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Will try to hustle Senior Citizen apts Councillor Pat MeKenile wants a fire lit under town staff so an agreement bet ween Halton Hills and Ontario Housing Corporation regarding senior citizens housing development can be reached as soon as possible He told council Monday town staff was given the Job of having an agreement drawn up last fall but nothing has materialised as yet said Ontario Housing officials say they can do anything until ihe development agreement with the town is worked out and after that done nothing con crete will be done for about three months New clerk administrator Ken Richardson said he expected something to come to council very soon noting the delay was caused partly because some serious policy decisions will have to be made by council Councillor said the town must get moving on the senior citizens housing complex He noted at a recent conference of Ontario municipalities he and Miller attended it was admission criteria for yet suggesting the project woo t senior citizens housing be Miller Duby and Mayor be completed this fall as changed Tom HID all said people have expected He said the town Is He said some people been told they don t qualify dealing with It expeditiously Acton who thought they quail because they dont have and has received no word the fled for the housing have now proper financial require- late fall occupancy target been told they don qualify menta date has been set back Councillor Walter Councillor Peter Marks said nobody has been told said he dldn t want things to Don suggest It won t officially they don qualify appear too gloom and doom open until I960 when we don since the project isn com He said council wasn t know that will happen THE MCKENZIESMITH CHOIR hopes their music festival entry Wednesday will be an owling success The choir s mascot is this large stuffed owl Terry Lynn Monica Kim Weir Donna Webster and Karrie Curran are ready to follow conductor Dave musical instructions The North festival will be held at M Z Bennett school next Wednesday and the public is welcome Music festival held at MZ Bennett May 24 The North Halton Mus festival will be hosted by Bennett school next Wednesday May 24 Competing schools will visit forthcdaybeginnngat9a This year marks 50 years for the festival All part will be given a pin in recognition of the special year pal Doug extended an tat on to parents and other members of the who wish to attend this annual event One Hundred and Th d Yea No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MAY 17 1978 Thirty Fifteen Cents Police park off Mill St now Policemen are no longer parking their private cars on Mill Street Hills council was told Monday Mayor Tom Hill told council pol chief Ken who assured him officers would be told to park in municipal church lots instead of on the street The town had received numerous complaints about policemen parking their private vehicles on Mill Street not receiving tickets and also trying to keep people from parking behind the building Hill also reported police aren happy about the town decision lo give police only two reserved parking spaces in front of the station He said police claim they were promised three and he town Is breaking Its lease Deputy clerk Delmar French said it isn t in the lease that police receive three parking lots but was in the by law authorizing renting of the building and in i parking by law which was seriously never passed Councillor Pat He said merchants report said the town may police are no longer parking be breaking its previous private cars on Mill agreement with police but not Street Rural roads need help Well iron not excessive The a mount of iron in water from the new well in the park Is not excessive results of tests have shown However the well is not yet supplying town water The telemetry In the new pump house is not complete but when this work Is done the well will again be feeding into the town system Tests had been taken to determine the amount of In the water These tests have shown that the level of iron has dropped considerably and is expected to remain stable at a level below that approved by the Ministry of the Environment The level was much higher when the water wa3 first used probably as a result of its sitting for over a year before being used Following extensive pumping of the water from the well Into Fairy Lake the level of iron has dropped Its now milligrams per litre The Ministry recommends no more iron than 3 milligrams per litre We don anticipate any problems when the well Is in operation says the region water department officials Something needs to be done about roads in according to Councillor George Mai I by Monday he told Halton Hills council the town just keeps spending money on projects to beautify the urban areas with things like curbs and gutters At the same time there are roads In the rural area where residents have to practically drive tractors to get home Malt by declared He noted rural residents have been told there is no money for gravel for some roods but there a lots of money to spend in Georgetown and Acton Mayor Tom Hill tically congratulated one of the best political speeches I heard in days Councillor Pat noted the town has a priority list for road reconstruction and one of these years all the money might bo spent in count on that Hill chipped in Roads in were In much better shape before regional government and Hills and it burns my fanny Optimists Underway The charter executive of the first Optimist club In Auton was elected Inst night DEAN FINK principal of Acton high school for Tuesday at a meeting in the the p yearg has promoted to the sSnext week it area for the Halton Board of Education KEN CHAPPEL Churchill Road South received a special award from Georgetown Optimist president Clarence Baker for driving Frank Toth to Guelph for hospitalization on a bad winter night It happened the night of January 26 the worst storm in memory and Mr Chappel drove through zero visibility weather The victim had to be transported in Mr Chappel s van since ambulances t operating because of the severity of the weather Official opening of sewage plant Wed The public is invited to participate next Wednesday afternoon in the formalities which will open the new addition lo the water pollution control plant The event which falls in National Public Works Week la the highlight of a tour of the region works com millee It is hoped that the Minister of the Environment the Hon George McCaugue will be here It so he will Join region chairman Morrow in unveiling the plaque and cutting the official ribbon Mayor Tom Hill is also ex peeled to take part Contractor Varamae Con limited lives will hand over the keys to consulting engineers V Anderson Associated Ltd who in turn will hand them over to Mr Morrow The addition to the Acton plant costs just under a million dollars It ups the capacity of the plant from million gallons a day to a million gallons a day It a the largest expansion possible at this site The public will be given folders at the opening ex plaining the system ana pro cess There will also be ex cards Right now the road Is being shaped up for the can ex We re of proud of this in the region toys Bob Moore the director of public works It the first opening ceremony of its kind in Halton region Burlington and Oak vllle additions will be for mally opened later Dean Fink promoted to area superintendent high school principal Dean nk has been made cast area superintendent by the Board of Education The decision came last Thursday at the regular board meeting Mr Fink will be working out of Oakville and will be working with pnncl pals in both elementary and secondary schools He starts his new job in August Mr Fink explained he had mixed feelings about leaving he school I look forward to the challenge of a new position and working with new people he said He will however miss the start and students of the Acton school I have good friends here and it is sad to leave The promotion will station him closer to home For the past three years Mr Fink has been commuting from Hamilton When he starts his new job in August he will work out of The quality of education is much higher now than when Mr Fink went to school he pointed out He explained subjects he was taught in school arc now taught in much lower grades It tougher for kids to get through now he said He explained they are marked on their day today progress rather than exams where they can cram the night before There Is no longer an academic stream the principal noted Alternatives are now offered and students can on their potential It is not just the academic minded students who are getting through he said No repair The town works and engineering departments have no word on rcpa rs at the town hall A keystone fell from the front of the Id ng two weeks ago leaving loosen brickwork Snow fencing was put The defect had been reported n the Town Hall Restoration ttec engineering report and council notified at lhat l me Committee members hod expected repairs would be made by the town then Milton garbage ban at Georgetown dump Hills wants only Hills garbage in the Georgetown dump Monday Hal Ion Hills council passed a resolution advising Milton to take its garbage to the and Burlington dumps in the future Council noted there is a landfill crises looming In Georgetown and Halton and the local dump is expected close this July Recently the region announced It was no longer accepting in material at the Georgetown Georgetown now has a garbage separation program working quite well on a voluntary basis it was pointed out at the meeting Mayor Tom Hill said Milton should never have been allowed bring lis garbage to Georgetown in the first place Councillor Roy Booth observed nobody could possibly object to Halton Hills garbage being dumped in the Georgetown dump but Milton garbage is another story He noted no effort is being made In Milton on garbage lion and all the people there do la fight any dump being located In their area Booth observed Hills gar bage collection costs will rise drastically when the dump Is closed and refuse must be trucked to the south Mil ton costs are about the same to lake garbage to as It Is to send it to Georgetown Council hopes by cutting Milton off the Georgetown dump can be kept open longer WE GREW accustomed to her face Laura Wiles was well known to many when she and her brother Harold were Mill St merchants The long time resident observed her 85th birthday Tuesday at Acton Seniors Residence Wiles bus depot and candy store also included a restaurant years ago Whats inside today LeTlOTtoidiu Government plans to reduce the area under control of the Niagara Escarpment Commission by per cent have met with favorable re from Regional Plan Director Ed dimming The province backed down from its original plan that covered an extensive swath of land the full length of the escarpment The government announced plans to reduce the area covered after heavy pressure was brought to bear but before MPP for Grey Bob had an unity to present his private members bill The McKes sock bill would have cut the area to the escarpment Itself and a 330 foot strip on either side of the escarpment Mr Cumming sold the re gion had recommended a smaller strip than what the commission had mended Initially He said the reduction would make it a lot easier for Ihe region and commission to come to agree ment He said the reductions in the area may not be as great or dramatic as some other areas along the escarp ment Cumming noted that In some areas like Hamilton the escarpment goes right through the urban area but In Halton it is in rural areas for the better part He said the staff is review ing submissions from the public concerning comments on the NEC and would be reviewing those comments during a meeting with NEC chairman Ivor McMullln and NEC staffers May 30 I like to see a simple plan one with two zoning areas allowing uses lhat are shown in our plan with some overlay for stricter con if necessary Cumming said He explained that his department had actually shown a broader strip In a couple of pels n order to pro tect environmentally sensitive areas Burlington Julian Reed expressed some concern about the govern ment pledge to reduce the area by per cent What concerns me Is there Is nothing specified and it does nothing for those left in the control area McKessock bill had some things which I think were valid His bill would have provided the right of appeal to the OMB for the landowner and it would have forced the government to declare Its intent and proceed with the purchase of the land The government has left the landowner carrying the can They said we want to buy GEORGE left David Fuller and v and for the annual Explorers your land but we don have Yves Savard all braved the rain fog and mug as award Acton Scouts pictured above honored Se mlaX the 2 mile Explorers hike The boys their troop by taking third place anything with it competed against Scouts from Georgetown