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TtteActonFfCo Press Wednesday Dec 1980 5 Looking back at 80 April Tax hike lowered Hellers not moving A group of students Acton High School enjoyed two week trip Looking back at Acton taxpayers breathing a sigh of relief as adjustments by the school board brought the levy In Halton Hills down and they were facing only a 38 school tax hike The region set its levy raising taxes an average of just here and then a provincial grant wiped the tax hike out almost completely When everything was finally settled the tax hike in Acton was con less than earl feared on an average just Early In the month in a long prepjred statement Heller announced Its plans to buy the plant had gone down the drain and with it hopes of expansion and the ere a lion of more Jobs The f rm pointed tho finger of blame at the nogrowth economy high interest rates and particularly lack of government aid for killing the deal which ad been in the works since late the previous year and seemed almost firm in January The firm even suggested it might have to leave Acton to consolidate Its three plant Hills operation May Seniors apts done Hellers talks revived Mayor Peter and Business Develop ment Officer for Bill Marshal announced they were going to get In the act lobby with the province to get aid and try and get the talks for Heller to buy back on the rails A prank west of could easily have led to a train derailment CN left a number of old rail ties sitting around and some one put one on the tracks near Crewsons Corners a short tinr- before a passenger train came barreling through The train hit the tie Jumped slightly and then pro ceeded on its way after the He was removed CN workmen came out and burned the remaining First It was to open In told they might not be March then April then able to move until early May and by the time May arrived seniors waiting to move into the new apartment on Elizabeth were being the com pic tii Lookin back at 80 July There were a number of minor construction j problems which delayed found a few item tho v UP o acceptable unit seniors apartment When the province and Housing Authority Inspectors fin ally got into the building standards causing more delays With many seniors In town getting edgy red tape was cut and con tractors prodded into speeding up so that by the June Black bear killed nearby Peoplewere shocked to learn of a black bear roaming in the rural area Just north west of Acton The big male bear was killed by a farmer after it killed a lamb and was eyeing a herd of sheep Decoration Day dying a slow death the past few years because of lack of interest was a big success the first Sunday in June here with a couple of hundred mem of local tlons participating An Addiction Research Foundation study which Actano winners Henry 128 Church St was the win for the fourth Actario trip draw Saturday morning He has a choice of a week of skiing in Western Canada or a week in the Bahamas The winner of the weekly draw for was WUla Morrison Eliza Mary Kenny McDonald Boulevard won a merchant bonus envelope with vouchers from Nielsen Acton Photo and Camera Cleaners and Acton Deli Vouchers from Emily Natural Foods Acton Dell Acton Family Rest and Superior Shoe repair were in the pouch Juneand Maureen Gcrth 123 Elizabeth won Betty Hordie Mill St East won vouchers from Holland Shop Chicken and Pizza Spot and Family Cleaners Saturday Super Shopper winner was Carol Jordan Peel St She won vouchers from Stedmans Bowling Lanes Jo 11 If fe Shoes Family Cleaners and Jug City showed there is consider able marijuana alcohol and tobacco use in High Schools including Acton High School shocked educators and they quickly began examining various pro grams to make students aware of the dangers Several development proposals including a semienclosed mall with a mini theatre a greatly expanded AB and a number of chain stores for Force Electric site was on shaky ground it was revealed in early May However by the end of the month they were back at the drawing board working a scaled down commercial development plan Site development problems lack of real interest by firms in coming here and value assessment simply set up a com mi I tee to study the issue residents felt they and other owners of new homes In town were carrying an unfair share of the tax burden and wanted their taxes lowered day morning for 12 months While no firm deal has been set yet for the firm o move to Distort Icr put Its Acton plants up for sale in June Council rejected mos spraying for this wered promised Plans were unveiled is or a year long program lottery to raise nex vear most of the GO Acton must come up with be men to mton fore grants for Halton town hall restoration gathering steam The first draw would be ln In September with 1 M celebration final tickets going early in July weekend of the month to Organizers announced Mh annivcr tickets were selling for or on a four post dated cheques system There would be weekly druwa for monthly draws for trips and draw for bonus as an Incorporated police village In Acton rain t dampen the spirits of people enjoying Acton biggest yet fourth annual Back to Acton reluctance to merchant donated prizes Canada s birthday expand Its supermarket now leased to the owners of supermarket were blamed for the collapse of several impressive Seniors inspected the unit apartment com plex on Elizabeth and many moved in before the month was out Students in Acton High School total Immersion program set out on an exciting two canoe trip through Canada early history tracing an old voyagcur fur trade route from North Bay to Ottawa Rock wood held a highly successful Pioneer Days celebration The celebration marked the township s annlvcr A council and public meeting at Acton High School attracted a large crowd the majority from and the big topic of discussion was the municipality decision not to move to market downtown every Satur J end of May the province ln and housing authority wllcli moved had taken over the build arrested live people In a and planning for raid for offenses those who had applied to and burglary live there to inspect the Workders who were units and start moving in laid off in March at next month were called Halton Business back in mid May Development Officer Looking ambitiously to William Marshall and future expansion Super Mayor Peter Pomeroy Glove asked the town were successful in their and region to increase efforts to get talks for the limit of effluent the Heller to buy the closed can put Into the plant back on the sanitary sewer system rails again Provincial Flames killed fowl and officials were talking destroyed a barn in a fire again to the owners of the fl a arm on First firm about aid funding Line south of Highway and the interest rates Firefighters battled the were slowly coming back blaze for two hours The down breathing new life same week fire gutted a into the once dead home on the Sixth Line of icr plans Erin Township There was more good Acton High School s news on the industrial band travelled west for a scene A firm launched and played a Joint by a couple of Acton men concert with a school Plasties Eighty moved band in Edmonton the into closed Vacform second half of the band plant doing much the exchange started here in same kind of work February A campaign by an separate school Acton woman lo take the for Acton moved a step sting out of outdoor life closer to becoming a here gathered steam when the throughout the month Separate School Board Christine Houston months of search gathered close to bought signatures for presen acres of the tation to council urging a f on Mill St West mosquito spraying pro gram After staking out a cot ties its Snow speaker Minister or and Com munlcation Jim Snow will be the guest speaker at the Acton Progressive Conservative Assoeia tion a annual general meeting The meeting will be held at the Murray Mem at p m Snow MPP for Oak Is a veteran of pro vincial politics April but many of the workers moved with the firm to jobs at its I in Brampton Council Bell Canada decided to finally put all the Hills listings in one phone book the Peel directory as of after per cent of customers who answered a survey said they favored being in the same book as George town Acton a citizen of the Year Arlle White was honored at a dinner dance at the Acton Legion Local MPs Otto Jel Inek and Perrin were named critics In the large Progressive Con shadow cab inct Divide and Conquer the town a garbage recycling program came to Acton but initial sup port was poor and Improve much in the following months With towers already Aeton after several gages at a time of soaring weeks of expectation by interest rates The local sponsors They were protest didn t get very brought to town by the far Christian Reformed Building Products Church and Aeton Clergy workers and Association merit were honored by Developer Jerry the Industrial Accident of Prevention Association Shopping Centres who is f going one million taking the town to the hours wit out an Ontario Municipal Board accident after council turned down his proposal for a plaza on the east side of Acton last year decided lo oppose rezoning of some much needed land for industry in north west Acton He wants that issue settled before OMB too claiming sew age capacity he will need will be taken up by in dustry The town hall fund was swelled by another J as Georgetown developer Al gave a donation For a few weeks region works services were cur tailed by a strike but the only sign of it In Acton i occasional pickets at being erected the sewage plant Late in Interested Citizens the month the contract Group which for years dispute was settled had been fighting the A small group of King power line through ham Hill residents joined rural Halton Hills were based dealt a final blow In their short lived organization fight when the National demanding government Energy Board refused to for people who would grant a hearing for the be renewing their mort cose Petes Barber Shop E 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