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old and new prefer the small town the mccilloway family cindy colleen mcgilloway david and susan in front ol ff hell- mrs mcgilloway danny torosa billy mr omo istatt rnotoj ed mcgilloway was born and oducatod in acton and has chosen to raise his sovon children hore as well attar high school he got a job in beard- more and company and stayod because he liked it ho is a pipe settor in tho machine all op says mr mcgilloway i prefer the smaller town one day in tho city is just about all i can take it sooms uko a mad raco all the tlmo ho isnt on shifts its only sevon min utes icwork and ho gots homo for lunch adds ills wife dodlo tho mcguioways fool they are farther ahead by staying in town because the ronts and cost of living arc lowor than in the larger centres thoy have a comfortable homo on tho cornor of brock and victoria streets with a spacious lot at the side for tho chlldron to play on mrs mcgilloway likes the frlondly at mosphere a small town offers some places you dont even know your next doer neighbor our homo is sort of a halfway house on this block for all tho neighbors chlldron thoy are a family of sevon children susan 14 danny 13 billy 11 torosa 10 colleen nine cindy sevon and david six the mcguioways fool that tho smalltown offers more opportunity for the chlldron to take part in activities our boys play trlcounty hockey i know they wouldnt be getting the experience if we wore in a larger centre because the competition for teams would bo so groat says mr mc gilloway mrs mcgilloway fouls that the thildron get more personal attention in a smallor school i like it because thoy can walk to school and dont have to wait for buses or carry lunch pails actori has grown considerably slnco mr mcgilloway lias lived hero icanromom- bor when there usod to be five or six houses on this street now there are 15 or 20 the one thing the mcguioways would uko to see in the future is a regular swimming pool for tho children with lifeguard super vision as far as tlje mcguioways areconcornod tiiey like acton and thoy intend to stay mrsjsd edstjt and kim prefer the slower pace of the small town in thoir spacious new home for mr and mrs edward edser life in acton is more relaxed than in toronto its gutting away from tho ratrace says mrs edser the edsers moved into their spacious splitlevel on elizabeth drive at tho first of april from a suburb of toronto mr edser commutes to work in tho city by train every day we got sick of living in tho city all tho tlmo explains mrs edser thoy had decided to move into the centre of toronto but found they couldnt take their dog to many places and the cost of bousing was out of the question the edsers maintain that tho lowerprlco of houses and the general lower cost of living in acton make it more advantageous to live hure than in either the city or the suburbs they havent found adjust mo at to the slower pace of living in acton difficult on elizabeth drive mr edser commutes to his work in toronto by rail each day sliw- they had generally lived in small towns until mr edsers retirement from tho alrforco in 19m although the edsers have three girls the youngest 15yearold kim is the only one left at homo a grade 10 student in the high school she claims she has had no troublo making friends she is also a guide loader and has been attending st albans anglican church mrs edsor comments tho shopkeep ers ire very- frlondly hore they dont mind you looking around and they dont pounce on you uko thoy do in the city stores since mrs edser is a licenced camper with the ontario council in the canadian girl guides she lias recently take over the leadership of a guide and ranger troop in town they have boon invited to join sever al other groups as well g3 scan earth shattering jobs for nellis construction neus construction ud is a v company which specializes in moving earth that covers a lot of territory but for the company it mostly meatus road building farm pond construction excavation of houses and a multitude of small jobs of ovary description mansell nellis company head and business manager has a staff of nine men working in the good construction months of the summer he purchased his first crawler tractor in 1948 with a front end loader since then uio business has expanded to the point where it keeps a siring of motors front ond loaders motor scrapers graders and back hoes busy the company is based on the blue springs line at tho nellis farm most of the work done is within a 25 mile radius of home base in the surrounding town ships towns and counties because the company is ex perienced in just about ovcry typo of earth moving conser vation authorities are also fro- quo nt employers with so many dlfforont jobs it is difficult to single out any particular type of construction nellis construction specializes in but mansell nellis is proud of tho hundreds of farm ponds theyve built thoros always a demand for this typo of con struction somo ponds have been built which ombraee threo or four acros others vary in site from the small to largo road construction and repair ing is another spocialty of tho company theres hardly a road idrlvo on around horo where tho thought doesnt como about when wo fix ed it last or when it was widen ed and repaired mr nollls said as the district grows and tho traffic gots heavier its likely this facet of tho companys oper ation will bocomo more pro nounced almost an kind pf arjhmovlncf from rulldolncitb voadw building is nollis constructions cup of tea wilbur donncll the companys oldest qmpfoyet lovojs out land in preparation for landscaping- i staff photo- one of the manv hundreds of form ponds constructed by nollis construction this ono is in erin township but there aro many more in all tho surrounding areas staff photo road building in east garafraxa township those huge motorscrapers part of nollis con struction oquipmont robuild a soft section of road staff photoj nellis construction ltd r r 1 acton 8530960 established since 1948 a full line of equipment for earthmoving socializing in land clearing road building farm pond construction exea voting grading loading hauling equipment rental with operators available