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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1986-11-19, Page 27THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1986. PAGE 27. Blyth council briefs Tree auction works well this time around Blyth village council’s great tree auction, postponedlastyear for fine-tuning, has gone smoothly this autumn, Councillor William Manning told council Nov. 11. Trees to be removed were numbered, an evaluation was placed on the trees and bids were accepted, Councillor Manning said. The three parties who had madebids in the earlier auction were allowed to bid on the trees in question this time around as were Joe Mahon resigns as dump manager The Blyth - Hull ett Waste Dis posal Site lost its manager this month when superintendent Joe Mahon resigned his position. Blyth council accepted the re signation with regret at its regular November meeting. No move has been made to replace Mr. Mahon at this time because council will experiment to see if the work can be absorbed by the other village employees. Merv Ritchie, town foreman, suggested the move. He pointed out that there are many times in the winter it is hard to keep a second employee employed full time and in the summer a third employee is usually hired who has extra time. There was some discussion about the problem of animal control since Mr. Mahon was also animal control officer. Mr. Mahon also had kennels to keep dogs in the owners of the lots in front of which the trees were situated. Money from the sale of the trees will help buy replacement trees in the village’s tree-planting pro gram.***** Blyth firemen got a donation of $100 for their “coffee fund” as a token of thanks for their good work patrolling the streets on Hallo ween. Councillor Tom Cronin made the motion to give the firemen a small that were found running at large. Councillor Tom Cronin pointed out that if an animal control officer was not hired there would be money normally used in salary that could be used to construct kennels. Council agreed to go along with the idea on a trial basis. Those wanting to dump garbage at times other than regular open days at the waste disposal site should now call the village office. In a related matter, council decided to have a special pickup on Saturday, November 22 for old appliances, furniture, etc. This would prevent the problems en countered when the garbage pick up crew when they are expected to pick up heavy discarded refrigera tors and stoves without special equipment. There will be no further pickup of such items until spring. All items should be at curbside by 11 a.m. reward for their work. Halloween damage was very light in Blyth but, council was told, firemen caught someone entering the public school and Councillor Cronin said, there is no telling what damage might have resulted inside the school if the firemen hadn’t intervened.***** A request for a fire escape at the south side of Blyth Memorial Hall theatre from Fire Chief Irvin Bowes has been referred back to the Chief pending release of a study by Blyth Centre for the Arts. In a letter from the Memorial Hall Board, the fire chief was informed that the Centre for the Arts, parent organization of the Blyth Festival, is now considering a consultant’s report on the long-term planning for the Festival and once this study is complete, it may effect the plans for the building. Release of new expansion plans for the Festival are expected in a short while.***** Council is concerned about recent use of the former “Popp property” by riders of dirt-bikes. Council will look at various alterna tives to discourage use of the property which was bought jointly by Blyth and Hullett township as a buffer zone around the Blyth- Hullett Waste Management Site. A huge insurance settlement to a dirt-bike rider hurt on city-owned property in Brampton helped drive municipal liability insurance costs up across the province earlier this year. Council will investigate if it Festival Singers concert November 30 The Blyth Festival Singers will present their annual concert of Christmas music in Blyth Memor ial Hall on Sunday, November 30 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. The Festival Singers look for ward to introducing their new choral conductor, Angus Sinclair, to their audience. A music gradu ate of Sir Wilfred Laurier Univer sity, Angus presently lives in Stratford where he is organist and choir master of Knox Presbyterian Church, director of the Gallery Singers, and accompanist of the Stratford Concert Choir. The programme will include many selections from traditional Christmas repertoire, as well as some less well-known to the audience. Acarolsing-a-long is also part of this concert. Audiences at former Christmas concerts will be pleased to wel come back again the Exeter Public School Junior Choir under the mightbeeasiertotake away the thrills on the land by reconstruc tion rather than go to the expense of putting up regulation no tres passing signs (and keeping them up). direction of Joan Perrie. The children will sing with the adult choir as well as presenting their own programme. The accompanist for the concert will be Louise McGregor of Clinton, presently a student at Alt house College of Education, organist at Ontario Street United Church, private piano instructor, and director of the Central Huron Secondary School choir. A person very familiar to Blyth Festival audiences, David Fox will also join the choir as narrator for the concerts. The Festival Singers invite you to enjoy this first concert of their season and join them for the traditional mulled cider following each performance. Tickets are available from choir members or by phoning the box office at (519) 523-9300 during regular business hours. Blyth council learns about Pride program Blyth village council learned something of the ground rules of the new Pride program from the Ontario Government which the council hopes to apply for in the new year, when it met November 17. Councillor Tom Cronin and Ann Nesbit, acting clerk-treasurer re ported on a meeting they had attended which included a session on the new program which replaces the Ontario Neighbourhood Im provement Program under which council had received funding over the last few years. “They’re really after one big program,” Councillor Cronin ex plained. Under ONIP council had spread funding over many smaller projects from a waterline to improvements at Lions Park. ( “They don’t want to do more . roofs for arenas,” Mrs. NesbitA said. “They’re emphasizing tak-^2! ing a part of town and upgrading everything.” Capital projects only will be considered, she said. Improve ments in things like streetlights, sewers and sidewalks have to be shown to have a long-term impact. Application for the new pro gram’s first deadline must be into the government by the end of January. 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