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The Press Wednesday Sept Fairs are popular Apparently interest in local fall fairs is booming all across the country Stanly dent of the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies says that from a low interest in fall fairs seven or eight years ago there has been a steady increase in crow Both town and people are showing more interest in countrj activities Also the fairs provide sive entertainment for the whole family More and more fairs like Acton are adding Sunday programs Fergus had a Sunday show the same day as Acton of course also hit by rain Milton tried Sunday shows for the first time this year only to meet with dreadful weather on both days Tractor pulls are becoming pop ular everywhere at once It was a good show here which held crowds of people at the park until 30 on the drizzly Sunday afternoon Acton three day fair has grown to the extent it can now be classified as a higher ranking fair Class B making more government money available This judgement is based on prize money awarded in specific agricultural classes There seems to be involvement of all segments of the town and rural areas in the fair It s become a real community event We look forward to another great weekend next year Our ties to Guelph Georgetown hospital is calculating the possible population of all of Halton Hills in its plans for expansion of the hospital There are beds there now and a 5 million bed expansion is planned This is based on tion projection of between and 65 people in all of Halton Hills within 20 years Expansion would be done in two phases Halton taxpayers would be expected to contribute 7 million directly and the rest of it 3 million indirectly from the pro vincial government The fact remains that the vast majority of Acton people go to Guelph hospital and our doctors are associated with Guelph hos pita Is We trust the Georgetown plan are not considering a change in this tradition which has us travelling a similar distance to two large hospitals Guelph hospitals have already assured the Acton doctors there is no problem in having out of county patients accepted there Region needs overhaul Regional Chairman row whirlwind tour of Halton councils was an attempt to est better communications between the municipalities and the region As a public relations mea sure it has much to commend it but as the Oakville Journal Record opines there is clearly an indication in his speech of an increasing push to centralize control in effect a one tier system of government which would reduce local mun such as Hills to mere rubber stamp outfits with no real control over their own destiny Mr Morrow pointed out that where there had been eight separ ate councils with eight staffs in Halton there were now only five There were five police forces where there is now one He felt the functions delegated to the region by the province such as the approval of plans of subdivision as a move towards greater self deter He stressed the serious need to reorganize local government from the year old county system cntizing the attitude of those mem bers of council who want to return to the old system when it was too complex an apparatus to solve today s and future problems The chairman is right in insisting that many of the improvements to the old county system of govern ment were long overdue but his contention that the present system of regonal government has solved most of the problems leaves some thing to be desired It has indeed centralized the system more and left municipalities with less power than they had under the old system but there are areas where it could be more effective and where events would seem to indicate more power should be returned to the municipalities Water and sewers is one area where some major rethinking needs to be done Morrow says the regional takeover of water and sewers was necessary so develop ment does not outstrip the vicing capacity The municipalities still actually financially control it through the chargeback system but the implementation rests with the region and there is where the extra costs seem to lie There is a good case for water and sewers to the old municipalities and no doubt an independent Bill 151 committee could find other areas where problems could be handled as well if not better at the local level than at the region Thinking from the Region that if everything is centralized into one powerful bureaucracy it will be good for Halton may be backed with figures but faceless bureau crats will never be appreciated at the local level It is true as the Journal Record says that bigger governments and bureaucracies are by nature less responsive to people and that s where the region builders need to brush up their techniques If the Halton chairman wants to give local municipalities more confidence in regional government then the better tack to take would be regular meetings with the four local councils in Halton to come up with ways to make the system more adaptable to people s needs Of this and that The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and your pocket These days a miss is as good as about 6 kilometres A sign in a pharmacy window stated We dispense with curacy Heard the latest definition of golf The hoof and mouth disease You walk for miles and talk about it the following week The constant rain has gardens roads and cellars awash Acton fair Eden Mills United church was lavishly decorated for anniversary services Sunday Above the altar with bread grapes and pews decked with ears of corn Left a sunny window trimmed in wheat and vegetables Right grain and gourds by the lectern Sugar and spice of mint in alt walks of lift in understand how I tin stand idling as volition With sinking origin ility ask How can you stand if So months of my ehosen way of life under wiy I thought I look it and try to them answer we could st with elinumlion It would lake an ict of God or a sex or something to mi tin engineer I have just tod the job of try to i 1 pew r ribbon It took J I up with ink all over finders fact in I a clean shirt whit imt out whin I begin typing ted words It is of that h I1 ribbons I d got it upsidtbissatkw The only ire rt idinL this in is Hut it is rt produced by someone else of engineering skills precludes my iking a fit living where the real is these is repair man If have a son or daughter pondering i for the dear goodness steer it into fixing things plumbing electricity cars lawnmowtr to a the other It w t si irt Picked it up three days later The bill wis dollar and more in half what I id p ml for few years bill for lalor is could hive i for tint not so terribly long I intedtobt a scientist Can t spending life in a I in find it will makt clothes whiter thin white or i new tint OUR READERS WRITE Thanks for wonderful time The trie Press Dear Sir week my family ind I spent the weekend in enjoying the Fall hair have betn regular visitors to during fair time for manv years Once again the hall was delightful success would like to extend through you our congratulations to the individuals in planning the activities and would like to siy hearty think to the of your town who hive always ids visitors feel so welcome I know that wt will return next I i loo from experience that the weekend will be is well planned and enjoyable then as it is been in past thinks for wonderful time Win S Ont Solid line will remain Hock wood Sept Dear I 1 wondered it you id room to insert in your weekly my opinion on present reconstruction of No between Acton and Guelph Improvement on No Highway between Acton and his been needed for many years with so few safe places to pass another car under driving conditions Numerous accidents some fatal have occurred over the years on this stretch of highway Anyone familiar with the highway bet ween and knows the solid white centre tines cover more linn half of the distance When reconstruction of this hilly unsafe of was innounced to be lone this voir were led to believe lulls would be removed and the hollows filled in If present reconstructed portion and Corners is mdicition of whit tht result will be hen ire wasting a lot of taxpayers Some of these grides are reduced so little to tht picture I first imiswncd Why w money when a safer and I titer highway could be ours to drive over lit p may be rrndc wider but It like solid painted centre lines will Yours truly disallusloned Commuter II N0B2KO litre s to Improved day was the best day weather wise in weeks Its bottle saving time again High school students are planning to resume their collections on the first Saturday of each month Its not true that you cant do anything about things that concern you People can be heard but its not easy If you feel strongly about something local let your councillor know Or write a letter to the editor No use complaining without passing your opinion on to someone But we have a timely letter on vandalism this week which is unsigned so cannot be used Contact us and your thoughts can be shared This is a new experience Ive never played quadruples before by Bill Smiley will make deodorant dryer than ever Medicine since I have never had a secret desire to be God held little appeal forme It a noble profession mike pile of money by peering into people apertures probing their flab making their blood spurt and writing prescriptions among other things None of those things turn mt on though Dentistry ditto I can see no particular charm in standing at an angle most icrobats t maintain for 10 seconds iwking at gums and crumbling renovations Ont look into my own mouth would give me nightmares for a week To heck with the a year Then there the law of course There s i great deal of poppycock about the majesty and the integrity of the law All of it stems from lawyers and judges But I wouldn t care to be associated in a profes sion where there is despite all one law for the rich and another for tht poor Shakespeare said it nicely Let hang all the lawyers Another field that brings in a mighty good buck is accounting But where s the future in that for a fellow who can even account to his own wife for the way he be haved at the party on night a good career these days is working for the government Certainly II never be fired unless you turn up drunk four days in a row and rape four different secretaries Even then you probablv just be transferred to a less sensitive iron or put out to pasture on a pension When I was student we used to say scornfully that if you t do anything else ministry Thiswasa base canard of course but the delights of the parsonage never really get me excited I wouldn t have minded pounding the old pulpit a bit but I t have stood the old biddies and the back slabbers and the constant mend anting What I nought I might be was a professor of English Sit around In a book filled study dispense wisdom to awed students and give the occasional lecture Well 1 since met some of my old friends who chose that path They re more boring than the guy who comes to fix my furnace What really and truly wanted to do when 1 was young and romantic was to become a foreign correspondent by movies I wanted the works trench coat snap brim felt hat bylines from Hong Kong and Nairobi Nearest I got to that was editing the country correspondence from contributors to a small town weekly That t bad vocation except that you worked 60odd hours a week and never made any money I guess my secret desire for years was to be a writer Preferably a pipesmoking enormously popular Immensely wealthy one several times divorced a world traveler a lecturer in great demand yet with a depth a plus quality in my novels that would put me up there with Hardy Conrad Hemingway With three or four of rrty novels turned into smash hits on Broadway and in Hollywood And all my own hair and teeth Only trouble with that wish was that 1 was too lazy Oh the talent was there No question about that as we novel writers manque can assure anyone So Instead of becoming a Hemingway I became Bill Smiley a the tribulations and the trivia of the mid century And not a whit bitter or disillusioned about it That t quite enough to keep a body alive so became a teacher Not only because most other professions fill me with nausea or oothlng But because I like young people words Ideas and two months holidays The Free Press Back Issues 10 years ago Taken from the Isiue of the Free Press of Thursday September 1981 Plans to close both Acton and Canadian National Railway Stations for keeps was revealed to The Free Press this week by a representative of the C N It Is expected they be shut on November this year along with stations in Hespeler and Preston Halton M H Harley phoned the Free Press just before the paper was put to bed to say he had written to Mr McMUIian head of the and the Minister of Transport Mr Hellyer asking for a thorough study of the transportation sys tem In Acton The Hoi ton M felt that the heavy concentration of industry in Acton warranted a thorough study of the sit uation Pets entered by C family Milton won firsts for bantam rabbits and any other class at the fair while runners up in the rabbit section were owned by Harry Acton and Muriel Holmes Acton Mrs Mabel celebrated her birthday Monday at her home on Willow St Neighbours and members of No Unit of the United Church women called to make the occasion a happy one for Mrs who is a regular church years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press of Thursday October 3 1957 Halton County Game Warden Bob Reed announced this week that Fairy Lake in Acton had been stocked with small mouth bass recently The fish range in size from inches stated the game warden The Acton public school board announced a change in library book distribution for the school children this week Once a week the school children will obtain their library books from the librarians at the Robert Little and the Z Bennett schools where a junior library has been set up Corporal Mason or the local P detachment revealed speeders were charged in Acton last Saturday when the radar was posted on Queen St and Young Streets Mr and Mrs Archie Pa pi lion were pleasantly surprised at a party given them by their children on the occasion of their wedding anniversary Following a tur key supper they were presented with a hostess chair and blanket Guests were pre sent from Kitchener and Acton 50 years ago Taken from the Issue of ihe Press The annual Field Day of Acton schools was held Wednesday afternoon Cooper and Marjone were the senior champions and A Marshall and Meryl Gnndell were the junior champions The Junior Daughters of the Empire presented new benches for use at the part and cemetery On Saturday our girls ball team jour to Brampton and won the tournament there To our Mary Chalmers much credit is due for the nerve and fighting spirit she showed by her work In the pitcher box Miss Jessie Young won the public speaking prize at Georgetown fair The frosts have been quite severe several nights this week 100 years ago Taken from the Acton Press September The glories or a September sun could have been sung with full effect last Friday while the sturdy lads and handsome lasses of Nassagaweya blended their way on foot and in carriages to the annual fair of the township They were there in full force so were the old man and his buxom spouse The township hall was well filled with a ladies handiwork dairy pro duce fruits roots grain and other articles too numerous to mention In he field there was on excellent show of horses and some very fine cattle sheep and pigs a fair show of poultry A couple of street fights relieved the monotony of things last Friday evening Considerable pummelling was done but we have not heard that anybody was much hurt No arrests were made Last Friday night was made hideous by the shrill voices of two disreputable females one partially blind and he other a mulatto girl both from Guelph who par the streets at unseasonable hours In the evening the younger of he two endeavored to buy a bottle of whisky at one of our hotels but was refused where upon she poured forth a torrent of abuse and was turned out doors THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE 853 2010 Business and Editorial Office Copyright 1977