HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1990-08-01, Page 3Safety warning
It’s not enough to know how to ride your bike safely, you need a safe bike to ride. Constable John
Marshall of the Goderich OPP checks Shaun Clark’s (left) and Robbie Johnston’s bikes at the rally
held last Thursday at Blyth School. Sponsored yearly by the Summer Recreation Program in
conjunction with the police, over 65 students participated in this year’s event.
thf cjTi7i?ivt WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1990. PAGE 3.
Blyth explores lighting study cost
A consultant will be asked to give
a price on carrying out a study of
improving the street lighting of
Blyth, village council decided at its
July 24 meeting.
Council agreed to ask Gus Bous-
sey of Clinton to estimate how
much it would cost to look at the
current lighting and make recom
mendations on replacing it with
new, energy-saving mercury-
vapour lighting.
“We’re all in agreement that
what (lighting) we have is adequate
but expensive,’’ Councillor Dave
Lee said.
But Clerk-Treasurer Helen
Grubb said the lighting may not be
Insurance costs steady
Despite insuring the expanded
Blyth Memorial Hall for an addi
tional $600,000 the Blyth village tax
bill won’t increase this year, in fact
might even go down, representa
tives of the village’s insurers told
Blyth village council July 24.
Rick Elliott of Elliott Insurance
and Dave Reid of Frank Cowan
Insurance which specializes in in
suring municipalities appeared be
fore council to review the village
insurance package. Public Utilities
Commissioners Jim Howson and
Joe Hallahan also joined council for
the meeting. Mr. Reid said the
value of Memorial Hall had been
upgraded to $1.7 million with the
new addition put on the south of
the building by Blyth Centre for the
Arts this past year but the premium
for the building will not increase.
He explained that the superior
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as adequate as thought. In a
number of places there are lights
that light up the sidewalk instead of
the street and some that light up
the ditch, she said. In some cases
lights are buried among tree bran
ches and hardly any light gets
where it’s supposed to go.
Currently most of the lights in
the village are “dusk to dawn”
type lights, intended for yard
lights. They are expensive to
maintain and power hungry, coun
cil was told several months ago by
Mrs. Grubb after consultation with
Mr. Boussey. Mr. Boussey had
estimated the power savings on
mercury vapour lights would pay
construction of the new addition,
the fact it is well fireproofed and
has sprinklers and has improved
fire exits, lowered the insurance
rate for the building meaning it
Continued on page 19
BLYTH LADIES
FASTBALL TEAM
is holding a
Co-Ed Slowpitch
Tournament
AUGUST 3,4&5
Blyth Community Ball Park
Dance Friday & Saturday
nights to D.J.
No Minors
All proceeds to go to
Community Betterment
for new lights in a relatively short
time.
“I’d sure like to see us make a
plan for the next five or 10 years,”
Councillor Steven Sparling said. He
noted Ontario Hydro was creating
incentive plans to get municipali
ties to switch to more efficient
equipment. “It’s one place the
village can save long term money.
It’s a lot of bucks but ....”, he said.
Reeve Albert Wasson reminded
council they can look forward to
another big bill for rebuilding
Morris St. which has been breaking
up badly and shouldn’t commit too
much too soon.
Councillor Sparling moved to ask
Mr. Boussey how much he would
charge to make the study before
the council commits to go ahead.
The Corporation of the
Village of Blyth
Notice is hereby given that the
Council of the Village of Blyth
have declared a seat as
Councillor vacant.
Notice is also given that the
Council of the Village of Blyth
will be meeting on Wednes
day, August 8, 1990 at 7:30
p.m. in Blyth Council Cham
bers to fill the office of
Councillor.
Any elector of the municipal
ity who is interested in serving
as a Council member for the
remainder of the current
term, and who is qualified to
do so, should notify the Clerk
in writing prior to Tuesday,
August 7,1990at 5:00 p.m. in
order to be considered by
Council at the above-mention
ed meeting.
Helen R. Grubb, A.M.C.T.
Clerk,
Village of Blyth,
P.O. Box 393,
Blyth, Ontario.
NOM 1H0.
Blyth.
People
Mary and Lloyd Walden and
Doris and Harold McClinchey re
turned recently from a very enjoy
able trip to the Eastern Provinces,
crossing through New York State,
Vermont, New Hampshire and
Maine into New Brunswick. The
weather was excellent experiencing
very little rain, which provided for
beautiful sight-seeing. Some of the
highlights were Reversing Falls at
St. John, New Brunswick and
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Hopewell Rocks along the Bay of
Fundy. Here the tides are the
highest in the world. Magnetic Hill
at Moncton is quite a tourist
attraction. In Charlottetown, two
shows were enjoyed, “The Don
Messer Show” and “Anne of
Green Gables”.
The scenery around the Cabot
Trail in Cape Breton was good.
Also while there they went to the
Alexander Graham Bell Museum
and the old Fortress at Louisbourg.
They returned home by New
Brunswick into the Gaspe region in
Quebec. The homes and scenery
down the St. Lawrence was well
worth the longer drive._______
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