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Leathertown display debuts out of town Acton campaign is branching out Today Wednesday a display is set up in Eaton Centre Toronto as part of the Festival Country Leathertown chairman Chip explains It is only a small booth little time to get ready Hal ton Regional Business Development department asked for the display last week The region is staffing the display which will consist of brochures photographs and key fobs The display Pc trill explains cts Acton as being thoupandcom ngtourlstattraction realizes the effect these displays have outside Iho community and plans many more in the future The more displays they have he said the more they will find out about noted the display will gel better as it goes along as they learn what people are interested in and what they want to sec Wagner grows experience on the farm Nick Wagner lifts a bale of hay onto an elevator din ing his work at Jim Johnston farm The Acton dent hopes o put experience he picks up on the farm Into practice when he becomes a an by Dave Money everything in summer job just ask Nick Wagner While most ts try to pick up some money in the summer Wagner is quite to pick up work experience The Willow lit North resident la spending the summer working at the farm of Jim Johnston In Bolton When I tell my friends how much I get paid for the number of hours only a day they think 1 m looney said Wagner The experience he is gaining on the farm more than makes up for the hard work 12 hours of each day and pay I thinking of going to college this experlencewlllhelp He a dy has picked up some pointers on the milking cattle he helps tend to I found cows to be more than most peo ple hesaid feeding the cattle Wagner has just finish helping Johnston with haying on his acre farm Thl3 may be dusty work leading the bam up with bales of hay but it is cleaner than feeding the cattle Working the farm was one of the several ho had for a summer Job He applied to about seven places through Experience SI summer work forming was the one ho ended up with It good experience I don say everybody should try it but It different be smiled moved to Acton from Toronto six years ago so he life on the farm to be too much of a culture shock It s Isolated at the farm Jim has to take the car to see his friends I don know anybody around here but I usually too pooped to go out any ways In Toronto all of is friends lived on the same street It more relaxed out here but it has to be You can t work hard all the time you d blow your brains out ho said The isolation Ion t bad if someone else is there to talk to I like to work with person When you re working at some jobs liko loading the elevator in the barn you can hear the other guy Then you have to a song to yourself sa Id Wagner A lot of time goes by when you re yacklng Wagner already has had some practice with animals he has his own dog Working at the farm ih larger Still he decided what type of vet I e like to be I like to try both of them working with horses and cows and dogs and cats but 1 11 probably tend to be a country vet rather than a g city vet This fall the return to school will be something of a shock to Wagner He spent the last year in Acton High School grade 1 Immersion program Along with the farm experience he has done a lot of things but t spent much t me behind the books We learned woodcutting skills Chain sawing skills and transit skills In school We took a canoe He also did a nt at where he became interested in becoming a veterinarian I was working at the chemistry department at the university One of the doctors from the OVC Ontario Veternory College came over and we talked about said Wagner The doctor told him he had to get good marks if he to get accepted the course I won be disappointed If I don mako it he aid The experience still should be a b g help A Community Newspaper One Hundred and Seventh YearNo ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JULY22 Pages Twenty- Cents Consultants study downtown Strongly oppose plaza outside town Consultants studying downtown Acton for the municipality have come out strongly against plans for a plaza on the east side of town Also Acton shoppers want a greater selection of department store merchandise and expanded food stores a recent survey of shoppers showed A lengthy report on both the Acton and George- believe that if this centre were to proceed that It town Business Improvement Areas has been veiled for Hills councillors by the consulting Wright Young Associates Besides revealing results of surveys of both shoppers and merchants the report warns against the municipality allowing a supermarket to be built on the edge of town For a few years now Halton Hills has been fight ng plans of developer Jerry and his firm Landawn Shopping Centres to build a large plaza on the east side of town The matter is before the Ontario Municipal Board It is important that development of the proposed suburban shopping centre be stopped We strongly Policeman assaulted have been laid against three residents after a Main Street fracas in which a policeman was assaulted last Wednesday night One man and a girl a juvenile were charged with assault and obstructing a police officer after the in cident at the corner of Mill and Main Streets The other man was charged with causing a disturbance and res is ting arrest The three were arrested and released to appear In court August 1 inside The Watson family basement has been taken over by ceramics See alary and photos on page It vacation time end today paper contains stories on the most popular vacation Acton travel agents are booking and how to keep your home from being hit by thieves while you re sway Stories on pages and would have irreparable damage to the core area one person who studied Acton Paul wrote Looking further at the question of commercial development outside the downtown area the consul tants wrote in order to ensure viability of downtown Acton it is imperative that retail develop ment not be permitted in competitive locations in the vicinity of the Acton community The downtown area is in a more than adequate position to satisfy the retail needs of the urban community there is no apparent advantage in suburban locations for future retail development For more than a decade a decision permitting commercial development on the periphery has been pending which has left the downtown business community In a state of tainty with respect to their future for this time period Final assurance that competitive development will not be perm tied outside of the downtown area would provide a more secure environment for further investment in development downtown The of shoppers carried out over a one week period produced answers which showed the quality and variety available in food store outlets does not satisfy total needs of the community In addition the survey pointed to one of the reasons people shop out of town Inadequate range of department store type merchandise encourages shoppers to go out of town for re goods The study also showed almost all the business for local merchants comes from Acton and area shoppers despite the fact there is considerable traffic moving through Acton dally on Highways and 25 The majority of people shopping downtown were pedestrians and few people complained parking facilities In the downtown area except to note It a hard to park on Mill St because of the traffic going through town Shoppers put the rap on downtown for Its unattractive buildings and tree scape appear ance but also si owed some Interest in Individual buildings such as the old Town Hall new urban plazas like Village and Acton Mews churches and municipal offices Continued on page Becky Chris Hill Glen Bomrt Brian Main I en Joe ton Library bubble gum blowing last Wednesday S and Victor Lee try lo blow the biggest bubble around the Ac Photo by DAVE Waterfalls Park Acton campgrounds all comply with swimming area laws Waterfalls Park in Acres and The Breezes in Acton all have com plied with the requirements of the swimming area bylaw Jack Lusty Bylaw Enforcement Of fleer told this newspaper On most recent inspection this week Lusty noted Waterfalls now has a sign stating the of the nearest telephone and the depth of the water has been painted on stones Some mark lags were already there Lusty emphasized all the areas had been given seven days notice to meet the bylaw demands This means each of the swimming areas where admission is charged has the proper lifesaving equipment including a reaching pole of not less than eight feet a ring buoy and line a nan Inflatable buoyant aid and a spine board At Waterfalls Park there arc two sets of this equip ment said Lusty The bylaw does not require That demand was withdrawn after small campground owners claimed they would be put out of business if they had to be provided The campground owners pointed out swimming is only a dary attraction with camping their primary source income The crackdown was sparked by two drownings in two days at Waterfalls Park twowecksago Acton Travel agents Jack and Rich wearing cowboy hats area The holiday and Leathertown chairman Chip Petrlllo In were on hand lourists with Saturday at the Hide House to grctt a bus load of Belgium tourists touring is arranged by Acton Travel presented the Key fobs Chinese people highlight of Jean Bonners trip by Helen Murray Jean Bonner came back from a recent trip to China with lots of souvenirs and lots of memories but she admits she want to go back for some time The 3 Rockwood woman spent three weeks on the Concordia University ChinaCanada Study Tour returning lost week back to a world of knives and forks and privately owned cars As a professional figure skating coach Jean first heard about the trip through the Figure Skating Coaches of Canada organisation She had known people who had gone on a similar tour of Sweden last year and thought this trip sounded like a good way to see a communist country and let someone else do the paper work of getting visas and cutting through the red tapo to get into such a country About Canadians went first to Los Angeles then to Anchorage Alaska then on to Seoul Korea before heading to Hong Kong Ages ranged from 20 It was Jean has since celebrated a birthday lo about carsold The group spent a few days in Hong Kong which Jean describes as hot They had a tour of While In Hong Kong the Canadians were briefed on what to do and say whiletn communist China They were warned never to it Red China or refer in any way to the communist party Continued on page