HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1988-10-26, Page 3Bly th council defers
snow-dearing decision
A decision on how much of main
street should have snow cleaned
off regularly was deferred by Blyth
Village Council at a meeting held
Oct. 18.
Lewis and Valerie Pitman at
tended council to bring up an old
complaint. They wanted council to
clean the snow off the street in front
of their business (The Pottery) at
the corner of Queen St. (main
street) and Westmoreland as is
done for other businesses further
uptown. The Pitmans had made
the same requestlheTast two years
in letters to council without getting
the action they wanted. Earlier
still, the previous owner of the
business had also had a long
standing complaint with council
over what he felt was unequal
treatment.
Mr. Pitman said he and his wife
were just asking to be accorded the
same treatment as all the other
businesses in the core area. He
said he finds it a tremendous
impediment to doing business to
have the snow piled high in front of
his shop.
He described trying to dig out a
CATHERINE BATTYE
Catherine Battye graduated from
Aylmer Police College on October
14. She has also a B. A. in Social
Science from the University of
Guelph. Catherine is employed by
Guelph City Police Department.
Blyth
People
Jim and Janet Lawrie visited on
October 18withfriendsin Knoll
Crest Home for seniors in Milver
ton where a musical program was
put on for them. Jim entertained
with Scottish songs. The Archie
Mann Band were part of the
program also. Jim is hoping that
his kilts will show up well in the
picture that the photographer of
the Milverton Sun took on this
happy occasion.
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POPPY DAY - NOV. 5
Last year’s donations for the Poppy Campaign were
$1,705.09 of which $1,334.65 was used towards veter
ans and their families.
And so when we see a poppy worn,
Let us reflect on the burden borne,
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When asked to answer their country’s call.
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Poppy Chairman.
pathway into the store at much
physical labour only to have the
Ministry of Transportand Com
munications plow come along and
fill it back in again.
Fingering a copy of the village’s
official plan, he pointed out that his
business is designated to be in the
‘ ‘core area” just as the businesses
in the main business section were.
Because of this “core” designa
tion, he said, council would not be
setting a precident by expanding
its current snow removal area
north of the current limit of
Drummond Street.
Councillor Bill Howson indicat
ed that it wasn ’t that council should
be fair to the Pitmans by giving
them more service to equal the
uptown merchants, but that the
uptown merchants already get too
much service and if anything, they
should be cut back. “In my mind
we’ve been cleaning too much,” he
said. Snow removal on main street
has always been a bone of
contention with him, he said,
claiming some merchants don’t
believe in lifting a shovel to clean
their sidewalks. In other towns the
merchants have to clean their own
sidewalks, he said.
He also worried about a prece
dent. If the village cleaned up the
Queen and Westmoreland area,
why shouldn’t they also clean up
the area near the shops in the
growing shopping areas on Dinsley
Street east and west, he wondered.
But Mr. Pitman said that this
argument was irrelevant because
those shops were not in the area
designated as * ‘core” in the village
plan.
Councillor William Manning
explained that sidewalks are clear
ed south of the main street
business section not for the
convenience of merchants but for
the safety of residents of the senior
citizens apartments. He asked the
Pitmans if they were asking to have
thesidewalkandthe streetkept
clean or just the area in front of
their store. Mr. Pitman said he
would like to see the sidewalk kept
open and the snow removed from
the street but at least to have the
snow removed from the curbside
across the front of hs shop and
workshop.
Councillor Lloyd Sippel said he
wouldn’t like to set a precident but
felt that there wouldn’t be a
precident set in this case because
the shop is in the core area.
Council decided it wanted more
time to reflect on the situation and
put off a decision until the
November meeting of council. On
leaving the meeting Mrs. Pitman
quipped ‘ ‘you can call this the third
winter of our discontent.”
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