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Planning board urges start annexation plans BIG TEARS are shed by Sua during the popular Robert Little school operetta Over saw the show two nights More pictures and story inside today Free Press Increase fees wages summer playground Higher registration fees and a boost in pay for leaders has been recommended by the program committee for Acton s 1970 summer playground Committee chairman Bob told the Board of Management and Recreation Committee they expected a record enrolment for the playground this year and it would require a budget of to operate Seventeen leaders have been picked by the program head and playground supervisor including a swimming instructor Mr said he was impressed with the calibre of the young people who volunteered for the job but recommended they receive raises that would up pay to minimum of to SI an hour They been underpaid for years the progrim chairman said We pay sitters or 50c an hour and yet expect the leaders to receive less than that figure Suggested playground registration fees for the six week program this year ate for one child SI 2 for two and SIS for three or more in a family There is also a combination rale to include swimming lessons The chairman suggested that the committee should also consider subsidizing any family unable to pay without the knowledge of anyone except the board Parks and recreation committee members meet with council tonight Wednesday to hammer out a budget lauds company cooperation Parks Board chairman Peter Marks had kind words for and Co following the disclosure that the company has responsibility for all the reclaimed land around Fairy Lake belonging to the company over to the Board of Parks Management Cost to the board is a nominal 1 a year have taken a lot of static over the past few years the chairman said and it should be noted they acted very responsibly over this Mr Marks said the company l have been moie operative regarding the agreement and he felt the board should reciprocate A resolution was passed applying for an amendment to the zoning by law which re rone the land acquired from Rl to Open space parks Seasons first Acton firefighters responded to the season s first grass ire carry Thursday afternoon A field of dead grass caught fire beside the home of Dave McDonald on the Fourth Line of Esquesing near the township dump The fire was under control by the lime firefighters arrived Parting impostor fakes free rip Thunder Bay Drivers who have occasion to visit city establishments employing parking attendants can take a tip from an incident involving an area nun bat Thursday night After pulling up to the front of the Skyline Hotel in Toronto the driver was greeted by a welldressed clean cut young man claiming to be the haul parking attendant The driver handed over his keys when the man offered to park linear Later in the evening the driver emerged to find his car missing from the hotel parking lot The attendant turned out to be an impostor Police found the stolen car in Thunder Bay the next day The attendant was dressed in an ordinary business suit A request for services for a development on the Third Line of lias prompted Acton Planning Board to ask Acton council for funds to lake an annexation study and eventual annexation or laud in the township Alec of A Construction told planning board he hid acres on the north side of the Third Line Churchill from the new curling club and wished to start dcvclopuig the property with a six condominium type housing The township planning board told him they would issue a building permit if he was able to get services from the town of Actun Planning Board after some discussion passed a resolution which registered no objection to he request for water and sewer services for the project although member Meb Blow sjid he was not convinced Churchill Rd was the proper site for row housing Councillor Earl Masalcs one of two council members on planning board told the board that the delay in regional government put a new complexion on the annexation issue Council was aware of Mr plan and thought this would be another good argument for annexation In the township The town has already one argument in favor of annexing land along Churchill Rd with the water service provided for residents along the road north of the proposed development Mr Masalcs pointed out Mr Zankl told the board that the township planning board could see no reason to hold the project up since the properly would likely soon go to Acton anyway Chairman Sid urged the A head to get the opinion in writing Mr said that since council was in favor of the project and there was a definite need of some additional assessment board should consider two resolutions one to urge an annexation study fur eventual annexation of township and and the other registering no objection to the request for services Both resolutions passed Mr maintained there was i rend toward the town housing or condominium type of house reminding the board they really hid no jurisdiction over the property since it was still in the township Houses will be three and four bedroom units and will llkoly sell from up the board was luld Ninety Fifth Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MARCH 1970 Eighteen Pages Fifteen Cent County decides to ask for Halton only region No way will we jump into regional government until we know some specifics on what it will cost I want to know in and cents Nassagaweya Reeve A MacArthur told Halton County Council at their March meeting Tuesday At a closed meeting Friday the mayors reeves and deputy reeves in the county decided to push for a only on acting immediately on a restructured five municipality basis With representation to be decided later The municipalities were to include all seven present municipalities in the county After a heated debate county council agreed to uphold the decision to push for a Halton region When the resolution was presented at council a map Turned down Bower Ave Sr Citizen site Concerned some people might misconstrue the reasons why an apartment development is proposed on property owned by Mrs Hazel Orr off Bower Ave when a senior development was proposed there at one time Mayor said council had no over the matter at the time Central Mortgage and Housing turned the property down for senior citizens housing because of the cost and low lying ground he told council Tuesday night Council of that time hoped the could have been developed for senior ulceus and were disappointed when turned it down didnt have the cash to finance said Councillor Mckenzie Councillor Chapman admitted he was disturbed at the thought of developers plunking great big 70 ft behind houses on Bower Ave But Councillor Coats tild Mr Chapman to keep this in mind when the application to rczone since no mi could be taken at this time There is already letter of complaint area residents and it will be dealt with in time concluded Councillor Masalcs signed by Deputy Reeve Ted Tyler of Acton Gordon Agnew of Nassagaweya and Tom Hill of was presented outlining the boundaries they requested before agreeing to the regional Halton We have every reason to take a dim view of regional government after last week when our education bill went up mills and the rest of the county had a reduction Education is no better than it was a year or two ago yet we pay far more It is not enough to say we ve got to go regional hurry let go Mrs MacArthur claimed Prove to me the value of it she challenged Burlington Reeve Gordon Gallager said the restructuring would depend on servicing He said they could enter the agreement to go for a regional government in now and then study boundaries over the next three or four months and come to an agreement Mrs MacArthur suggested studying the boundaries and representation for four or five months and then consider regional government Deputy Reeve Tyler and Deputy Reeve agreed they needed some assurance of what would happen before they agreed to a Halton Region Reeve Gallagher called for a recorded vote on both the motion and the amendment It the same old thing shouted Tyler referring to the north south battle The amendment was defeated with only Tyler Esquesing Deputy Reeve Hdl Reeve MacArthur Deputy Reeve and Acton Marshall criticizes open concept idea Halton County Board of Education policy once again came in for criticism at Monday nights meeting of Esquesing Council When clerk treasurer Delmar French informed council the township mill rate would drop approximately one mill in spite of a requisition from the board that represented an increase over 1969 of approximately S64 reeve George Cume was not impressed That t mean a dam thing he said They raise your assessment then they drop the null rate The township lias had an increase in assessment Councillor Ken Marshall a constant critic of Halton education agreed and also criticized the board new open concept idea now in operation at Pine view School I don know why they t be satisfied to consolidate the thing and get it running before they brought in these innovations he said Councdlor Marshall said he thought the open concept idea was a backward step The Regional Development Council report recommends that schools be run by a committee of council he reminded his colleagues It got to be closer to the people than it is now he warned Council last November soundly endorsed suggestions from councillor Marshall that salaries of the Board s trustees and educators be drastically reduced Reeve frank In favor Reeve MacArthur and Deputy Reeve Agnew were the lone objectors to the motion on the region when it was presented Esquesing Reeve George Cume agreed with the regional unit for and said boundaries could be fought over later No matter how you do it you are going to slice up he said Deputy Reeve Percy of Milton said the concencus of Milton Council agreed with the region and they were agreeable to fighting over boundaries later Mr Tyler said Acton and the two townships just wanted to be certain of an opportunity to mould and control their destiny and keep some rural land Reeve William Hunter of Georgetown called the proposed boundaries the craziest Dung he ever saw Why hold in a town of 1 for a town of less than he said The map allowed for square miles of land for Georgetown to expand south of the town but cut them off from the north The proposed boundaries also allowed for expansion of Acton Delegation receives apologies for cutup Embarrassed members of the Board of Parks Management apologized to a three member delegation from the Acton Agricultural Society Monday for cutting up the downstairs meeting room the community centre without first consulting the society Fair board president Bill along with ken Murray and Bert Hi ton appeared at the regular meeting of parks board to protest against another proposal to cut up the upstairs auditorium to accommodate a larger booth Parks members accosted by the delegation and two official documents were told the society was annoyed by the boards action because the downstairs meeting room had been set aside for their use as long as there is an Acton Fair and they were not consulted about proposed changes President Nellcs told the board if a full membership of society showed up for a meeting now it would be impossible to get them all in the downstairs room without standing on top of one another Parks Board members all relatively new members of the board confessed they weren aware of any past agreements with the society It was news to them We don want to get into a tight but alterations are made to the upstairs auditorium well have to move the hall exhibits school work baking fancy work displays out into the arena where they are liable to be damaged Mr said Parks chairman Marks assured the delegation the board had decided against dividing the upstairs auditorium You can put your mind at rest on that anyway he said Still time to nominate Citizen of Year Suggestions for Citizen of the Year arc still being sought by the Chamber of Commerce A meeting will be held next Monday when a vote will be taken to decide which person will be honored at the annual Citizen of the Year dinner The committee is very anxious to hear from anyone with a recommendation of who might be honored The Chamber members are very concerned to hear a rumour has been circulating naming their supposed choice for Citizen of the Year They emphasized to the Free Press that no decision has been made yet Tickets are on sale for the Citizen of the Year dinner now MP Whiting has already accepted an invitation the Hon George Ken has also been invited as well as Acton mayor LesDuby A STATION WAGON driven by of suffered extensive damage a two car collision east of Acton Saturday Staff Photo Slight injuries in two crashes Vehicles driven by two Peel St residents were involved in two separate collisions on Highway 7 west of the Erin Ballmafad Road of Acton ind within lull in hour of one another Saturdiy afternoon but investigitiug officers from Milton indicate there was no connection between cither accident In the first collision cars driven by fclsbeth of and Alfred of Peel St Acton were involved causing damage A passenger in the car three yearold Kimmcrle suffered a bump on the head and Mrs Caroline a passenger the second vehicle had a bruised arm Half an hour later and half a mile further cast vehicles driven by Russell Snooks of Brampton and Gary McFadden of 297 Peel St collided for damage Dim Crocker of Brampton a passenger in the Snooks vehicle was listed as injured ithe OPP report Fell through ice rescued by scout Referring to the by laws which the chairman read aloud Mr Murray admitted there were no restrictions on cutting up the downstairs room there It was more talked into a gentleman agreement he declared where it was agreed if the society raised funds for the community centre they could have full use of the room We d soon only have a cloak room left if we didn voice some objection he said Arena manager Harold Townsley recalled going to the piesident of the Agricultural Society to get a copy of the agreement when he was a member of Parks Board but chimed it was never received and the room was divided up Would the delegation consider holding fair board mceftigs in the upstairs auditorium The matter would have to come before a full board said Mr since some members could react violently to the suggested solution Fair Board shouldn t be asked to relinquish their rights to the room he claimed fine Owe to save a life Its blood donor elm tern again Lets hope attendance- disappointing tana at the Legion Thursday March 26 3 to then to St John Ambulance brigade am sponsors Steven is being recommended for a Boy Scout award following his rescue of a girl from the icy water of Fairy Lake on March The girl parents Mr and Mrs M Hill of Main St N didn know for some time the name of the boy who had saved their daughter When they learned it and that he is a scout they wrote a letter to scoutmaster McCann We and the whole family give tins boy our heartfelt thanks The scouts and most certainly his parents must be very proud of him All we can hope is that Suzie s mishap will be a lesson to other children After all there are not always Steven Paptllons of tins world about at such times Susie will always be grateful to the boy We all will Apparently on the school holiday children were playing out on Fairy Lake despite many warnings The ice gave way under 10yearold Suzie and she went into very deep water Her heavy clothing soon became waterlogged and began to drag her under Her 1 1 yeareld sister Victoria tried to hang on to the hood of her coat but realizing she could not take the weight she began to scream for help Two boys came racing over One realizing the ice was not safe lept back quickly However Steven not thinking of his own safety managed to catch hold of the girl and get her out of the water and back onto the ice He told Victoria to take her home at once Soaked shocked and thoroughly chilled just suffered a cold and chill Steven is the son of Mr and Mrs Ken w v FOR HIS BRAVERY rescuing year old Suzie Hill from the icy waters of Fairy Lake Friday March 12 year old Steven Papillon is being recommended for a Boy Scout award Steven is the son of Mr and Mr Ken Nelson Court Staff Photo V