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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 26, 1945
Page
15
A meditation on rebirth and resilience. The speaker urges readers not to dwell on lost chances or faded glory but to rise, endure, and strive anew. It frames life as a chance to be remade, with forgiveness and guidance guiding each new day and night.
Dr Arthur Rose marks 15th year as a medical doctor. The Pas note traces the 19th and 20th century visit journey and religious themes from Judges to Revelation. The article reflects on apostasy, idolatry, and deliverance through God’s judges, with Gideon highlighted as a model of faith and action.
Twenty years ago notes report Minnie Ross selling her Main Street property to Mr Eccle stone of Ospringe. Acton and neighboring towns form a baseball league with a planned start May 16. Mr and Mrs George Cook leave Acton after twenty years for Windsor as friends wish them well. The Cornell council takes no action on Daylight Saving Time. A birth, two deaths, and an Acton widow's obituary are recorded in the week.
London CP reports Section Officer Maureen O Sullivan of Dublin served with a Maquis band in France for three months before D Day and five months after, coding and relaying messages to London. She parachuted behind enemy lines, earned the Croix de Guerre, trained two men, and survived repeated German near-captures while guiding a Maquis force of about 6,000.
A full size plaster French village was erected in Yorkshire to train Normandy invaders. Two dozen soldiers built the mock town in three weeks featuring a cemetery with German helmets, plaster cows, booby traps, and a burned garage. A street labeled Adolfstraße was altered to Rue de Paris as camouflage planners who knew France designed it.
Police rescued Raymond St. Jean from a narrow ventilator and charged him with breaking, entering and theft. In Kamloops a curfew for under 16s starts at 10 pm with a fire alarm bell warning indoors.
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