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Ring out sing out happy wishes for a bright New Year May the comfort and toy of the holidays hue in our hearts through season May peace and brotherly prevail families and among all mankind Ring in 1984 at town hail Saturday night The nearly refurbished town hall will be the scene this Saturday night for a public function for the first time in many many At midnight Citizen of the Year Ted Tyler in the New Year using the town hall bell which was put back up in the tower Just last week The celebration complete with free hot chocolate or all citizens who go downtown for the bell ringing and the release of helium Tilled balloons is being sponsored by Hills and its Ontario Bicentennial comittee ISM marks the year of the settlement of Ontario The bell ringing hot chocolate serving and release of the balloons ceremony will also be staged at the same time in George- Chairman of the Bicentennial Councillor John McDonald said the fun gets underway at and this will be an opportunity for groups of people to take time out from their parties ana for families to br ing in the New Year together with their friends and neighbors The Is planning other fun and celebratlom during 19H The year also marks Actons no birthday and Georgetowns anniversary AELePAGE REA ESTATE 170 GUELPH STREET GEORGETOWN GEORGETOWN TRUCKS 8770149 One Hundred and Ninth Year Issue ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 28 Pages Thirty Cents Conflicting opinions Is Actons snow service as good as Georgetowns Is Acton receiving adequate snow plowing and snow removal service Is Georgetown receiving better service that Acton Winter Is just barely underway and there only been two major storms so far but already those two long debated tfons arc being raised again and there con dieting opinions Councillor Rick says he has received a number of complaints from business people and residents already and has started investigating the situation However Councillors Dave Whiting and Ross say they haven t heard com ntalnts and defended the service Acton has receiving Even board members haven formed a unanimous opinion Chairman Ed Wood is more concerned with the fact some mer chants and downtown residents t cleaning their sidewalks than he is about municipal removal service A board member Beryl Bennett thinks the Town service a lot to be desired while another board member Larry Greaves feels it could be belter but acknowledges the municipality have more important snow removal chores to perform than down town Acton streets Staff of this newspaper has also been hearing complaints from readers about now plowing and snow removal including complaints from two Ac tomans who must remain nameless because of connections with Halton Hills who are in Georgetown on a regular basis and reported that after the first winter storm Georgetown s downtown was cleaned up within a couple of days while downtown Acton was left a mess Within a couple of days of the storm last week municipal works crews had removed snow banks from downtown Acton Bonnette said after hearing complaints he contacted engineer Robert Austin and was told there was some snow removal done on Maple Ave in Georgetown in downtown Georgetown and in the area of the white bridge In Georgetown after the first storm However said he was told nothing substantial was done In addition he was informed that some snow removal was paid for by the region and the Town has overspent Its snow budget despite the fact last winter was pretty tame Judgment call While the Town has a snow maintenance policy Bonnette said he was told by the engineer that what snow removal work is done is a strict judgment call on the part of staff He has pledged to pursue this matter fur adding he doesnt like hearing there was a preference for downtown George town after the first storm If work can be done In both areas at the same time after every storm then Bonnette thinks Acton should be done first one time and Georgetown the next time Bonnette said he 11 be keeping a close eye Coa tinned on page 10 Joyce Sprowle and Captain Wilson of the Salvation Amy were busy last week pre paring Christmas hampers to go to the needy of Hills 85 needy families are given food hampers Between and Christmas hampers were delivered to needy families last week thanks to members of the Lakeside chapter of the the Salvation Army and the Acton Rotary Club Captain Wilson Perrin of the Salvation Army estimates about worth of food and toys were distributed to Hills residents who otherwise faced a bleak Christmas The Army donated S3 500 worth of food and he says another was through cash donations Salvation Army members and members gathered the goods and put them in household boxes with the amount depending on the size of the family Rotarians made most of the actual deliver ies Captain says each hamper was worth more than ISO and where possible Included toys for children Those wishing one were given a Christmas turkey also and most received bread and other staples Peace Camp hearing is January 10 Halton Hills council authorized staff to testify against International Puce Camp IPC at a hearing early next year IPC has appealed the rejection of Its pro for a major ethnic culturalrecreation centre south of for a hearing Niagara Escarpment NEC turned down the IPC project to be built on the old Twin Lakes properly In November The hearing will be held starting it on January at town hall NEC cited strong objections from Halton Hills and Milton councils the primary reason for rejecting the IPC plan add municipal stiffs filed lengthy reports The Ministry of Natural Resources and Halton Region Conservation Authority expressed concerns The regions Environ mental and Ecological Assessment Com urged a full environmental Impact study and the regions health department also expressed concerns IPC plans a central activity area day use area sports and play area a demonstration farm weekend tent camping area main tenance area pit privies barbecues roads water supply system picnic areas etc on its acre property IPC has been hot water with NEC as well as Milton and Halton Hills several times for blocking roads starting fires building new roads and other aspects of their development without permits Special steps taken to help Actons swans Special efforts were made by town staff councillors and even some citizens to keep a bit of water open at Fairy Lake so the swans could survive this extremely cold weekend Councillor Rlek announced Tuesday morning that a bubbler compres was being installed Tuesday morning to keep an area of water behind the poultry A small machine was used Thursday for six hours to open up water and then removed and returned to the works department Bonnette said he hasnt been able to learn why the machine was removed Christmas babies A couple are the proud parents of this area Christmas baby Sheri McPherson wife of Craig gave birth to a baby boy at a m Christmas morning at General Hospital Ten minutes short of hours later a former Acton resident became the father of baby girl in Royal Victoria Hospital Kevin Marcoux son of Fran and Jean and his wife Susan became at a m December Over the weekend he and Esther Taylor and some other citizens went over to the swans area several times to break up the Ice Mayor Miller was called to the scene Monday to see the problem and he returned again on Tuesday morning Wor ried citizens called both Bonnette and Miller at home about the problem over the long weekend On Monday afternoon after being called a crew of Town workers promptly arrived on the scene and broke open a large area of Ice for the birds and thankfully the swans which cant fly south because their wings are clipped in accordance with federal regulations survived another extremely cold night Last year action was taken to keep the swans In open water after Bonnette raised the matter at council to choruses of laughter When the Jokes died down Mayor Peter and council directed director Tom Shepard to come up with a permanent solution to the annual bird dilemma before this winter Bonnette said the problem this winter has been mat a proper compressor ordered from the United States hasnt arrived yet However considering be started asking about what was going to be done with the swans this winter back in October he said he Is disappointed that in the past year Shepard t done more to ensure the problem would be solved Its wrong that again things were left late The use of the Improper but adequate compressor for a time until the proper one arrives puts the swans care back on the right track at least we better be Bon nette declared Bonnette noted when he and others went out Christmas Day to break up Ice there wasn enough room remaining in the open water for all the swans some were on the shore and vulnerable to attacks by other animals Inside The Halloa Hills parking has roUed and the Town will assume IU role See story on page 3 The Judge has now viewed video from and H Video aw the trial be month Todays paper contains a feature on Larry Davidson of Corner Story sad on A local nan has made a name for himself Bitching semipro softball la the Seesportsoa page II BUI on pageBt Ha Hon police may have wa crime flap pers TV cod dab Sec News makers Sale uses computers to teach music A local music teacher has devised a Unique way to teach his students theory and composition with the use of modern tech oology Dave Sale a year teaching veteran at the Acton High School has been program computers to aid music students to Understand music and to help them According to Sale the students spend five to fifteen per cent of their classroom time using the computers while the remaining time Is taken up with practice and actual teacher student relation The computer have the advantage of Sale and the kids arent as intimidated by a machine as they would be by a teacher Salt started combining music and com- four years ago and since has devised programs some of which have been marketed lor aale I think the use of computers as a teach aid is an extremely valuable tool re marked Sale When a student wants to compose a piece of music a computer pro gram will set up a bass and treble and allow him to place notes In a can change the Information Into the pupil can bear whether or not the com position will work Sale continued when a student needs to learn musk theory the computer programs win teach the basks Just as as Its human counterpart Not only does Sale teach music to also runs a computer lab and the band The lab la basidy a for students from and who a to gam mora knowledge on subject fan they would formal time takes up a great deal of time Right now we are preparing for several Christmas concerts and this sprint we have a major musical production called Crease Sale Is no stranger to the music business received his B A from University of Toronto majoring In musk Sale says bis favorite Instr Is oboe and be played far a time with several prominent orchestras Including tbe Kit chenerWaterloo Symphony Sale is also Involved wtob a quartet playing at am churches and parties class ical mask that he to be a challenging and satisfying form of music I also worked far the Husk Centra supervising the musk Salt particularly blasting teaching and the band but be advent of faster and better computers he Job found