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New teacher likes school Every year the opening of school brings some new faces to the teaching staff in Acton Each week the Acton Free Press will have a story about a new teacher This week featured teacher is Murray Swanston a teacher at Acton High School Mr Swanston is originally from and now lives outside of Rock wood with his wife and two daughters The First Acton Girl Guides started the new year with a meeting in the park A few games were played and the Guides made some Some Mores short they returned to the Scout Hall to finish the meeting Mrs Ginger was a guest for the evening The Guides were sad to hear of the retirement of Mrs Helen as Captain of the Company They would like to thank her for all the work and time she has given them over the past years and hope that she will return for an visit They have three Guttlers this year Mrs Alison Mrs Pauline Barlow and Mrs Roberta Trotter Thanks to all those who attended the mothers meet last Wednesday Congratulations go to Sharon who earned her Camp Leader Badge and Camping Emblem in June Other badges earned this summer were Backyard Camper Cook and Outdoor Cook by Meredith Caissie Coleman Rose DIsano Gillian Fuller Sarah Homer and Debbie Payne Meredith also earned her Child Care Badge Second Acton Brownie Pack by Heather Homer Our pack has a new home Z Bennett public school Mrs Barb president of the Scout and Guide Mothers Association was at our first meeting and presented us with our own brand new Toadstool and Owl These two elements are by Chris and Carol Level I Our first dance is coming up on Thursday September The theme is Welcome Back and admission into the dance will be 35 cents Pop and chips will be sold for 25 cents each We hope to see many dancers there Also on the same day there will be a girls field hockey game against Centennial Public School at We wish the girls the best of luck We hope to have country school meet on Tuesday October if weather permits If not the meet will bo Wed October 5 The crosscountry team has been training lightly due to the rainy weather The team members arc training for the North meet on October The inter house games have also had to be by Diana Dunn Meet the Teacher Night at Z Bennett school last week was very successful There was a very large turn out At7 30pm the assembly started and went on for about minutes After Mr Mag woods remarks the staff was Introduced to the audience Then the teachers went to their rooms to meet the parents in person This year we are going to have House League teams in various sports The first sport will be soccer The pupils ore looking forward to He graduated from son Institute in 1963 and worked for three years assisting architects Mr Swanston taught for 11 years in Kitchener before coming here He is very impressed with the facilities in the new high school where he instructs woodworking drafting and mathematics Mr is an active member of the Lions Club and enjoys athletics of the greatest importance to our Brownie program The Brownies were very enthu in their thanks to this organization for their gift Our first meeting opened with 17 Brownies and 15 new Tweenies Although our new year has just begun 20 Brownies from the Second and Third packs continued through the summer attending camp at Nor Park Through gale winds on July weekend the Brownies proved to be true campers and worked very hard to earn their pack holiday outdoor adventure swimmers and jester badges With the theme of Disney World Diana Dunn Tammy Gillian Brain Kim Sonja Mason Kelly Law Jennifer Kelly Debbie Hoarc Elizabeth Tina Kuuter Shelly Mason Jenny McDonald Tammy McDonald Jackie Crystal Smith Karen Wagner and Mela me Johnston chose the name for the leaders Mickey for Mrs Shirley Scott Happy for Mrs Heather Homer Smiley for Mrs I in for Mrs Bonnie Dunn and Daisy for Miss Mary Elliott A highlight of the program was that some came out to Sunday toprc- and cook our breakfast of scrambled eggs and sausages The Brownies said hank to Elmer Dunn Johnston Peter Homer and John by gracious ly eating it The Acton Free Press Wednesday Sept 28 B13 Health Council wants input District Health Council is holding a series of public meetings designed to open a dialogue between the council and the community The Octobr meetings were announced at a press con called by Executive Director William Leonard Mr Leonard said each meeting Will consist of a presentation by lives of the Ministry of Health the community hospital and the Health Council The three speakers will explain their of the Health Council The second portion of the meetings will be demoted to discussion between the speakers and the audience The success of the public forums will be measured by the participation and interest of people who attend not by the size of the audience Mr Leonard said If successful Mr Leonard said he hopes to hold public meetings on on annual basis Georgetown will be the site of a meeting Nov 2 Milton Oct Burlington Oct Oct Location limes for the meetings will be advertised in local papers Data to be coordinated District Health She is in the fourth year of Council has hired a program leading to a of Waterloo student to Bachelor of Science degree in assemble data relating to health studies mental health Representing the Ministry of Health at the Georgetown Burlington and Milton meetings will be David Corder area planning for the Ministry for Central West Region which includes Deputy Minister of Health Alan will represent the Ministry at the session Terence chair man of Health Council will speak on bchalt of the council at the George town and meetings while Robert the vice chairman will speak at Milton and Burlington Hospital representatives have yet to be named In announcing the meetings Mr Leonard commented We re not looking forward to these meetings with any trepidation You make progress by exchanging views and you can t expect people to have views that coincide wit yours He disagreed that relations between the health council and regional council were bad despite some cillors desire to disband the health body I dont think that unusual Mr Leonard said I was in the Canadian forces for years and people called for disbanding of the organization every year I was in it Mr Leonard s back ground is the military Health Council is one of such bodies in Ontario It advises the Ministry of Health on regional health problems health planning and dlnation Another 10 health councils including one for Metro Toronto are slated for the near future Mr Leonard said The council operates on an annual budget that this position in gives the councils control over health funding I would not agree that we could veto requests he said Tht of less than he said Budgeted monies are used to pay the salaries of its two paid staff people hired to do studies and research Although Mr Leonard said Ministry policy is to deal only with those proposals for new and expanded programs that have been recommended by the health councils he denied government can do anything It wants Referring to the council studies of mental health facilities and long term care facilities Mr Leonard said a coordinated plan could be expected a year or 18 months from now We want to examine and suggest alter natives he said In addition to Chairman a Georgetown lawyer and Milton Councillor Jim Kerr North representatives on the health council are Edgar W Foster of Milton and Vivian of Georgetown MURRAY SWANSTON is the new Industrial Arts teacher at Acton high school He will also be teaching drafting and math Can you help Volunteers needed Tinker Bell Nursery for and Mentally Handicapped Children is looking for volunteers men and women are needed to work with the children on a one to one basis Carol Robertson supervisor of the progrim said Volunteers of all ages arc welcome No prior training is required only an under of and love for children The program offers the usual nursery school The only difference is that the children move more slowly she said The hours of the nursery located on Ontario St in Milton are a to Volunteers contribute one momint a week Tinker Bell School takes children from Milton Acton and Georgetown Interested people can contact Mrs Robertson at or vices facilities and support organizations William Leonard executive director of the council announced the hiring of Sylvia for a four month period Ms Strohschein said the major part of her task will be to coordinate all the that has already been collected and the studies that have already been done I don t want a duplicate thing she said Mr Leonard said although a large of provincial is avail from tht Ministry of Health the data has to be localized The purpose of project is to describe mental situation problems and gaps suggest reasons for existence of the problems identified Ms siid her work should complement the inventory of he services be timed out under the auspices of the Human Services Regional PI inning Sub committee Switch to kilometres no problem for police changed due to the wet weather The school choir will be at our open house on Oct School pictures will be taken on September We hope to see students looking their best At this time we are planning on official ceremony to dedicate Middle School and expect to have many celebrated guests with us We extend an open invitation to those who wish to be with us to come and tour our school and enjoy the refreshments and fellowship Our students have been voting on a school team name The ballots are as follows phantoms 1M Mus tongs Eagles Tiger Cats and Kings The new school team name will be The Phantoms ing Mrs Lawson and Mrs Knapp grade classes started their swimming pro gram this week The classes arc broken into four groups for lessons Mrs Junior special class went on a field trip to Chudlcigh Apple Farm last Tuesday and had a very good excursion Last Tuesday the safety patrol had a meeting with Safely Officer Raj who showed a film on the of a good safety patrol The switch to mttnc I posed any problems for police They are ready lo catch in kilo metres In on interview this week Superintendent Sch said police cruisers have speedo meters which can another vehicle speed in miles per hour or kilometres Only few unmarked and staff cars changed to metric some time ago Radar has also been altered to catch speeders in kilo metres Changes were made to radar a few days before the switch to metric have also been for kilometre speeders In said the fines are slightly lower thin provin cial norms set out in the High way Traffic Act At the lower levels of ex cess speed fines are fraction ally higher than they were under miles per hour and at higher levels of violation fines ire fractionally lower than under old system If people don speed drivers won t have to worry about fines being fractionally higher or lower Schwantz said Metric is a great thing A step forward hopes drivers wont convert milts to kilometres Ho suggests thinking of is people live metric start measure of JAdcKengieSmitd Mdk 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