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The Free Press Wednesday Feb 24 Acton and Ediiom Oil awry mull Lid at 1519 Sutnciip ni n The Pruning L a accptJ on ha ion in the of by Picket let Ann portion the by Banner Newmarket J Weekend Edi on The aflowanca lot not be charged but balance of he I b The on Poll The Weekend Post The paid Id at ate In the event a error edvenimB goodi Etobicoke Guardian The Coniumei The George own depended r vice at a wrong price a may be told an and Sun The Champion The Now to sell and may be w awn any tune The Weekend Ed on The North York Conjume The Ma or Beave Ko Tha Week Oihaw Weekend Peel Contumer The Richmond Lit The Sea Comumer Sea borough or The ibune The fa f Second dan mail bob Number EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Cod Murray Editor Helen ay Sport Dan Darkroom Pale Mils ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Manager Bill Coo BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE Office Manager Rhone That hill CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Manager Mary is Acton in Haton riding Otto Jelinek doesnt act like he thinks it is Is Acton part of the federal riding of Halton By the way our MP Tory Ot to acts sometimes it is hard to believe he thinks we re part of his constituency Tomorrow night will hold a public forum for Acton and Milton in Milton As if that bad enough holding a meeting for miles down the road he has failed to set a date for a visit to the ward one dropin despite several invitations and his pledge to this newspaper he come to town Terry has contacted his office twice providing dates of dropin sessions and was told he confirm a date for January or February Naturally our local politicians aren pleased that after not hearing an answer back they now discover Jelinek is holding an Acton forum in Milton Jelinek told this newspaper the reason the Acton forum isn being held here is because attendance has been very poor in the past He says he be in town to talk to everyone at the fall fair seven months away We certainly don want to be listening to a politician at the best small town fair in Ontario and doubt any other fair goers will want to either We agree attendance at last year forum t exactly overwhelming but then he picked a night when local members of his own party were busy selecting a provincial election candidate Also we question what kind of a crowd he expects a dozen or so people should be ample to warrant his coming to town Considering the weather this winter we think he taking a real chance expecting people from here to travel to Milton to listen to him As for the council dropin his office told the councillors he d come and he personally told this newspaper he come When are you coming Otto And if you ever do show up what kind of a crowd are you expecting of the other local heavy weights have shown up Jack and Julian Reed drew a dozen or so people max and been quite pleased They ve also felt the afternoon was well worth the effort even though they speaking to a huge crowd and asked to come back When the councillors heard a while ago through the grapevine that Jelinek was planning an evening forum they assumed it would be in Acton and were hoping to get his permission to hold an evening dropin session then too Then they heard his forum was in Milton and junked that idea In the past there has been grumbling from organizers of some community events here about our MP not attending Considering he also represents larger Milton and much much larger Oakville his not showing up for every Acton event is understandable However we firmly believe he should be more visible here than he has been except during elections and when he s passing around petitions In fairness we give Otto full marks for being here for Back to Acton Days and the Citizen of the Year banquet last summer People remember see ing him around town that much since the last election At the Citizen of the Year din Otto took a lot of good natured kidding from the other politicians in attendance about his infrequent visits to town What he doesn seem to have understood was that the jokes had their basis in some truth If you want to hear the voice of Acton even if it is just a small voice then come to Acton Otto don t expect Acton to go down the road to you Our readers write Fans should be ashamed Sabre supporter says Dear Fellow Fans Last night in Sabres Oakville Tuesday February IB I was ashamed to be called a hockey fan have been associated with hockey for over 10 years and the last three years the club Acton Jr Sabres I have seen a lot of hockey games in nearly every arena in this area I have traveled with my son team to more games than I can ever remember but in all lhat lime I have never witnessed such a demonstration of poor sport smanship rudeness bad language and utter disrespect for fellow human beings If you area true fan then you are here to cheer team on not to bad mouth platers or other fans My husband and I have run the booster club for the benefit of the team and have had many enjoyable nights but what happened on Saturday Feburary 13 was to say Ihe least very disappointing and 1 presume this feeling was carried over to the There are a lot of very good athletes playing hockey for our team they be ashamed of their game or their conduct but there sure are a lot of fans that should be ashamed to even come to another game because our boys on the team need support not poor sportsmanship from the fans Patricia Kir ton Mother fanandExecutlve Reader expresses concern for group home youths Dear Sir I am writing to the people that are thinking about writing off the and G farm house for violent prone kids and yes to the public too People are thinking about shutting the doors in these kids faces and sen ding them to the streets I think in my estimation are sent these kids to a life of what even a mad man isn t even fit for You are sending the anger their pain and most of all the untold horror that is inside of them to the Stop for one moment and think what if someone abandons Sheila Bell what do you think she would do I think her own instinct would lead her to violence And Brad General he is already angry and on the run what length will he go to survKe theft stealing or maybe murder Well the- before you sentence these kids I ask one simple question Is this the systems of justice or injustice Rocky Bartholomew Mill Street East Acton On the Its Scout and Guide week and this week Real Estate Business in Kills and Area tabloid section of the Free Press contains a story on the founder of Ihe movement Baden Powell This section also features a few other stories of local interest Since the Free Press introduced this section a few weeks ago there has been some con ion in the minds of readers regarding how they receive it Every Tuesday afternoon Free Press carriers deliver this section as well as grocery store and other advertising flyers to each and every home in urban Acton For various distribution reasons this section Is not being included in the Wed nesday Free Press copies sold in stores or which people receive from their carrier If you live in urban Acton and do Tuesdays or the grocery store flyers please call the Free Press at 2010 and they be delivered or a copy can be picked up at the Free Press office Readers who live in the rural area and receive their Free Press through the mail or buy it in rural stores will find the Real Estate section inserted in the regular Wednesday edition of the paper For any rural readers who buy their copy of the Free Press in a store in Acton they won t receive this section In their paper but can pick one up at the Free Press office And speaking of Ihe Free Press Ihe Ontario Community Newspaper Assoc la lion Just pointed out to us some thing which may save our readers a lot of money Subscribers who head south for the winter or any other place can receive the Free Press Tor just an additional charge to the post office rather than paying for an out of country subscription rate The memo from C Lydan executive director of the OCNA says Were you aware hat any subscriber can lodge a change of address with his local post office at the cost of which will allow for an automatic transfer of his mail from Canada to Florida or whereever he is for an extended vacation This would mean that your subscribers who go south for three months do not have to pay more on their subscriptions but simply pay the to the post office for foxwarding A former Acton girl has been crowned Coldwater Winter Carnival Queen Tammy Gould daughter of Richard and Cheryl Gould 2 Coldwater and granddaughter of Bert and Eileen Gould Rockwood and Herb and Gladys Price received the honor during the week end of January and Tammy is 17 yean old and attends Parkway OrllUa High School She at tended Robert Little School while In Acton Former Free Press staffer and nist Jennifer Barr reports she fa doing extremely well in her real estate course and is looking forward to the working world of selling homes Are there any former Sarnians out there reading my words of wisdom A Sarnian la a person who lives in Sarnla or used to Well if you are and I know there are at least two In town the City of Sarnla is having its 125th anniversary this year and the mayor and council have appointed a committee of interested citizens to encourage and assist in co ordinating community wide events through the year The celebrations began on New Year Day and will continue unlil New Year Eve next December One of the events scheduled will be a Homecoming Week and that where I come In It is my duty to inform the Terry Grubbes and Sally Smiths former Sar nlans that from July to August l is homecoming week and you are expected to be there There will be a regatta on the St Clair River and a Garden Party to wind up the week Anyone Interested in further information of the anniversary committee My only address for her is City Hall Ontario errors on my part made when deciphering handwriting Everyone thinks their pen manship is readable Even I do and take my Mother word for it it is not So next time you are upset because a word has been changed in your copy any where in the Free Press not just on this page please understand We are not mind readers At least one contributor of stories to the Free Press has expressed concern over his work being edited Any and all work handed into the Free Press is subjected to editing either by myself as news editor or the editor Gord Murray or both It is checked for news paper style readability content spelling and grammar Some mistakes slip by us but we try out best to catch them all Anything that goes Into this column whether attributed or not is my ultimate responsibility If there is an error I am to blame whether someone else name is on it or not Therefore I cannot allow grammatical or spelling errors to dellber go by me in the interests of making something sound cute If I must change the lenses because they I must My journalistic training and instincts will not allow me to let them pass I also will not accept responsibility for I have seen people with confidence in my life but never as much as when talking to Brent a Toronto Argonaut fool ball player Brent and fellow Rusty Browne work in the off season and as much as they can during the season at the Care group home outside of Acton Brent and I were talking about football and his team Although months away from the start of the season Brent made a prediction lhat the would be in the playoffs next fall He doesn t think they will win the Grey Cup but already pencilled the team into the ploy by Mabel Bsrkman A Pot of Garden Salad This time of year I get the urge to grow green things In the house Some have died off and the pot with garden soil looks very bare The fastest growing useful plant I have found is pepper grass or cress I notice the stores are featuring their seeds now and you can buy a package My seeds were eft over from last Spring I take a fork and work up soil in the pot Then I scatter the seeds and barely cover them I water them well each day and keep them In a sunny window or under a bright light at night When the cress is about two inches high in about five days I snip it all off with the scissors wash in cold water and add to a lettuce and tomato salad It fun to cxper merit with different seeds and I m sure the children would enjoy it for a hobby Clergy Comment by Rev Ralph The prophet Joel speaks of The Day of the Lord What does this mean We hear it quite often but do we really know what means It would be a mistake to think that it refers to our own personal death and the life hereafter Our faith is something more than just waiting to die and pass from this life to the next St Paul in his second letter to the Corinthians says The Day of the Lord is now Now is the acceptable time now is the day of salvation Basically what Paul is saying is lhat the life we are now living must have some meaning to it I must be come Involved in this life so that the world In which I live is a little bit better because of my being here There should be because of my little bit more kindness a Utile bit more sensitivity and com passion a llllle bit more love in the people and situations I touch In order for this to happen we must first of all be reconciled as Paul states in his letter to the Corin thians We must ask forgiveness from God and His people We must be people who have asked for and received forgiveness before we can truly be forgiving people This is an Important goal we can use for Lent to break down and forgive will require what Joel calls rending the heart It means a drastic turn a tearing apart of what we want to holdonto ft Is necessary for us to do this throughout life if we want to turn our hearts to God again Or to put It in the words of Joel Return to me wilh your whole heart The Gospels have given us three traditional penances to practice to make our hearts belong to God We are called by Matthew Gospel to pray fast and give alms Each practice must be exercised in con junction with the other two The three can teach us many things Fasting can teach us discipline and self denial for God Giving alma can awaken us to God presence in all people especially the poor It can also make us thankful for the many blessings and luxuries we all share Prayer united with fasting and almsgiving allows us to keep firm purpose so that we are not doing these things solely for our own gain or our own rewards and accolades Return with your whole heart Rend your hearts Joel For now is the acceptable time Now is the day of salvation Paul Pray fast give alms Matthew This is our goal to be forgiven so we can forgive Back issues years ago Whither the new International airport According to the Toronto Star a con fidential Ontario government map pin points the location as immediately south of Claremont In Pickering township about 30 miles north east of the Toronto City Hall A full second floor on an east end plaza to be used as a medical centre was pro posed to planning board at their meeting In the council chambers last Thursday The medical centre would be located above the Queen St plaza where the Red and White Store was located formerly This area would become a branch of Acton Phar macy Officials of the Department of Municipal Affairs described predictions that Halton County would have regional government by 1973 as pure speculation It Is news to me Ron Furrow of the Department of Municipal Affairs told this newspaper Tuesday He said there was no legislation being prepared for either or Peel regarding regional government and he knew of no plans for preparation years ago February 1M2 Acton Firefighters Saturday evening completely fulfilled their pledge to the new Community Centre when a cheque for was handed over to Mayor John H Goy Retired bank manager William K Graham Knox Ave received a pleasant surprise Sunday afternoon when he was greeted by many friends and relatives on his birthday Donald began his duties Wed nesday morning as curator of the County Museum at Kelso Mr has been employed at Museum In the final ballot at Acton United Church Sunday morning the new name Trinity was preferred over the present name This was the third ballot of mem be re and adherents to determine the church a name 50 years ago February IB 1832 At a well attended meeting held last day in the Town Hall of the competitors and those interested in the Field Crop Competition of 1931 ten prizes were awarded as follows Leslie Pearen Acton Arthur Swackhamer Acton Robert Tuck Eden Mills Basil Johnston Acton George A Acton Robert Ken- Acton Brown Acton Arch McNabb HughM Acton Wallace Sw Acton The havoc wrought by the big ice storm early this year has brought home to many how essential the conveniences of every day life have become The rural telephone users who have been denied this service now fully appreciate what is in everyday life Mrs M Moore was a representative from Acton the Musical Festival committee meeting in Milton last week 75 years ago 1WT The Toronto Lime Co at has ordered a second gasoline engine from T J Speight Georgetown for rebuilt draw kilns near the station The engine house at The Dolly was destroyed by fire and engine will have to be rebuilt The switching off and on of all the tan nery lights from their own dynamo to the corporation wires night and morning when the tannery engine Is shut down is most trying to all lamps in use throughout town The voltage thus suddenly Increased is especially fatal to lamps The Fire and Light committee must make some dif ferenl arrangements The Georgetown Conservator has suspended publication It was established in 19Q2 by Charters of Ihe Brampton Conservator in the Interests of the Con party There was not room for two good newspapers In Georgetown 100 years ago February 18 About 3 clock on Monday morning our ell liens were aroused by the unwelcome alarm of fire The large frame building on Main Street known as the California was enveloped in flames In a very short time the residence of Mr Thomas Ebbage north and the stable and sheds south of the burning building were on fire Mr furniture was removed but the effects of Mrs Garvin were destroyed The house and shop across the street belonging to Mr Arch very narrowly escaped de struction and was only saved by the per sis tent efforts of a number of citizens The lawn of Mr C S Smith and the Public School grounds were covered in cinders The old hotel property destroyed was built about 35 years ago and la the last pile of old wooden buildings In the village and our little town la now devoid of the old rickety buildings many of which are so fre quently seen in small towns Every person in town Is talking about the necessity of organizing a fire company