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Newspaper

Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Mar 30, 1961

Page

11

Local notices and community briefs

Community items report events and happenings from schools clubs and local businesses. Highlights include holiday openings for Buster Seals and disabled children, efforts at Georgetown Golf and Country Club, a new gas station project at Young and Mill Streets with Jack McCallum, Scout refreshment duty and hostess badges, maple sap production led by Stan Enright, a Q and A column during the community center campaign, a Wednesday snowfall and a Milton skating carnival with a juvenile hockey tournament, brief winter weather shifts, and mentions of Halton MLPL Sandy's Besto election coverage and a veterans pension boost speech in Legion magazine.

Georgetown Golf and Country Club Young and Mill Steets Jack McCallum Halton MLPL Sandy Besto Landrace Association Farmers’ Advocate Legion

Halton Manor Oakville Citizens Band Concert and Palm Sunday Services

The Halton Manor Oakville Citizens Band presented a Sunday concert featuring Broadway tunes and serious works. Rev. D A Powell of Grace Anglican Church Milton conducted Palm Sunday service while Rev. Jo L Graham preached a hopeful Easter sermon.

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Easter Meet Hosts Guest Speaker and Choir

Miss OB Carrs led prayers and readings from Luke 23 at a church Easter gathering in Mes AT Aflgore with Mrs Crawford contributing a piano solo The Resurrection address by Res Weir highlighted walking in the light Seventeen ladies attended the social period after the meeting ended with a closing prayer by Miss Bo J Meomigail.

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Public inquest into Hare hi Grabb double shooting set

A public inquest into the Hare hi Grabb double shooting is slated for April 10 at 8 pm in Milton courthouse. The incident occurred Monday evening on Highway 25 and 401 Cloverleaf, leaving Linda Kay Barclay 14 and Herbert Grabb 52 dead. Coroner George Syers ob Mitton certified the deaths. police named Corporal Charles Wilkinson and Constables Wright Pardy and Pelissera among investigators. Linda Barclay’s funeral is in Milton with burial in Milling ton Michigan. Herbert Grabb’s body to Syr avune with burial in Courtland Cemetery.

Court House Milton Ita Department Pot Highways dOl Linda Kay Barclay Herbert Peter Grubb Sudey Jove Ruth Jolson Mesdolesca Graipb Charles Wilkinson North Plalan Johnsean George Syers Ob Mitton Pour OPP Wilkinson Carmen Wright Dave Pardy Be. Pellissera Linda Barclay Millington Michigan Herbert Grabb Syravune Courtland Johnson Burlington

Tipson Touring Promen e Travel Authority

A column warns that faulty tires caused 19 percent of traffic fatalities due to equipment failure. It offers ten tips from automotive experts on tire care including pressure, alignment, tread checks, rotation, tire type, and safe driving practices. The advice emphasizes preventing tire issues to protect drivers and families.

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Structural Studies Planned for Arena Condition

The Community Centre Fund committee met on Saturday morning and reviewed progress on the arena project. Reports covered section plans and committee completions while noting ongoing engineering studies and a proposed artificial ice plant. The campaign policy emphasized pledges. if funds fall short no partial work will proceed and all donations may be returned. Planning calls for convany in late spring to begin construction during the building season.

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