Ontario Community Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), September 13, 1972, p. 3

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Limehouse residents seek protection Tim Aden Wodnaidny Soptambor 3 and area re grouping their forces and preparing for what may be a last ditch effort to convince county council gravel trucka should not be travelling through the village on County Road County council has promised to give the delegation another hearing sometime month county has already mode two proposals first that the road through the village be widened and sidewalks Installed and second that a truck bypass be constructed to the north of the village but most village residents found both of these unsatisfactory Main concern of mothers In the area Is the potential danger truck traffic represents for small children who must walk to and from school along the road which has very little shoulder In most parts At a recent meeting of Coundl a deputation of mothers asked council to recommend to county that the trucks be to take a route during the three hours children are walking to and from school namely 30 30 In the morning 12 noon and 10 In the afternoon 1 afraid there going to be a fatality some day Why don they do something now before It happens Mrs Mulder suggested during an interview with this paper last week When two trucks meet and there no shoulder on part of the road the children have no alternative but to take to the ditch Mrs Mulder estimated about 300 trucks use road through the villnno daily travelling to and from Duff Quarries on the Fifth home empty trucks reluming to Indusmln Quarries are also believed to use the road A survey conducted Friday August that 313 trucks passed through the village during an hour period Children who live Inside tho village limits or east of the Sixth IJne Intersection do not take the school bus since the bus makes Its first stop there and they would be required to walk back half as far again along the road to got home Cite reasons her reasons for opposing the county offer to widen the road and Install a new bridge at the Fifth Line Mrs Mulder said she feared this would result in more trucks from the quarry using road Hie said she opposed the northern by to the village because It would have wiped Happy Vote change II be many changes in municipal election procedure following regulations of the new election act Joe Hurst Tuesday attended a three co unties seminar in on the new legislation Primarily discussed was the work of clerks and Mr Hurst expects to be very busy before the liquor vote here Nov and the town elections the first Monday in December The mayor reported phone calls concerning future voters not 18 when enumerated but by election day Complications There arc complications admitted the clerk Details applicable to Acton will have to be made known to the voters here certainly by ad vertlscments and perhaps by pamphlet The nomination meeting as known here for years Is to be no longer Nominations arc made in the town office with sponsors per person GRAVEL TRUCKS hauling through the village of represent a serious danger to small children walking to and from school and should be asked to seek another route in the opinion of a group of village mothers including Mrs H Mulder who walks two mites each day to meet her children after school Gibbons ACTON LIONS CLUB Fall Frolic and Dance SATURDAY SEPT at ACTON COMMUNITY CENTRE DANCING 9 PM to 1 FEATURING Harry Hibbs and the Shrimp Cocktail From the Caribou Club Tlckli available al Canadian Tlra I Store MOO at the door ACTON NIGHT SCHOOL will utter the it ACTON HIGH SCHOOL Registration Tues Sept 730 930 COURSES Not Weeks on Time Ft 10 French Bute Mandif n tie IS won 10 f I Men Women Tuesday 10 J 30 30 15 on to Handicrafts ft on to IT Monday Oil I Water Pi Mini 10 JJ13iEL00 JJL SuDtt f Tuesday Theatre Am ft Duma Tuesday 30 ft Monday Upholster VT Wednesday IS A twatry dm Ton to to CREDIT COURSES to pottery Academic NOTE HI be t the A nil In line wins VplxaUt tomicrtaatLaitcctatofuinblesippltn Ttu Li cum Studenti ADDITIONAL COURSES The public to submit new can twitted or two count to the Adult tducstkn not where coorilimiJ to contact our on any mitten CUM Day Nursery on the Filth line rim also affected Mr Duffs quarry business Wo don want to hurt Mr Duff either we he has a business to operate she said Mm Mulder claims some trucks are not now obeying the 30 mph speed limit signs which start at the Sixth Line corner and predicts that If the road Is made a truck route most residents will sell their houses and move Mrs Nell a mother of four children between ages of six and 12 backs up Mrs Mulder charge that some trucks are disobeying the speed limit She Is doubly concerned about the situation since one of her children alio has a paper route which requires him to travel by bicycle along tlie road She recalls a liltlo girl was pushed off the road when a truck was passing Inside tho village limits earlier this year I have walked down to the school to meet my children and the suction those trucks produce Is enough to almost blow you over she says She admits thai a northern by pass would eliminate danger to children but would produce on Pace FBI We havo good bound to Flower Arrangements for all Oooaiiont See Our Good Variety of EVERGREENS for Fall Planting Soil Elc Line Flowershop THE CRAVEN FOUNDATION ANTIQUE AND CLASSIC AUTOMOBILES ON DISPLAY SEPT J 3 to 20 SHOPPERS WORLD

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