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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2016-10-26, Page 66 Huron Expositor • Wednesday, October 26, 2016 'f it's local, it's here seaforthhurone ,o, Celebrate Incredible. Igtffi Jr' .1101 it Help us recognize the junior citizens who make our communities better. Nominate someone age 6-17 for a 2016 Ontario Junior Citizen Award! Annaleise Carr, 2012 and 2014 Ontario Junior Citizen, Simcoe, ON At 14, Annaleise Carr was the youngest person ever to swim across Lake Ontario. Two years later, Annaleise swam across Lake Erie. Combined these efforts raised awareness and hundreds of thousands of dollars for Camp Trillium, a family camp for children with cancer. Her book, Annaleise Carr: How I Conquered Lake Ontario to Help Kids Battling Cancer, inspires others to take on great challenges and help their fellow citizens. Do you know someone who is involved in worthwhile community service, is contributing while living with a limitation, has performed an heroic act, demonstrates individual excellence, or is going above and beyond to help others? If so, nominate them today! Nominations are open until November 30, and nomination forms are available from this newspaper, and the Ontario Community Newspapers Association at www.ocna.org or 416-923-7724 ext. 4439. ocna oniado Community Newspapers Ass Talion ONTARIO JUNIOR CITIZEN AWARDS Sponsored by: 3 To help with financials, Strategic Plan begins for rec centres Shaun Gregory Huron Expositor As youwalkup the stairs in Huron East's town hall leading up to the council cham- bers, sharing the wall where pictures of previous councils over the years and art work is hung, written motivational sayings on massive sheets of paper are displayed. This is all an effort to stop Huron East's three recreational facilities from poten- tially falling into anymore financial deficits seeing as there were $600,000 in total net losses for 2016 from the trio. The day before the municipality of Huron East's October 18 council meeting, all three of the facilities recreational com- mittees met with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs. Spearheaded by OMAFRA's Vicki Lass, the banners on the wall, also known as "terms of reference" characterized a way to attract the community, an initiative to showcase what they have to offer, which is measurable -the Strategic Plan. Not having any direction of which way to go in terms of promoting and revitaliz- ing Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre, Seaforth & District Community Centre and the Vanastra Recreation Cen- tre, council made the decision to contact the provincial ministry. This summit, the first of three gather- ings is a visually inventive approach brainstormed by all the groups. The writ- ings were requested by all the commit- tees to not only stay up to date but also to indicate to council with proof of what they were there doing. "It's all their work and when you put that visual around, so you can keep going back to the work that they've already done, so you get that consist- ency of thought and it just helps in the process," stated Lass, OMAFRA's agricul- ture and rural economic development advisor. Lass comes free of charge since the province grants her services to Huron East and other municipalities that find themselves in the same circumstances. Since the group finished the terms of reference, in November the same entou- rage is set to meet and move further in the pursuit of a fact-finding mission and vision. "We are (undertaking) an environ- mental scan, one thing we can do (is) call it a PESTO," she said October 20. "What you're looking at is factors such as political, environmental factors, social factors, technical factors and other fac- tors, that's where the acronym pesto comes from:' NOTICE TO ALL RESIDENTS OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF HURON EAST PLEASE HELP KEEP THIS WINTER A SAFE ONE The Council of the Municipality of Huron East requests the cooperation of the ratepayers regarding the parking of cars and other vehicles, and the depositing of snow on municipal roads during the period in which snow clearing operations are necessary. It is an offence under the Highway Traffic Act, Section 170(12) to: "Park or stand a vehicle on a highway in such a manner as to interfere with the movement of traffic or the clearing of snow from the highway". Also, Section 181 states: "No person shall deposit snow or ice on a roadway without permission in writing to do so from the Ministry or the Road Authority responsible for the Maintenance of the Road." Parking is not permitted on any street or road within the Municipality of Huron East between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m., from November 1 to April 15. Violators will be ticketed and may have their vehicles towed and impounded. Neither the Municipality of Huron East nor the "Snow Plow Operators" will be held responsible for damage done to vehicles or mailboxes on the Municipal Road Allowance. Your help and cooperation in these matters is greatly appreciated and will aid in a safer winter for all. Barry Mills, C.Tech., Huron East Public Works Manager