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Bennett kindergarten students were reminded en Is and Peter Brooks chose a nice big pumpkin to take back to during a recent trip to Chudlelgh Apple Farms Than school carve this week while awaiting trick or treat night next day Pumpkins were almost as common a sight as apples Andy Wednesday Photo by HELEN MURRAY Bilodeau acquitted Robert has been acquitted in county court of 16 counts of fraud in excess of Mr was charged after complaints that be had been misappropriating funds from residents of the Hornby home for the mentally retarded where he was a director Mr Justice Patrick in speaking of the month trial said the evidence was flimsy and In some areas existent Crown counsel David Price accused Mr Bilodeau of taking the comfort money of IE residents and spending It on his own personal uses including buy and providing entertainment for one or the whom he was allegedly having a sexual relationship Jack was the defense attorney NMw factor Increase cut 8 taxes still up 5 Modifications to now assessment equalization factor established by the provincial government will reduce the Impact on Hills taxpayers from to This is a reduction from a 13 per cent projected increase to five percent or in dollars on an average assessed house The factor is intended to even out assessment all over the province The province promises no municipality ill have more than a five percent increase because of the new factors in but says nothing about future years Councillor Ross Knechtcl asked Treasurer Ray King what The treasurer said It was reasonable to assume some of the original 13 per cent increase would be phased in over Mayor Pete warned the five per cent increase meant a built in five mill hike right off the bat Bill and Mabel Denny celebrated their wedding anniversary Saturday with open house at Alban parish hall waaMonday Bill Mabel Denny celebrate 60 years For most people GO years is an entire life time or more For Bill and Mabel Denny t is only their lifetime to gether The Elizabeth Drive couple celebrated Jieir diamond wedding an niversary Saturday In St parish hall Ttointy Paxes Cents ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY OCTOBER O Hundred and iijili V 87000 people to live in north Halton by 2001 Milton and Halton Hills will have a population in excess of by the year 2001 and more onethird of those are expected make up the local work force The population is pro jected in an Ontario Ministry of Housing letter to Region on revisions and corrections to the regional official plan letter comprises pages based on a review by various ministries which have reviewed it The changes will be cussed at Ihe next plan nlng committee meeting Nov 13 Milton is expected to have 33 population by with 000 expected in Hills expects people by with an ultimate population of SO will face largest growth Currently people there will be by Burlington currently 104 will have 139 people by 1936 and in This results in a total regional population of 313 000 by 1986 and any where between 000 and by The Ministry review predicts a decline in the number of people far and manufactur ing This is balanced by an Increase In the service sector Those Involved in farming forestry and mining will represent per cent of the work force and per by Similarly the 7 per tent of the work force engaged in construction and manufacturing in will drop to per by A rise from of the work force lo per cent will be in the services area lefms of percentage of population engaged In ihe work force Milton will have 15 of its population of 37000 working In Hills 000 of its pro jected will be working On a regional level population of In the work force with 300 lo 900 working It was October 1919 when Mabel Rolls and Bill Denny were married in I A honey moon to Gall and Ham followed At Ihe time of their marriage Mr Denny was a farmer bul illness soon forced him into the barber business He op ened a shop in Drayton Then in the couple moved Kitchener where Mr Denny took on a partner in his new shop After a few years with his hand in Mr Denny joined Ihe Prudential Insurance Company and was transferred to Acton in He admits he did not want come lo at first but his bosses point out he was the only one on staff who had ever in a small own and understood it Now he says he has no regrets In 1954 Mr Denny independent Son Harold was in Toronto working for a rival com pany and was son per join the family fold They worked to gether until Mr Denny retirement in 19G9 fol lowing an eye operation Mr and Mrs Denny have lived through two depressions one in the s and the other in the Mr Denny says that the world will never see another depression even now with the economy so bad he says there may be hard times in store Mr Denny was deputy reeve of Acton back in the 60s serving with his good friend the late Les While living in Kit chener he was the Rover Scout leader and a Sergeant Instructer with the St John Ambulance Mrs Denny was a nurse with the special service She Is also a member of the Women Institute and the Anglican Church Women Both are active in ihe church and are so members of the Pro gressive Conservative Association An open house wan held Saturday by the ACW and a family dinner was en joyed Sunday put on by son Harold and wife rey They also hove grandchildren telegrams were re ceived from Prime ister Joe Clark and Buck Ingham Palace Plaques were received from Premier William Davis presented by Hal ton MPP Julian Reed and from he lown of Hal Ion Hills presented by Mayor Pete Pomeroy They also received many cards gifts and flowers Favorable response to selling PetroCan Otto I Most business people who replied Con MP Otto Jelinek recent survey favor placing parts of PelroCnnada into Ihe private sector Other economic and labor questions were also asked It Is interesting to note said Mr That a simple and a straightforward ana Ion regarding the privatization of results is a favorable response lo Ihe government s position on PelroCanada People were asked if I hey approved or disapproved of govern ment keeping control of following parts of a da nego tiating state to state port contracts for crude oil as opposed allowing foreign multi nationals to take over exploration of energy in frontier areas and development of tar sands and research and development of heavy oils and other alternate energy sources Seventyone per approved per cent disapproved questionnaire was sent to 3 business establishments in the constituency Some replied Seventy nine per cent Indicated approval of Finance Minister John Intent to in troduce mortgage crest and property tax credits A resounding per cenl favored the Progressive Conserv intent to introduce stricter regulations within the ment Insurance Com mission Also per cent replied In Ihe affirmative when asked If they believed the right to strike should be removed from essential services Most businessmen rep lied in the negative when asked if they had noticed a drop in the amount of paperwork within the Continued oh Page 2 Firefighters of the ruture First Acton Cubs were some or the people who attended an open house at Fire Hall on Monday The group en Jojed louring around hall as well a Acton man guilty In cocaine case An Acton man is one of a pair facing a minimum seven year sentence after he was convicted of conspiracy to import SI worth of drugs from South America last week Thirty four year old Geoffrey Dubois of Acton and Norman Hunt 37 of are be sentenced Friday morning in Milton County Court The crown alleged the pair were connected with a plot lo bring pounds of cocaine Into the ntry from Brazil A Toronto man Enrique Castro was acquitted of the same charge The trio face additional charges according to police The court case on for about six weeks The guilty pair were among six men arrested by provincial and Peel Region Police last December after a four month investigation Clocks back Daylight Saving Time will end at 2 a Sunday you turn your clocks BACK one hour at bedtime Saturday night Week The Town of Hills agreed a request from both the Acton and Georgetown Legions and will declare the week of November to Poppy Week During Poppy Week the familiar red poppies will be sold throughout the two areas The will again pay for printing Item em brance Day programs and the publishing of the proclamation for both legion branches Hydro rates may jump Acton Hydro customers face a possible 16 per cent increase as of January I 1980 as a result to a pro posed rate hike by Ontario Hydro Acton Hydro Commission chairman told The Acton Free Press his office had not officially been notified of any increase on the part of Ontario Hydro he said he had heard they planned to raise their rates per cent The chairman explained this still has lo be approved by the Ontario Legislator Municipal commissions purchase their hydro from their provincial counterparts In past increases Acton Hydro has absorbed some of this Increase to keep costs down to Ihelr customers This time however Mr said it may not be possible lo absorb the costs and local re may be paying the entire per cent He explained that when Acton and Georgetown Hydro Commissions In addition to Ontario Hydro rural customers in Esquesing ore amalgamated on April l Acton will be Inheriting debts from the other twofacihtles For this reason he said Acton Hydro might not be able to afford absorbing some of the hike He explained if the Increase does not come now it will come later once takes effect so it is either pay now or pay later Mr McEaehern said he would not like to see the cost or hydro jump 16 per cent but he sold It is Nothing will be definite however he said until the meeting of the commission next month He poln ted out any local increase is subject to Ontario approval Pensioners cheque added to hall fund So moved by appeals to save the old Acton town hall was one senior citizen she transferred all of her September pension cheque to the restoration fund That a the kind of Town Hall Restoration Committee chairman George Elliott likes That kind of support even from a third of people of Acton Mr Elliott told a special fund raising meeting In Trinity United Church Monday night Mr Elliott kept secret the pensioners name Out of that meeting came some directions for Hills Council plus volunteers to raise restoration dollars The restoration committee asked through Councillor Ed Wood Hills to carry through with Mayor Peter to have town staff and council s special committee on the hall restoration complete and deliver an application for funds the provincial Ministry of Culture and Recreation by October That was the easy part of the meeting The hard part according Mr Elliott Is the need for volunteers to raise the money It not a very encouraging story Id many ways cold hard icts I think probably the only way to do it is knock on doors said the committee chairman He went on to say committee six memebers do not have the time Some group has to set Itself up lodothelegwork said Mr Elliott The four volunteers Kay Dills Stella Brunette Alma and Yvonne are putting their heads together to come up with fund raising ideas and also to draft a chairman to help them loosen people purse strings Tips on fund raising were offered by Louis and Flo Charlebois and Councillor Terry Grubbe Mrs suggested asking people who have already given money those who pledged last December tohelppersuadeotberpeople Mr Elliott indicated the restoration committee could handle service clubs and other organizations He went on to say he thought that if a pledge organization was set up and working the money need not be collected by the end of the month though Wintano is hot to close the grant A campaign to raise money should be underway by the end of November be said Referring to Friday meeting between Hills Council a special committee on the hall s restoration and provincial ministry representative Bill Councillor Wood reminded the group that the crunch comes down lo having to convince Mr that something is being done Later he told the other 17 people in the church he did not think they were any further ahead in restoring the building than they were three years ago To Councillor Wood Mrs Dills asked Doyounot find a lot of people want it the hall saved Many nodded No ve had quite a few people say Are you crazy A large majority give a damn replied the councillor Could we not point out to people if we save the hall we save the downtown core said Mrs Wehavetolookahead I think weve pushed the historical point to death mink we could do more with that building the way it is than with five or six parking spots said Mrs The offer from Mayor to have the staff and councils special committee complete the apphca ban was contained in a letter lo Mr Elliott Councils special committee with members Ed Wood George Maltby John McDonald and Marilyn Serjeantson Since then it has not met with the Town Hall Restoration Committee We received no notice that the special com was appointed or its terms of reference Mr Elliott disclosed Monday The recent mayor s letter contained that information That committee according to Halton Hills general committee meeting of May was to deal with all aspects of the town hall restoration in Ward One Mayor Pomeroy wrote in the letter dated Mon day it was clear to him Council was prepared to toward the restoration in next years budget and this money would be a general levy against all the taxpayers The diverting of the from demolition to restoration resulted from Councillor Woods suggestion to council last May The restoration committee has felt itself to be nearly helpless in applying for grants from government authorities because Hills not the restoration group owns the building Mayor wrote that because the ap plication to is in the name of the restoration group It would seem to me thai the answers to the question related to the grant monies should have been dealt with by the restoration committee in cooperation the committee of council and if there has been some demanding about who should take Initiative on this key matter then I as Mayor assume the council s portion of the lack or cooperation Two years ago the estimate on restoring the century town hall was Inflation has boosted that figure by Not all the may be needed Mr Elliott points out because Ihe estimate included work on the stage a part of the building upstairs that hasalready been removed of monies areas follows Recreation Centre Heritage Fund Wintario Municipal Acton Citizens Councillor Wood reminded Ihe meeting that all that money from Ihe granting agencies may not be available for two years