HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2012-06-21, Page 17THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012. PAGE 17. Brussels couple participates in Swiss concertBrussels and area residents arefamiliar with Swiss music as thesounds of a typical Swiss instrumentcan be heard often right in their
backyard. Kathy and Walter
Eigenheer of RR 4, Brussels, who
emigrated from Switzerland in 1992,have been playing the alphorn for thepast 10 years and will showcase theirtalent together with daughter Ursi
Wilson in Kitchener at the end of
this month when the North American
Swiss Singing and Yodeling Festivalcomes to the Centre in the Square.This will be an excellent opportunityto experience authentic Swiss music
and cultural traditions.
Kitchener’s Centre in the Square
will be resonating with the “Soundsof Switzerland” on the Canada Daylong weekend as a local Swiss choirteams up with 14 other Swiss choirs
from Canada, the U.S. and
Switzerland for a singing and
yodeling festival.A choral competition will be heldon Friday, June 29 at 1:15 p.m.where 14 choirs will compete for
honours in various categories of
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should leave the room because she
has a gravel pit, which she took
offense to.
Hemingway said “everyone has
seen who has a conflict.”
Hemingway’s presentation
surrounded the municipality’s
appeal of the Huron County Official
Plan that was launched in January.
There have been ongoing
negotiations between the
municipality, the Huron County
Planning Department and
representatives from the Ministry of
Municipal Affairs and Housing that
have been taking place behind
closed doors.
Hemingway suggested that the
meetings should not be taking place
behind closed doors, and
furthermore that the Huron County
Planning Department should not be
involved whatsoever.
Hemingway said he and the rest of
the people in attendance at the
meeting were concerned because
they could not participate in the
meeting process. By appealing the
official plan, Hemingway said, the
municipality took the right to appeal
out of the hands of the residents and
now, as the negotiation process goes
on, it’s possible that the wording
could be altered and the appeal could
be dropped without any input from
the public.
Deputy-Mayor Dave Jewitt, who
was chairing the meeting in the
absence of Mayor Jim Ginn, who
had declared a conflict of interest,
said the intent behind the
negotiations is to come to a wording
of the Huron County Official Plan
that the municipality is comfortable
with, without incurring the cost of an
Ontario Municipal Board (OMB)
hearing.
Jewitt said settling the issue
without going to the OMB which
could cost, according to councillors,
hundreds of thousands of dollars,
would be his “preferred option”. He
also said that council’s top priority
was transparency and
communicating with the public.
Lobb asked Hemingway how the
municipality should proceed if the
OMB appeal was to end up costing
such a large amount of money. If it
was to cost hundreds of thousands of
dollars, Lobb asked, would
Hemingway be prepared for that cost
to be area-rated so that those who
would be affected by the turbines
would be saddled with the cost
of the appeal? Hemingway said
the meetings should be held in the
open, so the public can have their
say.
When asked why the meetings
have been closed to the public,
Jewitt said that decision was made
on recommendation from the Huron
County Planning Department.
Hemingway, along with outspoken
wind turbine opponent and Ashfield-
Colborne-Wawanosh resident
Shawn Drennan, said the planning
department should not be involved in
the process according to the
Municipal Act.
Drennan said everything
associated with the negotiations up
to that point should be declared null
and void because the planning
department should never have been
involved.
Jewitt ended the delegation saying
that council and staff would be
looking into answers to
Hemingway’s questions and they
would get back to him. No
official motion came out of the
delegation.
Turbines cause discussion in Central Huron
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