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Times-Advocate, 1978-12-07, Page 2Times-Advocate, December 7, 1978 SANTA AT HURON PARK — Thanks to the Stephen Optimists Santa Claus visited Huron Park Saturday and toured the residential area. He is shown above with David, Jason and Debbie Paul. T-A photo 11 1 .'J Councillors set straight Continued from front page year’s police committee had not started negotiations on the new police agreement, although the deadline called for in the Police Act had expired. “We have to cracking on that.” get Commend officer During his discussion with council,ChiefTedDayadvised Bad weather causes several accidents Area drivers had their first taste of severe winter driving conditions, Friday, with the Exeter OPP reporting five collisions during the heavy snowfall which made conditions hazardous. Only one minor injury was reported, that being to Clifford Davidson, RR 3 Wingham, whose vehicle was in collision with one driven by Roy Soldan, Centralia, on Highway 21 north of Huron Road 21 in Stephen. Damage in the accident was listed at $2,600 by Constable Wally Tomasik. A school bus driven by Stuart Triebner, RR 1 Exeter, was also involved in one of the five accidents. The other driver was Martha Robertson, RR 5 Goderich. They collided on Highway 83 west of Exeter. Neither driver nor the seven students on the school bus was injured and damage was listed at $1,350 by Constable Jim Rogers. Damage was set at $1,600 in a collision on Highway 84, west of Zurich, involving vehicles driven by Nancy Michaud, RR 2 Zurich, and Jack Forrester, RR 2 Zurich. Constable Rogers in vestigated. Ellis Stewart, Hensail, and Gary Huston, also of Hen- sall, collided on Highway 4 at ' the junction of County Road 6 in Us borne Township with damage estimated at $1,400. Constable Al Quinn investigated. The other Friday accident was reported on Highway 21 north of St. Joseph, in volving vehicles driven by John Bartlett, Ottawa, and Derek Adshead, RR 4 Clinton. Constable Tomasik listed damage at $1,000. There were two other accidents during the week, the first on Wednesday when a vehicle driven by William Mann, Parkhill, struck a steel post of a bridge on sideroad 15 in Stephen Township. Constable Don Mason investigated and set damage at $600. On Thursday, vehicles driven by Debra Denomme, Zurich, and James Land- sborough, RR 4 Seaforth, collided on Highway 4 in Hensall with resulting damage of $550. Constable Mason investigated. that it was necessary for officers to attend courses to be knowledgeable. He suggested Constable Short had shown con siderable initiative in asking to attend the course and advised council that the officer had attained a mark of 100 percent in the course, the first person to ever attain that mark “ ~ College. At the discussion, Campbell suggested that a letter of commendation be sent to the officer for his effort at the course. “I never met a more dedicated police officer,” Boyle said after council approved the letter. In his report for Novem ber, Chief Day outlined the following statistics: 18 ac cidents with three injuries and damages of $20,975, 12 warnings and nine charges under the Highway Traffic Act, four charges under the Liquor Control Act, six parking tickets issued, five animal complaints with one owner charged, three house checks, one fraud charge, one assault, one mischief and one charge laid against a driver under suspension. at the Police end of the' Councillor Jay County staff members granted pay increases By JEFFSEDDON Catch up wage increases given Huron county supervisory staff at Thur sday’s county council session resulted in pay increases for the 10 county departement heads ranging from 1.5 percent to 15.2 percent. In a report to county council from the special committee given the task of negotiating wage packages for the county ad ministrators council was given a salary schedule to be followed for the next three years that is designed to give senior administration wages comparable to neighboring counties. Warden Gerry Ginn, chairman of the special committee, told council that the committee “believed” the county must “keep up to date if it was interested in good young people” and to keep up to date it must “pay decently.” He said Huron county supervisory staff had been victimized by Anti Inflation Board guidelines and had fallen behind in wages during the three year tenure of AIB. Ginn said the committee had checked into wages paid comparable staff in neighboring counties and had attempted to bring Huron county staff up to parity with those counties. He explained that in some cases the increases needed to bring some staff to parity were too great to be given at once'&nd the committee had drawn up salary schedules designed to spread the in crease over one, two or three years. ' sTJje average increase was 'abquw seven percent but so^i^'staff were given more th^n ’twice the average and soihe5 nowhere near the average. The county development officer, Spence Cummings, was awarded a 1.5 percent increase while C.A. Archibald, ad ministrator of Huronview, was given a 15.2 percent hike. Ginn explained that Archibald’s increase was given because the ad ministrator is one year away from retirement and would not be working for the county long enough to have his in crease spread over a number of years. He added that the committee decided not to award the development officer an increase because it was not certain the county needed the position and wanted to review the work of the development officer before deciding on a future wage. Ginn said he understood that the development officer had • worked hard on the International Plowing Match held in Huron County this summer but pointed out that such an event will not happen again here for another ten years. He said the committee wanted the development office looked at to “justify its existence,” The warden told council that Huron County is one of three counties in the province with a development office pointing out that it was very difficult to find a comparison wage. He said the committee just wanted to find out if the county really wanted the office kept operating. Morris township reeve Bill Elston did not buy the committee’s reasoning and told Ginn that there may not be another International in Huron for ten years but there would be other things going on. Elston said he had worked with Commings on the plowing match and felt that the development officer did a "tremendous amount” for Huron County. He said Cummings had “brought a lot of dollars” to Huron and that he felt the job was necessary. He added that what the county paid Cummings was another thing altogether. Bill Morley, reeve of Usborne township, did not like the reasoning used by the committee. He said that despite the need to review the job done by the development officer the committee had “jeopar dized” the job by giving Commings only a one per cent increase. He said the man still worked for Huron County and deserved the same as other employees. He said the committee can’t justify giving one employee 15 percent and another one percent suggesting that an increase could have been awarded comparable to other staff and then the job reviewed. “He’s still a working man in this county and this treatment is very unfair as long as he is an employee of this county,” said Morley. John Flannery, reeve of Seaforth, told council he felt the increases given super visory staff were hypocritical. He said last May council began negotiating with unions and were telling people the idea was to stay around four to six percent increases. He said that this wage package given supervisory staff was “not telling people the price of beef was going down.” Ginn explained to council that the AIB guidelines had been imposed between the time the county settled with union staff and supervisory Area people win The annual Alhambra Cash Draw ane Dance held at the Parkhill Community Centre was well attended, recently with about 300 be ingpresent. The winners in the draw were as follows: first prize $2,000.00 Lloyd Fahner, RR 1, Grand Bend, Ontario; se cond $500.00 Marty Brown, Arkona, Ontario; third $300.00 Peter Boere, Forest, Ontario; fourth $100.00 Ted Dilts, London, Ontario; fifth $75.00 Charles Regier, RR 1. Grand Bend, Ontario; sixth $50.00 A.R. Vincent, RR 2, Grand Bend, Ontario There were sixteen $25.00 winners as follows: Ray Rasenberg, Wm, Coeck, Ken Lovie, Paul Cyr, A. Goud, G. Cress, Rev. Father Boyer, Velma Russell, John Hen- drikx, Jack Herrington, Ken Larmer, Neil Roszell, G. Siroen, Mrs. John Geerts Sr., Stan Rumford and Ralph Genttner. staff. He said three years ago, just prior to AIB, union staff was given a healthy increase (about 35 percent) and before negotiations with administration could be handled the AIB took over. Similar increases for ad ministration was impossible and for three years those increases had been withheld. He said it was now time to catch up. The ten department heads with their salary reviewed were put on a five level salary grid designed to put them at the top of their level some time in the next three years. Increases varied widely according to what the committee felt it would cost the county to replace the person doing that job if that person left. Clerk treasurer and ad ministrator Bill Hanly is now making $27,222 and on January 1 will receive an 8.6 percent raise taking him to $29,588. Deputy clerk treasurer Bill Alcock now makes $23,712 and with his 5.3 percent hike will be paid $24,986. Bob Dempsey, the county engineer, will be given a 7.1 percent increase taking him from $26,500 to $28,392. Dr. Brian Lynch, medical officer of health, will get a 3,3 percent hike taking him from $36,000 to $37,222. Bill Partridge, the county librarian, received a 9.4 percent increase and will be making $20,150 as com pared to the $18,408 he makes now. Planning director Gary Davidson now makes $24,414 and will be awarded an eight percent increase bringing his wage to $26,390. Social services administrator John MacKinnon will be making $19,578 with his 9.7 percent increase. The administrator of Huronview got a 15.2 percent hike taking his wage from $20,644 to $23,790. Development officer Spence Cummings is now paid $17,238 and with a 1.5 percent increase will be making $17,498. Museum curator Ray Scotchmer got a 13.2 percent increase and will now be making $16,848. Along with the raises given supervisory staff county council increased its own wage by two dollars a session. For a full day of county work councillors will now be paid $50 and for half a day they will get $32. The warden's honorarium was also increased. The warden is being paid $2,750 a year and is now getting $3,000 annually. Mileage allowances for councillors was not in creased. Ginn told council the committee felt the present allowance was ac ceptable adding that it was one place the committee felt it could “hold the line.” ELECTRIC START With the purchase of our heavy-duty snow blower Save time, effort, and money this winter with a new heavy-duty John Deere Snow Blower. Drop into our place and take a good look at the John Deere 8 H.P. that cuts a 26" path. This 2 stage design blower is efficient. The John Deere 826 Snow Blower has features that come as standard equipment which are not even available on other makes. Priced at only $899.00. JOHN DEERE/ TRACTOR BLYTH 519-523-4244 Here's A Great Gift Idea AS BIG AS HIS BEARD — Jolly St. Nick had a very long beard when he showed up at a Christmas party for the children of Exeter's volunteer firemen Sunday at the Legion hall. With the old gent are Elizabeth Mol and Sherri Wells. AQUARIUM STARTER KITS SPECIAL PRICES UNTIL DEC. 15 5 Vi Gallon Size 10 Gallon Size 15 Gallon Size $34.95 ...... . »$45«95 ..............’69.95 Hamster Starter Kit Now Priced t« A A A At Only * | O.W Remember ... We Have A Good Selection Of Model Railways And Models For The Kids On Your List RUSSELL WILSON At St. Joseph’s Hospital, London, on Monday, December 4, 1978, Russell Edgar Wilson of Centralia, in his 58th year. Beloved husband of Lois (Murray) Wilson. Dear father of Margaret and Donna, both of London, Norman, Don, Linda and Barbara, all at home. Brother of Jean (Mrs. Lome Gordon), Fred and Douglas, all of Bosanquet Twp., and Kay (Mrs. Reid Dunham) of Carlisle. 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