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NEW LEGION hall will be situated on to acres adjoining Fairy Lake Turn first sod for Legion Hall First sod was turned day morning for the new Legion hall to be built on acres beside Fairy Lake Legion president Bob and Mayor Duby were present for the symbolic first turning of the land formerly Cecil Nelles form A committee of the Legion is planning the work Mr McCut Ed John Gray red Allen and Gord James The future Legion hall will be approathed from Mill St with a turn west of Cameron St building will rise at the far end of the large lot near the with patio outside to tola advantage of the site Banquet hall largest room in the build ing is the banquet hall which can accommodate W0 or can be divided for smaller groups Its dimensions ore j9 feet feel It is reached through an tntrantc foyer and has adjoining washrooms and for parties weddings dances etc The men s lounge is by feet with seating for the Indies lounge by ttllh seating for 118 A games room by 49 fctt contains dart board pool table and shuffle board A board room has seating for 40 the main kitchen is carefully planned for cater ing There are also wash rooms cooler bars offices and store rooms There ore entrances to Iht building Parking Parking facilities are for cars Decision to proceed with tht new building has followed about a year of discussion The lommlttcc hopes to have foundations steel work and building enclosed by the end of the year Planners are MUG and Associates engineers Neliis is contractor for he excavating THE DIE IS CAST Tuesday morning president Bob Angell and Mayor Duby turned the first sod to get the new Acton legion hall off the ground on the 10 acre site west of Cameron Avenue beside Fairy Lake and opposite Prospect Park Operating the bulldozer in the background ib Lloyd and beside the machine is Percy Jinks official superintendent of legion hall building He recently completed another hall in Agincourt Percy will be in charge of the local project for the Legion Branch No 197 here in Acton Photo by Root f- v NINETY NINTH YEAR NO ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 17 Twenty Four Pages Fifteen Cents McKenzie keeps seat six proposed landfill WHO S THAT standing a thousand feet up in the air with all of Toronto stretched behind Us radio and TV reporter Jack Carpenter left putting on a pose of composed nonchalance With him at the outside edge of the imposing new tower is Grant design and construction manager To see what Jack saw turn inside todays Free Reeve Pat McKenzie maintains his seat as regional councillor for ward one Acton following an official recount Monday supervised by Judge Alan Sprague In formal court like setting every ballot in the eight Acton polls and the advance poll was recounted Official re suits after two and a half hours was 883 votes for McKenzie and voles for his opponent In the election Peter Marks Total vote was up by 12 ballots Count election night gave Marks 872 Irregularities In polls were discovered spoiled ballots had in some cases been completely rejected when only the spoiled section should have been rejected Thccount in two polls also changed by one Judge and two clerks were present at the recount in the court house with chief returning officer deputy Grant Usher Ray Steel of and Langdon law firm Mr McKenzie with his scrutineer Ookcs and Mr Marks with his scrutineer Brendan At the conclusion of the recount Mr Marks quickly congratulated Mr McKenzie Both men agreed it was a gentleman recount There were no disputes over any ballots sites in Esquesing twp Untangle Hydro mm coles at Qrton meet crash victim A revered churchman Murray M Coles was killed in a headon crash on Trafalgar Rd near Lower Base Line on Wednesday night of last week Mr Coles was a faithful member of Knox Prcs church and the funeral sen Ice was held there on Saturday He was years of age Mr Cotes of R Acton was killed in the collision and three others were injured Kiraly also of R Acton wis a passenger in the Coles car She is now out or care In hospital and proving on Driver of the other car Cameron 21 and his passenger I Bradbury IB both of are also now recovering well from lacerations and leg injuries cars ipparently met headon on a curve Obituary for Mr Cotes will appear in next weeks Free Fourth fatality A collision between a dump truck and a car on Highway this morning Wednesday took the life of John Watson Milton a resident of the Speyside area The deceased was driving the car which collided with the rear end of a dump truck in front of Durante Fsso service station half mile north of Highway at about a The car Jammed under the rear end of tht truck which was owned by T Smith Coroner Hunter declared Mr Watson was dead at the scene Milton are investigating The fatality was the fourth in the past week While the Solandt com mission is conducting hearings regarding the proposed KV power transmission corridor from to Pickering Ontario Hydro is holding meetings to determine two rights of way Tor KV power lines between Bradley Junction and the Acton Georgetown area meetings are being held with the nearest to this area set for Garafraxa Central Public School on Tuesday October Details of the process by which the two corridors were identified will described at the meetings and those it tending will have an op portunity to discuss the method by which torridors were identified and comment on the corridors as well as having an opportunity to suggest any additional corridors Hydro may have overlooked Already a group of Wellington County and County residents are suggesting Hydro could avoid a tot of hassling and some or the best agriculture land in province by avoiding this with the altogether and sending them from the power station to near Borden and and then south using an existing Hydro corridor The local group has already expressed their suggestion to Hydro without much success Spokesman for thegroup John Schneider of R 2 Acton says Hydro will not theavaihblc corn dor and to be used since they are reserving it for a future unidentified unlocatcd north of One the group s main on is that Hydro will be passing through valuable farm land in Wellington County whereas a northern route from Bruce to would use less arable land and complete a power grid ithout to deal with so many iandowners part would be on an existing route The group also claims there would saving on 14 miles of new corridor and there would be protection in the event of natural disasters such as tornadoes and ice storms They say only miles of the corridors would be unprotected whereas under the present or modified would allow for some miles of unprotected corridor The local group believes they have some support for their proposals within Ontario Hydro and they in tend to press them at the meeting on Tuesday October They are asking residents of the area who are concerned about a swath of towers coming through the possibly down through the Fourth and Fifth Lines of Fnn and or the Sixth 1 me of to come out to the Orton meeting The school is located on the Fergus Road between Fergus and directly above at the corner of the Seventh I me It is in ast township The group is also critical of Hydro for not holding a meeting in this area for residents to express their views Waste disposal will become a county responsibility and representatives of the con suiting firm of James Mc Lor en I Imited outlined their proposals Monday night to council Their fin report commissioned by county council Is not yet writ ten Doug Sexsmith site dircc tor and Bob Graham project engineer unfurled a county mop and explained colored dots indicating their findings and proposals Councillors soon noted that of 14 proposed county landfill sites six ore in township Questioned about this the consultants reviewed their criteria Two landfill sites were loc a led north of Acton two south west of Georgetown and two others in quarries in the township Four sites were marked in Nassagawcya three in and one in Burlington Processing There were also four sites marked for processing facili tics One is off highway in Hills one in Milton one in and one in Burlington location was not determined These are year lions the consultants ex plained They have already made presentations at the request of Nossaguweya Burlington Ice ready next week Repairs and painting In the arena are continuing today Wednesday in preparation for ice making this weekend Arena manager Harold says a sheet of Ice be ready to skate on early next week Ice making machinery was turned on last week and the floor temperature Is dropping to the required level to make ice and All Mies need imcstig first Mr Sexsm repealed It me si of landfill spots ire In said Reeve Tom Hill Councillor ob served one location wis close to water supply County engineer lick Cor who explained he propo sal lo councillors with the consultants said the final re port will come lo county council at end of and then is up to the regioml council He hearings would bo held You cm there be hearings echoed Deputy I en During the lengthy discus many questions were about the of Mr Mr explained sport problems mo ihodsof lining silos off accumulated liquids haling necessity of tour material and the pro of runoff clay soil in the south of llnlton Never site Mr idm t led Hi igrecd sites or dumps have i lirm in fit or until tin sites art fixe I Then knot hi tttrphccfitc miles Hi if ended sites is lion to the problem presentation w if ihalltnRcd it its conclusion by Bill Johnson chairman of llRD Croup United Rural Dumping lhis is but hi declared Ik from reports and publications during his op position to landfill sites and of recycling plants product heat for list Mr estimated recycling costs at a Ion landfill is to a ton win less tanital cost itxuit to GOO Ions of rifuse day he pointed out Mr Johnson promised lo be hack for lit etc Hill concluded the by commenting he is happy council had hired consultants to prepare a report t manage it hi Sandra Van Fleet dies in accident Sandra Van Fleet Tragedy ended the promts career of one of Acton bright young women on Mon day afternoon Sandra Van Fleet IB had been working for two weeks as program and with assistance of friend Susan was taking a load from the to the dump when the accident occurred Their truck owned by s mother Jean McPhail went off the fourth line of south of 17 side- road on a crest rolling over on the cast side of the road way Driver Susan 16 was ted and released from hospi tal Const Brian of the Milton detachment investigated college was in her second year of recreation leadership at College of Applied Technology ana had just been engaged as part time for the here Registration nights plan ned for Monday and Tuesday were cancelled said Y board chairman Pat Young people who showed up to register were asked to come again next week when other arrangements have been made he said She was like a breath of fresh air in the said Mr She was a real go getter and worker We wire really impressed Schools Sandra Van Fleet lived with her parents Don and brothers Russell and Randy at low St She is survived by grandparents Mr and Mrs J A Van Fleet Park Ave She was born March 1955 and attended Robert Little school and Acton high school before going to College She was a member or Acton Citizens Band or five years She enjoyed participating in driving fancy ponies at the fairs and played lacrosse and golf She liked working with children and had been en Ihusiastlc about her job at the She was a member of Trin ity United church and former minister the Rev Gordon Turner will conduct the fun service at the Shoemaker funeral home on Thursday afternoon Inter ment will be in cemetery News of the accident deeply shocked the community where the family is so well known The toss is to the whole town which would have benefitted from her and talents ONTARIO COMPETITIVE Trail Ride Associations High Point Arab of is five year old Treysabara owned raised and ridden by Highway 24 has won many trophies this year winning in all of the four rides she has been on She and owner are pictured here admiring the awards they won at the Rutins Canuck s Annual Endurance Ride on Sept 30 The ride is a first of its kind in Ontario being a 60 mile contest ridden in two days thirty miles each day Photo by Jennifer