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Acton Press Pulilrshod Wodnwday by Inland Publish ng Co Limited SO Willow SKoet Acton Ontario Telephone Singlo cop as each per year Canada in all oltior than Canada Acton is of Inland Publishing Co Lifn lad group lows papers include The Now Advoilnor Guardian Post TIio Economist and Sun an Chomp on News Too Oakv llo Wouk Tru Founded In Don McDonald Publisher if by tern or I not bo lor but of a Ivor lor at In a lypoQinphlc goods or may not bo sold Advert inn bo withdrawn EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor Hart Joy Photographer Murray Sport Editor Robin ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Advertising Mating or II Cook Clasilflod Advertising n BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE Fran ion CIRCULATION Horn 2010 Business and Editorial Office 6 The Acton Free Press Wedn Nov 2 Twas a fine parade Saturday officially opened the festive Yule season in Acton as Santa Claus paid his first visit pre ceded by a lively parade with a World of Disney theme Since Mickey Mouse is celebrating his birthday this year it was an appropriate theme and ever young Mickey was right at the head of the procession followed by just about every nursery rhyme character in a fairy tale book and a few more to boot The children were delighted The adults relived their childhood and similar moments of Christmas fantasy Parade organizers including chairman Richard Coe Dave Hunter and Jim Rivett of the Y Men Linda Coe and Ann Perry from the Menettes and Larry of the Acton Volunteer Firefighters should take a well deserved bow as well as all the participants Though there is often talk of diminishing community interest because of government fiddling with the municipalities Saturdays parade proved there is still plenty of community spirit in Acton just waiting foranoutlet Saturday weather had just a hint of winter in the air the sun shone he bands headed by red coated Acton Citizens in toques to match played music suitable for Christmas It was a good start for a season which we ve always believed starts too early and ends too soon Improvements appreciated Shoppers who take advantage of downtown Acton must surely the new store fronts and awnings embellishing many businesses Theyve made a decided improvement to the downtown and might well be emulated by other businesses to give the area more appeal Theres still work to do and businessmen are planning more wrinkles to please shoppers but the feeling of optimism and new horizons for downtown business go beyond that The changes have created a new business climate which we feel shoppers recognize We always felt the downtown is the show window of the com A brief or two The current issue of the National Geographic contains an article on Ontario replete with pictures and comment on this keystone province The article is also companied by a map of the province showing the interesting points as well as place names It recognizes regional government exists in Halton placing Halton Hills in Georgetown Surprise Acton is privileged to have its own place name obviously divorced from its two other Halton Hills partners Georgetown councillor Roy Booth summed up retiring mayor Tom Hill rather succinctly in an emotional council farewell last week Booth a frequent opponent of the mayor said Youre gruff and youre snarly miserable and mean and we argue and fight but I have discovered theres a heart of gold under that exterior Enoughsaid The success of Bill Johnson in securing a seat on regional council representing rural Milton is also a blow to those who want to use rural land for dumps and quarries An inveterate environmentalist as well as a fighter for recycling plants for mounting piles of gar munity When it is dowdy or depressed shoppers react to it in the same way If it is filled with new ideas and constant changes for the better the changes will also not go unnoticed In the past that has not always been recognized either by shoppers or business Now a new era has arrived it could well change the out of town shopping habits ingrained in some residents Cooperation is the key to change and the more operative business attitudes are the more consumers will react to changes which make shopping in Acton more pleasant accessible and easier on the pocketbook Johnson lias been listened to with respect in other municipalities with his blend of common sense and native wisdom Unfortunately has lumped him in with crackpot critics and radicals when they should have been listening to what he was saying Its your turn now Bill Give em a boot Halton Police Chief Kenneth Skerrett was quoted last week as saying in a talk to Burlington high school students he was so fed up with vandalism that he would like to give some vandals a boot in the behind and he would probably do just that if he caught anyone vandalizing his property even though such action would be labelled a criminal assault We dont think a person in Chief Skerretts position should be making such statements in public He is after all appointed to ad minister justice by the book and taking the law into his own hands isn wise for one entrusted with such a responsibility But we have to agree gleefully hes got a good idea The Canadian Milt mi A little town A little town is where you dont have to guess whom your enemies are Your friends will tell you A little town is where few people can get away with lying about the year they were bom Too many other people can remember A little town is where people with various ailments can air them properly to sympathetic ears A little town is where when you phone the wrong number you can talk for minutes anyway A little town is where the ratio of good people to bad people is some thing like 100 to one Thats nice to remember A little town is where it is hard for anybody to walk to work for exercise because it takes too long to stop and explain to people in cars who stop honk and offer a ride A little town is where city folks say there is nothing to do but those who live there dont have enough nights in the week to make all the meetings and social functions A little town is where everyone becomes a neighbor in time of need Wiarion Echo A fresh carpet of snow Bad things always come in threes If in tell whv run in threes I I in listen don 1 I superstitious bet in t t know tin it used ippui mi mj squ I i thru twudiys and Dim num lui ihui thru mini During Iht pom is tin nut Km night wifi v mi hi hi i for some inixphi iblc I hi next tj mil til kids would mini down with ippindiuti hi third i Id parking for p in llii mi mi pi at I I parked lor Lis wis no exupliuii vW delivering our older i lo in the city Shi hidfmulK tamed position not i job mind von is second I leachf r month Hut sin has to for hour mid ihilf iiih mil of the tliy Huts i pally luft commute especially to with two of wildest ho in Christendom at So in htr inimitably modest mid fating wiy she phoned old in in tolled and suggested he loin hi tin old market rt about about I lus would tut lime forty So in his inimitably sluptd wny htr old man shi And in Ins idiolit v 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bet off on foil with our prcMiils for he kids a suit for 1ikt which had I ilxirtd on with love for two nicks a big tint wtightd twtnl pounds a p of shots or Kim various Millions all be ivy 1 1 tin by tin skin of our fit r i hour with uns And Hint days I in front of TV ami a holt in the toiitii md my stomach mtntion mj wift s found si I in three OUR READERS WRITE Stamps help worlds poor til of my plia used stomps Dear at Christmas I think of all the used postage stamps arc need discarded These seemingly worth less articles from any country arc sold In bulk by the Scarboro others to stamp dealers help finance mission projects throughout the world In months I received over 100 lbs of cancelled postage stamps in quantities in very large from schools sin iii companies in lit tic I add up quickly if every out thim for me Please tlu Hunts mill 10 cents Head stamps are sold It hardly a second to rip used postage stamps off of an envelope leaving a of paper around it can he your way of helping tht worlds poor without costing a lot of time or money Please send by Third Class Mail or bring all your cancelled postage stomps anytime of the year to The Free Press Back Issues 10 years ago Taken from the the free of Wednesday November 1S68 McKeough Minister of Municipal Affairs wdl be visiting county council soon to discuss regional government Tlie Latin Club banquet at the high school recrealed old Roman glory Wine women and principal Ted Hansen in a toga were all part of Latin night it was grape punch Mark Hurst and Mike Cooper staged a wrestling match while Nancy Morris performed acrobatics and Marianne Coles an I nee Several students put on a play Vitl r Funk played he mandolin and Joe Pelrlc he accordion Mrs sang a few numbers The historic old Academy is being restored by sculptor 20 years ago Taken from the Issue of the rce Press of Thursday December J Alton voters approved a half null grant to be divided between Acton Citizens Band and Junior Pipe Bind as well as dls solution of the present Utilities Com mission in favor of a hydro when ftnjl election win received it 11 Monday evening Council withheld final decision regarding in underpass or wig wag system at the CNil Mam crossing following sub mission of a letter from the Board of rans port Commissioners on Tuesday evening Hit purchase of the Harris property in Hock wood was announced by the GVCA who will develop the acres within the wo or thret years a park area lltturniug for he Municipal election J reported 1 spoiled ballots at he Monday election In the spoiled ballots the retur noted that some ballots were not marked properly and others were not marked at all 50 years ago I from the issue of he rce Press of Tins is the annual ball and of Attonr- ire Brigade Admission is tints and la Masons five piece or imstn will pljy and Gibbons and I will floor managers High School commencement at traded a full hall of citizens Diplomas wtrt presented Grace Day Gladys Switzer Mae Stewart Young Anna Allison Medals were by Rev A C Stewart in felicitous terms to William Helen Stewart and Oral for school champion ships in the athletic field A few venturesome people enjoyed skate on Corporation Pond Some of them received a cold ducking Is Acton going to have a community Christmas tree this The one last year gladdened man hearts 100 years ago taken from the Issue of the free Press Nov I87H It is time that the ministers and others who intend speaking at soirees and socials through tins winter should com to think of some new jokes and dotes to lake the place of the fairs hat have become stale council is spending nil its money in the southern port of the tow leaving the upper parts destitute He who does the printer pa Will go to heaven some sure day But he who meanly cheats printer Will go where there is never winter All Halifax was bedecked with evergreen and flags to welcome the new Governor he Marquis of Lome and the Very account For and about women Soft balls of cut feathers are seen on trench bonnets Jewelled serpents as seem to be tht choice rounded trains are superceding those of the square shape Pencilled eyebrows are coming into vogue a fact which we arc sorry to record costumes in velvet and brocade are plainly mode and invariably composed of only one color The ladies of he royal family of Russia are said be the most beautiful women in the world It is asserted that the business of the chiropodists has in creased most astonishingly since the fashion of wearing high heels has prevailed Mrs Chmny Street tori Erie Ontario or Mrs J C Lawrence Dorchester Road Niagara Falls Ontario Thank you