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Back to Acton Days celebrations this weekend by Helen Murray They re rolling out the red carpets this weekend or the hundred of people expected to converge on Acton downtown to celebrate Back to Acton Days The fun begins Friday when Mill Street is closed and made into one big moll Sidewalk sales and various booths will keep everyone busy all day until the opening ceremonies at m in the Acton Mews parking lot On hand at the opening will be Back to Acton Days organizers as well as Acton Citizens Band and Acton Mayor Pete Pomeroy M Julian Reed and area councillor Ross Knechtcl will tut the ribbon Those sleeping in Saturday morning wilt miss the Heal Hustle at front of the YMCA The parade beginning at various points around town is sure to attract many The Glenlea area parade starts at the Becker a Plaza with Arlie as Grand Marshal The Lakeviow parade begins at Lakevlew Carpet with Either Taylor as the Grand Marshal for that route The Kingham parade starts at the corner of Kingham Road and Campbell Court Pop Main is the Grand Marshal The parade moves down Churchill Rd South to Lcngfield Rd over Mead vale down Acton Boulevard and along Rosemary Rd and Division St to Wallace St The leader is Terry The parade will troop up Elizabeth Dr along Tyler Ave over Elmore and back out Elizabeth to Main St North and then down River St to Willow and up Bower Ave Alma is the leader The Kingham parade will travel up Kingham Rd and over Storey and to Victoria St and Brock St crossing Main South to Agnes St up John St and down Church St This route leader is Linda Pilgrim There will be parade awards for best bike decora tign best old fashioned costume and best crazy costume All three parades meet at the tracks and move downtown en masse from there Residents are urged to Just jump right into the parade as it passes by But there lots more fun on Saturday besides the gala parade For the youngsters it gomes in the park running from llam to 12 The Optimists bike rodeo takes 30 For the teenagers and those who just wish they were teenagers the rock bands Exodus and will bo playing 30pm Theres lota of action for all ages at with a Cat and Dog contest in front of Da wo Real Estate a bed race sponsored by the Men and a log sawing contest In the pet contest prizes will be awarded for best dressed longest and shortest care longest and shortest tails and whatever else makes for good fun The IODE will have a bake and craft sale in front of Acton Home Furnishings and a bingo and bake sale in front of the Book Nook will bo put on by St Albans church Share Group will sell their crafts at Family Cleaners and Acton Coop Nursery will sell baking books balloons and plants in front of the former ABSupermarket Plates and information will be available from the Town Hall committee in the Acton Mews parking lot and another bake sale and display will be run by Acton Rental Raffle tickets and pop will be sold near Simpsons by the Catholic Womens League and Mrs Cohen will sell ceramics at Acton Home Furnishings Beta Phi Sorority will have a crafts and bake sale and the firefighters offer a fire prevention booth The Optimists will have a candy booth and Auxiliary will hold a draw and fishponds at Ben will sell plants and flowers at Lcathertown Other downtown fun includes a log sawing con test the Mens bed race pony rides sale of Vials for Life by the a fire prevention booth Hal ton Hills recreation department booth bingo and Judo demonstrations At Prospect Park there will be a day long soft ball tournament featuring both men and women teams There will also be a bake sale day long at the park as well as a bar beer garden in the rink and a Monte Carlo A dance at the arena sponsored by the Optimist will bring a hectic day to a close All events on Sunday arc held at the park For the early birds who have the worms a fishing derby runs from to m Registration is in the morning A big attraction Sunday afternoon will be the contests starting at p This event should keep everyone hopping Also the ball tournaments continue and fireworks at dusk will bring the Acton celebration of Canada birthday toa close for another year An Inland Community Newspaper Oik and No 50 ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JUNE 25 1980 Pages Twenty Cents Actario starts Friday night Actario the giant draw Initiated by the fund raising committee for the town hall restoration will be outlined at a special meeting in the Y tonight Wednesday June Representatives of to participating groups will be attending to pick up tickets and sellers kits for their own groups The fund raising committee a small group of concerned citizens Is an offshoot of the original town hall restoration committee Having few members and no funds the com is counting on clubs and groups to take ad vantage of the offer which sees their own groups keep five pi r cent of total ticket sales The ten participating groups are the Chamber of Commerce Business Improvement Area Op timists Acton Citizens Band Lakeside Cancer Society Curling Club board and the Community Services Centre The grand kickoff for the sale will be at Back to Acton Days when the first ticket will be ceremoniously sold Friday night A huge picture of the town hall will form the backdrop for the program Committee members will be selling tickets all weekend and after that a desk will be set up In Family Cleaners where tickets and will be available when the desk is staffed Limiting the number of Actario tickets to will keep chances of winning unusually good As well a an exciting Trip a Month offers cash every week Plus a host of other bonus prizes Ticket holders need not be present to win a trip or cash but must be there for the bonuses A ticket may be purchased for or for plus three postdated cheques for 25 each This single project will raise the entire sum required from Acton and before Wlnlartoand the Ontario Heritage Foundation will add their grants The first draw will be the first Saturday in Sep tember so all 1000 tickets must be sold over the summer Hellers for sale Frank Heller and Co Ltd has listed its Acton plants for sale but that doesnt mean the firm is moving to the closed Diss ton plant Heller spokesman Fred said this week the plants have been for sale since June 1 however any sale would be conditional on the deal for Diss ton being finalized A for sale sign went up at the EustcmAve plant yesterday Tuesday Negotiations for Heller to move to Diss ton have been on since early last winter but in late March a deal collapsed and the proposal appeared to be completely down the drain Later as interest rates dropped talks resumed and have continued since April Provincial government assistance Is a key aspect of current negotiations for the Heller move to tinuing Nothing is finalized yet Dawkins said and wont be until July Newton of has created a flag from the Ontario Ensign and the former crest of the old Township of Naungaweya The flag of is the rallying point for the protest by residents who want to leave Region and the Town of Milton More on efforts to opt oat of regional government on page Members of the troop were among many enthusiasts who en Joyed canoe lessons Saturday as Paddlecade docked In Fairy Lake Is a program sponsored by Canoe Ontario Two instructors Hugh Dob- son and Cathy Frost both university students will be Ira veiling around Ontario this summer with canoes donated by various companies to give the In basic canoeing This particular called a raft In the far left canoe are Mike Hannah and Tim Rock left 1 Linda Hipp and brother Patrick centre It and Debbie Sunnucks right canoe is Dick Rock and ton Matt Divide and Conquer 17 tons collected in two months In its first two months of operation in Acton Divide and Conquer has collected tons of paper glass and tin for recycling but participation here has been low so far Works superintendent Frank Morcttc said in an interview the town is disappointed that pa lion In the recycling program is low about 12 per cent of the households in Acton The 17 tons of recycled garbage would previously have wound up in the dump The level of participation in Acton In Divide and Conquer is half what it is in Georgetown Morette noted Divide and Conquer began in Georgetown over two years ago as a provincial Ministry of Environ pilot project in garbage recycling When the Appoint market value assessment committee Acton councillor Ross Knechtel will chair the special Ho it on Hills committee investigating market value assessment on which four citizens will be invited to sit Mayor Peter who will sit on the com mittce announced Monday night Knechtcl ward two councillor Miller Walter from ward three and word four councillor Harry Levy will all sit on the committee jokes ho had named two hawks supporters of market value assessment and two doves to the committee Last month council voted not to implement the new form of property tax assessment at this time but to set up a committee to study it further The committee job Is to fully explore and research market value assessment Four citizens one from each ward will also be named to the committee next month Pomeroy asked each the four councillors to pick a resident of their ward to sit on the committee Town treasurer Ray King will also sit on the committee Pomeroy said he waited until after the public meeting in Acton last week to the committee At that meeting many Bovb subdivision residents voice concern about unfair assessment and high property taxes They urged council get on with the study and Implement market value assessment as soon as possible 50 candle cake for Eden Mills Eden Mills will be a lively place this weekend In celebration of years as an incorporated police village the hamlet Is planning a ahalf days celebration The fun kicks off with a Old Tyme dance on Friday night with participants In costume dancing to the music of Wellington Saturday at 1 m a Parade In old fashioned tradition led by a Guelph pipe band will wend its way from the Presbyterian Church west of the village down the mo in street to the ball park The parade will consist of anything and every thing A baking contest will involve both male and female bakers who will bo Judged in separate cate gories Each entry will consist of a plain white sheet cake decorated with a anniversary theme Cakes will be donated For the younger residents childrens races and a bicycle contest will be hold followed by a Miss Eden Mills Contest aimed at young ladies from to 12 years Hamburgers will be sold for supper and a rip- roaring singsong will finish the day In style On Sunday an outdoor church service will take the ball park at2pm IcdbyRev and Rev Childrens games horseshoe pitching a pot luck supper picnic with available barbecue facilities will make the day a family community celebration Souvenir plates made In Collingwood and pic turing the Eden Mills mil will be sold for 5 They will be available at the anniversary celebrations or through Jean 8560857 province ended funding for the program at the start of this year Hills decided to continue it and also extend it to Acton too Support for Divide and Conquer in Acton has remained fairly constant said although nine tons were collected here the first month and eight in May The May recrecychng was broken down Into five and a half tons of paper one and threequarter tons of glass and three three- quarters of a ton of tin Initial support for Divide and Conquer here has been lower than it was at the outset in Georgetown Morette noted He said his department expected support might be low in Acton at the outset because of poor spring weather and the program hasnt been promoted here that much yet Rain on Wednesday have reduced the amount of paper put out by rcsi dents for recycling and some of what was put out wound and be recycled However Morette says the level of support for the program has remained fairly constant so he no longer believes weather is to blame Divide and Conquer needs to be promoted more in Acton town officials feel and the first step was to send out a household mailer on recycled paper lost week Other promotion Ideas being examined in elude a resource recovery week in Halton Hills and bringing garbage separation information to local schools this fall The town wants to collect tons of recyclable material each month so the aim Is to get per cent of that amount about 16 tons in Acton Acton Is a long way away from the ton goal Support in Georgetown has dropped off a little of late too from 25 to per cent of households participating to around or per cent One problem Morette sees with Divide and Conquer in Acton is that groups in the community were already collecting paper and glass here before the program started and have continued But the town isnt trying to put those groups out of business Halton Hills wants to attract new recycling families For the time being Morette said noting while he doesn have figures for June it appears support for Divide and Conquer still isnt growing it looks like 12 per cent of Acton families participating is the Rabies warning avoid skunks Parents are advised to keep their children and pets away from all wildlife particularly skunks be cause of the danger of rabies The province and regional health units have been issuing warnings about rabies on the increase especially In the Mlsslssnuga area Ron Trenton Hills Veterinarian Ser vices soys overall reports of rabid animals is down this year Reports of rabies is down in our area but It Is still significant There have always been rabid animals in a rural area liko Acton but rabid skunks in Mlsslssauga means they are now moving into urban areas Trenton says The biggest problem with rabid an lmala this season is skunks he noted This Is not the first warning about rabid skunks in the Acton area this year In late winter rabid skunks were spatted In the area of the sewage treatment plant on Churchill Road South inside- Prim were awarded to Acton and area who shone In Skate- this See photo and story on page There doesnt appear to be much chance rrioforf toes will be sprayed in Acton this year pages Halton Hills opposes regional levies More on page Over residents gave blood at the recent Raft CrosscUnlc Youll find Profiles on page page page feature fin Bill Smiley and Back femes