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Weather cooperates for Dashwood event The Huron/Perth District Health Council Steering Committee respectfully solicits the opinions of all organiza- tions and interested citizens, with regard to the formation of a District Health Council to assess the needs and recommend to the Ministry the priority for Health expenditures in the two counties. All submissions will be carefully tabulated and will ultimately dictate the recommendation the Com- mittee will be obliged to make to the Ministry of Health, All members of the Steering Committee are available for meetings and will provide informa- tion regarding the function and duties of a District Health Council, For Further information Contact: Box 729 Wingham ,Ontario committee room of Victoria and Grey Trust (rear entrance) between 9 p.m. and 5 p.m. each Thursday. She has a masters degree in social work, has had considerable experience in personal and family counselling and will be working in Exeter under the auspices of the Ministry of Community and Social services. The counsellor might be \seen either by making an appointment through South Huron Hospital 235-2700 or by coming to the committee room of Victoria and Grey Trust, Thursdays. GB CHURCHES The Catholic ladies are reminded of their bake and garden produce sale to be held after the masses on Sunday, August 8. Rev. John Campbell, of Church of God, was guest speaker on Sunday evening in Auburn at the Christian Business men's association. Rev. E. Wattam of St. - Catharines conducted the ser- vice, Sunday, at Church of God. Yamaha AVAILABLE AT COUNTRY CORNER MT, CARMEL — 237.3456 OPEN TILL 10 P.M. JAVA,. TALKING ABOUT INTERNATIONAL The 1975 Huron Queen of the Furrow Linda Newton was in Saturday's Friedsburg Day parade in Dashwood. Above, she chats with Howard Datars who is chairman for the 1978 International to be held in Huron County, near Wingham. Fieldcrest traditional Wanting to add a little spice to your life? Why not comevin and see our new line of Horton Spices - also wooden spice racks, jars and cookbooks. By the way - We do Free gift wrapping. ARBO „ 7e*wei,N UN, •S'' Heinz BARBECUE SAUCE Jolly Miller PINK LEMONADE 16 oz. 3-3oz. pkg.59 MERNER'S MEAT MARKET Dashwood 237-3314 Page la Times -Advocate, August 5, 1976 • By JACK RIDDELL MPP Huron-Middlesex Commission reviews tax reforms The Provincial Government has established a Commission to review the Proposals for Tax Reform which were contained in Budget Paper E of this year's Provincial Budget. This Com- mission is conducting a series of meetings throughout the Province this summer and fall, before submitting its recom- mendations to the Government. In Budget Paper E, the Govern- ment gave a brief review of the background of, and reasons for, market value assessment, which may be of interest. According to this government review:- "The values upon which taxes GRAND BEND are currently levied date as far back as 1940. They are values which were determined by local assessors taking into account factors which were important to each municipality but not necessarily important beyond the boundaries of each. "During this period, Ontario . experienced rapid urbanization and inequities grew within each municipality as new properties were brought onto the assessment roll and the values of older properties were not up- dated. "Meanwhile, the sharing of costs and responsibilities among municipalities, and between municipalities and the Province, steadily increased in importance. As provincial grants were in- creased over the years, local and provincial financing became more interrelated. Because the locally-determined property assessment was the base for sharing many costs and deter- mining grant entitlements, deficiencies in local assessment obviously created inequities in provincial-municipal financing. "The Province adopted a system of equalization factors to correct for the variations in local property assessments. At best, however, these factors could correct only in the total sense for different growth patterns and valuation practices. The factors could not account for changes in the values of individual properties, "It was due to these cir- cumstances that the Province assumed the responsibility for the administration of property assessment. The Province was immediately faced with the task updating the assessments on more than 3.5 million properties in Ontario. • "Initially, completion of the reassessment program was planned for December 1975 for 1976 taxation, However, in a relatively short period of time, the real estate market in Ontario became extremely active with prices rising at unprecedented and unexpected rates. "These conditions caused values placed on properties to be hopelessly out of date within several months, making meaningful tax analyses im- possible. Therefore, the schedule for the implementation of reassessed values was delayed until the 1977 tax year. "The Province has almost completed the reassessment of all properties in Ontario. It is intended that once market 'value is established, it will be kept up to date. "The use of property taxation will continue to be the exclusive right of local governments and the main source of their tax revenues. The property tax has proven to be a good tax for, the raising of local funds. No other level of government uses property as a tax source. "Furthermore, local govern- ments have considerable flexibility in setting mill rates in accordance with their financial requirements. With the in- troduction of the property tax credit system which virtually .6\ eliminated the regressive features of the tax, the revenue- raising capacity of property taxation has been greatly enhanced. "During this period of reassessment, the Province has also been analysing the effects of the new values on the distribution of taxes among taxpayers and on municipal finance. The development of a compatible property tax system for in- troduction with market value assessments is fundamental to a pragmatic program of reform," The government's Proposals for Reform of Property Taxation in Ontario are intended to establish an appropriate distribution of tax burdens among classes of real property, to achieve a more neutral business assessment rate; and to broaden the local tax base by removing exemptions. Under the proposals, residences in Ontario, collec- tively, would bear a reduced share of property taxes and residential property would be redefined to include only residences and a reasonable amount of land. The current practice of levying different mill rates on residential and com- mercial properties would be discontinued. Farmland, farm buildings,. managed forests and farm residences would be assessed at market value. Farmland, farm buildings and managed forests would be taxed at 100 percent of market value and the taxes would be paid by the Province, Farm residences would be taxed as all other residences at 50 percent of market value and the taxes paid by the owner. There would be provision to recover taxes paid by the Province if the property changei use. All real property used for the purpose of a business including government administrative facilities would be subject to an additional assessment of 50 percent of market value for business taxes. I will report further on the Government's Proposals for Reform of Property Taxation in Ontario, and shall be interested to hear any comments and views on this subject. Counsellor appointed Lois Hinz replaces Elmore Boomer as Information South Huron Counsellor. The service has been renamed "South Huron Counselling Service" in order to more clearly define its pur- pose. Ms. Hinz will begin the service August 12 and will be in the Thanks to tremendous co- operation from the weatherman the sixth annual Friedsburg Days in Dashwood over the weekend proved to be bigger and better than ever, Rain threatened during the soap box derby Saturday mor- ning but skies cleared by the time the mammoth parade was ready to leave the athletic field at 2 p.m. Festivities opened with a very successful talent show Friday night. Included on the program was crowning of Miss Friedsburg 1976. Prizes were awarded in five categories in the talent show. Huron-Middlesex MPP Jack Riddell was the master of ceremonies. Lori Noyes of Lucan was successful in winning in the vocal class. The instrumental winner Kim Heather and Kim Craig was, the best dancer. Jeff Rooth of Exeter and Calvin Horner from Parkhill prevailed with the accordion and drums and the McQuaid Sisters of Seaforth, Anne Marie, Donna and Carol Anne were best in their division. • In Saturday's parade with Fantasy Land as the theme judged first in the theme float section was The Three Little Pigs and the big bad wolf entered by Jim Becker Construction. Next came The Old Woman in the shoe from Don Bender Electric ana Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from Hoffman's Ambulance. The best decorated car was Aladdin's Lamp entered by Jack Ford Insurance. Prizes for best decorated bicycles went to Susan Baynham, Jerry Ducharme and David Hayter while the Flintstone entry manned by Steven and Fred Miller won their division. Terry Bender won the soap box derby with a close win over runner-up Danny Becker. Mark Hartman was third. Entrants had a little trouble picking up much speed on the short course as the hill south of Dashwood did not provide slope. 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