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Blyth Council briefs
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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1988. PAGE 21.
Village to make addition to works building
Two Blyth contractors will be
approachedtobidon work on an
addition to the Blyth Village public
works garage.
Work is expected to begin soon
on the project with the 24 foot by 48
foot building expected to be closed
in before the bad weather hits. The
interior work on the building will be
doneby village employees. The
addition will be mostly one large
room with a smaller office and
washroom off one comer. Above
the office will be a storage space for
such things as the Christmas
decorations for main street.
The work area will allow equip
ment to be repaired and work
projects like building of flower
boxes to be undertaken during the
Ethel
Ethel Wl proposes
park improvements
The Ethel Women’s Institute
held its Canadian Industries meet
ing at the Ethel Community Centre
Tuesday evening. The results of a
recent survey taken in the Ethel
area were reported. It seems most
of those surveyed agreed on the
need for playground equipment in
the Ethel Park.
Ideas for the playground equip
ment fundraising project were
bandied about. Barbara Grube and
Helen Dobson will be the voting
cards were passed. The Ethel
Library has a glass cabinet with
articles inside that don’t have the
doner’s name or date given of therp
and Reeve Leona Armstrong would
like this display updated.
The upcoming community meet
ing at Grey Central School concern-
ing the blue boxes and the
recycling containers at the town
ship disposal site was discussed.
winter months. Total cost of the
project is expectedto be around
$30,000 including village workers’
labour.
*****
Council passed a by-law that will
permit the holding of a liquor
plebiscite as part of this fall’s
municipal election. The vote will be
whether or not to allow the sale of
liquor, wine and beer through a
LCBO outlet.
*****
Council voted to send a letter to
thevillageauditor, Vodden and
Bender asking for an explanation
of escalating costs for the auditing
of village books. Council had a
five-year review before them that
showed the accounting costs have
jumped dramatically. Councillors
wondered why, when the village
had implemented the Bacpac
accounting system that was sup
posed to simplify accounting, the
auditing bill still jumped, and
worried that the costs might
continue to escalate this year.
Council also voted not to have the
auditors do an interim report this
fall but have village employees
prepare it instead. Last year the
report cost $2,500.
Council gave three readings to a
by-law to amend the dog by-law.
The amendment defines the term
“running at large” to mean any
dog not under the control of any
person.♦♦♦*♦
Concerned over the safety of
children going to and from Blyth
Public School, councillors approv
ed the sending of a letter to the
school to ask that children be made
more aware of safe habits. Council
had had a request from a neighbour
in the area to install a four-way stop
sign at the corner of King and Mill
Streets near the school but felt it
was the children who needed to
obey road rules not the cars, with
several councillors worrying about
youngsters running on the roads
instead of the sidewalks and totally
ignoring the stop signs that are
there.*****
The council missed the deadline
of 11:30 when Ontario Hydro
blacked out a large area of the
county including Blyth. The last
few items of business were carried
out with the use of a flashlight. One
councillor said his wife didn’t
understand how he could be so late
from council meetings anyway so
he wondered how he was going to
explain it that he was late even
though the lights were out.
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delegates to the county rally being
held at Hensall. A motion was
made for Ethel to host the rally next
October. A delegate for area
convention at Maryhill in Novem
ber is yet to be appointed.
As the euchre party season is
starting a motion to purchase new
card tables, decks of cards and tally
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