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This Actons Y offers a variety of interesting programs Registration is tonight Julie Atnerion a pose li let class Wednesday nights I Carol Ann and Donna Mitchell battle It out in kick boxing at the Acton Y Thursday night David munches on a cookie Kinder gym Gail Manuel Is the Instructor Doing an incline dumbell press is David Stone the Friday morning classes The runs weight lifting classes two a week Chung finds this ball a Mile big to handle during Friday klndergym class Children play games sing songs and do exercises during tofe in Acton EGGS GALORE cuauitut tqqt- 20 off Msdl Como and Enjoy Mill St Acton vote mar The Acton Press Wednesday Apr 1 3 SUPER PAINT SUPER PRICE SALE ENDS APRIL 1981 C I Super Latex Flat on sale per gallon SAW C I L Super Latex Semigloss on sale per gallon SAVff C I Super Latex a durable Interior that s truly scrubbable time after time with easy soap and water clean up and hundreds of decorator colors to Choose from ng Accent Bases Trinity pulls account out of Scotia Bank By a majority Just four votes Trinity United Church members decided Sunday to start removing their assets from the Bonk of Nova Scotia In a protest against the bank loans to South Africa The motion on the floor since the February Annual Congregational meeting proposed Trinity remove their funds from the Bank of Nova Scotia and place them In the TorontoDominion Barak or a credit union ThoTD bank has stated it will pursue no new loan in volvement in South Africa An amendment ratified the motion to allow the church board some leeway The church s current account will be changed immediately and lr vestments will be transferred as they mature if the Bank of Nova Scotia hasn at that time changed loan policy After nearly three hours of discussion and debate of the church voting members and adhere cast ballots In favour against Debate on the issue has stirred the Trinity congregation for nearly two months Inspired by a letter from ex board chairman and Acton chairman for Ten Days for World Development Comfort and the United Church of Canada urging in ternational banks to cease lending money to the South Africa government because of its apartheid system of racial segregation the matter was thrown to vote at the congregational meeting February Carried by a substantial majority the motion was handed to the Unified Board for action In an un precedented action the board threw the decision back to the congregation for further research and Information A four man panel composed of protagonists Comfort and United Church of Canada treasurer Bill Davis and antagonists Beatty and Ross Knechtel presented information to the congregation prior to a question period All members of the panel agreed they were opposed to apartheid Beatty said the quest before Christians was not should we help to bring about change but how should not ask ate with influence to away wc can only help the Africans if people with Influence are there he stated Ross Knechtel questioned the motion by asking should we condemn and punish the Bank of Nova Scotia Tor disagreeing with the General Council of the United Church of Canada He called the planned action a secondary boycott and said it was a terrible mistake that would not produce any effect Davis explained the attitudes of General Council and provided history of the Task Force formed to look at the church corporate responsibility are stewards of the church money and arc responsible for the way it s used we ore obliged to be concerned haw the church profits are made He added there was no evidence the South Africa government had used loan money lo benefit blacks This Is not an economic boycott he concluded Last to speak Comfort aid he believed every moral political sociological and economic means should be used to attack social evils Why South Africa he queried no other country as intransltant to the world as South Africa all done in the name of Christianity He called the South African situation uniquethe only country where racial segregation is legal During a question It was brought out Davis that South Africa is concerned about its International image and credit As long as we are prepared to provide capital we arc supporting it apartheid he said He explained the C of Canada would be tendering Its bank ac counts shortly and a banks position In South Africa would have a bearing on the decision Answering a question concerning the cleanliness of other Canadian banks Davis said It was hard to get information from most banks but the Toronto Dominion had Issued a public statement that it will not be making any new loans to South Africa 1 m confident hey are not playing around with us he said adding the Royal Bank had come half way In the decision by stating they had made no new loans to South Africa for two years Rev Chuck Beaton asked the antagonists why couldn t companies in South Africa be asked to bring pressure to bear on the regime Where there is money there is power he said answered if the Bank of Nova Scotia were its influence where would we stop Knechtel said a better way to counter the South problem would be tool for scholarships to whites in South Africa they 11 learn things here they won t learn in South Africa he added Many congregation members chose to speak to motion Speaking negatively senior church board member Ralph Denny informed listeners ail banks In question had a percentage of holdings In Brass Can a company doing business with South Africa He said the Acton Nova Scotia Bank branch had been very good to Trinity Rev Beaton speaking for the motion said Trinity actions had far wider implications than we thought referring to the surprise visit to the church recently by national Bank of Nova Scotia president JAG Bell We have a respon sibility for International issues he concluded Acton fights for refugee Acton visitor from Guatemala Miguel Angel has been arrested in Costa Rica and will likely be by the Guatemalan government If letters from Acton churches fail to obtain refugee status Tor the political escapee in Costa Rica Here in February for the Ten Days for World Development program and his Anna told the horrors of living under the present Guatemalan dictator ship A labor union organizer Alblzures was exiled in Costa Rica after having fled for his life Mrs Fuentcs Mohr is the daughter of an opposition leader murdered for his political activities Arrested recently after his return to Costa Rica Alblzures will be returned to Guatemala and will be at the mercy of the government unless he is granted refugee status by Costa Rica In on effort to help a petition has been cir culated throughout Acton churches requesting Costa president Caraio Odio refugee status A telegram was sent Tuesday and will be followed by a letter bearing an estimated signatures Mrs Mohr is married to a Costa Rican and is therefore automatically granted protected status Care of dying meeting The North Halton Palliative Care Interest Group which was or to study the needs and concerns of the dying and their families Is holding its second meeting April at the Milton hospital Fun fair WALLPAPER Price Regular 995 499 WE KNOW YOU CARE SHOW YOU CARE Easter Seal Kids really need your help THE EASTER SEAL SOCIETY Donations may be left at or mailed to THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA 36 MILL STREET ACTON Campaign Conducted ROTARY CLUB OF ACTON Ron Chairman In association With THE ONTARIO SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN