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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 19, 1962
Page
2
The Community Centre fundraising committee halted after a successful campaign and plans a two month canvass to honor unfulfilled pledges. They will provide full accounting to all contributors before soliciting payroll and bank deduction pledges again and ask last year’s cash donors for extra support to cover an estimated $2000 deficit.
A Canadian small-business letter complains about the Federal Sales Tax system and audit practices. Two businessmen, Jim and Dave Dills, accuse the government of unfair penalties for tax exemptions, urge reform, and request a personal reply from the minister. They warn that rising demands could dampen small business initiative in Canada.
A collage of town notes from 1912 and 1942 items in Acton Free Press recount a near miss on the Titanic voyage, a new Ford runabout, sawmill work, liquor case outcomes, liquor act amendments, a successful Women’s Institute concert, gardening, police chief Bob McPherson, and local wartime efforts including customs receipts, air force graduates, maple sap shortages, traffic injuries, YMCA dances, and the Limehouse Women’s Institute Red Cross knitting surge.
In Burlington area reports a pageant facing internal turmoil with several directors quitting after last year's dethronement. Georgetown notes nine years of night classes decline. Brampton cites varying population signs from 17,500 to 19,185. Oakville coin club seeks $50 grant for a commemorative medal. Streetville boards inform Ontario Municipal Board of 1961 deficit of 4621. Milton runs White Hat Week with Rotary Park donations driving funding.
Easter Thankoffering meeting of Knox Presbyterian Church Auxilliary featured devotional parts from Scripture and a Susan Coolidge poem. Rev R D Duncanson, visiting from Norval, spoke on British Guiana study, shown by photos of Bethel Georgetown and Berbice High School. Local guests included Duncanson’s friends of Mary Ellen Anderson. A noon lunch concluded the program with remarks on politics and race tensions in the country.
A reader reflects on the church fundraising drive with keen anticipation and candid humor. The piece contrasts modern expenses with ancient needs, noting volunteers, expenses, and the everyday challenge of soliciting donations while preserving human dignity.
The passage argues that moving churches indoors to cope with costs shifted budget pressures from congregations to mechanisms of fundraising. It contrasts old parsonage sermons about two-bits with a new, organized campaign model that recruits volunteers, conducts training sessions, and treats giving as a sales-like effort while enthusiasm is stoked and structures solidify.
A speaker narrates a canvass scene where church members pledge generously to fund an ambitious drive. Volunteers, inspired and unselfish, raise their own contributions to help push the total over the top. After a Sunday lunch, pairs go door to door and tally results, ending with a complete success. The piece ends with optimism for next year’s drive.
The Limehouse Menuettes gathered at Joy Patterson's home on April 7 with 12 members present. Leaders and members helped prepare a tossed salad. In the festival, Garry Heisler won gold, Mary Bos bronze, and Mary Lou Brown with Margaret Arnold placed in a duet. the domo won the shield. Other members named include Margaret Arnold, Mary Lou Brown, Linda Williams, Rosey Gather, Mary Bos, and Janice Risebrough. Mrs W Mitchell is recovering in St Michael's Hospital after eye surgery last week. Mrs Smith, Mrs Hutchinson and son Jimmy of Weston visited Patterson’s on Saturday.
A poetic reflection on leaves as symbols of memory and history. The speaker imagines leaves bearing names, the Lord alone engraving true names, and laments how time and fate mark lives. A brief non sequitur follows about a kayak, common fruits, and a moral line about prosperity and causes.
A compiled notice lists dental surgeons vk. H. Leib and Dr A J Buchanan with office hours and phone numbers, plus barrister C F Leatherland Q C Notary Public and office hours. Acton coaches depart various times east and west daily with rates, followed by Canadian National Railways schedules to Toronto Stratford and Sarnia with weekday and weekend variations.
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