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JUNE 30 JULY Hundred and Third No 52 MORE BALLOON THAN BOY Allan Boughner holds up a bunch of balloons that is almost bigger than he is at the M Bennett Circus last Thursday at the public school Parents teachers and fellow students all enjoyed the different acts put on by the classes Fun on Saturday There will be celebrations all over the district on Saturday Dominion Day Canada Day celebrations are being held at Ballinafad on Saturday In the event is called Pioneer Days and starts at l in Limehouse here will be a picnic day at he- school on Saturday Glen Williams is again planning many special events Milton has a full slate of events for Saturday loo J Smye to leave Father James Smye pastor at St Joseph Catholic church will be transferring from Acton to Winona Father Smye came to Acton in September of 1974 and will officially start at Immaculate Heart of Mary In Winona on Friday July The new paster for St Joseph s will be Father Leo Speagle Rev was an associate pastor at St Peter and Paul parish In Hamilton A reception will be held for Father Smye Sunday after noon in the church basement urges The plans are made the places and times are set Back to Acton Days weekend is ready for the people Last years attendance was terrific according to organizer Ed Wood and there are even more things to attract happy crowds this year The threeday program ends with the fire- words in the park on Sunday at dusk Before that theres all manner of things On Saturday Mill St will be engine will be there well as closed from am from wagon filled with hay Fellows St on west and most Clowns are lined up for this of the days events will be section right out on the street The The Lake view parade la official opening will be at the under the direction of Alma Mill and Main comer at although she will be am In The will Preceding this the people provide music and Fred will be garnered in by three Wright will be the honorary weird and wonderful marshal Also expected are a calithumplan parades cir jester playing a banjo bears cling through three parts of and Robin Hood town Everyone is asked to Terry Grubbe fs the leader come out or their houses and of he Glenlea Bovis parade Join In the parade with in and Acton Citizens Band will zany outfits pets make the music Pop Main Is bikes cars or whatever slated to be the honorary comes to mind marshal As well as people in The parade In Victorian costumes there will the area will be under he direction of Ed Beavers carrying Wood with Mrs Dons Browne lags will head each of the as honorary marshal three parades Many more people have promised to Join In their own sections In costumes There will be free passes to the fireworks for the person with the best costume and the family with the best costumes The three honorary marshals will be the judges Specific events and times are all in an advertisement in todays Free Press More details and special weekend bargains are listed in flyers which went out to local homes this week The flyers were all put In the mail Friday but were delivered on dif ferent days according to Ed Wood depending on the mail carrier He expected they would all be delivered by Wednesday Moat stores will be closed on Dominion Day Saturday Restaurants and small con stores will remain open Mr Wood said the mer chants were unable to obtain a permit which would allow them to stay open while all the crowds are downtown Their application was rejected he said by the Attorney Generals office In fact many merchants wished to remain closed for the holiday anyway The problem had been cussed by the merchants many times as they planned Back to Acton Days The bigger food stores felt lack of parking with the closed mall would limit their sales considerably The town three illors Lea Pat M cKenzle and Peter Marks will be present for the opening ceremonies at 11 a Louis Charlebois will be master of ceremonies There will be music en and bike judging right away Other events follow throughout the rest of the momlng and the after noon There will be games of chance run by the firefighters and Town Hall Restoration committee as well as bingo operated by the Lions Both the Dominion and Station Hotels have licenses for outdoor entertainment Both will have live music and barbecues The Dominion Hotel will have Its outdoor space behind the building whfle the Station Hotel has arranged space beside the building in their parking lot A rock band will be playing at the and Main comer Saturday There will be two bake sales on Saturday operated by the Scout and Guide Mothers and the Dublin Women Institute St John Ambulance Brigade will be represented by George and Mode They will have a table for displays and selling tickets while they are on duty Among those having tables in the mall will be the mem of the Acton Arts and Crafts group David Tappln with his stained glass and Jayne Telford with crafts Other have also Indicated they will becoming Anyone who wishes may still get In on the mall space Saturday Ed Wood says things arc loosely organized and any who wish to bring along a card table may set up in business There will be displays as well as sales of goods and draw tickets Chairman Ed Wood suggests that people with booths consider donating two per cent of sales lo thc Town Hall Restoration committee as some merchants are doing This was done last year as well The merchants will be mak ing the r donations on he basis of Friday sales Acton Citizens Band will be playing downtown Friday night In informal groups and will be In both Acton and parades on Saturday For the town parade they likely won be in uniform The parade is In the afternoon The Acton merchants draw will be made Saturday for a trip to the Jamboree in Hills In Wheeling West Virginia compliments of Tyler Travel service A dog and cat show la dif this year as well as several special events On Sunday there the fish few years now plus a horse shoe pitching contest and ball games Fireworks end the day ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JUNE28 rty Eight Pages Fifteen Cents Morale is rock bottom Police ACTON MINOR HOCKEY president Prank Allsop in his last official act in that position presents Club grand winner Clayton Dude Lindsay with a 500 cheque after his number was drawn in the top spot of the annual draw held last Saturday The draw attracted its usual good crowd Morale on the Hal ton Regional Police Force nowhere to go but up That force Police Association dropped a page survey of regional police into the lap of Police at its regular meeting at Thursday The Hide ranging report recommends changes in equipment promotions buildings districts and other items but its core Is mor ale of force Here ore some samples of what the officers stale There seems to be an overpowering lack of recognition for a Job well done but there is a huge abundance of criticism for prise This is errors In the press Police commission chair resentments were carried man William of into Ihc new force from all Burlington refused comment sides These still exist to Monday until other members some extent the clinging to of the commission which old Ideas and boundaries governs the force have read This has a bearing on the Ihe report He said he read it morale of the Force states over the weekend report There are many things Today with we il have to talk about with population at there Chief Ken Skerrctt said are people for each of No special police ficcr The force number commission is planned to police officers study morale report he Hal ton police officers arc said beginning to feel the pres Initial Hal on Police Com sure in logged overtime mission response came from overloaded with calls and Mayor Harry Bar backlogs of calls shortage of rett who tried to have the officers available for backups report dealt with in camera to calls or serious nature Ilia first reaction was One of the recommend a be discussed from the association calls for an increase in man Let people burn garbage Haltons garbage crisis limiting the number of could be solved almost over garbage bags residents can night if people were allowed put out Is being prepared to return to the old form of Duby observed all one hears around Halton is about more and more garbage piling up and more and more disposal costs He said he has garbage Acton councillor Lea Duby says He made his comments Monday to Halton Hills works heard nothing about reducing reduced to one bag a week committee during discussion amounts of garbage As much as I d like to burn of a request from close lo People could burn BO per my I can It Glen Williams residents to be cent of the they put ridiculous Duby stated given municipal garbage out but we wont let them He said not much more collection It was noted at the burn it declared He odor would come from bur meeting a bylaw greatly added he thought it was about ning garbage like leaves time governments started twigs cartons boxes and letting people get back to the packages than comes from old ways of garbage disposal people using their He said he thought permits fireplaces could be Issued lo allow Councillor Pomcroy people to burn their garbage and Mayor Tom HIM observed in their back yards predicting provincial legislation a four bag household could be prevents people from burning debris and garbage Duby said If people tried burning things which wouldnt burn it create that much of a smell He said everyone seems Continued on Page Almost all of our superior Regional Police power to a point where officers members of the Association Present Al ratio or population with suspicion and Hue I ens told the commission per officer would be thc aver mistrust 125 association members at a age of other regions Our was meeting the night before As far as work load would the last time you Ima unanimously instructed him be concerned using last member of Regional to post the report in every Continued on page 2 Police Force without division and also to give whispering if copies commission and the so called staff the press development we hear so Commission chairman much about is nothing more said Monday he a cover up A method of was surprised the report was keeping happy lasued way it was because The administration saves was not the way face It avoids conflicts members anticipated will get their handling the repoot chance With the breakdown in the four years since the of force declining regional police force formed rank structure and the total some things are much the lack of planning morale does same now as then To be decline in fact it Is at rock sure the human element and bottom for this officer and all strongly set emotions are I have talked to involved and as a result Engineer warns Limit coming on garbage bags Georgetown and Acton home owners will have to cut back on the garbage they produce or else keep it around the house longer once town staff comes up with restrictions on the number of bags which can be put out on collection day Hills engineer Robert Austin told works committee Monday night his department is working on a new garbage collection by law which will greatly limit the number of bags of garbage residents can put out Austin announcement is Just another in a series of town and region actions poln ting to worsening dump crises Earlier this year the region started restricting what con go into the dump barring building materials tires and other inert goods For a time It was thought the new restriction would effect municipal garbage ups and force the cancel lotion of the annual special spring collec of items like old furniture and ap pliances After a few weeks the region decided its new dump rules wouldn apply to garbage in municipal packers Not long after that Hills passed a resolution asking Milton not to dump its garbage in dump anymore The council resolution noted Milton dents have been fighting a regional dump in that own and have done nothing to reduce their garbage Hills noted its Georgetown dump t have much longer to live and the town will have to start trucking refuse la or Burlington next year so the space left in the Georgetown dump should be reserved for Hills resl dents Milton was told to take its to or Burlington In town is operating a pilot recycling program and project has been fairly successful so far Many residents arc separating papers cans and bottles from their regular garbage The separated items are collected by the town and sold to recyclers This cuts down on the amount of garbage going Into the dump Austin made his announcement that garbage In Hills will be restricted during discussion by the committee of a request from close to 100 Glen Williams residents for municipal pick up UNLOVED unwanted stray needs a home Looking like Paddington Bear this pup has adopted the name See Sideroad 5 column on page for more about Paddy Seek cause tree death Hills engineer Robert Austin and his staff will in tree in Acton Councillor asked that the death of a full grown maple tree at ZOO Churchill Road North be investigated at Monday works committee meeting He said the town needs to find out if reconstruction of the road killed the tree Austin promised to report back to committee noting his staff has examined the problem already but no conclusion has been reached Police would shut Acton move to Georgetown The Police Associa district so that along with a bank of new vehicles lo is recommending several Burlington and there replace old ones which pass changes be made in the be four districts in the GO mile mark present set up stead of present three An immediate study should If we could get all those promotions are to take be undertaken to reduce un recommendations It would within days of duplication be one big step for Halton postings Region police association New men be hired president said That officers leaving Monday but he continued cause of retirement or resig That a inconceivable nation be replaced The association is calling mediately foronecentral police building That fraud Rope and Sex for each of three districts offenders Squads be set up and that these structures be Bomb Squad designed and equipped to suit Then j f lnc the needs of police resumption of In service The only police building in training and also for a con Halton according to the tinulns now of Information on report is used to house the legislation administration at police also want their The report suggests equipment to be of higher the division into that building and putting step away from current the administration in Ihe practice officers called for other building Ihe equipping of cruisers with The report also calls for electronic sirens Cruisers moving north district should also have a bar light headquarters to Milton from beam light system Georgetown And putting the Among other Acton officers into they call for Georgetown station adoption of the Erin patrol Consideration is also asked jacket and open neck shirts about splitting Ihe north Into summer wear a Milton and Hills They also would like to see paper work Some of the equipment they would like to have Includes more dictating machines tape recorders binoculars informant money a crime scene equipment vehicle and tanks for a team There are calls for l con treatment be given for all breaches or policy regardless of rank and that here be a set policy on internal Investigations which will be rigorously adhered to The Chief of Police is called upon to make his presence in the divisions more ob vious And finally there Is an appeal for a closer working relationship between the police commission thc ad ministration and the in tho policy making the force