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LDC denies rural man severance bid The Acton Fiee Press Wednesday B5 Town Hall Tales Town Hall piano Almost is soon the Town Hall was completed in it became popular as a com munity meeting place after all was far and the largest hall in Acton Con certs and entertainments be came common the corn munity because of the hill a concert there bung almost issured of a full and ap preciative house It soon be came apparent to some people in Acton th it some thing was missing in their new hall That was i How could local talent per form and danets bt held without a piano These were the before recorded music and in hall you jus had to have a piano Crokinole club was organized this being very popular and innocent game in those days for the sole pur pose of raising money to buy a piano for the hall The club put on socials and garden and all those other events Inch drew crowds at the turn of he century Apparently he ladies of the club did much of the work and by nickels dimes and quarters enough money was eventually in hind to buy he desired piano In November of delegation from the i council meet and requested that Conn Murray who is ilso secretary of the club be i to the iddress the club donated to the hill the piano they had which believed would be credit to the place it take the precaution to have the piano carefully pro tected and cared for The concluded with thinks to council for assist incc he club through free use of the town hall and park for fund raising The names of the Business Com of the club were all signed to the address graciously the piano and i in a short reply complimented the Committee thanked the club on behalf of the citizens He nnde special reference to the work the of the club Ind done in the enter prise they hid so successfully lown was proud of this new piano probably the fin est in Acton and before that council meeting ended a resolution is passed est the rait per night for the use of the piano it two dollars for local and three dollars for outside organize lions this was in days when lessons were probably ibout cents i les Well then whit was this new piano in Acton like It mis purchased from hilly Music Store in i business which operated there until just i few ago It is an fine instrument in the Bell Piano and Organ fac tors in w is described is i concert up right lint is it wis designed so Us sound would fill a con eert hall rather parlor Bell pianos were very good ACTON CROKINOLE CLUB many years ago held a fund raising drive to raise money to buy a piano for the town hall The piano has been restored and is currently in the care of the Ac tons Citizens Band and today used ones arc able and much in demand Tins one probably cost several hundred dollars and back in 1898 that wis real monev Over the piano was played perhaps several times a week ind for dances it probably received i real thumping Certainly it did in liter years as 1 remember it When the hall to be used the piano stayed there its once tight now grubby dark ind stained ignrcttc burns its oak veneer and it was mobilized withits wheels long gone When tht Band In its wander mes back in the fifties ended up in the Town ill the piano wosstill there I remembered it and was amazed that after so many years of neglect was still in good tunc and the action was as quick and clean as it hid ever been Its full rich sound hod not been impaired by I ben the Band left the town hall for the Music Centre they asked take the piano with I hem but council had donated it to the senior citizens meeting place in the lhls was Charlie suggestion is he knew the piano well In the the senior citizens it up used it quite a bit When left the for St Albans bill the pnno wis left behind more forgotten in i corner But the band remembered In the bind looked fon project to mirk the its form ltton wondered the went to the in look for it not without fear it whit be found Inert it was even blicker than it bid been most of the ivories were gone from the kcs one leg was damaged in it some time But tht iction was untouched and tht sound there Council and citizens all relinquished claims to the instrument the band received permission to restore the ind keep it in the bind lull Six bind members got onto truck with great difficulty because it was instrument took it to bind bill There it wis stripped and refmlshcd in the olden oik it had been origin ill were recovered but with phstit thin which today is prohibitively expensive The felts on hammer heads wire badly worn so were re placed It was tuned id justed and one sounded and looked is it once had Its first use in its new locn Hon was for a piano recital b Julie Smith a music student at University of Western Ontario At the music it is now protected and cared for as the members wanted it to many years ago It lias some of the blemishes inevitibli with age hut looks and sounds much as it did to those proud citizens of Acton in the town hall in Obituar Susie Mae Denny of pioneer family service was held July for Susie Mae Denny of Arthur St She died in Manor July 2 Mrs Denny was born in township on September the daughter of Almanda Griffin and Robert prowl pioneer family of Scottish Stock She attended public school On September 22 she mirricd Evert Denny who is now deceased They lived in for years before moving to to farm They were here for years They raised five children Ralph and Clarence of Acton Elmer of Calgary Edith Mrs Lloyd of Leo la Mrs bred Koch of Kitchener and JcssletMrs Gordon of Brampton All are left to mourn her loss Also surviving Mrs Denny are her two brothers Griffin and John of Acton and Dora Mrs Elmore John ston of Ancaster The liny Denny officiated at the funeral held and Gary all i Shoemaker Funeral Home Interment was at Churchill Cemetery Pallbearers were Itobert Denny Douglas Vcrn Denny grandsons low re were grandsons McMurdo and red Koch nephew Harold Mclntyrt and neighbor Jick Cole Masson trustee in Georgina Twp Regional Chairman former Oak Mayor and Councillor Allan Masson has been op- pointed Interim trustee after the election of all but one of Townships were declared to be in valid Masson will work three days a week at per day plus expenses until the Nov ember election an active member of the Tory parly was appointed to the job by provincial treasurer lost his scat as f 111 ton chairman to Hie Morrow almost two years ago The province has accepted foi running the and Wayne Woods who was to start as the town ships Chief Administrative Officer will begin work immediately The Township Council was disbanded after Judge Ward Allen rulled Ihe results of the Inst election in Georgina Invalid because the clerk failed to mail notices of palling places Regional Land Division Committee turned i home building lot of an It Georgetown man member Hill Co its of Acton denial of from Robert Leslie R It be cause the tot has had three previous severances he property f on Side Road Just because a lot cannot be used for farming does not it should have a house built on ft Coats said Our aim should be to development in the urban Both the local and regior planners recommended had no objections but the idjoinmglot told the 1 DC denial of the application the lot was be less he was ignnst granting the The application called for thin 10 acres the unit wanted severance bic of the severing off just more i proven well drilled before water situation He said he final consent was granted his bad to truck in acre A man by the name of or three times a year during The regional health unit Campbell who said he owned summer