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Duby decries delays Nielsen Civiero plan Councillor Lea wants the town to state clearly what type of development they will accept for the 12 acre piece of land at Main and Wallace Streets Acton owned by Nielsen and Civiero of North Real Estate He said the planning board agreed to the land residential In March from Industrial and felt It Is only fair to let the applicants know exactly how many units of each kind will be approved He said the planner and the developer should work It out said the plan had been discussed for three or four years with considerable cooperation from the owners and pointed out there Is an abundance of Industrial land in Acton The site plan presented by the owners showing semi detached homes town- house units and 80 apartment units with a one acre park was not approved by the planner who wanted authority to investigate an additional six acres in the area before making a decision on the 12 acres Planner Brian Kropf said he could prepare this ad dltlonai information while working with the developer to redesign the subdivision Mayor Tom Hill the planning department for taking more than a year from the time the planning board agreed to designate the land residential to submit a report disagreeing with the site plan This is where we lose tax money and cost people who own land a lot of money Duby said he did not want discussions of the concept for the whole area to hold up the 12 acre plan any longer and emphasized he wanted the owners to know exactly what they are doing The planner report stated the higher density units should be closer to the collector roads since traffic lo the high density units does not have to go through low density areas He suggested access be on Wallace Street only The report termed the mixture of housing types desirable and pointed out condominium apartment huilding would add a type of not presently available in Acton It stated if residential areas on both sides of Highway are enlarged convenience commercial facilities might be developed in the area Planning board instructed the planner to work with the developer In redesigning the acre subdivision and to work on a neighborhood concept for the general area prim One Hundred and Third Yob No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MARCH 1978 F ty Page fteen Cents THESE EVERTON YOUTHS spent five days of their Easter holidays constructing a huge roofed snow fort The walls and floor are made of snow and ice but they used tree branches and bark to support the blocks of snow in the roof of what they dubbed a big 35footer Aaron Stevens left Carmine and Franco Scorziello Brad Stevens and Kevin Petty designed and built their 35 foot long fort off the road leading into the village The structure on the west side of the road has six rooms and steps leading to its entrance Aaron 7 years brother Brad years and Kevin age attend Centennial School Carmine 11 years and his nineyearold brother Franco go to St John s School at Guelpn They were photographed inside their fort Region budget session grinds to halt Region Public Works Committee adjourned its meeting Wednesday after only scratching the surface of the 1978 capital budget Debate on the budget draft ground to a halt when councillors objected to plans by Hills to debenture a large percentage of the 1978 sanitary sewer work The budget called for in sanitary sewer work to be done In George town this year and 090 of that is to be paid through long term borrowing and Burlington representatives objected to this because they suspect that equalized assessment will be introduced before the end of the year and their municipal ities will end up sharing debts Incurred by Georgetown I m not willing to look at municipalities individually anymore I think we have to look at thfa as one big area Chairman Jack said He claimed that a certain percentage of the cost of any work should be taken out of current revenue and if the current revenue isn there the work be done If Georgetown debentures for money now the rest of us will have to bail them out continued In Burlington case the draft budget calls for 240 in sewer work of which would be debenture would debenture than the other two That town would debenture 950 of a total of and Milton proposes to do 130 in sewer work and debenture nothing Acton would rely heavily on debentures to pay for 175 370 sanitary sewer work would be debentured Only the Georgetown budget was considered by the committee before the meeting ground to a halt Southern councillors objected to a expenditure to replace a sewer to serve tl expansion of Nellson Plant on Todd SI Sandy Best dead at 46 Alexander Sandy Best former M died suddenly of a heart attack at Toronto Sunny brook Hospital Saturday Mr Best who was years old is survived by five children Charles Alexan Margaret Mellnda and Susan Mr Best MA PhD lived in Township Mr Best was the son of Charles Best and Mar Mahon Best He Is also survived by his brother Henry Bruce MacLeod Best and his aunt Linda In 1957 Mr Best a Progressive Conservative won the riding with a vote majority from the Liberals He lost the seat in Ihe 1962 election by a margin of votes Charles Best Mr Best s 79yearold father remains in critical condition Toronto General Hospital after undergoing the second major operation in two days Dr Best collapsed at his home hours after hearing of his son death Dr Best suffered a rup tured abdominal aorta He had surgery Sunday to repair the rupture Later a second operation was carried out to help the blood supply flow to the lower part of his body Best and late Sir Frederick Banting discovered insulin in during their research at he University of Toronto A family funeral will be held for Mr Best at St Andrews Presbyterian Church King and Slmcoe Streets Toronto Friday at noon Some were working Get in some not on Monday As happens most Easter Mondays some businesses were closed and others open The remained closed the final day of a week long holiday Post office employees were given the day off except some inside workers making It four straight days without mall delivery Town and regional employees also enjoyed a four day weekend com Good Friday So did Acton Hydro employees All industries in town in eluding Beardmore Dlsston Building Products Hellers and Ajax Engineering opened for work Monday morning as did all businesses normally open on Mondays Both medical centres In town were open and all restaurants welcomed customers All the banks were closed Friday but open Monday Easter Monday Is perhaps one of the most confusing of holidays as some take it and Semi slated for pump house land other industries do not acknowledge it as a legal holiday For some however not even Easter Sunday was a holiday Police hospital employees variety store employees clergymen taxi drivers reporters etc are all In professions where a holiday is something taken whenever the chance arises and not as the calendar goes One other person working Sunday was the Easter bunny A new Acton directory is being planned by the Chamber of Commerce The first such directory Is being revised and will be printed soon businesses In the Acton calling area are being included in the directory Some were omitted last time In error and John McNabb would like to hear from any who were missed He can be reached at the Free Press The booklet will also in elude maps The directory will be sold at an amount not yet decided There is no advertising In It The old Acton pump house land on Main Street will be advertised for sale and zoned The recommended use for the property Is a semide tached home The lot with square feet and 82 feet frontage Is department before deciding zoned at present meaning on the semidetached home Roy Booth suggested if there was interest shown In build ing something else on the a may to be considered Among the many uses dis cussed by a single home The planning department recommended the semide tached designation because of the at lot and the sur rounding Planning Board chairman a single family home two single family homes three townhouses units addi parking for existing townhouses a variety store a playground light Industrial and highway commercial NOVICE CAPTAIN PETER CARGILL holds up the trophy team won Saturday to mark their winning the league consolation championship More pictures on sports pages MICK HOLMES AND THE Acton firefighters were voted collective citizens of the year by the Chamber of Commerce for their praiseworthy work The decision was made Monday evening Banquet the brigade is April Firefighters Citizens of Year Fire Chief Mick Holmes and the Acton Volunteer Firefighters have been named Citizens of the Year The honor sponsored by the Acton Chamber of Commerce came after an overwhelming number of people nominated the men Chamber director John said there were to 500 ballots in favor of the group Firefighters are Bern Van Fleet district chief Alf district deputy chief Don Van Fleet Lloyd Mclntyre Grant Withers Leo Synnott Jim Thorn hill association chairman John Dunn Larry Herb captain William Spielvogel Ken Hodgson John Vanderbrink Norm Price John Krapek Ted Curtis Randy Ridley Bruce Fowler Doug Mason Wayne Kelly Bert Fowler Harry treasurer Sam Tennant Harold Phillip Wilfred Duval cap tain Ed McGilloway Dorson Robert Price Dave Shannon Brent Marshall captain Allan Thompson John McNabb and Chris Tennant Mr Holmes said he is very pleased with the Chamber s decision and said his men are well deserving of the honor All will be guests of the Chamber at the an Citizen of the Year banquet 15 in the Band Hall There are a limited number of tickets to be sold Mr said the overall response this year was the best ever He explained there was a wide variety of Acton residents nominated this year more than in any other year Only twice before has a group rather than an individual been named Citizens of the Year Ten years ago the St John Ambulance Brigade received the honor and the Acton detachment of the On Provincial Police in The honor has been bestowed upon outstanding citizens since 58 when A Dills was named the first Citizen of the year Others were Amos Mason W G C Kenney 1961 Bill Coon Madeleine Gib bons 1963 John Sr Miss M Bennett 1965 Wm 1966 Fred Wright George Musselle St John Ambulance Charlie Thompson Steve 1971 Ted Tyler Sr 1972 Dave Dills 1973 George Elliott LesDuby OPP Isabel Watson 1977 Frank Oakes and 1978 the Acton Volunteer Firefighters A group of ten directors from the Chamber of Commerce selects the Citizen of the Year from names sent in from the public at large Detachment all set to move to Y building The Acton detachment of the Halton Regional Police can move to their new offices in the Y as soon as they arc given the word Staff Barrett says his men and office clerk Doris Townsley could be out of the town hall within a couple of hours However work has not yet begun in the town offices to erect the required partitions Hills purchasing agent Hugh Patterson began Tuesday to contact local builders forprlces A decision will then be made and work will begin as soon as possible Required is a partition Ich will separate the police from the own staff recreation and fire chief Chief Ken Skerrett pointed out Tuesday that the police office must be made secure so it cannot easily be entered at night when no staff is there A glass enclosure will be built for the front of the counter for security he said The long Easter weekend held up the obtaining of rices Town staff had both and Monday off Three prices must be ob tained before a decision can bo made In compliance with regulations Staff John Barrett says the situation at the police of flee is about the same as last week Mrs and Cons Rod Donaldson arc in the office each day However most of the men are reporting to Georgetown each day and not entering the town offices at all Staff Barrett says that shift time changes are being made more efficiently now there not any great loss of service here He said he and the men who serve Acton are expecting to move daily The decision to move quickly was made when the of Labour declared the building unsafe 747 break in Police are checking for suspects In connection with an attempted break and enter of the Lounge on Mill Street Two windows In the balcony were broken sometime March 3600 for Qj Heart Fund Acton hod a heart alright A cheque for GOO was presented o the Canadian Heart Fund as a result of the canvass in February This Is more than last year total and organizer Vic is very grateful He says the over 100 canvassers did a fine job The district Dave and Stewart express their appreciation to Acton people In a Letter to the Editor In today paper Mr gives a breakdown of the total this way In return envelopes came from the commercial canvass from industry KS7 from the sale of roses and from the rural mailing The sale of roses produced Sloo more than last year a surprising increase Thocomplete rural mailing was done or the first time this year The balance of the money came from the door todoor calls