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• CATHERINE. .RIE3EY
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The fate of the Huron County
jail was discussed only briefly
at Wednesday's session of coun-
cil, but if the reeve of Colborne,
Doug McNeil, had his way, the
five-exercise yards weuld be torn
down to make way foe additional
parking at the assessment office
and the Children's Aid Society.
"The exercise yards -shoUld
be removed in my way of think-
ing, for a future parking area,"
stated Mr. McNeil.
Mr. McNeil was speaking to
a motion introduced by the God-
erich representatives to have the
jail named as an historic site.
Roy Pattison, reeve of East
Wawanosh, said the _jail would
smoke a location for a "special
museum" but he did not elab-
orate concerning what 'specialty
the museum would feature.
The new committees were
named as follows: (in each case,
the name of the chairman is
listed first)Rbads, William Els-
ton, Elgin Thompson, Joe Hoff-
man, w.J.Cuthill, Joe Dietrich;
Huronview, Hugh Flynn, Frank
Cook, J, L. McCutcheon, Anson
McKinley, Lloyd Hendrick;
Health, Gerry Boyle, ElmerHay,
ter, Gerry Ginn, Jack Alexander,
John Morrissey.
Library, Eugene Frayne, John
Baker, John Flannery, George -
Farmers On
Plant Tour
MRS. NANCY RILEY
Kippen Area Resident
celebraies 95th Birthday
McCntcheon, Stewart Procter,
Don McKenzie; Property, Ken
McMichael, George Bailie, Don
MacGregor, Dave Gower,- Hardid
Lobb, Harold Wild; Executive,
Allan Campbell, Bob lLyons,Ev-
-erett McIlwain, Cecil Des-jardine
Doug McNeil, Alex McGregor.'
Planning and Development, Ed
Odclliefson, Roy pattisbn, Girvin
Reest„,,.paul Carrell, Mel Allan,
lark McAllister,. Ralph Jewell,
Rey Westcott, Clayton Laithwaite
and Cal Kreuter; SociefSe'reices,
Robinsoa, .L.R. Ferguson,
'Charles Thorraas, Gordon Hess.-
building this' section. The road
Ms heavy vehicular traffic with
many trucks and tractors using
it Wherrgeing ttl, the grain ele.:
valets at Hens'all.
Payment: of $544.66 for labour
costa in cutting dead elms was
approved for the first two weeks
in January. Clerk James Mc-
Intosh reported approval given
for his application for the.secoed
grant for tbe,program,•and indi-
cations tyat his application for the
thirdgrant. w.oidd also be allowed.
T HE Department of Municiap
The, Department of Municipal
Aft air is to be notified that
council accepts the proposed
official plan for the County of
Huron but wishes, to notify the
Department that amendments to-
the plan will have to be intro-
duced to accept the,develop-
ment of the former Canadian
Forces - Base on lots 46 - 47
Concession 1, London Road Sur-
vey. ThiS• change could not be
foreseen when the County Plan
• was formulated.
Victor Lee, R.R. 4,, Seaforth
'vas r&-appointed to- represent
the ' township on the Seaforth
Community Hospital Board.
Councillor Cleave Coombs is the
representative on the •:,Seaforth
Fire Area .Board for another
year ,while Councillor Ervin Sil-
lery .'ts on the Clinton. Fire Area
Hoard.
A letter from the Department
Transpbrtation and
rnunications Informed Council
that the subsidy allocation - for
1972 amounts to $51,300 of which
$32,400 will be for maintenance
and $18,90 0 for construetion.
The „fee of $30 was approved
for the council to join the Assoc-
iation of Municipalities of Ontario
and Reeve Elgin Thompson indi--
cated he wauld attend 'the cone.
vention to be held in Ottawa June
18 - 21:
Approval was given for Ate •
following grants: Federation of
Agriculture $900; Seaforth Lions
Club $200; Seaforth Community
Hospital $150; Seaforth Agricul-
tural Society $100; Central Huron
Agricultural Society $100 and
South Huron Agricultural Society
$100; Huron CouritySoil and Crop
Improvement Association $15;
Huron County Historical Society
$10; Huron County Plowniens
AssoCiation $25. and Salvation ,
Army $15 for a total of $1,615.•
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Ttickersmith council moved to
provide a sewer system in .Eg-
inondville at a special meeting in
Centennial School, Brucefteld,
Tuesday night which adjourned
at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
John Bray of the OWRC was in
attendance and discussed sewage
problems in Egmondville. pre-
viously a report submitted to
comicfl over six months ago by,
OWRC ndicated that samplings
of drains outletting^ into the
Hayfield River from Egmondville
were excessively polluted. When
township officials had not taken
action OWRC had requested a
meeting.
A communal system tying in
with the Seaforth system pres-
ently being installed was dis-
cussed as well as means of fin-
ancing it. It was revealed costs
per householder in Egmondville
would range from $120 per year
and up. --
n Since the building of new
homes in Egmondville and the
opening up of a new subdivision
are being hampered because of
the sewage problem, Counciller
Cleave Coombs moved that the
Ontario Water Resources Com-
miesion be requested to prepare
ad present a proposal to
Thckersrnith for the construction
of a system of sanitary sewers
and treatment works as a munici-
pality owned project, including
a rate on a usage basis to meet
all the costs included under the
provincial, program and an ap-
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propriate form of contract. The
motion was 'seconded by
Councillor Bert Branderhorst
with the rest of council giving
approval.
In other bUsines Council
agreed to, send a resolution to
Hon. Charles MacNaughton,
Minister of Transportation and
Communication, requesting- him
to declare the road two miles
eastward from Hensall as ,a road
requiring direct aid. This would
mean receiving full costs of re-
Council Defers Decision
On CFB Service Takeover
a decision as to whether e
Tuckersmith councildeferred
on February 1, when the base
lems arising from the changeover
is transferred by the federal township would assume responsi-
bility for the sewage plant at government.
h The sewage plant for the base
CFB following a long meeting Arne up for special consideration. Tuesday night with officials of
,en how it would be owned and Rodoma Investment and Develop-
ment Ltd., ,the new owners of operated and how it would be
the former Canadian Forces financed under the new manage-
ment. It was proposed that the Base which is located in the
township. sewage plant would be sold tothe
• municipality fel" It to operate in Present at the 'meeting held
in Centennial school, Brucefield; conjunction with OWRC and with
the base, as a sewage area only were Jolin Bray, London, repre-
•senting.,the Ontari o Water Re- the people in that area would pay
the sewage tax. sources Commission; James me-
Caule-Goderichy With Department • Mr. MacDonald -spoke of the
of Environment; Gary Davidson, need for a draft plan to be
Goderich, Huron County Plan- approved by the Ontario
ning Department; W. J. Dickson, Municipal Board and by the town- '
President and General Manager ship and Mr. Dickson said this-
of G.V.Kleinfeldt and Associates - plan would be submitted, at the (Kitchener) Limited who is plan- ' end of the week. Next the de-
nilig consultant for the Rodoma velopers must get' approval of a firm as well as for the County ef subdivision agreement with the
Huron; Spence R. Curnniltim; township and then' a registered Clinton; J. M. Harper, Waterloo,
attorney for the Rodomo firm; and "
Donald I. Stewart, Seaforth,
cite for the township,
John Van Castel, president of
Rodoma and his partner, William
MacDonald gave information of
plans for the base and a:general
discussion was held.to iren out
some of the administrative prob-
plan, • ,
Additional .physical services
at the base were mentioned --
-Rodoma is ,negotiating With
Ontario Hydro for power; Clinton
for water; Ontario Provincial
Police ,-- Fire -- Garbage --
road services such as-snowplow-
ing --to name some.
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Vtratole No. 5419
113122. Year .7 SEAFORTH ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1972 — 12 PAGES
0 Tuckersmith Movei7 ,0- .Provide
ewer Service in Egmondville
. As construction on the addition to Seaforth Public School nears completion, pupils are moving
Into the new classrooms. This week they were able to have regular classes in the Industrial
Arts and Home Economics rooms.: Books are being put out in the library in preparation for
classes there. The 'new facilities produce keen interest and deep concentration on the part of
Robbie Chesney and Brad Scott as they work at paper sculpture in one of the art classes.
(Staff Photo)
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Seaforth Area Trustees Seek:
Committee System Changes
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tee, each with five members;
an Advisory Vocatcanal om mit-
°tee with three beard members
working with, a group of trades-
men in the cotinty on the voca-
tional aspect of education in Hu-
ron; and the Committee on
Schools for the Trainable Re-
tarded, else with three mem-
bers.
The major committees, the
education committee and the
management committees, are to
be enlarged to include seven
trustees on each.
For Schools Across Huron
with completion of aew facilities at the Seaforth Public
School, pupils from Huron Centennial School at Brucefield
and Hulled Central School at Londesboro partftate in the
added programs. The first group to arrive for the new classes
Was frorrb Brucefield led 'by •Barb Cooper and-Ann Marie.Heard.—:
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Council Se4s Committees
Huron Councillors Query
MODA Contribution To Area
What had the outward appear-
ance of a lack-lustre first session
of Huron C ounty Council may turn
out to be the basis of one of the
most important 'decisions mem-
bers will make this year, On
Wednesday, at Huron Council's
first business meeting of 1972,
Walter Cowing, exeduthe
tor of Midwestern Development
Council; James Hayter, MDC
president; and Peter Branch, co-
ordinator of services for the pro-
vincial department, Treasilry and
Economics, worked together to
present a brief to council which
would convince members to sup-
port MDC (MODA) again this
year. -
The entire morning session of
council Was taken up in the pre-
sentation of the MDC brief. only
the last 20 minutes or so vas
devoted to questioning from
Herdn members to MDC officials.
At noon, Warden Elmer Hayter -
advised the delegation the matter
would be taken to the planning
and, development committee for
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Two members of the Huron
County Board of Educationfought
Monday evening for some changes
In the new system under which the
board is operating, but seemed to
give up in frustration as the
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rem-aining 14 members 'voted in
a block against them: -
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KIM ANSTETT
Winners In the
Huron Expositor Christmas
corbring contest - were
announced this week'following
a careful study of several
hundred entries by Miss Mabel
E. ,Tnrnbull who judged the.
drawings. Winners are: First
Catherine Ribey 8, Seaforth;
Second' - Kim Ahstett, 12,
Seaforth and Third - Chris-
tine Scherbarth, 11, Bornholm:
(Staff Photos)
Trustee Molly Kunder of Sea-
forth had served notice of motion
in December that she would try
to have the question of the board's
present committee system re-
opened. However, during the int-
erim the Chairman's Advisory
Committee comprised of R.M.
Elliott, chairman; John Broad-
foot, vice-chairman; Cayley Hill,
chaittnan of the management
committee; and Mrs. Marion
Zinn, chairman of the education,
committee, met and drafted Some
changes, which came before the
board at its regular January
meeting.
Mrs. Kunder and Trustee John
Henderson of MclaIlop, argued
that the meetings of the Chair-'
man's Advisory " Committee,
should be open to-any board
member who cared to attend.
They said that under the present'
system, whereby, any. trustee
other than the four members of
Chairman's Advisory Committee
had to, be invited to attend, it
Ikas unfair to.-the ratepayers
who were net represented on
the ,eommittee. '
"Four trustees are running
the whole board," stated Mrs.
mittee. •
In addition to the Chairman's '
Advisory Committee, the board
has had an Education Commit-
tee and a Management Commit-
'Consider
New Society
A meeting to consider the
organization of a Horticultural
Society , is scheduled for
Wednesday evening, January 26th
in the Town Hall.
Dr. Roger Whitman, who is
spear heading the move, said he
understood horticultural societ-
iet were xi° strangers to 'Sea-
forth.. An active society existed
here for many years until sus-
pending operations about ten
years ago.
Indicating 'the encouragement
which a society receives from
the Department of Agriculture
threugh grants and instructional
aids, Dr. Whitman said he was
convinced there were many areas
in the community, where an active
horticultural society cbuld make
a positive contribution. 'He urged
a full attendance of all In the
community who are 'interested.
Car Club
Winner
The fifteenth weekly Winner
of $25 in the preliminary draws .
in connection with the Lime Car
Club is Frank case, Seaforth.
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study ,and recommendation to
county council.
MDC officials were called in
when it became .apparent that"
some members of county council
Were expressing dissatisfaction
with the results achieved by the
orgartizetion first formed in 1956.
Membership in MDC last year
cost Huron taxpayers $6,100.
Fees for,the coming year will be
Collected again in March and a
decision about Huron's member-
ship will have to be reached by
that time.
Walter GOWing quoted many
statistic's for the enlightenment
of council and. even traced the
growth of MDC through 16 ye'ars.
Still he was hard pressed to im-
press Huron County Council with
the progress report "which
remained intangible and beyond
touching "or mentally grasping
tiblesS there -had been personal
invol verrient.
He attempted to explain that
the hear $1 F000,000 Waterloo and
South Wellington Study to be re-
leased about the end of Feb-
ruary , had very definite im-
pliCations which would Affect
Huron County. He predicted fan-
tastic growth in the cOming years
in the Waterloo-South Wellington
area -and suggested that planning
was underway td ensure that
westerly counties including Hur-
on would provide a vital role is
supplying auxiliary services„ to
the boom area.
, The provincial government,
Mr. Gowing said, would play a
larger supporting role in VOC's
planning and it was important
that every district within the four
county region of Waterloo) web.,
lingtoni. Perth and Huron would
have a voice - an opportunity to
take part in the decision making
of the province.
Govving outlined MDC's im-
patance as a liaison between
the grass roots neopleand prov-
ince of Ontaric • Ile said that
In the toinIfig year, it was honed
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A number of area farmers
were in Louisville, Kentucky and
Memphis,. Tenn. last week on a
visit to International Harvester
plants In those cities.
The two day trip, which left
Toronto by air, was arranged
by Vincent Farm Equipment Ltd.
and those taking part included
16 from 'Seaforth and 20 from
, the Vincent branch in Ayr.
Inelnded in the Seaforth group
were Marlon Vincent, warren
Vincent, Ken coleman,JolurMal-
colm, Glen McClure, Sam Mc-
Clure, Robert Elliott, Bruce
Coleman, I. McIntosh, Don
Buchanan, Art Smite, Ken
Campbell, Alex Miller, Robert
Dalton, Robert St. Marie, George
Clifton and Ken ROgerson.
, Mr, and Mrs. Nelson Riley
and family entertained on Sat-
urday at a birthday supper in
Amor of Mr. Riley's mother,
Mrs. Nancy Riley, 95, and fter
Mrs. mother, Mrs. Mary
Gerber, '75, on Saturday. at the
Riley home, AR Kippell. Per
the evening entertainment, Bob
and Dan Heywood, -sons of Mr.
and Mrs.. Laverne Hey1i400d ,
played and sang, -ateOrnpanying
themselves With a piano accord4
l,on and a ttawaItan electric gel.
'tar; Following the entertAMnOnt
birthday cake and death'
Were SerVed.
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Kunder. •
. don't want that, no mat-,
ter who the four members are,"
retorted R.M. Elliott who urged
the board members to "throw it
put" if they believed the system
to be unfair.
A Vote onathe Matter showed
that only 'Mrs. Kunder and Mr.
Henderson were opposed to con-
"tinuing the closed meetings of
the Chairman's Advisory corn- - •,
"If I don't hear from yon,you
won't -be hearing from me.... for
a while. But you will hear again."
Those were the parting re-
marks of Dawson 'Woodburn, a
retired music' specialist Who has
made a career of teaching music
• in secondary schools in Toronto;
and , who, appdared before the Hur-
on County Board of Education
Monday evening in Clinton to ask
why music was not a subject for
credit -here.
"Huron County's progress in
Music education since "my days of
attending school in the south of
the, county is negligible," wood-
burn's report said. "There was
no music In the schools in those
days for various reasons. I re-
turn to ,the same corronanity-40
Years later and the situation as
far as music education is con-
cerned, is much the same."
"Huron is one of the last
counties in south- western On-
tario to initiate a music program
he said. My advice and help are
' available at.no...cost."
"It was felt • that since the
education and management corn-
mittees were composed of Only
five 'members each, some areas '
of the. county c'ould be without Teacher Urges More...Music
representation err one or the
other," the Chairman's Advis-
ory .Committee Stated. "It, was
the feeling, also, that all board
members should' be involved in
, the work of the major commit-
teeseclucation and Management."
• John Henderson pointed out'
that with seeen traatees on the
committee alid the chairman and
the viee ----chairman, it would be
poSsible for a committee to con-
trol the board vote on any_4sue.
"That would be nine- aa'Wist
seven," he said and'asked"What
would be the of bringing it
"to the board?" .
Chairman Elli tt said that
'was a,disadvantag' to the seven-
member committees, of course„
but he 'noted that seldom is the
entire committee unanimous on
an issue., In 'that case, the corn- '
mittee dissenters could get sup-
port from the non-committee
members on the board - or vice-
-Versa - and the board would still
hold the balance of power.
"The seven-member corn- .
• mittees give everyone an Oppor-
tunity to' sit on one committee
,and to have a vote," Mr. El-
liott said. "The other way, four
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Mr. Woodburn said that grants
are available for music education
in schools. He estimated that a
board may spend up to $4;000 in
, preparing a classroom for music
instruction in any,arici all schqols • . and up to $11,000 for instruments
in each school in which there is
music course. However, he said
it would not be possible to irio-
plement a full music program
across the county all at once
since • each, music course would
cost the board money ,if not in
the', first year, in the second
year."
• Extra -moral music such as
Is presently in the schools' in
Huron, said Woodburn,-is a sup-
erficial approach." He said, you
can't -leach music -in an hour or
two after classes each. week any
more than, you could teach .math-
ematics ..`or Science that way.
Woodburn said that students
should be able to "read music
like they read English," not " re-
guritate it like a parrot" after
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