HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1990-10-03, Page 1Optimists launched
Brussels helps Blyth
launch new Optimist Club
See page 3
Official opening
Blyth Festival turns over
theatre addition to village
See page 26
Music Review
Hagood Hardy
thrills audience
See page 27
Blyth supports
Threshers’ Park
improvements
Blyth Village Council will find
the money somewhere to support
the Huron Pioneer Thresher and
Hobby Association in its plans for
improvements to the Blyth fair
grounds.
Councillors decided at their Sept.
25 meeting to inform the Threshers
council would support the project
with money from the Village’s
Pride program to a maximum of
$10,000. The amount would be
matched by the Threshers.
The Threshers had approached
Council at its Sept. 12 meeting with
plans to landscape property and
install more space for campers
after the huge growth in the
number of people camping at the
annual Thresher Reunion. How
ever, the money allocated under
the Pride program for park im
provements by the Threshers has
oeen used up. Council had promis
ed at that time to look at the Pride
grant situation and see if there was
money left over from other projects
that could be channelled into the
new improvements.
Council had set aside $40,000 for
paving the back alley in the original
Pride grant plans as well as $30,000
for new entrance signs. A further
$50,000 had been set aside for the
Hydro and Water Commission but
neither utility seems to be in the
financial position to'undertake the
project.
Councillors agreed that no mat
ter where the money comes from, it
would be found to help the Thresh
ers. “In no uncertain term^he
people of the municipali<*^*~e
completely behind the Thre
Councillor Steven Sparling said.
Drug-growing
trial Nov. 28
A Howick township couple will
face a preliminary trial Nov. 28 in
Provincial court in Wingham on
drug charges related to a marijuana
crop found growing in the town
ship.
Lee Ivan Campbell and Jacque
line Elizabeth Campbell appeared
before Judge R.G.E. Hunter in
Wingham court Wednesday for a
first appearance on the charges.
OPP officers from Wingham and
Mount Forest seized 81 marijuana
plants from a farm at Lot 17,
Concession 18 of Howick township
in mid-September. The plants are
apparently discovered by a police
surveillance helicopter. Police esti
mated the street value ot the crop
at $20,000.
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VOL. 6 NO. 40 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1990.50 CENTS
Jayne Thompson, Conservation Education Technician for the Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority leads a group through the Wawanosh Nature Centre during Sunday’s Fall Colour Tour.
Because of threatening weather horse-drawn wagon rides were cancelled and attendance was well
down, but many people still turned out to enjoy the outdoors.
man's
concerns
neighbours
Brussels council Monday night
approved a minor variance to Brian
TenPas to allow him to build closer
to the lot line to expand a duplex to
a fourplex at 373 Albert St.
Those effected by the proposal
still have 30 days to lodge a protest
which would cause an Ontario
Municipal Board hearing.
A delegation of neighbours was
present to discuss the proposal and
some had initial objections but
seemingly had altered their opposi
tion by the end of the meeting.
Brad and Bron wen Weber, who
had only moved into a house next
door wrote a letter to council
expressing their objections.
They said they had moved to
Brussels to get away from the
crowding of apartment buildings
and town houses and now find one
right next door that they didn’t
know about. The two are currently
superintendents of an apartment
building and they warned that
while Mr. TenPas might have the
best intention of getting only
reputable tenants, their experience
was that sometimes a landlord can
be fooled and the laws are such that
once a tenant is in a building, it’s
very hard to get him out.
They argued that the zoning
bylaw was surely designed to
maintain the historic nature of the
village. If they had known a
fourplex was going to go in next
door they wouldn’t have bought the
house, they said.
Councillor Dave Hastings point
ed out that the property is already
zoned to allow for a fourplex so
council can do nothing to stop Mr.
TenPas building one. All the minor
variance application does is to
allow Mr. TenPas to reduce the
required distance to the property
line so he can build larger units.
“We don’t want to create a
problem,’’ Reeve Gordon Work
man told the neighbours. “We
want to create taxes and money to
help keep your taxes down.’’
Mr. Weber agreed more assess
ment would benefit everyone in the
village.
Mr. TenPas said he felt the
disruption to the neighbours would
not be as large as feared. With the
way the Webers garage is situated
there shouldn’t be much disrup
tion, he said. He also promised to
build board fences on two sides of
the property to protect neighbours
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