Mill Editorial Page A dear George letter GLENLEA SUBDIVISION and Indujmln Quarries to obtain photos lor use by the Halton Industrial are prominent In this aerial photo of Acton taken by CbmmllteB This one was taken as the bore In Hamilton Industrial photographer Phil Aggus of Phil from the west The Free Press received permission to and Sons Ltd Mr and Halton Wardon reproduce some of the photos Alan Day recently flew over the county in a helicopter Sugar and Spice by bill smiley In a bunt of blind fury I made my wife get off her tall and go with me on our Big Trip In the last week of holidays It had started out back In May as a leisurely trip to the British Isles It shrank like a dowager on a crash diet There was no formal opposition Just a lot of little feminine tricks something like the Chinese water torture Drop after drop Insomnia nothing to wear cant afford it wholl cut the lawn absolutely must have the for a weekendYou know the gamut By midJuly it was a trip across Canada with a trailer Looking up friends and relatives not driving too far in a day en- Joying the camaraderie of the trailer camp By midAugust it was a mad dash to the But Kim was home and We cant leave her alone and she didnt want togowith us after Just having been there Well spilt milk much use We finally made it Left on Thursday afternoon and St home Sunday evening How that for a I Trip However perhaps It was worth waiting fgf or all summer It was different We bought a Coleman stove we planned to cook along the way Anyone Interested In a brand new Coleman stove that has never even been lit And of course we bought food here and there to cook on our new stove Arrived home with two huge boxes of groceries I swear I had 12 meals In a row of bacon and eggs and beans No mean fore But we ve still got two weeks supply We Just drove until we felt like stopping North and north And we wound up spending a couple of days In a cabin on a lake and loving It It was a rundown oldfashioned tourist resort We got one of the deluxe cabins No bellhops no broacQoom no TV but a real washroom with running water In fact the water was running all over the floor from a leak or something when we checked in Strangely my wife loved the place At homeshesapsychotic emptier of ashtrays sweeper of floors and maker of beds At the cabin she cheerfully walked around In grit up to the ankles and actually chuckled when the TransCanada train went by three or id Pepper by hartley coles According to a paperback book with the unlikely title Aerobics Im on the threshold of a new and keener appreciation of life That is if I last long enough Maybe noticed this apace has been filled by more circumspect material the past two weeks Perhaps you wondered whether this fussyfaced scribbler bad Bully drowned In his own trivia Let me explain For the past three or fouror maybe Ive been feeling like all the road m reconstructing Highway ran overmeat the same time Or if mat dear enough perhaps a better analogy would be that I felt like the beer in a bottle with its top gone awfully flat This ennui did not creep up on me unawares I could feel its tentacles reaching for me over the past several years gradually wearing me down to where there reached the where a across the street was Us a trip through the Sahara desert It made writing this column feel like I was penning a page novel I c of course loudly and almost daily to everyone who would listen until finally my better half suggested perhaps I should and seek some When it became dear I was timer a a physical coward who dreaded doctors and dentists or b a chrome who relished making other people squirm with a redtal of my woes she took matters Into bar own and made for me and threatened not to show op tot the I was secretly Ob the appointed day at the ap pointed ti I waste t doctors office any hypo How you smiled the doctor motioning for me to sit down In a chair opposite him Not worth a darn Doc I replied in a cowed voice Then I belabored him with symptoms a yard long What followed will have to remain con fidenual between physician and me There were tests They stuck needles in me booked me up to machines with yards of paper despatched me to a specialist One day recently I got the summons to appear for results You said the doctor kindly have got It was at this point In the dialogue that communications broke down Myocardia I asked incredulously Mentally the words pictured a six month stay in hospital where at the end of a long corridor the Latin inscription Myocarda a- or whatever is inscribed In a granite tombstone above my name But I was prematureI think That means be said com- heart la not getting enough oxygen My advice is to get off your fanny and start to exercise or words to that effect of the best methods would be in this book called Aerobics by a doctor from the VS air force The doctors theory is that many of todays ills are caused by sedentary living whatever that Is and some good old fashioned exercise like running will clear the whole thing up And hes got lots of evidence to buttress his case Followed faithfully the exercises Increase oxygen endurance and can give you a new outlook on the dun old world For a couple of we forgot about pollution and populationexplosion and other such poppycock It was enough to wrench the door open look at that great clean lake yards away and wonder what the rich people were doing Sunshine and sand and bacon and eggs and beans Evenings were as paradisical Campflre until midnight then into the hut with the little gas stove sputtering cosily a novel a nightcap and no phone ringing or cor door slamming to indicate callers We had special treat on Friday night when the proprietors held a dance The rock band made the railroad train sound like a muted whisper We t go to the dance but It was Juat like home when Kim has a record on But idylls must end Third morning woke to a wild wind a driving rain coming in around the front door and the worst storm of the summer In full flight Drove the long way home in rain that was worse than a blizzard with sundry morons tailgating cutting in passing on comers and hills and over the white line when you t see the front of your car Shaky Things dldnt Improve They fust got back to normal Discovered daughter engaged to fine young chap who had two cents Literally I know it hard to believe In this affluent age but he had two 2 cents cash when he proposed The exercises recommended in the order they do the most good are running swim ming cycling stationary running and handball or basketball Calisthenics A poor substitute says the book And twiddling your thumbs an exercise at which I excel doesn t even appear There a list of categories for users which runs from one to five classified from poor to excellent You start out running walk if breath falls and then resume running You keep going for full minutes When you checked the distance covered you re In business and can determine your physical fitness category Simple eh I thought so too until Sunday when I determined my status My wife and I started out in a drizzly rain She was in the car I ran behind on a deserted stretch of the First line that winds around Fairy Lake Dogs barked cows gazed crows squawked and people gawked I kept going for agonizing minutes huffing and puffing like one of those infernal engines from the Milton steam reunion I covered It miles of wound Thatuuteon holed me in Category Two one step above My illusions were shattered This category says the cook catches the social athlete the man who plays golf on Saturday or tennis on Sundays or baseball at picnics or goes swimming in summer hunting in fall or skiing in winter and next to nothing in between I was convinced and made a vow I will complete the program if I can last So if you see some poor creature eating up distance on the stretch of road beside your place panic Its me Yes you are welcome to Join provided you get your doctor so JC An open tetter to the Hon George Kerr Minister of Energy and Resources Management and for West Dear George I know you are busy bearing around the pollution bug a boo which is one of the big problems facing us today In the global village but I wonder If you have a few minutes to discuss something thats been on my mind and sure on the minds of many of your constituents since the government Issued Design for Development for the Toronto Centred Region They held a meeting of the Central Ontario Regional Development Council a week or so ago and we thought there would be some answers forthcoming out of that conference about the kind future we fellows up here In the com muter shed could expect when and If these plans are ptomented But we were dlsap pointed There were none and now we are as unsure about the proposals as we were before the conference started Design for Development places the commutershed In an area of restrained growth despite obvious pressures of development Now there has been little criticism of this concept from people In these parts because we never did go much for this big fast stuff but we gathered from the report that certain urban areas in the com would be encouraged to grow We quote from the report Off the cuff Behind every successful man is another one who says he went to school with him The growth which does take place In Zone will be encouraged Into 1 the vicinity of an urban axis which Is expected to begin In Zone I with Richmond Hill and Include Aurora Newmarket and to a very small degree Bradford such as Orangevllle Bolton Acton Georgetown Milton Port Perry and Stouffvllfe Now we gather from govern ment policy In the last few months that although there has been no specific legislation passed that the Toronto centred region plan Is being used as a guide for any growth proposals For Instance the OMB recently turned down proposals for two subdivisions In a neighboring township because they didnt correspond with Design for Development Acton presently Is planning to annex acres of Esqueslng township at the request owners of land in the east end Does this fit In with the plans In Design for Development Or Is the town being too ambitious Although there are some fine farms In this area the land Is not particularly suited for agriculture Is the province merely stamping land for agriculture on a blanket basis We gathered from recent government statements that all growth In Zone would be cur tailed which In our estimation runs counter to the statement In Design for Development promising encouragement of growth In the towns of North Halton Where does the government stand Does the town of Acton sit In a growth area or has the government dec ded it must sit and wait for development within Its own boundaries If the town Is to grow with en from the province what form will the encouragement fake These questions and many more require answers if the town Is to have guide lines to plan for the years ahead It Is very difficult Indeed to plan for your future when there are no definite guide lines to follow Perhaps there will be more definite answers to these questions and others after the September deadline for briefs from the local level on the Toronto centred region Meanwhile the people In North Halton like many others affected by Design for Development are living In a kind of limbo Nassagaweya councillor Allan summed up feelings In North Halton pretty well recently at a township planning board meeting when he told board members they were sitting around planning the future of this township and we are not even sure it has a future Just thought youd like to hear from us George Wishing you every success with cleaning up pollution In the province and hoping you have some of the an to questions weve been asking Yours sincerely Resident of North Halton Cooperation key to success We are still hearing ex of surprise from people involved in the first annual sport s show which the Chamber of Commerce three service clubs and Acton HI Flyers operated over the Labor Day weekend We suspect many people ex the show would flop and then everyone could go back to their pads convinced that nothing would go over In town which In volved several clubs working together As a result of a lot of hard work and planning the event went off very well Indeed but perhaps the keynote for the show s success was the operation between the various groups involved Each club has its own area of competence and saw to It that their part of the operation was carried out This kind of Inter club operation should be an example to all of us Given the right conditions the show could become an annual feature on this particular weekend It could provide more advertising than a campaign from Madison Avenue We can easily look at the example of other communities who have built up attractions and made town and area synonymous with an event Examples Fergus and the Highland Games Stratford and the Shakespearean Festival Milton and the Steam Era Reunion Georgetown and the Bantam hockey tournament Shelburne and the ad Time Fiddler contest Chatham and its gigantic corn roast When these events were first conceived In their various places they started out small Over the years they grew In size and reputation It would be a generous gesture If all the townspeople got behind the Acton event another year and gave the sportsmens show the Impetus It needs to establish It as an annual event In Acton The number of visitors at to this years show should be a good indication of how many would come If the show was ex tended another day and enlarged Visitors appreciated and com on the choice of site We throw out an editorial bouquet to all involved In me first of what we hope will be an annual event of this kind 20 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press of Thursday September 1384 eligible citizens of Acton were ab sent from the nomination meeting in the council chambers on Wednesday evening The meeting bad received the required publicity and was held to fill the vacancy on council caused the resignation of Tom Among the IS present at the meeting there were never more than 14 at one time Not one nomination was received by clerk Jack McGeachie decided to carry on for the balance of the year without filling the vacancy Several important matters came before a special meeting of the North high school district board Monday Tran sportation of pupils to the three schools and selecting a central location for one school to serve the three towns and two townships were the main items of a session that began in the drizzling rain at Speysfde Members viewed possible land for the central school and the most suitable land in this district appeared to be at the corner of the third line and the road between Speyslde and Georgetown Congratulations to George Fountain who won first prize in the old time Odder contest in Glen Williams years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press of Thursday September 23 1020 Acton Fall Fair of adds another to the unbroken list of successes There were big squashes and pumpkins galore fit for epicures and poets Not for 0 years has there been as few entries in the dairy classes The creameries are doing it Farmers wives are not making butter as they used to do The floral exhibit was the best seen for years Notwithstanding the THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE I and Ed tor Don Copyright 1B70 multiplying of the number of motor cars the noble horse appears to bold bis own at this fall fair The midway features were numerous Kelly and Son made good exhibit of the famous Bell pianos Johnstone and Co furniture display was 75 years ago Taken from the Us of the Free Press of Thursday September A meeting of touch interest to tins municipality was held to consider the necessity of providing tome adequate protection against Ore Reeve Storey a firstclass steam engine would be r with hose sad apparatus A motion to petition council to raise by debenture the sum required was passed without a assenting vote Thirty or forty stood up to give the motion their ap probation Labor Day is a statutory holiday It was instituted on behalf of the Labor Union but the laboring class do not a role It Labor Day the least regarded of all the holidays of the year It Is reported that Mr John Doff of Ma was attacked by highway men about one mile aabove Acton one night last weak while be was returning home Ha recerred no injury and gave Bis m mora than they bargained fa- Mr Goran has sunflower in his garden with blossoms on Mr Thomas Cook who Htm In Reeve Pearsons tenement on at fell down the back stain In a St of but escaped without broken bones The old gentleman Is yean of aft