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school takes top festival honors M Z Bennett Public School Acton took top honors in the North Music Festival held at Martin St School in Milton Wednesday The Acton School won a total of seven first second and third place awards in the competition Running close behind Acton in the competition were and Martin St Schools Almost 1 500 youngsters of Junior intermediate and senior grade In 11 public schools participated in the festival This was the first year in several the festival has been held In Milton Adjudicator for the day was Miss Marion Park of Lincoln County Board of Education music department Announcements of winners in each of the competitions were followed by loud cheers and profuse handclapping Pizza for winners Members of the triple trio from M Bennett enjoyed a party at the home of teacher John Taylor in Acton Wednesday evening That was their treat after successfully defeating five other schools to win the competition for grade and 8 triple trios North Association for the Performing Creative Arts Music festival Is sponsored by the Festival Association Several service and women clubs and groups in North Halton support it and provide trophies and plaques to be presented to winners Several representatives from various clubs were on hand to make the presentations Wednesday Mrs Joanne Frost of Georgetown was trophy convener Likes talent At the conclusion of the agenda Miss Pork noted she was amazed at the musical talent displayed by the of all and special mention to the organization for getting pupils In and out of the auditorium with little noise and complete supervision All first place winners sang In the performing arts concert held it Milton District School auditorium on Thursday evening Several other vocal and instrumental selections and dances rounded out Thursday a Martin St School and president of this ye festival noted that ill participants in the festival had been individually selected by music teachers to sing in the event And every one of them sang their hearts out he added List participants Schools competing in the festival were Robert Little and 7 Bennett Schools from Acton MurtinSt I Dick Milton Percy Merry Nassagaweyn George Kennedy Georgetown Williams I imchousc and squesing Winners Class one Buttercups and Daisies Primary choir grades 1 and enrolment an over Bennett first Kennedv second third Also competing was School Class two The Wind Junior choir gride and enrolment over first Bennett second third Kennedy was also competing Class three Spring Wing Intermediate choir and enrolment and over Merry first second Martin St third Little Bennett and also entered CI One Morning in the Me choir grade an I S A Martin St first Brookville second and Bennett th rd also entered in the competition lass five Colorado Trail Senior gride and S A St first Brookvllle Bennett third I also competed I is- six King Men Hoys unchanged voices Bennett first second Speyslde third Also competing were and Brookvllle schools seven Nova Scotia Boys unchanged voices rtin St first Bennett second S Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MAY S Pages F Cents The Fourth Sideroad truck route dispute erupted again at Esquesing council Monday night After two hours of emotional pleas by mothers for council to consider the safety of their children council stood firm on its previous decision to maintain the two roads as the township designated truck route Council did however agree to ask the OPP to watch trucks on the route more closely for speeding and to consider a written submission from rate payers on whether or not and how they want and the Fourth Line improved Councillor Dick the lone member of council who opposes the route suggested contacting the OPP and asking for the written submission Councillor who had remained silent for most of the heated discussion between mothers and council said he still opposes the Fourth Line route but told rate payers I think you re going to have to accept this Wants guidance have no qualms about sending trucks out to Highway he said but if the truck route is going to stay the same I like to have some guidance on whether like to have the road improved or not Speaking for the group of mothers Mrs Bertha Marcolim explained their main concern is the children safety She claimed trucks were clocked at miles per hour on the route lost year that a child was injured by a stone sent flying by one of the trucks If council were to keep the roads in shape she felt it would only make Accordingto Mrs the trucks whenever the is patrolling the route At the least bit of inter we don see the trucks which means they do have another road Why can t they use it all time she asked What would you do if you lived in Reeve Tom Hill asked Mrs They have a iter problem Why don t thej complain about if came a question from the delegation Cause they re old time residents young boy and they re not so hard to get along with the reeve snapped back Hill pointed out trucks have been running through Glen Williams for all the years he s lived there and no one has ever come to council to complain about them Dick a resident of said he had called the OPP that very morning because there were trucks going across the road more than miles per hour Snow version Roads superintendent Bud Snow said he hod made six trips over 17 himself that day and never once followed a truck going faster than miles per hour They were closer to he said Further he said an constable who had been watching the road in an unmarked car told him he had failed to clock anyone over mph Mrs Sandra Book who lives on the Fourth Line told council five trucks lost control coming down a nearby hill and had to be pulled out of her front yard last year no guarantee trucks They go too fast and there got to be some way of slowing them down she told council Mrs Book said It Is hard enough to keep a car on the roads the way they are and claimed she has been forced over by trucks while driving her car We ve all been forced over at some time sounded another voice from the delegation They play a game with us They call it Chicken Mrs Edna May Markham told council everything could be cleared up if the trucks would take the original route Third Ijne to to Highway People over there are still in Councillor reminded Mrs Markham No matter what road they re still in he said You don t mind them going down Reeve Hill You want the good roads but not the trucks Stand taken reeve Russell Miller reminded the delegation a stand lias been taken and the only thing council can do now is make it a good rood We II have to say it a truck route we 11 make it safe to travel he promised Mr Snow pointed out there are trailers hauling materials from Quarries across Five and 10 Sideroads all the time We get the trailer Mrs Markham replied I live on a road thats got more trucks than yours have ever seen the roads superintendent offered Mr Snow lives on the Seventh Lino near Ballinafad Coming to the- rescue of the mothers whose arguments seemed to have little effect on council Mr charged council contravened its own holding by law by making Fourth and 17 a truck route the ro ids a truck route Involved a land use which the by 1 prevents Reeve Hill asked clerk treasurer to check witli the township solicitor on the matter Stating his own opinion Mr trench said lean assure you ind docsn mean Reads statements Mr proceeded to read a list of statements he alleged were made by members of lost year council at public meetings rhe statements attributed to Reeve Hill Deputy reeve Miller and Councillor Wilfrid Leslie all were in connection with the truck route and represented various views on solutions to the problem Mr called a suggestion he claimed Councillor Ieslie made at a meeting last October the only logical solution Councillor Leslie suggestion was for council to ask the Department of Highways to construct a truck route After hearing the statements Cookie Day response saddens uide ind Brownies made tl for funds of the on Cookie and sold far less than one box per Acton I were disappointed at the day results boxes sold which produces just for each of the two Brownie packs and each of the two Guide troops It was the poor response last vear th it resulted in the Acton Nassagaweya opposes county voting changes Nassagaw a Council w ill oppose a pru ate bill to the Ontario Legis lature which would alter representation it Countv Council as suggested and Burlington members decided Reeve Don McMillan pointed out that and Burlington were seeking greater represent itlon on council proposal was to Burlington three more representatives and two more This would result in Burlington and Oakville having and the the The proposed would also give the municipalities the option of sending their or rather than the deputv reeve Sees north south saw the move as an added cost She suggested the two municipalities were making big recalling that last year no one talked north south but now a new was evident The didn ant to be crpowered she said of Burlington Pointing to the possible outcome of the change the reeve noted that on regional government Burlington and Oakville could vote for the system the d and carry it through the county group cutting their order way down this year and all the boxes they had were sold Girls work hard are Brownies and 38 Guides and everybody was out the leaders say The girls did a terrific job District commissioner Rose Hall who was right behind her girls when they knocked on doors was very saddened by the response She said not were her Brownies turned away but were spoken to very rudely at some doors It would break your she said but her girls still did their best Area low Mrs Hall says it s embarrassing to have to report Acton response at area meetings She is district commissioner as well as Brown Owl of one pack and Halton public relations secretary And she has a full tune shift work job Acton is one of the lowest cookie sellers in the whole area she finds Own money leaders must take money out of their pockets to run the packs troops she says but the are well worth it Plan camp Right now a summer Guide camp right near town is being planned tor which equipment must be bought Mrs Ginger will be leader for one week and Mrs Strongitharm for another The Must hold second hearing second Ontario Municipal Board hearing on townships agricultural holding by law will be held In the township council chamber Monday June at 10 a m Georgetown lawyer Walter who represents of the Golden Horseshoe Dragway informed council last month he was unable to locale notice of the original hearing which was held February 11 Owners of the strip are objecting to the by law Clerk treasurer French told council Monday night township solicitor Terry Balnea has asked that the cost of the hearing be applied against those who necessitated it A decision is to be made the day of the hearing Brownies will be able to go out visit to get a little used to what camp is like the Scout and Guide Mothers will be helping provide funds for the purchase of tents Lack of response However the Scout and Guide Mothers have money problems too When an appeal was sent recently to all the homes of Guides Brownies Cubs and Scouts for donations to bake sale to raise money for the groups just worth was sent A spring outing is also planned Last year the girls to Storybook Gardens in London and this winter they attended the Ice together Maintain guiding proceeds from Cookie D ij are divided With just 20 boxes sold each group 50 and the rest goes to the area and the province to guiding The organization is a charitable one and this as the only of the year the girls Acton should hive been able to absorb boxes easily Mrs Hall thinks amines are eating cookies anyway the special orders were delicious and what more they freeze well I was very saddened she said read Deputy reeve Miller reminded Mr had voted only one w every time the matter was put to a vote We can Just keep jumping back and forth he said Once the bridge is reconstructed the people will have to put up with it Councillor suggested Mr Iooyc keep the topic current happened before his very little bearing on a solution to the problem he asserted In a final plea Mrs Marcolim asked the reeve if he has the power to tell trucks what ro ids they can use I con t answer was the reeve reply Mr trench said council has jurisdiction over trucks over 11 tons but not over those carrying less what wrong with them using the other Mrs Marcolim s nobody going to go down to and back up to the reeve replied Is only after the dollar as I said before Mr Looye interjected Councillor Coxe said he would complain if someone told him he had to go six miles out of his way Councillor Leslie thought rate payers should give council a chance to put the roads on the truck route in shape Have rights We have rights those rights ire being stepped on Mr looyc charged Per square foot we re paying greater tuxes than In reply Councillor I said he had heard figure of for taxes being paid by Indusmin plus employing men he added 1 don see why we have to give up a country road to support in industry an unidentified member of the delegation shouted When Mrs Book asked why I me and Sideroid was designated a truck route in the first place Deputy reeve Miller told of an experience he had in the home of a small township trucker around election time He told me I II never vote for you as long as I live you re making me drive extra miles re taking my living the reeve reported Mrs Hook said she is sure manv of the trucks using the route art delivering out of the township She suggested trucks delivering out of the township be made to take the shortest route to a ay You can t tell me our township roads are made for that she added Mr lxye made it the delegation have nothing against township truckers Class nine Lift Thine Eyes pie trio grade and 8 Bennett first Martin St second and third Martin St and Little also competed loss Circus Clown Primary choir grade one two three enrolment 250 and under Dick first I lmehouse second and Williams third Speyslde was the fourth entrant Class 1 1 Cuckoo Song Junior choir grade four five and six enrolment 250 and under Speyslde first Williams second and I lmehouse third Dick wis also entered in his competition Class 12 Summer Queen Duet Grade and enrolment and under Speyslde first Williams second and Dick third also competed Mothers pleas fail to change Esquesing truckroute CLEANING UP the school creek Creek cleanup bird sanctuary contest entries Ihe Saturday cleanup of the school creek by high school students will form an entry for a Sportsmen Show award through the Credit Valley Conservation authority A group under Sean Aherne with teacher Carl started the two day project last Saturday The group of about worked from till noon and will be back on the site again this Saturday to finish upl TrucWoad lull They started at Highway by the library with hip waders garbage bags and the help of a truck man donated by the town They proceeded down as far as the hydro building and got a good full truck load of garbage junk and stuff was a considerable amount of broken glass in the water as well as scrap metal Next stage takes the cleanup from the hydro building to Wallace Ave Waterfowl Another group of students has another plan mind as their in the Conservation contest are consulting with parks board and and Co about creating the planned waterfowl sanctuary on Fairy Lake Some of these students with Mr went Tuesday evening to Kortwright Waterfowl sanctuary near where assistance and advice was forth coming Vote against deer season Despite recommendations Department Lands and Forests biologist J J Armstrong and Conservation Officer Date Hartley and the Sportsmen Association a man committee of County Council has voted against a three- da deer hunting season In on a biannual basis Mr Armstrong provided biological data showing why he frit It is preferable to have a hunting season Mr elaborated on the situation in County He told the dogs disease and cold weather could control the deer population if a hunt was not allowed but the Department felt there was a recreation value In allowing the hunt rather than having the deer suffer and die at nature hands The Tuesday recommendation of the joint committee of finance agriculture property and personnel committees will go before County Council at their May meeting 6 Bennett Boys Unchanged Voices Speyslde Junior Choir