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Reliabl Taxi stan shifts Tho Acton FteoProsa Wednesday 3 The Reliable Taxi and Snack Bar won t be the same again For 30 years or so the taxi stand was a fixture Main St S for travellers and regular customers That place with its yellow facade bench and pop machine out front and horse shoe shaped counter inside had a lot of personality according to owner Don The Taxi stand moved recently into the old leal building on Mill St W where Ontario Hydro had an office for some months The ten year lease on the old property ran out in mid December Prop erty owner Alec Johnson plans a parking lot for the site as a temporary sure until as he said the economic situation in Acton improves When that happens he plana some stores with over head apartments According to Grein Roy Goodwin opened the first taxi stand on the Main St site In about There followed a chain of owners made up next of Johnny Palmer than the brothers C tester and Vic and later But by far the long term operators were the reins Don and Mary The Greiri3 were on that spot for half years That a a lot of fares We re getting settled m Grein said Though he added in nearly the same breath that habit forced him to turn into the parking lot at the old place a number of times since t move Jormeralteof Reliable Taxlaporlabanncr Me Too Please Someone wanted It saved Just tike the town hall Regular customers found the same bench and pop machine outside the new place Inside Grein said there was about as much room as in the old place Originally the Main St locale was a garage which was built onto for other purposes There t as much counter space or as many stools In the new pre mises however there is one redeeming feature for regulars The counter and stools arc the same parking lot until tho We vc had people come back year after year from Pennsylvania and alt over said fondly of the old place There was more elect is Stanley and Grey Cups won there than on the field Regular customers find the same crew as at the old place Don and Mary Grein Fred Dunn and Schonnop Realtor Johnson is content to leave the prop erty behind his office as a Johnson said that the first question In dust rial la ask when they look at Acton for business concerns housing for employees He indicated the priority in town should be housing instead of re zoning land to industrial use because there Is vac ant industrial zoned land on the northern fringe 75 minute blackout Acton residents whose clocks arc powered by electricity wound up late for work Monday morning after hydro In town was out for about minutes early Monday morning A Ha It on Hills Hydro spokesmen explained the blackout hit only the Acton area and was caused by a mat function at the Fergus switching centre where all power for the town originates Bray donates Acton resident and Halton Hills Athlete of the Year Mark Bray has donated to the George town Library Theatre project An accomplished swimmer Bray was given the money for his orite charity Monday night at a reception for Wendy Restaurant in Georgetown which opens this week Ho was given because there arc ways to make a Wendy hamburger Fire call at new apartments Acton Firefighters were called to the new senior citizens apartments around 2 30 Monday morning because some smoke was smelled coming from a fan motor Firefighters stayed at the scene for about a half hour The storm inter the fire alarm that night A test for the alarm was run Monday during the regular The alarm worked Named to committees MP Otto and Wellington DufferlnSimeoc have been named to caucus committees comfortable furniture They were salvaged The kitchen equipment is new said We had to go to all new fire proof equipment he said There i3 even new rotofryer so there will be no grease on the chips Another new feature not town economy becomes more healthy He noted that there are new stores in Acton and some vacant ones too Johnson Indicated he is waiting for results eon Two injured in headon crash An Acton man is re- i860 Subaru when the ported in critical cond collision with a 1975 itlon at Hamilton General Chrysler driven by hos pi following a head year old ning the development on collision on the Halton driver occurred involving A Super Hills Milton Town lane market and the west of early Tho R Rockwood in the kitchen is a pin Shopping Centres appeal Thursday morning man Dennis Mitchell was machine to the OMB Kenneth Moreland reported in serious of Kingham Road condition at Georgetown Acton was driving his hospital No room for pathologists a formal motion to the board said he Is not convinced that pathology is a med ical responsibility The board of education has a role to play he said A bid to get Halton Board of Education to recognize the need for speech pathologists met with failure Thursday It is intended for the administration plan The board is asking the administration to put the need for speech athologists on a priority The same regular crew greets at the laxi stand Fred Dunn Mary and and Schonnop location They are Chapman Bald earlier that speech pathology Is i the administrations Barry Shepherd said woud Shepherd who pre- the school setting WEEKS OF OUR LIQUIDATION SALE with Colonial Living Room Piece Ensemble i Roxton LARGE SELECTION OF ROXTON FURNITURE Halton Hills Appliances 352 QUEEN ST EAST HWY NO 7 ACTON 853021 1