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Curling for credits
Wingham Curling Club hosted a high school bonspiel Feb. 21, with teams
from all over the Wingham area coming to compete. Teams came from
Mitchell, Goderich, St. Marys, Clinton and F.E. Madill representing the home
team in Wingham. The ladies of F.E. Madill took on St. Marys District
Collegiate and Vocational Institute. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
In a recorded vote North
Huron council decided at its
Feb. 19 meeting to close the
complex pool on Sundays
from July 2 to Sept. 2.
Staff had presented a report
at the Feb. 7 meeting
explaining that attendance at
the pool during the summer
weekends is poor.
The average attendance
over two and a half hours in
2006 was 11.8. The
consensus then was that
closing the pool on Sunday,
might bring in more people
on Saturdays.
At that time council
decided to defer the decision
to committee of the whole in
order to get more
information.
At the Feb. 12 committee
meeting, Melissa Scott,
aquatics and fitness co-
ordintoar and Jim Scholl,
pool supervisor were in
attendance. They said that the
majority of users come to the
pool during the week.
Council then made a
recommendation to send back
to council that the pool be
closed Sundays during the
summer months.
At the council meeting,
councillor Arnold Taylor
asked for a recorded vote.
Those in favour were
councillors James Campbell,
Greg McClinchey, Archie
MacGowan, deputy-reeve
Murray Scott and reeve Neil
Vincent. Taylor opposed the
recommendation.
Councillor Murray Nesbitt
was absent.
Well done
The youngest team competing in the Wingham Curling Club’s Sweetheart
Bonspiel in February walked away with the overall win. The team skipped by
Kyle Forster, 15, of Lucknow, left, beat out 17 other teams. Left from Forster
are: lead Elli Schimanski, 14, Brussels; second Kabrina Bishop, 13, Bluevale
and vice Ben Procter, 16 of East Wawanosh. They all curl in Wingham. (Photo
submitted)
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Beginning July 12, 2007, there are
new requirements for cattle producers;
slaughterhouses; feed, pet food and
fertilizer manufacturers; waste manage-
ment facilities and others who handle,
transport or dispose of cattle remains.
Everyone involved must be prepared.
Visit www.inspection.gc.ca/bse or call
1-800-442-2342 to learn more.
They may have had five
months to think about
it but Morris-Turnberry
councillors are still not
happy about a request to
pick up a share of the
deficit for the North
Huron Wescast Community
Centre.
Council received the
request from North Huron
last October and promised to
consider it in setting the
budget for 2007.
But councillors were less
than receptive at their Feb. 21
meeting when they discussed
the request that their
municipality pick up 20 per
cent of the deficit for the
Wescast Centre, which would
have averaged nearly $80,000
a year over the four-
year period from 2002 to
2005.
North Huron’s proposal had
noted that 28 per cent of
minor hockey participants in
Wingham were from Morris-
Turnberry, 25 per cent of
youth league participants and
22 per cent of Wingham
Skating Club members,
therefore it felt the 20 per cent
request was fair.
But councillors were not so
sure.
“A lot of taxpayers who
have called me in the last
week have said they can’t
see how we can give any
more,” said councillor Lynn
Hoy.
Noting that the
municipality wasn’t included
in the original planning for
the centre he argued: “I
don’t see we should take
on somebody else’s mis-
takes.”
Councillor Paul Gowing
agreed. “They’re asking us to
pay for some deficits from
bad decisions,” he said,
though he agreed that perhaps
the township’s grant to
recreation hadn’t kept up with
the times.
Since 2001 Morris-
Turnberry has given $30,000
a year to the complex. Over
the period 1998 and 2001
each of the former town-
ships gave a total of
$100,000.
Total recreational expenses
for Morris-Turnberry in 2006
amounted to $67,160 for
operating expenses with an
additional $52,000 in capital
expenses split between
Belmore Community Centre
($20,000 grant and $20,000
loan) and Brussels, Morris
and Grey Community Centre,
$12,000.
The municipality paid
$19,000 in operating
expenses to BMG, $8,500
to Blyth recreation, $4,500
to Belgrave recreation,
$2,583 to Belmore and
$1,000 each to Bluevale
recreation and Bluevale
hall.
Council deferred further
discussion on the issue
until its next budget meet-
ing.
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