Acton council holds special meeting on year start plans
Acton council met last Wednesday night to approve a variety of items including a rental housing resolution, senior citizens housing survey follow up, and tenders for town demolition and a new John Deere tractor for the dump. Eight bids were received for the barn demolition with Mc Mcndanc of RR 4 Acton submitting a $4 offer. An Ontario Municipal Board hearing on the proposed zoning by law will begin January 3 at 11 a.m.
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Acton
Gouneil
Domad
Bern
First
Courier
Truck and Tractor Co
John Deere
Mc Mc‘ndanc
RR 4
Ontario Municipal Board
Hame Bere
Les Duby
Cer hit by train youth is killed
Funeral service for Lellan McLellan 17 of Acton district held at Donald Brown funeral home Stoney Creek after his car struck by a train in Salifleet township near his home at 1.30 a.m. He was son of John and Mrs McLellan, survived by sisters Lois and Joan and brother Frank. Mrs J Jacque of Acton is listed as relative.
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Lellan
John McLellan
Acton
Mra. McLellan
RR. 5
Hamilton
Salifleet Township
Lois
Joan
Frank
Town pays tribute to retiring staffer at Christmas gathering
Bill Sheppard, who began with the town in 1956, attended the works department Christmas dinner at the pump house as a guest of honor. Mayor Les Duby and officials presented him with a retirement wallet and memorabilia. Also present were No. 2 committee members and hydro Linamen guests.
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Bill Sheppard
Works Department
Mr. Sheppard
Les Duby
Jack McGeachie
Alf Duby
Bob Drinkwalter
Hydro Linamen
Burn Up Event Marks Twelfth Night Turnout
A large crowd is expected Saturday night for the annual Chamber of Commerce Christmas tree burning. Mayor Les Duby will light the blaze at 7:80 pm in a field north of the town dump on Churchill Road South. Coffee and doughnuts will be served.
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Chamber of Commerce
Les Duby
Chamber
Churchill Road
New Year in Acton Quiet and Community Celebrations
Acton welcomed 1968 with quiet public observances and private gatherings. Police praised common sense as residents joined gala events at the Legion hall and music centre while Montpoole celebrated mainly at home or in small private parties.
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Acton
Moat
Legion Hall
Music Centre
Montpoole
Repeat winner in store draw at Act ion Pharmacy
Dennis Mitchell won the big stuffed giraffe in the Christmas draw at Act ion Pharmacy, the same winner as last year. Barbara Pratt took the road race set. Pharmacist Bill Yundt and staff report issuing about 50 special colored certificates for babies born during the centennial year.
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Action Pharmacy
Dennis Mitchell
Ama
Barbara Pratt
Bill Yundt
Miss Three Phone Calls Bank Inspector Fraud Reported
Three cases of bank inspector fraud were reported this past week. Three persons, all listed as Miss in the Acton phone book, received calls and were advised to contact their bank or police. The caller promised a return call but did not, hindering further contact. One woman reported the call from a different phone. police noted the warning behavior.
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Dac
Thair Bank Maneager
Iisted
Acton
Couple and two children escape blaze on 25 sideroad
Mr and Mrs William Parsons and their two children aged four and six months escaped a fire at their old log home on No 26 alderoad two miles south of Acton early Friday. Flames started from a spilled oil burner and gutted the structure, with extensive smoke and water damage. Firefighters arrived at 12 15 am in freezing temps, fought flames under an hour, then remained until 3 30 am. Two trucks and smoke ejectors aided crews on the old Packer farm.
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William Parsons
Alderoad
Acton
Ethan
Parsons
Board rescinds motion on stone school rooms amid resignations
At the Inaugural meeting trustees named Cyril Bishop as public school board chairman for 1968 with Vic Bristow as vice chair. The board, in its two year term, did not take oath and began with prayer. A resignation by Billy Banson was noted but no replacement discussed. Minutes show a rescinded motion to abandon stone school rooms and an approved sketch plan for a 1969 MLZ project. The 1969 area board will oversee schools. a $300,000 addition was planned with four classrooms a gym auditorium washrooms and storage at about $20 per square foot. The supply teacher wage increase to 24 dollars per day from January 1968 was approved retroactively from September. pay scales for teachers were adjusted.
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Parke
Credit, Valley Conservation Authority
Reave
Hinton
Churchill Rd
Yonge St
Cyril Bishop
Robert Little
Vic Bristow
Billy Middleton
Bishop, Bristow
Doug Manning
Orval Chapman
Murray Smith
Ance
Smith and Chapman
Manning
Bristow
Bishop
Acton
Space Fur Board
Stone School
MLZ
Bennett
Free Press
McNeill
Jack McGeachie
Blahop
Council
McEnerys Celebrate 50th Wedding Anniversary in Ballinafad
Longtime Ballinafad residents Cam and Annie Evans McEnery marked their 50th anniversary with a December 27 reception at Ballinafad Community Hall attended by nearly 200 guests. Dancing featured McDougall's Orchestra with a program by Fred Shortill and others. The couple wed in Acton in 1917 and later moved to Ballinafad where they farm. their son Ernest oversees the farm now with his wife and children Bill and Carolyn.
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Cam McEnery
Ballinafad
Annie Evans
Acton
Large
The
Methodiat Church
Mr. McEnery
Ernest
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Ontario
Welfare Committee of Council
Clark
Jack Mc
Geachie
George Lee
Walker Lodge
Cer
Uttle Mr
Munity Hall
Watermaing
Packer Farm
Middleton
Aqires
Middlaton
Mrs. C. McEnery
Mark
McEnerys
Jessa McEnery
George Evans
Harry Montgomery
David Carrothers
Wingham
Kirby Williams
Martha Orr
C Lla
Ure Ernest
Bill
Carolyn
Tey
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