Ontario Community Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), June 9, 1976, p. 2

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Th Acton Free Press Wed June Smallest crowd yet at program Advertisements out for coordinator A small crowd numbering less than 200 gathered cemetery Sunday afternoon for the annua Decoration Day service Again the weather was per feci as the band played clergymen spoke and repre sentatives of town organize lions planted geraniums Many families had pre viously planted flowers or placed bouquets on the graves of their loved ones The cemetery was in near perfect condition The parade led by Acton Citizens Band included a color party of flags of part icipating organizations The sound echoed throughout the town as the parade started fellow St and went along Mill and Main en route to the cemetery The parade went to the Legion hall afterward The number of firefighters mmhing was cut in half due lo a false alarm which sounded Just as the parade was forming up In the absence of mayor Tom Kill representative councillor G W spoke first on the program lie found the dale of Day an especially apt one for the vice and hoped we will al ways be able lo find time lo pause and remember He had special praise for Duby and the town men who lake care of the itrv Three from the Clergy Association attended Speaker The Rev Charles Beaton was speaker this year he is the new minister of the United church He reiterated the reason for coming lo pay our respects to our loved one no longer with us They are all represented here the crib deaths the car accident vie Coles this year with David Hunter the secretary Irea surer Sponsors The program Is under the auspices of the town Legion Ladies Auxiliary Lakeside and Duke of Devonshire chapters of the I O D Wo men Institutes of Acton and Dublin firefighters the Citizens Band 0 Urns the middleaged people Lions Club Rotary Club taken by illness and then the Men Club Golden Age older folk There is special Club the Friends in Deed and given Ihe graves of the clergy association veterans Represented Sunday in the It is very difficult to try to parade were the Legion impart Ihe experience of war Legion Auxiliary Lakeside to our young people he said I D E firefighters and Yet it was less than 30 years L O The Scouts Guides The people we remember Brownies and Beavers did not are not here The are as Ihev usuallv do but only symbols We believe lwo man final destiny is not six leaders marching feet of ground but in the The attendance was greatness of God lowest since program The Rev James McFadden over years of Churchill church read Scripture The Rev A of the Presbyterian church led in prayer and said 7 the benediction Abide With Me was sung Iasl and the band played while reported grades groups chatted and walked the cemetery pro perty Dublin and St Joseph s cemeteries were also Inm med and tended for Ihe day The Decoration Day com is headed by Jessie would be transferred lo l hi new New middle school from Mr Craij thought there was no chance of bussing pel icy changing since the board must restrain spending One parent commented hi thinks children ire spoiled these days it not that far Others agreed the youngsters would get used to the walk in a week I hour Other questions concerned lunch hour Some parents preferred such young child home at noon teachers felt the children would soon rather school where there are sports and planned activities Area superintendent Don Gentleman said he expected would be to cat their lunches in the school gym wilh supervision It Is expected the new and vice principal would be named in January 1977 There is no name for the kind of world Car rolls takes fire toppled hydro lines A car was completely hydro pole broken Damage stroyedb fire Monday night the car was estimated at when it rolled over on the Fourth Line 17 Sideroad new school Take Dean I- ink said a school lakes advantage of facilities and organization lie referred science labs homi art music arts the gym as areas that will be used effective or the three grades Thi special needs and interests of that age group will be noted school spirit will Then will likely be three open ureas and some closed areas students would not spend ill their time in lype of class room pupils and some teachers work belter in one or the other and this will be flex ible People learn differ ways Transition from public to high school has sometimes Six observant teenagers from the ire of Milton have been credited by the Ontario Provincial Police with in the arrest of a and run Saturday night Constable Jim of Milton said Monday the False s fire alarm PARADE ENTERS cemetery grounds all flags flying Sunday afternoon Both parade and attendance were the smallest since the inauguration of the program over 20 years ago Charges are laid eh of assault of failing were hid aennst m in June He was taken to ind hearing was ij Charged An district wire charged with in possession Thi man was charged with driving while disqualified Hills Recreation Director Glen Gray does not expect the position of lion for wards one and two to slay vacant long John Cooper held that until yesterday when he left for a similar job with Ihe of Brampton Mr Gray said advertise for the job had been placed in local newspapers and in brochures pul out by the Ministry of Culture Recreation He also pointed out that people applying for the same job in wards three and four a few months ago Four killed I our people were killed and injured in a head on colli Highway 10 in Miss Sunday One of them Is Dorothy I Allom formerly of this area and now of Mississauga I service for Mrs All iin was Tuesday al the Shoemaker funeral home it was private She was buried at Fairview cemetery She is survived by husband Rhea children Kim ind mother Dorothy sister Karen ind brother Jimcs Her father James leased her would still be looking for em ployment Recreation dinator position for wards three and four was open for several weeks after Mr Gray had been promoted to lion director when Doug Col 1 1 son left Miss Karen King was hired far Ihe job just a few weeks ago She was one of several applications Teenagers help nab hitandrun suspect ii Side n lint ike iruek si hydro pole Trucker Ires The Irueker lefl the explained Hi it a truck rim shortly before i point more details chicle ut eke Ihe in In hid truck until In Ihe 1 leenagersi the Guelph Iht truck year old male apprehended striking a hydro pole Driver Cheryl Reed Ray lawn Cres Georgetown and a passenger escaped without injury Power lines were knocked down in the incident and the A false alarm Sunday after noon has Acton volunteer firefighters a more than school will be a Fco Day piradc when their personal pages sign led there wis a fire According to fire chief Mick Holmes all but a handful of firefighters raced to the fireball and responded to the call which was supposedly a car fire in Limehouse A trip to that village soon revealed there was no fire Mr Holmes says that volunteers felt sure someone The car was travelling deliberately put in the false NOTICE To All Senior Citizens of Acton The Lions Club will furnish a bus to the Annual Lawn Party at Centennial Manor on June 19th Wipe clean APRON Drop in and browse amongst Rattan and Willow the new accessories Cool for Summer living southbound when it went out of control on loose gravel mounted the embankment and hit the pole rolling over Coat stolen from car Acton man reported his parked car hit by another ve hicle which left the scene Polite soon arrested and charged a Kitchener man The incident occurred Sun The parked car owned by Gordon Mowbray PI had aboutSi damage and the other car Ihe same TINKER BELL NURSERY for the Mentally Handicapped sponsored by the North Halton Association for the Mentally Retarded REGISTRATIONS June 16 9 am 12 pm Ages 2 5 Located at the EC Drury School Ontario Street Milton Phone School 8787656 Director Jennie Kuiken 853175 ACTON PHARMACY Ltd DOWNTOWN ACTON 8531620 SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OK YOUR MONEY CHEERFULLY REFUNDED

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