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In Hillsburgh Condemned barn now thriving furniture business MRS MARION sits on a hand crafted love seat in one of the showrooms at s Furniture in JACK WHEELER cuts out furniture frames on a band saw in the workshop at s Furniture in He is the company s foreman and is one of the original employees Hope Baetz will turn on the lights A wall coyered with thank you letters In an old con verted barn is one form of advertising for s Furniture In that village The letters are from satis- fled customers thanking owners Bruce and Marion Morette for the speedy ser vice and the fine workman ship of furniture bought In their plant Each piece is handcrafted and upholstered from the in side out on the premises Be cause of the individuality of each item the owners do not advertise too much as their workers can only produce so much furniture at time One tetter on the wall which the Morettes are especially proud of is hand written thanking them for cushions The signature Is that of singercomposer Gordon The thriving business began years ago when Mr Morette tired of working for someone else In Toronto purchased an old condemned barn In Hillsburgh He moved his new bride Into tho building which was without water and hydro shop just a few feet from their living quarters Over the years renovations were done and the couple raised two children there Eight years ago the family moved into a new house across the road from the bam with all small businesses they experienced their share of growing but eventually hired John Wheeler to help out Together the two men made furniture frames for Toronto Liberal meeting In an effort to move the political activity around the riding and increase the in volvement of people in the party work and political pro cess Halton Liberals held a meeting at Martin St School Wednesday night MP Frank said the meeting discussed plans for the national convention he travelling caucus in March as well as plans to boost membership in the party sold the meeting was to be part of an ongoing process to boost involvement and generate interest Because of poor weather and conflicting meetings the attendance was limited to a crowd of about 15 people firms In 1961 Mr decided his small plant could handle upholstering also Soon the men were adding cushions and various materials and patterns to the Canadian hardwood frames Now because every thing Is done on the premises the various pieces of fur niture can be modified to the customers wants and needs Ten years later the company outgrew the old Statu bam The Morettes the old town hall from the village where they established an upholstery shop Past customers would bring their furniture back to be recovered which was done in the hall Eventually others brought furniture to the site and Morette expanded into reupholstering The town hall was sufficient until three years ago when Morettes built a modem 7 square foot building be hind the first barn The town hall is now used as a show room From a oneman operation 20 years ago tho business has come to employ people mainly from and The business has managed to maintain the family atmosphere with everyone donning different hats if need be No one minds working a bit of overtime if It is going to help the company or satisfy a customer Another advantage to the family like atmosphere is the Morette dedication to their customers If a client wants a specific piece of furniture with a certain type of material the Morettes will warn the buyer If the selec tion Is not going to look right or if the cloth will not He pro perly They also let the customer know they are not perfect and mistakes can be made If this happens the company will gladly pick the furniture up at the home return It to the factory and repair it In spite of not pushing their customers the Morettes have found their business is still growing They have set certain limits as to delivery and pickup responsibility KitchenerWaterloo Is their western boundary with Toronto as the eastern limits They go as far north as New market and as far south as Hamilton If customers come from any other areas they are advised of the limitations Because per cent of the business Is from Toronto a country atmosphere Is up held Picnic tables are out side with swings and sand boxes so families can make an entire day of choosing their furniture Because of the great volume of customers up to orders a week some arrive expecting bargains Mrs Morette ex plained that the business does not plan to create a bargain by giving up quality but feels the company does a good Job of compromising price and quality An order usually takes three or four weeks to fill Most of the furniture made is traditional style but some colonial modem and contem Items are made Everything Including love seats sofas sofa beds and winged chairs are made at the site In addition to the furniture business Mr Morette also builds salt and sand storage domes His business Is called BulkStore Structures Ltd From a small comer of a condemned bam in 1957 to a sprawling array of buildings today s furniture has earned a good reputation In many parts of southern Ontario The owners enjoy their Jobs enjoy their em enjoy their customers The Acton Free Press Wednesday Jan 25 1978 B9 Silverwood WI opens new year with regular meeting by Mrs L The first meeting of the Women Insti tute of the new year was held on January 12 at 1 at the home of Mrs George Burt Our first vice president Mrs opened the meeting by all singing the Opening Ode Ten members and one visitor answered the roll call what in your early family life Influences your decisions today TheminuteSofthcNov and Dec meetings were read and approved as was the trea surer report Several thank you notes were read from those who were remembered at Christ mas A letter was read from Farm Safety and it was voted that Mrs I be our rep for 1978 Mrs our family and consumer affairs convener took over the meet ing She read a paper of a Quebec lady who at one time lived in Nairobi and re turned last year to attend the A C Triennial Conference held In Nairobi She not only told of the conference but of the land the people and inter esting facts of the country Mrs Marchington ended her program with a contest on the porta of the body The meet ing closed followed by a social half hour We are all pleased to hear that Mrs M Is borne from hospital and progres sing favorably One permit is issued Only one building permit was issued for Acton last month Its value was placed at for store front reno vations The strong Interested Citizens group viewed the appointment of Reuben Baetz as Ontario new energy minister with great Interest this week Baetz succeeds James Taylor who resigned on Friday one day before Premier Davis shuffled his cabinet John Minns publicity of fleer for the ICG predicted Taylor was going to quit before any official shuffle was made and his remarks were published In this newspaper last week He said Taylor was in an intolerable position and being made a scapegoat for the Cabinet and Ontario Hydro in their dealings over the Bruce to Milton hydro corridor the citizens have opposed for the the past four years The new energy minister said one of his first priorities would be clean up the relationship between the Government and Ontario Hydro He said although Hydro is a terrific organize doing important work the ironic thing may be that In creating our energy Hydro was perhaps keeping many people in the dark about why It decided to take specific steps We re going to have to turn on the lights at Hydro he is reported to have said also is reported to have said Hydro has foiled to realize the public demands to know the reasons behind policy decisions When somebody Is suddenly told that a hydro line Is going through his back yard he has to be told why ho stated This has been one of the constant criticisms of Ontario Hydro from the Interested Citizens Group for the past four years Hydro gave a made Mr Taylor acknowledged he often bridled at some of the things he was asked to do as a cabinet minister and it Is possible shoving the Bruce to Milton corridor through hod much to do with his decision to resign The Interested Citizens Group found Mr Taylor sympathetic In their deal toga with him over Investigating the possibility of another belter route for tho corridor but felt he could not penetrate the bureaucracy at Hydro or Queen Park Taylor is quoted as saying Ontario Hydro is a cabinet minister nightmare and the Government has little control over It Meanwhile John Schneider of the Interested Citizens says he welcomes remarks by Mr about telling people why a hydro line is coming through their back yard I d expect an immediate moratorium of the Bruce to Milton corridor until such time as he can explain to people here why it must go through Schneider said It would add a lot of credibility to his statement Let s sec some action I d foil off tho chair if Mr could explain to people here why the corridor should for them to be reasonable he mused People just don t know how much It is costing them to go the long route Ontario Hydro is pushing when a much shorter path could be followed that would save million In power and skirt prime agricultural land Who is calling the shots here anyway the bureaucrats or the elected officials In the meantime he says the ICG Is catching its wind to have another crack at asking for an independent study unhampered by obstruction from bureaucrats Bill Mann president of the ICG Just returned from a Libyan business trip Tuesday and was reluctant to comment until he was more acquainted with the changes at Queen Park Its Interesting he did acknowledge Two- car collision Regional Police report an estimated in damages to car driven by Hubert Draper of Islington and an estimated In est damages to a car driven by Schumelh Storey on January 16 at 12 15 The incident on Church St police say 357 dogs There were dogs destroyed during 1977 ac cording to a report from Halton Hills Animal Control statistics A 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