Acton to retain identity in regional government PULLING TOGETHER to make Operation sculpturing contests highlighted the second annual huge success ore the student of Acton week long winter carnival that was capped off by a District High parade a pieeating semi formal dance Saturday night Turn inside- hockey and basketball games a variety for more pictures and stones of Operation show snowmobile ad dogsled races and snow Staff Photo Acton will not lose its identity under regional government and quite likely will be the urban core of a new area in a four or five unit Halton split Thats the word from the minister of municipal Affairs the Hon Darcy McKeough who conferred with Acton council at Queens Park Monday night for two hours and IS minutes Things look a lot brighter for Acton now Mayor told the Free Press following the meeting which he described as quite satisfactory and very successful He interpreted the minister as insisting on a Peel wedding but disclosing there would be a two tier system of government which would retain a local council in each region So we may have a council the as today the mayor declared Boundaries of the Acton unit would likely include most of Nassagawcya and part of Lsqucsing The minister referred to the reeves plan which showed the Acton area extending into Esqucsmg to the Fourth Line but Mr McKeough has made no firm decision on tins yet the mayor said He was receptive to Actons ideas of extending beyond the Fourth Line to possibly the Sixth or Seventh Concessions The mayor explained that the new water pollution control plant is situated to the south of Acton making it geographically and economically feasible to expand eastward rather than south west or north The minister indicated that Nassagawcya preferred to go with Acton in a regional area but it was possible some land to the south of Highway would be included in the Milton area Boundaries were still flexible told the meeting Every member of council was given ample opportunity to question Mr and wo of his aides on the plan When would regional government into effect hinted strongly that he would mike a final statement on April in time to implement proposals for Jan 1 1971 Model plane competition Saturday at high school Acton Hi Flyers are sponsoring an indoor model plane contest Saturday from 10 a until pan in the high school gym Fifty model plane kits are mailable In 50 boys under who enter with glue supplied free Entries will make their plane and compete in a free flight rubber powered a ire raft competition Entry fee is a nominal Each contestant will have 10 official flight tunes recorded and they will be sent into Model Aeronautics Everyone entering will receive a citation Purpose of the competition is to interest boys in model aircraft Ninety Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY Pages F eon Cents gains Halton will benefit from education grants Acton plant sells line expect men laid off Committee approves banks applications Board of Education will benefit to the maximum under recent increases in grants announced by the Mini sic of Education because per pupil costs arc significantly lower than the ceilings set Director J Singleton indicated this week He noted the Board per pupil cost at the elementary level is and at the secondary level SI 027 These arc total costs which are reduced by provincial rants The Minister ceiling of 500 plus the cost of transportation and capital costs at the elementary level or 000 plus those two items at the secondary level would cover all of the costs The danger of exceeding Mimsler ceilings the Director noted would be lhai costs in excess of the limits would have to be borne by Ihc total community without benefit of any provincial grant on the above the limit Over the county as whole things will look good director suggested since the apportionment method which had to be used last year will not apply this year The apportionment his year will allow things to find ihcir own level he observed Expansion at the Acton plant of Budding Products of Canada on Main St North has landed the city of a new industry Gilson Manufacturing Ltd in has purchased the profile business including the extrusion equipment dies and material from the Acton plant and will operate the company in Guelph under the name of Micro Plasties It is expected about 15 employees will be laid off at the Acton plant Most will be personnel who have only been Willi the company for Ihc last six months E Shand executive vice president of Building said that every effort is being made to suitably locate employees who will be displaced by the sale of ihis part of the business and it is expected some will be absorbed in other departments of the plant Approximately 17 employees were affected by the sale of the profile business Some with seniority will bump employees in other departments The company and union will negotiate who will be laid off Union president Norm said the employees knew the profile business would either be sold or phased out over a year and a half ago Profiles is one one of the original lines of the company but rapid expansion of the plastic pipe and fittings and plastic budding materials at ihe Acton plant has made lie profile business redundant to future requirements of the company The plant Acton will concentrate toward expansion on the top selling products Phase one of a million dollar expansion at the plant is reaching a close Machinery is being set up in new 000 square foot addition The Company said the time of the expansion announcement that it could mean employment for more employees over the course of the project and the union hopes many of the men being laid off in the present shuffle may be rehired as the other product lines Transfer of machinery for the respectively move from Acton plant to Guelph will be completed by the end of February and Building Products will continue to service existing accounts for Manufacturing The profile business will be relocated in a 10 square foot plant on the Parkway in Guelph Between and people will be employed at the plant on eight hour shifts The company has appo Richard Bum as plant general manager and two Acton and district residents Phil and Sidney Newton wiU be production and sales manager I s technician Two applications on behalf of banks were approved by the committee of adjustment a meeting Monday The application from the Bank of Montreal for an addition at the rear of their present building was approved when no obicclions were registered The application of Mrs Pauline Ollen for the building Woman questions Marshalls vote Can Councillor Ken Marshall vote on the raceways application for a building permit Carol resident of the township asked council Monday She claimed he could nut vote since he has of i North Halton reassessment could start in autumn of this year Do you know the market value of your home or farm Residents North Halton may know more accurately following the visits learns of assessors into Acton Milton Georgetown and Nassagawcya in late fall or the early part next year Peel assessment commissioner ID Id this newspaper at a press conference in Brampton Monday that teams of men would move into the vinous North Halton municipalities following the reassessment program Brampton He expected this would take up most of this year but it was quite possible work would start North in the late fall All assessment the province of Ontario will be based on market values starting 1175 Thai Prime ob reassessment program is bring hopping equity to the annnaa aid Carl ho duetto Peel Ontario Swuoe and Muskoka districts There are about properties in with 110 municipalities Mr Madden mid the Brampton news that recciii programs issuing properly market value showed everyone is in laun and taxation provided don r have to pay moic lor it Mi said he received a complaint Irom one homeowner whose assessment rose around 0OO under market value assessment His taxes rose lion to SI gun owner was What he that because of adequacies in the old system he had been preferred treatment home with simitar worth as much had been paying taxes of close to I all along Obviously the other home should have been hopping mad discovering that owner liadn been my lair share local taxes in the pasl Mi Madgett declared The program is essential if there is to be any equity ptoperty assessment and local it Tins means some people will pay less in taxes and others more Unfortunately we hear from those property owners whose assessment at maikct value indicates higher taxes They piefer the old iruquitible system which unintentionally concealed the special treatment they were getting A homeowner will know whether his assessment is realistic or not as he likely has a good idea of what Ins property is worth on the open market the irsaid Who would jet market value it property It would be based on the market value by sales and resales of similar housing in a community dating would take place annually Asked was any relief fir peiple forced if homes by escalated assessment values Mi Madgett said this was the responsibility of his department existed merely to the However he pointed out that people over years age could obtain rebel In the Act with a hen against the estate Mayor Hazel contended there were no necessary in and pom ltd ut assessmenl II a municipality does not raise more money the my ot home owners would pay the same under the new system The mill rate should drop according to Only one county in Ontario York is completely reassessed and there were only two per cent in Mrs McCallum who she represented a ihe meeting illustrated her point with an example of she owned which had been Value soared on the live acres and a house from SI 500 to but her laxes wen Appeals to ihe Assessment Review Court has been revised in order to provide more time 29 days in all instead of 14 for the In me owner to decide whether he wants in appeal his Reassessment in expected to take two years after scllm laud ilcreil the raceway promoters year Georgetown lawyer Peter who is representing William Lawsou supported her argument Mr Marshall should not only not have a note in the mallei but I don t think he should be here at meetings at all he said quoting from ihe Ontario Municipal Act to support his Councillor Marshall made no comment the charges and council made no decision on his voting power Passenger hurt Friday accident A passenger in one of two cats involved was injured an accident at Mill and Wdlow Sti al OS Kenneth Kitchener stopped his car to allow a pedestrian to cross on the crosswalk and the car behind driven by Raymond Acton struck the rear Mrs Gladys suffered a whiplash and bumps on the head Cons Roy Wood investigated and a charge was laid which will house the TorontoDominion bank was approved but three persons were- present to voice objections John Conigho and H H Each of the three objected because the right of way from Willow Street alongside bakery was being lost In the approval the committee of adjustment stated their hope that some arrange merit would be worked out the way The bank applications resulted from the proposed buildings leaving too few parking spaces by regulation The buildings had been approved by planning board and council and the committee of adjustment had also received letters from affected neighbors who stated they had no objection The applications go next to the Department of Planning before final approval The third application of the hearing was for a severance for a private home on Cobb chill Since there was no representation the matter was held over for another meeting Attendance was small Long record man arrested in Georgetown Through alertness and cooperation by local citizens a man was arrested in Georgetown and charged with uttering a forged document in Acton He has since been remanded for sentencing He has in unusually long record of similar occurrences and convictions He attempted pau a cheque in Nielsens store last Tuesday but when the clerk began to make inquiries he fled Other information was alao relayed to police and later Cons Roy Wood with the operation of Georgetown pohce arrested the man in a hotel j Almost 100 snowmobiles roared around a Fairy lake course in Sundays races sponsored by the Ys Men Turn inside for more pictures