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Silk flowers fill local warehouse by Jennifer Ban- to the midst of winter one corner of Acton is breaking out In masses of colorful blooms A 14 square foot warehouse on Frederick Street is filled to overflowing with exquisite silk flowers the inventory of Don Imports a local firm Millions of flowers pass through Don hands yearly on their way from Hong Kong to retail flo rists who use them in flower arrangements and corsages Don and Colleen have lived in Acton eight years Their import firm has been in existence for four of those years nnd is now doing very nicely according to Don Fourteen ycnrs in the florist business eight of them with Calvert Dale of Brampton at a salesman Don with the needed for going out on his own Four year ago he left his secure job travelled to Hong Kong for three weeks visiting and setting up an import agent came home went to the bank Peter Hannam Federation head The Ontario Federation of Agriculture OF A re turned six incumbents and elected a woman to its seven person exe cutive at the convention held Hamilton Peter ft cash crop farmer near was reelected by for his third term as president Mr received several standing ovations for his work this past year from the nearly delegates at the three- day convention He has been president of a number of agricultural organizations during the last 10 years and was first elected to orA Board of Directors in 1974 Ratph a dairy farmer near Perth in Lanark County was also returned for his third term as first ident He has been an Of- A Director for over six years and has alio served on the Board of Directors for the Canadian of Agriculture our candidates con tested the position of second vicepresident with Ron White a dairy farmer near Dcnficld in Middlesex County being elected Mr White has been on the exe cutive for two years PROBLEM With every passing month our energy proth have grown worse President Carter and set up his own busi Sounds easy but it is Lots of hard work is always the key in to any success and the put in many hours It was very tough to start especially with in flation But life is looking better now although the still work long hours Don is on the road most of the lime selling his product and seeking new markets Colleen is the backbone of the busi according to her husband She does every thing from handling the phones to packing orders and doing the book work An additional sales man Allen Stewart from Brampton joined the a year ago Fur assistance comes from the children Gall 14 and Darren who help after school A new venture for the is a sizeable full color catalogue printed by Dills Printing and Publishing Co Ltd now Inland Publishing Co Limited with design ad vice from John of the company logue will go to new retailers extolling the vir of Robb Imports fine in colours The business is a fashion gamble Don has to predict the fashion trends and have appro priate colors If he finds one color or type of bloom is not moving he goes out and creates his own fashion demand Today hot colours are the muted pinks roses and mauves seen in women clothing Don had to anticipate this trend some time ago Right now he trying to outguess next year buy Ing whims You ve got to keep ahead It interesting but it If you guess wrong thousands of dollars go down the drain Fortunately Don t guessed wrong very much although a small section of the warehouse is labelled Don Robbs and contains several thousands of un saleable blooms Nobody can bat a thousand all the time Don the trend towards good artificial blooms is going strong and can only get better specially with the quality of silk flowers he able to import the finest Don Robb advice for anyone wishing to be come their own boss Go ahead and start any business Just as long as sorts orders from the hundreds of of silk flowers lhat through Don Imports from Hong Koor totanado s retail florists Acton Frta Press Wednesday Jan B7 Traffic Act changes TOURING THE KITCHEN at Halton Manor are members of region s Health and Social Services committee The tour was arranged by the region to familiarize new members of the committee with the facility From left are committee chairman Walter Mulkewich Roy Paul a member of the consulting firm preparing the report on the manor for the committee Laurie Don Gordon Jim Grieve Ed Wood and assistant manor administrator Gord Timbers Neither Mr nor Mr Gordon are committee members but accompanied the trip Regional committee tours Halton Manor One of the more in formal meetings of Hal ton Region Health and Social Services Commit tec was held Thursday morning at Centennial Manor In Mil ton Committee chairman Walter of Burlington said the pur pose of he meeting was to tour the facility and be come acquainted it Several proposed renovations and improvements at the manor are going to be considered by the com which will make recommendations to Re gional Council Mr Mulkewich said there were several new members on the commit tee and they should know first hand what they will be dealing with Aside from Mr and Hills representative Russ Miller all the members on the committee are newcomers to regional council Ed Wood Hal ton Hills Gus of Milton Carol Gooding and Bonnie Brown of Oakville and Jim Grieve of Burlington are the newcomers Mr Grieve said during the tour he thought it was a good idea for committee members to tour facilities like this It amazing how we re asked to make decisions about places like this and we don really know enough about them to do so Accompanying the committee on the tour were Milton Mayor Don Gordon Regional Chairman Jack Regional Coun cdlor Laurie Mannell Halton Manor Administrator Jack Charlton Assistant Administrator Timbers and repre sentatives from a con suiting firm tin lour took the group through both parts of the manor Martin House the newer of the two houses and the original House The group also toured the old staff quarters which under consideration be con verted into a youth home for delinquents In an effort to cut down by commercial vehicles trucks travel ling over 60 kilometres an hour on Ontario roads will be forbidden to follow any vehicle closer than metres or approximately feet Any drivers convicted of a third or more drink and driving charge will lose their licences far a minimum of three years These new amend ments to The Highway Traffic Act were included In Bill 150 which reccucd third and final reading last week Minister of Transportation and Com municalions Jim Snow said this week It is now a specific offence to drive a motor vehicle in contravention of conditions contained In the licence or imposed by the regulations Snow pointed out adding this affects a person who is driving without glasses when his licence requires that he do so The law now makes it illegal for the driver of the vehicle approaching from the rear to move beyond the front of the vehicle being overtaken We have also plugged a loophole in respect to commercial traffic on highways In recent years many municipal boundaries have moved beyond built up areas leaving high speed sec lions of highway not covered specifically by sections of the Where necessary Snow continued we have changed the from highways outside city town or village to cover all high ways where the maximum speed limit is more than kilometres An important section by this change is that which prohibits com mere la 1 vehicles from lowing one another closer thon metres To pre vent tall gat by com mercial vehicles general ly we have broadened this section to include the following of any vehicle if the truck is moving at over kilometres per hour We have the means by which police officers can carry out the emergency clos ing of highways Prior to this policemen had to be physically present on the scene and in situations where major storms a substantial area It was difficult to position police officers at all points Under the new regul Snow pointed out The police can close a highway by posting traffic barriers and will have the power to enlist he assistance of 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