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GoorgetownActon Wednesday Jan 18 TELEPHONE Buimen and Editorial Office Founded in 1875 Pubfashed every Wednesday by si WiDciw Street Ontario Telephone Single copes 17 CCperyoer Canada in countries other than Canada Second class mad registration Number Ken Bellamy Don Ryder Hartley Coles Director of Advertising Managing Editor The Acton Free a one of the group of suburban newspapers which includes The Aurora Banner Pickering News Advertiser Tha Entsrprae The Guardian The Burlington Pom The Burlington Weekend Post The Etobeotui Advertiser Guardian The Georgetown Independent Economal Sun The Milton Champion The The Era The North York Minor Beaver Friday Beaver Tha Week This Weekend Richmond limal Thomhill Liberal The Scarborough Mnor The Tribune and Wood Liberal Proitmo Publishing Distributing a division of Harlequin Enterprises Ljrnited EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Edttor Murrey Newt Editor Helen Murray Sports Mark Holmes Darkroom Nancy ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Retail Advertising Manager Cook Sale Kirk Davy Susan Sandra Classified Advertising Carolyn BUSINESSACCOUNTING OFFICE Of flea Manager Jean Shews Decade of Town region nothing to celebrate is a year to celebrate Celebrate the anniversary of the settle ment of Ontario Celebrate Acton s 110th birthday Down the road people can celebrate Georgetown We hope though that no politicians get too earned away with celebrating and extend the joyous mood to marking 10 years of Halton region and Halton Hills The notion of commemorating a decade of regional government was bandied about at the region last year and the idea could raise its ugly head again Darn few citizens of not just those of Acton will feel much like celebrating 10 years of a government which is no closer to solving its garbage problems on a permanent basis now than it was at its birth or a gov which gave us a 1 million deficit The building of the green ster is nothing to celebrate either In fairness the region t been all bad to Acton We have received quite a bit of water and sewer work and help from the south in paying the cost of the system through equalized billing If people think watersewer bills are high now they d have been even higher without equalized water and sewer billing But this and the few other benefits we ve received from regional government in exchange for the dollars weve put into it is hardly worth the frustration and aggrevation its caused this community Halton Hills is another matter It hasn been as re mote and unfeeling towards Acton on balance and there have been financial benefits too But there are still times when even if all of Acton councillors are behind something they can come out on the short end of the stick and that s not something many here would feel is worth celebrating Taxes have gone sky high since regional government and while it s fair to say the school boards and Queens Park with its continual cuts in grants for education and municipalities have done more than their share to push those taxes up it still arguable whether or not they d have gone as high without regional govern ment Certainly the school boards and Queens Park had nothing to do with the region deficit we all had to help remedy Acton gave regional government a pretty rough ride the first few years and then seemed to swallow the bitter pill and try to make the best of it in the late 70s and early 80s However in the past year or so the fires of region and anti Halton Hills feel have become as hot and bright as they ever were 1984 isnt a year to ate a decade of this system so many detest its a year to hope the people at Queens Park and the two local levels of government work hard to see what can be done to make it more palatable and for the rest of us to hope it eventually gets better G Our readers write Most councillors are negative to nuclear weapons free zone Dear Sir HAND the Hills anti nuclear group met Monday even at Trinity United Church Acton In the future regular meetings will be on the third Tuesday of each month alternating between Acton and Georgetown The group finalized its Guide lines a statement of aims and procedures There was discussion about pursuing with the local council the idea of declaring Hills a Nuclear Weapons Fret Zone and having a public debate on the issue A preliminary lobby revealed that at this lime most of them Miller Ross Dave Promotions Regional Police have released the following list or transfers and promotions- Const Ken Cormier promoted Sergeant and transferred District 1 Milton George town and Acton to District uniform Const Jim Drain an promoted to Sergeant and transferred to District 1 District Sergeant Peter Whit Inker transferred from District to District I Cont McLaughlin transferred from District to District Burling ton Sgt Al McQueen from public relations to District 1 uniform Const Bill Gall promoted to sergeant and transferred to public relations SiaffSergeanl Graham from District 1 CIS to InteUlg ence StaffSergeant Roy Smith from District I uniform to District 1 C1B StaffSergeant Roy league transferred from to District 1 uniform and Const Danny Fair transferred from District CIS Whiting were negative to the idea and only Sheldon would read positively It was decided that public awareness about all the implications of the nuclear war threat would need to be raised as a first priority before resuming the Nuclear Weapons Free Zone question HAND will its education focus and build up the resources literature speakers and materials that would be required in mounting a public awareness program The next meeting will be in Georgetown at St John United Church Tuesday February al The public is Invited to sec an AV audio video presentation and participate In discussion El don Comfort MUST lTHB Back issues From the editor s Ottawa mayor has way out of region Someone has actually come up with a solution to this mess called regional government which would get all of us in Ontario out or it and bring back lock It no secret that Acton and In fact the only hotbeds of discontent over this system Queen Park dreamed up and then forced on people I read in the dailies of complaints from and regular people in gar a Hamilton Went worth and Durham I never knew the good folks of one of the earl lest regions were unhappy until just a few weeks ago Marion Dewar mayor of the capital city went to the Royal Commission on the Economy that travelling show that former finance minister Donald McDonald runs for or so a day with a revolutionary idea She urged Canada be expanded from provinces and two tenit ones to to or more provinces Her Idea makes sense One of the major reasons the province created regions was to do part of their job so we wouldn t need regions If the provinces were Just smaller It was reported felt If there were more and smaller provinces then authority for local decisions could be returned to local governments Under her proposal big centres like Ottawa or Burlington would be back on own just as Acton and Georgetown would again be separate municipal governments and not Just com welded together Into a larger political unit The report on Idea say it but I imagine with Ontario divided up into smaller provinces we might not even need county government either Her proposal which was given just a short mention In one of the papers Helen threw it out before I could clip It out so I going on memory would see Northern which she felt relates at lot more with Manitoba than we southerners anyway become a separate province Then southern Ontario would be broken up into several smaller provinces centred around a regional government or several re gions The article didn t explain what dividing boundaries had In mind so I ve decided to come up with a few of my own Let s start by saying there will be six new provinces made out of southern Ontario Eastern Ontario from Trenton north to Pembroke and east to the Quebec border would be one province The capita should be Kingston Ottawa would be the logical choice but no city should be Inflicted with two sets of politicians and bureauc rates especially one as lovely as Ottawa Province number two Well let s it a big chunk of West em Ontario The eastern boundary will run from Port on Lake Erie north to Owen Sound and the Bruce The western boundary will be water Chatham kind of in the middle between London and Wind so It can be the seat of govern The third province will be the new northern Ontario with kind of an all over the place boundary On the east and west the boundaries will be the previously mentioned pair of new provinces The southern boundary of province three will run on an upturning line west from roughly Arthur to say The border would be just south of North Bay and bury la a nice spot and located about the middle bo it can be Province four will have Lake Ontario as a southern boundary eastern Ontario on the east new northern Ontario on the north and Etobicoke north to Caledon East as a western boundary Since there s already lots or buildingB there this province can make its at Queen Park In Toronto Peel Niagara and Hamilton Wentwortb can form the fifth province Well put the capital In youll see why later on The sixth province will be what left over and Norfolk Brant Waterloo and parts of Wellington County including Guelph Well make Kitchener the capital there If you need a clearer explanation of the new boundaries see the map I doctored up below this Is the famous Ontario roadmap which t show Acton but shows Hal ton Hills and Its capital Ottawa Mayor Marlon wants to see mora provinces En Canada and no regions Free Press fee took pout of ban look Georgetown You notice used a solid line with dots on it for the boundaries Vou 11 also notice there a little gaps between the boundary lines This is to make the two boundaries a little more visible on the road map My original thought was these gap areas could be divided between the two new provinces but what the heck well leave them out of both and make them federally controlled areas That ought to keep them busy in Ottawa for a while If they don botch them up then maybe well find wc don t need provinces at all just the federal government and local governments But then who will Ottawa have confrontations with Now well have a little fun Let a give these provinces names now As well welt take a brief look at wholl be running these new empires Well give some names after some famous politico from that area or a geographic label Well also assume there will be a similar political breakdown as there Is now in Ontario Four provinces will be Tory one Liberal and one a Tory Liberal coalition Province number one well name after Sir John A and It pretty staunch Tory so itll stay that way with Premier Claud Bennett at the helm Michael Cass In leader of the Opposition and the Liberal are In shambles Just like they are in Ottawa today named after the late Premier David Peterson of the Grits is still Opposition leader but now to premier Chatham own With the capital of province number three what other name can there be but Muskoka and Frank Miller finally pre when he not going through the Globe garbage Province four well name Queen Park and let Larry Gross man take care of the urban areas and Dennis oversee the rural areas sort of Copremiers Province six I going to name Rosenberg after that famous Kit chener mayor who ran for the PC s lost and then made a letter public from Bill Davis showing he d been promised a government Job even if he couldn deliver the seat Thisareahaslongbeenapro vincifll Grit stronghold so well allow James Breithupt to occupy the premier s chair The fifth province the one Actons in well call Halton Hills so that grand name disappear except for a cemetery and a golf course will have a coalition government with Libera Reed and Tory Peter sharing power Now you see why the capital must be Let net forget Betty Fitter she can be minister of finance like her John was ttH be great for good old Acton province will finally know for sure where we are and they have a tough leaving us off the map again Of course have bigger type then since be the capo not years ago January 1974 Mrs Patricia Ann of I Hoc wood received a police com after a nightmare rescue Mrs was credited with saving the life of a 13 yearold Winnipeg boy after his arm was sev by an extractor in a loundro mat Mrs Woloshyn helped slow the boy blood flow through his wound and later the severed arm was reattached at the Winnipeg Hospital All building permit renewal submitted to Halton Hills Douglas Sargent will at least for a while be referred to council Another brief has been submitted to the Solandt Commission objecting to the proposed hydro line route township along the Fifth Line Things wil work themselves out promises when ask about changes due to the and Georgetown work forces years ago January 16 1964 In a three way contest Cou Council chose Burlington Reeve Gordon Gallagher as its 1964 War A year old Polish woman presently living in the Russian Ukraine will soon be reunited with her husband and daughter In Acton after years Peter last paw his wife 35 years ago before he came to Canada Twenty years Inter he saw one of his three Emilia when she arrived in Canada with her husband Under the direction of Dan O Moara field supervisor of the Ontario Credit Union League Acton Community Credit Union held final meeting before opening for business In the old Post Office on Main St Trustee Douglas Manning was chosen to head the Acton Public School board when members met for the inaugural meeting He succeeds veteran member Tom Watson who retired at the end of last year following a 14 year stint on the board 50 years ago January II 1934 The ice harvesting is making a busy scene at Corporation Pond Mr Evanshas adapt machinery to the culling and loading operations that have speedy up the output and cut down on manual labor A power saw and a new loading device are very In their operation The meeting of the Public Utilities Commission was held and Mr King the elected member of the Commission took the declaration of On Saturday some young boys purchased some licorice sticks and were eating them while running down the street Herbic Cook one of the lads had two pieces of the hard substance lodge In his throat and most choked to death He fell on the sidewalk and was unable to explain his plight to his companions The boys Immediately summoned medical aid and the doctor was able to dislodge the pieces or licorice the boy s throat 75 years ago January The Club House at Acton Aquatic Club was formally opened Thursday evening The President Mr A welcomed the guests to the well appointed quarters At nine clock the company sat down to din ner The premises include a com club room with furnishings a boat house with accommodation for ten boats a bathing room and a delightful balcony overhanging the pellucid waters of Fairy Lake Mr said that the club brings young men together and assists them to be mutually helpful Too much professionalism In sport is and to be deplored The true British spirit should be Inculcated whereby all sports ore conducted in a fair manner Rev Barker pointed out the club stands for manly men and clean manly companionship 100 years ago January ISM Bread has been reduced to cent a loaf A good oldfashioned January thaw would be acceptable as water Is very scarce and a number of welly In town are dry Messrs and A McDonald of the Fourth Line brought to market two pigs both having five toes on their front feet