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Clinton I\ ews-Record
Thursday, November 15, 1973 108 Year - No. 46
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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