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Two rescued from log jam by chopper area resident Chris and Matthew Berry go over the damage to their canoe after It mum logjam In the River recently The pair had to be rescued by an Armed Force helicopter by Helen Murray Two Speyslde area men spent a harrowing three hours atop a long jam In the River recent ly after wild rapids rammed their canoe Into the logs They were dramatically rescued by an Armed Forces helicopter Chris Sankey 4 Acton And Matthew Berry Milton were forced to abandon their cedar strip canoe after it buckled upon impact turning part of the frame Inside out Berry was tossed Into tho swirling waters with the current pushing him under tho canoe and logs I remember thinking Is this going to be it he recalled Berry I remember how long he was under the water but said ho suddenly realized he was holding onto something He used whatever it was to pull himself bock up to surface and Into the craft before Sankey even realized he was gone Sankcy attributes Ills friend a athletic prowess with saving his life The adventure took place In the just north of Hull Quebec Berry parents have a cot In tho area on Lac St Bernard The two had noticed while water and accepted the challenge of the rapids two started a couple hundred yards upstream of the rapids inordertoavoldalog jam in the mid die of the river Unfortunately says Sankey the pair underestimated the current and they were pull Immediately Into the middle of the river When the canoe hit the logs Chris at the front grabbed the Jam to keep the boat from tipping over Ho tied off the front of the while trying to free body of the croft from the jam By tying it explained they would bo loose but would not start floating down the river uncontrollably The starting taking In water recalls and the pair could sec the broken of the boat interior at their feet and the crumpled front The middle of the canoe was turned inside out The two decided to abandon ship and climbed aboard the log jam thinking It safer than the sink canoe Their main worry while on the jam was that it would start to break up plunging them into the river again They feared they would be crushed by the floating logs with no means to protect them selves They could sec the road from their spot Sankcy says but no one on the road could see them despite their furious waving of arms and shouts It until two young girls were walking along the shore an hour after the r crash that they were seen Police were soon on the scene explaining that a helicopter had been summoned but It would take two hours to get there from Trenton Air Force Base Meanwhile they ere to re mo 1 I The men were impressed by the efficiency or everyone involved A crowd of about gathered on the shore to watch the rescue and red 1 from the police car rescue squad vans and ambulances lit up the sky Reporters and television crews also swarmed tho area The canoe eventually broke free of the jam and floated down the river but by lime the pair really didn Icj After a while Berry said ht rocks they not before They found out later Quebec Hydro was lowering the level of the river in hopes of grounding the logs to take the danger of them breaking up and toss as heir passengers Two hours after be spotted with dusk setting the Armed Forces helicopter Twin final arrived It made one pass over before lower a frogman down them Berry went up rtt the rescuer recalls the eerie feeling he got being alone on the jam It was gelling cold and dark and he felt very alone while wailing his turn The helicopter rushed the two canoeists to a yard where the police and paramedics waited Also wailing was another crowd of about people says the heroes of the day were the police and the helicopter rescuers And the crowd knew it he said Cheers for the police could be heard for sometime The had f shed the canoe from the water while Ihem back to their car the North Hal ton pair hud to promise they would never go They both agreed Sankey and Berry both felt thoy were not ready to take on the challenges of the white waters of the River They both have lots of experience canoeing in Whitewater but underestimated their skills Berry says he would go back but only with a j Continued on page A Community Newspaper One Hundred and Seventh Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY Pages Twenty five Cents lift limits to growth in Acton There 19 a possibility limits on Acton future growth might not be as severe as municipal officials have believed for the pas t couple of years In an Interview Mayor Peter said there are prospects for more growth than expected but he predict how much more growth might be accommodated Last year Hills council and the region de cided an urban area servicing water and sewer study was needed for both Acton and Georgetown to settle the growth potential of both urban areas In the foreseeble future In late May and early June the special steering committee overseeing the study by Proctor and as well as Hills councillors and a re gion committee heard from consultant Ken Taylor that there would be little Acton growth in the future Acton future growth Is limited by the capacity of the sewage plant as well as the ability of the recelv the Black Creek to handle effluent The Proctor and Rcdpath report was to be com pleted last month however Pomeroy says It won now September Tnylor earlier report was based on a set of sew age flow figures determined in consultation with the Continued on page B7 Burlington driver fined mishap killed former resident A Burlington man who was responsible for the death of former Acton and Esqueslng resident Lor ralnc Robertson nee and two other women a car bicycle accident last summer was fined In county court last week Walter Valente 19 pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving m connection with the July fatalities on Plains Burlington on June Despite calls for a jail term from the crown was given only the fine and a one year pension of his driver licence Mrs Robertson lived with her family at the Cedar Springs Motel which they operated on High way east of Acton for several years before moving Even though she didn advance to the finals Lisa McGrath MUs Acton Fall Fair 16S0 represented the town well at the Miss Queen of the Fain pageant Friday She and the other com petltors modelled wo outfits sang and each gave a short speech They were also by the Judges to Church St In Acton following her marriage She lived in Acton and for about eight years and graduated from Stewart town School and Acton High School When tho mother of three was killed she and her family were living in Hamilton She was riding her bicycle In Burlington with four other women when the fatal mishap occurred Two other women were also killed and two were Injured The court was told Valente moved his car from the centre to tho curb lane of Plains a four lane street when he struck the cyclists and was going about GO miles an hour in an area where the speed lim t is 37 Smiles an hour This is Valente s third licence suspension In the three years he has been driving and he has previously been convicted of speeding four times The maximum penalty for careless driving is six months in Jail plus suspension of driver licence for wo years and a fine Crown appeals Halton Crown Attorney Jim says he plans to appeal the sentence of Walter Valente Burlington who was responsible for the death in a car bicycle accident of former area resident Lor ruble Robertson last year He said Monday he Is determining if the sentence for careless driving should be appealed to the On Court of Appeals or just Provincial Court notes he asked the county court Judge for a period of incarceration for Valente inside There are lots of photos of local people involved with the playground parade and carnival See pages Halton Police are looking for the driver of a car which hit a woman at Main and Church Streets re cently MoreonpogeJ The Caravan Stage Co moving through the area and creating a lot of Interest More about the ravelling theatre group on page mi the shore of the quarry at Waterfalls Park on Monday afternoon Local man makes good with Humungus film The quarry area at Waterfalls Park near has been turned Into the set of a ma motion picture and the executive producer is a local resident Michael Stevenson of Ac ton Location filming for Humungus began at Waterfalls last Wednesday and Is expected to be wrapped up today Wednesday Stevenson who has a long association with motion picture business describes his first effort as an Independent movie producer as a teenage adventure- thriller which also has elements of a horror film The film features no big stars though the female lead played by Janet Julian who ap peared in the Nancy Drew television series and tho male lead Is David Wallace a teen Idol south of the border For years Stevenson involved mostly in tho distribution end of the cinema industry worked as first president of Paramount In Canada and later vicepresident of Paramount In the States For the last six years he was president of Astro Films a Canadian firm Now an Independent producer Stevenson and his family moved to the area five years ago and he raises quarter horses on his 32 acre property He and his wife Joanne have four sons John Matthew Humungus will be in the theatres by May Stevenson says with certainty because he already has a distribution deal with Em Pictures film is about six young people who are closing up their cottage on a lake and their boat runs Into fog and storm There a shipwreck on Dog Island Dog Island belonged to a wealthy Umber baron who built a magnificent lodge here and then populated his Island with vicious killer dogs He holds a big party and one of drunken guests rapes the man s daughter and then Is killed by the dogs The pregnant woman suffers a mental breakdown and gives birth to a monster which grows up to bo a horrifying looking huge hairy creature the Humungus Humungus Is raised by its mother when she dies he left on the Island with only the dogs and wildlife for food Thirty years after his birth with food running out the six teens arrive on Humungus Island The shipwrecked survivors start being killed off one by one The conclusion of the film la of course a closely guarded secret The gruesome of Humungus is also a closely guarded secret No photographs are being released of the monster and won t be even when film publicity starts After Stevenson screenwriter Bill Gray and Humungus executive producer Michael Steven son watches shooting at Waterfalls Park director Paul Lynch conceived the film Idea the executive producer took the property to Embassy and secured a distribution contract en II won wind up on a shelf collecting dust Filming at Waterfalls began I voonda half weeks after production Work on the pic ture is slated to wind up on September 12 Other shooting Is taking place In Mississaugu Toronto Sparrow Lake Director Lynch recently worked on the sue Prom Night film while screenwriter Gray did that e as well as cowriting the Changling film which Stevenson expects will be rated adult entertainment or restricted will cost over million to produce Over the past two or three years a lot of Cana films costing an awful lot of money have been produced but they haven been the type to attract audiences Stevenson says A number of films have been made in recent i Georpe- town In Nassago Stevenson feels other Canadian producer should be following tho route he has his first effort Find a script which Is commercial and has public appeal Then find a distribution firm and secure a solid deal That Stevenson formula That way Stevenson says Instead of dust on a shelf somewhere it is certain to be shown Also this method injures the film will Far too often Stevenson says pictures are made before a distribution deal Is sought and then the producer finds out he have a saleable product Executive producers arc generally Just the money men But Stevenson vast experience In tho In allows him final say In casting and creative elements as well as financing and packaging He arranged the interim financing and this fall Humungus will be sold as a public stock issue