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Eden Mills Jake Burnett dies Thursday Mr Doug II The Youth Group held a movie night in the last week for the young and Icons of the Please keep in mind the Ladies Craft Club show sale and tea on April from 1 to m Plan to attend and you may be Ihc lucky winner of the door prize to be away Sympathy of this com Is extended to Burnett family in the sudden loss of dear bus band and father Allen Jake Burnett who was one of the faithful Era councillors Rev Carrie of the Presbyterian Church held a special on Maundy Thursday even ing and people gather ed Just as Jesus and his disciples did on their fast evening together ail shared in Lords Supper and the minister used the original church communion pitcher and cup which arc over years old Lessons were read in candlelight on how Jesus was left alone Following the different readings candles were extinguished At the con elusion there was one lone candle burning Customers from Our ling ton Milton Acton and came to en joy the Good Friday morning breakfast which has been a tradition for years Folks enjoy the informal atmosphere and the tasty food served by the Presbyterian Women Travelers return home from afar by Mrs A Benton Mr and Mrs A reckon and Mrs Bull arc home after a pleasant winter at their home in Florida Mr and Mrs George Book Christian and enjoyed a recent trip to Vancouver Mrs Wayne Lister and Miss Joanne Lister had a week in Grantham England recently Tile second of the weekly series of Marathon euchres spons ored by Women Institute was held in the Memorial Hall Wed nesday evening with eight tables in play High scores were held by Wm Thompson and Ethel Brownridge and lone hands were won by Glen Scott and Glad Inglis Excess weight makes your heart work harder and causes three times as many heart attack deaths says your Ontario Heart Foundation Chamber happenings is In a mood for change With the plaza turned down for the present the downtown his a new commitment to change and to dressing itself to the public Our population is changing in number and makeup the of Commerce pi ins to keep pace The Commumtj in this paper will public set what is happening in our town column will inothtr way for our citizens to be aware and concerned ictivilies and involvement or being by the Hoard of Directors arc busy with tin of the ir and Candidates Night at present residents will ixperience in June our own Back to to town on the 1 week end Organization has beg mom Map and for Possible ens and further with our schools should ben wav to unite Hit business community with tin students are under ton The Acton Chimber of Commerce hopes to hive a productive and successful future operation and participation from our memoirs the public this hope can become a reality IMMACULATE HOME ON COUNTRYSIZE LOT 900 Lovely brickaluminum home with many exciting features 3 bedrooms stone fireplace sun porch overlooking your gardens patio appliances full basement and more Call Clark Real Estate Ltd today 5211 w April indeed is the cruellest month April pits April is the cruellest month So said Eliot a transplanted American who spent most of his adult Ufa working in bank and writing poetry in England As far as England goes he was full of baloney April in England is delightful It rains only every second day and the countryside is green with grass and as colorful as a patchwork quilt with flowers Now if he been writing about Canada I d April is no bargain in these parts like November You have staggered through the last of the March blizzards Barely sud In theory it spring In reality It tic dirty bottom end of winter and the weakest possible whisper of a hope for summer is mud treacherous piercing winds thai give you that racking cough you avoided all winter rusted fenders changing snow tires and surveying your properly and all Hie detritus deposited on il and around It by the recent winter Just checked mint lodaj On the lawn here is a dirty brown hump hat resembles something from the paleolithic age but somehow mcmum It is made up of one part ice two parts sand and one part silt all courtesy of the department This lump will hove melted by the fourth of July and will leave a foot patch of pure Sahara Scattered about the back porch art bits and pieces and wliolt shingles removtd without charge from the roof when the man was knocking off the ice at the end of January Mingling with the shingles are portions up of brick knocked out of the wall by the man who removed some of the shingles while he was removing the ice Lying on the bock porch Itself Is a pile of glass shattered from a storm window that quite get put on last November and was leaning carefully against the house to wait for met day for A wind caught that me limply is the storm door which will no longer close because Ice got in around it and it w forced shut so manj times it lost its all desire to keep Ihc wcithtr a from now en becomes scretii door Lying in the back vard lean on tit elbow is one of the great Id chairs lookint as though it hod just been mugged in a back alley by a particularly vie gone of punks Beside it Minds the picnic table sway backed from he i snow and it carried ill winter But all is not drab There a nice touch if color here and there green wine bottle tossed over the fence by some passing contributor Here frozen inl the Ice a wrapped in yellow cellophane Our there another paper wrapped in blue emerges from Its winter retreat Both bear December dates a sort spot to gnaw through and deposit kits in the attic Chasing her is a dog probably the same one who left calling cards all over the back yard during the winter which ore now melding nicely with the mud and the stench of dead earth coming back to life And the clothesline is sagging like an ancient stripper The back stoop is just that Stooped from the Ice falling off the roof onto it AH this is normal enough a typical April scene and not complaining Bui wouldn t it be nice If you got through one April without your tall pipe and muffler suddenly starting to sound like a bull breaking wind ft werchenota sturdy Canadian who has been through the same performance in the same arena year after year But this April is going to be the one that broke many a man stronger than I On top f all the usual of April will be the even of an election campaign won be so bad for the kids who don t mind April at all as it gives them a chance lo gel soaked to the knots and covered in mud with some excuse They don care about politicians Nor will be too lough for the elderly win pretl with a kind of jaunty triumphant cause they ve made it through another bonebuster of a winter they ire perfectly aw ire that politicians are pernicious whatever their uttr coloring But for the honest decent middleaged Canadian who sees no more difference between the parties and their promises Continued on Page