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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 15, 1960
Page
16
Winter weather visible in town with furnaces warming homes early and coats in use. Local highlights include Scout Hall Girl Guide opening, Lions Club steak barbecue, Y's Men opening meeting, high school Romeo and Juliet trip, and preparations for Acton Fall Fair with coordinators planning rally day and classes. Also mentions visitors log, a bingo jackpot winner, and local infrastructure updates at Mill Street crossing.
The Acton Lions Club held an outdoor steak roast for its first season meeting led by President Alec Johnson. They plan to sponsor a juvenile team in the Ontario Minor Hockey Association this winter, to be known as the Acton Lions, run by Lion Ernie Marks. The club will supply equipment but no transportation. A Teen Town Club, tied to Legion Hall dances, is also forming with rules on membership and conduct, aiming to host future dances with plans for bands and disc jockeys.
Esquesing school board met with three delegations in Norval Tuesday evening to tackle transport concerns. The Union Church area requested direct pickup to Norval, a demand granted. Terma Cotta group urged earlier pickups and later drops, with the board agreeing to study a fix. Eight ratepayers on the third line Esquesing sought bus service, and after discussion the board approved routing the bus to the third line and Dublin sideroad for boarding.
Police investigate the theft of a car from Jack Reid's garage on Lake Avenue early Monday. Reid awoke to a noise and saw the vehicle disappear down the street. An Ontario Provincial Police detachment broadcast description to nearby centers, but no trace has been found.
Monthly Wo mans Institute meeting at secretary s home with notes on gifts and a workshop Eat to Live at Emorville. Delegates named to area convention in Guelph while papers on culling Religion and Life were presented. Local students begin senior and junior teams practice under Mrs Rathboor and Mrs Baal Anderson. Cairn construction completed at the school bells. a plique awarded in a service. Several residents and visitors listed with travel plans and university studies.
Fragmentary text discusses themes of loyalty and neighborly relations amid a controversial pursuit of new annihilation. The incomplete excerpt hints at moral conflict and social tension without clear events or entities.
The Lakeside Chapter FODE held its first tall meeting in the Legion auditorium on Tuesday evening with a pot luck supper. Organizers planned exhibits for the Fall Fair classes and appointed canvassers for the CNIB annual campaign. Di want Men AT Bachan presented slides from their recent trip to Europe.
Acton brigades led a parade from Prospect Park and Park Street to Knox Church after a wreath laying at the cenotaph. Rev Brook praised St John Ambulance work with the ill and injured and urged continued service, tracing roots to the 1096 crusade.
At the end of church services a parade passed a saluting base at the post office where Dr James Hutchinson former area commissioner and Hamilton figure took the salute. Flo joined by Mayor John Gey area superintendent Jerkins and nursing division staff attended. Afterward the group picnicked in Acton Park.
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