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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 27, 1964
Page
8
The piece urges citizens to start considering candidates now for municipal races. It stresses contests foster choice, guide policy, and shape community growth with prudent spending and bold, sometimes unpopular, decisions. It notes office responsibility, criticism as part of democracy, and the need for vision.
A reflective piece warns that water misuse harms lakes and streams, saddling society with rising costs and degraded recreation. It argues rivers run dry, fish perish, and ecosystems protest as industry spews waste. The public is urged to heed nature’s depletion warnings.
A medical note cites 800 San Francisco physicians endorsing walking to relieve tension. It notes that while many ignore the remedy, doctors offer golf or bowling as motivators and suggest swimming. a dog that needs daily exercise can also force town dwellers outdoors.
Living on a small income would not be so bad if you didn't have to work so hard to keep it a secret. Municipal tax burdens are getting to the point where actual hardship is being worked on property owners. It is time senior governments conferred with local officials to ease the local tax burden and make home ownership economical.
From the Free Press August 24 1944 a Wool Combing Corp gathering in the park featured self provided lunches and races with a musical program by Acton Boys Band. Beardmore and Co employees plan a large Acton park picnic while Earl Cooper to take over drug store business from A T Brown. Also a bridal shower for LAC and Mrs Bere Allen and trips by friends to Toronto Niagara Falls and other towns. 50 years ago items note school reopening frost wheat price rates and local society visits amid war conditions.
In Burlington area news a Sinnamon family converts a used bus into a large family room with bunk beds and a breakfast nook. The project includes cupboards by the sink and a makeshift Trader style interior. Oakville meanwhile hosts a Royal Canadian Navy Reserve training ship off its shore.
The piece recalls summer in a small town when tourism was budding with licenses and rough commerce. It describes crowds, rising income for tradespeople, and the emotional lift visitors bring, followed by a fall as Labor Day ends and town resets to ordinary life.
A Georgetown group hopes to stage a traditional English pantomime over Christmas. They aim to present Dick Whittington with the principal boy played by a girl to evoke nostalgia and draw families. Interested parties call George at two local numbers.
Betty Mun Yee Fong and Jon Wei Mark married at Metropolitan United Church Toronto in a ceremony blending Chinese and Canadian traditions. The bride arrived from Hong Kong in 1958. the groom, a Toronto born engineer, will live in Hamilton. The day featured two gowns, a Chinese banquet, red satin keepsake, firecrackers, and multiple showers from Acton friends and family.
The Nationsel Housing Act enables loans by private lenders such as chartered banks and insurance companies. If local lenders do not offer NA loans, apply to Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation for a direct loan funded by federal money after proving you sought two private options. Rural areas may require one lender.
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