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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 15, 1962
Page
2
A blaze at Jack Varcoe's farm home in Ac ton caused about 150 in damage to a bed couch two mattresses and smoke damage to wallpaper bedding and a window blind. Firemen wearing masks fought the blaze after flames rose from an upstairs bedroom as the parents were away in Guelph and a babysitter hurried neighbors to call in the alarm.
Monday night at Blue Mountain grades 1 and 2 presented reading lessons and sketches from A Buy Pet and Rise To Animal Town. Students shared speeches on Col John Glenn and My Native Scotland while a panel on Henry V voyage and songs enriched the evening for teachers, pupils, and parents.
A St Alban’s Anglican group from Acton visited the Mother House and Chapel of the Sisterhood of St John the Divine in Willowdale. Rev Donald West and Mrs West led the group welcomed by a Sister hostess.
A bridge fiction style description explains Stayman after a one no trump opener, including the two no clubs rebid to ask for majors, and notes a hand with North-South vulnerability. The text interweaves a humorous census joke about age with bridge discussion.
A spring thankoffering program in April featured Rev J Duncannon a former missionary in British Guiana as speaker. The event covered social issues from the colony and highlighted education, settlement, and youth group work funded by church missions.
A quirky home tip suggests using a wattle iron to cook French toast. Try plain or with hot syrup, or make a hearty meal with a strained chicken sate for a richer dining option.
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