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Wednesday March Page 11 Gardening Pro Grinding up soil for gardeners JOLLY tit Manager Brian product I on dramatically and Is standing should be working by May You con still buy flour and wholesale within Ihc new mill the m The new store Is ill the Hour Milling at Mill St Mill Street Herald Writ In Acton The new mill will In photo In good or poor times Brians always in the dough One business a bad economy will never hurt is Acton Flour Milling When people get worse off they buy more bread and when things arc good they buy fancier baked goods We make flour for both kinds food said the owner of Flour Milling Brian In April the thriving flour mill will have an addition Its modern mill opens then which will increase produe four times it will produce 100 tons of flour a day The Acton mill has been producing flour for 151 years Brian Dolotowia a former flour mill manager from Montreal will stop that tradition soon He has owned the mill for IhrcQ years Not only will flour be produced but also a new line of products The mill already produces a variety of flours pastry cake all purpose wholewheat Mixes are newest products and the way of the future Mr Dolotowlcz said Soon the mill will be making mixes for cakes breads and other baked goods New technology helps Halton lour Milling to make this change Our computer system allows us to monitor quality and guarantee consistency Mr Dolotowlcz said There are only three other flour mills in Canada as advanced he said Keeping up with technology is a goal of the young staff at the mill Brian Is the oldest at His staff are upgrading their skills by taking courses in flour milling and baking Not that the staff will be baking in Acton but bakers are their best customers and all aspects of the must be understood for quality flour to be made Baking courses arc from the Canadian Baking Council and milling courses they take are ram the United States International trade is also port of the mill plan Today their market Is only in southern Ontario Russia Cuba and the Third World are In the mill future Mr said We have interest from abroad we just cant fulfill he said Local interest Is also present Mr Dolotowlcz explains it is the quality of the product and the that buyers arc seeking The mill is always sold out even though It operates seven days a week and hours a day Some of the mill customers Voorpman cookies in Burlington and Dare cookies They also deliver to many Italian and Portugese bakeries In Toronto We will run to Toronto with one bag of flour if a customer runs out Mr Dolotowlcz said That Is inequality service they are known for When the mill starts producing more flour there will be more runs and the Acton cartage company Cartage that makes deliveries will be flourishing with Ihc mill Acton Is a good place for the thriving flour mill Guelph Is the hub of Ontario and Acton Is not far away Mr explained Being near farmland is another asset of Halton Flour Milling he said When he new mill opens the staff will Increase from to Were ro going to make It Mr said Workers better educated for jobs says Census Popular belief has it that New foundlanders are Down the Road However many Canadians from other areas are at the same time moving Into Canada s newest province According to the 1381 CENSUS of Canada six per cent or about was the count for come from away residents and surprisingly out of all territories and provinces the ma came from Ontario Yes the beauty of the East Is still something to rant and roar about According to the 1981 CENSUS Canadian workers are better prepared than ever for the Job market Over the last decade Canadians have increased their level of education In fact one In three Canadians has attended a university a college or a technical institute In 1SS1 Statistics Canada in structed its Census enumerators to register people wherever met them whether on board ship in shanties public institutions or private houses During that Cen sus the second in Canada a history the enumerators registered a total of 324 peo ple One hundred years later the census enumerators registered almost times as many people some of them on modem ac commodatlons such as oil rigs The population of Canada cording to the CENSUS was 181 The CENSUS showed lhat Canada labour force increased per cent in the last decade and now exceeds 12 million people BARRY DT1MLECK Chartered Accountant CARRETAL BUILDING SUITE 16 Rd S GEORGETOWN A The Bennett Health Care Centre offering FINE RETIREMENT LIVING Choice of Private or SemiPrivate Accommodation Jn an attractive comfortable and secure environ ment specifically designed for your needs Service Includes full dining room service nursing assistance maid and laundry service a variety of planned activities use of all amenities including pool beauty shop gilt shop bar service The Bennett Health Care Centra A nonprofit foundation affiliated with trw District 1 Anna Drive Ontario L7Q 2B8 8770117 liy Herald Stair With all tlcwintersnow and ice it may seem a little early to be talking but that whit Hussein has been talking since January Mr I is the manager of Gardening Products a Nor val company on Highway near Mlssissauga Road Since January the company been busy mixing up potting soils for the spring and summer gardeners a full of lop soil from Last peatmoss and limestone These ingredients arc mixed toge ther then run through large machine colled a shredder The shredder takes out any stones and grinds Hie mixtuie from the shredder the polling soil goes into one of twobins where it gets packaged Into 10 iBor36 kilogram bags If nothing goes wrong we can fill bags in a day Mr said sales ore within Cana da and mostly to suburbs and o towns Because summertime is a really slow time for Hie business Maytimc prefers to temporary staff The have is employees We re located in the middle of nowhere t hard to gel them Ihe sold Wc put an at the employment for the last and a half and only tot one cation Currently the company has five employees working in the back and two off staff Its work schedule of three days a week boosted to in and May when two more staff are also red After slow summer ess a up timber Mr fraud said Owned by Allbhai and MohammLii the gardening company was bought In December 1980 when It was on the vere of bankruptcy Mr fraud said The owners arc originally from Zaire in Africa and operate businesses ir welt as the gardening supplies has expanded into a retail outlet for giftware and brass wore since September 1984 Originally beginning with import id I rass planters from India the company now imports other brass items like picture frames wood boxes screens house numbers mailboxes d door knockers new tor mugs are also sold as silver items from India do wholesaling to people like Canadian Tire Scars and small stores around Toronto Mr said of 1 1 ft ware business made hanging arc also a big seller for the company ally In Quebec he Doth the glftwurc and gardening messes re competitive ones and to careful the pricing Mr wise weremty cd at what we re doing he said I our prices are good com pared to Ihe stores People jrc coming from the of course locally The retail outlet Is open Monday to 1 from ID am to and si May will be open Saturdays The warm weather will be on It way soon Iluiicln of Moyllm Products li say Business is brisk this as employees prepare potting soli for springtime gardeners Herald photo Putting your best dressed foot forward Like his father before him and his father before him Acton Bob makes work socks You knew socks from day one in my family he said Mr grandfather made socks and other woollen clothing in six different places in Canada before he settled In Georgetown during the 1940s His business was at the site where Ilvercreek Towers is today Later business changed names and location Wilfred and Son King opened on Street in Georgetown Bob Looios father own that business I got the know how from working wilh my father Mr Lavoic said Of all the family businesses lhat him Bob business is the most successful he said Better management and a little bit of luck are the reasons for his success he slid The name also helped he admitted Its not a household name but It known in the sock business His own business began in from his home on RR1 Georgetown SOCK IT TO TUMI Everyone could use a sock like this to make work Debbie is pressing before they arc shin ned to customer She works at mole Knitting ltd at St In Acton Herald there he operated 12 knitting machines some of them from his father operation Mr handled small contracts which he called custom knitting Today he makes work socks for the major chain stores of Canada and is considering cracking the American The Bay and Mark Work Wcarhousc are a few of his customers Were hoping to break Into the S market We re looking into It and we look it looks better Mr Lavoic said The business has doubled in since days when they had twelve machines Instead of Mr the business is working out of Tannery building on Frederick Street In Acton Expansion or the business next month when new machines arrive which will Increase production by IU per cent Because Mr Is In his he does not want to expand much beyond this If he was years younger he might be more aggressive he said R Knitting Ltd makes between I BOO and 2 000 socks a day LARGE ASSORTMENT OF SNACKS CANDIES BULK FOODS Someofthescarosportsocks but work socks are the specialty An average machine makes between six to eight dozen pairs a day and his machines are running hours a week Most of Mr Lavoie a staff are women all but himself and his mechanic Working in Acton has been good for the company because there is never a shortage of workers he said Business has been fairly strong fairly consistent over last 10 years Socks are a basic requirement like bread and butter he said The sock business docs not change much Machines used when he started arc as good as those he buys today Wool is base fabric in his work socks and cannot be worked too fast or it will 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