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Bands brief to council Following la the brief presented Monday to Hal ton Hills council committee meet The Acton Citizens Band submits the following report as an explanation of and justification for the grant of requested for operation of the Band programme The request for funds each year by the Band Is carefully and responsibly considered The amount requested Is comparable with what is given to similar bands In Ha I ton and adjacent Pee The grants to Bands for last year are given below for comparison Band Burlington Peanut Band Teen Tour Band Grant Director Salary full time Members on list Practice Hall Built and maintained by municipality Oakvlllo 3 150 includes Rented from School Chlnguacousy includes Board per week Brampton 10 Supplied and maintained by municipality Acton 1500 Built and maintained by Band members The Oakvllle grant is usually but last year an extra sum of was given for the purchase of new uniforms This would not recur for some time OUR READERS WRITE Actons good band It was with great pleasure that I read and reread Mr J Brownes letter on band expenses Down tlirough the years Acton has always had a good band Where my husband and I lived In Toronto I horrified to receive a copy of the Free Press about lowering Ihe band grant I said to my husband What is the matter with that town of Acton and what about all the public appearances they had played for Anyone who has ever played in an or chestra knows how much It takes for ex Senses and what wonderful times are had y all the audience and players How Is It money can bo spent foolishly In many cases but to my thinking there should not be any question whether the Acton Band should have the grant The real trouble comes when things are judged by people who know nothing about the real facts Perhaps it would do some of these people good to see how Toronto people turn out In support of their orchestra And I would tike to add one more thing to what Mr Browne had already said Music Is for life and I congratulate him on a very Intelligent letter Good for Mr Browne Dorothy ORourke Acton Free Press Wednesday April 1978 Wayside gravel pit to save town money Establishment of a ways do appears even more pit in the northern than the town running area was proved in principle by Milton Thompson said the town Council at a committee of the usunUy spends a year who meeting Monday The pit to be owned and operated The pro- m IS mean the town would produce a lot more grovel for crushed gravel at a cheaper he ex rate than area contractors and allow the town to increase Its gravel usage without spending more money Clerk Campbell Thompson told councillors The clerk said the town sought a cheaper plained Flowers The town of Hills gravel and decided to open Its proclaimed May to May own wayside pit to supply the Flowers of Hope Week towns annual need of This Is the week the North yards of gravel for town Halton Association Tor the roads Three potential Mentally Retarded mail out lions were found but Mr envelopes of flower seeds as Bzovey made a proposal that a fund raising measure number Is for the Senior Band only In addition there ore 15 just completing a two year training programme As well names have already been registered for another two year class to begin this Fall It can be seen that Acton instrument the Acton Band the opportunity to play are Christmasandisworkingwlth request Is the lowest of these clarinet at A offered free of charge to all them on a Joint presentation This is possible because the pipe band could operate comers regardless of personal for the Arts Festival In Band has its own practice with only or 15 financial position men Georgetown an June 3 hall the Band Director asks members a concert band women boys girls whole At the time or inauguration less in terms of salary and loda to 60 families all can and do parti of GO train service to the Band does operate very members The Georgetown The Band Is a unique Georgetown shortly after economically The amount Band and the George- spare time activity In this Hills was established requested by Acton is the w Citizens Bond received day of the generation gap and the Mayor phoned the Aclon minimum required to keep a approximately the same breakdown of communication Band He had tried every band In operation many amount of grant The pipe between young and old the where to get a Band to attend Bands would find the amount existence and Band is a happy mixture of this celebration but with no insufficient for their operation thriving Obviously the grant adults and young people oil success Someone suggested as Is apparent from the amount sufficient for working together to a common the Acton Band so he phoned their needs The Georgetown end A young person can make the Band up and said could Since the formation of Citizens Band is no more a contribution to the organize you appear and how much will Hills the Acton Band because its grant was as a performer equal to it cost The Acton Band said it has accepted in effect an There is a certain level that of an adult Both con was rather short notice but averagelOpercentannualcut of funding necessary to keep a recognize this and both are they would appear and it I lUI yiaUCI II UUIo in their grant in terms of particular typo of Band necessary to the success of he would not cost anything And purchasing power Since 1971 Honing below that level It organization An attitude of that is exactly what they did Within five minutes Mon the grant request has In cannot survive The cut in mutual respect develops be CHILDREN WATCH with interest while the Raymond Family sings and plays the steel drums at Speyside on Tuesday Many of the students had been studying different parts of the Caribbean in class HOURS MondaytoThursdayiOam to8pm ft Sunday noon to 8 m Telephone 8532060 day night Hills creased by or about grant proposed for the Acton adults and young people council spent on per cent per year This Is Bond condemns it to a slow and they get along well A trucks and cars much less than the rate of and oblivion in five Band has an important role to Guides and Brownies will inflation in this period the years time play in a community as a be knocking on doors selling grader and snow plow costs of band supplies and A mentioned previously result Guide cookies from April purchased from Champion instruments have increased the Acton Band members built A Band unlike any to May fi Council officially Road Machinery hales by 25 per cent to 40 per cent or and maintain their own prac group receiving a municipal proclaimed that week Girl Brampton more ice This hall is self sup- grant is expected to return Guide Cookie Week at their J 3 It is not correct to say the porting and is available a certain services to the last council meeting equipment from Acton Band is 100 per cent rental fee to local groups for When music is supported by the grant Last holding social events Such required for civic events and year the Band raised on events help keep these groups celebrations the Band is called its own and with matching and together and this in upon Without a Band these Wintarlo support purchased assists them in their var would probably not be held two new instruments The ious programmes Many local The Acton Band has always Band could have asked for a groups would not be able to tried to fulfill this obligation grant Increase to cover these social events if the hall as best it could at no charge A instrumenls but took the t available The Tact suggestion that Ihe Band responsible course of raising that the Band Hal has in some charge for appearances the money themselves The respects the most reasonable because of a cut in the grant fund raising was not esy structure makes it very would mean charges of 300 to popular with local groups WOO per appearance This which are service oriented would dissuade many local and therefore have limited groups from organizing par funds There ore local and celebrations because groups which regularly use of the costs Involved the the Hall ranging from the community would be poorer Acton Agricultural Society The Georgetown Santa and the Cancer Society to the Claus parade problem is a Chamber of Commerce case In point The Acton Band the Industrial Hockey League and Georgetown Pipe Band 7 The Bond offers ins true play at no charge whereas Bands from outside are very expensive to hire If these two Bands charged as well for appearing there would quite likely be no such parade in Georgetown The Acton Band also appeared last year In Georgetown for the Franco Canadian Carnival pre pared a joint concert with the Georgetown Choral Society at Andrew Murray Motors costs and a pound express truck from the same company cost A four door sedan from Georgetown Chrysler Ltd at a cost of completed the total purchases were made by tender considerable effort required It would be possible for the Band to raise this amount every year Most Bands as well have to depend on the Municipality for com tion either through a grant which covers rental costs or the provision of a practice facility without charge The Acton Band built and maintains its own self- opportunity to supporting practice hall Bond members raised more than half the money erected the building themselves and now do the work of maintenance The Band has and does work hard to help support itself There are other ways the Band pays for part of Its pro gramme The Band raises the money required for trans by bus about Acton to play Christmas carols for the citizens the Band pays for Its own transportation to Milton to play for the residents of the Manor and the Band raises the money for oil the costs of entering the CNE Band Competition each year Including the rather expensive transportation by bus The Acton Citizens Band has been in continuous ation since 106 years of music It may well be the oldest such Band in Ontario certainly it is the oldest organ ration in Acton possibly in Halton Hills During the past thirty years It has been necessary for Acton to give an annual grant to keep the Band In existence The people of Acton have willingly and gladly done this and they affirmed and emphasized that It be done through two plebiscites authorizing the grant During part of this same period Georgetown had a fine Citizens Band but it died because successive Georgetown Councils refused to consider adequate support for such a cultural organ tuition Acton did keep and support its Band at a time when the overage Income in Acton was only of that in Georgetown We feel that Halton Hills Council has a moral obligation to continue those traditions and practices which Acton brought Into a forced union it neither asked for nor wanted It has been slated the Acton Band should receive no more than the grant requested by the Georgetown Girls Pipe Band This shows a lack of understanding of the completely different structure and requirements of the two bands For instance a set of pipes for a pipe band probably coal to The cheapest activity which 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