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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 10, 1966
Page
2
Acton discusses how regular blood donor clinics operate. Officials describe donor card systems, blood typing steps, copper sulfate screening, and the safety measures used from registration to packing the blood for hospital use.
Mrs. W Denny hosted the Acton Women’s Institute meeting at Brock Street with President Mrs. Roy Lindsay presiding. Reports covered agriculture and the Ontario department’s name change to Department of Foods, plus the 10 Commandments of the Institute. A spring reading, public relations notes, and town pride remarks followed, with peddler cautions and upcoming events including the North Halton Music Festival in Acton and Junior Farmer Drama Night at Milton.
Community notes from Ballinafad recount a W I meeting with an Irish program including maps and songs, a March sponsor update, and a lunch after. An anniversary dance drew a large crowd with multiple prize winners. Sympathy extended to the McEnery family on Mrs Dampier’s passing. Also reports of a hockey game outing, a stolen car, and a nonfatal accident in the area.
A group of Nas Sal Presbyterian Church ladies attended the Day of Prayer service as guests of Ebenezer church. Speakers included Mrs. M. OF Mullen, president of the WOMLS, with Scripture from Tsarah 6:18 and 43:10-42. Mrs. F Hathaway spoke on Ye Are My Witnesses, followed by papers by Mrs. D Henderson and Mrs. Stanley Robinson. A social hour and a film showed Day of Prayer funds aiding Gospel work. A year’s group from Nas Sagawesa Presbyterian attended the officer installation for the Brampton Presbyterial at Nashville Thursday.
Halton county museum sketch once reproduced on telephone directories now framed in black and gold was presented by Bell Telephone district manager Arnold Blachford to museum board chairman Herbert Merry. The slide, shown by Maj. Newman, aided Montreal artist Albert Colutier, and Blachford returned it to the director with thanks. The board favors hanging the piece in Milton administration building. Maj. Newman also displayed a proposed centennial building near the present museum at Kelso for large old vehicles and farm implements. Further discussions will follow before decisions. Mrs Newsman attends a craft conference in Brantford March 25 to 27 sponsored by the Department of Education. Ontario Craft Foundation seeking a craft centre for exhibitions and teaching districts.
The note contrasts Atlantic salmon returning to sea after spawning multiple times with Pacific salmon spawning once and dying shortly after in the rivers, highlighting species differences in reproductive cycles and post spawn fate.
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