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Tho Acton Press Wednesday Dec 17 1980 3 This the and Hock wood battled a garage blaze afternoon home of the Fourth Line of Knye celebrated her birthday Monday at her home on Willow Street The rush Is on at Acton post office With deadlines for Christmas mail this week workers at the post office are putting in overtime and sending Janet Actons Mr Music Itay Agnew performed the Vic Brlstow and Joe Marie McAfee look over the many parcels the AcUrlodraw Saturday morning post office Is handling Board predicts 441 fewer pupils If Board of Education projections pan out enrolment will decline by students at seven Acton and area schools between now and 1985 likely resulting in teacher cuts In a report tabled Thyrsday board a dm in is envision enrol ment declines at Acton High School as well as McKenzieSmith Robert Little Speyslde and Bennett schools In the first have of this decade The biggest drop will be at Acton High Sc students will drop by 191 from this year to in 1985 will also suffer a large drop in student population from now to in the next five years for a total en rolment decrease of 140 students The decline will be less pronounced at other area i Here will be fewer pupils at M Bennett In than there are now enrolment will dip from to At McKenzieSmith the number of students will drop 48 from to 309 has had enrolment problems for a few years now the school was twinned with Robert Little a couple of years back and between now and 1985 the student population will decline from 161 to 134 a of students has also had enrolment problems and was twinned with Joseph Gibbons in Georgetown Enrolment Ihe re will slide from 156 to 138 a drop of IB Enrolment at Robert Little will slump slightly from to a drop of 19 Overall across North Halton there will be a student decline for Five hurt in Sunday crash Five people were sent to hospital after a three vehicle collision near Everton Sunday morning Bad weather Sunday caused a rash of In rural According to Guelph who investigated a driven northeast by Cecil Mer tipped the door of a driving south west with Robert Clarke at the wheel Little dam age was done to the Clarke vehicle at that time investigating of Constable Farth ing describes the door as having the paint peeled off Clarke stop ped his cor but was hit in the rear by the following vehicle a Chev pickup driven by John Vender which came to a stop broadside in the road It In turn was rammed by a driven by Clarke his wife and two children passengers In the car and Van dervlugt were taken to Guelph General Hospital suffering multiple lacerations and bruises Mr and Mrs Clarke have been released the Clarke children and Vandervlugt are exp ected to be released shortly There was an estimated CANADIAN ODEON THEATRES A GEORGETOWN 3 STARTING FRIDAY ANY WHICH WAY CAN J damage to the vehicles Gary suffered a lacerated nose when his GMC pickup left the road early Sunday after noon at the Eden Mills Road Junction with High say lost control of the vehicle on ice hit a hydro Pole snapping It off This was damage to the vehicle Frontier Florist Gift Shop RR 519822 Floral Designs Weddngs Funerals PreChristmas Special THIS SUNDAY ONLY 21 everything in stock 25 PLUS A FREE PLANT WITH EVERY PURCHASE WHILE QUANTITIES LAST ShurGain Horse Feeds InOnoHoreO Ram iSwt Ho so Feed Swl Ho Food Swt Mono Nuggets Supp on Swl Desmonds CHALET SERVICE Trustees vote themselves raise Members of Board of Education voted themselves a a year raise Thursday night The nine per cent annual pay boost was the first Item of business dealt with by the new board Back in the pro revised the pay scale for school boards and public school trustees were eligible for up to a year How ever the next trustees raised their pay to just K GOO and haven taken an increaso since then Past board chairman Bill Herd who proposed the a year pay hike at the final meeting of the outgoing board last said Tlursdoy trustees held their pay below the maximum back in as a bollc gesture towards financial restraint Herd suggested the effect of this symbolic gesture has now been lost and was the only On tario board out of step In pay Another member Trustee Auger said the board had any extra money to Sprackman plaza hearing still on The issue a plazo on Last Tuesday night the east side of Acton Is Hills planning still slated to be settled board chairman Caun by the Ontario Municipal Mike Armstrong Board said he had 1 cord from AHS band will be busy Acton High School s band has a busy winter and spring ahead of them Last year the band hosted a band from Edmonton for a week and later travelled west for a week They gave perfor both in Acton and Edmonton Next year they won travel as Tar but will still be involved in a band exchange In the band will travel to to play with that town school band and then host them here for a joint concert In May The band will also perform a musical Superman in April Breast feeding year 1081 wilt be the year of the Breast ed Child in Hills Monday night Hills council passed the procalmalion requested by La League Monday developer Jerry man of Shopping Centres and the possibility of his drop ping his cose to the was discussed Arm strong said had Indicated he would contact Mayor Peter by Friday to inform the municipality if he was going to drop his appeal of the towns decision not to approve an official plan and amendment for the plaza proposed for land south of Highway and east or Churchill The mayor Is still waiting to hear man decision Recently the Minister of Housing Claud Bennett referred the Issue to the No date for a its happening Here GREAT FOODGREAT FUN ATfj LA RIVIERA STEAKS SEAFOOD ITALIAN CUISINE J Reasonably Priced Fully Licenced TAKE OUT SERVICE Come Dine With UsJ IN A HELMING ATMOSPHERE hearing has yet been set Both he town and region requested the minister not refer the matter to the OMB but Bennett rejected the suggestion The town and region solicitors have suggested the municipality have a marketing study deal with the need for a plaza here done by a consulting firm Landawn has retained two firms for marketing studies In the past Council endorsed planner Mario Vendittl recommendation that the firm of Larry Smith and Associates be to discuss the type of study the town needs and the costs involved Money has been for the study give trustees raises it should be spent in the schools to help parent volunteers to provide more for the students Auger observed has about 150 parent volunteers for every member of the board Considering the Impact or Inflation on the value of dollar Bill Priest said the a year wage set by the board in 197j was now worth Just 151 The increase in the honorarium wasn large and was the first in five years for trustees Jackie Cutmore noted in sup porting the raise There was nothing wrong with the raise Trustee Anne airfield said but she thought the timing the first Item of business of the new term was poor She suggested the board should have dealt with this matter a couple of months ago 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