HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1979-08-22, Page 7HELP IS ON THE WAY — The Brussels
Optmists and Brussels area residents were
eager and willing to help out as they left early
Wednesday morning for a trip to Woodstock to
offer their help to victims of the tornado disaster
there. (Photo by Langlois)
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Acre deeded for. centre
BY JEFF SEDDON
The Huron County Board of Education
agreed recently to deed just over an acre of
land at Holmesville Public School to the
township of Goderich provided the township
use the land for a proposed community
centre.
In a telephone vote in July trustees
unanimously agreed to give board owned
land to the township on the basis that it be
used for a recreaton centre. The board
agreed to the deal because it hopes to have
students at the elementary school make use
of the townshp centre.
In an informal session with township
council last month board trustee Shirley
Hazlitt, director of education John
Cochrane, suprintendent Don Kenwell and
Holmesville principal Ron McKay outlined
possible advantages the school would have if
the township centre was adjacent it.
The board is interested in having its land
used for the centre because of somewhat
cramped conditions at the school.
Holmesville School has a very small
auditorium which forces the school to split
its Christmas concert and graduation into
two evenings to accommodate parents.
Indoor athletic events are also limited
because of the small auditorium.
' The township would benefit from the deal,
because it could shave construction costs by
sharing septic services, water and
maintenance costs with the board.
Both the board and the township are in
agreement on the deeding and all that
remains is approval of the ministry of
education. Township council wanted an
immediate response from the board because
it hopes to begin construction on the project
in the fall.
The request for land at Holmesville was
one of three the board dealth with Monday.
The village of Hensall sent a letter to the
board indicating a chunk of land on the
playground at Hensall Public School was
badly in need of attention. Village council
told the board if it was not planning on
maintaining the land it may consider giving
it back to the village.
Zurich trustee Herb Turkheim told the
board he had walked the Hensall play area
and found no area not properly maintained.
He said the grass may have been a few
inches too long but it had been trimmed
during the summer.
Turkheim suggested the board tell village
council it was not interested in deeding any
land to the village.
The Zurich trustees said the board may
tell the village it may be interested in giving
up the land if the village wanted to use it for
some type of municipal recreation facility.
That suggestion sparked a discussion on
the practice of the board giving its land
away. The board had just finished deeding a
small chunk of the Seaforth Public School
' playground to the town of Seaforth to permit
, a street to be constructed.
Goderich trustee Dave Gower said the
board should be looking at all these
situations and finding out if it is not wasting
money. He said in some cases benefits to the
board _may warrant giving land to
municipalities but in others the land may be
better sold than given up.
He added that the board may be setting
precedents by giving land away and may
find more requests such as the ones from
Hensall and Seaforth,
' Last year the board gave some land from
Victoria Publickhool to the town of Goderich
for street improvements in that town and
traded a chunk of land from Colborne Public
'School for fencing to permit widening of the
county road adjacent to that school.
Gower said the board should be looking at
all its school sites to see if it is getting the
best deal possible for its land.
Trustees wanted no part of indicating
there would be interest in giving up land in
Hensall for anything. Turkheim noted that a
new subdivision was being planned for land
near the Hensall School pointing out the
matter may be better left alone.
A letter will be sent to Hensall villge
council indicating the board has no interest
in selling or giving any land away.
Lions collect for
Woodstock relief
R Phillips returns to Stratford
Voluntary donations to the
Woodstock relief fund have
been going well as a total of
$783 has been collected by
the Brussels Lions Club to
date.
The Lions had placed vol-
untary donation boxes in the
two banks in Brussels for a
week. Murray Siddal, who
was looking after the boxes,
said they managed to raise
$570.19 from that along with
voluntary donations from the
Lions Club Elimination draw
of $213.
The money has been
deposited in a bank account
and the Lions have decided
to leave the voluntary
donation boxes in the two
banks until the end of the
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The beginning of rehear-
sals for King Lear on Tues-
day, August 14, marked the
end of artistic director Robin.
Phillips' sabbatical and his
return to full-time planning
and production at the Strat-
ford Festival. This re-
presents planning not only
for the 1980 season, but for
the future as well.
"I feel a most positive
exhilaration by what the
future holds," said Mr.
Phillips. "There is the ex-
citement engendered not
only by the shape of next
year's season, but also by the
promise of a development
and growth which will enrich
the future of the Stratford
Festival and, indeed, the
state of theatre throughout
this country."
Already, the continued
growth of the connection
between the Stratford Fes-
. tival and various West Coast
organizations has shown the
kind of communication and
co-operation possible. And I
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am heartened, too, that the
early views of our new
Secretary of State, The Hon-
ourable David MacDonald,
indicate the eagerness to
create a climate out of which
such a level of co-operation
can not only happen, but
actually flourish."
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