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Acton if housin Acton would more than double its present papulation if a proposal submitted to the administration committee of Hills council Monday night becomes a reality The plan presented by llancc Develop would cover acres on the former and Me Cullough farms on the east cm boundary of Acton along Churchill Road south Bill solicitor for Alliance Ex urban Develop ments said the eventual tar act would be people In the southern section and In the northern section total of new residents in the community Ho hastened to reassure the committee this not be done all at once mil over a long period of lime The lawyer said he wan asking for an amendment to the official plan changing Ihe zoning from agricultural to residential He said the Tor mcr Acton council had favor development to the east of town as the logical way to go He said first area to be developed Iho former Sprowl farm would eventually house A people with a density of to the acre I assume this would be a development or It s enough to scare the pants off us commented Councillor Mr assured it would be He said the char of the town would be preserved and the present town remain as the core of the and beech bush would be preserved In Its en tlrcly adjacent a school Ho stressed the develop ment would be integrated with the existing town Mr said an ecological study had been done on the area and suggested a swampy area be partly drained and channelled wondered if Indus trial land should not bo in eluded II comes back to the point do wo want a dormitory town or do we want an Indus I rial town Mr said the area had a great many not scenic features and may bo better suited for tint development He suggest other areas may be better for industry People In Acton are particularly sensitive to the odor problem said the law The lawyer said pro posed shopping centre which was shown as 14 3 a had been cut to nine acre Ik hi centre would ensure the continued success of the downtown tore of Ac ton Ho emphasized Ihe nine acres Included the parking area Mr said the area cut from the shopping centre might well be used for community purposes such oh a community ball or simply left open spate until a use was decided You re talking about mure Hum doubling Acton commented chairman Hoy Booth Planner Mario Vendltti said Ministry of lias limited Acton h growth at present and one time hud slated a maximum 12 town He said the Ministry was reassessing capacity In take effluent We have nearly doubled our In the three ytars mid now we re about doubling in llu next three slated Hi Mated Regardless of the capacity of any sewage plant is thi rpielvlng which dictates amount of i fluent it eon and they Irfid or yearn pointed nut the pro blem was now eoinpounded by the provincial push for housing Mr said his client would llu municipality first fort move part In any tow turning pro vlnclnl Wi ficlthp municipality has the slake In housing and wi nil In that pro at thi direction of the municipality Hit mailer was rtftnttl l the r and tin planning sub Carrier service begins with formality Letter carrier service In Acton began Monday with a outdoor ceremony or post office officials in vllcd guests and the general public and of course the seven new carriers About 100 gathered at nine clock beside the post office where organizers had sud denly produced a platform flags public address system chairs and tables of coffee and doughnuts names of London explained his department feels the formality and presentations begin a new service with a good feeling among the public The sun rose over the tree- tops warmed the large group and evaporated the dew on Ihe grass and after an seven carriers set out with their first mail on a per feet September morning Dully begun I declare duly inaugurated the letter carrier delivery service in Ac Ion Ontario pronounced Dr as he resented a letter opener to lalton Hills Mayor Tom Hill Letter carrier Stanley stein marched up onto the platform and pulled from his bag the first letter to be delivered and gave it to ihe mayor whose address for the occasion was on his route at Mill the town office Not all cases The who lives in Glen Williams died the close relationship that he knows from experience will be lost Contact will be lost and Extra 5000 Acton pool Heating of the pool area at Actons new swimming pool cost an extra The exact amount is not known yet but Wednesday night Hills council set up a tt contingency fund for Ihis purpose and authorized the engineer and recreation director to ap prove expenditures Doug recreation director said gas heaters were included in the original costs but were rejected by Ontario Fire Marshal office He said the town would have to go to forced air heating or dec Iricity and cost could be as low as Mr said the con tractor was calling for a September completion date Councillor Hyde asked how the plans could go this far and then be shot down by the Fire Marshal office Councillor Les asked if the healing was adequate for a school why not the pool The recreation director pointed out Ihe pool was not led to the school He said the Eel area has to be main at a temperature of friendship slip away he predicted Others praised Ihe new service during Ihe cere monies but not the mayor lakes the contact of the people further still Let us change things too far Let us not forget how good things were In the past In his kilt When he spoke M P The Hon George Kerr recalled his great grandfather was a rural moll carrier In Quebec wearing kills and sounding a horn let the farming families know he He w many miles a day Mr Kerr said Fric Nelson and Leonard gave the and closing fro and post office on the were chairman Murray director of postal service southwestern division and Arnold south area brought greet Inge from Post manager master General Mae Former Mayor Les was on stage as well Aclon and Canada post MP Frank office both celebrate Fence delays tennis courts Hire three locals as crossing guards The start of Ihe school year was also I he beginning of a new career for three Atton residcnls Three school crossing have been hired to the children the street at the busier sections of William of Mill St Is situated on Main St to stop Ihe cars when children arc crossing the street to the Robert Little School Mrs J Bower St is at the corner of Mill and Willow SI Mrs Pat is on the corner of Queen St and Acton The three new guards were each supplied with raincoats hats and a want stop sign They have found the drivers ire good for stopping Their hours arc from ap proximately to a m and 11 45 lo i They arc back on the job at 3 to Anxious tennis buffs have started playing this week even though frustrating delays have prevented In of Ihe fencing The players ore borrowing the nets from the community centre and knocking around a few bills anyway director Doug Colllson says he very disappointed that the con tractors Frost Hamilton haven I got the fencing up yet They have been promising for three weeks he says The fence is In the works yards and the town workmen would like to sec It out of there too he adds Promises Mr has been calling the fencing company regularly and getting promises Contract for fencing was including both ends lofoot wings and posts The posls for Ihe net ore already in and the lines for Ihe three courts are painted painting cost a court posts each nets each and asphalting Mr says Total cost is thus about The local tennis club is all set lo go once the fencing is in tcnnluls In 1074 ho said Acton was incorporated as a village a century ago and the same year In Montreal the first free letter carrier ser vice under Confederation was Inaugurated Nearly 11 letter carrier carry on their walks In more than communities and dogs bite about I letter carriers a year Acton had inhabitants In 1874 now there are points of delivery hero The first postmaster Robert began his duties in IB44 and was at his suggestion the name of Ihe village was changed from Adamsvllle to Acton I McDonald was postmaster from lo 1957 James Matthews had a reign lhat followed by Jnme Matthews the late hern and the late Terry look charge in I960 Post office status lias grown from a revenue office through semi staff status lo staff status and now letter carrier office related Members of the Legion Ladles Auxiliary served coffee and doughnuts to the people attending as they lingered on to chat a long time habit the post office Said one long time Acton resident reminiscent at the change lo carriers I the best jokes I ever heard on those post office steps Acton warned weekly garbage Where are we going We seem to be going from crisis to crisis stated Councillor Pat McKeneic to Hilts council last week as he suggested a seminar of councillors and department heads to establish where the town is going Em Hyde backed him up He said the town should know if are aiming for slow growth or looking for industry We have to know what we want to happen within our boundaries Council voted to plan such a meeting Schools attendance figures high or low Hills works com decided stick with once a week garbage pickup during the winter months in Georgetown During Ihe summer for obvious reasons garbage Is picked up twice a week Thty also discussed future In the town and Ihe act garbage disposal will be a problem In the future Councillor Em Hyde The public schools in and area ire erowded but In most cases enrollment figures were either up or down from the number of students expected In the Acton high school there were students registered on the first day tin vice- principal said I think it will probably increase to or There were 164 grade nine students expected With enrolling The school has grade 11 students with an average of per class However many grade pupils ore taking advantage of the credit system and studying grade subjects This makes each class quite a bit larger We are having lo make some shift changes on timetables Mr explained He stressed however that there were not more than students In any eradc clasb M Z Bennett public school has to set up another kin class in order to accommodate the great number of youngsters Another leueher will be hired to the extra class This had five or Six more students than an even though the enrollment is down seven from last June There are students in the school ex ponding out to two portable classrooms located at the back of school One more is to be up from Milton Throughout the year we w ill be getting new students remarked the principal Gary The Sheridan Arts and Crafts will be located at the school this year Robert I School has students enrolled This figure is expected to to 675 by Christmas There were students in June There are two portables one of which is empty ailing Tor the great influx to begin Principal Allen said more new students had been from Hill school had expected to house pupils However only showed up on opening day Some of the students transferred to other schools while some families moved away from the community Norman Howell principal of Speyside school has no idea why that school was students short of the expected number At present there ire enrolled they had ex peeled 228 There are however fewer children In the junior grades than in previous years wondered what would be the of having twite a week pick up In both Acton and Georgetown Town engineer Peter Morris said that it would involve the of mother packer which will eventually happen anyway The committee also debated whether twice a week service would be feasible In in the years to come considering the growth of the area Aclon has been warned and prepared for many years for the time when they would get only wek service ind I don I think they will be too surprised when the Councillor Joe Hurst said Snowmobile clubs to help with bylaw The Georgetown Snowmobile Club will sit in on meetings later Ihis in which a new by law for snowmobiles for Hills will be formed The club went to the Monday night works com meeting requesting they be allowed to join in on the work invoked framing the new legislation You were very w to come lo us now and I m sure we would all appreciate your help committee chairman Lea said I think we should contact the club and have them also participate Councillor Joe Hurst added FIRST LETTER was officially delivered Monday morning by carrier Stanley Eckstein to Mayor Tom Hill The mayor who lives in Glen Williams took his letter addressed to the town office on Mill St All rest of the days first delivery went into mailboxes in the usual way For Acton Ambulance first aid Members of the Georgetown Volunteer Service told the Hills finance com miltce they would like to extend their service to Acton but the decision rests with the Ministry of Health which controls ambulance service in the province is now covered by ambulance from The Ministry defines ambulance boundaries in an elastic way and although the Georgetown service is closer I he re arc other factors to consider For instance doctors in Acton deal with Guelph hospitals If the Georgetown ambulance took the time to deliver patients to hospitals it would weaken the service in and around Georgetown Ross Rennick secretary of Ihe Georgetown Volunteer Service said the Ministry is considering establishing a first aid team in Acton similar to those successful in Ontario They would treat patients at Ihe scene and summon an from Georgetown One collision Ihis police parked ear owned by Harry i received damage and car driven by Claude Couture It It about damage in ihe in There were four drug charges laid this past week bj Acton and two liquor seizures The drug charges were laid and Saturday against three local people and one of town man on Main Park Ave and In the park Three in court Oct and one Nov Legion Open House set for fair weekend iuby said he had been under the Impression all along that the pool was using the school healing system Date of the public open by then and fall fair weekend weekend of Sept starting ceremonies GOLDEN HAWKS AntfPhni a Leg al a good time for this special with a dance Angelina IS eight years Old and attends in the afternoon Legion tertain at the public program represented M Bennett school The Golden Hawks went on to have decided things in the new building On Saturday afternoon 3 win their series held at the park Saturday completed official opening is the there will be outdoor wilh the Choraliers and Acton Citizens Band Older members of the Ladies Auxiliary and mens Legion wishing transportation out to the new Legion for the official r guests with opening or the Open House members only the next wccKend are asked invitations phone the branch at air dance The Legion will be open to On all fair night Sat Sept guests alter the ceremony there will be another This Saturday night there dance with music by Kent will be a dance again for Tocher and free admittance