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Shortage of snow disappoints exchange student by Helen Murray Jenny only has one regret about her year In Canadashe get skiing or The 17 yearold Rotary Exchange student from Australia had her heart set on seeing the mounds and mounds of snow Canada is noted for However arriving last January 16 she was shortchanged in thesnowdepartment Snowfalls were at a minimum last winter and so far this year the is the same She did get skating tut one out of three a very good Jenny leaves for home in Alexandra Victoria December and has dejectedly accepted the fact she didn t get skiing When she first heard about the exchange pro gram Jenny chose three countries she would like to live in Sweden Canada and the United States She admits Sweden was her first choice but now that she Is here she Is glad she got her second choice She wanted to go someplace where English was spoken so her energies could go in retaining what she had learned in the last year of school at home and not in learning a new language Her year away from home has been a busy one She has had numerous speaking engagements babysat worked as a lender In training LIT for the recreation department gone to New Orleans learned how to play the clarinet and played in the High school and Acton Citizens Band taken piano lessons from Mrs E Heller and kept up with her school work She was so busy Jenny admits she hardly had time to get homesick for her parents and youi brother Michael She had been to expect to get homesick in the first three months of the stay but it just didn happen si says There was a time however during the mail strike when she had no communication from family or friends that she started to feel the pangs but the job as LIT helped time she may have had to miss anyone She also spent two weeks to New Orleans with Ken and Terry Grubbe in the summer to keep her mind off the lack of mail during the strike Letters from home have been very frequent and there have been the odd phone calls home collect of course Canada is not too much different from Australia Jenny says She quickly got use to the small dlf such as electrical sockets At home she says they have to be turned on like a light switch after plugging something in Homes arc kept war and Australians are more strict with their en than Canadians However Cana do not leave their children at home alone as much as Australians Bubysittcrs cannot make a fortune at home Jenny laughs The houses are different also the high school student says There are few basements in and even fewer upper floors Most homes are on one floor Small cars are more abundant in and there are no Chcvrotets at all but the Australian made olden is predominant Because of the gravity pull she has noticed water goes down In the opposite here than at home Canadians sound very much like Americans to an Australian Jenny says the icans arc reputed to have the same accent as Canadians ess there Is an American and a Cana in the same room talking Jenny admits she has picked up a lot of the Canadian accent and feels she will be centred out when she returns home But overall Jenny says her home country and her temporarily adopted country are similar The cities are the same and the school system is basically the same Christmas is exactly the same at home as here she says with the some com merciallsm the same ng panic even music and decorations She t miss the hordes of flies at home nor the poisonous spiders and She say whether she missed the Austral an version of fish and chips the fish is shark meat She did hint how ever that she missed the fried dim and chips similar tons But now she can return home boasting of such Canad an delicacies as moose meat venison maple syrup salmon steak pumpkin pic peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and french toast She has var opinions of all of these i found foods but pre to keep them to herself Jenny first home in was with Terry and Ken Grubbe on Queen St After three months there A Community Newspaper One hundred and seventh year Issue 24 ACTON ONTARIO TUESDAY DECEMBER Pages Twenty Site Cents B 76 vote council sa No Id town hall By a slim 76 margin Hills councillors last night Monday rejected municipal restoration of the town hall Councillors Harry Levy Marilyn Serjeantson Walter Blehn Mike Armstrong George Miller aitthPam Sheldon rejected complete restoration of the hall with tax dollars public raised funds and provincial grants while Mayor Peter and Terry Grubbe Ross Dave Whiting John McDonald and surprisingly Roy Booth backed the plan There was no attempt to bring forth a motion to could tear the recent petition against the hall to tear the building down though Armstrong said that but all council really had to do was keep in mind that with any project there arc always The idea of selling the building to community Continued on Fatal hitandrun hearing adjourned The preliminary hearing for an Acton man facing St Sunday performed a Christmas Sunday morning The Ryan Ma sales Brian Scott McKce Paula Mitchell Adam participants were Greg Auger Shannon Bailey Pamela Bailey Kerry Butler Jason a we tidy KlmOwen Toby Cabh Cook Bryan Creosey Todd Forest Diana Palenaude Jennifer Pearce Patricia Pearce Porte Angle Michael Adam Friz Karen Blair Gilbert Kevin Pries man Karen Steve Inn Robs on Stuart Glnn Matthew Glnn Kevin Rachel Ha Tracy Thomson Eileen Thomson Kevin Tribe Vaughan Sarah Garnet Holmes Jason Hunter Anne Marie Catherine ML ha el Williamson and Philip Williamson Klnnon Caroline Philip La ndr fault Evan Landry Laura Ma sales Residents object to baseball diamond final decision to be made in February A final Halton Hills council decision on the recreation department proposal to develop a ball diamond on Beard more land at the end of Poplar Ave was deferred Monday until February Besides deferring the final decision council decided last night Monday that funds approved in the budget for a new ploying field in Acton would be set aside in a reserve fund Former councillor Ed Wood asked council for the deferral noting he was speaking for a number of residents who wished to consider the matter fur The residents want to canvass the entire neighborhood and gather all opinions and facts about the ball diamond proposal Many residents only learned of theplan in a story in this newspaper last week Besides having no curbs gutters or sidewalks Poplar Ave has the oldest street lights in town he noted Children play on this dead end street and residents are concerned about traffic noise and safety Residents would also like the opportunity to hear all the facts from town staff too Many residents didn received notice- from the town until December 16 and clerk administrator Ken Richardson said he thought notices went out earlier Recreation director Tom Shepard said his staff contacted residents close to the property a few weeks ago and allowed that some objected to the ball diamond plan Despite residents concerns he thought it was still a reason able proposal to bring for general committee ap proval last week Recreation staff then advised residents they could voice their objections Monday Wood pointed out many residents thought the proposal was a long way down the road and then learned that through the paper general committee gave It a preen light Wood said he t know how many people on the street arc opposed to the ball field plan He said the extent of concerns as simple as the recreation department report outlined in last week spacer Indicated Residents concerns also include vandalism besides noise increased traffic and treasurer Kay King agreed there was no reason for council to make a final decision Monday night as long as a reserve fund was set up for the ball diamond funds approved for If the money put In a reserve fund it would be a surplus for the year and the Item would have to be again In 1082 Wood suggested a ball diamond could be located Continued on pages groups was discussed and staff will examine ail ramifications of this option while Actonians have a chance to con up with proposals The decision came after over two hours of citizen presentations as well as council debate of the town hall issue Ed representing the residents who organized a recent weekend survey of most areas of fatal Acton which produced nearly signatures 1T9 was adjourned in tax dollars being spent on restorot on made the first Guelph Friday presentation He noted only 18 resident declined to Wilson is charged with criminal sign the petition and suggested the sampling causing death failing to remain at the showed it was probable most residents are and impaired driving against ratepayers footing the bill for restoration Assent Crown Attorney John Meagher explain Ho said people realized what they were signing but in October one day of the preliminary hear like councillors they t know really how much wa8 ftc case was adjourned to next restoration cost them He added most people open court date December The judge adjourned said forget the hall period It just Isn t needed the Friday because one of the investigating of Ted Tyler made an impassioned plea to save the Thursday night in a car accident hall backed up by endorsements from Ed Wood and fas adjourned until January 12 the B1A John Aliinson for the Chamber of Com Wilson will appear again to have a date set for merce Chip on behalf of Leathertown and the continuance of the preliminary hearing George for the Restoration Committee preliminary hearings are held to determine if there Council was also told the Acton Optimists Rotary sufficient evidence to warrant a trial No details Club and others In the community support evidence at a prelim nary hearing may be restoration and a letter of support went to council published There was too much evidence to In from the Acton Cancer Society troduce at the first day of the hearing for the case to The chairman said Hills was a be completed three pod pea will all three areas different in size Wilson surrendered OPP in May and texture and flavor Acton wanted to help preserve was charged in connection with a fatal and run its identity by saving the oldest municipal building accident in September in which res in the community and he suggested not only could dent James Cowan was killed Cowan police say the hall be saved but also be very functional for had stopped his motorcycle on shoulder of municipal offices even council meetings tyRoad27 whena Provincial grants made the town hall a good deal northbound truck left the road hitting the motor and when Acton was smaller people wanted cycle and killing Cowan Instantly The truck fled the the town hall saved Tyler said if he wanted to he scene Beardmore waste runoff study is complete MOE A consultant has completed over six months of study of the environmental Impact of chemical waste disposal runoffs at both on and off the tannery property The Ontario Ministry of the Environment directed the tannery to undertake the study last May and spokesman for the ministry John Buck said the consultant probe has been completed and should be in the hands of the province by the end of this year After receiving the report the ministry will review the test results and other findings before go ing back to the firm to discuss any possible action said samples were taken to determine the extent if any of contamination It la difficult to contemplate what action might be directed to take Bald until the study Is thoroughly examined was one of Industrial waste disposal sites identified as having chemical waste runoff problems by a consultant for the province who studied Ontario potential problem sites In Following a series of meetings with ministry of ficials agreed to undertake the study in the spring Blood clinic today Don forget to help save a life this Christmas season by donating some blood at today Tues day Acton Red Extro blood is always needed during the festive season because there arc so many accidents Tht clinic runBfrom5lo8 at the Acton Legion Even babies like Rachel Andrews love Santa Bob Andrews and his daughter were the first to visit with Santa Sunday afternoon at the Acton Legion children Christmas parly Mary and the clowns helped Santa with hit chore