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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1990-10-03, Page 13THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1990. PAGE 13. Meeting likely between Blyth council, theatre over library A meeting will be held between the Village of Blyth and the Blyth Centre for the Arts to try to reach a solution to the impasse over how much of the north wing of Memor ial Hall the Centre will donate for use as a village library. Council agreed to seek the meeting after its Sept. 25 meeting in which no progress was reported on the negotiations. “We need to have those answers,” Councillor Steven Sparling said, pointing out the year is going by and time to get the new library underway is fading fast this year. When the Centre for the Arts moved its box office and art gallery to the new south wing, constructed at a cost of $1.2 million, it offered part of the basement level of the north wing for use as a library. Just how much is the point of controver sy. The Centre wants to keep part of the area for an office for stage managers but the Huron County Library insists the whole floor must be given to the library to meet its requirements of 900 square feet. The village has been pressing the Centre to turn over the entire floor and feels it has been held up by the Centre not giving it an answer. But Don McCaffrey, chairman of the Centre’s building committee says the theatre has never had an official response to compromise proposals it has made that would have reduced its requirements to only 81 square feet of the 900 square feet on the floor. The theatre wants to keep less than 10 per cent of the space in the floor, he said. Although there hasn’t been an official reply to the proposal it seems the village is looking at an Ontario fatalities down so far in 1990 year, noting that the 563 vehicle and pedestrian deaths investigated by the OPP are down 8.8 per cent from the same period last year. Most road deaths in Ontario occur at week’s end (on Friday and Saturday) and holiday weekends often result in a higher death rate. During Thanksgiving weekend With the number of road deaths down this year, the Ontario Provin cial Police are hoping that Thanks giving Holiday Weekend fatality statistics will be lower than last year. Insp. Bill Wicklund says: “We’ve established a good record during the first nine months of this all-or-nothing proposition, he said. A difficulty for the theatre is that the north wing was built with donations given by theatre suppor ters, Mr. McCaffrey said. When the theatre still has $280,000 to pay off the of its building debt it to raise remainder would be hardpressed to justify asking for more money while giving away valuable space with nothing to show for it. He said he personally had given money for a library before and he’d be upset if the library gave away his money to some other use. last year, 11 people were killed in accidents investigated by the OPP, the same number as in 1987. In 1988, 10 people were killed Thanks giving weekend. Failure to wear seatbelts con tinues to be a contributing factor. 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