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Recommend grant to Acton Citizens Band Acton Citizens Band had their grant of MO approved by Hills finance com Monday night but not before a few sour notes were struck Eight members In full uniform attended the meeting Council has yet to endorse the committee recom lite committee also voted to repeal the by law which authorized by plebiscite In an annual grant to the band Bandmaster George Elliott pointed out the grant to the Citizens Band was less than Burlington at 03 Oak vtlles at Chlngua a at and Bramp ton at He explained Acton band supplies ita own hall while other are mostly built and maintained by the municipality or rented from grant to each board Georgetown and Acton Fall Fair Boards will be granted each if council accepts a recommendation of the Hills finance com For the Georgetown board this is on increase from last year and for Acton it Is the same as last year Acton has requested The increase to Georgetown was approved to help the Georgetown cultural Society after last years disastrous fall fair when a downpour wiped them out for the first time in more than years Finance committee had stated previously they could see no reason to up Acton fair board grant from to 200 and suggested the two fair boards should have an equal grant Clocks ahead It s time to put the clocks ahead an hour come Saturday night Last week Hills council proclaimed the start of Daylight Saving Time Saturday April It will end Sunday October when clocks will be put back an hour Last year by accident council did not proclaim Daylight Saving Time so Councillor Booth commented We ve been behind an hour all year why bother changing it now the school board Mr Elliott showed com mittee some members wearing the year old uniforms still used and the new uniforms somewhat similar gradually being phased In He said the Music Centre was largely built by the band members on land bought by the town He said the municipality has the deed Councillor Roy Booth asked why the financial statement for the hall was not Included Mr Elliott replied the band submitted ail their accounts to Halton Hills when It was first set up as they always had in Acton but were told the town only wanted ex listed from the annual grant He said the band could easily the hall statement Councillor Peter Morris stated on a per capita basis bands worked out to cents per capita to 14 cents and Acton to 75 or cents per capita Why talk about Acton aren t we Hills now retorted Mr Elliott When Acton was poor and free the people could afford that dollar or so per head Morris said he was simply pointing out he brief claimed the grant is the lowest but failed to point out the population Is also the lowest Councillor Peter Marks suggested the committee not get Into that parochial type discussion Councillor Pat Patterson said the by law should be repealed Booth said he would be happy to stay with the amount In the by law If the costs were assessed only against Acton but said that seems to be impossible now He agreed the by law should be repealed Marks claimed the need for the 860 grant Is listed in the brief and said the grant should be approved Mr Elliott said the band Is not supported 100 per cent by the grant and pointed out last year they raised by themselves and with mat Wlntario grants to purchase two new in struments He said the band raises the money for bus transportation to play Christmas carols around Acton to Milton to play for the residents of the Manor and the coats of entering the CNE band competition In cluding transportation costs He said the band had been in continuous operation for 106 years and suggested It was the oldest band In Ontario The brief said Georgetown had a fine citizens band but because of lack of municipal support had to fold We feel that Halton Hills council has a moral obligation to continue the tradition of support started by Acton since Acton was brought Into a forced union It neither ashed for nor wanted Patterson said he had received calls from people in Homby and west of Highway who say they re dead pigeons who have to pay taxes for something they don know exists or ever hear The people haven t got the bucks All rural people have got out of regional government Is tripled taxation Marks said the streets are lined with people from Esquesing area when the Acton Citizens Band plays In the fall fair parade so some of them must have heard about Ihe band Questioned about the number and cost of Mr Elliott said the cheapest Instrument is a clarinet so they are used as training Instruments frequently He said the band needs a French double hom with the cost of one ranging from He said two French double horns would take the whole in strument budget for one year Booth said maybe the French double hom could be put off until next year In comparing the grant of SI to Georgetown Girls Pipe Band Mr Elliott pointed out a pipe band can function with members but a concert band needs to He said pipes cost less than concert bond Instruments The cut in grant proposed Tor the Acton bond condemns It to a slow death and oblivion In five years time He contended that had been the fate of the Georgetown Citizens Band and said they received a grant of out of which they paid rent at Community Centre and to the band master leaving them nothing to operate on Finally they gave up and all joined the Band Morris said he would support Marks motion to approve the grant pointing out he felt there was a moral obligation Involved Councillor Walter Biehn said the band should be looked on as another form of recreation and stated a great deal more than Is spent on physical recreation The motion approving the grant to the band passed but a note of disharmony Intruded when Booth and Patterson opposed It One Hundred and Third Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY APRIL Thirty Four Fifteen Cents EMILY WALLACE was presented with red roses and a silver tray by former students last Satur day in the curling club Fifty years of teaching were recognized by students whom she had taught in Dublin school from 1928 to Page 11 tax up 2191 The final figures on taxes are in and the word is up Georgetown taxes are up 22 Acton are up and Esquesing s are up 13 on the average home The average home assessment used is 615 Georgetown 4 in Acton and 4 m When the Region of Halton set their tax rate this week the last tax figure could be added to the town and the education tax In Georgetown the tax bill this year on the same average house is 20 In Acton again on that average house the tax bite is and in Esquesing In mills the increase is 10 55 in Georgetown from to In Acton the increase is the lowest with mills from 124 to and in the increase Is 38 from 103 to The new sewage plant in Georgetown is mainly responsible for the 76 mill hike in the regional levy bringing the total regional mill rate to 16 an increase of 37 3 per cent or 25 88 in dollars In Acton the regional levy dropped 2 92 mills from 22 to 20 mills or a drop of Acton s decrease may be short lived since next year when the sewage plant is completed the sewer charge will go up regional levy increased 1 39 mills from 10 61 mills to mills In dollars an in crease of 42 Final tax bite Acton house Town purposes Education Region Total increase house assessed at 4 Town purposes Education Region Total increase Georgetown house assessed at 5 615 Town purposes Education Region Increase up 15 68 up down 32 up up 61 up 42 Up up 66 up up 22 TEN DAYS AGO this Great Horned Owl broke its right wing on Scotsdale Farm Georgetown Today it exercises and soon it may be back with nature Veterinarian Ron Trenton Region tests new well for iron region has shut down the Prospect Park pump in order to test the water according to a region source Don Merrier a regional manager of operations and maintenance said Tuesday the pump was turned off after it was given a trial run There was a different taste and the taste Is basically a higher Iron con tent as compared with other wells Mr Morrier said For about a week water has flushed from the well and into Fairy Lake The pump house Is located on the western point of the spit The pumping will continue for about another week according to Mr Morrier We are hoping to remove concentrations of iron In the well Itself that Is Iron in solu lion Mr Morrier said He could give no estimate on the number of gallons flowing into the lake He informed this paper the ministry of the environment is carrying out tests on the well Also the region has con tracted a private firm to test the water he said For about a week some Acton homes received water from the new Prospect Pump We re trying to get fresher water Mr Morrier said chief chemist John Grelfencder said he just heard of the pump water going Into the lake Tuesday morning Mr Greifcnedcr said he would like to learn more about the region water but he did say that Iron spoils the color of sole leather About four million gallons pours over the dam just north of Mill Street West every day The park pump would take about a million gallons of Acton fixed the broken bone after calling on expert help from the Metro Toronto Zoo Burkhard Nowak of Hornby who found the owl hopes to release it from where he found it Page 14 Thieves bag shag carpet Carpet baggers lifted a six by four Toot shag rug from where it was airing in the backyard of a Church Street West home last week A lady told police she put the carpet out to air last Tuesday April IB at 30 m Two hours later when she went to retrieve her carpet she discovered It was missing Thieves hit arena again For the second time in as many weeks the community centre has been the target of break and enter thieves Some cigarettes and cash were stolen sometime last Tuesday evening or day morning according to Regional Police Zehrs supermarket for proposed plaza Mr Grelfencder said he was sure the lake level will not drop but the new pump will mean a million fewer gal Ions going over the dam he said The tannery which owns the lake takes about half a million gallons each day according to the chemist He suggested that with a million fewer gallons in the lake the water will become less fresh ion the freshness of the lake water has deteriorated in He suggested the ucks as contributors to lake A supermarket and possibly a Canadian Tire store may be the two main tenants in a commercial plaza on 7 acres of land at Churchill and Highway Jerry of Sprackman Real Estate told Hills planning board Tuesday that his company has a firm commitment from for a BOO square foot store and a tentative agree ment with Canadian Tire for The whole plaza Is square reel with parking for 508 cars Mr said it is the same plan presented two years ago I am prepared to go ahead with it right away Mr Sprackman explained is a division of Lob law and said a able store can be seen in Alllston or Bolton The spokesman emphasized he was prepared to go ahead with only but believed there would be a drug store and a bank as well Jobs for 100 people were projected by Ihe speaker who claims they would prefer someone would keep food else there replied Mr shoppers In town Sprackman Is moving In Mr company contingent on the other stores Is also building the shopping being built asked plaza next to Gordon No but arena in Georgetown No damage Acton volunteer fire fighters were called to their grass fire of the season Sunday at noon according to fire chief Mick Holmes The chief said the fire spread across the Slderoad between the Fifth and Sixth I Inc when Christie was burning dead grass Mr Holmes said the fire spread quickly There was no damage he said Firefighters police parking is questioned PROSPECT PARK PUMP HOUSE has been gushing gallons of water from its source into Fairy Lake According to the regions manager of operations and maintenance The taste of the water is mainly due to its high content of iron Both the ministry of environment and a private firm are testing the water The park pump is no longer supplying local homes Proposed parking changes for Acton have been held over Ending a number of meet with Acton firefighters Hills Parking Author and the police Councillor Peter Pomeroy meetings are needed since he believes 17 parking spots reserved for the fire fighters may be excessive He added the fire chief agrees with him and a meeting with the volunteer brigade a executive Is needed He added Parking Author ity Input is needed and wondered why the police are enUtled to three reserved spots on Mill Street Councillor Duby agreed the bylaw changing some parking regulations needs to be examined again He said he was concerned with the number of spots taken up by the firefighters and also wondered why the police should have more spots than Continued on Page 2 MAD SCIENTISTS THEY RE NOT Z Bennett students put on a display of their scientific expertise at one of many exhibits at the open Robert Walker right headed up this experiment which created hydrogen gas With him are Grant Smith Lon Sean Heafner and Ryan It was one of the special events at town and area schools for Education Week