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2 Tho Acton Press Wednesday Fob 13 ii JENNIFER The Day the Heart takes place to morrow Valentines but the whole month of February is Heart Month Fund raisers for the National Heart Research Fund arc busy all month collecting donations and adding to the light against a killer One of the hardest working fighters in Acton is Vic Bristow campaign chairman of the Acton Branch of the Heart Fund In fact if you see Vic coming at any time of the year dig into into because this man has got be our greatest sin gle weapon against all diseases Not only is he on the go all February and has been for six years but he also been chairman of the CNIB fund raising campaign in Acton for years Any lime there s a fund drive on be it for Cancer Red Cross or what have you Vic is sure to be helping Not content with fund raising all year Vic is also treasurer for II church choir of St Albans Anglican Church he Zone Chairman for the Region with the Lions he served on the school board the committee of adjustment and the planning board This town me a lot I doing what I want to do he comments Cum make campaign It takes roughly canvassers to cover the town Vic says and he has long list of vol unteers It has to be a long list he also needs people for the CNIB campaign in September and tries not to use the same canvossers twice less they particularly volunteer I just go through the phone book he ex plains Sometimes it takes calls to get enough people Vic canvasses the businesses and industries himself feeling he well enough known by now to be welcomed He gets a good natured What do you want s time but finds the personal touch reaps more benefit than mailling letters Vic also takes care of donation boxes with little plastic roses placed in various stores and bus messes He just it easier and less complicated to take care of the details himself and ask his can vasscrs to go door Vic is full of praise for his canvassers without whom there would be no campaign He finds people most helpful he says and willing to give of their time But Vic himself may make up per campaign It means a few miles and a few gallons of gas but I feel it my responsibility as a citizen to do something for Acton Over per cent Increasec The Heart Fund campaign in Acton started six years ago when the Heart Fund area supervisor entered the Post Office where Vic has been on for years looking for the man who had a reputation for raising money That first year Vic managed to raise for the Heart Fund By 1979 he and his canvassers had inflated the gmngs to This year they re hoping for4 He proud thai campaign costs are kept down to or mostly for mailing probably the lowest costs in he comments His family supports his efforts and assist in some of the campaign work Wife Penny finds herself manning the phone a great deal during February and September Daughters Bonnie and Vicki have not only had the example of a civic and humanity minded father but they always knew they could count on him to the door at their dance recitals When you see Vic he usually wear ing the Lions crested blazer with a big red heart on the lapel dig deep to aid the Heart Fund Here is a man more than any of us Obituary Eric Strandholt A former Ospringe re sident Eric Robert died follow ing sudden illness Sun day February 10 at Tor onto Western Hospital Mr was years old Mr Strandholt was born in Toronto April and moved to Os where he was raised as a He went to school in Ospringe and Erin before later living in and Orange- A service held Board reveals offer to teachers Alma welcomes Ha lion Liberal candidate Bill Penas right to her store Friday Mr Perms was visiting shop owners and ma Inst re ting Misslssauga salesman Ray Grant looks on The election Is next Monday Board Education is offering high school teachers a nonretroactive contract which also trims a long standing benefit The teachers executive Is considering the offer The Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federa Hon will reply officially later however one executive expressed surprise at the offer be cause it is so much like previous ones The board offer represents a six per cent increase not including an increment According to the board s salary committee chairman Bill Hie offer brings the average teacher wage with seven years experience to Most teachers have least that much A phasing out of of the teachers benefits retirement gratuity ap pears to be an aim of the board No new the would be permitted and after of would be placed on the given to a teacher Trustee described retirement gratuities as a liability that In the long run amounts to millions of dollars According to officials retirement tuity is not an issue in The board is offering to hire 1j teachers over a two year period tradeoff for the retire ment gratuity OSSTF las not been linking the two issues the board has I hope teachers feel they arc not unduly im posed upon are not sacrificial lambs told a press con ferencc Monday in Bur According to this the first time the board has put together its offer In one package Teachers arc to vole for or against the whole deal The offer becomes effective on the day it is ratified and is not retroactive One assumption that seems prevail Is tint retroactivity is Its purely that an assumption Lawson said The board oiler runs to more Hum pages executives ore whether or not recommend All 16j high school teachers have a vole on the board offer Ballots will be cast February indicated the contract would have a one year term however the duration of the contract has not been settled Sales tax rebates might help dealer The Ontario govern mint s February sales tax rebate program on 1979 model year cars might help one dealer and will be of no assistance to another Lome of L says the pro gram may help bit it appears to have got things moving somewhat it could have some ill side e Lei of Achilles Motors it won help him a hit since he t had any itj cars since the fall Since the start of the program which rebates the seven per cent sales maximum to the customer if he pur chases a car be tween January and March sa d and L his sold five cars The firm has an other nine to He said he thought the program has brought people in looking cars the purchase agreement is signed with the buyer paying the seven per cent sales tax the dciler sends a rebate application to Queen Park and in four IAPA award Acton man Vincent Dunne a worker at Building Pro ducts of Canada Ltd Acton was awarded a plaque and membership in the Industrial Accident Prevention on Personal Recognition Club after an accident occurred last June when a wheel blew up and cut his head Dunne is no a member of the Wise Owl Club 110 stolen A cash bag containing was stolen in a break and enter at Canadian Style Friday Police say the method of entry in the burglary is unknown A Storey Drive residence was broken into and a watch valued at stolen Police received the complaint Saturday Six cords of fire vood wire stolen from outside a residence Driver loses control An Acton suffered minor injuries when car he was driving went out of control on a slip pery road Albert Miller IB Division Street was southbound on Trafalgar Road when he pulled out to pass a stow mo vine vehicle While attempt ing to manocuver his car back into the lane he lost control on the slippery road and went into a Wednesday at 1 30 at Lee Funeral Home Hi is survived by his wife daughter of Cornells and May Snock Main Street Acton his parents Bob and Ursula sisters Janet French Orangevillc and Linda Hunter Toronto and brothers Ken Strandholt and Richard Orangevillc NEEDS GEORGETOWN ACTON weeks the re ceives rebate believes the program has been an incentive to buyers The whole idea of the pro- grim he said is to get the 1979s out so more models can be brought in If more 1980s arc picked up by dialers that will me in more must be manufactured and that will people back to work There have been numerous temporary lay in the auto industry llns ye and notes one out of every six Canadian workers is in in auto in in some way While the program is help business this month won next month in the past sales tax cuts about the side when traditionally things and rebates haven done like a drop off in start lo pick up He noted that much good and have Golden Aqers Will honor over 80s Seldom have we seen better weather In the month of February than last Tuesday when Acton Golden Ago Club held their meeting Six new members were welcomed and Jean McLean presided at the piano for the singing of O Canada and the Theme song At our next evening meeting on February we will honour our and Out transportation convener Laura Dennis spoke of a threeday bus trip lo the Agawa Canyon in June Anyone wishing lo avail themselves of this trip please contact Laura The song was sung to Gordon and Wagner and the Birthday song was received by reda Lambert Flo Syd Norm and Sonny Tow nil The meeting adjourned to play crokinole- winners Daisy Barker Grace Townsley Mrs Euchre prizes went lo Lades Constance Granger and Mary and gents Joe Fuller and Tom Berry hurt business in other ways The first time a sales lax measure was brought in to help the auto industry dealer ships sold lots of cars and took in many used vehicles on tradein Then the market fell out for a time on used cars and dealers were saddled wilh them Pelitis questions the value of a temporary sales tax cut and rebates and would prefer to see the province trim the sales tax on cars to three- andn hair per cent all jour round He complained that the new rebate program was brought in just to help a few auto making firms INVENTORY REDUCTION ON ALL STOCK FROM NOW TIL MARCH WATCH THIS SPACE FOR WEEKLY SUPER SPECIAL All bulks LEATHER BOOTS In Stock Regularto90 Many Other Reduction Specials AND 352 QUEEN STREET ACTON a Hwy No 7 East Acton 5198530211 Hwy No 7 East Acton 5198530211 THE ACTON FREE PRESS Authorized Second Class Mail Postal Registrant Number MON TUES WED SAT THURS 10 to FBI For All Your Furniture and Appliance Needs Visit Us We 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