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Georgetown Acton Wednesday May itage group is do indication of bow long In the doc the rwpopribtily lor meeting idai demand last and want erne from as bat fair ifaare fad is being asked to contribute more his areas fair aayi it Is essential to that extraction is carried out with social and environmental cost sets out who polices or deter- what minimum social and cost Queens Park says there ia a or policies and regulation will good operating for ptti ensvre and nation and procedures for new operations and expanding operations Jenkins said rant to see measures which will force to be carried out progres- aggregate Is removed not left a property mined out after SO Ontario government isnt experienced with people it should be the tpalily which establishes evaluation procedures governing aggre- says in some cases other such as agriculture should take lean over aggregates members policy indicate residences i alternative land use Matthew Williams and Davin Harris plant trees Saturday as part of lie Trees for Canada program with the help of John OUlvter from the HI Almost Scouts Cubs plant nearly 10000 trees Layman The eleventh Annual Trees For Canada planting day was held last Saturday April for North Halloa District Scouting Groups Close to White Pine Maple Cedar Spruce and White Spruce were planted at three different sites 1st planted 1 trees in their own area 1st Glen Williams planted TOO trees at the Meadow Glen Mushroom proper and Acton Georgetown and and Nerval groups planted at the McDonald property on the Line east and north of Ballinafad Boy Scouts of Canada having the largest Youth group in the world was a good Indica tion at the planting with several hundred boys along with their leaders and parents partidpaUiig Sandy Keir District Coram John Sharpies District Council president Gord Douglas and Mr Forestry Foreman were on hand at the McDonald property At the end of planting the boys enjoyed refreshments Stuarts WE GUARANTEE IT Drop me a line is neither an Old Home Week nor a Remembrance Day column It is merely a desperate attempt to catch op with my corresp triggered by a weeks holiday in which I at first tentatively then pawed through the unanswered letters on my desk Oh yes I have a secretary Butsbesnot worth a diddle Shes great on emptying ashtrays sorting my desk until I cant find anything and telling me 11 never be a writer until I learn to change a typewriter ribbon She also serves a great cup of tea when I am constipated and fending off phone calls when I sit before the in fernal machine in a catatonic state But she simply wont get down to It and write my column for me What the point of having a secretary if you have to do the dirty work yourself Especially when she practically a blood relative your wife Back to the letters We work from about now back through a year or two A letter from of Waln- wright Alta hit me where it hurts Hed read a column in which I referred to his brother Roman Chuck an old buddy Chuck is dead flew Into a hill down In Quebec in 1957 We planned in our young romanticism to go to Yucatan Mexico when we got out of prison camp Chuck was reckless and violent I could have predicted his end I was reminded of him when I read a dedication to a novel To the victims of the Great War among whoarethesurvivors One of his favorite sayings was If you sleep fast enough you can get five or six hours sleep in two hours says in understatement He was very restless on his return from over seasthere s no need to explain why you both were there and went thru it all Chuck had three wives and his brother says they Had a hard time catching up with him because My home is where I hang up my hat for a few moments Poor girls Poor Chuck Another old ghost turned up recently Don McCuaig former private in His Majesty s forces former newspaper editor the scourge of the upper Ottawa Valley For some reason this idiot and I have an affinity that transcends almost everything We can meet after ten years and thoroughly enjoy each other com Silly duffer is In France living in a village taking an immersion course in the language I can just hear that Ottawa Valley Irish coming through the French For example terrible In French it comes out Terreeb With a little gut In Ottawa Valley It comes out Turbul Here from Jack Hny River Yes Jack Im guilty I am the guy you worked with on the old anionic on the upper Great Lakes In 19373339 But I am no longer the you recall as A handsome and Intelligent young man from Perth Ontario by the name of Bill Smiley We were both stupid to be working for one dollar a day 12 hours a day 30 days a month And I am not hand- by Bill Smiley some merely distinguished You were the handsome one with your lean face blond hair Remember Peachy diving off the hurricane deck Remember Cant Bill Taylor flouncing around like a French gigolo wooing the lady passengers in an aura of sweat and booze He wound up as a bartender after the S S And another from Bob somewhere in Alio and warm letter of reminiscences and shared experiences And another from Mrs Jay Webster of Lake Francis Man which tells a lot about the state of Canadian publishing book selling and Winnipeg as a cultural centre Would enjoy reading the books mention Boys Bombs and Brussels Sprouts by Doug Harvey and Terror in the Starboard Seal by Daw Mcintosh After asking on the average of once a month in the Coles Book Stores in Winnipeg I was told it wasnt on the order form so be ordered Somebody must be failing In their Job if these books available west of Toronto Somebody is lady Canadian publishers notoriously timorous would rather spend money on public relations for their name than pushing books with merit but without a big name author Canadian booksellers are generally subsidiaries of American or British chains Most of them t name ten Canadian writers to save their souls In line that I recently received word via my principal that the school board wants me to write a rationale for two fine Canadian books put on my list Lives of Girls and Women by Alice and The Wars by Timothy Both of these hove been widely ac claimed Both are works of art Both were printed and written In Canada by Canadian writers And I must write rationale for their acceptance The Board have to write a rationale for questioning them I do for suggesting thorn So much for supporting Canadian writers More letters A card from my daughter almost three years old I was thinking of a lot as your birthday ap proached I love you a lot Always have Always will I have just begun to be aware of the things you have taught me strength vera nee tolerance and humor Thanks a lot baby Just went through the old cheques Sure enough And seven other letters 1 11 get at them during the summer holidays but dont let that stop you I need nourishment Drop me a line and let me know that my secretary Is not the only one who reads this column WEDTHURS nam- nun CANADIAN THEATRES A GEORGETOWN 3 CROSSWORD NAME ADDRESS Each wMk 3 correct annvtii aS win Maxtor 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