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The Acton Free Press Wednesday Aprils FATHER AND SON Charles and Sandy Beat both died within a week of each other Sandy Haltons Conservative MP from to 1962 died March 25 at the age of with a heart attack His father Charles Best codiscoverer of insulin died March 31 They are pictured celebrating Sandys victory at the polls in 1958 Spring isn t as much fun as It used to be My kids haven even got their bikes out yet Remember the days when you d wheel your bike out of the garage the first Saturday the snow started to melt off the roof You pedal through Ihe snow crunching down to the driveway surface every three yards and wobhhng with the effort to keep upright Out on the road you ride up to your best friend s house and you d both take off around the block returning with watering eyes blue noses and aching legs Did you ever make dams along the rivulets of melting snow Of course you did Everyone did And marbles played sitting In the mud shooting around the remaining snow patches Remember skipping In your galoshes because your mother would have your hide if you took them off All Into girls This fine weather girls When we call your birthday please January tremembermuchaboutspringin England Probably because the seasons are less defined there I think spring came when it stopped raining for three consecutive hours We used to collect pussy willows for our teacher and make little wax flowers in yellow and pink to decorate the stems My they were pretty And we were always drawing tulips carefully copying the line sketch done on the board by the art mistress boring Spring in Canada was truly a celebration An orgy of ex and emotion We lived right on the St Lawrence River in the Montreal suburbs the it was called The bets on when the ice would go out started in early March All our parents would get into the act until people not only bet the day but the actual hour Then you had to decide if the winning bet would fall at time the ice started to move or when the river was actually clear The kids always tried to be first in the lake I made it one year but purely by accident It was one of those freaky April days when the temperature shot up to BO degrees and prised Itself silly The Ice t completely gone from mid river but we kids were paddling in our shorts The water made our legs a gorgeous mottled purple color but after a while we couldnt feel the pain Well I fell and practically had heart failure as the cold waUr bit into my body However in a minute or two It was glorious and all the other kids started to push each other in as we splashed and swam like otters Boy did we catch hell When I was in my early teens spring was a time of young love When our always overactive hormones sensed spring they go completely haywire Even the boys became girl conscious and you were quick you d con a boy into saying be d go steady before the baseball season got into full swing After school we bike down to the village to sit in the Sweet Shop and sip cherry coke while pooling dimes for the juke box You dldn t walk downtown like you did in winter You rode on the cross bar of a boy bike If he was the boy you had your heart set on you lost your balance frequently so you ended up leaning precariously against his chest Those poor boys Most of them were still 97 pound weaklings while we well fed girls were several inches taller and certainly sturdier Trying to manoeuvre a twowheeled bike un balanced with pounds of femininity clutching several tons of books and binders must certainly have made those boys long for baseball No spring TOWN OF HALTON HILLS RECREATION PARKS DEPARTMENT is still accepting registrations for the following programs LADIES CONDITION JUOO TKAMPOLIM OVMNASTICS BWe IS SaeJnnw DANCE a up Sun ftup Anon Drop In to Monday to Friday at Racraatlon at Gordon Moon Complax or at Mill Street East Acton Best family wellknown Committee urges budget cut The famed codiscover of Insulin Dr Charles Best died In Toronto General Hospital Friday at the age of His son Alexander Sandy Best had died suddenly of a heart attack just a few days before The Bests are well known In this area Sandy Best was Member of Parliament for for several years and Mrs Charles Best had a farm In which they sold several years ago to their son Henry Since Henry has been president of University in Sudbury the farm has been rented No action on complaints Ontario Education Relations Commission Isn t going to do anything about Separate School Board complaints about teacher votes After teachers voted last February to reject a board contract offer trustees complained about the vote being taken during school hours The board complained to the Education Relations Commission that voting took place during teaching time and not just lunch and after classes Thursday the board received a letter from the Education Relations Com mission stating no action will be taken against the teachers 525 increase A 25 percent salary In crease for non union town was recommended by the Hills finance com this week The non union employees chose the percent over a percent hike with a one day floating holiday per year on a vote among themselves The one day floating day Is a part of the contract for town union employees Shrinking Snowbanks are shrinking quickly his week Big names Detailed plans are being made for the Citizens of the There are a lot of names to be engraved on one plaque PIANOS LEE G TOCHER Announcement Beat gained fame at the ago of when he worked with Banting to produce the substance which would save the lives of thousands who suffered from diabetes Honors were heaped upon him in the following years He became a Companion of Honor in the an niversary of the discovery of insulin Best made other con tributions to the world of medicine Included in later projects are the development of a system for drying and storing blood serum as well as the creation of drugs histamine and a remedy for seasickness A memorial service for Sandy Best was held In Tor onto Saturday and for his father on Monday In Convo cation Hall at the University of Toronto Best leaves his widow Man and son Henry After spending hours dls cussing the 1978 draft operating budget Region a Administration committee got down to bus iness and demanded cuts amounting to The requests for cuts came at the end of a budget meeting Wednesday morning Even if the committee Is able to make the cuts stick the budget will be about over the guidelines which would allow for a 5 per cent Increase Last year cuts were recommended but finally The committee had engaged In long discussions trying to come to grips with the budget estimates before ever recommending any cuts The budget process broke down in chaos last year and at that time Regional Chairman Morrow said the process would be streamlined and Improved this year But some members of the committee have hurled criticism at Morrow and regional treasurer Don Farmer for the manner in which the budget has been handled this year Some councillors have termed It the most confusing budget ever When they finally did get into the nuts and bolts of cutting the budget the com recommended cuts of In the police budget in the roads budget in the resource recovery site for a site for the south area works depot 40 000 from the re serve for vehicle and 1 from a reserve for the replacement of the chair man car Councillor Walter noted there were few areas if any where sub stantial cuts could be made in the field of soft services He noted the level of service for general welfare was dictated by the province and he ex plained most areas of soft service were heavily sub sidized by the province Be- show little impact cause of that cuts would regional mill rate J loo Mountainview Road S 8776984 Suite 304 GEORGETOWN MOUNTAIN VIEW FARM Saturday April 8th 10 am4 pm SPRING SESSION RIDING LESSONS For Adults and Children Starting Now Prepare for recreational rid showing dressage hunter Jumping or eventing INDOOR RIDING FACILITIES BOOK NOW FOR SUMMER HORSE 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