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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 12, 1968
Page
10
A reader criticizes an editorial on student loans for university students. He cites inconsistent loan awards based on parental income, argues many scholarships vanish, and urges reforms. He proposes paid summer school courses in social living to boost achievement, employment, and civic responsibility in Acton Ontario.
Warm weather fosters a peaceful afternoon as members of the Golden Age Club gather in Luton Hall. Six tables of cuchre and three of crokinole are played under Mrs Harrington and Mr Healey. A 98th birthday card for C K Browne is signed, with June birthdays noted for several members. Final plans for a June 11 bus trip to Hamilton are announced and an entertainment committee is named for June and July. Lunch for 39 members is convened by Mrs Reed.
The Grand Jury report on Halton County Jail in Milton declares recreational and shower facilities inadequate and sanitary conditions poor. They urge a new jail at the earliest date while noting some positives at Halton Manor. the province plans a regional detention centre in Hornby and is surveying sites.
Harold Denny and Milt Ball represent Denny’s Insurance Agency of Acton at a May 27 1968 Toronto dinner where Central Mutual Insurance Company announced the agency as a 1968 Select Circle Agency for outstanding service. This marks the second year honored.
Nassagaweya's overdue taxes for 1967 totaled 68260, about 22.66 percent of the levy, auditors Lever, Hoskin, Chagnon and MacGillivray told council in the year end finances. The township closed 1967 with a 3640 surplus on 360083 expenditures, education taking 185191 of the tax dollar. Major outlays included general government 28035 roads and streets 91257 debt charges 13983 and county police village rates 31510, while a 389 deficit from 1966 was absorbed into 1967.
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