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altar voa o punnlnf month of buudlntj and nim acton and district eurtert aurtad ualn their im curllnej sink on churchill road thh mt th f tret ton in uatm play wa thrown monday hkjfct and afchouah the building u mil not linused turw art eulttstad 8m picture on p b ctacamlad 8 bmhetyor wore hi bowling s3 dldtvkatwtlnm u ovlalmaetectp ci editorial c2 btlsmawy c3 retekweec c4 cs rams c refer plaza plan back to committee acton council turned back a recommendation from planning board and no i committee for approval of a tmall plaza at the corner of queen st and churchill rd until more iludy can be given the project flam for the corner which how encompasses a large guilty call for six stores including a beckers milklug store project planners planning consultants for the town would not approve of the proposal and told punning board tliey could not support it if it came to a hearing councillor coats suggested council thould heed the p mess advice and not just p at the first opportunity to develop the property which he acknowledged was an eyesore now lie thought a restaurant would be more in line with development and keep commercial development from spreading all over town mayor duby wondered why the planners threw the plan out since a commercial strip existed there now they are professionals councillor maria retorted suggesting they knew best id like to tee the town kept as a hub rather than spread helterskelter wed better take this back to committee and find out project planners objections and talk to planning board suggested councillor greer theyre no little tin gods remarked reeve oakes suggesting the planners could make mistakes too if we havent got confidence in the planners then for heavens sake lets get some planners whom we can have confidence in said mr coats council agreed to refer the matter back lo committee breakh malicious damage charges against five youths charges were laid against five brampton youths friday who had broken windows at the new curling club and entered the christian reformed church three young members of llie church delected the outoftown intruders and informed cons kretder he located them trying to push their car out of the ditch on churchill rd they were charged with breaking and entering the christian reformed church and malicious dinuge at the curling club two officers from the north llalton detachment assisted in apprehending the quintet musk appreciation lacking well never play acton again that was the fervent decision of an outoftown music group after a fracas saturday night at the dominion hotel that involved seven police officers before peace was restored one of the musicians became to incensed at patrons remarks he drew a knife cons roy wood was called but fighting kept breaking out and he summoned his north halton confreres who patrol llie countryside around acton six reinforcements arrived the musician was charged appeared in court in milton monday pleaded guilty and drew a suspended sentence not only will they never play acton again but the group also thinks theyll just disband altogether too much trouble playing hotels they concluded with acton providing the worst incident theys encountered so far reportedly their instruments are now up for sale udprtehife site sm of figkt it was all caused by one short and dirty newfie joke and it ended up a fight on mill st friday night with about so spectators the insulted former newfoundlander and another youth were charged with drinking under age and taken home the joke was reported to the investigating officer cons roy wood during the explanation of just what happened to cause such a row and its not printable music festival plots new future to include all performing arts north halton music festival didnt die monday evening at some of the association members feared when the general meeting began instead it got a transfusion of changes that wiu give it a whole new lease on life next spring the festival will again be held in the tame way however a committee wdl be working on sweeping changes that will likely transform the traditional competitive music festival into a showcase for all the performing arts both competitive and noncompet itive the special meeting of the north llalton music festival association was called following the distribution of detailed questionnaires about the lestrvals fate to all north llalton schools parents representatives organizations which give donations and interest individuals the wellattended meeting was held in the robert little school staff room in acton at the uii meeting of she association in october those present had agreed that despite a healthy bank balance the fesrrval could not continue in its present form replies to the questionnaire from schools agreed but a majority of sponsoring groups sent replies which indicated they would like the festival 10 continue in its present form the problem had arisen with the disappearance in some schools of the itinerant music teacher and some sponsors replied they would like to see thee music specialists returned rather than a consultant supervising the classroom teacher several sponsors indicated the decision on changes should be made by the teachers and schools concerned time were 22 north llalton schools and 20 other groups or individuals which replied to the questionnaires the principals school reports showed 14 opposed to continuing the festival in its present form one in favor with reservations and four with no opinion not all iheae schools had participated previously yet in reply lo the question ailing if their school would compete in the next festival eight schools said yes and 1 2 no the schools willing to participate had taken part in past years and represent about 3000 students rrom these facts the interested members of the association devised the suteme of continuing the festival this year stressing the noncompetitive concert following the usual competitive mum cusses to the evening concert schools which had not sent singers to compete could send entries v discussed were the inclusion of an art display orchestra rhythm band or gym team the new executive was named with vicepresident ray morrison moving up to president past president is james zehr ralph mckeown rejoined after several years as vicepresident returned to office were mrt glenda benton as secretarytreasurer mrs j frost at trophy convener and mrs s bruiulte and mrs k mcphaj as assistants to the trophy convener when volunteers were sought to serve on the committee to plot future changes in the ettival those who promptly indicated their willingness were jack reed ken trowbruge w d k smith mrs trust and mrs mcphaa they have the power to add to iheu number for advice in specific fields such as adding art or drama to the festival i or the festival next spruig claices and place must be dunged due to the mechanics of accommodating numbers it was stressed any schools which wished could enter the competition mrs benton pointed out quite a few respondents to the questionnaire other than principals had been in favor uf competition it was in part the decisive replies in favor of a festival which prompted the group to wish to continue principal smith of acton especially mentioned the support of the general public garnered over the years principal trowbridge of brookvllle felt it was important to proceed in a familiar envuonnwnt and not try to include too many changes at once which could replace the usual competence at festivals with a mljimaih present at the meeting were principals teachers parent representatives and group representatives with ken sell superintendent of program for the county ld thorndike coordinator of creative arts for the county george lloudander assistant coordinator of creative arts and ken hamsun north llalton music consultant two representatives of georgetown schdots were present although georgetown schools withdrew fr the festival tome yean ago mrt benton reported on i very successful meeting held in november when the executive met with officials of the county d s lawless had said the association should decide iti own future but promised official support he had indicated transportation code could be arranged lb alto felt parents should assist if they desired lie saw no reason why the festival should suffer because there art no itinerant music teachers and that with the guidance of consultants the teachers should be able to succeed the meeting cleared up thai the festival it not disappearing because of the new county board site concluded jack read expressed thanks id esldenl jun zehr for a capable ob dunni a trying year and a if and mrt benton for a terrific job another general meeting will be called ts plant for the festival progreu e w ninety fifth year no 24 w til ij r f fr m fc u i i- v gr a tr ru waj3i li iai w jj iii acton ontario wednesday december 10 1969 twenty paget fifteen cents clamp down hard local shoplifters a very serious increase in cases of shoplifting has resulted in acton police informing all local shopkeepers uf the correct procedure in making a citizens arrest during the past week seven local juveniles were charged with shoplifting many local teenagers are offenders the police say storekeepers tell them they have warned young people in the past and let them go without reporting the incidents now the police urge them to keep a close watch and to inform police wc are going to clamp down on this the local police insist offenders wdl not necessarily be charged depending on the circumstances last thursday five young girls two aged 14 two aged 15 and one just 13 were apprehended apparently they had sometimes worked as a team about s400 worth of stolen property was recovered some of it clothing from acton stores other items recovered came from stores in milton georgetown and guelph the tags were sldl on some of the items two will likely be charged by the childrens aid society police expect and the other three will be charged by acton police for possession ot stolen goods they will appear in juvenile court on munday investigation followed the report of a break in at the norton home church st and two juveniles were charged with breaking entering and theft qur it toning also produced furllier diarget of shoplifting and s3s worth of ttolan eroperly was recovered the two oyi will also appear in juvenile court apparently there is always an increase in shoplifting cases at chrislmsi lime outoftownert go where they are not known during busy shopping hourt to augment llieir shopping illegally ice ditches fire truck it was lucky the fire wasnt teriout sunday afternoon because the fire truck never did get there it slid on ice right into the ditch at the corner of 17 sideroad and the town line in esquesing and it was three quarters of an hour before the town truck could haul it out the jackson family on 20 sideroad which had reported their chimney fire to the wrong brigade in the first place later called back to say they thought the fire was out they had mistakenly called milton mstead of acton brigade and the call was relayed here as a mutual aid call to top the aborted run u carload of detrucked firefighters couldnt make it up an icy hill returning home they had to get out and push the chiefs car gaily decorated homes reflect the happiness of tho season this giant christmas tree outlined in llcitt it at the homo of mr and mrs hugh patterson and family church st staff photo arenas main structure sound but walls weak council told chamber circulates shopping questionnaire members of the chamber of commerce are busy this week circulating a confidential shopping study to every other house in acton purpose of the survey is to determine how well the retail merchants in town are meeting regular thopping needt participation it entirely voluntary opinion of indrviduals and assoclatloiu will not be revealed among the queries are tome on store hourt parking itreet lights public transportation pcdettrlan crottingi store fronts window displays store layouts store lighting selection prices advertising i and other taroiiiotioiia use cjiieationnaire alao eik for answers on rating rest rooms eating places entertainment afterhours lighting salespeople will also be rated according to knowledge attitude handling complaints and telephone manners coil service and courtesy of the bell telephone company are also under scrutiny and the survey asks if you are in favor of expanded services to guelph milton and toronto are you sn favor of an emergency telephone number it askt would you use a commuter train to toronto if it wat available would you participate in an adult educational program would you like to tee mill st turned into apedestrlan mall chamber members are leaving the questionnaires at 50 of hornet in town and wdl return to pick them up president john shadbolt says the clumber feels that 50 of the households in acton thould give a pretty fair indication of the reeling results will be processed by computers at the keycorn ltd at r r 4 acton chris schuts it in charge of the survey while earl jouymore will look after computing the results the chamber hat alto appointed a task force to invettigate additions to christmas lighting around acton with particular emphasis on equahiing the lighting and decoration downtown and approaches to town sight buck on churchill mrs boh marshall was called to the living room window by her little granddaughter liu friday afternoon the little girl sjw something unusual after several attempts to tell the adults in the room she succeeded in getting her grandmother to look mrs marshalls fust impression was one ol awe standing looking back at her from the front of their churchill rd n home was a full grown buck deer antlers and all she called her daughter charlene and she also saw the buck then mr and mrs r l davidson next door neighbors were culled by phone they too caught sight of the magnificent animal at if on a signal the buck raised his white cotton flag cleared the fence across the road and headed back to wherever he came from other neighbors also report seeing the large buck and several other deer in the neighborhood two draws saturday excitement mounts with only two more draws to be made in the santarama promotion the fifth draw will be made at three oclock saturday at the ymca at the tame time a draw wdl be made for eramosa flower mart entries are in his ad in the free press last week and today and again next week first telor for the first time the free pre it features a fourcolor section the second section of todays issue paget were simultaneously printed in the utual black plus red blue and yellow although the walls arent about to come tumbling down acton councd has referred the matter of deteriorating walls at the community centre to the finance committee for consideration parks and recreation committee put the onus on councd to do something about deterioration following receipt of a recently completed engineering study which recommended repaus the whole report and engineering study was given to council lo deal with in the urgency they see fit said councillor marks one of two council representatives on the parks and recreation committee you are concerned that if the roof falls in you can say we told you so the deputy reeve half facetioudy told councillor marks no mr marks replied the its santa its a bird no jutt ashes too early yet but thlt little lad will try again often before the night he hangs hit ttocklngstah photo letter to council askt repair work to be carried out at toon at possible lo ensure the safety of the building and stop further deterioration no i might fr iwn on th engineers report but jus because we dont agree it doetn mean we are responsible if walls fall down reeve f oaket countered mayor les duby referred to a survey four years ago which showed llie steel structure of the community centre was still at sound ti ever i gather the problem is with the walls ha asked beams are sagging and a few wooden beams in the west wall should be replaced answered mr marks the wall sheathing it taking the stress instead of the steel the miin steel structure it still sound the mayor wat assured cost of the engineering report 390 for one day councillor marks told council he reminded counclllort however that the engineer wat talking cadillac and ford in t h e report and hit recommendations were meant to put the budding in top shape to turkey council talked turkey at tuesday nights meeting after a resolution patted aulhottting presentation of a chrlslmtt turkey lo each town employee councillor jack greer on of two who voted against the resolution tuggetted that council little the turkeyi in use contract with town employees this way there would be no scrooges tilting around the council table and we would know where we alt on thlt tat mid i never heard of a chrlstmat bonus in a collective bejrtatirilng remenl before commantei deputyreeve