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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1990-03-21, Page 52PAGE 20. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1990. County council briefs County council votes $6500 to Vanastra pool Huron County Council overturn ed a recommendation of its execu tive committee at its March 8 meeting and voted to give a grant of $6500 to the Vanastra Recreation Centre. In a recorded vote council voted against the recommendation of the executive committee that the grant not be given. The executive had argued there are other unique facilities such as arenas that keep ice in all year round and it might be Obituaries AUDREY ADA BIGGERSTAFF Mrs. Audrey Ada Biggerstaff of RR 3, Blyth, died at Clinton Public Hospital on March 17, 1990 follow ing a lengthy illness. She was 79. Born in Blyth, Mrs. Biggerstaff married her husband Tom Bigger staff on a farm outside the village. She was an active member of Westfield United Church. Mrs. Biggerstaff is survived by her children: Phyllis and Brian McKee and Betty and Israel Good, all of Wingham and Bill of RR 3, Blyth; and two brothers: Wray Bryant of Smith Falls and Harry Bryant of Tavistock. She was predeceased by her husband and a sister Dorothy Cartwright. Funeral services were held on Monday, March 19 at 2 p.m. at the Beattie-Falconer Funeral Home, Tasker Chapel. Rev. J. Rea Grant officiated. Interment will take place at Blyth Cemetery. difficult supporting the indoor swimming pool and not supporting the others. Others like Exeter Reeve Bill Mickle pointed out there are private facilities which also provide indoor swimming services in parts of the county. But most councillors agreed with Goderich Deputy Reeve John Doherty who said there are people from all over the county using the Vanastra pool and the grant was a small amount to pay to support it. He said he’d hate to see such an important facility close for the lack of a $6500 grant. Others pointed out that everyone from children to senior citizens use the pool. ***** In another recorded vote council voted 17-13 in favour of providing up to $5,000 toward the cost of a retreat for department heads. While department heads meet once a month the retreat would be a chance for them to concentrate on better ways of serving the county, without the distractions of their regular jobs getting in the way, Nigel Bellchamber county clerk administrator told council. The cost would include the fee of a profes sional facilitator. Exeter Reeve Bill Mickle said he could understand the validity of the idea but wondered why the heads had to go away to do the job. The county has meeting facilities and the heads could order complete privacy. Looking at the $5,000 price-tag he wondered where the cost might end. “Next you’ll want a corporate jet,” he said. Mr. Bellchamber said that $5,000 wouldn’t go far toward the cost of a jet. If the heads did the meetings at county facilities it wouldn’t be a retreat, he said. The location, budget and other details of the retreat will still have to be passed by council, he said.***** Council voted 16-14 in a recorded vote to support membership in the Southwestern Ontario Travel Asso ciation (SWOTA) after some mem bers objected to the $4500 annual membership. Councillors like Jack Coleman deputy reeve of Stanley township objected to supporting tourism when the county had turned down a request from the Huron County Federation of Agriculture a month earlier for a donation to support its work for agriculture. “There was no money for agriculture,” he said. “Where do we get money for this? What good does it do?” Reeve Norm Fairies of Howick agreed saying “if tourism’s more important than agriculture I think Maybe we’re stuck Continued from page 5 filled with bungling police who jump on an innocent person and try to railroad her into jail. Closed minds. Gossip. Lynch mobs ... that kind of thing. That image may take the town a lot longer to get over than a few slights over the town being sleepy. Just ask the people in Clinton who still get a chill when the name Steven Truscott is mention- with cliches ed. No, if we had skin that was a different colour or we dressed in strange tribal uniforms or had something else that set us apart maybe we could take action for thi§ rank discrimination but we aren’t. Too bad in a way. If we really did stand out the way the city press makes us sound, we’d be able to take them to court. we’re a little wrong here.” But Blyth’s Reeve Albert Was son argued that supporting SWOTA wasn’t just supporting tourism but the whole business of the county. There is something in every municipality that benefits from SWOTA, he said. “It means getting ourselves in front of a whole lot of people.” Tom Tomes, reeve of Stephen said that the county couldn’t begin to hire someone to do the promo tion work for the county that it gets from SWOTA for the same cost. Hullett Reeve Tom Cunningham said he wasn’t arguing against the value of SWOTA but the county had argued it couldn’t set a precedent by supporting the Feder ation then it shouldn’t support tourism either. Wingham Reeve Bruce Machan pointed out that through its Agri culture committee the county gives out $13,000 or $14,000 each year in grants to fairs and other organiza tions. (actually $14,000 in the 1990 budget). The membership was finally approved. ***** In the report of the road commit tee it was revealed that Raymond Hallahan of RR 3, Blyth has been appointed the new construction foreman for the county roads department. In his annual report to council County Engineer Denis Merrall told of some of the highlights of 1989 which included the finishing of the Colborne-Goderich Township Boundary Bridge (the new Ball’s Bridge) south of Auburn. Included was one incredible day when the crew poured the entire cement deck for the bride, a total of a million pounds of concrete. The county also resurfaced 32.2 kilometres of county road, paved 16 kilometres of gravel road and built 6.8 kilometres of new road during the year. The county road department is down to 39 employees from its normal 44 and it will be a challenge to replace several skilled em ployees who have retired, Mr. Merrall said. Business and_______ Professional Henry F. 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