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Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), October 23, 1974, p. 3

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Council approves coordinator Continued from Page one and two Our recreation director time for liaison with the citizen rips He needs more staff government but it the help him with various reason we hired him Booth groups Councillor Lea said No we hired him in the I of because wc needed him It was thought he would bean aBset for regional said Coxe wondered why thero was a need for a In ward two The work for a In ward two doesn amount to a hill of beans Were doing this to just balance things out with wards three and four complained Coxe added he still like the idea of how the pool supervisors will be set up coordinator hasn t anything to do with the pools The workload in recreation is too heavy We have to have liaison with the various groups reiterated Councillor Miller laid he thought getting a co ordinator would help Acton and thus help all of Hoi on Hills said ho thought Booth was wrong about Gray hiring but let the subject drop Councillor Dick returned to the topic of the pools wondering if the pool supervisor In Acton could also be the aquatic programmer in Acton Levy sold he thought It would be too much of a work load for the pool supervisor and the person wouldn be qualified anyway The Acton Free Press Wed October 1974 3 Council delays Acton fair grant A grant of to the Acton Agricultural Society for the fair will while Hilton Hills finance com mittee waits for a report on the cost to the town of cleaning up the park after the fair Tht finance to Monday night committee of iht whole touncil meeting the grant be dehyed until the costs are known until they receive some word about hi kind of grant the Agricultural Society wants Councillor Coxe said thogrtnt was in the budget but lit d dn know If there hid been an application from the Acton group He said there have been one he Mould look into it Horry Levy told the councillors they had recoil request from Hit Acton fair group but they were waiting to see how much the up cost He said In other years it had cost as much is S3 to clean up after the Georgetown fair and costs Jiavt gone up We and hear much it cost clean up after tin fair he said eel own aluas A FOOT extension is being built at Cartage just west of town The building 200by80feetand20feethigh will provide more space for bonded warehouse business and storage Fryters bros buy Maxwells is a delegation for their trim Maybe Acton v it should come and do it Crossing guard change Meeting A special meeting is being arranged for Wednesday evening at the library when members of the Acton We hired him ministration committee and were going into recreation director Doug regional government but now will talk over we need another because of problems together Summary of Collison report In his report to the general who has put In hours administration committee overtime May recreation director Doug lie rate increases are due began by saying to Bill not to him he Throughout the year wrote starting at the every Lack of service was beginning the recreation inevitable he concluded and department has requested been pointed out to additional staff for the council on mare than one department indicating that occasion the present staff could not do Before Regional all that was required On each Government only the Town of of these occasions we have Georgetown had been either turned down or tive staff to deal with the decision deferred programs and Community Mr said he has groups After Regional attended evening meetings Government additional staff and weekends which total 130 to serve the increase in hours and this did not include population and area was overtime done on refused or deferred by the tive work at the office and Council on every occasion home Program coordinator Now that a situation has has had similar developed where a group is load not receiving the service it He reviewed the meetings thinks it do nerves Council planned for Acton and the wonders why The answer In reasons they were adjourned my opinion has been given on or cancelled It had been left that he and chairman Diane would get in touch The summer had been hectic Mr continued to give his point of view on each contentious Issue listed by the Acton group He said budgets had Indeed been prepared but brought to meeting when the committee had of a seventh member met the same fate occasions and that more staff is needed The recreation staff has had very little from Council over the post eight months and when articles appear In the paper such as was the case last week staff members begin to wonder if all the overtime that is put in and the extra effort is worth It Council must take the time to understand what the Recreation Department is Although the committee establish what they j mint I In unit rails had not been informed of the status of the arena roof tht arena manager knew He tried his best to answer calls As to grants the depart does not encourage groups to apply for them reviewed the problem of the tennis court location and late installation of fencing Agree He tended to agree with their complaint on less successful summer programming this year The contract for groups using ice objected to locally is the standard Georgetown one He supported the swim program although the committee recorded many complaints The change to park maintenance b works department was made by council Not intent It was not our intent to ignore the Acton committee be told council committee men resent the I to He defended the arena Harold Townslc No decision feasibility on Region polite assuming polking duties in Acton and hasn Net been presented to the regional police The Maxwell egg business at R Acton has been taken over by and who will be renaming the business Bros Ltd Mr and Mrs EJ Maxwell the former owners are to stay in the Jules Fryters says the controversy in the newspapers about eggs being held back or thrown out has been blown out of proper Hon He had hoped to ex the Maxwell place but unfortunately he cannot until the Marketing Board has been notified He can only have a specific number of chickens producing a certain number of eggs At the present time the Fryters h rot hers arc con mainly with reorganizing their newly acquired business and setting things up Mr Fryters Is predicting a shortage of eggs soon especially in the premium sizes Recently thousands and thousands of chickens were killed to reduce the production level across the country Now there arc not tnough eggs and some arc being imported from the Egg producers art in a bad light right now bul time will show the public it not their fault he said referring lo the high prices and shor of eggs At the present time a dozen eggs are being sold at cents In Oakvillc and the Toronto area they art going for more than SI a dozen The prices could drop if the feed went down Mr ryters explained Feed prices have gone up twice in this month with more raises next month He feels this is partially due to the high cost of corn One ton of feed costs which is a SO per cent in crease over last year With 10 thickens eating one ton per day it gets pensive and that feed Mr stills feels that even cents per dozen whlth is fl each the ego is still the cheapest food around for the food value you get The brothers plan to keep their overhead down and operate economically in New crossing guard in town is Mrs Dorothy She has taken the Robert I It order to keep their eggs from since September but the the tgg producing pur bought tie highway and getting very expensive deil fully completed the Hillside on Hill Cirnochin has transfer The brothers hive been until all the paper work wis formerly owned red to the Mill Willow tree running the Maxwell place done on Monday Last week Harry i pretty t f SCHR0EDER CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC 107 Guelph St E Brampton EDWARD H SCHROEDER Doctor of Chiropracnc 4590685 NEW HALLOWEEN GREETING CARDS and FOLDERS SHELLOUT BAGS CANDY or Shell out Bags Cocolate Bats b Ison Chew ng Gum Packages and Adams WE SAVED BV BUYING BEFORE THE PRICE INCREASES YOU SAVE 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