Compatible colours adorn library interior design
Mellow-hued accents characterize the library with peacock blue and green upstairs and warm orange downstairs. Wood doors wear caramel, dull green, putty, or terra cotta while upstairs vinyl chairs mix persimmon and acrilan blue. Downstairs seating features tropical turquoise, Sun Valley gold and coffee brown. The children’s area includes plastic hassocks and small tables. Drapes are nutmeg. arborite tables sit on warm walnut wood.
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Sun Valley
Galt Educator Named President of Local College
Mr J A Turner chairman of the Halton Peel College Board announces the appointment of Mr J M Porter of Galt as President. Porter a veteran in education has served as Director of Education in Galt for four years and previously in North York as teacher principal and assistant superintendent. He has been active in Ontario superintendent and directors associations and has toured Europe studying vocational education.
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J. A. Turner
Halton-Peel
Ontario Directors’ Association
Porter
Europe
Westminster Abbey Repairs Restore 900-Year Vision
From June to September Westminster Abbey welcomed about 6,000 daily visitors. With 900 years of English history in its stones, extensive repairs were carried out and the abbey is now poised to endure for another 900 years.
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Westminsterrey
Library features bright four corner windows and spacious plans
The $76,000 library building in Acton highlights four thermopane corner windows and a bright entrance leading to a central hall. It includes adult and children libraries, a servery kitchen, washrooms, and a downstairs exhibition room. The design by Donald Skinner uses yellow brick, terrazzo floors, and nylon carpeting, with future planting and lighting planned by local firms and the Acton Hydro Electric Commission.
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Libra
KerConstruction
Donald Skinner
A. L. Riemer
Jake van der Kooy
Acton Electric
B. Mikkelsen
Oakville
Orde Rough Acton
Randy Lidken
Niagara Parks Commission
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Acton Hydro . Electric Commission
Bound volumes gift to library from local lawyer
The library receives a bound set of Illustrated London News covering 1851 to 1905, donated by the late H N Farmer, a local lawyer. The volumes, once his father’s, include first editions gaining value. The old Bible used in court was among items moved, and a datestone will later be inserted in the building with an opening left for it.
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London News
H. N. Farmer
George Lee Heads Acton Library Board
Centennial chairman George Lee leads the library board in his third term with Fred New Ted Pratt Rev Ritchie McMurray and Mayor Les Duby as council representative. Doug Copeland assumed the secretary post this January replacing Esther Taylor amid continued special meetings about the new building and budget following a Library Board Act change. One tree was cut at the library site.
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Library Board
George Lee
Fred New
Ted Pratt
Ritchie McMurray
Les Duby
Acton
Doug Copeland
Esther Taylor
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Acton Free Press
Centennial Library
Acton Home Furnishings
Ontario
Denmark
Thoreau
Enrico Caruso
Galt
Rians
Madge Chapman
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A. L. Riemer Equipment CO
Acton, Ontario
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