Parallel parking trial cuts Main Street space in Georgetown
Provincial Constable Jack Sheffield reports the Main Street parallel parking experiment reduced usable space from eight to sixty cars. He urges motorists to park off Main Street to keep space for delivery and business access amid ongoing adjustments.
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Jack Sheffield
Main
John Perry
Panry’s Bady and Vander
Glan Williams Eee
Sutton Wr
Perry
Riverside Lunch
Bank of Commerce
Henry Malcolm Stewart
Durham Street
Glan Williams
St Alban's Church
Oakville approves plainclothes traffic control policy
Oakville council, by a 5 to 4 vote, allows police to wear plain clothes during traffic control duties. Reeve Litchfield requested the measure following a Police Committee meeting.
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Litchfield
Lard
J M. Wallace
Parks Board
Twin calves born toSpotty the cow with a twin mother
Ginger Farm notes twin calves born to Spotty the cow whose dam is herself a twin. The writer recalls a superstition about twin heifer calves and explains past outcomes. Weather and seasonal changes, Easter travel, DST, and league hockey chatter are mentioned alongside farm life and daily chores.
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Partner
Spotty
Bob
Ginger Parm
Toronto
Milton Meeting Deliberates Road Dust and Sewer Works Plans
Milton merchants gathered at the Town Hall to air road conditions and dust issues. They urged continuing sewer lateral work before Male Street improvements while a hockey club reorganization formed a new event commission with Hilcott Hayward Wendover White Colbert Doble and Kinsella leading. Junior and Intermediate teams planned for next year. Flooding from Sixteen Mile Creek isolates lower Millet families for first time since 1838 as warnings were issued along Main and Mill streets by Fey and Hall.
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Milton
Milton Arens
Milton Athletic Club
Andy Hilcott
Walter Hayward
Dave Wendover
George White
Charles Colbert
C. Doble
Ken Kinsella
Lower Millet
Sixteen Mile Creek
HH. Fey
Bell Telephone
Sam Hall
Mill Street
Motorist Thanks Heaven after Pole Crash Harp Gift
A driver involved in a wreck with a telephone pole expresses gratitude for surviving and murmurs that the rescue workers have given him a harp. The scene unfolds as responders free him from the wreckage.
Erin Bellamy Expands Business After Peckwood Building Lease
Erin Elmer Bellamy has leased part of EK Peckwood's building to start manufacturing screens, screen doors, signs and wood letters, with furniture repair. Marsville Community Hall burned last Friday noon, destroying the hall and contents. neighbors saw the fire late and insurance coverage was minimal. Lloyd Mack of Rockwood, exhibitor of Aberdsen Angus, won grand championship and a $1,850 prize at the Toronto beef bulls show and sale. Wm Jackson of Malton bought the winning bull.
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Elmer Bellamy
Co. EK Peckwood
Marsvile Community Hall
Reaidenta
E Toteloa
Lloyd Mack
Rockwood
Royal Winter Vale
Toronto
Wm. Jackson
Malton
Thames water bus service to be enlarged for Festival 1981
The Thames water-bus service, popular with Londoners and visitors, will be greatly expanded for the Festival of Britain 1981. The plan aims to increase capacity and improve routes to handle expected crowds during the event.
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Britain
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