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Paul Kerr, president of the Blyth Lions Club presents a cheque for $5,000 to Carol Irwin, President of
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lift, in the new addition seen in the background, will give the handicapped access to all levels of
Memorial Hall.
Blyth to host CBC Radio June 22
Village council agreed to the use
of Memorial Hall by CBC Radio’s
“Ontario Morning’’ for a broadcast
Friday, June 22 as part of the
Rutabaga Festival.
The decision was brought to
council because of the hours the
broadcast will take place from 6 to 9
a.m. The broadcast will be outside
and there will be speakers for
people attending which may spread
' sound to nearby homes. The
5ioadcast will spread publicity
about the Rutabaga Festival across
Ontario and local people will be
interviewed about the Festival and
its activities.*****
The council agreed to send out
copies of a brochure provided by
the Huron County Board of Educa-
tion that explains increased educa
tion costs, pointing out much of it is
due to cutbacks in provincial grants
at the same time the province is
increasing costs through added
programs and things such as pay
equity legislation.
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Council delayed, until more
councillors are present, a vote on a
resolution from the Township of
Morris regarding provincial
government support for recreation
costs. Councillors Steve Sparling
and Ken Brown were both absent.
Both are members of the village
recreation committee.
The Morris resolution points out
that the province has given the
same funding for recreation since
1986: $6,000. Reeve Albert Wasson
Tractor worries bring tax increase
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we should be buying a tractor this
year,’’ he said. He noted a new
industrial tractor could cost
$50,000.
However, council still must come
to an agreement with Blyth Centre
for the Arts as to how much space it
will get for the library. When the
theatre decided to build a new box
said he wanted to support a
neighbouring township but he was
not in favour of increase in provin
cial spending on recreation. “The
timing’s all wrong’’ he said, at a
time when government’s are trying
to cut back.
“Recreation is sort of a sore
subject because if you can’t afford
to pay, you shouldn’t play,” said
Councillor Dave Lee.
Helen Grubb, village clerk-trea
surer pointed out the village spent
$8,700 on recreation last yaer
without even including the money
spent on the Blyth and District
Community Centre and Blyth
Memorial Hall.*****
Norene Gnay appeared before
council to provide her annual report
as the joint representative from
Blyth and East Wawanosh on the
Wingham and District Hospital
Board. Blyth provides about two
per cent of admissions at the
hospital and 2.3 per cent of
emergency cases. Wingham rates
are $266 a day and an emergency
visit costs $50.50, she said.
Did you know that Blyth’s late
Russ Dougherty invented the first
precision Rutabaga seeding
machine which eliminated a tre
mendous amount of back-breaking
hand labour and saved many
dollars per acre for expensive seed.
Hundreds of copies of this
machine, patented in 1951, are still
in use today.
At the turn of the century, with a
drill, seeds were placed close
together into the ground. Later
unwanted seedlings were pulled
out by hand. They were useless.
What a waste!
Russ Dougherty’s machine
places the seeds evenly at whatever
spacing is desired. (The Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and Food
says the ideal spacing for ruta
bagas is one seed every 15 cm.).
The memory of Russ Dougherty
and his invention will be honoured
in some manner at some time
during the three day Rutabaga
Festival.
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Councillor Dave Lee agreed with
the concern. If council buys a new
tractor before the old one is totally
worn out it can have two tractors
but if it waits too long it will just
have a piece of junk, he said.
Council agreed to look at reallo
cating money from other reserve
funds and increasing its tax rate by
an additional one percent to the tax
increase to put an additional
$11,000 into a reserve for the
purchase of public works equip
ment, in addition to the $6,000
originally set aside.
Included in the budget will be
provisions to renovating what is
r ~'V the box office and art gallery of
Memorial Hall into space for
the Blyth Library Branch. In addi
tion to the $12,000 provided for
those changes, council also plans to
allocate $15,000 to the renovation
of the old library to provide office
space to the village staff.
office and art gallery to the south of
Memorial Hall, it volunteered the
space in the north wing. However,
there is some disagreement as to
how much space was offered. One
room the Festival had planned on
keeping for stage management
offices but the village had under
stood it was offered and the Huron
County Library insists the space is
needed to give Blyth an adequate
library space.
The council agreed to seek a
meeting with the Festival over the
,space requirements of the library.
Earlier the village and Festival had
met to conclude a joint use agree
ment for the new portion of
Memorial Hall between the Festi
val’s administration building and
the theatre. The agreement, which
is now before lawyers for the two
parties, provides the cost sharing
of operational expenses for the new
addition.
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