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The Citizen, 1987-03-18, Page 1Bev Elliott new Blyth councillor Blyth village council will have a feminine point of view in its debates in the next year and a half following the appointment of a Blyth businesswoman to fill the vacant seat on council. Beverley Elliott, part-owner of Christmas and Country was chosen by councillors from among three candidateswhohadlettheir names stand. The vacancy had been created by the resignation of former reeve Tom Cronin from council in January. Also applying for the open position were Joe Hallahan and John Stadelmann, both of whom were at the meeting, prepared to take a seat if they were appointed. Mrs. Elliott was absent on vacation but had sent a letter consenting to serve if chosen. Reeve Albert Wasson said the council had gone over the applica­ tions and “it did take a while”. He told the two other candidates that he hoped their interest continues. “There will be an opportunity in another 18 months to take up your ambitions again.” He said he was pleased with the interest in the vacant post since in recent years it had been difficult to get enough people interested in running for council. Mr. Hallahan expressed disap­ pointment in the fact that he had been told by people at a dance the previous weekend that a woman had been chosen for the job. He saidhehadthoughtthatwhena Related letter to the editor on page 6. VOL. 3 NO. 11 Serving Brussels, Blyth, Auburn, Belgrave, Ethel, Londesborough, Walton and surrounding townships. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1987.40 CENTS decision was made the other candidates should have been the first to know the results. Reeve Wasson said he didn’t know how the rumour had been started and it “was not our intent that it got out on the street. ’ ’ In any case, he said, the decision was not officially made until the motion had been passed at the council session that night. i/l/e can dream For all of us who can’t use the March break to get away to the south we can at least dream, and get a tan out of it. Judy Brown takes advantage of the tanning machine in her Blyth beauty salon “Chauncey’s” to think summer. During the winter months a number of people in the Blyth area have sported tans without ever going farther south than Londesboro. Hullett pressured over Auburn streets The irresistable force met the immoveable object at a meeting of Auburn ratepayers with Hullett townshipcouncil Monday night and nobody gave an inch. The irresistable force was the village board of trustees and about 35 residents of the Hullett side of the village who came to prod the township council into doing more to improve their streets and other Blyth sees building boom After seeing new construction virtually stagnate last year, the village of Blyth seems to be on the verge of a minor building boom in 1987 headed by the construction of a new eight-unit apartment build­ ing. Blyth village council released information Wednesday morning, followed a closed meeting at the end of its regular council session Tuesday night, that it had sold a parcel of land just south of the Queen’s Village senior citizens apartments on Queen Street at the south end of the village to Robbie Lawrie, a Blyth businessman and developer. Mr. Lawrie will con­ struct the eight-unit building on the site. Mr. Lawrie, who owns a decora­ ting business in Blyth as well as aspects of life in the southern part of the police village. The immove­ able force was the Hullett township council which patiently explained it was there to listen to the wishes of the ratepayers but could not be provoked into making any promis­ es for future action to rectify the ratepayers’ complaints. Hullett Reeve Tom Cunning­ ham, in answering a question as to apartment buildings in other cen­ tres, was unavailablefor comment, being in Switzerland playing in an oldtimers hockey tournament, but Bill Howson, Blyth village council­ lor, said construction is expected to begin soon on the project. The land in question was expropriated several years ago by the village from the Gordon Estate with the thinking being that it would be used for future expansion ofthe Queen’s Village project. Mr. Howson said council was concern­ ed about the number of seniors who were moving from Blyth to other municipalities because of the lack of apartments to rent. The apartment building joins a number of houses that have already been announced for con­ struction this spring. who is responsible for roadwork in the village said that the first responsibility lies with the village trustees but noted that since the village is allowed to collect only a 15 mill levy, there just hasn’t been enough money for them to improve the roads. Because of that, he explained, Hullett, East Wawa- nosh and West Wawanosh had reached an agreement in 1984 with the village trustees that each township would look after the streets in its part of the village. Ratepayer Dennis Bricker said “It just kind of gets you when you go out in the township and the sideroads are fixed up ... but two cars can’t meet on John Street.” He noted that there was quite a bit of tax money on that street. Hullett clerk-treasurer Harry Lear reminded him that a large portion of that money goes to the board of education and the county level. George Collins, one of the trustees, said the trustees had taken a written proposal to the Hullett council in March of 1986 and proposed repairs but that the trustees had not had a response. “What will it take to get a response,” he said. Reeve Cunningham said the trustees had been told at that meeting that the council was applying for funding under the Ontario Neighbourhood Improve­ ment Program (ONIP) and that if the township got the money, it wouldcontact the trustees. The money, however, did not become available. The township has now applied again under the successor to the ONIP program, the Pride program. However, the applica­ tion can be made for only one McDonald and Shepherd skate at Ontario Games National-class figure skaters Kerrie Shepherd of RR 1, Blyth and Peter MacDonald of RR 3, Brussels will skate at the Ontario Winter Games which start tomorrow (Thursday) in London. The novice dance champions will skate their compulsory routine at 12 noon on Thursday, March 19, and their variation dance at 4 p.m. on Friday, March 20. They will appear in practice at 8:50 a.m. on Thursday and at 1:15 p.m. on Friday as well; practice sessions are also open to the public. All figure skating events take place at the Earl Nichols Arena on Homer­ view Road. The pair competed at the Canadian National Finals in Ot- municipality and the grant has been sent in in the name of Londesboro. Mr. Lear said if the grant was received, council inten­ ded to apply for Auburn the next year. Trustee Collins wondered if the odds were any better for Pride funding than they were for getting Continued on page 8 tawa last month, and delighted their many fans with a guest appearance at the Blyth Figure Skating Club’s Carnival on March 6. The area’s other competition figure skater, gold medalist Kevin Wheeler of RR 5, Brussels, and his junior pairs partner Michelle Menzies of Prescott will not compete in London: since they were the only Ontario couple to enter in their division, the competi­ tion will not be held this year. The Ontario Winter Games are the provincial championships for a numberof amateur sports; London will host the indoor games this year, while the outdoor events will take place at Thunder Bay.