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Tho Acton Free Press Wednesday Juno 1980 7 Members of the United Church Quilling Ladle and Cancer Society Activity Group displayed some of the raoany items they have made at last Wednesday a Acton Cancer Society pot luck supper They make these Items for cancer patients and their families and they are sent to Princess Margaret Hospital Toronto Henderson General Hamilton and Children Hospital In Ottawa The ladles are left to right Elmo White Irene Terry Dorothy Slmmonsand Bob Carlaw Halton leader took scouting north Aerial ladder Halton Hills should have a new ire truck equipped with a to ver and aerial ladder by lOai Monday Hills general committee ap proved I he tender of for the new piece of f equipment which will be used throughout the town winning tender of was from Superior Fire Trucks of Kingston and it wasn the lowest or highest bid best met Fire Department require ment It is also 15 over the budgeted amount but hat t be since it likely wont be delivered until 1981 when the additional amount can be budgeted by Jennifer Scouting is alive and well in thanks to people like Bob of Acton Provincial Field Executive for the Sc outing movement in Ont Currently living at the Blue Springs Scout Reserve residence In Nassagaweya Bob was instrumental in bringing Scouting to the far north of Ontario Scouting is active in Indian tribes in places like Wunnlmmun Lake Sachlgo Lake Muscrot Dam thanks to this Ac ton resident The move ment i3 now going so strongly Cubs Scouts Venturers and leaders from the Kcewatin trict are planning a trip to the United States Although Bob current responsibilities include being in charge of Scout ing throughout II Region of Halton and looking after the Scout leader training centre at Blue Springs he Is partic ularly proud of the four years he spent working out of Thunder Bay in troducing Scouting to the area Water Buffalo Bobhasn always been In Scouting Up until join ing tho staff of the Scout movement he was em ployed at Douglas Air craft no a quality manage lent source representative He been a Scouting leader since 1054 mostly in Milton moving through volunteer ranks of assistant Scoutmaster assistant Rover leader Rover leader Scout lead Venturer advisor and a member of Oakville Service team and assist ant district commlss ioner for training However in Bob felt the need for a change of pace and when he was offered the Thunder Bay post he Jumped at It Fortunately his Marian Jumped with him This is really where it at he grins the Jobs like being a min ister he says com on the drop In salary and the willing to travel to any part of the country Travelling by plane from Thunder Bay with the help of a trapper Bob contacted northern lages and set up pro grams In six remote hamlets It not as easy as It sounds The Job necessitated constant public relations work appearing at radio talk shows setting up his itinerary He had to work with the volunteers set up the partner ship with service clubs ana generally spread his own enthusiasm It worked Scouting In far north Is growing fast and is a boom to the young lads and men who need the adventure and character building off through the move ment Scouting is ing he phrase partner ship Bob comments Water Buffalo as he is culled by his Indian Scouts found his four year experience in north an extremely rewarding one Although hampered by lack of funds Bob was pressed with the amount of support and volunteer help ho received from adults in the community The chief of every Indian village was always act ively Involved with the starting of tho troup Scouting growing Back at Blue Springs for the past two years Bob has been concerned with training courses His basic assignments Include serving on the Comniittet for Man Development and facing secretary to the Ontario Rover Round Table group He is in charge of the area Including Oakville Milton Burlington and He says there are over scouts and volunteers In Region alone Bob Is particularly Obituar Marie Anthony Anna Marie Anthony Other interests included lifelong Acton area resld cake decorating and died May ir crocheting It was said of her year after a Mrs Anthony she would lengthy illness Wife of always be ready to help Anthony of Lime- other people young and house Mrs Anthony old spent the last part of her Born on July the illness in Toronto Gen era Hospital Daughter of May and bred Laing of Acton Mrs Anthony attended Robert Little and Z Bennett Public Schools and Acton School Nursing was one of her many Interests and she worked as a nurses aid at Centennial Manor and a teller for the Bank of Montreal prior to part in the manage ment of her husbands and brother In law custom farm business Anthony married her husband frank on February 1 in Georgetown She leaves to mourn a young son Kevin parents May and sisters Irene and Shirley and La ng all of Acton Affiliated with the Anglican church Mrs Anthony was given a memorial service at St Albans Anglican Church Acton on May 1960 with the Reverend Arthur Tribe officiating Community Services Com iron vw reasons including peo- in or around pj fear of getting Accommodation morc working more people commuting to work Then people started look ing at social workers and services to solve every problem Today that attitude Is changing and people view social work as a drain on heir taxes and a pain Not a social worker Mrs says she isn a social worker and in fact has no formal training In the field We are Just trying lo help people help themselves by using the resources that are right here in their community The centre has even provided people with comes to worse mother wilt be sent Salvation Army hostel in or Brampton the abused wife hostels In Hamilton or or even put up In a mote Now the mother needs financial assistance Region welfare or provincial mothers assistance are pursued Efforts arc also made lo get the woman a job and once she has a Job to sec ure day care of some kind for her children Staff use nil their contacts in the community to find the woman a job 11 services Bob Pro incial for the Boy Scouts or Canada who resides at Springs communicates with his area representatives by B radio keen on developing pro grams for older boys of Venturer and Rover age He feels only by gearii g these programs to the interest of modern boys can scouting survive and grow With this In mind today programs lean heavily toward ad venture and service to the community A youth leadership program has come out of the disaster search and rescue teams a voyage program for you ngsters interested In canoeing the vous Voyogeurs pilot canoes 150 miles through the waterways of the far north each summer There lots of pos ings going on We to set goals for the five sections of scouting says Bob referring to Beavers Cubs Scouts Venturers and Rovers Wt re looking at every Com DON GAMBLE GAMBLE WITH QUALITY PRICE OR SERVICED n Kit id va you I Values you wont a Shop who Odds Don Your Fnvou be on an 1 KITCHENS TRUCKLOAD PRICES Kb Kerry Kitchens r Kerry Kitchens J Harris St speedway Obituar Lindsay Harris Slrcct in Rock lS Information about when according lo a Mrs Grubbe notes the skating is on and la nt centre wants to help asked by a res- would do same- fill needs in Ihe com how someone gets lo munity not necessarily fleas So it is Peacock wrote run services since it obvious it has become for Township Cou docsn t have the man more than a referral concerning Harris vice in the past five suited Ninian Lindsay well known horse breeder trainer and showman and lifelong Esquesing resident died Monday May in memory Mr say who was their first resident Funeral services took place Thursday May Shoemaker Fun Since 1977 Mr Lindsay Home Reverend had resided in Acton Sen C Beaton officiating iors Residence and died Interment was in Fair suddenly in Gen view Cemetery Pall Hospital bearers were Clarence Born April 1900 Mr and Bruce Coles Mac Lindsay was in his Sprowl Harvey and year Residing most of tin Young and Clarence his life on his farm on the Denny corner of Fourth Line and Highway east of Acton Mr Lindsay raised Clydesdale and Hackney horses showing at the and Royal Winter as well as other area fairs Many of his prize Hackneys were sold to the United States and the Toronto Police Force Mr Lindsay other interests included flower growing and keeping Shorthorn cattle earlier in his farming career Son of Mr and Mrs Lindsay of Acton and cousin of Esquesing clerk the late K C Lindsay Mr soy is mourned by two sisters Jean and Anne and brother J C Lindsay all of Toronto A plaque is being erected In the Acton Sen Residence by Mr and Mrs J Booth prop rietors of the residence power or finances to run everything that is needed We act as a resource The aim is to get services and programs run by the community they belong in the community not to run them ourselves Mrs Grubbe explains The Idea is to get the community to help itself She notes years ago the community pitched in to solve problems and provide community ices However in a large way community par tic ipation helping one s neighbors has stopped Mrs Grubbe suspects it because of a number years sometimes it like speedway I suppose would be Just wishful thinking Many children eld people walk on the street according to the letter Township Reeve Bill said he has asked the provincial police to patrol the street THE CHAMPION OF BREAKFASTS Frontier Florist Gift Shop 2361 Floral gns Weddngs Funerals Boxed Plants Perenials Hanging Baskets CIL Fertilizer Wilson Chapman Cham Fresh Cut Flowers Potted Flowers Tropical Plants Flowering Plants ACTON WHY WAIT UNTIL FALL You con keep torn ly cool all Put burr or A between and the sun and r ng costs too Comfort f heat summer sun and nd An saves hen I no AND cool energy Use tho government rlR INSULATION LTD 8361540 Enjoy memos il mown dale Peler and Dav ih I with hi a report Hi rShi spots from Comanche Ma 1 ids pubic Inn port it Ross you s Head i I id Keep Ihe or it fu h disl til one I in Pop up JO 10 A M MONDAY CFRBSIOIO 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