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Tho Acton Free Press Wednesday Mar 1980 in Don McDonald Publisher EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Go J jy t El It Nona J I Contributor HpIu Darkroom TELEPHONE Business and Editorial ClaDDllodAdvonlsIng I BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE Rio I St C A to My I CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT r Signs up hut need fence Three large signs have been erected warning children and adults to stay off the thin Fairy Lake ice in the vicinity of the area by the foot bridge where the ducks geese and swans are wintering The signs went up nearly two weeks ago after Robert Jennings fell through and had to be pulled from the icy waters by a friend who was with him Unfortunately the signs t enough of a warning for Craig Cadenhead who fell through the ice a few days after they were posted Craig was also pulled out by a hum who was with him when he tried to feed the water fowl We commend the town for quickly putting up the signs after the first youngster fell in Last week we called for a fence or barrier to be put around the area where the ducks are located to help keep children away from this obvious danger Some people though have sug gested a fence won t help a bit it might in fact make the problem worse One town official reasoned a fence to the children will be like waving a red flag in front of a bull it will only make them more in tent on reaching the ducks A fence or barrier will be an invit ation to climb over Another concern is people might think the ice outside the fenced area is perfectly safe when in fact it might not be Lastly a snow fence would be extremely difficult to install now and remove come spring These reasons for not putting up a fence or barrier seem somewhat valid At the same time it is obvious the signs which are unusually high off the ground and might not be noticed by short youngsters weren t sufficient warning at least once Who knows how many other youngsters have ventured onto the ice in the vicinity of the ducks and luckily not fallen through would appear based on the second near drowning incident that something more than warn ing signs is needed the town could look at ways of installing a high perman fence would could remain year round It could be put a good distance away from where the ducks are this winter far enough away that the ice would likely be solid around it Steps could also be taken to ensure the water fowl winter there in future years The ducks are in the same spot they were in last winter the water be kept open by their movement Previous winters they stayed over by the dam where Beardmore operated a bubbler to keep the water unfrozen Regardless of what the town does to keep children out of the area where the ducks are it wont be enough unless children are ed to stay off the ice The job of educating youngsters of this danger rests with their par and the schools Prom the start of winter they should hear repeated warnings at home and from their teachers to stay off the ice with specific reference to the dangers in the area where the ducks winter Signs and fences wouldn be so necessary if a better job was be ing done to educate youngsters of the dangers of stepping onto ice they t certain is good and thick Band trip boosts unity Acton was the setting recently for a fine example of federal tax dollars at work promoting lonal unity Acton High School band and this community played hosts for a highly successful visit here by musicians from the Ross Shep- Composite High School in Edmonton Alberta It was the first leg of a cultural exchange funded partially by Open House Canada a program of the federal Secretary of State de signed to bring Canadians closer together The exchange will con elude this May when the Acton band travels west Based on this one exchange it would appear Open House Canada is one of the best national unity tax investments around That isn to say exchanges of this kind will keep Alberta or any other province for that matter from separating from Canada if political development in the months and year ahead dictate that is the will of the majority in a province However at the same time these exchanges can t help but as the national unity cause Besides learning about life in a small Ontario town the wester ners went home with new know ledge of what life is about in much of Ontario through tours of Tor onto and Niagara The tours doubtedly wiped out some mis conceptions about Ontario in the students minds More importantly the ton youths became friends with their Acton counterparts and spent a good part of their seven day stay with Acton families They probably went back to Ed monton with an understanding that the people here are a lot like THANK GOD FOR THAT CHIMNEY FIRE OR WE NEVER WOULD HAVE FOUND HIM All in all Its been a jolly fine winter they are in every other corner of Likely the Edmonton musicians now know that Ontanans aren the enemy but like Albertans are simply Canadians Hopefully when the Acton band members visit Edmonton they II come home with the same under standing The knowledge we gain about our fellow Canadians in ex changes like the Edmonton Acton band trips will help kill mis conceptions steeped in history The benefits of interprovincial cultural and athletic exchanges go far beyond the participants The knowledge and under standing the youngsters gain on trips to other parts of Canada slowly filter through the entire community If the feeling of being Canadian is enhanced through ex changes in enough communities across the country it will help keep the nation whole Whenever young people gather for interprovincial or in sports or cultural ex changes someone points out the young people are the future of the country or the world Bringing young people from different corn ers of the country or the world to is supposed to help solve of the problems facing both If in fact that theory is correct then despite the importance of government spending restraints Open House Canada should con tinue to be funded strongly Anything which might keep Canada together even if just a lit tie must be supported financially by Ottawa and treated as a prior visits by young people might just make it harder for people to give up on Canada suallv it is a drear time of year frccims followed by March midt ess rule it tins turn of year is your rubber booh your Willi pi the body of your ir d own body Hut Ibis star thank to God or Pierre wh arc sometimes indis inadiins ton face it will in in Inn We hive had a v lib mi i mum of sunshine and minimum of snow I Ins tombiiialion Ins lowered tin ink tin ml bill ind tilt horrendous in mils for now removal councils ho norm illy their works department Induct on mountains of snow ml pit driveways in exuberant II money go out ml up some roads down with asphalt is in Ihlscoimtry one man i is mother mtin porridge I Ins ye in early I received from Hit guy who plows my w iv 11 w is for dollars Usually by I have squandered about sixty dol just mi thil I gel my rotten old car f skinny old dri en ay so that I can dm low rk remain unhealthy by not by 100 easterners and Ihc snow rtm man is hurting badly is as I hurl when I have ny liim forty bucks i month him hurt Ski resort are crying hints in Ontario had the colossal isk the province for subsidy from tin taxpayer to make up for their revenues el them in thai beautiful winter sunshine They II make It ill up next year more by lacking up in ir prices arncd lo lis logical to illusion this sor of lung would have mil me sub fishermen farmers merchants sold fur toils ind who in want to like in outside it c ild Most of which we do I i no oh jet t ion to sharing the w with who is oul of a job wants work but I grow cold ith fury when 1 am helping lo support via a killing in his short season a sailor who is off more than a ye ir for ten months work or a heavy michlnerj man wh i gathers in the eold in the sum hen puts feet by the fire enough unemployment insurance to pay for his board bingo and beer However let us be urbane Its been i w inter partly due my subtle thai longing of Mother Nature tht old strumpet about our weather I wrote a late September ihc Joys of sunny October Thirty days of I a lateOctober column dtadly dullness of No tier in Twenty four days of sunshine I I dare fool round again until early J inuary sunny and mild when 1 wrote a column predicting vicious freezing winter that aid last Into Result More sun in J and early Feb thin for years I his is known as re verse psychology avidly practised by bridge and poker players Hut I mi not he I i feel s irrv r lliem del in I ski I li is spent Unci Inmdrtdd in ipres ski mi Ihtn mil id sin i I do feels rrv for tin ilk mill iktsniL fir ihotilftrlv He s I id Icm vi ir lint Hit will ert with ibinil in I m in i he m ike up for it tine mv li in Units Mure it in v tilth I mi II dotsn me one whit lint Ihe snow m bill rs most of winter on ivement 1 m neks rot it plus ibout tin sunm low siiiw Miller is the of invv J- tune 1 1 limb out bid in the pitch dirk I tier into clothes lumlcr through to the d in I lit I commence rich iplc who siuthhi winter I mutter like I ill pipes I r I hope our falls in under Hit of I his isunChrisliin ind this winter I vi been lo eh kc Inek such curses lopuif tint the in south wis Or vtr deprcssi in the middle if I I mi is low as s Dirk told snov wind frti7irif run rotten siiufftmj k ds wilt md I urn ice like in incredible hulk I Ins il s like in upper in stent Hie icetnshes off root with i irthtjuiknn rumbles hut Hie sun is dome it me rd d ill ir into lent with You can nip In lilt without winter survival kit All in ill winter Murray Our correspondent Winifred Smith tells us Realty was Bnllm ifad recent federal election There were three Wellington Duffer in polls at he Community Centre and the man who last June became youngest cabinet minister ever won all three In poll drew Liberal Larry New Democrat Cecil Chambers 2o and Libertarian Wnlson 1 beat Davies 4 74 in poll 104 while Chambers attracted votes and Watson four really t leaned up in poll 105 drawing 82 votes to 4B Chambers and Watsons Speaking of the popular young veteran of victories at the ripe old age of I be surprised if Beatty someday heads the federal Tories and even prime minister at some future date fn fact if the Conservatives do dump Joe Clark before the next election expected in four or five years this area could produce two leadership candidates has nine months of cabinet work is Minister of Stale to the Treasury Board bell and learned a lot about politics at he elbow of veteran Sine Stevens who was president of the Treasury Board Stevens himself a leadership can didate a few years back who threw his support behind Clark after a few ballots wielded the big spending cuts knife in Ottawa Otto J el i nek might also have a crack at Ihc leadership and could draw i lot of support from the small con In Tory ranks Considering he has to years lo do it if he ever wants lo be might able to break Clark mark as the youngest first minister in Ihe nation his lory The Ontario Arts Council A C has announced Lynda Malr of Erin lias been awarded a writer grant The grant Is for up to leiordiiif A region is still looking for i replotcmcnl lor Joe lin who retired just before Christmas as the regions Offiter of Health Gordon of Burlington bos been serving as interim Officer of A was interviewed last month following advertising stircli for applicants by University of However lone with drew Incjis will continue until per mnnenl rcpl is found Hilton Boird of Lducntlon Ins also out some r recently Non union personnel like supervisors bus drivers and i department staff will six per cent more this year retroactive lo January 1 while secretarial and clerical st iff and school business miners receive a five- ind a per cent ige hike also retroactive to the start of the Swimming pool staff auxiliary casual help will hive to wail until Ibis fall for the same raise as Back issues 10 years ago Taken from the issue the rec Press March 11 1070 The bell which tolled he in Acton for over a h ilf a century from the post office tower will soon be on it the home of Rowland It J Brampton He is a campanologist with a collection of bells He says he will pick i prominent pot for the Acton ind Minister George Kerr spike he students at High School iboul pollution and also a special dinner meeting of the sMtnsclub The purchasers of the property by Mill ind Wallace will likely proceed with re- idential development Hydro Commission employees arc is Tanners seorinj le ider followed by Kevin Hall John Mason and Jan lakeside chapter of the decided lo nime bursary after Clara the popular school who was killed dunna holiday trip new iny Knitting will do the krullmi ol socks in he Aclon Industrial from won first prue in the Business Girls Helen Ruth Mae Willi Hewitt 20 years ago r ihi from Hie issue of the rce Press Thursday 10 I860 Install ilion of dial for an Kid I and district customers Ins been announced or a two month trial period hydro and iter meters will igain be read by one melirnader told spectators braved tht near zero we at the arena to w itch Gait Skating club perform during Nifhl There were also I otkej and draws Sixty of married life were served by Mr and Mrs Howard Masai es as presented to grades and it the conclusion of Gentleman at he school Dill and Brian irgill he rophy jointly from student council president Jean Moffat here is an excellent attendance at the Chamber of Commerce Civic Night designed lo foster good relations In the are i V J and C were panelists lo whom wen given to be directed to the proper person for reply Mr md Mrs enjoyed their first ride on a snowmobile scooter at their colt ige in 50 years ago akin from hi issue of the tee Press Thursday 1930 committee of businessmen met with council to arrange night watchman to patrol the streets A number of plications were received Mr as engaged salary of per year or Mr was to be swam in is a special constable under Chief Mac Pliers on Three A Transformers were unloaded for use at the local hydro station he station now has a capacity of horse and he new transformers will then ill be outside This is the third change that is been in the local station sum 1918 when the present ttnedent Wilson took charge of the plant The ins of the Casey Family was presented by SI Joseph players at the town hall Monday and Tuesday Father McBride trained the cast A Dunn M Dunn Mrs Cormier Gibbons C Byrne L Byrne Cormier Miss Bennett an interesting lecture on the Le of Nations to the Duke of Dcvonshirechapter of the IODE at and Mrs J Kennedy Itockwood Presbyterian church alterations are completed Two classrooms behind the platform were taken out and a new platform built 100 years ago Taken from the Issue of ihe tree Press The Board of Education approved ap propriating the sum of thirty dollars to replenish the library he Ministry of Education has approved in amendment to the School Act The school year shall consist of two terms the first of which shall begin on Ihe third day of January and end on the seventh of July and Hie second shall begin on the eighteenth day of August and end on the twenty third day of December The of the alleged murderers of the continues Excitement over the case still runs high Some entered Grace church Milton and damaged the seats and even the communion lable