Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), March 25, 1981, p. 21

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Reed wins by 518 Reed 13395 Barnes 12877 Cutler 3500 Acton Rotary Club members fold and lick Inserts Into envelopes part of their annual Easter Seal campaign for the Ontario Society for Crippled Children The club mailed some for funds On the left Is mem ber Russell secretary Ted Hansen club president Ken Grubbe and treasurer Devlin Trinity Continued from page J would be for the book stop loans to one country because are doing business in IOC other countries Our position has nothing to do with the pro- Tits we take out of South Africa said Bell Not so claims Trinity United Church member Comfort He miss ed Fridays meeting with Bell because of a funeral It was however lib letter that urged a change of bank which sparked the local issue In a telephone inter view after Bells visit Comfort described banks justifying their posi tion on South Africa as The Acton Free Press Wednesday Mar follows cither its none of your business or we know whats best The real reason is that its profitable to do business with South Africa said Comfort The rural Acton resident went on lo indicate that banks make the assump tion that if they do business with a govern ment such as South Africas some benefit will trickle down to the Blacks It just doesnt work The power structure has not changed with the down theory said Comfort ACTON HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR CITIZENS FREE CURTAIN Acton soon North Haton TV capital Marie left and Vlnce Whehm right count up polls Thursday during the provincial elec tion at local PC headquarters The mood was toll ed at the office with Premier Bill Davis elected with a majority but local candidate Babies los ing The official vote count accepted their ballots In last weeks provincial then returned them election widened the gap saying they did not want between the successful to vote for any of the Liberal candidate Julian candidates Reed and the defeated candidate Fran Acton will soon be the television capital of North On May Cable Systems will open its new offices end studios in a building at Main St North where there used to be a billiards room and an apartment above Cable TV Is taking the whole building which Is being renovated ex tensively Jim Magee general manager of Cable said in inter view the move to Acton will eventually result in live broadcast of events in Acton Georgetown and Milton on cables community station With eligible voters in HaltonBurling Reeds plurality 4 CWL Spring break program for children and teens per cent of the voters now stands at rather than the unofficial t out ThmdiiV count election night Reed picked up votes for a total of added votes for four including the ad- atotalofl2B77andNDP Culler was candidate Chris Cutler but one of the 16 increased his total by 15 Pir teen dance at the band Mary Margaret Dickinson chaired the March meeting of the CWL After the opening prayer the secretary read the minutes of the lost meeting and to3 captured four polls and tied votes were Rec other The cast with rejected vlct incumbent won Forty eight ballots were 18 unmarked and in on mils polls unusual occurrence Reed won six of the ballots were declined eight north This means 40 voters weya polls ACTON The is holding a special day for and an evening for teen agers during the March break On March there will be a showing- of Winnie the Pooh in the church hall at 10 30 a and again at In the and the trea- there will be a surer gave her report Knox Alert Hear about Boys Brigade 74 107 78 20 11 10 1 91 74 24 US IB 19 13 71 3 29 11 11 7 80 13 i 54 21 44 SO 11 42 fi 79 IB 1 24 ESQUES1NG 40 NASSAGAWEVA 10 41 15 13 GO 111 66 7 fit 65 48 7 14 47 Citizen of Year set for June 27 The 1981 Acton Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year will be honored at a dance on June In an effort to build more interest in the Citizen of the Year program it Is being made part of the big Back to Acton Days celebrations Previously Citizen of the Year nominations were made in late February and early March the Chamber selection for the award revealed late in March and a dinnerdance honoring the recipient held in April Dave Whiting who is organizing the Citizen of the Year program said the affair will be held at the Acton Curling Club There will be a cocktail hour dinner presentations and dance Whiting predicted having the Citizen of the Year the same weekend but as a separate function as Back to Acton Days will result In a larger atten dance Details of the program will be announced in May and nomination ballots published Organizers are aiming for no more than a two week gap between announcement of the reci pient of the awards name and the dinner Whiting said the Chamber will be looking at the guidelines for selecting the recipleht further and likely pick a three person selection commit tee The Knox Alert Evening Group met in the Mary Ellen Anderson room for their March meeting The president opened the meeting and introd uced Rosa Brown a leader in the Boys Brigade Ross showed us slides and gave us a great deal of information on this new group recently formed in our church We have an Anchor the Boys Brigade Hymn was sung After the president thanked Ross who bad to leave due to other com mittments the program was resumed Babe Roazdl as convenor of the program gave the Call to Worship on Time for Planting followed by the Hymn The Glory of the Spring how sweet McLennan read the ScriptureMark and Beth Smith led in prayer The Hymn Sweet Hour of Prayer a reading by Babe Thoughts ins- by the World Day of rayer Babe also read a Large Family regarding the and Cecilia Jet- Mary Margaret read the paper which she pre sented at the Regional meeting at re cently in which she used our coffee Sunday as the focal point Julie Con reported that our re cent dance was a sue A date was set for the spring rummage sale and prizes for the fall draw were determined The CWL will again provide an award to St Josephs School for the top grade 8 student Dur ing the evening were being ac for the new of officers After the meeting closed with the league prayer showed the women how to make bake and paint Christmas tree decorations made out of channel number Currently all community programs are taped and shown later The firm is moving to Acton so it will be closer to lis head end the tower at Magee said Cable needs to be closer to the tower for the day when they bring in services like Pay TV and burglar and fire alarms They expect be offering Pay TV their subscribers North by the end the year at the latest Not only do they want bring viewers live programs after putting In a return line from the to the tower but also expect being only minutes away from Georgetown and minutes away from Milton theyll be to Increase the hours of community program ming Schools for Indian salt and flour Luncheon Children eluded the meeting Registration for September TUESDAY APRIL to 10 KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Child run Welcome To With Pa now WE ARE OFFERING Morning ram Mom Program and Program lor Acton Nursery School

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