HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2013-12-12, Page 23THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2013. PAGE 23. Continued from page 1a councillor.“This has gone back and forth for
nine months in closed session,”
Falconer said.
Dekroon said she felt the
province’s ombudsman would have
a problem with council rushing the
documents through. MacLellan
disagreed.
He said that while the proposed
bylaws had not been posted to the
municipality’s website ahead of the
Dec. 4 meeting, that simply wasn’t a
practice of council.
He said it wasn’t a case of staff not
posting the bylaws because they
were wind-related, just that it hadnever been done in themunicipality’s history.
It was at this time that MacLellan
began discussing the proposed
community vibrancy funds with the
two companies, which would
provide money to the municipality
based on the amount of power
produced and the length of
transmission lines run throughout
Huron East.
Shouting from HEAT members in
the gallery began, saying that the
money would be made “on the
backs” of Huron East residents, and
that it was “blood money”.
MacLellan told those in thegallery that if they couldn’t controlthemselves, he would move the
meeting into another, smaller room
in town hall, where members of the
local media would be allowed, but
not HEAT members.
After repeated interruption,
MacLellan began to move the
meeting into the hall’s back room, at
which time dozens of HEAT
members streamed toward both of
the room’s entrances.
After a lengthy recess and the
arrival of OPP officers, MacLellan
restarted the meeting, saying that the
OPP had instructions to, on the
mayor’s word, remove anyoneinterrupting the meeting.Almost immediately after the
meeting was brought back into
session, HEAT co-founder Gerry
Ryan began yelling and heckling
council, even daring MacLellan to
eject him from the meeting. “Do it
Bernie, do it,” he said to the mayor.
MacLellan obliged Ryan,
instructing an OPP officer to remove
him from the meeting.
On his way out, however, Ryan
told MacLellan that what he and
Chief Administrative Officer Brad
Knight were doing was wrong.
“You’ve stepped on democracy,”
Ryan said on his way out of the
meeting. “You’ve got no
conscience.”
After the road user agreement
bylaw with Varna Wind Inc. was
approved by council, Dekroon made
a motion that would direct council to
only read the road user agreement
bylaw with St. Columban Energy a
first and second time, without
confirming it with a third and final
reading. The motion stated that councilwould bring the bylaw back at
council’s next meeting, on Dec. 17,
to be read for a third and final time.
This would give members of the
public an opportunity to appear
before council as a delegation at that
meeting and speak against the
bylaws if they wish.
That motion passed, as did an
identical motion to defer third and
final reading of another bylaw which
would authorize a community
vibrancy fund with Varna Wind Inc.,
which will also return to council at
the Dec. 17 meeting.
The fourth bylaw, which was to
authorize a community benefits fund
agreement with St. Columban
Energy, was not allowed to proceed,
as it was tied to the approval of the
St. Columban Energy road
user agreement, which had not
passed.
The three bylaws awaiting third
and final reading will return to
council at the Dec. 17 meeting.
The Auxiliary to the Clinton
Public Hospital met in the hospital’s
conference room on Dec. 2 with 31
auxilians present.
The ninth annual “Gift of Lights”
ceremony on Friday, Nov. 29 was
very successful with approximately
58 people attending. Special
guest auxilian Dianne Stevenson
played various songs on the
accordion. All were invited to
enjoy mulled cider, coffee,
cookies and squares prepared by
members of the auxiliary. A total
of 257 lights were purchased for
2013 with the total being added to
other funds which will go toward
purchase of equipment for the
hospital.
The draw winners were: quilt, Jess
Vanderwal; afghan, Linda Cox and
Lego kits, Al Lavis. The draws were
made by Olive Bell who made and
generously donated the quilt. The
Auxiliary wishes to thank everyone
for their continued support of this
event.
The members decorated the
hospital for the Christmas season
during the morning followed by a
delicious luncheon and a silent
auction.
The next meeting will be held on
Monday, Jan. 6 at 9:30 a.m. in the
hospital’s conference room. New
members are welcome.
Hospital Auxiliary
meets in Clinton
HEAT member ejected as council debates bylaws
Here’s to Alice
Local dignitaries, book lovers and relatives of Alice Munro converged on the club house at the
Wingham Golf and Curling club to celebrate Munro’s recent win of the Nobel Prize for
Literature. The group then participated in a video-taped toast to Munro, shown above. (Denny
Scott photo)
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