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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1988-09-14, Page 12PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1988. Blyth council rebuffs government's lease demand A provincial government de­ mand that the Blyth Festival get a 20-year lease agreement from the Village of Blyth before it would give a grant for expansion of Memorial Hall hit a roadblock with Blyth Village council Thursday night. The Ministry of Culture and Communications had demanded that the Festival obtain the lease, an amendment to the former joint-use agreement between the council and the Festival, by the next day which was the deadline for complying with the government’s requests. But although they indi­ cated they were in complete support of the Festival and its expansion plans, councillors balk­ ed at being pressured into signing an agreement against a deadline with little chance to think about it. Councillor Bill Manning led the fight against giving in to the government pressure saying that the lease wasn’t being asked for by the Festival, but by the bureau­ crats and he felt council shouldn’t give in. At one point, when a motion was on the table to sign the lease he told the other councillors that they were giving in without a fight. Two leases were actually involv­ ed: one for Memorial Hall itself and another to formalize the Festival’s use of the upstairs above the municipal offices since part of the grant money would be used to renovate that area into work areas for playwrights and the other for Memorial Hall itself. Councillor Manning said he had no qualms about signing the agreement for the upstairs of the 'Goderich' Lancaster flies again The Lancaster bomber that sat at Skyharbour Airport in Goderich for several years, made its first flight in 24 years Sunday afternoon. The bomber, restored to the condition it would have been in in the Second World War, made a short flight from Mount Hope Airport at Hamilton to become only the second “Lane” still flying in the world. More than 7,000 of the big bombers were built during the Second World War but only 20 remain. The only other bomber capable of flying is in England. Thisbomber hadbeenbuilt in Malton by Victory Aircraft (later Avro) in 1945 and was later converted to a search and rescue plane that served in Newfound­ land. After its service it was taken toGoderich where it served as a memorial to the many aircrew from around the world who trained at Sky Harbour and four other Commonwealth Training Bases in Huron duringthe war. The Lane was acquired by the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum at Mount Hope in 1979 and a crew of volunteers have been at work ever since to put the plane back in flying condition as it would have been during the war. The plane, which was capable of carrying a 22,000 “grand slam’’ bomb, has been restored to represent the Lancaster crewed by Victoria Cross winner Andy Mynarski who died trying to rescue a crew member trapped in the tailgunner’s turret of a plane shot down in flames. Ironically the trapped man survived the crash but Mynarski died of burns. The restored Lane will have its first official flight as part of a mini-air show on September 24 in Hamilton in which the museum's other restored war planes will also take part. municipaloffices but Memorial Hall was a war memorial and the village was maintaining it and he didn’t think it right that a 20-year lease should be signed under those circumstances. He said he had already been getting some flack about letting the Festival join its office building (the old Bank of Commerce building) to Memorial Hall through an addition on the south side of the hall. He also argued that by signing the agree me nt council would be undermining the committee it has appointed to manage the hall. There was no animosity between the Festival and the committee now, Councillor Manning said, but if council signs a 20-year agree­ ment with the Festival without consulting the hall committee, there likely would be. Councillor Bill Howson had made the motion to approve the lease. He said the Festival has helped make Memorial Hall a living memorial to the soldiers it was to commemorate. However he said it was not his intent to undermine the hall board and he eventually withdrew his motion. Reeve Albert Wasson said there were two ways of looking at the situation, one from the ratepayers perspective in which the 20-year lease might not be in the best interest of the community and the other from the perspective of the Festival where, if the Festival board couldn’t get an agreement from the village to guarantee them use of the building, they might wonder why they kept pouring so much moneyintoimproving the Hall over the years. Later he proposed that, if council didn’t feel comfortable approving the long-term lease, he personally would contact the ministry officials and see if a compromise could be struck that would assure the government that the village was in support of the Festival and had no intentions of throwing the theatre out without signing a 20-year lease. Council agreed to his suggestion and the motion of approval of the lease was with­ drawn. i ’""“"SBi- * ir 1 SALE OF LAND BY PUBLIC AUCTION MUNICIPAL TAX SALES ACT, 1984 THE CORPORATION OF THE COUNTY OF HURON Take Notice that the land[s] described below will be offered for sale by public auction at 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon on the 4th day of October, 1988 at The Council Chambers, Court House, Goderich, Ontario. DESCRIPTION OFLAND[S]MINIMUMBID PCL. #1 PCL. #2 PCL. #3 PCL. #34 PCL. #43 PCL. #56 Township of Ashfieid, County of Huron - Cust. #1 - Roll #64 002 200 029 07 Lot 21 East of Wellington Street, Plan 136 Township of Ashfield, County of Huron - Cust. #2 - Roll # 64 002 200 029 08 Lot 20 East of Wellington Street, Plan 136 Township of Ashfield, County of Huron - Cust. #3 - Roll # 64 001 000 002 03 Part of Lot 61, Plan 141. Commencing at the northeast angle of said Lot 61 thence westerly along the northerly limit of said lot 16.5 feet. Thence southerly parallel to the easterly limit of said Lot 88 feet, thence easterly parallel to the northerly limit of said Lot 16.5 feet to a point in the easterly limit of said lot, thence northerly along the easterly limit of said Lot to the place of beginning. T ownship of Goderich, County of Huron - Cust. #321 - Roll # 24 001 300005 00 Lot 33, Concession 13 Township of Howick, County of H uron - Cust. #1261 - Roll # 46 002 200 053 01 Lot 6 in Arthur Mitchell's subdivision of the original Mill Reserve Plan 244, in the Village of Fordwich, save and except that portion of said Lot sold to the Corporation of the Township of Howick for road purposes, in instrument #21578. Township of Stephen, County of Huron • Cust. #2782 - Roll #04 00310004900 South 66 feet of Mitchell's Block in even width Plan 221 All amounts payable by the successful purchaser shall be payable in full at the time of the sale by cash or money order or by a bank draft or cheque certified by a bank, trust company or Province of Ontario Savings Office. The municipality makes no representation regarding the title to or any other matters relating to the land to be sold. Responsibility for ascertaining these matters rest with the potential purchasers. This sale is governed by the Municipal Tax Sales Act, 1984, and the Municipal Tax Sales Rules. The successful purchaser will be required to pay the amount bid plus accumulated taxes and relevant land transfer tax. For further information regarding this sale, contact: Court House Square Goderich, Ontario. N7A 1M2 W.R. Alcock Treasurer Corporation of the County of Huron $ 597.61 475.18 580.38 3,982.65 1,311.15 3,685.45