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The Acton Free Press Wednesday July Editorial We showed the flag A big wave of a Canadian flag for all the organizers of the exciting three day bash called Back to Acton Days Its seeming fun and spontaneity belied months of planning and its organizers vow they re going to start getting ready for next years within the month The Mill St mall was packed with strollers and shoppers sight seers and skateboarders for all of two days and on the next day the beautiful park hosted the crowds The Calithumpian parade indeed proved to be a Pied Piper and all manner of people joined in behind the music in the three parades At the last minute the route had to be changed to avoid highway traffic It resulted in all three zany parades joining forces at the track to descend on the waiting world at Mill and Main The sea of people across the roadway and down the sidewalks cheered organizers councillors and prize winners and went on happily to enjoy all the amuse mentsof the day Right until Sundays fireworks there was full participation in all the special festivities Of course a few tilings went awry why not It was all done by volunteers at very little ex pense The one whopping bill was foi the fireworks and the host fire fighters found most people willing to share the cost by donating a sum A sound system would have been nice and should be a certainty for next year Acton showed the flag on the weekend and didn we all enjoy ourselves We want solutions Its disturbing to read that town employees are considering limiting the number of garbage we ma put out and Earlier this the powers that be and without notice limited the materials go in to the dump But things a little up the depart End of an era The burning of the freight shed at the tracks marks the end of an era There nothing left there now to show how important the railroad once was here Een a so the station was there its coered with freight nv ait ins transport by rail Mail used to come regular via rail passengers depended upon it there to sohe problems not create them New sites must be found and soon Recycling should be pro as councillor suggests most sensibly lei us bin all our combustible garbage if it can t be recycled When the station was sold and demolished a lin glass cubicle was built in its place Now even that is The worst thing the disintegration of service from the is the growing knowledge commuter trains will be much Files are feasting The many Actomans who go to for holidays were to find few tent caterpillars this year after last years nasty in vasion Swarms of large parasitic flies are the major factor in the per cent reduction in the number of the wriggling beasts Larger and hairier than house flies the cophaga flies lay live larvae or maggots on the tent caterpillar cocoons These maggots feed on and destroy the caterpillars in their irerfa the number of flies is a phenomenon connected with outbreak of tent a ho occur about once every 12ytdrs Many people believe the govern has released the flies in an effort to combat the tent eater pillars Not so Hut the thousands of flies will be gone when the tent caterpillars an gone Happy Holidays Birthdays and such Happy birthday to us The Free Press starts a new year each July 1 We ve been at it since The first paper was printed in Mat thews Hall the building that was known as Hotchen s Bakery when it was torn down this summer How come its Canada Day in stead of Dominion Day How did that happen Just when advertising took a sea dip our news columns and pictures took a soaring rise Many pictures will be left out until next week If you dont like what s happen ing this is a free country Theres nothing to stop you from doing something about whats bothering you or trying to But dont complain about the dirty dishes if you wont take your turn at the sink Dont complain about taxes if youve got your hand out for some of the goodies Dont call the next generation bums if your own family isnt earning its own way Dont cry about inflation if your own income isnt tied to your productivity Dont knock the politicians in Ottawa if you are not ready to support people who will do a better job The kids art ill home from school Now the next two months teaching and examples all come from parents and friends not from teachers Parents arc in sole control of television viewing reading sharing morals re ligion moderation language both clean and grammatical discipline lence exercise An awesome burden Any small business in Canada and that includes right here in Acton can now telephone Ottawa free of charge for ombudsman ser vice to cut red tape and eliminate paperwork problems The hotline 995 Monday through Friday am to 5 p m Ombudsmen will accept collect calls from any bus mess in this country After callers describe their pro blems ombudsmen will go to work on their behalf to seek solutions im mediately If a problem is not solved within five days the will provide the caller with a progress report and follow up until the case is resolved Hey weatherman You told us there would be ram both Saturday and Sunday And the weather was perfect You shouldnt do that to us with so many outdoor events planned Fireworks painted the sky Sunday to end a glorious weekend link I limit it in iifli tin Ihiv led in wllMll nit i in i know Sugar and spice when I tl by s lying Jolly when la try to ike a Tarzan k on Ins car Ik responded with hum In int know he Hi work ho mi in my p ice Ik his individuality by such run irks is no when Id try to it mm something he Iw int lo orcouldn do Bugger off when Id pre tend mock ind threaten dirt punishment Hi terms win to know from his gran id mothtr fithtr lit leirntd from other hlllt punks it d ft tinners in just is and pretty spending nine months goofing off they come up to you is time looms with i tortured ex is though they had to go to the tould hardly nut and whimper Sir tell me if to Hie final exam I ply to i id not unless Our readers write Special thanks I im iln Irn tirritd pie i I ihihumi an i Hi isi ind i I IM in Hi I i is mi loiK through I I in I iiss the ill set tin in ilk is this iikml iKi Hint ind miking history IIhs ill mi nil ii li the hirf i Ihuik Mils nil im IIk all hum pun t ink rvont who l worked si h to j sin 1 1 Willi ninth It il word of Hi inks i I and Mm i wiiiiledlniiof tin indes and to Wood with her terrific 1 one 1 ikt view pur nit to the police who guided us the streets saw ils sifdv to Hit end to Hit mdividuils bind ind fin i who showed despite list linnets and to l mm 1 1 who covered our par ide on tele vision In the I I reporters who i in it It ist I miles to ni ike sure we were ritordid in tin history I his i is i iry proud lo be Ii inline in idi as I I In mute more Ih it I w is proud to hi doing it In Acton with ill my friends Sei 1st Si tit i erry drubbe if fas At with patriotic Canadian I In of International nationalism I Canada Day with a brief jaunt down to Bahama by Bill Smiley you freckles red hair ire ill kinds of van itions on this If it s i I might sav if you can ike me i Irout I limit cm sit the wheels spinning in his motortjeleh mind this boy who s never e i trout in his life I hey ibout for next I cm stand peopk become pompous Tiny think their so you tint belie il ire freshmmled world vour religion nil is jour life it re so id ind they we that rueful resign th it most endued people pounding their heads lift long enough to softtn them W on re iders and I ire on ime sil of nils ind though in ind do me furiously it Inst the know most of them Ihil there is gny in the world there is hi white Their letters are inuth more interesting those of people witlv astnngtnl ptjorilnt brut ofttn kmdlv ptreeptne svmpithetie nagging Ihty have lived and know that he world Ins hem the nol In responsi to remit column half joking iskmg if had a job fur I received it from It Kirk of Renfrew 1 hive job job riiuire- ments melude i new in in ind mother new until 1JBJ whenshe mil her husband will pan nts of eight Tint w is in ivengc f in the mil best devtlopmtnl of an id goes on lo would be out of work She will remodel and mike for her ehilitren from the ibunilint suppljofblightlyiisedtlothing von jtt a rumnnge sale for song She will with Hit help of her mid you her fitlitr ind your mothtr have a fruit ind garden Hit clulilren will help Mr senouslj inehned to agree with him Hut hi know a few llungs about our him and her kids In tilt first plaet areid look as though they in in dressed from rummigc sale without my remodelling In si where do they get the ind for big gardin Noting today have very hull of ever owning home of their own lit done one with garden space What really hurls though is when he sueh life would my vacitloii trips to Think of the pleasure you will hive using vacation money to help out the finances of your in small sums where most needed Dear Mr Kirk Ihosi sums hive prevented me from having a elect for yenri penny sived is pinny earned but dollar my daughter is i III never see llnnks Mr Kirk and his wife are and respectively with seven a family and grandchildren He would like to live to be years old life is so interesting Bless you sir you do so May on be pinching your wife lovingly at ill she responding But ask me lo take on six more I said lo my wife the other night 1 have a feeling in my bones just a premonition that some disaster is about lo be foil me Oh 1 tell you The boys arc coming for the weekend The Free Press Back Issues 10 years ago Taken from the Issue of Ihf Press of Jimr 19TH Whiting is llalton ridings new Member of Parliament Whiting an salesman and public relations with a quarrying firm handily Progressive Conservative candidate Peter K by almost votes The latest availabk returns from Returning officer Gordon Make gave Whiting voles while New Party candid lie Murray in trailed with with 19 of the polls heard from On the of working drawing ap proval from the Department of tenders will be tailed for an to the Bennett public school The iddition consists of a general purpose room with facilities three si ird room teathers room and library At i special meeting of high school board last a motion was passed hat the board eould not participite in paying cost of importation for any student out of 20 years ago Takui from lie issue of Ik Irii- Press of lulv I mult heir gel away with at It worth of anil jewellery ifiersinishiiithe window of Dun lit jewilltrv store in the pre dawn hours Tues Ei No word h is been rtttivtd it tin si is vet Ihe il train Princess Margaret Stratford irk menth However is believed the trim will piss throne Die town ition will likely he sent shortly J he stiff of his in lisl then were 11 It iihtrs is It ivini loteath in i two te ithers lute been hired Mrs DA Smith mil Miss if not ill elnnts in ipcteil to ill mile with the present elosing is provided for undtr Ihe I tint wis disputed in id on Monday lo of the retail stttiiin of tin lumber of Commerce ishrotim fieilities it the new change si ition in Hit wireoptntdfortht first to I hi Sitnrdiv 50 years ago I Ike lit l I till In rt union of Simpson Ihe I- let fundus is held on at Ihe Simpson home ste id lot 0 to eiimmemorati the innivirsirv of ignwiy lownship of their filhers Descendants of oilier families of Ihe sutlers wen present on in il ilmn also present residtnts of iss if iw i lo Hit number of 1 in ill dames of ball were engaged in until A clink when bountiful supper is followed i length pro with Mr John It of Township in the I lit ihnrmin ivi i of the stttkmtiit o tin Township giving of the struggles and hard ships of tin i stlllers David the first settler si mil iuLbton the third 1 mi Hush Simpson Icrtmnh I lift her 100 years ago ike from the issue of tin Press IH Whit bis of Ihe I se ire lltrim from I slates ih it lord Ins accepted the Hum of his term is Governor inula 1 his we ire sun will be with profound jelion throughout the Dominion from end to he othi of His mils unrivalled in the of Ihe ho Count il mil Milton it in with for mittuits issutd by order of the ink 1 In irdin informed until thai ho id speei il meeting for Ihe pur post of investigating in iceount of for extra work of the jail mil addition the onrl Hi use llu the iceount the irdui rt id the s stale mint of reductions from tin suae THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office Copyright 1978