Huron Expositor, 2015-09-30, Page 3Wednesday, September 30, 2015 • Huron Expositor 3
Speed limits to be lowered in two areas More info on mysterious nurses
Dave Flaherty
Postmedia Network
The county's committee of the
whole has approved a number of
recommendations for lowering
speed limits in the region.
The first recommendation from
staff was to reduce the speed limit
on County Road 25 (Blyth Rd.) to
60 km/h from 580m west of County
Road 4 to the main intersection.
The speed limit on County Road
25 when approaching the village of
Blyth is currently 90 km/h.
The request was made on behalf
of The Huron Pioneer Thresher and
Hobby Association as a result of
safety concerns.
"They hold their annual steam
show on the site in September and
the site plays host to other events
during the summer," a staff report
stated. "The campground on the
site draws visitors through the
summer."
County staff said this could pose
a hazard as vehicles slow or stop
prior to making left or right turns
into the facility.
In their report, Steven Lund,
director of operations and Mike
Campbell, manager of public
works, said reducing the speed
limit would "provide a higher level
of safety to all motorists in the
vicinity of the Thresher's venue
entrance"
The recommendation referred to
the area of County Road 12 and
County Road 25.
Currently the speed limit on
County Road 12 is 90 km/h to the
north of Walton.
At a point 790 m north of the
limit of County Road 25, the speed
limit is reduced is 60 km/h.
Then, 515 m further south of that
point, the speed limit is further
reduced to 50 km/h.
According to the staff report, a
number of residents have made
request for the speed limit to be
reduced for safety reasons.
"Staff have reviewed the situa-
tion and are of the opinion that the
stretch of road in question meets
the requirements of a "built-up
area" as defined in the Highway
Traffic Act with an associated
default speed limit of 50 km/h,"
Lund and Campbell wrote in their
report.
Furthermore, the report stated,
"This area affected by the pro-
posed speed limit reduction has
numerous entrances, both resi-
dential and commercial, with the
associated vehicular traffic. Road
safety is associated with both the
operating speed and the number
of entrances, so this speed limit
reduction should improve
safety."
Lastly, in the summer, a number
of residents of the Saltford-area
had approached council with a
petition regarding traffic speed
concerns, east of Hwy. 21 at West -
mount Line (at the top of the hill).
The petition requested that the
posted speed be lowered from 60
km/h to 50 km/h.
However, according to a report,
staff found that 60 km/h is a suffi-
cient speed limit for the area.
"The OPP carried out spot
enforcement three times and found
one speeding vehicle each time.
This is a low frequency," the report
stated
Staff have suggested speed mon-
itors be installed to help determine
the appropriate amount of
enforcement.
"Lowering the speed limit may
drop speeds a bit, however,
enforcement is required to ensure
compliance to the speed limit," the
report stated.
The county has agreed to lease a
traffic speed sign from the Coali-
tion for Huron Injury Prevention
(CHIP) to allow staff to review traf-
fic speeds and create public and
motorist awareness.
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Shaun Gregory
Huron Expositor
Last July the Expositor pub-
lished a two-part sequence of arti-
cles pertaining to four mysterious
nurses and this resulted in many
leads through phone calls and
emails. Now, a nephew of one of
the alleged nurses said a state-
ment by Esther Smale, which
identified one nurse in the cen-
tury -old photo as his aunt, is
incorrect.
John Dunn, 63, from Tillson-
burg, Ont., admitted Smale's
description of his aunt Margariet
Dunn, also known as "Auntie
Dunn," was spot-on, but not the
identification.
"The text that Mrs. Smale
wrote about her, that's accurate.
That's her no doubt," Dunn said
during a phone interview. "It's
just not her in that picture."
Although the picture is dated
from 1925 in Seaforth, neverthe-
less Dunn clarified his aunt gradu-
ated in 1923 from St. Joseph's Hos-
pital in Chatham, Ont., before
beginning an extensive career in
the Seaforth area. Dunn stated
"Auntie Dunn" also spent time in
the U.S. nursing in Detroit and
California.
"She died in 1984, we're talking
30 years ago, there's not going to be
a lot of people around now that
would know her. They knew of her
or maybe delivered by her," Dunn
explained.
Besides the facts already stated,
Dunn could not elaborate much
more information to possibly help
with the investigation of the myste-
rious nurses.
"I hardly know anybody left in
Seaforth, we spent some time up
there when we were kids, we used
to hang around the Sills kids and
stuff like that, but that was a long
time ago," added Dunn.
Besides Margariet Dunn, who
her nephew alleges is not the
nurse in the photo and Olive L.
Hackney, the nurse Smale
claims is also from the graduat-
ing class of 1925, there yet
remains names to attach to
three of the nurses. If you recog-
nize any of the women in the
photograph please contact the
Seaforth Huron Expositor at
519-527-0240.
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