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original request at the June 18
meeting of council, sent a letter
putting the request in writing, as was
indicated necessary by council
during that meeting.
The profits from the beverage
garden, according to Hearnden, will
be split between the Wingham
Ironmen, who are helping with the
event, and the Christmas street light
fund for Wingham.
Street party drink profits
go to Ironmen, lights
Huron East discusses approaching turbine deadlineMembers of Huron East AgainstTurbines (HEAT) voiced theirconcerns to Huron East Council atthe July 3 meeting about the appealprocess that is unfolding for the St.Columban wind project.HEAT member Rob Tetu wantedto address council to discuss thequickly-approaching deadline for
appeal submissions and what, if any,
concerns the municipality would be
submitting on the project.
The process, as laid out by council
at an earlier meeting, would be that
the Administration Committee
would meet with members of HEAT
and discuss potential concerns and
then the committee would forward
those questions on to council for
approval before submission.
Council said some issues had
already been submitted regarding
the location of one turbine and the
running of a transmission line
through Cranbrook. In addition,
several issues have already been
raised by the Huron County
Planning Department.
Tetu stressed to council that if they
wanted to submit any questions that
the clock was ticking.
“We have no time,” Tetu said.
Tetu asked council if the
municipality would support a
homeowner (Tetu used himself as an
example) if he were to go to the
Municipal Property Assessment
Corporation (MPAC) to fight against
a potential reduction in property
values.
Mayor Bernie MacLellan,
however, said the municipality isn’t
allowed to take a private property to
MPAC.
MacLellan then told a story about
how he had to take one of hispersonal properties to MPAC for achallenge and he won withouthaving to go to a hearing. “I never hired a lawyer,”MacLellan said. Deputy-Mayor Joe Steffler wasconcerned about how far the fightwould take the members of HEATand whether they would be satisfiedwith the end result or not.Steffler asked if the issue would
still be appealed at the
environmental tribunal and HEAT
member Gerry Ryan said that if the
group feels they haven’t been
represented well by council, and the
province, then it will be appealed,
but it would still have to be
discussed.
Steffler says he just wanted to
know that council had put in
meaningful work on the wind
turbine issue over the past three
years and that it wasn’t all for
nothing.
“Brad (Knight, clerk-
administrator) and the mayor have
spent a lot of time on this and we’re
getting close to D-day,” Steffler said.
“Have we spun our wheels for the
last three years?”
Ryan told Steffler that council had
not been wasting its time and that he
was right, that d-day was quickly
approaching.
As the discussion escalated,
Steffler told the members of HEAT
that council understood their points,
but now it was time to address a
body that could make a difference
that wasn’t hampered by the Green
Energy Act.
“It’s the province you have to
convince is wrong,” Steffler said.
MacLellan came down in the
middle, saying that council cannot
be for or against wind turbines, but
the one aspect of the situation that isenforceable from council’sstandpoint is the rules the company will have to follow.“If they’re not following therulebook, that’s what we have to hang our hat on, then we havesomething to back it up,” MacLellansaid.
New Blyth Lions Club executive
The Blyth Lions Club recently named their 2012-2013 executive. Members are, back row, from
left: Mary Lou Stewart, third vice-president; Ryan Lee, president; Bruce Bettles, zone
chairperson-Dublin and District Lions Club; Fred deBoer, second vice-president; Charlie
Shaw, director; Greg Toll, tail twister; Ken Stewart, past president; Steve Howson, treasurer;
Brenda McDonald, bulletin editor; Vicky Bremner, director; Bev Blair, director; Alex Blair,
membership chairperson; Bill Logue, director. Front row, from left, are: Dave Kelly, first vice-
president, and Lisa Bromley, secretary. Absent is Sheron Stadlemann, Lion tamer. (Photo
submitted)
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Block Parents seek more
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The recently re-established Block
Parent movement in North Huron is
seeking more volunteers to help
keep the program running in
Wingham and expand it into Blyth.
Steve Hill, a member of the group,
stated, at a North Huron Township
Council meeting on July 3 that the
group has found approximately “a
half dozen” families in the two
months since they started.
“We’ve only been in existence for
a couple of months,” Hill said when
asked by Deputy-Reeve David Riach
what the “holdup” was in getting
families.
Hill explained that the group had
visited local public and Catholic
schools to spread the word about the
service they offer but said they were
having trouble expanding beyond
Wingham.
“We’ve had to focus on the
Wingham area,” he said. “Police
reports outside of Wingham aren’t
free.”
The Wingham Police Department
provides the background checks,
which, according to documentation
from the Block Parent program of
Canada and the Ontario Block
Parent Program, need to be
performed on every member of an
applying household over the age of
12.
According to that same
documentation, the typical cost for
each individual’s check is $20.
The issue of the Block Parents had
originally been brought up by Public
Works Superintendent Ralph
Campbell who asked if council was
amicable to have the street signs
erected that indicate Wingham as a
Block Parent community, which
councillor Archie McGowan moved
to do.
“We’re always trying to recruit
new homes,” Hill said. “Getting
these signs up will help publicize the
group. We had a booth at the
Muskrat Festival and that helped but
we need all the publicity we can
get.”
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By Denny Scott
The Citizen