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The Huron Expositor, 1978-09-07, Page 1t ( • HURON COUNTY QUEEN OF THE FURROW — Anne Stewart, of R.R.5, Seaforth, was Selected Queen of the Furrow at the Huron County Plowing Match held in McKillop Township on Saturday. The first , runner-up was Elizabeth Datars of the Exeter area and the two other,girls competing for the honor were Kathy Pentland of R.R.6, Goderich and Patti Down of R.R.1, Hensall. (ExpositK Photo) • SChtOblvi NOTHING TO DO UNTIL GAME TIME — Bermy HoOgy a Walton ball prayer doesn't look too excited about the big Walton ball tournament as he waits for a ball game to begin. - (Photo by Langlois) c. 119th Year Whole No. 5765 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1978 --;30 PAGES , $12.00 a year in Advance Single copy 25 cents , Tuckersmith c• uncil learns of subdivision changes 0. Chief John Cairns reported the Seaforth police spent a" busy September weekend" ,over the Labor Day holiday. On Friday afternoon at 5:45 p.m., —Ackey spotted a westbound vehicle on Goderich Street in Seaforth which had been reported stolen from Metro Toronto. When the police .officer stopped the vehicle in the alley behind the Thonipsdh Apartnlents, the; 'driver fled while being arrested. He ran up the stairs into the building and climbed through a skylight onto the roof. The young man then 'climbed through another skylight above Anstett Jewellers Ltd• and fell through the apartMent ceiling of an apartment belonging to Bernice Hulley. . The apartment was ex tensively damaged in the incident when the ceiling collapsed. The young man then fled from the apartment just as the owner was entering. and was reported heading towards the west of town. Police arrested the suspect at 7 p.m. hiding on the grounds of Scott Poultry farms. Randall Yielding, 23 years old. of no fixed address, has been charged with possession of a stolen automobile. escaping lawful k , custody and break and enter. He was detained in custody at the Stratford jail and appeared before a justice of the peace in Exeter on Tuesday. September 5. At the show cause hearing in Exeter. Mr. Yielding was remanded in custody until September 1.1 • when he will appear in provincial court in Goderich. Early Saturday morning the officer on patrol saw Randy Buck, of RR4, Seaforth exiting from the front door of the Seaforth .town hall. The suspect was apprehended and charged with theft under $200. When he refused to sign an appeals notice, he was detained in the Stratford jail until a bail hearing on Monday. N Mr. B tick was released on an undertaking and will appear in provincial court in By Alice Gibb There likely isn't very mall about Seaforth that Bob Maniago doesn't know. We don't mean deep. dark so/tots about people in tow ii. but more practical matters such as property ownership. the number of available parking spai:es in the downtown area and the existing land use throughout Seaforth. Bob Maniago, an urban design and planning student from Fanshawe College. has been working in town clerk Jim Crocker's office for the last four months preparing a series of maps to be used by the Seaforth council • mid the Huron County planning department: . Ken Doig", developer of the Doig subdivision in Egmondviile was at the regular meeting of Tuckersmith Township Council to discuss some lot size changes that had been. Made "the subdivision He wanted council to see the changes before he took the revised plan to Toronto. In the one section of the' proposed subdivsion he had previously received conned's' ap- proval for 14 lots but , he said they (the planners) had, decided the„..lots_were .too narrow and too deep. Mr. Doig said they had decided it was better to 'go to the original 82 foot frontage with a back of 200 feet instead of 60. foot frontage with a 264 foot backing. Instead of the original 14 lots there would now be 12 to give people more space; Mr. Doig said. In other business, Clerk Jack MacLachlan told the councillors• there had been some concern over whether the township can supply—enough water to operate a fire protection sprinkler system in thefiew building of Bayfield Bdats, Vanastra He said the system had 'been tested and produced 1500 • gallo ,ns at 35 pounds pressure when the requirement would be 1500 gallons per minute at 100 pounds pressure. A representative of the sprinkler company told them they would either have-to bring in a water line which would boost pressure-up to 100 .pounds or tonic up with some On the first day, Huron County's school enrolments had dropped 2.8 per cent from last year. The enrolment at St. James Separate School in Seaforth has dropped fro'm 161• students last year to 143 students this September. Goderich on Sept. It. The Seaforth police also investigated two hit and run incidents on the weekend, both resulting in minor damages.—' ° On Friday, a vehicle owned by Patrick Malone, of 224 Main Street, South; parked in front of the residence, sustained, $100 damage when hit during the night by an unknown vehicle. The right rear door of the car was damaged in the incident. (Continued on Page 3) Mr. Crocker said preparation of the maps is a standard, planning procedure to give an overall picture of the town. The maps will eventually be printed in a smaller format and will be available to the ixiblic on reuqest, In the course of preparing his, maps. Mr. Maniago has walked the entire 'length and breadth of the town, and has become something of an expert on questions like downtov% n parking. land ownership by people living outside of Seaforth and the kinds of building permits Issued here in the last nine years, Research Mr. Maniago said the basis of his research has been the town assessment rollS, which he used "like my Bible." He has taken the information gleaned from the rolls and transferred it onto colorful maps which offer a far quicker reference source. The major projects tackled by the third year student include preparing an existing land use map, surveying the dOwntown storefronts and an apartment survey of • space above the stores, a land ownership map shci*ing property owned by absentee landlord, a sewer map showing which households have now connected to the 1977 sewer line, an analysis of the downtown parking. situation and finally, the number and type of building permits issued in Seaforth since 1969. They'll be at your door For the next two weeks, enumerators will be cbllecting information to compile the voter's list for the upcoming mutticipa elections, as well as collecting data for, the census. The provincial government will pay approximately $3.5 million for the modification of what would have to be done back at the water plant. "The problem is going to boil down to what rate we want to go and WilQ'$.g9ing pay the costs," Mr. MacLachlan said. He added that Mark Bell ' from the Ministry of the Environment office in 'London was going to come to .a meeting and discuss the alternatives. The Ministry operates the water system in' Vanastra. Councillor Robert Drummond 'sai "Until we get some figures we can't do uch." Mr. MacLachlan said the bigge rdle at the present time was trying to' get the problem solved and that he was only making them aware of it. Geiger drain' Harry Dougall had requested that there be some work done on the Gei. ger drain at Lot 2, Concession 3 and council indicated that proper proceedings for a municipal drain should be. started. In other drainage business, Deputy Reeve' Robert Bell told council that a worker digging out the Jackson drain had found about 50 cracked tile while digging .with his backhoe. The operator indicated he would be willing to do the digging for \the township if they would pay for the new tiles to be put inandcou,ncil agreed. Council also agreed that while an orisite meeting for the Broadfoot drain was unnecessary such a' meeting at the Clark • new special education 'teacher, previou'sl y taught in Stratford. Enrolment in St. Patrick's Separate School in Dublin has also declined slightly. Tot enrolment this year is 207 pqpils, while last year's enrolment" was 220 students. The kindergarten class has dropped from 32 children last year to 20 this year, reported Mrs. Dorothy Delaney, the school secretary. The school has two new teachers this year. They are Joe Blythe, who will teach Grades 4 and 5 and Debra Hobbs, formerly of Ottawa, who will be the resource teacher. The enrolment at St. Columban Separate Mr. Maniago presented the results of his research at a recent town council meeting and his maps will be forwarded to Roman, Dzus in the Huron 'County planning department. Parking People may have noticed Mr. Maniago when he was undertaking his.analysis Of the parking situation since he spent many hours with meter stick in hand, measuring the available parking' space. His conclusions were that Seaforth doesn't have any need for additional downtown parking spaces at' the present time. He said one problem is that people park carelessly and often take up chore than one parking space. He also suggested that if more storeowners would park. their vehicles in the 'back alleys, this would leave more room on the Main Street for the public. Should additional parking be needed sometime in the future, Mr. Maniago's suggestion was that 20 feet could be taken from the back of homeowners' lots facing,the alley. However, Mr. Maniago emphasized this is only a suggestion. -and That there is no need for additional parking now. • 143 Spaces Mr. Maniago found there are 143 private parking spaces and 92 public parking spaces on Main Street. between Goderich and George Streets. . enumeration and employ about WOO people to make the door-to-door calls. The Seaforth enumerators ate Mrs. Ruth. mpbell, Alice Reid and Mrs. Nancy Van Meekeren. Mrs. Jean Dill is handling enumerating duties in the village of Dublin. drain was necessary. Letters will go froward . to township residents advising them that fences and trees on municipal property will have 'to be removed and constructed on the property line within the next 15 days of receipt of the letter or the work will be done by the municipality at the owner's expense. Building permits Building .permits were issued to Joe Bender, Lot 9, Concession •1 for an .addition to a barn, Jack Case, Lot 13, Plan 10, ' Egmondvilles House and Carage; Brian Wilson, Lot 28, Concession 3-Barn, Doug 'Morgan, Part Lot 45, Concession 2 Mobile Home and a demolition, permit was issued to Reeve Ervin Sillery Part Lot 31, Plan 8, Brucefield for a barn. In' other business road superintendent ' Allan Nicholson reported that'll° tenders had been .received for snow plows for the south end of the township but they did get a tender from MacGregor Farms ;to plow Vanastra at $25 an hour arid $15 a day standby when not working, Council decided to accept the tender to plow snow 'and told Mr. Nicholson that since he didn't receive any tenders On a grader he should go to one of the machinery companies, and obtain prices. Council heard there is a problem with School has dropped from 72 pupils last, year to 67 students this year. Their kindergarten class goes to St. Patrick's School in Dublin, but this year they have eight children registered, compared with six pupils last year, reported Karen Cronin, the school secretary.. The new staff members at the school include • the principal, Ray Contois from Stratford, Mrs. Agnes Gaffney, from the Monlcton area, who previously taught in Clinton and Mrs. Connie Birmingham who will be'the special education teacher at both St.' Columban and St. James in Seaforth. Enrolment at the Seaforth Public School has altered slightly, with a drop in seven students from Septembef of last year. This year, there' is a total. of 347 students attending the sch000l. There are 25 children enrolled in kindergarten this year compared with 18 children last year. - Enrolment has also declined at Huron Centennial School in Brucefield, where overall enrolment has dropped from 517 students last year to 498 stndents this year. However, school secretary June Cooper said enrolment in the kindergarten is exactly the same as last 'year with 46 children attending the class. In compiling statistics on the• number and kind of building permits issued in the past nine years. Mr. Maniago found it averages 57 permits a year, despite the fact the overall population of the town seems to be dropping. • However, in preparing a pie diagram of the type of permits issued, the planner found 47 per cent of the permits are for alterations to existing buildings, 20 per. cent are for additions such as garages or pools, three per cent are for demolition of existing. buildings, 10 per cult !re for miscellaneous reasons and only 20.per cent are for the construction of entirely new buildings - either residential or commercial. . Mr. Maniago speculated that with the higher cost of hones on the market, more people are repairing, In preparing his existing land use map, which took almost amonth to complete, Mr. Maniago walked every street in town. Few Mixtures One of the few mixtures of land use he (Continued on Page 3 ) Suspect arrested in Seaforth police chase The kindergarten class in particular has suffered from declining enrollment. Last year there were 15 pupils in the class, but there are only four pupils this year, according to Mrs.'Audrey Malone, secretary of the school. ttr,ggoShe said this is the only year kindergarten , enrolment has been down and her explanation for the decline was "it's just a poor year." She said they weren't expecting any more pupils for the kindergarten class. The school has two new faces on the staff thiS year. Patrick Shaughnessy, the Grade 7 and 8 teacher, was transferredtoSt, James from St. Columban's School Mrs. Connie Birmingham of Exeter, the Enumeration underway Seaforth study completed Maps prepared on land ownership School enrolment declines in Huron county Hullett Central school is one of the few local schools to report an increase in enrolment this September. Angus MacLennan, p rincipal . at the school, reported they would have between 310 and 312'students enrolled this year, an increae. —"Mret last year's enroltnent of 306 students. Walton Public School's enrolment remained almost the same as last Year. There were 119 students enrolled on Tuesday afternoon, compared with 118 students enrolled last year. khe Auren eX110101. Inside this week Lazy Labor Day Weekend . . . P. 9 Seaforth Pee Wees eliminated . P. 12 Record set at Huron match . . . P. 14 TheAdvocate had,the anwers . P. 15 dogs on the loose and clerk Jack MacLachlan told councillors he thought they had the right man for the job as dog catcher, he just didn't have the right vehicle. Dog control - It was suggested that it would be cheapest if the dog catcher Phil Bradley could buy his own trailer with which, to pick 'up the dogs. Council was told of a livestock claim from Henry Klaver regarding the killing of three sheep and the injury of another supposedly from dogs but decided to defer any action for a couple of weeks. Clerk MacLichlan reported a case where'a fence had been constructed two feet onto ,•• township property and which had resultedin complaints that if this was allowed other people might extend fences and trees even furhter. In this event it would be difficult to keep walkways clear. Council considered a request from the Huron County Federation of Agriculture for storm windows for their building in Vanastra and asked whether the township would remove the snow for them. Council decided to look into providing storm windows but thought he Federation should be responsible for removing their own snow from the sidewalk into the building.