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Acton FfOGprcj WcdnosdayApr 3 Joanne Turner and right admire the medal awarded li Susan centre a grade student at Jospeh school Susan won the Ten Day for World essay competition Her classmate Kim came second Acton water meters now Regional read Water meters in Acton will now be read by a part lime Regional employee Hydro Commis has informed legion it will no longer be reading water meters in that town after April The result of this cancel forced to find a method of keeping the meters read so that water sewer equal Three alternatives were proposed first which was recommended to Council by the Public Works Committee calls for a part time person paid S3 by It is estimated the job costs per to do less the 4 Acton Hydro will pay to keep the vice going The considered the cos of gasoline mileage The second option proposed was for a full time person to read meters in Acton and Georgetown This would have paid from and from Acton Hydro The third option was for a twice yearly reading with the four billings being estimated Town to charge for ball soccer fields The town is going to start charging teams us ing soccer fields and ball diamonds this year Monday Hills council approved rates for use of fields in the town and will also est rates for use of tennis courts later this month At the same meeting new rates for use of com unity halls were est Soccer and football field rotes for fields own or maintained by the municipality have been set at per team for a season for minor sports rates are a team for a season and games under the lights will cost per game Minor teams up through midget age will pay for each team us town owned or main ball diamonds The rote for adult groups using diamonds but not the lights is a team and the fee for adult teams playing games under lights is The fees apply to both fields and diamonds the town owns and those they maintain at the schools Bills for field and din mond use will be sent out at the start of the season Lighted games on soccer fields will be billed ac cording to the team schedule and each club must submit its schedule to the town For soccer and football fields talc and liners will be provided by the town and the lines will be burned at the beginning of the season Talc and lining far ball diamonds will be the res ponsibihty of each team or league but talc will be available from the town Recreation director told council the fees will bring in about In revenue the town received before and will cover about two per cent of the maintenance bud get for soccer fields and ball diamonds The fees will cover the town dro costs Maintenance at the Glen Williams ball park is handled by the res of the hamlet so there will be no charges to their teams In his report to council noted soccer ball football and tennis groups have been ap praised of the town s plan to move towards user pays for maintenance of fields and diamonds profit lions in Hills rent ing facilities for meet ings registrations or programs in the Acton Arena Hall Hornby Nor val or halts the Hose Room in Arena the recreation department boardroom or the gym at Cedarvale in Georgetown will be charged an hour or maximum Fund raising events in the same lltties will cost an hour or 30 maximum Fees are lower for the room downstairs at the Acton Arena IheEsques library and the kit or boardroom downstairs at Rental of these facilities for Halton Hills groups is an hour to a maximum of except for fund raising events when the rent goes up to an hour Council praised for wayside pit handling Hills council received kind words from Tony Sixth Line resident Monday night when he thanked council for their efforts an the controversial wayside pits I believe the solution will be Judged equitable by all parties involved he commented He said the pit owners should be satisfied virtually all the aggregate will be extracted over a minimum period of time and the Ministry of Transportation and Communications will benefit through better dealings with the muni He praised council for their time con and diligent handling of the situation said the residents are satisfied with the solution and said the approximate closing dale of the pits will restore real estate values He emphasized it has proven the muni do have power in dealing with the provincial government which should strengthen local councils and enable them to reach the most environ mentally sensible decisions A letter from the MTC said they could not guarantee the pit would be closed by December but sold they would try to establish a date They confirmed the aggregate in the pit docs not exceed tons over and above he amount already com milled to Construction Council agreed to the request mat trucking operations for the way side pits be changed to 30 rather than 7am ACTON CITIZEN OF THE YEAR DINNER DANCE HONOURING WHITE SATURDAY APRIL 12 ACTON LEGION HALL COCKTAILS 7 DINNER 7 PRESENTATIONS 30 DANCE 9 Tickets 10 each TICKETS AVAILABLE AT Halton Hills Furniture r Appliances Acton YMCA Family Cleaners No dropin Friday The Acton councillors drop in won this week of the Good holiday The drop in will resume next wetk as usual on afternoon and the Community Services Centre Kicks OPP cruiser A yearold Acton re was charged after he kicked the door of an OPPtrulstr lost wtek Milton detachment of the report the Actonlan wus one of three people they arrested last week and charged with impaired driving After man w is released he kicked the door of an OPP patrol car parked in the Milton detachment lot causing damage and was with wilful by Region Coat library glass Norm a member of Board wants the upper part of the gloss panes over the front of the library to tut iwn sun and preserve the colors from fading Ik has also asked the library Ixwrd to have the coat of arms of Acton which wis presented to Aeton a number of years mounted on the back of the cast fating the if the sun fndingproblenicanbt solved Nursery needs no grant For change Hills council found a profit group in the community docsn want a grant received a letter Monday night from the Acton Cooperative Nursery School stating in the past they have asked for money from council to help purcl much needed but th s year don need grant since thty were to rnist the fundi they require for In year Window cracked Library Board is planning to re place one of the windows on main floor of the after it was found another crick has in the CWL week Citho Women league week in Hills will April 2D The request lo proclaim April week came from Margaret Wilcox Holy Crass til Hills touncil agreed to proclamation Monday nfcht NonCatholics pay more A 10 per cent fee increase for Catholics in Catholic recommended by the finance committee of the school board wis accepted by the Hoard it their regular meeting loit Tuesday The single student fte of per month has been increased to and family rate for two or more students of was increased to for kindergarten grade Parents with children registered at the K level and grade level face a month increase from to Caught redhanded An youth was caught red while attempting a break and enter at an Atton home Neighbors caught detained the youth until police arrived Hub caps stolen hub caps were reported stolen Saturday from s Motor Homes Queen St Thecaps ire estimated to be worth Bishop Reding is safe Hamilton diocese Bishop Paul Reding lb be lo have escaped injury from the shooting and stampede during the funeral for a murdered archbishop in San Salvador Bishop Reding is expected home from Central America this week Bishop Reding was attending the funeral of slain Archbiship Oscar Arnulfo Romero Sunday the funeral about people were to death by members of a pel deal faction The shoe tint started of people running Region budget hike April has been set aside at Region to delve Into the Budget The budget was to have been debated by full Council today but that was rejected at last Wednesday stratum and Finance Committee when councillors objected to dealing with a number of last minute pages of numbers which were brought in by the Treasury Department The main objection was the columns of figures were not easily understandable and were not presented in a manner which had been customed to in the past The other reason for concern was what some considered missing items not shown such the the Region had fourd Itself in hot water over In double charging under the water According to Deputy Treasurer Jim Stewart the approved budget of 982 will be in the neighborhood of 370 in This is based on the 1979 figure plus a growth factor of eight per cent plus the additions which were being added after bud review by various committees On the other hand the Chief Administrative Officer Ernie has predicted in a report present earlier this year the budget would show a per cent Increase not the per cent Increase envisaged by Mr Stewart Mr Held now predicts a 19 per cent increase The question of the actual increase is still in question the equal factors from the Province of Ontario have yet to be released These factors must be applied to all municipal budgets in Ontario The net result Is there are four budget amounts being mentioned inside Regional head quarters In addition to the predictions by Mr Reid and Mr Stewart Milton Mayor Don Gordon has his own amounts which show a total l per cent Increase based on a 819 net growth amount which is taken from Stewart com Hills Councillor Russ Miller has the fourth amount In budgetary discussions of the Regional grant to the Children Aid Society he said the budget could be high as per cent There Is some agreement at the Region Mr Miller may be right Mr Gordon told this newspaper he would not tote for a 19 8 or 191 per cent increase in the Regional Budget because of the impact on the Town of Milton According to his figures a 19 1 per cent increase would mean a 8 per cent hike in the 1D80 apportionment Also based on his figures Hills would be looking at no less than a per cent increase in apportionment closes Vacform Plastics closed its Acton plant Friday and will reopen April with English Plastics In Brampton Vacform general man Roy Topelko told this newspaper Thursday that no Jobs were lost by the move because the staff has moved with the firm to Brampton has been em ploying about 14 people here He said no new tenant has been found for the Commerce Crescent plant The Acton plant closes after three years and the building is for sate or lease brought Vacform here from Mlss- issauga Last September Vac form merged with Eng Plasties of Brampton and the two merged firms are moving into a new square foot facility Even there t been a merger Topelko says would have moved from Acton since expansion was nee he had pre viously ruled out com pany growth here April is cancer campaign month and Hie lag was raised this Yvonne Sue Sale and White raised the flag Teachers to vote Thurs The results of contract talks between Board of Education and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers will be known Thursday evening Trustees will receive the recommendations from the salary com then teachers arc expected to release the results of their ratification vote soon after OSSTF President Ron Ness confirmed that ail the meetings between the executive and teachers were completed Monday The vote Is supervised by Both sides In the con tract dispute arc con sidering recommendat ions from mediator Mar A tentative pact was made after of mediation on March 22 high school teachers have worked since August without a contract Earlier this year tea handed OSSTF THE ACTON FREE PRESS Authorized as Second Class Moll Postal Registration Number 0515 HONDA CIVICS A ACTON COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTRE Mill Private and for a apood hatchback freight tax license OPEN SATURDAYS BAZ MOTORS LTD Sales and 198 Guelph St or 3 LAMPS PLUS by V Roxton 88 129 OTHER MODELS IN STOCK TO CHOOSE FROM MONTHS INTEREST FREE AT HALTON HILLS Furniture and Appliance 362 Queen St East Hwy No Acton NEW LOW PRICES 12 EXPOSURE ROLL 20 EXPOSURE ROLL 36 EXPOSURE ROLL r EASTER SPECIAL 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