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Tenders Tenders
PROPERTY KNOWN AS Lot 20, Concession 11,
Morris-Turnberry, County of Huron
(90938 London Road, RR 2, Wingham).
Sealed tenders will be received until 5:00 p.m. February 22, 2013
for the above described property, at the offices of
Ottewell & Lynn, 22 Nelson Street East, Goderich, ON N7A 1R6.
Att: Richard Ottewell. Phone 519-524-9996. Fax: 519-524-9926.
Property is a 100-acre farm parcel, 80 acres workable and 15
acres mixed bush (all more or less) randomly drained, with a 13-
year-old one-storey Royal Home with attached single car garage,
vinyl sided, asphalt roof, two bedrooms, natural gas heat and
water heater, central air, water softener and drilled well with
submersible pump.
Offers must be submitted in vendors form, copies available at the
address set forth above. Viewings arranged upon request.
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FARM FOR SALE BY TENDER
Denise Clara Smith invites tenders for the purchase
of her farmlands comprised of Lot 28, Concession 2,
Geographic Township of Hibbert, Municipality of
West Perth, County of Perth, being 90
systematically tiled workable acres more or less.
• For tender forms and other particulars contact:
Devereaux Murray Professional Corporation
Phone: 519-527-0850
Email: aodonnell@devereauxmurray.ca
• Tender to be submitted by 12 noon on
Monday, February 25, 2013
• Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.
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project the size of the Brussels
Library, he recommended that
inspections take place at least every
10 days.
Knight said that he expects
that while Rutledge will be
conducting the inspections, Hill will
be close to the project as it goes on
as well.
Councillor Larry McGrath was
concerned with how much the cost
had risen from Rutledge’s estimates
to the tender process.
Knight and Rutledge both told
McGrath that significant changes,
made with Josling, were necessary,
including the elimination of one
entrance, to even get the project
down as low as it is.
“It just makes it look a lot less
viable,” McGrath said. “Not bad for
starting out at $600,000,” he said
sarcastically.
Councillor Nathan Marshall was
concerned about the materials being
used in the project. He asked if
Rutledge had gone with the “high
end” of materials and that was why
the cost was so high, which Mayor
Bernie MacLellan told him was not
the case.
“Costs could juggle up and down
depending on what we decide to put
on,” MacLellan told Marshall. “This
wasn’t a case of simply picking the
‘Cadillac’ of everything, we actually
made a lot of changes and took a lot
of things off.”
That statement, in itself,
concerned Marshall, he said,
wondering if council had reduced
the building so much that council
was spending over $1 million on a
building that the people of Brussels
wouldn’t even be happy with.
MacLellan said that wasn’t the
case and the changes that have been
made have not “degraded” the
quality of the building that will be
constructed.
Council was also concerned about
other “issues” coming up with the
library once work began, with the
existing building being as old as
it is.
Concerns were raised about the
brickwork on the existing building,
but Rutledge assured councillors
that wasn’t going to be a
problem.
“Very little needs to be done on
the existing building,” Rutledge
said. “It’s actually in really good
shape.”
He said that he has marked a small
handful of problem areas, but that
they are not of great concern to him.
Even with the “good news”
regarding the existing brickwork,
McGrath still had concerns and felt
the project had waited long enough
that it could wait for another year
while council considered the issue,
and its costs, further.
“It started at $600,000 and now
it’s over a million dollars for a
building that’s open 20 hours a
week,” McGrath said. “I’d like to see
it go ahead, but on the other hand, I
don’t see a problem waiting for
another year.”
Councillors asked if Morris-
Turnberry Council had been
consulted since the price of the
project has risen. When Morris-
Turnberry was first consulted,
Huron East Council was counting on
a $600,000 project, which has since
nearly doubled to an estimated $1.1
million.
MacLellan said he would bring it
up. “I will ask the question,” he told
councillors, “although I’m confident
that I know the answer.”
As part of his report for council,
Knight provided a breakdown of
where the library’s funding currently
sits.
Huron East already has $400,000
committed in the budget from
previous years and Morris-
Turnberry has pledged $100,000.
The municipality is expecting
$120,000 in fundraising, most of
which is pledges and between
$35,000 and $40,000 of which has
already been raised. Knight said the
fundraising from various
community groups and individuals
has been pledged to be raised over a
three-year period.
In addition, there have been
numerous grants awarded to the
project, including $147,167 from the
federal government, $65,900 from
the Ontario Trillium Foundation and
$5,000 from the County Heritage
Fund.
The total of those funds is
$838,067, which leaves a shortfall of
$261,000 that Knight’s report says
still needs to be addressed by
council.
McGrath requested a recorded
vote on the issue, which passed with
eight votes for the motion and four
votes against. Voting for the motion
were MacLellan, Steffler and
Councillors Alvin McLellan,
Frank Stretton, David Blaney, Diane
Diehl, Les Falconer and Andy
Flowers. Voting against accepting
the tender were Councillors
McGrath, Siemon, Marshall and
Bob Fisher.
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Elderslie Assistant-Clerk Lisa
Albright, who can no longer carry
the secretary duties as a volunteer.
Albright’s tasks included
preparing the meeting’s agendas,
taking minutes, arranging venues for
the meetings and liaising messages
that flowed through the group to and
from various sources.
Because she had accepting, and is
currently in training for, the position
of Arran-Elderslie’s treasurer, she
felt the workload was becoming too
much and that she had to resign.
Tetu told councillors that a search
would soon begin to find a new
secretary, but that it was unlikely that
one could be found on a volunteer
basis due to the amount of work
involved.
He said the estimated workload is
40 hours per month. If all
municipalities involved in the group,
Tetu said, were to pay the $500, the
salary should be covered for the year.
While it wasn’t necessarily the
amount being requested that
bothered some councillors, they felt
that since the group had gone this
long on volunteer hours, why now
would someone have to get paid for
their services?
Tetu said that council has had the
“benefit” of the group for over two
years, which has involved expert
advice and presentations and a
volunteer commitment from Tetu,
who has attended the meetings,
reported back to council, and driven
to all meetings on his own time and
on his own finances.
He felt that given the level of
commitment from those involved on
a volunteer basis, a $500 annual fee
was not unreasonable.
Councillor Nathan Marshall was
Councillors concerned over price jump
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in his love.” (John 15:9-10)
And what were these
commandments that would keep us
in Jesus’ love; the Father’s love?
Jesus said to the gathered and says to
us, “You shall love the Lord your
God with all your heart, and with all
your soul, and with all your mind.”
‘This is the greatest and first
commandment. And a second is like
it:’ “You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.” On these two
commandments hang all the law and
the prophets. (Matthew 22:37-40)
Jesus, the human face of God, came
to reveal the true face of God, who
was the creator of the universe. And
the true face of God is nothing other
than the face of love!
One of the most celebrated
physicists in the world is Stephen
Hawking; his book A Brief History
of Time begins with an illustration
that is telling: “A well-known
scientist (some say it was Bertrand
Russell) once gave a public lecture
on astronomy. He described how the
earth orbits around the sun and how
the sun, in turn, orbits around the
center of a vast collection of stars
called our galaxy. At the end of the
lecture, a little old lady at the back of
the room got up and said: ‘What you
have told us is rubbish. The world is
really a flat plate supported on the
back of a giant tortoise.’ The scientist
gave a superior smile before
replying, ‘What is the tortoise
standing on?’ ‘You’re very clever,
young man, very clever,’ said the old
lady. ‘But it’s turtles all the way
down!’”
The face of Christ, the Son of God,
reveals it is not turtles all the way
down; rather its “love all the way
down!” So, you tell me, says Jesus
then and now, “You want to find
God’s face; you want to see God’s
face?” God tell us on this Valentine’s
Day week, to find someone to love
and you will find God’s face and see
God’s face! For it is “love all the way
down,” for when you see the face of
love, your world is transfigured, with
‘glory into glory.’
A story appeared in Feb. 6 edition
of The Toronto Star under the byline
of Paul Watson. It illustrates for me
the reality of a deficiency in our
humanity. The headline “Aya’s
suffering.” The story: “On Jan. 26,
Syria’s civil war turned one of the
most basic human needs, the want
for heat, into a weapon that seared
nine-year-old Aya Mohammed al-
Hussain deep into her soul. (Sitting
at home in her one-room house at 3
p.m. when Dictator Bashar Assad’s
forces lobbed three mortar bombs
into her community. She is not an
accidental casualty of this war. Aya’s
home is several miles from the front
lines . . . in the next hospital room to
Aya; nine-year-old Mohammed,
recovering from a sniper’s bullet that
randomly bored through his stomach
and kidney . . . Kids don’t know
what’s going on, they’re out in the
street playing. These are inhuman
acts. (Abridged)
In a Facebook world, what Aya
and Mohammed need to hear, “face-
to-face” from others in God’s world,
are God’s face words: “I love you!”
The point: When will our world
get balanced between Facebook and
our Facebook walls and make God’s
face visible to others? When indeed,
will our faith communities and our
human communities take seriously
God’s desire for us to “love one
another?” AMEN!
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