HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1988-01-27, Page 34PAGE 10. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1988.
Auburn
7 tables at Auburn euchre
Compiled by Mrs. Mildred Lawlor. Phone 526-7589
Ralph Nivins of RR 3, Auburn, left, accepts the Huron County Junior
Farmer's Broomball Award on behalf of himself and his sister, Sandra
Nivins of Stratford, who was unable to be present at the Junior
Farmers' annual Awards Banquet in Brussels on Saturday. Dave
Vanneste of RR 2, Kippen, HCJF Sports Committee Chairman for
1987, made the presentation for the top members in the broomball
league.
Silver Tops entertain guests
Seven tables played at the
Auburn Community Centre on
Tuesday, Jan. 19 at 8 p.m. The
lucky winners were: high lady,
Jean Plaetzer; low lady. May Shob-
W. Wawanosh discusses
wages at dosed session
Much of the first council meeting
of the new year in West Wawanosh
Township was spent in closed
session in discussion of the
salaries, wagesandbenefitsfor
appointed officials and hourly
rated employees, with councillor
Kathryn lodd declaring a conflict
of interest in the negotiations
involving her husband Wayne, the
township’s grader operator.
No list of appointments, wages
or salaries has yet been released.
In other business at the January
6 meeting, a by-law was passed
authorizing the installation of stop
signs at several intersections in
Auburn; and Laird Spivak of
Dungannon was invited to attend
the February meeting of council to
discuss his intentions to carry on a
small engine repair business at his
residence in the village.
Council also authorized Reeve
Cecil Cranston and Clerk-treasur
er Joan Armstrong to sign the
agreement with Blyth, East Wawa
nosh, MorrisandHullettforthe
Social assistance rates rise
All social assistance recipients
will receive an across-the-boaid
increase of about five per cent in
basic allowance, effective January
1, as part of the Ontario Ministry of
Community and Social Services
1988 rate increase.
The increases include a five per
cent increase to the maximum and
minimum boarding rates, and an
eight per cent raise in maximum
shelter subsidy for all families on
social assistance.
In addition, the winter clothing
brook; lone hands, Carol Daer;
high man, Ann Giousher (playing
as a man); men’s low, Nancy
Slater, (playing as a man) and lone
hands, Len Shobbrook. Come next
week and bring a friend.
operation oi me Blyth arena, once
the agreement is received. The
meeting also approved a tile
drainage loan submitted by R.F.
Sohn, subject to by-law restrictions
passed in 1980; and made no
comment on two severance appli
cations received, one regarding
property in Colborne Twp. and one
at Lot 26, Concession 9, in West
Wawanosh.
Council also agreed to support a
resolution from Peel to request
provincial legislation to limit the
manufacture, use and distribution
of non-bio-degradable and non-
recyclable materials.
Several other items on the
agenda were of a housekeeping
nature, authorizing annual by
laws regarding borrowing and
subsidies for the township. The
payment of road accounts totalling
$8,157.31 andgeneral accounts
totalling $20,234.20 was approved.
The next meeting of West
Wawanosh Township council will
be held at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday,
February 2.
allowance for each child, paid in
November, will rise from $80 per
child to $84; while the pregnancy
item al low a nee goes from $26 to
$28 per month. The maximum
discharge allowance increases
from $450 to $500.
Monthly foster child rates have
also increase as of January 1, with
the first child receiving $172 (up
from $163); the second child
receiving $141 (up from $134); and
each additional child receiving
$116 (up from $110).
B. Lansing and E. Lapp of the
Silver Tops greeted their guests,
The Happy Gang of Londesboro at
the Auburn Community Hall on
Wednesday, Jan. 20 at 12 noon. A
sumptuous smorgasbord was en
joyed by all.
The afternoon was spent playing
scrabble, cribbage, and euchre.
Winners of the euchre game were:
ladies’ high, A. Hunking; low, I
Turner; lone hands, J. Scott; men’s
high, K. Konarski. (playing as a
man) and low, H. Reid (also taking
a man’s place). Lone hands were
won by L. Reid. B. Knox was the
lucky chair winner.
A. Thompson, the Happy Gang
President, thanked the Silver Tops
for their hospitality.
Toclose the afternoon a short
business meetingfor the Silver
Tops was conducted by K. Lapp.
Everyone expressed their regrets
at the secretary M. Haggit’s
Man sentenced for stabbing
A 23-year-old London man has
been sentenced to prison for two
years less a day in connection with
a 1986 incident in Goderich, in
whichan Auburn man was stabbed
eight times.
Cecil John Graham of London
was originally charged with the
attempted murder of Rick Pringle
of Auburn, after Mr. Pringle was
attacked outside a hotel on The
Square in Goderich on the evening
misfortune in the severe fracture of
her ankle. Special thanks was
given, to G. Cartwright for her
capable assistance that afternoon.
The next pot luck dinner will be on
Feb. 17 at 12 noon.
of September 13, 1986.
Appearing before Judge Gary
Hunter in Goderich District Court
on December 12, 1987, Mr.
Graham was found guilty of the
lesser charge of aggravated as
sault.
Mr. Graham’s sentence also
includes a one-year probation
period and a five-year prohibition
agai nst possessing any type of a
weapon.