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The Acton Free Press Wed May ffttt Editorial Band should be encouraged Sometimes members of Halton Hills council take their duties so seriously they are insensitive to publicspirited organizations which may not run strictly by the letter of the law as councillors see It A case in point happened last week when members of the finance committee grilled Acton Citizens Band conductor George Elliott before they would recommend a grant of Not that the finance committee of council should not be aware of the financial operation of the band but we feel they intruded into matters which were not really their concern Hie band has representatives who have always proved to be responsible Intelligent and responsive to the musical needs of the community and seem best equipped to say where funds should best be spent Finance chairman Harry Levy said he objected to the way in which money received from the town was donated to someone else who assisted the band Providing there has been no misuse of funds we think it should be the prerogative of the Band to decide where funds should be spent Councillors Levy and Ernie Sykes were concerned that funds taken in by the band were not used to reduce the grant What they are not considering is the service provided to the community by the band Surely it is a feather in any communitys hat to have a brans band and a means of teaching children one of the few cultural activities available in smaller places Lets not knock it but give it every encouragement especially since it concerns members 115 of whom are from Hills The attitude of some members of the finance committee is not only showing lack of confidence In the Acton Citizens Band but also in the way in which the former Acton Council allowed the band to operate in the past Certainly as Councillor Sykes indicated the Acton band should be treated the same as any other group within Hills but they must also remember the band supplies its services free to the town after a heck of a lot of hard work and practice sessions Tlicy have a full schedule of events that keep them busy According to Bandmaster Elliott it is time Georgetown had a band of its own to fulfil engagements required within the community because the Acton Band does not have the time available And we wonder if the omission is there because the attitude of previous Georgetown councils has discour aged a band from operating Judging from the attitude at finance this is possible Representative from Acton Its possible there could be a Member of the Legislature from Acton again if Gary Dawkins wins the Progressive Conservative nomination June 5 and then the election in Halton Burlington There hasnt been a member of parliament from Acton since the Hon David Henderson and that was many many moons ago Gary Dawkins is actively seek support these days in George town Esquesing and Acton So far only one other person has stated he will contest the seat George Gray of Georgetown Will miss George Currie The death of veteran politician George Currie at his home near last week signals the end of the era when politics was really grass roots George Currie presided over the meetings of Esquesing council up until he was 80 years of age with an acumen lor politics and the business of governing that never seemed to dim As a green reporter we remember watching as slick operators from Toronto and other cities breezed into the township council chambers feeling confident they would get their own way over representatives from Esquesing mostly farmers with little formal education We also remember many of the operators left the council on the short end of any stick they hoped to sell to shrewd coun cillors of the township One of the shrewdest was George Currie wielding the gavel only when necessary and getting to the heart of the matter with a minimum of words He seemed to know every one by their first name where they lived and what they did for a living He was also an affable sort who grappled with both sides of a pro blem before coming up with an answer He went out of his way to be helpful but if he felt someone or a group was trying to put some thing over on the people of the township he represented there was no scorn more withering or casm more pointed when he was convinced of fraudulent claims or dealings Of course no politician is al ways right but there are few in stances recorded when one could put the finger on George Currie for not putting the interests of the township first over his own person feelings Municipal Government in this part of Ontario has changed some claim for the better but we doubt that it will ever regain the grass roots feeling it had when men such as the former reeve and others of his ilk were in power It is a time we will remember with relish because it provided an education into municipal politics But well also recall the fine gentle men who represented the people at the council tables of Esquesing when political life was simpler and much was done simply for the good of the community And George was one of them Were OK thanks Bill While the proclamation of Family Unity Month does have a sentimental appeal it seems the government wants to do too much for us already without advising us about our family life The decree comes from the provincial govern although Tom Hill signed the notice in last weeks paper as the mayor Families are continually seeking more effective ways to combat elements in society which work against family harmony says the proclamation Wouldnt it be better for our government to encourage the police to combat these elements and leave our families to manage their own af fairs 18000 murders for kids Studies have shown that the average child spends more hours watching television before he or she goes to kindergarten than he or she would have spent in lectures during four years of college By age he or she has seen about 18000 human beings killed on tele vision And by the time he or she has finished high school he or she has been influenced by tele vision commercials These figures give parents something to worry about AIRPLANE TIPPED its wings ovei the arena and tennis courts so photographer Bill Stuckey could take this picture last week Workmen have half of one side of the arena roof off in this shot two people ire playing tennis Thats the Pioneer cemetery at the top left the poultry shed at the bottom right and one corner of the lake showing at the bottom Sfty Sugar and Spice by bill smiley This I had the chore sorting through a huge pile applications fur a Job on our high school staff leaching llsh One job and about applications Thai the way things art these days in tin leaching yime I1 true world for people try tug to break into he profession Armed w their pieces of paper on which it says right there in print that they an now quill ficd teacher Ihey sally forth to put into practice Iheir high ideals Iheir warm per their love for young people and the results of four or fivt years of I Mugging And whit do the find vast Nobody them want people with experience Rut how do you get experience If you can job an old story in the world of free enterprise but ft ill sad one for host night in the vicious circle It exactly like another faeel of the stem of we arc so proud banking if on re broke and need money a hank won loan it to you re rich and don need money you have to heal off tht ink with a stick I I help thinking as I sat toeing with people lives of the vist change tint has taken place since I began teaching is years ago Those were the days when the post war baby boom was hitting the high schools Principals were raiding induslr for teachers business lfouhadauniversltydtgree itwasas much as our life was worth to walk past a school A lasso would snake out voudfind gelling i hot lies pitch in a and next thing you knew were standing in front of with your mouth hinging open Anvont who w is not obviously drunk or ibly larded hid x pretty ill met of winding up in k iching One thil inn piges and pagts of advertisements nil spring hoot spent hundreds of thousands of doll irs on lismg I remember oik spring when I could i taken pick of jobs as in bead pieking up the Those were fat timts for young leathers too with no thing mine thin puny It this could pretty will pick and chouse where they wanted to work and I nth spring Hurt was an which tame to he known ivmmll as ihe mnrkii School from all pro- would take ur big in the ithirs would flock in It is i Tin talked halls If In knock he was sunk hid through the dour principal had or stronger forced in gum tin lIh hand a Job even if happened to Ik a bald ft malt with grttn In Mi Of tht much thin to but Ih il is worth more than twin as as it is now When I wis hired I ap plying for b lining left In province principal was on the phone the minute got my He believe that I had an honor degree In b nghsh Apparently I was only per son In Canada with such i degree who urn teaching Just two yean I hud depart headship forced on me I didn parli wint it Institute wanted mc to go there and teach journalism The president of Waterloo University wanted lo go Ihert and handle public relatioas teach some If were fired tomorrow with my ors degree and 15 years experience I d be lucky lo get job in caching As A language lo kids I checked with five of my colleagues in English department who entered idling during those halcyon Three of the five were hired by phone sight unseen Now we sort through vast sheaf of applications a guy with a DA MA indPh in English Discard him Overedutated no experience Here s one with an honor degree record just out of leathers college Discard her No experience And when we it down six or eight Hit have to show up for a gruelling interview gruelling for me too may hue driven miles for it and drive home with nothing to show for it but a he Thank you for coming Tht thing makes mc sick There a it of talented ithirs many of whom in go in to some othtr of making living rhtrt a whole slew of old leathers still in harness who ire hanging on i archaic regulations make them lung on until arc too old and sick and stupid and lired to be any loan one to draw Ihtir pensions in a with and in an whin the computer can ike act unit projections we can do bet use this outmoded sstem of jils which may be all right for Hit market but all wrong for human bungs Our readers write Proclamation platter of pious platitudes I wonder how many people read pro clamation stating Ihe month of I97 was to be regarded as bay in Ontario Apart from running the risk of into the hands of the manufacturers of greeting cards by creating as event and so boosting their profits can this really a significant effect upon people living in Ontario Is our Pre mier so concerned about the breaking up of the family unit or is this another political trick to promote his image and win votes by appciling to the sentiments of the people To readers who are turned off this letter thinking I must be an ardent lower of the opposition let me assure them Ihey arc wrong I question the intention of Proclamation because I find it dif to understand how Mr Davis can hove the audacity to put his signature to It when members of his very own Cabinet Ihis political family have set such appal ling standards to citizens adults and children of Ontario by falling into public disgrace and violating the trust placed in I also question his so called concern about ik mi tils in which work against family whin his Minis not haw Ihe In fici the fact one of the most influential of ila si iliments his in been introduction of programs in schools Ml of seemed In iaod ideas at the but isn it painfull obvious to the of that this parents and mtru ded on standards to an extent most parents were faced with a steady incrcssc in conflicts with children This same have rectntly set up a commission to investigate the effect of crime films on television on the and am delighted see that at long last children indulge subsequently have accept responsibility for control or tack of control One however which seems to be completed out of the control of parents is the school counselling A child in todays stem is almost encouraged to confide in his counsellor and discuss intimate details regarding the situation in his or home The intention is 1 have no doubt tht result Is disastrous sunn time sooner or later lhat child is land with a conflict lav alt and pos sibly an alitnaton to family or school If the family is the sacred unit whlth has sustained society for almost 000 eurs why have alluwed this intrusion to take place Is there really a place in our schools for amateur 1 would ask Mr is to look to this area in his concern for the sanctity of the family unit A proclamation of this type Is in itself an Insult lo people of Ontario It Is nothing but pious platitudes There are many reasons or Ihe break up of the family unit and I personally am convinced educators and politicians do not have the right to Interfere with the set by individual families Morality and sex education Is the res ponsibility of the parents and tt Is not for anv cabinet minister to decree that all children will have his or her standards set by any one method Betty Eastwood The Free Press Back Issues years ago II wan the nth whin Merrlx Parliament Miss Sybil had an unlucky tar accident I she wan not injurtd was damage to bin lit amounted In an at on ll third lint Ihc pond mar Alton Mr applied brakes to turn in a when Ibt s grahbt him to lose control in tin gruvil tar intend he facing from bis Alton for Dim days lunt week found wiuth of hi tarly by deal ha id Mr lluihanan Who had of in in 1 in u bush Mi it on farm of thru miles south of Aelon A of mm had bush a in at Hind hurt hill and Hh no dikh striking rock knocking It is a Ilymwih was i toial its driver Irvin liit of It injured accident on tin road uiiollur Saturday thi and a Nail jr a list Marled Mi just fin ruing ton right 50 years ago There an i levcn Street roadway over Iht waterworks services were in water takers There nine similar ties Church Strict Mill Street also has a number and other streets in an similarly blemished Probably it only rcijuires of tht Streets called to these places will promptly be remedied It might be an lettive way to the members of he ouncil in a car and them over these places at IS to miles per summer meeting of the Institute will be held in the Parish Hall on Thursday alio clock Mrs will give an address on Tin welcome At will be a meeting of the branch which all art requested to attend as there is important business lo talk over Mr and Mrs Robert II Held of are retiring from farming and will settle in Acton will reside in Mr Kerr s on Knox Avenue Mr and Cook of up their residence in At ton Prior to leaving Meaford Mrs Cook was suited with addriss and a lift mimhership in Women Missionary Society of the Methodist church years ago Mr Geo Stalham of Atton who opened up a bake shop in Koehler s old stand on Monday has decided lo quit tht business on of oven He will rtiurn to Acton in a day or so and lake his father in hire Mr I Coon was badly sh up on Tuesday morning by accidentally stepping Mr James Brown He fell across the windmill shaft and hurt his side but is able to be around again James Matthews is hiving splendid demand now for his new rein protector An order for was received this week from Winnipeg and a order from Assinabois J II and a number of his most intimate association including the Sunday School Orchestra were enter lalned on Monday evening it the residenct of Mr James Matthews when the has made his home during his stay in Acton A most enjoyable evening was spent A pleasing event of the evening wis the reading of a complimentary address by Mr J Moore and presentation of a small library of leather bound poets by Mr It J There Is nothing so increases a mans desire to work in the garden is Ihe discovery lhat his wife has misplaces the THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office Copyright