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The Acton Press Wednesday Jan 14 Acton Volunteer Firefighter were called out to Holly Industries Tuesday afternoon Guest evangelist Gar if- at the Evangel Pentecostal Tabernacle Monday evening Mr GuRterwlllipeak again tonight at MPP Julian Reed keynote speaker at Scout Forum by Jean Layman Forum Scouts Canada Region which Includes Burling ton Milton Hornby Georgetown and Acton was held at Sheridan College last Saturday Jan 10 Chairman Jim Dills A C of MUton welcomed leaders group committee council per sons and staff personnel Highlighting the theme for the day was Julian Reed speaking on Promoting the Growth of Scouting The speech Bet the pace for the general sessions and panel discussions for the day Mr Reed was in the Nerval Boy Scout move- Officers voting in favor of bullet proof vests In a survey being con ducted by Chief of Police James Harding per cent of officers surveyed are in favor of wearing bullet proof vesta as part of the uniform Eighty officers still have to be questioned Following Thursdays police commission meeting in Harding said speaking as an officer ho would not be in favor of wearing the vest as a permanent article of clothing but would like to see the vest available to the force Im not the person to the badge but in order to use this method every thing has to be working correctly Society can only work correctly If the courts the crown at torney and correctional institutes all work the person to form the opinions is the man on the street I want my officers to be as safe as possible he said Harding said If the towards one majority of the officers want the vest he would tern where a badge is a try to work to get them If authority not a the vote Is split Harding gun It may be a dream a said the vests would be or Utopia but Its a obtained for those who wanted them towards the Chief said I think the law Is too Harding said a full great to be enforced at report would be filed when the survey is completed Legions in step for Remembrance Day Ontario school children a school holiday may spend the next The legion branches Re membra nee Day in however stressed the class rather tlian away need for appropriate from school Remembrance Day All five Royal programs in schools Canadian Legion according to education Branches fell Into step in director Em Lavender pressuring the province sounded out the to delete November 11 as legions on the idea which Rec program openings originated with the Hamilton Board of Education Hamilton and Halton are encouraging other boards to follow suit in asking the province to keep school open on Remembrance Day There are openings left program with openings for several Halton Hills Ladies Self Defence is recreation deportment another new program winter programs Many with room left for par of the programs with tlclpants This program openings are new this runs from 8 to year at Robert Little There will be a work- School shop entitled Nutrition Llmehouse School will and You at the Acton on Valentines Day February from 10 am to 3 Boys Gymnastics which will run Tuesdays from to p at Bennett Is a new be the setting for number of winter programs Fitness and Dance and Jazz for Jun iors will run Thursday nights Fitness and Dance also runs at M Bennett but on Wednesdays Power Skating is a winter program on Wednesdays at Acton Community Centre after school Girls Gymnastics a successful program re turns at Acton High School on Saturday mornings There are a few open ings left in Preschool at St Albans Anglican Church on Tuesdays Cancer thanks donors The Acton Branch of wcresenttotheOncology friends staying Ihcre the Canadian Cancer Ward of the Hospital for Several gift boxes were Society thanks those who Sick Children In Toronto distributed to patients j whlle adult residing Acton went to Henderson Gen- area era Hospital In knitted ments and food Items for the annual Christmas bales which were distributed to cancer pat ients The lovely handmade childrens garments Obituary Baked goods tea coffee etc were sent to Princess Margaret Lodge to be used as refreshments for patients relatives and The gifts mean a great deal to the patients and help to make their slay in hospital during the Christmas season a little brighter Annie McLean Elizabeth Ann McLean grandchildren She was died Nov at Halton by her Centennial Manor in her John McLean year brother Fred Colo and Born the daughter of sister Agnes McKay William Cole and his wife Minnie Kirkwood and Margaret Jane Emma Cole July She Is but- After her and later as a leader Mr Reed con cluded his speech by playing his Banjo and leading In song General Sessions started with Larry of Kitchener giving a very interesting talk on public relations and recruitment entitled If you Dont Promote- Nothing Happens Eric Acton also gave an interesting speech on Insight on Youth Both Mr and Mr Balkind being in the teaching profession dealing with todays youth were able to compare today to when they were boys Other sessions were conducted by John on leadership development Ready by Gord Douglas and The Big Adventure by Bob Carlaw Fred Wiskin of headquarters showed slides of the 81 camp grounds and reminded all who would be attending to start getting good footwear and warm gear because temperatures drop at night time in the foothills Bob Carlaw reminded all Venturers attending the Trek Away to have skis snow shoes snow machines and ice fishing gear In first class shape This event from Blue Springs on February 13 15 Further information may be obtained by contacting Mr at Blue Springs Scouts were reminded of the Finn Race to be held in September so get started on their rafts Mr Dills announced North Halton Region was on the Honor Roll with over percent re gistration completing the day long conference Jennifer Barr Jim and Gwen Johnson who live In an attract three bedroom home in rural Acton are busy raising two small children and seem to conform to the classic Canadian stereotype However seven years ago they were engulfed in a strict Moslem society working with CUSO In Nigeria f cried when I arrived and I cried when left says Gwen of her two year a tea cher to Nigerian teenaged girls Just out of university and barely Into adult hood Gwen and Jim volunteered to work with Nigerians In and agricultural areas Jim an agricultural graduate of College was sent to work with a staffed agricultural cooperative in the north eastern part of Nigeria on the rural the Sahara Gwen taught in a government run girls secondary school in the same village The cultural shock was considerable Gwen comments it was like closing one book and opening another The Johnsons say they were screened by a panel before being accepted as part of CUSO staff Gwen corresponded with the teacher she would replace In Nigeria so had some idea of the work she would be teaching As Instructor of English language and English literature she had to cope with teaching Shakespeare and several English novels to Nigerian girls barely from tribal life and pea lung little English We ended up translating most of It the liter ature remarks Jim duties encompassed work on the Bauchi form centre working in the area of inservice training He enjoyed his work and had more opportunity to work with traditional tribal far a work was considered very Innovative Most Moslem women of rural Nigeria were mar ried soon after puberty veiled and protected from western civilization About 10 per cent of the population attended primary school and then only the brightest went on to secondary school So a school dedicated to providing females with secondary education was very new said she was regarded as something of an oddity because she worked for a living and had not provided Jim with sons In the poly urn Moslem society Jim was pathetically offered a second wife to provide him with the sons he needed for social stature Im glad to say since then has fulfilled her wifely duty and provided Jim with one son Greg daughter Carrie Festival fun The Johnsons found the culture of Nigeria fas clnating and were keen on learning all they could They are also adamant in their feeling Nigerian culture t be westernized but should be allowed to remain unpolluted Jim soys its hard in a leaching situation to know which technology to select without Impart materialism As part of a Moslem society the Johnsons en joyed celebrating Moslem festivals The feast equalling Christian Christmas is Sallah and is celebrated on November 1 after a fasting period of days called Ramadan During Ramadan no food was partaken from sunrise to sunset and prayers were said seven times a day The weather was a factor and Jim had to get use to Living right at the equator it would get hotter than blazes at midday but the work day started at a m and finished at 1 p m to allow fora sensible rest period However cool dust filled winds from the Sahara called Harm at tan would bring night time temperatures right down during the winter sea son Gwenfoundhcntelfwearingherwintcrcoat The five month rainy season started with a bang in March and heralded the start of planting They live by the rains explains Jim and Its a big thing to decide when to plant they would pray for rain the Moslems believed in It fer vently In times of drought and there was a terrible drought occurring when the Johnsons were in Africa the Emir head of religious faith would be paid homage and asked to pray for rain You know theEmlrwouldbepray to a cloudless sky and by a quarter to eleven Jimsays How did their years In Nigeria affect the John sons I hope it affected our materialism comments The news now has more meaning she adds It broadened our horizons Im an ardent Internationalist say Jim The communal society of Moslem Nigeria had quite an impact on the pair It all giving and sharing they dont keep score I dont think our capitalist society would work there you know the maximization of individual greed Jim says Although the Johnsons feel they couldnt settle permanently in such a slower pace of life they remember their years in Nigeria with affection Outers end glass drive TheOutersClubsglass normal rote by half at drives are finished how rat The clubs lake was ever more glass than now down to a third said ever is being collected in townby the The money raised by municipality the clubs collection went The Outers Club which directly towards the pur- chose of new equip menttents ropes and such or repairs The club which Tamblyn said is OK financially this year has already started searching for new ways of raising money None of the clubs plan tlnued on B 11 Is based at Acton High School conducted its last monthly collection of re fuse glass on January The catch was about 12 barrels full of crushed glass according to high school teacher Paul Those dozen barrels c amount to about a third of what Ihe club would normally expect to gat her prior to the spread of Hills Divide and Conquer recycling cam palgn to Acton The club members students who are Inter ested in outdoor molly gather enough old bottles to fill 38 large bar rels with crushed glass The Divide and Con quer campaign which started in Georgetown collects paper metal as well as glass for recycl If theyve taken it over and they are getting moro glass out of the town then thats good be cause It means the rais ing of peoples awareness about recycling glass Tamblyn said The towns glass collection cut the clubs Jim and Gwen Johnson with Greg and Carrie examine a Jim used while farming in Nigeria The children are wearing Nigerian hats 11 M to ild I Medallion Funeral Service was held November at Shoemaker Funeral Homo Rev C Beaton arrlage at officiating Interment vivedby daughters Jean her home near George- S of Acton and Mrs town In 1908 Mrs Dixon of Milton and McLean and her husband Paul were son Will of Grin grand- farmed lot concession Earl McLean James children Anne Marshall id of Erin Township until Johnston Don Harris plane Harris Earl They then retired to Brian Marshall Wilfred McLean and France Acton A member of Kirkwood Gordon Kirk Johnston and four great Trinity Church Mrs wood There is absolutely no other cigarette quite like Medallion Classified Advertising In the regular Articles for Sale columns insert your word advertisement at the regular rates Should the article not sell during the first week The Free Press will publish the same advertisement a second week at Price YOU MUST PHONE The Free Press office for your second insertion by Noon Tuesday THIS OFFER IS GOOD UNTIL FEB 28 1981 59 Willow Street North 8532010