situation Is called graphite one of the softest substances known But lake graphite and subject to the high surcs found in the earth s deep interior and it becomes imond the hardest of all natural mitcrmls In other words the il amonds found in pipes represent carbon that has been squeezed by pres of at least 600 000 pounds per square inch one hundred miles deep in the earth mantle How the carbon got there In the first place is something of a mystery It likely that it originally came from surface rocks as used to be thought More probably It represents carbon that was part of the original dust cloud that came together to form the planet earth more than four and a half billion years ago Although countries in Africa as well as Russia Brazil and India have their own diamond mines no other I country on earth has as many diamond bearing pipes as South and the richest one there near the city of has been mined to a depth of 500 feet Since 1903 this mine has produced tons of diamonds The fact that It has also produced roughly sixty million tons of waste rock gives you some Idea of the scarcity of the gems within the pipe are planning another In the spring The troop expressed special thanks to Janet Rowe and Joan Phillips for helping out on Saturday as well as to all those people who attended Family allowance increase Health and Welfare Min- Allowances for later Begin recently The Family Allowances announced that there will be legislation calls for annual full escalation of Family escalation of payments in January of each year in accordance with the increase in the cost of living the single rate for persons receiving both the basic Old Age Security pension and maximum Guaranteed come Supplement will The Spouse Allowance Is paid to persons between 60 and 65 years of age who arc married to Old Age Security pensioners and meet requirements Entitle ment to a Spouse s Allowance DIBS JUST adores pancakes and came along with the Rowe family for the Venturers pancake feast Saturday morning at the scout hall Robert is one of the Venturers mum supplement for a mar ried couple both pensioners will increase to each from Added to the and amount paid Is based basic pension this will give yearly Income each married pensioner The maximum Spouse For a married couple both monthly or a total of Allowance will increase January the federal govern- pensioners the combination for the couple from 244 12 monthly allowance paid of the basic pension and for children under will rise maximum supplement will to from 23 89 in most provide a payment of provinces and in the for the couple monthly lories The basic Old Age Security Special Allowances which pension rise In January to are paid to foster parents 44 from the present welfare agencies govern- 150 deportments and instil The Guaranteed Income maintaining children Supplement is paid to pen- will also increase to 25 whose income apart from from the Old Age Security Each month during 1977 the pension is limited The federal government paid out amount of the supplement more than 173 million in varies in relation to the Family Allowances to 3 mil amount of income lion families The cheques The maximum Guaranteed covered 2 million children Income Supplement for a The national average allow single person or a married for each recipient person whose spouse Is not a family was about pensioner and is not receiving Old age security pensions a Spouse Allowance will go Increase as well up in January from The new monthly total at its current 51 The maxi J The Inaugural Meeting of The Hahon Board of Education Thursday January 5 1978 at 7 30 in the Board Room of the Admin istration Building 2050 Line Burling ton Ontario G Morton Chairman Dim tor If OnSaieThursFriSa ITS A SONY i Sat Dec Once You Hear It You Will Want TcBuy 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