The Citizen, 2017-02-02, Page 18PAGE 18. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2017.
Season winding down
Hockey was the action of the day in Brussels on Saturday as the Novice Rep Blyth Brussels
Crusaders took on their Central Perth Rep counterparts at the Brussels, Morris and Grey
Community Centre. With the locals up 1-0 at the end of the first period, they would cruise to a
3-1 victory in the Saturday afternoon contest. (Shawn Lou
ghtin photo)
Marshall to miss colleagues
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him and he will miss being a part of
them.
"It will be difficult to no longer be
involved in those projects," he said.
"I also have worked very closely
with a lot of great people, not only
ratepayers, but municipal staff who
have supported me and allowed me
to work toward and achieve
success."
Marshall said working with Fire
Department of North Huron Chief
David Sparling, who also recently
announced his resignation, was a
fantastic experience.
"In knowing that David is
transitioning out of the fire service, I
am very privileged to have been able
to learn and mentor from him in both
leadership and management roles,"
Marshall said.
Fire prevention is a never-ending
job, Marshall said, and therefore it
would be impossible to achieve
every goal set up, however he said as
long as people keep working smoke
alarms on every level of their home
and have a fire safety plan, he feels
Budget
discussed
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However, according to staff, costs
should decrease as implementation
ends for the program and savings are
realized.
Donations and grants provided to
community groups are set to
decrease for Morris-Turnberry in
2017 by slightly less than $4,000
from the 2016 budget.
Council had given $5,000 to the
Wingham Golf and Curling Club
and $200 to the Belgrave
Community Centre for free skating
in 2016 that was removed from the
budget for 2017. The municipality
had also reduced funding to the
Huron County Plowmen's
Association from $325 in 2016 to
$125.
Watch future issues of The Citizen
for more information on the budget.
like he has made a difference.
Marshall's resignation comes at
the same time as the resignation of
Jeff Molenhuis, North Huron and
Morris-Turnberry's Director of
Public Works under the shared
service project.
The project has Morris-Turnberry
and North Huron working together
to provide more cost efficient
service to their ratepayers.
With Sparling's resignation,
there are now three major roles
in the shared services program
empty.
Morris-Turnberry Council will
discuss the resignations during its
Jan. 31 council meeting while North
Huron staff and council declined to
comment on the issue.
BMG report to come
to rec. committee
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recommendations before the issue
returned to council.
In an interview with The Citizen
after the meeting, MacLellan said
that his intention in 2017 was to
become more involved with
recreation in Huron East in order to
better understand it.
MacLellan said he hopes to attend
meetings of all three municipal
recreation boards in the coming year
at a rate of one per month, "floating
around" among the Brussels,
Seaforth and Vanastra recreation
committees.
"Recreation is an important aspect
of the community," MacLellan said.
"Everybody wants to make sure that
options are available."
He said he wanted to be more
educated as to what was going on
with each recreation committee,
but also to attempt to connect
all three by sharing ideas from
one committee to the next.
In his first such visit, he said he
was blown away with what was
happening with the Brussels
committee. He said he was
impressed with the outside -of -the -
box programming being proposed in
Brussels and the buy -in from
residents.
The enthusiasm of the committee
members, he said, was another
aspect of the process that really
impressed him.
The report will be forthcoming to
council at a future meeting. Chief
Administrative Officer Brad Knight,
in an interview with The Citizen,
said he expects that discussions
surrounding the report or recreation
in Huron East will be part of
council's upcoming budget
deliberations that will begin later
this month.
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