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Tho Acton Free Press Wednesday 1978 Support for band It will be disappointing to Acton to read today that the grant to Acton Citizens Band was by no means unanimous The band made a fine presentation to committee meeting Monday night and the final recommendation is that their request for should be approved But Councillor Peter Morris warned the bandspeople attending they should not expect the same next year And two councillors Pat Patter son and Roy Booth opposed the motion The matter goes to full council now It was councillor Pat Patterson who suggested at the last com meeting that Acton band and Georgetown Girls Pipe Band should receive the same amount Acton Band s presentation printed in full for the benefit of our readers appears elsewhere It does appear likely now that the band Will be given enough money to carry on as it has But the suggestion of a decrease the lack of understanding and the lack of interest will continue to rankle with the many people in town and district who are fans of our band Support for many areas of recreation is given without a thought In other town in fact the local band is a division of the town recreation department Here our band has been an in part of the town for an amazing 106 years Over alt these years they have had community support A town plebiscite granted them an annual sum which in fact would amount to considerably more than their request this year Bandmaster Dr George Elliott was named Acton Citizen of the Year when his devotion to the band and its fine training program was outlined We are sure we speak for many when we say Acton would certainly want its band properly supported financially by the town Weeklies popular Do you know that more people read community weeklies like this one than read daily papers And many people only take weeklies In a community newspapers survey it was learned that 57 per cent of subscribers do not read dailies while weeklies are found in per cent of Canadian Raindrops Did you miss Dental Health Week It was April 915 In the fair board is setting out to raise for a grandstand for the park Acton had outdoor seating at the park fof many years Provincial lottery money over three million of it will be used for health research Grand idea but how did people manage to part so easily with so much money in the first place Think how all the local campaigns would benefit if people gave their money directly But the chance of winning of course adds a little fun to the whole thing Its good to see several ren ovation projects underway along the main streets this spring They will encourage others to improve their business premises too homes And all across the country weekly newspaper circulation is increasing by 10 per cent each year Advertisers find that their messages stay in homes a full week at the price of one issue When oh when will the Senior Citizens apartments appear Not even councillors talk about wards one two three and four any more It s always Acton and Georgetowneverywhere Except on the highway signs t it time the signs on Highway were changed to read Acton and Georgetown instead of Halton Hills at both exits Campbellville is just a part of Milton yet it has its own proper name on Not us It s ridiculous This spring s tree cutting program has left some gaping holes along the streets The comer of Church and Main in particular seems sadly missing its big old trees New young trees can be requested from the town and will be planted by town men on town property the creek ALMOST TRAPPED IN the ice early season canoeists push their way through frozen slush Bob Dye took this picture on the weekend There were still patches of ice on the pond Tuesday despite the welcome warm spell Sugar and spice Once upon a time I spent the part of a year in a prison camp The days went by very slowly Later I spent a year In bed In a and the days dragged even more slowly A week seemed like a month Recently I spent only two weeks in an other situation and the time so slowly that it seemed longer than prison camp and put together We had our for two weeks the days seemed endless I sure you say Nonsense Dear little chaps II bet they were a lot of fun How can he soy that Sure they were a lot of fun Or let switch that to hey had a lot or fun But who wants fun for 18 to hours a day Not a middleaged couple one with a bad back Ihe other with jangled nerves to the point of screaming when the toast pops up In the toaster We I like that when they arrived but we were close to stretcher cases by the time Ihey left And I not exaggerating one whit It all started when my wife got mental and decided to help our daughter who is in the final throes of studying to be come a teacher and was getting behind in her work Bill we re going to take the kids for two weeks and give Kim a break It won I hurt us and it might even be fun We may never have the chance lo have them like this all to ourselves again Well I ve got news for her We not only might not We wilt not Not unless it over my dead corpus That a lot of nots but I in a rather negative mood It help that I get a pain like a knife in the back when I reach for a fag or a beer Yep they sprung my discs again Just for example as I write the TV repairman is working behind me My wlft got a icmble scare today The littlest tad who is as as a bull elephant at a quilting bee got in behind the TV when her back was lumed for a second There W3S a hiss and a terrible stench of some thing burning She snatched him away tore the plug out of the wall and much to disgust pushed the two of them of he r Our readers write Change our attitudes Dear Mrs Dills As 1 Bit here thinking about what has happened to my country I can only come up one main thing In the last 10 years our country has had a change of attitude Our society Is such now that no one wants to strive for anything more than is riary to get by Our workers want more money but are unwilling to do more work In fact would like less hours Our children no longer strive for higher grades a passing mark will do What of privileges The privilege to drive the privilege of fishing the privilege of just being a Canadian These to a great number of us are no longer considered privileges They are now thought of as rights A great attitude change Well I would have to say that It is our right to work but today with so high I feel it is a privilege to be working Our attitude in 10 years has caused most of the problems of this once great nation We can t blame an Inept government for It all played the biggest role ourselves But the government of Pierre Trudcau has not discouraged this attitude change II has in fact kindled it with higher spending on social programs that take away our in ccntlvo to do better Fortunately all is not lost We have an opportunity change our attitude again Maybe if we all did our share and even a little more we could save our dying country and once more be proud of our attitudes as Canadians Tribute to Canada by Sheila Rourke She gave us of her bounty when first sought her shore She taught us love and laughter and then she gave us more She gave us beauty of her landscape her wild geese in their flight She took away the terrors that used to haunt our nights And not content to rest at that she took us to her heart She blessed her new found children and played a mother b part Canada Canada She taught us love of freedom to trust the outstretched hand Offered us in friendship In this our chosen land us of her beauty from sea to shining sea From Bretons craggy coastline to the mountains of C She flaunts the glory of her face In winter spring and fall When summer blooms upon her breast she She feeds the nations of the world with tons of golden grain Ana herbs of fat sleek cattle graze on her sunny plains Her forests streams and rivers nestle on her breast And everyone in this great land calls his own home the best She shelters all her children In cities great and small Or lets them wander where they will with freedom for them all Canada Canada How sad twould be should we forget how much let us grow And turn our backs like hypocrites and never ever show How much we this sweet dear land that took us long ago God bless our country Canada as through this life we go Canada Canada OF AMAZING by Bill Smiley They t a bit scared as older kids might be but kept try to push by her to see the fun Right now Tom the TV man looked up grinning and holding a half scorched piece of Canadian Cheddar The little boy had tossed this afternoon snack which had been purloined lord knows where into the innards the machine Ever dropped some cheese an to a burner on the stove It stinks So wonder old lady panicked Thai just a sample Here are some miscellaneous items One floor lamp with dangling crystals replacement value about flattened with a great clanging chandelier like glass Frame bent shade broken We sat with a bare light burning as though we lived in a cheap hotel room One Indian rug cleaned at con siderable outlay looking as though a tribe of baboons had been playing football One chesterfield suite smeared with Jam honey toothpaste and various other sticky substances One hardwood floor recently reflnished looking as though the Canadicns hockey team had been practising on it I could go on and on but it makes me mad and it makei my wife cry And that not to mention all the little stuff broken bent out of shape rendered hops combat by jumping on it or hilling someone over the head with it The day begins about 30 with the sound of one small boy babbling happily to himself A few minutes later there a thump as he hits the floor the padding of bare feel and look up find the tiny turkey by your bedside grinning hugely probably with your shaving cream in one hand top off something dangerous like a leg off a stool In the other and his diapers hanging down lo his knees ready for some action there on sheer horror as the the fighting and the dancing and the shouting commence Try lo iron one of them is attempting to pull the Iron on his head Try to vacuum and they pull it apart in the middle and use it as a voice tube Try lo sow and the smaller Is stuffing his wilh pins Try lo read a paper and body comes hurtling across room and leups on to your groin scattering the newspaper Even worse than the racket ore the silences If there t any sound you leap to your feet and run to where the silence is They are inevitably pulling the knobs off the TV tearing up a manuscript or stuffing their mouths with pennies Ihey found in some forgollen drawer Small boys should be treated like keys They should be kept In cages con tuinlng lots of things to climb on sawdust on Ihe and lots of peanuts lying around for the picking It s not really what the boys are doing to us or Ihe house It s what they re doing lo our marrioge Were so exhausted and rattled that we re recriminating I was up with that child at 15 Yeah but who changed his diapers Who got them their breakfast Sure but who took them out for a walk and broke up three fights And to shout And Iho kids wink at each other and grin The Free Press Back Issues 10 years ago Taken from Free Press April IT 1988 Slashing at the general purpose rate In a midnight oil burning session last night Tuesday Acton council almost held the line on the 1968 mill rate which will be hiked one mill on residential property and 2 2 mills for commercial and industrial The modest hike a move council tried to avert by various stratagems brings the residential rate to 77 mills and industrial and commercial to B7 mills respectively On Wednesday April at the Ninth an meeting of the Salvation Army House of Concord Robert was singularly honored He was the recipient of the Order of Distinguished Service scroll the Distinguished Service Cross which is the Insignia of the Order from Inter national Headquarters of the Salvation Army London England Credit Card a five year old pacer belonging to Dave Lindsay of Acton mode his first appearance of the season at the Mohawk last week finishing in money Trainerdriver Bill said Credit Card qualified for the race a time of l A traffic safety conference was held Tuesday in Hamilton and Cons Bruce McArthur and Peter Campbell attended from the Acton OPP detachment Miss Florence Wilkin has returned from an extended visit in Flor da 20 years ago Taken from the Isiue the Press or Thursday May I A expansion program of three high schools will be presented to the five municipal councils for approval members of the North high school District board decided at a meeting in Milton on Monday having received tentative approval from the department of The program at Acton would include construction of an additional four class rooms with gymnasium ossemhly and additional cost of the plan for Acton is Children playing with fireworks are believed to have been the cause of a fire that almost totally destroyed the Theatre in Georgetown on Saturday April Georgetown firemen battled the blaze for scleral hours before bringing the fire under control Next seasons night school courses will revert to 12 evenings rather than due to a small operating this The decision was made at the annual meeting of the n ght school committee held the school on Tuesday evening Mrs was reelected president of the group Other officers are vice president Roy record secretary Mrs J Creighton treasurer Mrs Florence Wilkin city Mrs David lis general committee George Bowman Mrs John Chapman Miss Bella Mrs W Mrs Coon Mrs and Mrs J 50 years ago Taken from the Issue the Free Press of Thursday The committee appointed to details of anew covered in secured petit largely signed reliable persons who are willing to back up the desires by assuming financial obligators When will Canada learn that her must be cropped not mined Lamb specials need lx blade roast pork chops 5c peanut butter lb lb lb ginger naps tins asparagus 4j lb sugar 100 years ago Taken from Ihe Issue of Ihe Free Press IS On Mandav Walker red Messrs Geo Smith Adam John Keith McDonald and Joseph Brown who are to leavt for Mam The supper was given in Campbell Hotel and was gotten up in Mr Campbell best style A large crowd assembled at the station to witness their departure Wt would direct the attention of the proper authorities to the disgraceful con dilionof our at present The fence around it is verv and cows and seem to makt it a favorite resort A drum has been added to the On Friday members of the Checker club in equal number of draughtsmen of this counts in Matthew Hall The hall was crowded to with spectators an manifest was victorious Storev James Moon and Edward Moore have dissolved partnership as tan and kid dressers THE ACTON FREE PRESS Business and Ed Offico Copyright 1978