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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 10, 1967
Page
15
Feature describes Blue Scouts reserve at Acton where first weekend course under Art Jackson and assistants faced frozen showers, canvass sleeping, and lectures outdoors. Participants endured cold, rain, and snow with plans to return next weekend hoping better weather.
Day schools and classes for hearing impaired children operate in Toronto Hamilton Windsor and London with students barred from Milton or Belleville provincial schools as facilities are supplied by city boards. Ailing Albert is rushed to the hospital while his boss visits reassuring him that everyone at the office will pitch in to cover work as soon as the cause is understood.
At a special library board meeting tonight, Wednesday, some gifts intended to assist and further the centennial project will be presented.
Guides and Rangers need volunteers as Captain Mrs Ginger will lead next year and may oversee Guides too. District Commissioner Mrs John Lowrie is requesting helpers at Roseford Terrace to fill urgent posts after the Ranger Company lapsed from lack of leaders.
A 100 acre park like site opposite Blue Springs scout reserve west of Acton will host a new Halton Presbytery United church camp. Don McMillan of Moffat formerly owned the land which remains largely wooded with four open fields. Officials plan picnics roasts and hikes this year while long term aims include conferences study sessions retreats and summer camps. Church groups are invited to inspect the site and work parties will be arranged later.
Miss Ida Reddy is appointed assistant director of the South Central Regional Library System and will assume duties in June. She is current chief librarian of Burlington Public Library and holds Arts and Library Science degrees from the University of Toronto. Her career spans Toronto Public Library branches, Etobicoke, Oshawa, and leadership at Burlington since 1961.
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