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Town approves development agreement for piaza a parking lot plan must be with the traffic study The north entrance to the site will have to bo the town says and the owners will have to put In curbs which will Identify the on site access thoroughfare The town will want to know where garbage and snow will be stored as well as the typo and location of all exterior lighting In addition there will have to be an area set aside The new IGA plaza for downtown Acton has ed another step towards being built Last Tuesday night Hal ton Hills council passed a bylaw authorizing the execution of a development agreement for the project to be built on the ion Hotel site The plaza will cover about square feet and contain ar IGA plaza of square feet and about six retail stores The developer Is Investment which brought in a third partner in the project last buggy storage month after the was approved by the Ont ami Municipal Board Die additional partner is municipality wants the developers to have Green County Investments The in the firm good and workmanlike manner name is Acton contractor DoufFrtod accordance with good trade practices so as to The between the town and developer cause a minimum of nuisance to the neighbors As sets out a number of conditions and requirements precautions to avoid dust noise The developers must provide the region with a and other nuisances and to provide for public safety precngineenng report dealing with water and developer will be required to sewers and the town needs a drainage report and or any damage to streets curbs pavement drainageandgradingplnn boulevards and plantings during construction A traffic study dealing with on street parking in These standard clauses in development the area parking for delivery and pickup vehicles agreements pedestrian movement from the par tang lot and The necessary studies and a site plan must be ap- movements for northbound traffic attempt proved by municipal staff before building permits to enter the site is required by Hills Also will be issued Scott Malcolm competes in Scottish pipe contests Scott Malcolms career with the Pipe Band takes on a new dimension this weekend when the group takes port In the World in Aberdeen Scotland Scott of Ave left Sunday for Scotland to participate in not only the world games but at the Gathering of the Clans in Stirling at Ldinburgh Castle and the Montrose Gathering Altogether he will be gone four weeks part of which will be spent visiting relatives His mother Dorecn also went with him The trip to Scotland came on the heels of two very important wins this year Just recently his band won the American band championships in Alma Michigan and the North American championships outside of Cornwall Ontario Scott himself won three second place medals for his Individual piping A trip to the Canadian National Exhibition to witness the mass pipers when he was yearold was all Scott needed to get hooked on the pipes He been trained entirely by the Pipe Band and In the past eight years has worked his way up to grade one premier Starting grade is four Playing on heirloom pipes t hurt Scott playing ability They are looyearsold and were quired throughaeouslnofScott Gil in Scotland The Band will be staying at Queen College in Glasgow and will be using that as home base to at tend various competitions Scott is going on the trip to win even though they will be playing against hundreds of bands over the next month The last the Pipe Band went to Scotland was four years ago and at that time they were among the top ten at the world games Scott recalls Although he was In Scotland at the time he was not there as a band member but visiting rela tlves Most expenses Incurred by band members art paid for by the band All priie money won by the group goes towards the trip and various fund rals drives arc held There are 25 competitive players and family and friends there from Guelph and area Scott Is the only band member from Ac ton A Community Newspaper One Hundred and Seventh Year No 5 ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY AUGUST 12 TwentyJive Cents Will attract tour buses Plainsman smorgasbord restaurant for Hide House A restaurant a smorgasbord operated by the same firm which operates the ell regarded Plainsman In the Hamilton area will open in the Hide House this fall Besides serving the many customers who have been flocking to the Hide House from Metro Peel Halton Hamilton and other areas of the Golden Horseshoe the smorgasbord will also cater to a large number of travellers on tour buses just as the Plainsman at Highways and does Already the operators have lined up visits by a good number of tourist buses from New York state Almost since it was born the owners of the Hide House have been planning a restaurant A number of plans wtre scrapped the way But in the past couple of months the pieces started falling into place A minor variance to permit a restaurant In the building was approved by the Hills Commit tec of Adjustment last month and the day appeal period passed without objection Now the plans arc In the hands of the Hills building department as well as the fire department for consideration It can be appreciated that adapt ing a modern restaurant to a building as old as the Hide House is no easy task Like any development proposal it Is subject to revisions to meet municipal criteria and how soon hurdles can be cleared will determine when the restaurant will open The goal Is early fall Plans call for the restaurant to seat about din The owners will apply for a liquor licence and an elevated lounge appropriately finished with leather furniture will face one of two large fire places in the rear wall of the restaunnl A full agreement In principle has been reached between the Hide House owners and the operators of the Plainsman A final agreement Is subject to approval of plans The Plainsman is described by sources in the know as both a very successful goodliccnc family restaurant Like the Plainsman the as yet unnamed Hide House restaurant will ft smorgasbord The luncheon buffet is the attraction to tour buses How ever this restaurant will offer full service menu at times when the hot and cold smorgasbord available The restaurant will likely offer social occasion meals and buffets for example Mother Day brunch The restaur in as well as he additions a gift shop and fur salon which are already underway will boost full and part time employment at peak season at the Hide House to between G5 to TO people tver since the old Hide House opened in bcr in the former Hellers plant after the leather manufacturing firm moved to the Disston plant it has been a story continual expansion Right from the start the Hide House has been successful in attracting shoppers from out of town After opening featuring leather and suede clothing shoes and limited lines of furniture in the list eight months more clothing more lines of fine wood and leather covered furniture other leather products and western wear have been til led as the retail area ex panded Into initially not utilized parts of the build in ActonErin area An what the will look like See floor site plan on New St Josephs School Design finalized plans for the new St Joseph s School to open In 1982 on Mill St West were approved by Separate School Board at a special meeting last Tuesday night These plans now go to the Ministry of Educa tion for final approval and then the project will go to tender Trustee Irene reported the project is right on track the board still expects to break ground In the fall and open the new school next spring The final plans done by the architect Michael Torsncy of Hamilton were changed very little from the originals he submitted back in March The Kindergarten class has been moved from one side to another the health room is now adjacent to the teachers room instead of principal office The guidance room was also moved Besides the Kindergarten guidance room teachers room and health and principal offices the square foot school will also contain nine classrooms an office a general purpose room or auditorium gym music room library resource centre seminar room boys and girls school office custodian office general purpose room storage electrical room and todiai sstoragcandschool lobby In addition the revised drawings call for school to be set back a little further than original ly planned noted Hydro to erect microwave tower Big Wheels The Ontariocycllng team of Martins Stella Bush Julio on calves IluiAvela Bob Lex Leah Harvey coach Dcs Dickie Ginette Gautler and Tim DeFreltes arc all riding around Acton In prepara itaylngatthehomeof JoeGardInon25Slderoad Ontario Hydro is to put up microwave tower somewhere in Ihe are No sites for the tower I yet been selected in the study area which Is roughly bounded by banc at the northcast corner Balllnafad on the southeast Crcwson Corners at the south west corner and Ospringeon the north west Hydro spokesperson Brenda Harris explained by the end of the month several possible sites In the study area will have been selected Only a small part of the study area from just cast of Churchill to near Crcwson Corners is in Halton Hills Most of thearca where the tower is to be located is in Erin Township Hon for Canada Summer Games The team Town informed Next two Yugoslav Centre picnics have been cancelled The president of the Canadian Yugoslav trc on Highway 25 south of Acton has told municipal official that two of the last thiee pic nics of the season will be cancelled Following a petition going to council last week from 27 residents in the area of the centre Hills Bylaw Enforcement Officer John Lusty visited the site on Sunday and talked to president Nick Cajic on Monday about the loud speaker noise problem Lusty said the president told him the Canadian Yugoslav association is aware of residents concerns and will cancel picnics plan for this Sunday August and August 23 The last picnic of the car will be on August Early last month annoyed residents called police and laid charges against the centres owners under the town noise bylaw The matter went tocourt last Tuesday but was adjourned til next month because the centre owners tbeenscrved with summons Lusty said ho was at the centre on Sunday and with the president walked the site and dctcrmin an acceptable level of volume for the loud speaker system For a time the sound of Yugoslavian music was kept down but then steadily up until it was quite loud between 7 and and the were again called by neighbors Lusty says noise bylaws arc generally enforce able when there is strong enough evidence The bylaw states people won t disturb others with nose He said even before the residents came to council he had talked to Cojic and warned Die volume must be kept down on the loud speaker system The centre owners seem to think the music must be loud enough for picnickers to be able to hear It from any area of the site Lusty said adding he has suggested they keep the volume down and picnickers move to the bandstand so they can hear He said he will be filing a report with the clerk administrator and offer recommendations which will go next Monday night A special council meeting t held this past Monday to deal with the problem as had been suggested might happen Ono option staff can offer council Is to ask the Liquor Licencing Board to rescind the licence for the centre However Lusty says that wont real Continued on page Hie sites selected will meet the technical end en vironmental requirements of Hydro as well as municipal regulations Hydro will determine if the owner of the preferred site wants to sell Hydro could expropriate but Mrs Harris said that option isn likely because it is a lengthy process and Hydro needs the microwave tower in place soon Then Hydro will explain why the site was selected and answer questions of the municipality where It will be located If there are no municipal objections to the microwave tower then a final report will be submit ted to the Ontario Ministry of the Environment There is a 30day waiting period after the report goes to the province to give the public a chance to comment Hydro has a control centre in Toronto which com with generators and transformer Lions around he province through radio signals These stations direct the flow of power in Hydro massive power system Information is relayed via microwave tow Mrs Harris explained as Hydro transmission system becomes more complex and demands for power increase the communications system must be upgraded and the tower in this area Is part of that upgrading process Hydro wants to reduce the it takes to transmit signals Two new microwave towers arc needed In the vicinity of the Bruce to Milton power corridor which cuts down the centre of Hills passing just east or Acton The SCO lines passed Acton Is a very Important part of the Hydro system and needs communications upgrading Mrs Harris explained She said a microwave tower Is subject to the Class Environmental Assessment Act 1975 so no hear ings are needed Acton I Ions Club has do ted a wheel chair costing about to the Developmental Centre to be us by an Acton child Jeffllarrlson of I Ave is making good use of the chair Admiring ihe chair are I Ion Don Jeff mother Vcr Harrison I Ions president Bob Bradley and Lion Art inside Gujofc Brownies will be idler kbtf A report urn be