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Warning have dogs vaccinated against virus Acton t isolated enough that the outbreak of the dog killing Virus can reach here and Dr Ron Trenton Hal ton Hills Veterinary Services urges dog owners have their pets vaccinated as soon as possible The virus Is spreading in the Toronto and Hamilton areas and some animals have died from It Trenton reports he has Been Just one case of Virus here since the recent outbreak began That animal wasnt from Acton It was brought here for treatment at the local animal hospital by a Toronto resident That dog died Thursday night and Trenton did what he could for the dog butltwas too far along to treat The veterinarian noted he would not a Low the animal in the clinic Dr Trenton said he saw two or three cases of Virus which sprang up around the world for the first time In InActonaboutinmonthsogo He says the fact It broken out here yet really moans nothing Trenton warns It can easily come here because of amount of ting and pleasure travelling Acton and area real dents do It might as well be hero Acton Isn Isolated enough to keep the virus from coming here Virus la basically the same as cat dis temper The afflicted dog will become depressed and lethargic and the most dramatic symptoms are bloody vomiting and bloody diarrhea After its Initial outbreak the virus seemed to appear for about a half but there now seems to be a resurgence Dr Trenton noted veterinarians from Niagara through to Ottawa are reporting in the disease Parvo Virus is extremely contagious with a five to ID per cent mortality rate among dogs who contract the disease after they have been treated The virus Is very stable and very strong It viveswell Dr Trenton said It Is spread by healthy dogs smelling the stools or vomit of Infected dogs and by dogs smelling Inanimate objects Boardlngkenhelsare break like this but Dr Trenton added moat good are Insisting the dog have had the vaccine before It is brought In If owners are going away on vacation and will be boarding the dog he suggests they pick one with of cleanliness and sanitation and have the animal vaccinated Tho dog which was brought to Acton last week for treatment and died had been recently kept at the Toronto Humane Society shelter Trenton noted veterinarian at the shelter said he has had quite few cases of Virus recently The outbreak of the virus is very serious and something to be very concerned about Dr Trenton said butitisnotanepidemic The vaccine Parvocine is in short supply in both Canada and the United States right now Dr Trenton said one vet In Hamilton has a waiting list of over 300 dogs to be vaccinated when he gets more supplies the vaccine is in short supply there are other substitutes which can be used Dr Trenton satd one supplier reports being 100 doses of the vaccine behind However suppliers expect to have vaccine orders caught up in two weeks and until then substitutes are being used Trenton said he has been encouraging his clients to have their dog receive the since the lost outbreak so not that many haven had it Still he has been giving a lot of vaccines of late that a all he did Friday He urges if dogs haven t received the vaccine or a substitute they be brought in as soon an possible and his clinic will do its best to supply the vaccine or a substitute If a persona dog displays the symptoms Trenton asks they not be brought to tho clinic A vet from the clinic will make a bouse call He is most concerned about not having the animal hospital contaminated Virus An Inland Community Newspapei O Hundred and Sixth Year No 3 ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JULY 30 Twenty Pages Twenty Cents Strawberry is winding up while raspberry season li getting Into fall already picked and In boxes or pick their own Here pickers Karen left swing Garnet and Jean Kay pick fruit farm at I la Marianne Tlmmlngs sad Tammy enjoy fruits of just one of a number in the Acton area There are still some strawberries at theUbora The girls are from I whUeMEiiTtnimlngsh Kay because the crop was late due to chilly weather In Jane Raspberries are from Rock wood just getting underway and crow arc good At Kay customers can buy berries Photo by MURRAY Bear and cubs in Acton area A female black bear and one possibly two cubs have been sighted in recent weeks in the same area north west of Acton where a black bear was shot and killed by a farmer over a month ago after It attacked sheep Tracks and noises indicated a bear and cub were in the garden of Gordon Johnston 3 Acton early Thursday morning but the weren seen Johnson said the garden was dug up and there were bear tracks Ministry of Natural Resources officials from Cambridge were on the scene and saw the evidence that bears were in the area Gary a Wildlife Supervisor said the ministry knows of two sightings of a female black bear and one or two cubs in recent the Sooner than expected First line Five Sidcroad area of Erin Township Just north Acton A male black bear weighing more than 300 pounds was shot and killed by Keith Altkon in tho same area in early June after it killed a lamb on the farm of G Seii Acton and was spotted eyeing the Aitken herd Besides the killing of the bear this year and two recent sightings and spotting of tracks in the area bears and cubs were seen three years ago In the Ballinafadarea Tupling said bears will travel water courses and then circle back covering the same area over a two or three week period Ho said the dead bear and the female and cubs seen recently may hove come down here from the Luther Marsh area Bears are quite the roomers Tupling observed Bears have been sighted in the Luther Marsh In post years He said it Is unlikely the female and cubs are look ing for the bear that was killed Tupling noted male bears don usually travel with their family adding the male bear that was killed probably Isn t the mate of the female The fact there has been a male and a female in the same area this summer Is just a coincidence He said the ministry hopes people won t start try to kill the mother and cubs Tupling added the male bear attacked livestock so had every right to kill it to protect his and other farmers pro perty but IT the bears doing any harm they be killed Seniors apts finally have phones Quick work by Bell Canada workmen resulted in phones finally being Installed In over 30 units at tho new Senior Citizens apartment complex on Eliza Drive Friday after a month await Residents have been waiting for phones for over a month and Hills councillor Terry Grubbe reported she had received some complaints about there being just one phone In the It was in the apartment of superintendent Duldc Lamcront The daughter of one of the residents sent a copy of a letter to Bell complaining about the delay and lack of an explanation to this newspaper recently There are three jacks in each unit two in the living room and one in bedroom and the building was but phones couldn be installed sooner because there was no entrance 2025 firms New industrial park planned A major industrial subdivision which could contain as many as small medium and large industries is planned for north west Acton The developer thinks possibly as many as workers would be employed by these f urns Joe Shaw NorShaw developments has asked Halton Hills to amend the old Official Plan and 1 acres of land east of Highway and north of the present industrial park m Acton for a new industrial subdivision The land is officially design Concessions In an interview Shaw said he has a railway and road easement into the property The road easement is beside the present Jehovah Witness Hall on Highway 25 north of the CNR tracks He says he has a few firms interested in going into the industrial sub division already and he expects the land will sell because it will be and have a rail siding both powerful selling points Shaw emphasised there will be no water users period Only light dry type industry will be welcome in the development Region CAO gone others could follow By Jim Robinson Regional Chief Administrative Officer Ernie Held is expected to step down from his position and several other top regional personnel may follow Mr decision to vacate his post as Regional comes after discovery by auditors of a surprise Region deficit The result is Ihe Management Study Team of the Region will today discuss the future of top management people This comes after a recommendation mado last Wednesday at Regional Administration and Finance Com mlttce that a top to bottom study be done of the adequacy of regional staff What prompted Mr decision Is sketchy as it was done during an in camera session of the committee last week But it has been learned the region had expected to have by this time of tho year Instead there is a deficit of about Considering the surplus has vanished It makes for a perceived deficit of more than The exact figure is not bcung discussed but It could be as high asaH57 deficit Mr fate will be decided today and it Is assumed he will move to a less sensitive job somewhere in the administration Todays meeting of the management com mlttce is not listed on the monthly calendar of events circulated by Halton Region cable from the street Into Ihe building Ann Archi bald assistant manager at the Bell office explained She said all work was done as quickly as possible because Bell was concerned about there being Just one phone in a senior citizens apartment complex In Continued on page Plaza hearing postponed An Ontario Municipal Board OMB hearing to deal with plans for a plaza on the east side of Acton planned for next month has been postponed The OMB hearing was slated for August 5 but has been adjourn with date set Jerry Sprockman Landawn Shopping Centres Is appealing the Land Dlvison Committee decision not to grant a severance for the land on which the plats would be built Issue Is to be brought before the OMB when all parties Involved are ready to present their cases The postponement wbb requested by Region When the issue does go before the OMB It la ox appeal of the town a rejection of a requested Official Plan and Zoning amendment for the plata will be heard as well as the land separation appeal Ho said the development could accommodate a mixture of plants using five seven and 15 acres and larger sites A typical client would want seven acres GO to square feet of factory plus outside storage and employ maybe people On this basis ho with only a maximum of HO of the 196 acres developable maybe to in us trial operations employing possibly as many as people will be in the new subdivision Shaw explained at least acres of the land will be lost because it is conservation land rolling hills or covered by trees He has applied for the official plan amendment and but it hasn t been heard by council yet Shaw explained once the town and region approve the project his first step will be a major reforestation project on the land He won t be cut ting trees down but instead will buffer the whole development with about trees Shaw said in a couple years nobody would even know there was an Industrial subdivision there He noted he has done the same thing with his Industrial subdivision on Steel es Avenue near Highway in Milton Noting Acton an easy place to attract in duatry to Shaw said he feels having a sld ing will be a powerful inducement He predicted gasoline costs rise in the next few years rail transportation of goods w II become of increasing importance CNR officials have already been out looking at the site and don t anticipate pro blems with a railway siding on the Industrial sub division The lower costs of the land since It will not have municipal water and sewer services Just and septic tanks will also attract industry We have got to get Acton going he observed Shaw pointed out Acton attracted many new firms in recent years while losing a number at the same time He said the town and region seem receptive to his plan The region wants to get more industry along the Highway 7 corridor and this would be extremely close to that highway Both the town and region are anxious to attract industry to Acton to create jobs and new tax assessment We feel we be putting in a nice park Shaw sain He suggested part of Actons problem la at trading industry has been the poor way the existing industrial park has been kept up Shaw and his associates in this project are willing to spend money to clean up the existing pork because that will help sell land in both industrial subdivisions They have every intention of cleaning up the existing Industrial park he added One of Shaw associates In this project is well known realtor and developer Ken who to already working on a similar project on Highway 10 He emphasised he and his associates are developers not speculators so they will be follow the project through and producing an Industrial park and filling it Toronto man killed in crash A year old Toronto man was killed Sunday afternoon when he rolled his car on the First Line of Erin Township John Anthony Sullivan Benson Avenue Toronto was taken to Guelph General Hospital following the accident and then rushed to Kitchener Waterloo Hospital where he was pronounced dead five minutes after arrival He was driving his I960 car on the First Line near the summer home of his father Leonard John Sullivan when It left the road struck a culvert and rolled numerous times OPP reported The accident look place km south or Highway at inside Separate Board can do anything to get funding now for a new school here Halton Hills Trustee Hartley Sherk says More on page Acton resident Jim Miller will represent Ontario in horse barrel racing at a competition in the United States Details on page Gone fishing Or perhaps tbe heat was too much for Gremlin Maybe it wanted a drink or a dip In any case the car parked In the lot behind the tennis courts last Wednesday evening rolled down the embankment and plopped Fairy Lake to tbe of of onlookers And there it lit until the owners mercifully rescued It with a tow truck an later You can t beat this town for excitement on a Wednesday night