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It Just shook whole house said Fred f lac hey after a car slammed his Main St home early Sunday morning The driver and one of his passengers suffered minor Injuries during the They were taken to Georgetown and District Hospital for treatment Another passenger escaped injury The house Is on the north side of Knox Presbyterian church Turn Inside for story Couple strike lottery windfall An Acton couple are richer today after winning the Provincial lottery rlday and Ray Atkinson Young Street shared winning ticket in the weekly draw I don think i ever forget the number said Mrs Atkinson I stunned The whole family is stunned Mrs Atkinson received the ticket from her daughter Karen for Mothers Day It s the first lime I have won anything of any ac count she continued I never expected to win I dldnt feel lucky She said she watched the six o clock news on tele vision Friday night to see if she had won anything Ididn But when she found she won Mrs Atkinson con Untied she stayed up to watch the news again at 11 Just to make sure After that she added It was a weekend of brat ion with their and grandchildren The Atkinson don t have specific plans for the money We re going to Invest it she said and give some to the kids And I like to buy a now carJust an ordinary unpretentious Chevy We want to make the money last a long time It not the tune the Atkinson family has received a lottery windfall Son Stephen who is a member of the Canadian Armed Forces won Continued on page A winsome pair Ufa and Kay Atkinson of Young Street won half a million dollars Friday by playing vlnclal lottery The ticket Was a Mother Day present from their daughter An Inland Community Newspaper One Hundred and Sixth Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY 1381 Twenty Pages Twenty five Cents Acton to stay small no sewage capacity There will be very growth or development in Acton in the years ahead Regional public works committee and Halton Hills council heard recently from a consultant there Is very little capacity left in the Acton sewage plant The was raised at Friday dropin Councillors were given the bad news from an of of and Redcm in a verbal prelum nary report Proctor and la carrying out an urban servicing boundary study for Acton to deter mine how much more development can take place here A final report is expected this summer Mayor Peter and Councillor Dave Whiting discussed the sewage capacity and growth issue with a resident Rick Smith Rosemary Friday Whiting said afterwards the consultant reported that basically Acton is at its sewage limit now The Acton plant has a capacity of gallons per day While the plant could be expanded the stream the Black Creek can handle any more effluent Sewage capacity is determined by population lev John Robertson Rev Robertson may be leaving Rev John Robertson of Knox Presbyterian Church is planning to retire at the end of September for health reasons However the Session board of ciders of the chin ch arc considering offering Rev Robertson a six month leave of absence to see if he can regain his health and then return to the Church He submitted a letter of intent to resign effective the end of September last Wcdncsdiy night to the Session immediate past clerk Tom Watson said It came as a complete surprise to the elders Rev Robertson was unavailable for comment having left for a vacation and his son wedding in England Thursday morning He and his family came to Acton in September The church had gone nine months without minister after Rev Andy moved to Perth after years at Knox Rev Robertson originally from the Isle of Skye Scotland came to Canada in 19G7 serving for a number of years at Presbyterian Church He left the ministry and sold life insurance for a few years before resuming his career at Knox He has been serving as Padre to the Aclon Legion Branch 197 also plus equivalent population figures are assigned for Industry and commercial operations Actons present population plus Industry and commercial development population equivalents just about total gallons per day There is a little capacity left enough for some more Industry plus Infilling building on vacant lots within tho town but However because so many people work out of town Acton t filling the plant Much of the time the sewage plant is only handling to gallons a day Sometimes In rainy weather the plant handles more than gallons a day but that is due to Infiltration of storm water Into the sewage system So while in theory based on population the plant is at capacity much of the time It is in fact far below capacity But the province at this point won allow Acton to grow substantially and fill up the now unused cap acity because of the danger the plant being overcapacity if more people were ever staying In town all day With a population of about 7 100 now the con envision a maximum population of only about here by the year 2000 because there Is only a little capacity left in the plant Whiting said he expects there will be some minor adjustments to the existing urban boundaries but not enough to bring in lands north and south of High way and cast Churchill where major in and commercial developments have been pro posed The repoit from the consultant is Incomplete because Proctor and is still talking to the province about some alternate methods of handling sewage which might permit more growth One idea Is ponding of sewage so it is sent through the plant at times when there arc low effluent volumes Jerry S Unveils new plaza proposal In a surprise appearance developer Jerry man Shopping Centres brought a new proposal for a plaza on the east side of Acton to Hal ton Hills planning board last night Tuesday He is now applying to build scaled down shop ping centre which will still contain a super market Sprackman gave no indication of his plans regarding appeals to the Ontario Municipal Board over the rejection of his earlier plaza proposal or his objection to the rezonlng for the new plain downtown His new proposal Is smaller down from 7 acres to Zehrs Is still ready to come to Acton and open a square foot supermarket with for on addition of more square feet said There would be an additional 19 square feet containing eight stores including probably a bank restaurant and convenience store He recalled the history of his battle to build on a site south of Highway and east of Churchill South including the that when 300 people came to council In February 279 favored his plaza plan Despite the fact a new IGA supermarket Is to be Continued on inside A strike by town works staff still looms See page The search is on for the Citizen Year Story on page ballot page Going to Vegas An expert who was In Acton this month offers some tips on gambling More on page AHS voyageurs trek in past by Greg Sllrock and M orient Lott Members of Acton High School Total Immersion Class led by Outdoor education teacher Paul Tamblyn will be spending the first two weeks In June retracing an historical canoe route In Nor them Ontario Dressed as famous voyageurs Indians lords and ladles such as LordSimcoe Simpson Hiawatha Peter Pond and many more the group guided by Doc as Samuel de Cham plain will travel in 20 foot Canoe tie canoes up the French River from Georgian Bay crossing Lake and down the Mat River to the town of Malta wa Doc feels that only by experiencing do you really understand some thing and his hppe Is that the group will lose track of what century it is in and by doing so relive a small piece of Canadian history He expects the trip to give the group an accurate insight into the life of the people responsible the development and exploration of Canada The previous total Immersion classes have all gained recognition through one feat or another After seeing last year group presentation a mem bcr of the school Board suggested that this year group do a film The subject film centered around the canoe trip will be based on a script written by the group members and will cost from start to finish Of that was raised by the students in the group It is hoped that the remainder will be don a ted by service clubs In the community A film graduate from Sheridan College has volun leered to do the filming and technical work The Acton High School ih dry voyageurs are on their trek across one of the early Ontario fur trade routes starting Monday They 11 be doing lots of canoeing and portaging In this canoe one of two on the trip sit from front to rear Dennis Kir ton Paul Moore Tony Barb Linda Sylvia Daphne Gocrlng and course teacher Paul Tamblyn group hopes their endeavor will leave an accurate and permanent representation of what they are all about possibly change the publics Image of what young people can accomplish The group is expecting good press coverage so if you hear Acton mentioned on the radio or TV during the first two weeks in June look for Doc and on enthusiastic group of A presentation to the town and service clubs of Acton will bo given by the Total Immersion group after they have returned It will lake place on Juno at p at Acton High School Is invited to an original and Insightful evening of fun Left Harry past president of the Golden received a pin from the club for services Bert Davidson right presented with the pin Wednesday night at the Club monthly evening meeting Acton firefighters host bucket race competitions Sat Acton Firefighters will host teams from a number of other area fire departments in a big waterball and bucket rae competition this Saturday at Prospect Park The action Rets underway at a and runs through to or p m The public is welcome to come out and watch the two sports waterball goes first There will bo a beer garden and refreshment stand also Inglewood Grand Valley Erin George own Greensville Kilbride and two from Milton make up starting line up for Saturday in both events Invitations to compete were sent to fire departments and eight hove accepted departments may send teams Saturday and they will be allowed to compete Of course Acton will also have a team