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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1973-11-15, Page 1Weather 1t/3 HI NQVgMBER 1971 Hi faQ 6 33- 26 50 39 39 32 49 3$ 42 31 46 39 9 31 25 40 30 10 34 21 41 33 11 34 28 43 36 12 45 34 45 37 Clinton I\ ews-Record Thursday, November 15, 1973 108 Year - No. 46 $now 10" Rain ,67" Ctf414"ig GOO': eearil; e Clinton and area residents observed Remembrance Day last Sunday and despite the snow and chilling winds, a good tur- nout came to the Clinton Cenotaph to witness the ceremonies. About 30 wreaths were laid by various clubs organizations and businesses as well as several schools and " local councils. The Clinton Legion Pipe Band lead the parade from the Legion Hall to the Town Square. (News-Record photo) Bayfield plan raises tempers clerk-treasurer's office at $499 and the other for the road superintendent's office at $245. These prices were after allowances for two trade-ins. Council approved a grant of $50 to the Dublin District Athletic Association. The Hillen Drain is to be repaired under the direction of the drainage commissioner and according to a letter received from Charles Corbett, Lucan, engineer. Mrs. Kenneth McClure, clerk-treasurer, will attend a meeting of clerk-treasurers in Goderich on November 22. Land severence for Ephraim Hasse of RR I, Seaforth was ap- proved and council will pay for a calf owned by Mervin Smith of RR I, Walton, which was reported to be killed by a dog or dogs. Loss was assessed at $125 of which council will pay $100 or 80 percent. Council endorsed a resolution from the NDP to John White, Treasurer of On- tario, on the investment rate at which the funds of OMERS (Ontario Municipal EmployeeS A fire agreement between.the Township of Hay and the Village of Hensall is closer to becoming a reality following a decision reached by the Hay council at their regular meeting last week. Hay has offered to pay Hen- sall the sum of $6,000 for a share in their fire engine, as well as 25 percent .of total maintenance costs. In addition they agreed to pay the wages of the firemen called to a fire in the township, While Hensall has indicated they will accept the new offer, the agreement must be ratified by Tuckersmith Township before it can become official. Retirement Systems) is in- vested with the Ontario Gover- nment, It is felt that the fund (continued on page 7') Tuckersmith has a part owner- ship in the newHensall engine, and therefore must be in agreement with any new proposals presented by another municipality, There has been no fire agreement between the Township of Hay and the Village of Hensall since a new engine was purchased to serve Hensall and Tuckersmith. At that time Hensel]. asked Hay to join in the system, but there was no agreement reached. If the new agreement meets with the approval of Tuckersmith, date of January 1, 1974 has been set as the effective term of the contact. Hensall to protect Hay Clinton heifer football Radium bave-Clynick is set to hit an *meter player during the troarethon Junior Football ChamplenshiPs plitrod lett Saturday On a greedy Snow covered Held In Exeter, The Panthers finally won the defensively played game in the eighth minute of the sudden-death overtime purled by scoring a td. (Newa.rtecord photo) Huron again has best hay There must be little doubt in the jedgee, last year on his first try, mind that the best hay in Canada and in- This year, Mr, Bolton, 72, won with a deed the world must be grown in Huron second put entry, County.. In 1971, Russell Dallas of Brucefield For the tenth time, the World's Hay won the title for the third time, ,claiming Championship at the Royal Winter Fair wins in 1963, 1969, and 1971. Before that, has come to Huron County- Robert Allan of 13rtivefield won in 1958 Last week, Russell Bolton of RR 1, and 1962; Robert Fotheringham of RR. 4, Seaforth in McKillop Township walked off Seaforth won in 1.965 and 1966 and Wilber with the hay crown for the second sue- Keyes of RR 4, Seaforth won the crown in ceesive year. Mr, Bolton captured the title 1964. Crossing guards approved Bayfield's official plan may be altered slightly in .some areas if protests raised, at last Friday night's Meeting in the Village which unveiled the plan are carried out, The meeting, which was set by the Bayfield Council to show the village property owners the proposed changes to the Village's land use by-law which was passed in 1969, at times broke into a shouting match between Reeve Ed Oddleif- son and several property owners. Two changes to the 1969 land use by-law which upset some of the 80 persons at the meeting were a propo- sal to zone both sides of Highway 21, south of Clan Gregor Square as commercial. Several property owners, including Jack Pounder said that home owners on the Highway don't want the property to become commercial. Another property owner said "we're get- ting it (the plan) crammed down our throats." Reeve Oddleifson said that there must be some allowance made for future commer- BY J.F. Joe Van Dyke, plant manager of Barton Tubes of Vanastra, phoned us the other day and told us that thanks to the quick action of the Goderich Detachment of the OPP and the Peucefield Fire Department a serious fire at that plant was averted, Apparently, a fire broke out in the plant in the wee hours last Friday morning and was spotted by a patrolling OPP officer ;who phoned the Brucefield Fire Depart- ment who were quick to extinguish the flames. Mr. Van Dyke said he couldn't stress enough that the quick action averted what could have been another major industrial fire at Vanastra in three weeks, This is an important reminder that next Wednesday night there will be an all im- portant general meeting of the Clinton Centennial Committee at the Clinton Com- triunity Centre. Since our Centennial is now only a year away, more involvement by town folk is desperately needed. The meeting starts at 8 p.m. * * * It has come to our attention that a small minority of snowtnobilers are infringing oti other rights of others by driving on private property without permission, forcing per- sons off the sidewalks, and roaring around town after the midnight curfew, The actions of a few can spoil the eft. ''osetiettt of many and we would remind Mee few inconsiderate people that floe/Mobile use in town could be banned Itogether should the Clinton council Orl- in-tie to receive complaints. cial development in an orderly fashion. Mrs. Jo-Ann Bullen, who lives on the south side of the Bayfield River in the Village, claimed that the Council had not followed their 1969 land use by-law because the property beside her, which was zoned residential in the land use by-law, was being used for commercial purposes when the new Carson-Elliott Marina was established there last year, In the new plan, high-rise development is Clinton hires new officer A new policeman has been hired by the Clinton Town Council. Donald McDonell of London was ap- proved last Monday night by the Clinton council. A former RCMP officer, Mr. MacDonell, 26 will begin work immediately and brings extensive police training with him. Council also made a recommendation to hire next June one of the other three men interviewed last Saturday. He would even- tually replace Constable Perdue who retires in October of 1974. McDonell has been hired as a first class constable. Another Clinton Con- stable, Don Armstrong, is taking additional training for the next two weeks at the police College in Aylmer, Rev. John Oestreicher and his family have arrived in Clinton and Rev. Het., John Oestteieher Oestreicher will begin his duties this Sun- day as minister of Wesley-Willis and Holmesville United Churches. He will lead the morning worship service at Wesley- Willis and the 1 p.m, service at Holmesville, Sunday evening at 7:30 induc- tion service will take place in Wesley-Willis with Rev. F. M. Feist of the London Con- ference as the guest speaker, Mr. Oestreicher is a son of the manse, born at Rosenthal, Ontario. His father was a minister in the Evangelical United Brethren Church and served in various parts of Ontario. Mr. Oestreicher received his elementary education in a one room school at Locksley, his secondary school education at Pembroke, Clifford and Palmerston and he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Waterloo Lutheran University, and his Bachelor of Religious Education from McMaster Divinity School; Hamilton. While at Waterloo, he served as youth director and assistant to the minister at Zion United Church, Kitchener. He worked as a student minister on the South Cayuga Charge while studying at McMaster and continued to serve an enlarged South Cayuga: charge following his ordination. Poi. the past five and one half years he ser- ved the IVIilIbrook Pastoral Charge. While at university he met and married Marilyn Paulin, an elementary Salop! teacher, The Oestreichete have two small boys, Jonathan Michael and Jeffrey Paul, Clinton council Monday night reversed an earlier decision and will hire. four crossing guards to man the school crossing points in the town. A delegation of seven persons were at the meeting and showed the council a 74 name petition asking for council to reconsider their August decision not to hire guards for three crossing points in the town. In a recorded 5-4 vote last August, Clin- ton council said there was no need for the guards, which would be employed about two hours each on every school day. Council agreed to advertise for crossing guards at East and Ontario Streets, East and Victoria Streets, Rattenbury and Albert Streets and Albert and John Streets, The scheme will cost about $3,000 a year. In other business, council learned that there is little possibility that the town will receive any grant from the Ontario Clinton council last Monday night gran-, ted six week extension to Maple engineering of Rexdale, who are construc- tion the town's new $750,000 sewage plant expansion. In a letter to council the town's consulting engineer, R.V. Anderson and Associates, asked council to extend the deadline from October 23 to December 15. The engineering firm said that bad weather and several delays in the arrival of new equipment for the plant has set the contractors back about a month. Council agreed with the engineers repOrt and gran- ted the extension, In another letter from R.V. Anderson, the firm told council that statements made by Richard Martin of the Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority at Octobers council meeting were not true. Mr. Martin, present at the October meeting to discuss the realignment of the Bayfield.River near the nee: 'gage plant, told council that the new plant was dumping raw sewage into the Bayfield River and the plant was built too low and would be subject to flooding. In the letter from the engineers, who represent the town at the project, the firm said that at no time was there any raw sewage being dumped into the river and that they had consulted the former depart- River alignment partially. funded The Honourable Leo Bernier, Minister of Natural Resources and Jack Riddell, MPP for Huron, announced the approval of a provincial grant in the amount of $2,062.50 to the Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority for a preliminary engineering study for realignment and channel im- provement of the Bayfield river at the Town of Clinton. The existing channel has sharp bends and constrictions causing obstruction by floating debris and ice, The -proposed elign- meet of the channel will reduce the poten- tial flood and erosion damage to the plant. The Town of Clinton- has been designated the benefiting municipality and Will be levied the Authorfty's share of the cost, ministry of transportation and com- munication for the storm sewer extension carried out this summer on Raglan Street. The government provides up to a 50 per- cent grant for street improvements, but told Clinton that there were no funds left for 1973. Council sent to the financial committee a request for a donation from the St. John Ambulance, "We should be considering our own am- bulance in our own community," said 'Reeve Harold Lobb. Council was also informed by the federal government that Clinton's application for a Local Intiatives Grant is being considered and council will know if they are successful in a few weeks. Council renewed the lease of the ministry of justice who rent the Town Hall for one day each month for court. The lease, for a ment of energy and resources about the level of the new plant as well as local of- ficials and all agreed that the new plant is high enough to avoid flooding. Council also agreed to extend the com- pletion date of the contract of the realign- ment of the Bayfield River near the new plant from December 31 to January 31, The contract for the dredging and tree cut- ting work will be awarded in about a week. Council approved two severances. One to Huron Pines and the other to Beecher Menzies. Both pieces of land are north of the Huron' Pines development. Council also approved another $110,000 worth of building permits for the month of October, This year's total building permits are now over the $1 million mark, with most of it being in new home construction. Permits issued include: Huron Pines Reality, three houses, two valued at $22.,500, arid the other at $21,000; K.W. Colquhoun, house, $20,000; Bill Counter, house, $20,000; Norman Livermore, sun deck, $1,000; Bell Canada, wrecking per- mit, no value; Hal Hartley, extension, $1,500; Henry Young, extension and car- port, $1,500; Harold Glazier, sunporch, $500; Chester Gliddon, carport, $800; and Falconer Bros., renewal. two year period, brings in $50 per month rent, A motion was passed asking the PUC to install 161 feet of sanitary sewer on Pugh's Terrace, beginning at Erie Street. Mayor Symons told the council that the' town's traffic and taxis by-law is being revised and he also reminded the public that snowrnobilers are asked to abide by the town's snowmobile by-law and those rules laid down by the Clinton Snowmobile Club, He said he has received complaints since the Town had its first snow last week. Public Works chairman Ernest Brown informed council that the roof on the town's new works garage was still leaking and would be fixed by the contractor. Council also passed a motion hiring Harold Gibbings of Clinton on a part-time basis, effective November 1st. Cathy Benjamins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, John Benjamins of RR 1, Blyth was named the top Carter scholar in Huron County this year. Miss Benjamins, an On- tario Scholar, will receive the first scholarship of $100. Two other Huron County students were other winners and will receive $60 and $40. The fund was set up by the late J.1. Carter of Sarnia and three students in each of 33 counties are eligible for the award. She is a graduate of CHSS. banned, summer residences are nearly totally discouraged, and there wilt' be no-s trailers allowed in the Village unless they are in a trailer park which meets tough standards, Mr. Oddleifson, said the plan, which was good for a five year period, did not include industrial land at this time because there had been no call for it. The plan also envisions the village, which has about 500 permanent residents and doubles or triples in the summer, as a retirement haven. There is room, according to the new plan, for future expansion in subdivisions, but only at an even rate, The plan shows the minimum lot size in the village to be 7,500 feet, below the 15,000 minimum required by the province for homes with septic tanks and without a municipal water supply. Mr. Oddleifson said that because most Bayfield wells were deep drilled wells, there was little possibility of contamination from septic tanks, The meeting last Friday night was held just so council could feel out the attitudes of the property owners. The council still has to adopt the planning by-law and then pass it on to the Ontario Municipal Board who would then set up a hearing in the village to hear any objections to it. The OMB would then rule on the plan. Bayfield was forced to hold back on their official plan until the Huron County Of- ficial Plan was passed, which happened last August, New minister here Sun. BY WILMA OKE McKillop Township Council meeting in Winthrop discussed renewing its fire protection agreement for the township last week with the Blyth District Fire Area Board. Presently McKillop pays five percent but the new agreement calls for McKillop to pay ten percent with a larger area to be protec- ted, Reeve Allan Campbell ob- jected to the agreement, concer- ning the five percent increase being retroactive to August 1. Other municipalities under the Blyth Fire Area Board are: Blyth, 19 percent; East Wawanosh, 19 percent; West Wawanosh, 5 percent; Morris, 15 percent; Hullett, 27 percent; Auburn, 5 percent; and McKillop, 10 percent. Municipalities pay $10 per houk for use of the pumper plus $2 per hour for use of tanker. Bach fireman receives $4 per hour for first hour and $3 per hour for each following hour or portion of it, Reeve Campbell is the McKillop representative on the Board. Council authorized the pur- chase of two calculators for the offices from Keith Hammond of Moorefield. One will be for the Sewage plant delayed Fire costs may rise for McKillop