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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1978-04-27, Page 13r•ti A FUTURE QUEEN —One of these Six students will be, crowned queen at the Seaforth.. District High School formal dance on Friday evening. The six finalists are: back left, Michelle Savauge, 18;,Gayle SOOrditth. invited f. Vandervelden, 17 and Janine Melanson, 1.6. faint left, Elizabeth Johnston, 17 all of Seaforth; and Linda Dorssers, ,18 and Joanne Van Doornik, 16 both of R.R.4, Seaforth. ' (Expositor Photo) A GOOD-HAND? Harvey Hoggart picks a card for each of the poker hands he held ' at a Check point Oh the Seaforth Saddle Club's poker rally .Sunday. Sharon Colclough shuffles the deck and 'Nancy Milrson records Harvey's cards. More • • photos on the sports page. (Expositor Photo) Inside this week (The uron (fxpositor Seniors play cards at St. Columban . . P. 5 - W.I. marks 50 years. P. 9 Local phone company thriving P 19 Whole No. #5746 119th Year SEAFORTA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, 'APRIL 27, 1978 44 PAGES $12.00 a Year in Advance Single copy 25 cents low cost era housin Seaforth is about a for hour drive from West braneh,', said the. two, who, were guests of Mayer Betty Cardrio ,while, they' were here. They suggested that' people coining for the fair and picnic leave here early as events. which include old fashioned races and dancing on lighted tennis courts two different bands playing music tor.alLages. will ttet started about W Saturday morning. . No formal arrangements- have been made for billets with West Branch citizens have been. made but there are motels in the area. Young people who bring sleeping also ihvited, to take part in West bags can likely be accommodated Branch's first tractor drag rave... With ',people their own age. the with' nothing fancy,. just ordinary two said'. 'Rec. director CliYe Buist farm tractors.. . ike and . Art said he'll be talking to Jim Grey,. M visited Seat r v 1 i night spots his West Branch counterpart Friday, niglit and said "a lot of about arrangements. • • people we met at the hotel, said .. - .A bus can -be charteredlotakq they'd bring.-litair--t-i-a'- etors7u-•'-----15•Miqk-t7T-Vr Otri Seaforth, Mike Michigan. In fact, Mike and Art took Ejozositors with bed race pictures in them home to' show West Branchcrs the tine art of customizing beds for racing. Seaford' and area people are Homes in the low , cost ..development Seaforth council has , been .encouraging will cost about $48,000 council heard at a special Meeting last W nes_ y night with representat'ves of Arils Land Developinen Ltd, of Fort Erie. The company detailed plans for a 60 unit "affordable housing , subdivision" planned for 'the The Bout west 'of the town. ..p.roposed__ which would contain a mixture of single fainily and senriletaelled housing, will ,be built on a 10 4 acre parcel of land, south of the railway tracks, over the next eight yearS. Bernie Hermsen, representing. MacNaughton Planning Con- sultants, of Kitchener, told council one of the first steps would be to rezone the parcel, of land to resideritia• from the. - present industrial zoning. , . Mr. Hermsen said in checking, • . with local schools, he found St. 'JaMes' Separate School could - handle ' 53 more -students, Seaforth District High School had room fOr 100 students which ' means schools Could handle any influx of new students from the eleveltipment; Mr. Hermsen said since the new subdivision-is so close to the Optimist park, there won't be any need to include' land for a park on. the 'site. He said developers plan creative mixture of single-family and .semi-detached dwellings, ,a number of thg 'Semi= ",e,:detatkied-71tOmes next to 'the Ron Swartz, representing. Conestoga-Rovers. and Associates Engineering firm ,said there are two possibilities for storm sewer outlets and three possible_putlets for sanitary, sewers to serve the, proposed subdivision. He said the best alternative for. a sanitary sewer to serve the first .phases of the development would be along Brantford Street, since very little restoration work Would o lx required along the street. Mr. Swartz said there would be a unit cost' of about .$6,045 for servicing each unit; advertising and selling costs of about $1,285 per unit and indirect project Costs such as insurance, permits, a d architects fees of about $2; 5 p unit, • He said if the homes a e to qualify for :Assisted Home Ownership Program (AHOP.) funding they must have less than 1.000 square feet of living space.. He added builders could reduce the costs of homes by about $800 if owners were willing to' sacrifice some of the frills - for example: settle for a crawlspace instead, of a full basement. Mr. Swartz said homes would sell for $35.375 plus nine per cent financing costs and a $3,201 profit for the builder, making the total cost of a home $38,776, plus the .cost of- Viot. Ceiling • The local ceiling price for The Exeter detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police are still investigating last week's ,attempted armed.tobbery -of the Kippen General Store. Constable . Bill McIntyre said,. thae* have been ho arrests to date, but two officers are working fulltime on• following up leads in • bring with them. An old fashion- ed. family day is planned., There'll be a registration booth or gatheritigilface where Seaforth people can meet each other at the. Picnic. The .whole day is or- ganized- by' a non-profit youth. group called Ogamaw Youth . Projects. Inc. 'About( 60 young • people -raise. their• own money "And appreciate it a lot More than if it's given to them," Mike, LaIL.ac111111advisor says.: West Branch and Seaforth are remarkably similar the two 'men say. "11' you walk out oh Main St. Seaforth you-could be in the same town," sayS Mike.' Diplomatically though-tkey 'add that Seaforth people seem a little bit friendlier. And the men, both single say. "there are definitely more•pretty girls in Seaforht." Judging from teh warmth of Mike and Art's welednie Seaforth and area people who travel to Our sister town Kay .2.7—have-a really :good time aWaiting them. &dories 75 % of ofE cost tratlon, which includesDunlop, \erne staff at the board's adminis- trative' offices and school secre- taries eosl $218,192 in 1978, Teachers, principals, vice principals, superintendents of education an 4, 'the education director . -cogs Othe taxpayers $14,529,7N this year. (COntinu4d on Page ,3) Employees at the Kaufman footwear plant in, Vanastra were informed the plant . will .close permanently. on July 14. Rosemary Edward, floor super- visor at the plant. said • the announcement by Yurgan Walters. personnel manager at the company's parent plaht iii -Kitchener,, came as "a real shock." Mr. Walters told• employees at -the -Vanastra plant that the operation "Just calif turn a profit." . • The personnel managth told the employees jobs. would be available for all 25 workers at the company's plant in Kitehener, but only two Vanastra employees, expected to sell for about$9,500, Don Haycock, also represent- , ing Arris: Land Development Ltd. saidr the deVelopers could either service the lots and build the homes themselves, or else service .the lots to be built on, by' local builders, , He' said, "We're haikally development company and not housebuilders as such" although, he added three bUilders are part owners in Arris Land Develop- ment Ltd.' , - Zoning „ He recommended council bath unmarried women, have accepted the offer to date. The majority of the employees are married women with families settled - in the area. Mrs. Edward said the Kaufman company has already notified the local Unemployment Insurance Commission . office that. the women will be laid off in July. • She said the personnel manager said the Genesee 1-hoe factory in Seaforth would also be contacted, in hope they could absorb some of the Vanastra generate a zoning bylaw to control sale of the subdivision lots so someone couldn't erect a mobile home in the middle of the housing subdivision. He added all Arris subdivisions built in the 'past placed architectural control on the plan so the Arris must approve the ,building, plans for the home to be erected before they finalize sale of the lot. He said Arris would have to approve buildings in the-Seaforth development as Well. (Continued on Page 3) `To sister town on If you',re not doing anything on Saturday. May' 27, Mike Carroll andArt Morrison are inviting 9ou to a party. . What's se „special about that? We[Lille party is in West Branchl Michigan, and the two arc inviting the whole • town" of Seaforth, Art and Mike, program • and news • directors respectively of raditi station WBMB in Seaforth's sister 'town were hare on the, Weckchel to invite all of uS to_the DgamaW County Fair and Family Picnic. • • The, Michigan 'men stressed • that Seaforthites ore being chat.: lenged to take part in what they / think is the first international bed race anywheiv. , While the' Seaforth- area is. full of ex- perienced bed racers, • at Ietui- since last September's Jubille Picnic. they aren't so common in said and, thost interested are asked hi' 'contact Clive make arrangements if enough people want. The West Branch event is planned forthe whole community and there'll-be ,activities-for ages taking place in Lions park, which has a crec.k running through it and 41 large picnic area to eat lunches that families are asked to allOWed between, their right-of- Way. Mr. Hei'msen said C.N.R. has asked that a 100 foot setback be allowed between their right-of-0 Mr. Hermsen said C.N.R, has. asked that a .100 foot setback be" `allowed between their 'right-of- way and housing structures in the proposed development. , Mr. Hermsen said a, vegetation screen would also be erected along the right-of-way to minimize the visual impact Of the tracks. ' The first phase would involve servicing about 20 lots and pitting up two or three model . homes to test the market for new !lames qualifying for AHOP financing the .Seaforth, area is $34,300 but the .develoeor and council plan 'to ask for it review of the AHOP „'ceiling. Under the AHOP program. ' buyers receive assistance through preferred and , low interest Mortgage rates if their home meets standards laid•down by the Central Mortgage and Housing .'Corporation (CM-HC)... - Swartz said the developers will try to q_ualify_tinder.AHOP if the ceiling price is in reason. Lots in the subdiviSien are qualit et-Iticotion hinges on personnel costs Huron County should rank as having one of the best education systems in the, province. Just under 75 percent' of the, money Huron taxpayers 'pay for an education system goes toward salaries for teachers, .administrators, secretaries, janitors and bus drivers. Roy Dunlop. superintendent of business affairs for the board of education, said Monday that 54.6 percent of the total education budget 'is designated for salaries. The total board of. education budget 1;or .1918 is S21,381,859 a ndilp.of that S15.940,760' pays the help. categories. Business ppen• hold-up suspects The wages are broken into five OPP still looking for • the robbery attempt. Although• police artists "have prepared' composite drawings, of the ,threc suspects, the .chlwings have only been circulated to local police departments toiclate. In the future, it is expected the pictures will be released to newspapers in the area. ItHE ENTERTAINERS — Kindergarten students at St. James School weren't about to be forgotten as they.sang a medley of pieces in the school assembly held on the final day of Education 'Week. Students are Jessica Mennell; Paula Matthews; Shelly Nigh and Michelle McCowan. (Expositor Photo anastra Want to close uly 14, workers told employees in their operation. Tuekersmith Township 'council have asked clerk Jack JacLachlan to contact the Kaufman plant in Kitchener about a possible meeting with council • members. Reeve Ervin Sillery said members are willing to go 'to IGtchener to argue 'the case for leeping the Vanastra plant.mpen to save jobs that will be lost. Mrs: Edward said' employees"" have also learned that the Clinton (Continued' on Page 3)