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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 09, 1967
Page
16
In 1944 45 a POW camp evacuated as Americans advanced from the west and Russians from the east. Evacuees rationed meals, hid among farms, and scavenged milk eggs bread and jam while guards dwindled. On April 13 1945 Americans reached the camp, delivering food and freeing prisoners as the march ended.
Twenty six teachers are hired for Esquesing schools this fall including two principals. New staff join Limehouse Norval Speyside Pineview Stewarttown and Glen Williams campuses with several from Georgetown Toronto London and Burlington. The board still seeks two more teachers and plans additional noon hour helpers as kindergarten transitions to full day alternating schedule. Portable classrooms are installed at Pineview to handle the intake.
The Richmond school bell weighing 175 to 250 lbs vanished from the roof of the unused schoolhouse in Halton County Museum complex Kelso area. Police and Corp. Larry Kneale investigate. Museum curator Maj. H. J. Newman supplied a drawing of the bell as restoration plans proceed.
The narrator recalls being flown to Brussels then returning home by plane. A boy on the flight spots the chalk cliffs of Dover and exclaims England, evoking tears among the passengers. The writer notes Friday the thirteenth as a lucky day.
Art Hawes, now managing a feed business in Erin, will continue to write his sports column for the Free Press sports page, keeping his commentary and coverage steady.
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