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t the acton free pratt wodnektoy november 22 1967 twq separat opinion why3stmngr- appeals committee decision by gloria browne last weeks free press contained several references to plan ning and thds started me wondering how much we know about plan ning and why it is necessary in our modern society one of the most obvious functions of the planning process is to create an orderly healthy efficient convenient and attractive en vironment for human living the achievement of this objective de pends upon efficientplanning and most of an local consciousness of planning the public is not always aware that the physical environment has capabilities of beauty convenience order and economy land use and space landscape and buildings residential and industrial balance the making of arrangementsin the present to achieve ob jectives in the future are not terms that are considered by the public at large but the planner must think about these terms and their importance and is often forced into the role of social critic and advocate of these views because the community has no clear views of its own about its physical environment until the community provides the planner with a clearly articu lated image of the kind of environment it wants the planner must think about it in terms of his experience this is unfortunate be cause the public should participate in the planning process and should have a clear idea of the objective it wishes to achieve it is a fundamental principle in our kind of society that social goals should be determined by the people and not by the government or its employees but it must be a public that is informed and aware and therefore it is a dtinns responsibility to become informed and aware of the problems of modern communities and how best to cope with these problems without the benefit of the communitys own selfimage and pro- gfwsstve thinking the planner will likely have to continue in his awkward role of social critic imagemaker technical adviser and general whippingboy canada has achieved the transition from an agricultural society to an industrialised urban society in a tew decades assimilation that took hundreds of years to evolve in european nations yet within the next generation we win have as much urban development as has been built in all the years since the nation was established cities will for the most part double in population and treble in area unless there are more efforts to control land usage retain conservation land and green belt areas stop pollution of our water sheds and the air we breathe it will be impossible to preserve good living conditions and healthy standards for future generations the low density mass suburbia of today is segregating our people into conforming standards of incomegroup agegroup by economic activity and a general blandness which masks the serious social problems that are bound to evolve from the lack of commun ication and interrelation between different kinds of people the why of planning then is to bring order and logical developr meat to canadian society without conformity and lack of identity inexperienced rural municipalities without sound planning prac tices are being swamped by the tide of urban sprawl singlefam ily subdivision areas that are identical from coast to coast are becoming a national problem regional historical cultural and topographic differences are being submerged as the picture wind ow the television aerial the bungalowbox on the ranchstyle house and the septictank or splrallng sewage disposal costs be come parts of the image of canadian life is this mass sameness the image that we want are our young people today restless because they are uncon sciously struggling against being swallowed up in this image of blandness and conformity editors note mrs browne is a student in the community planning course at sheridan collate robert a hurren of rr 2 campbeqviue appealed a decis ion made by nassagaweya com mittee of adjustment to the ont ario municipal board at brook- vlue muttletpakhan mr hur ren had earlier applied to the committee of adjustment for a land separation william greenwood member of the oub heard llrhurrens appeal but reserved any official decision until the department of municipal affairs dealt with the townships official plan of sub divisions wl zoning bylaw the townjp had been waiting approval oahe plan and the by law for some time mr hurren requested per mission to sell two parcels of land he explained he had lived on the property in question just south of campbeuville all his life and had always intended to keep one parcel for his home give one to his son and sell the two remaining parcels as a source of income on march 27 he sold the two parcels and applied for a sever ance beforo reaching a settle ment the committee of adjust ment refused the severance be cause it would leave land with not sufficient frontage site or area according to the office plan there must be 350 feet frontage an a minimum area of five ac res acton school boards will be eliminated by new legislation on january 1 1969 1600 ont ario school boards will be chop ped to 100 boards formation of 100 county boards will eliminate acton public school board and acton district high school board instead ac ton will send one representative to a new halton county board of education announcement of the change was made by premier john re buts at a meeting in gait last week it came as no surprise to members of the two local boards although neither board has had any official word from the ont ario department of education about the change a joint report of the halton public school consultative com mittee and secondary school con sultative committee was submit ted to county council last april recommending the single county board on the recommended board would be 22 representatives to blanket the county but acton milton nassagaweya and esque- slng are only delegated one rep resentative each georgetown would have two burlington and oakville eight each mixed reaction to board lbe provinces plan to scrap 1600 local school boards in ont ario and replace them with 100 county boards of education an nounced last week in a speech by premier john roberts has been greeted with mixed enthusiasm by halton county municipal and edu cation officials the plan is almost identical to a local proposal that was earlier drafted by the haltonconsnltatlve committee on education but oakville and burlington succeed ed in having the halton board of education idea turned down and both southern municipalities pressed for a twotier system of education i am proud of the fact the consultative committee did such an excellent job halton warden william coulter of campbeuville said after the proposed change in legislation was announced to think the province is going toad- opt the same idea shows we were on the right track all along but the warden has serious reservations about one part of the provincial plan the county boards would set their own tax levy and collect it directly from the ratepayers warder coulter felt this would be an added ex pense and would probably double the cost of the present tax coll ection system where both school and administration levies are collected at once i am not happy about thispart at all be said it should be dealt with a little more care fully old stewarttown school bell preserved in institute cairn as a centennial project the bell from the old stewarttown school s 6 esouesing has been preserved and placed in a new cairn on the lawn of the con- souaatedschool at stewarttown a dedicaticn service took place recently when the beautiful stone calm and two plaques were ded icated and unveiled the village wl and the family of austin a corner participated in the ser vice mr corners soninlaw harrv macmlllan built the cairn the plaques read designed and constructed in memory of austin a corner 1904 1966 and stewarttown school bell ss no 6 18731958 erected by the esqueslng womens institute to commemorate canadas centen nial 1967 mrs walter lawson a wl member and former teacher un veiled the cairn assisted by mrs harry mac miuan mr corners daughter rev canon je max well was in charge of the dedica tion refreshments were served at st johns church hall where several old photos of the school and its students were on display library grant request at esquesing meeting coordinating principal eric baudnd told kaqueslng school board wednesday nov 8 the milton library wanted to know if the school board would make a grant to the library since es quesing school children use the library trustee w lawson tett the school board should not take the napoastblnty but that they should approach eatqnaatng council on the matter they should make the daddon he added principal battled pointed out that many eaaaatag children use all taw town notaries george town milton and acton trustee chaster barry won dered if the board aaomld pay of tee chudrse were if out of town residents pay more for a library card why should there have to be a grant asked school board member dr a thompson before approaching council the board decided to find out how many school children axe using the various libraries esqueslng council expressing varied opinion decldtd to dis cuss the matter more fully and advise the school board of its decision mrs am kachmar was hired to teach one of the primary grades at glen williams to the vavaitdsxtas school dent throw away an old oil cloth tablecloth use pinking to cut a number of place split decorations anniversary calce a double celebration for a 25th wedding anniversary and 50th wedding anniversary pro duced a uniquely decorated half- andhalf cake mr and mrs murdo mccut- cheon of acton and mr and mrs harold turner of north bay to gether celebrated their wedding anniversaries as a dinner party at the casablanca restaurant burlington saturday evening mr and mrs mccutcheon were 25 years wed and the turners half a century the couples are close friends after the dinner friends and relatives gathered at the home of mrs parkinson a daughter of the turners in burlington mr and mrs turner lived for merly in the acton district and are presently visiting their fam ily in the area miss muriel mccutcheon ar ranged for the i anniver sary cake its two halves decor ated for the two couples it was a complete surprise friends came to can sunday at the mccutcheon home to ex tend fongtatalatinbb the report of this consultative committee was not acceptable to all county municipalities includ ing burlington and oakville a special county committee was formed to look into the matter further now it is apparent that county report has come very close to the governments inten tion commented public school board chairman orval chapman i just know what i read in the papers he was opposed to suggestions that the mz bennett school ad dition should be held up waiting for a possible new flnanacing arrangement through the county board of education another years delay might really botch things up he felt while he thinks the new board will have its advantages he feels acton just having one board member is regrettable but if the town grows as lakeview subdivision is its possible ac ton would have more representa tion high school board chairman tom watson and board members also just learned the news from papers they were expecting a similar change following the consultative committee report im very much in favor of it said mr watson its the only practical way to give every stu dent in ontario equal opportunity in all phases legislation to impose the new boundaries will be imposed at the next session of the legislature the new units will be based on county boundaries in halton and the rest of southern ontario but the school units will be larger in the north the smith committee on taxa tion in ontario has recommended that boards of education levy their own taxes mr robarts says the larger school units will make it possible to extend to all students the bene fits enjoyed by the more favored school system equalized costs will also result he said he stressed also that the government is not by implica tion designating the county as the basis for any system of re gional government which may be adopted in the future on the consultative committee which came up with the same solution as the department of education for the county are public school board consulta tive committee e gudgeon burlington le andrews nass agaweya jh crelghton acton ojl morgenstern georgetown je peat oakville with inspec tor wl mcneil and inspector lc harris schools should be administered on some other basis than by counties said the ontario teach ers federation in a statement issued commenting on premier robarts announcement that counties will be the school ad ministration units by 1969 the teachers contended that in many instances counties no long er have any economic geo graphic or sociological entity human contact frederick n the 13thcentury emperor of sicily we are told wished to learn what was natural language he arranged for foster parents to rear children mately without speech or prattle to see whether they would spontaneously speak hebrew or greek or what ever but he labored in vain because the children au died for they could not live without the petting and joyful faces and lov ing words of their foster moth ers so wrote saumbene of pama 600 years ago mr hurren8 property if sev ered would leave a frontage of 130 feet and a depth of 160 feet although mr greenwood re served his decision he gave no indication that the forthcoming ruling would contravene the de cision of the committee of ad justment this is unfortunate mr hur ren if you had acted sooner you may have been successful but you are like many others who seem to be caught in the middle however i dont want toholdthis as any hope for a new decision he said up until april 3 1967 the council had heard requests for separations of small holdings under 10 acres and if council passed the application it went before the minister and the de partment of municipal affairs for approval up until this year the town ship was without a committee of adjustment whencouncll deem ed it necessary to have a com mittee of adjustment they learn ed they must have an official plan of subdivision first the official plan gives the commit tee of adjustment criteria on which to base their decisions before the official plan is any good the township has to have a zoning bylaw whicfi in effect puts teeth into the official plan both of these have been passed by the township and are now awaiting approval from the de partment of municipal affairs and son ltd iet cffikpl autumn leaves when i hear a cruel treesaw snarling through a precious tree then oh very dire and vengeful are the inmost thoughts of me ive wept sorely as the screeches set my throbbing heart askew and ive cried o darling maple is there nothing i can do they have majesty in autumn etched upon a sunset sky and their very shameless nakedness is pleasing to the eye and as oft they blossom out again all verdant in the spring then my soul exultant wakens at the beauty that they bring kind she feeds us from the bounty of her richlyflowing breast and she gives us shade in summer where the weary ones may rest shes the emblem of our country proudly blazoned on our flag and the whole world pays us homage when we flaunt this regal tag so all hall then lovely maple verdant green or ruby red how my heart swells with emotion when i hear your praises said yet when autumn steals her glory and bestrews it on the ground i confess my commendation is not always so profound for ive raked and raked her leaves until i think they are au gone but again do i discover when i waken with the dawn that shes spread another carpet even thicker than before and i wring my calloused fingers gnarled and rough and red and sore then you have to get a permit just to burn them anywhere for your neighbours are indignant if you leave them lying there and a caper of the west wind blows theirs wildly all around till at last they lie exhausted on my tiny plot of ground oh of course i love the maple she is truly natures star but at times i have misgivings that outweigh my love by far and i wish some kindly fairy would sneak all around the town and when i am lost in slumber hack and chop the danged things down isobel anderson police report occurrences in their weekly account acton opp detachment reports total miles travelled during the weak were 801 during the 168 duty hours worked traffic activities resulted in three charges and 15 warnings being issued under violations of the highway traffic act there was one personal in- jury accident lnvertlgatedinvolv- lng one motor vehicle damage totalled 1800 and no charges were laid in this incident occurrences were unusually light with three incidents in vestigated two cues of assault with one charge being laid and one investigation of malicious damage there was no docket at mag istrates court milton this week most of the volume of cases having been put over till a later date tms completes the weeks ac tivities which were relatively minimal compared to some firefighters extern one night canvass falling to cover all the town on their scheduled one night of canvassing for muscular dyst rophy acton firefighters nev ertheless countedover400 mon day night they were continuing their canvass last night to call at all homes this appeal is made annuauy by the brigade this years will obviously again be very success ful all transistor electronic organ where can you buy an all transistor organ fop 895 tradeins accepted the finish of quality duradeil by deilcraft duradeil is a tough finish which offers tome very distinct advantages over nitrocellulose lacquer resistance to cigarette burns impervious to such household hazards as hot plates milk soft drinks ink hot water perfume household bleach and lighter fluid amplifier so d sute with pfovmorn for reverb and rhythm maittf initjlljtton extarrmaof iokt fur tone cab net 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