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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-03-05, Page 24Taking photo BEST STEPHEN. SPEAKERS— Winners were named in a recent public speaking contest at Stephen Central School. the top spots were from the left Doug Woodburn, Marsha Clarke, Michelle Vondeworp and Kathy Schade. T-A County population up 553 Exeter has biggest increase Guaranteed Investment Certificates representing several trust companies Norma J. Hooper 15 Gidley St., E. Exeter 235-1010 INVESTMENTS HARVEY L. BIERLING Bookkeeping and Tax Service . 15 John Street East EXETER, Ontario NOM ISO Tel: 235-1424 ACCOUNTANT-PUBLIC G. H. WARD & PARTNERS Oartered Accountants 476 Main St., South Exeter, Ontario 235.0120 Resident Partner Manager A.W. Read, C.A. J.S. McNeilly, C.A. Home Telephone Home Telephone 238.8075 235-1734 CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT JOSEPH P. DARLING CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOV'NTANT THE OLD TOWN HALL 822 MAIN STREET EXETER, ONTARIO TEL: 519-235-2208 NOM 120 ADMINISTRATION G. 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DOCTORS OF CHIROPRACTIC 84 Panel Lane, STRATHROY Telephone 245-1272 By appointment please Gerald A. Webb D.C. Doctor Of Chiropractic 438 MAIN ST., EXETER By Appointment Phone 235-1680 Huron rood .1.3uclget tip eight percent By HENRY HESS The Huron County Library systemis being caught In the middle of a funding squeeze between the province and the municipalities, making it hard to keep up the libraries in some of the smaller centres. The report of the library board to county council Thursday noted there has been a problem with lack of heat and with the ceiling falling in the Gorrie library, and that consequently evently the board is looking for other accommodation. there. The board has also been having problems with the building at Walton as well as one or two others, and last month it reported that if branches are not properly maintained, "it may become necessary for the library board to suspend services in certain cases to protect the large investment the library has in books and equip- ment." In an interview last week County Librarian Bill Partridge said facilities have been "a bugbear-sort of a perennial issue because libraries have been let go". But he added he isn't blaming the municipalities for the problems. He said he thinks the municipalities are trying their best, but their hands are tied too by the lack of any major provincial capital grant program for libraries. Most arenas got grants through wintario, he noted, and libraries got into some of them, but not many. Also a freeze on funding by the provincial government is dumping an ever-larger. share of the cost of operating the library system onto the local governments. At one time about half the funding for the library system came from the province, he reported, but a freeze on funding at the 1977 level has reduced this to about one third of the total today. "Public library services are really supported by the municipality," he said. He noted that the rental fee of $2.00 per square foot per year which the library board pays for facilities is 'really only token amount and the burden of providing space in most cases falls on.-Acthe Municipalities. At the same ti#ie he Mary's Continued from page 17 I meet all kinds of people walking, cross country skiers, snowmobilers and kids pulling toboggans. Everybody's seen Pepper, everybody points in a dif- ferent direction to indicate the way he was headed. I walk all the way from our home near the bridge to Port Franks - it must be 100 miles. Finally I catch up to the group he was playing with originally. I ask if they've seen a black and white dog. "You mean Pepper? He went home. He usually does after he plays with us." How humiliating, my dog has a reputation. I turn around and head home. I keep on stopping snowmobilers - they've all seen him - again headed every which way. The river is as busy as the 401 with traffic. I finally get home - no dog. Some snowmobilers race through our back yard, Yeh, they saw a springer spaniel five minutes ago. He was two miles up the road, playing with an Irish setter. Friends of ours who live just up the road own an Irish setter. I jump in the truck to see if Pepper has been visiting O'Brien, No, they haven't seen Pepper. I stop and ask some people by the bush loading firewood into their car. Some kind of dog was chasing snowmobiles by here. I drive across the bridge to a subdivision on the other side of the river. I ask some people out walking their poodle. No sign of him here. I decide to go home and wait for somebody to call. Pepper has our phone number on a tag around his neck. Just then I notice a family walking in a nearby trailer park. A wagging tail is following them. I ask if that dog was bothering them. At the sound of my voice, Pepper swings around and with one flying leap he's in the truck on top of me. It's 12:30, time for brunch. Pepper lays down at my feet on the kitchen floor and licks his frozen paws. Every now and then he whimpers and pulls out an ice ball from between his toes and spits it in my direction. I wonder just how many miles those paws actually covered. pointed eutthat a third of the people in the county have library cards and use them, so the service provided is a major and not a minor one. Total'book circulatin in the Huron, system was 386,253 last year, an increase of nearly 20,000 over 1978, he reported. The biggest in- creases were at Neilsen (41 Per cent) and Wingharn per cent)' He said the circulation figure is an enviable one and he has been asked, by other county librarians why Huron County's circulation is so high. He attributed the success partly to the many outlets the library has even in small centres. In his report to council Mr. Partridge noted the library's 1979 budget of $449,799 amounts to only $8.05 per capita. Salaries , at $200,234, accounted for 46 per cent of the budger, with books next at $112,500 for 25 per cent. The remainder is divided among, rents, benefits, miscellaneous costs, processing and equipment. The libraries around the county, showing Wingham at 800 square feet with less than half the space cif any of the other town libraries. Mr. Partridge later ex- plained this is because Wingham was the only town not to sapply for a Carnegie grant back around the turn of the century. These grants helped towns to build separate library buildings, while Wingham was left using two rooms in the town hall. He said both he and the library board have been trying to work with the town to get larger quarters. They had hoped to get the bottom floor in the old post office building, but this has been held up by the town's agreement to use the space as a day care centre he noted. By HENRY HESS Wingham was the only town in Huron County to decrease in population during 1979, according to statistics presented to county council by the Huron- Perty Regional Assessment Office. Population figures from the 1979 enumeration show Wingham with a drop of 32 people, down to 2,859 from 2,891 in 1978. The other towns in the county all grew during the past year, Exeter showing the highest. growth with an increase of 136 people. Goderich grew by 110 people, while the populatins of Clinton and Seaforth rose by LICENCES Licence Office Vehicle Plates Stickers & Transfers Hunting Licence Now Available Hours 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Closed Wednesday 46 Main St. East Zurich 236-4830 HOrenCoanty will have to, come up• with an additional 4401n increase°:tcispe of on eight4 roads sin 1 per cent over last year. In the budget presented to county council last Thursday it was noted that proposed expenditures actually are up Only 6.7 per cent, a total increase of $219,000. However the Ministry of Transportation and Com- munications has reduced its Subsidy by $33,000 this year, meaning more of the money must be raised through the county levy. Engineer Bob Dempsey explained the major increase in the budget is due to the energy situation. Asphalt prices are ttp to $150-$160 per ton, he reported, compared to $70-$75 when he came to the county two years age. 1VIcKillop Township Reeve Allan Campbell had a suggestion how the county could save some money, but it didn't get very far. Campbell said that while he had no quarrel with the $1,366 the county spent on repairing the Hullet- McKillop boundary bridge last year, he did question the $10,000 budgeted for engineering studies on that bridge and another one in 1980. • He could have told the county the bridge is in bad shape, he commented, and he would have been glad tq do it for a lot less than $10,000, "If you'll fund 80 percent of the cost I'll be glad to take your word." Mr. Dempsey responded. He explained the MTG requires. ° an engineering study to qualify a project for subsidy. Eadie es post ill be repsigonning as' reeve of Turn- berry Township when the township council meets later this month. Mr. Eadie announced in a letter to Huron County Council Thursday that he intends to step down for health reasons. He had. Suffered a heart attack Armory ls. Mrs. NOW, said Friday that the heart specialist had given her husband no choice but to end his political 'in- volvement. He has to lead a less demanding life, she explained. However she added they hadn't intended the news to come out in quite the way it did. They didn't plan for it to be made public before Mr. Eadie had formally presented his resignation to council, she said, and the letter to the county was just to inform his fellow coun- cillors therebf his intentions. Normally the Turnberry council would have met on Tuesday, but due to the absence of the 'clerk- treasurer the meeting has been set back to March 18. At that time council will have to decide how to fill the vacancy. "Square meals make round people." MOUNT CARMECN Income Tax Centre Income Tax Accounting For Farmers & Businessmen Monthly Bookkeeping Service Phone 237-3469 Vince Ryan B.A. R.R. 3 Dashwood OFFICE SUPPLIES SEE US FOR A' FULL LINE OF Office Supplies Furniture & Equipment LIVINGSTONE'S Downtown Exeter or In The North End Plaza •Stenotown. Singles Dance every other Friday at CIRCLE "K" RANCH March 7 HABERMEHLS" CENTRALIA MARAUDERS . GRAND BEND MARINERS Wed. Mar. 5th Fri., Mar, 7th Wed. Mar. 12th after that if necessary Fri. Mar. 14th Sun. Mar. 16th , All games 8;30 at Stephen :Township Arena - Huron., Neark This Space Could Be Yours REAL ESTATE EXETER 235-2420 GRAND BEND 238.8484 CLINTON 482-9747 Appraisals Mortgages Life Insurance Trust Certificates 'Pa, 24. Timas-Advacata, Match 5, 1940, County libraries caught in squeeze 23 and 14 respectively. Among the townships, Tuckersmith showed the highest growth with an in- crease. of 104. Howick grew by 38, Goderich Township by 42, Ashfield by 32, West Wawanosh by 21, Stanley by 22 and Hulled by 18. The villages of Blyth, Brussels, and Bayfield all grew by between 44 and 10 people. Besides Wingham, the villages of Hensall and Zurich and the townships of Usborne, Stephen, Hay Grey, East Wawanoshn and Morris all had slight declines in population. Overall, the populatin of Huron County grew by 553 in 1979, to a total of 56,399. The report from the assessment office also showed increases in assessment of more than $1.6 million in the 18 municipalities reassessed last year under Section 86 of the Assessment Act. Exeter, with $223,600, had the highest increase in rateable assessment, followed by Clinton's $163,515; Howick Township, $146,535; Goderich, $144,160; Colborne Township, $128,255; Morris Township, $119,590, and Grey Township, $109,790. It was explained that the increases result from nor- mal development revealed by, the reassessment and have nothing to do with the application of Section 86, which only acts to even out • inequities within the various property classes. Floyd Jenkins of the assessment office told council he thinks the Section 86 reassessments have been very successful. The people whose assessments went down are happy, while those whose assessments went up might no be happy, but they can generally see the fair- ness' of it. "You can't argue with market value," he com- mented. 110.0kne D 0 The Times-Advocate has over 18,000 readers. Tell them about the services offered by your business. For information call 235-7331