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The- Acton Free Press Wednesday Aug 9 and district Digest become a full time job Initially the Morrisons took intensive train course In the States to enable them to become experts in their field Anyone can put brush through a chimney Louise comments but you have to know how to do It properly and be able to recognize a dangerous situation when you see one The Morrisons clean up to eight houses a day In die summer John also uses the long summer hours for chimney repair With an increase In wood stove heating in both urban and country homes John finds himself travelling moat the time He guarantees to leave no mess using high powered vacuums for the soot and drop cloths close to the fireplace A chimney can take as little as an hour to clean and little 35 A member of the National Chimney Sweeps Guild John feels gatherings such as this the convention are invaluable to sweeps the in formation garnered and exchanged insures that consumers continue to receive the best service possible President of the National Guild Robert Montigny of New Hampshire notes Chimney sweeps have an almost quixotic tradition but in real life terms they perform a vital fire prevent Ion service often at high risk to themselves They work year round Hundreds of thousands of chimneys already cleaned by guild members are testimony to the critical service they provide the wood burning public With wood becoming a popular source of heat and fire departments called out lo more and more chimney fires John Morrison Chimney Swift should be busier than ever A house fire July caused an estimated flames and water damage to the home of James Fiddler situated on the Fifth Line of two miles north of Highway Volunteer Fire Department were called out Thursday evening and stayed on the scene until IS a One injury was sustained when Deputy Fire Chief Tom received a nasty cut on the wrist from window glass and had to be taken to the hospital for several stitches Chief Carl Mea commented Tom was lucky not to have a major vein cut Questionnaire for seniors apartments Eramosa senior res Id will take the next major step towards get ting themselves new rental housing after Sun day August 17 Questionnaires con the need for such accommodation will be available from churches that Sunday The questionnaires can also be picked up at the seniors clubs In Rock wood Eden Mills The municipal office will also have some Answers on the questionnaires are kept In confidence according to Dcirdre Gibson the Toronto based con GibsonfbBah rynowski and Associates Neither council or the township clerk flec3 the responses assures Mrs Gibson A public meeting will be held at which the con will answer questions and make a presentation place will be town hall on August starting at The project would come under a government program called non profit housing Rents paid for such accommodation are supposed to be mainly in line with the private market However as much as per cent or as little as per cent can be car marked for people needing the rent to be geared to their income For the project to ad vance a need must be demonstrated The provincial ministry of housing uses the criteria of 15 per cent of the people who would be to have their rent set In accordance with their Income Most of the residents living in non profit pay rents which would be compilative in the local market accord Ing to the consultant The range in for a single bedroom apart meat may be about Under profit Ing the traditional roles between the landlord and tenant are in force said Mrs Gibson The tenant pays rent out of his in come There is no seizing of assets Under the Ontario Housing Corporation only single bedroom accom modatlon Is available and tenants receive rent subsidies to point where the rent coats per cent of their income During the public meeting the consultants will advise residents to picture profit hous ing just as they would a regular apartment build ing Councillor John McLeod got the township onto the senior citizens housing track earlier this year Tli ere arc grants from the provincial and federal governments to ease the cost of the pro ject to the municipality If after the question nalres and the other work by GibsonfbBahrynowski la approved by the ministry of housing two other stages remain be fore the project con can start The second stages con the ways and means and the who of building the apartments The final stage is the con Actario means possible WARD ONE COUNCILLORS FRIDAY DROPIN CENTRE John Morrison the Chimney Swift finds his chimney sweeping business growing rapidly as more and more fireplaces sputter Into action Wearing the traditional garb of the Victorian sweep John can be seen crawling around chimneys all year long There were smutty on In Minneapolis recently when the National Chimney Sweeps Guild held its fourth annual convention One of the 150 sweeps in attendance was our own John Morrison He was elected Canadian representative John has been in business for two years and calls himself The Chimney Swift Assisted by his wife Louise John has develop ed the business from Kitchener to to Acton and of course He got started in the sweep business when he was looking around for something to balance the small gardening business he and Louise developed on their urea farm Now the sweeping business has taken over and glenlea drug mart 294 QUEEN STREET EAST ACTON 8532220