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HERALD Features TtlE HERALD Jsniury 1884 Pages Battery stolen A Ford left out end from an front with a For Sale Georgetown property sign had Its The battery in valued at removed over the week The Nona four mill sends chain saw safety through the mail GOHD BROWNE flour mill suffered through fire Hurricane Hazel CHRIS AAGAARD Herald Staff Writer With so many people caught up In the back to nature and do It yourself lifestyles are taking their place In the farm and residential garden Inventory next to hoes and rakes But Is being left behind In he sawdust often from lack of outlets In southern Ontario where chalnsaw equipment is sold Realizing that market gap for such timely and necessary equipment an Acton couple has built a grow ng mall order business dlspat chlng head lotoc pro tection for wise and wary woodcutters David and Wendy Daulovlch were green horns In the mall order business when they went into it three years ago with their company of Hal ton Inc OWN EXPERIENCE Mr was clearing trees around thcirhome While stepp ing over a fence to approach a tree from another angle his bounced off the fence and the blade sheared Into his pant leg He was lucky The blade ruined his pants but barely missed his leg Half an inch more and I could have been seriously Mr said The incident set the on a search for safety equipment Local hardware outlets t have what they wanted and suppliers were looking for Continued on page A10 REGISTER TODAYI- Classes In KNITTING CROCHETING SMOCKING Resistor In person please at SQUARE OH Mountalnvlow Rood Georgetown 877 1521 Herald Staff Writer Bakeries all over Canada knew where the village of Nerval was back In the It was where he flour that made their breads and pastries was milled A booming spat In the 1800b had hotels Including the present day Hollywood Tavern a woolen mill a knitting mill a broom factory a for making barrels a buggy shop and count less blacksmiths Prior to the days of railroads was often a stopover for travellers heading west For farmers who grew grain was the spot to bring their wheat and barley for milling In the area where Highway and Winston Churchill Boulevard now intersect Robert Noble the greatgreat grandfather of MPP Julian Reed tedamill It considered a fair stud mill when By today standards it would be considered little Gord Browne of said Mr Browne grand father owned the mill at one time and 11 passed to grandson Cord when his father died May Cleave retired and living in Brampton now used to farm near and remembers her husband going to the mill with his groin I seen lines of horses and wagons delivering wheat Mrs Cleavesald Weallhad a field of wheat and we come there to chop it HITCHING RIDES lifelong real dent Dorothy McLean remembers hitching rides to the mill with the farmers who would then come to her dad Robert Watson a sweet smell log bake shop for fresh how terrible it that they do some thing to stop It said Born in Norval Mary Cooper Maxwell can remember the fire that took the mill It Jit the whole countryside here If you ve ever burnt a pot of porridge that s what the whole area smelled like for weeks and weeks she said The smoke was still coming out from the heart of the mill even on Easter Sunday People driving through Norvnl in the middle of the night REFLECTIONS jsf A series of historical articles on heritage A bread It was a very shlng business she Robert Nobles mill was fed by the power of tbeCreditRlverandthe oxen that were harness- For the animals there was a to the mill Built by contractors Lairds and Grains the mill used to make wheat pastry and bard wheat bread flours Locally grown wheat was suitable for pastry flour and teams of hors es would come to hauling grain Business thrived and the original small mill- was enlarged In those days farmers bargain for the mills ser vices using the old barter system In Colonel Alec Noble the son of Robert Noble built the Credit River dam which still stands today From the Noble family the mill passed to another family In 1D13 until Gord Browne grandfather Browne took it over in 1M1 However a fire Jan 30 1030 slowed down the milling operation Although the cause of the ffre was never determined my father always said It was spon taneous combustion Mr Browne said Full of grain the mill burnt for months and months It was a fierce fierce fire it was Mrs McLean said The heat from the fire melted the snow on the roofs In the centre of the village I remember thinking would ring the alarm ire and it was just the wheal that smouldering- away and had been Tor weeks Mrs McLean said Mr Browne remem his dad broke a window and went into the burning building with townsperson John ny Shephard to get the books The mill was full of wheat at the time of the fire and the senior Mr Browne wanted to be able to show farmers they d already been paid The senior Mr Browne lost a lot of blood and was unconscl for a time after UPSET My dad was upset i regional pol locker had been forced Considering request for drunk driving committee Snowmobile stolen A 1961 Arctic Cat snowmobile worth M stolen from an Acton residence on Willow Street North sometime between 30 and a Saturday The snowmobile had been out at the rear of the home regional police have since recovered the vehicle and are Investigating its disappearance Tape deck stolen An AM cassette stereo valued at was taken from a 1979 AMC Hornet parked in a driveway on Acton Main Street North Thursday to Friday It believed a coot hanger was used to unlock the door regional police said Jacket striped A Georgetown District High School student was 11 left in the cold when he found his too bom ber style jacket his locker Friday regional police reported the lock on the region Is con sidering a request from provincial attorney general Roy establish a drunk driving committee In a letter to Ontario municipal councils Mr commented While our courts can play a punitive role our mint be In the preventative rale experts and citizens alike as so necessary The attorney general added that Individu al committees would work with the ministry a own newlyestablished DrinkingDrivlng Couotermeuurea Unit Councillors last week agreed to circulate the letter to local the Halton Commission and the Halton Safety Coun cil They want comments from the groups on whether wants Its own committee to curb drunk driving whether it should be set up at the local or regional lev1 and from where the committees membership would be drawn Refused to leave An Edith Street worn an who refused to leave the taxi stand on Georgetown a Mill Street was charge v being intoxicated In a public place Saturday at nm BUSINESS DIRECTORY R E Limited Surveyors Cortaufflng Siitll tin Or Robert R Hamilton OPTOMETHISf ISMetinulmtowM 8773971 because there wasn t enough insurance to pay for the mill and alt wheat In it Mr Browne said By the time everyone was paid off there wasn t enough money left over to pay for the erection of mill able In size he said There was only enough money left to put up a mill for specialty dla static flours and Carmcl Malt The Canadian Malting Company of Toronto used to buy from them Although he large mill was lost the grist mill was saved and operated until IBM when Hurricane Hazel took a chunk out of It and washed the waves of the Credit River into it Mr Browne has fond memories of the mill and even when he Joined the army at IB although he was exempt as were all farmers and millers Mr Browne look with him a picture of the mill as It once stood He still has the pic- album a little worn at the edges his wall he has a ilntingortbemillbya local artist LEARN TO DRIVE THIS WINTER EVENING COURSE WEDNESDAYS THURSDAYS STARTING FEB 884 In spec la boots pants gloves and helmet David Daulovlch Is ready to use a safely The Acton man and his wife Wendy own a order business dealing In chains safety equipment DO YOU HAVE A NEWS TIP- CALL OUR STAFF AT SMI 8770751 16M0UNTAINVIEWRDS GEORGETOWN OVER 150000 GRADUATES RECOMMEND Young Drivers of Canada CHURCH fliaaHiili 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