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letter to the editor
Update on the proposed Port to Point nail
To The Editor,
The Port to Point Trail Association
(P2PTA) board has been spreading
awareness and gathering community
support for the proposed Port to Point
Trail, a five km multi -use paved path
that would run along the fence line of
the Ministry of Transportation Highway
21 right of way. The trail would connect
Point Farms Provincial Park with the
Town of Goderich. For the P2P Trail to
be realized the MTO agreement requires
a sponsor. The Town of Goderich and
the Township of Ashfield-Colborne-
Wawanosh (ACW) have been support-
ers of the trail.
However, a Report to ACW Council
June 18, recommended pulling support
for the Port to Point Trail. ACW council-
lors voted in favour of this recommen-
dation relying on the assertion made in
the report that: "they could not find
anyone along the proposed route in
favour of the trail"
Following ACW's decision, the P2PTA
Board has gathered strong indications
of support through a change.org on-line
petition and postcards and letters of
support from individuals. The P2PTA
board has rallied support at the Goder-
ich Farmer's Market and the Goderich
YMCA. Supporters have hand delivered
flyers to residents along the proposed
route. To date the change.org petition
has received over 600 signatures and a
host of thoughtful and compelling com-
ments. The Maitland Trail Association, a
supporter of the P2P Trail, hosted a hike
along the five km of proposed P2P Trail
on Sunday, Sept. 21. The hike attracted
almost 50 participants showing their
support despite the blustery weather.
The P2PTA will continue to gather
indications of support until after the
Thanksgiving weekend.
The on-line petition will remain open
after this date and the P2PTA Board will
focus its attention on preparing to
appeal to ACW Council in the New Year
to reconsider its position. So if you
haven't signed the petition it's not too
late!
The Port to Point Trail Association
EARLY FILES
October 31, 1968
Bell Canada's Clinton building, a
centre for long distance calls for much
of Huron County, was opened to the
public this week. Several hundred per-
sons toured the telephone facilities at
an open house held Tuesday and
Wednesday evening. Led through the
building in groups of no more than five
or six, the visitors saw operators busily
placing calls, watched banks of elec-
tronic gear dialing numbers and were
guided through cable vaults they were
able to pick out the two wires coming
in from their own telephones. The
guides, most of them men and women
who work in the Clinton area live here,
serves as a switching centre, handling
operator -placed calls for Goderich,
Bayfield, Auburn, Zurich and Seaforth.
October 29, 1977
The Huron County Board Of
Education decided to take what it
could get for two school buses taken
off the road last year. The board
accepted a recommendation from the
budget committee that the busses be
sold as is along with three other buses
replaced this year. The board balked at
the prices offered for the buses earlier,
but now decided the vehicles aren't
worth much more than what was
offered and decided to sell. Tender put
up the five buses for sale at the end of
the last school term and the tenders
were opened and presented to the
board at its September meeting. Prices
offered fair but two buses were consid-
ered fair but to others seemed low to
the board and the matter was turned
over to the budget committee to try to
negotiate a better price.
October 27, 1982
Bayfield was saddened this week
by the sudden death on Thursday,
October 21st, of Jeanne Bennett, wife
of the former Rector William Ben-
nett. She was descended from
pioneer families, her mother's father
being the first settler in Markdale,
Grey County, and her father a pio-
neer farmer in Howard Township,
Kent County. From a school in How-
ard Township, Jeanne pursued her
education through high school in
Chatham to the University of West-
ern Ontario where she earned a
degree in Secretarial Science in 1938.
During 1964 and 65 she returned to
school at Althouse Collage in order
to secure her teaching certificate,
and from then on taught at Lucas
Secondary School in London.
October 29, 1997
The Clinton Radars won their
home opener against the Ripley
squad on Friday, October 24th, by a
score of 10-8. Ripley jumped to a 4-0
lead in the first, but Clinton's Brent
Vandenakker, unassisted, and Henry
DeBruyn, assisted by Ted Sills and
Vandenakker, scored, making the
final score of the first period 4-2. In
the second Clinton scored four
times. Scoring were Kalen Carrol,
assisted by Vandenakker, Sills,
assisted by DeBruyn and Vandenak-
ker assisted by Jason Beuttenmiller
and Sills. Derek Jefferson scored on a
power play, assisted by Vandenakker
in the third period. Also scoring in
the third was Scott Jervis, who put in
the winning goal.
October 25, 2000
A Vanastra church was broken into,
and a number of items were stolen,
the OPP report. On October 5th just
before 12 p.m., a break-in was
reported at the Christen Church
located on 5th Avenue in Vanastra.
Sometime during the night the
church door was forced open. Once
inside, the place was ransacked and
several items stolen. Taken was a 27"
Sanyo color television, Sanyo VR,
remote microphone system by the
name of Shure, sound board mixer,
speakers, wall phone, Compaq com-
puter, Sanyo small black and a white
television and VCR.
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