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recreation facilities take back seat to none acton recreation commit tee reports as follows the acton recreation com mittee was born of necessity on january 10 1963 after a deter mined group of civicminded citizens headed by garnet w mokenzie had successfully com pleted a two year sustained drive that culminated in the in stallation of artificial ice and the resurrection of the old nat uralice arena at prospect park up to this point recreation in acton had successfully come un der the jurisdiction of the acton board of parks management but now with the installation of new facilities a greater need was recognized the first recreation commit tee consisted of the following members chairman j goy members a irwin bert wood c cook l lovell mrs keates dr f g oakes j bui lough and mrs h ottertoein the com mittee in effect acts as an ex tension of council and has two councillors in its membership it is interesting to note that three members of the original committee remain on the pre sent committee mrs h otter- bein l lovell and j goy projects undertaken and com pleted during the ensuing years have been many and varied and are too numerous to describe fully in the space allotted high lights however would have to be additions to the front and tack of the arena building jiousing an auditorium dressing rooms and storage facilities installation of a new traprock floor and acquisition of a schomberg ice shaver donated by the acton lions club that allows acton to of the best ice in halton county in order to give some idea of the scope of activity undertaken and falling under the jurisdic tion of the recreation commit tee an outline of the 1965 pro- eram as presented in the chair mans annual report follows curling curling continues to flourish in acton and this year the rec reation committee secured the services ot jack sumner of the elrnira arena as technical con sultant for curling ice letters from the acton curling club testify to the improved quality ol the ice public skating ptibllc skating continued to prove popular and the forma tion of a paid ice patrol helped to make the sport more enjoy able time reserved was the same as last year saturday morning saturday night and sunday afternoon with satur day night proving the most pop ular hockey hockey continued popular with the nhl old timers play ing to a full house the legion minor league expanded into a weekday as well as operating the regular saturday afternoon schedule the hockey school operation was taken over by the acton minor hockey referees association and a supper hour proved more popular than the previous after school time intertown hockey also contin ued to flourish with five teams competing in intercounty com petition clubs actoti art club held two series of weekly lessons in the loft of dills printing shop weekly ses- sions of mutual criticism and in struction continued until the end of june the golden age club met reg ularly one evening and one afternoon per month visits were exchanged with several other- clubs shuffleboard prov ed popular with many membeis using the community centre lac- rlities once a week during the summer months a badminton club started bv the recreation committee was handed over to a club manage ment committee weeklv meet ings were held throughout the winter months in the high school gymnasium a square dance group held lev lovell chairman four exciter dances to estab lish if there xvas enough interest to start a regular club in the fall of 1955 the auditorium of the robert little public school proved to have a good floor and good acoustics which contribut ed much to the enjoyment of the dances special events nhl old timers visit already mentioned played to the biggest house of the season and now appears to be an annual event on the acton entertainment cal endar the second annual acton and district public school carnival was another popular event for the first time scores were ad justed in proportion to enrol ment and it is hoped the win bv speyside public school will encourage more entries from other smaller schools the ice kevue 65 produced by the acton fancv skating club was irtmanv ways possibly the outstanding event of the winter season the enioyment and sur prise of those attending was passed on by the press and word ol mouth so that next years show should be sold right qut this allout effort turned the arena into a winter wonderland complete with huge white rab bits and kingsize snowman lions club show the annual lions club show this year called acton round- up played to an audience of 1500 people possibly the largest house in the history of acton a stage was constructed on the north bleachers for the first time and sound coverage obtain ed from the house speakers was fairly understandable the press box which has not been used for some years was removed and the plavers benches were leconstructed to facilitate fu ture stage erection shuffleboard two shuffleboard courts were painted on the arena floor with the intention of moving out doors next summer if the game proved popular enough- the golden age club gradually in creased their weekly attendance during the trial evenings only a few children attended however the game has gained popularity with most of the children in the playground program lacrosse a lacrosse clinic which was possibly the first sports clinic to be held in acton got the re vised minor lacrosse league off to a good start it proved pop ular enough to extend the orig inal saturday morning period into a wednesday evening softball since one of the two sponsors from last season dropped out some of the minor age groups did not play this season playground it was decided to train a large corps of leaders as a nucleus for the- next few years until the children now in the program graduate into leaders even so it was necessary to find more leaders when the original esti mated maximum ol 60 children turned out to be 175 this meant very large groups of children but leaders were able to main- lain the childrens interest and enthusiasm betler during the half day program than would have been possible with a full day program swimming this year the swimming les sons were moved to the after noon since the mornings were too cold last year complaints were then received from other parents who wanted their child ren to have free swimming in the afternoon some free swim ming was sandwiched between editor stresses progress need continued from page 1 acton england where the growth of the city of london has necessitated the regional zation of local government in acton england the municipal government has been elimina ted and replaced by a regional government serving as well two other previously autonomous communities acton england continues to exist as a geographical location and community it is entirely possible the same situation mav develop in canada with the present functions of local govei nmen t taken over by a icgional government which could include all or a- part of halton county of great assistance in the charting and planning of actons predictable growth is the study made in 1963 by the graduate students attending the diploma course in town and regional planning of the school of archi tecture university of toronto while for the purpose of the study certain assumptions wen required the document prepared a a result of the stu dy will proe invaluable to the municipal government in acton the publication of the com plete report is not feasible but many obserations and conclu- continued on page 7 lessons attempts to advance children who had passed the learn-to- swim tests were only moderate ly successful due to the depth of the pool one carload of children took the junior red cross at georgetown the georgetown pool helped supply lifeguards for the free swim ming periods the recreation committee this year succeeded in hiring howard pearce a recent gradu ate of the university of guelph in the capacity of fulltime rec reation director it is the hope of the 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