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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 26, 1966
Page
8
Sree Press personals note hospitalizations and visits among local residents. Henk Barens and Guelph General Hospital patients, Melvin Burns, Guelph General Hospital, Roy Arnott recuperating, various weekend visits, and hospital recoveries. Mentions of Rexdale, Sarnia, Ottawa, Detroit, Toronto, Lucknow, Calgary, and other towns.
Bannockburn Women's Institute plans a two day bus trip to Ottawa in mid June. Members heard progress updates from Him Chiang foster child and noted district events. Delegates were chosen for the District Annual Ball in Ballinatah on May 25.
Acton plans a strong entry in the Lions parade as 397 communities from Quebec and Ontario converge on London for the largest Canadian parade. 80 000 to 100 000 spectators expected. nearly 3000 entries include 45 bands 53 boats 39 majorette groups 45 decorated cars with horses. Acton Club features a clown band about 25 from town. International champions from Leaside Sarnia Quebec City Toronto join. A Burford steam engine attracts fans. 20000 Lions Club members and families will attend. 3000 stay for four day convention at Ivanhoe Curling Club with sessions and entertainment.
The Antique Car Club of Canada held its first spring outing in this region on Sunday May 15. About 35 members started from Toronto, lunch at Rattlesnake Point, then visited Jack Pemberton’s Esquesing farm to view his vast antique carriage collection.
Retired farmer John Aberdean Leslie of Esquesing township died after a short illness on May 16 at his home on Uhl Bower Ave. He was 70. A long-time Acton resident, he was active in Walker Lodge No. 321 and the Scottish Rite, serving as past master and past district deputy grand minister. Born April 1896 in Esquesing, he married Alice Gertrude Blow in 1955 after first wife Hazel Stewart Leslie died in 1947. Survived by wife, sister Isabelle Lindsay of Georgetown, brother George Leslie of Georgetown, and predeceased by brothers Blake, Ligut, and Edwin Leslie killed in World War II. Funeral May 19 at Rumley-Shoemaker. interment Georgetown. Pallbearers listed. Masons attended a late service.
Algonquin Park naturists caution that distinguishing buck from doe by size and toe spread is unreliable. They propose a surer method, usable only with snow, noting that a buck drags its feet and leaves two grooves between prints when its toes touch the surface.
The new E-O-PAR workshop by Opportunities Products Enterprises will hold its first public open house on Wednesday evening from 7 to 9. Sponsored by the North Tal ton Association for the Mentally Retarded, the Milton supervised workshop showcases work by adults with disabilities at the Jaco er Hornby School on Base Line east of Seventh Line Escuiesing.
The recreation committee meeting held last Thursday was canceled because a quorum could not be attained. The session was postponed and a report will appear next week after the meeting was rescheduled.
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