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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1987-07-08, Page 1Doing it the hard way, these contestants in last Friday’s tricycle races in Brussels seem Homecoming Weekend which attracted thousands to the village over the weekend. [For determined to get there In the end, with a lot of help from the cheering section lining both more Homecoming photos, see pages 12, 13] sides of the block-long race course. The race was part of the Brussels 115th Birthday and Serving Brussels, Blyth, Auburn, Belgrave, Ethel, Londesborough, Walton and surrounding townships. VOL. 3 NO. 27 WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1987.40 CENTS Londesboro boy badly injured in accident Brussels Reeve Ten Pas resigns for second time For the second time in the first year and a half of the three-year term of Brussels council Reeve Hank TenPas has resigned his position, this time apparently for good. The Reeve asked for a committee of the whole (private) meeting of council at the beginning of Monday night’s council meeting then, about five minutes later, while spectators and press waited on the sidewalk outside the municipal office, came out the door, said goodnight and went home. The remainder of the council continued the meeting in commit­ tee of the whole for another 10 minutes before the meeting was opened to the public. There was no mention of the previous happen­ ings except for a motion appointing councillor Malcolm Jacobs as presiding officer for the meeting. Later in the meeting, as council considered a motion for a special Brussels lets contract for sewers Brussels council opened tenders for expansion of the sanitary sewer system to serve the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre Monday night and got a pleasant surprise: the lowest tender was actually below the estimate of the village’s engineer, B.M. Ross and Associates. Six tenders were received with the tender of Lavis Contracting Co. Ltd. being the lowest at $106,258.18 for the entire three- phase project. The estimate had been $112,000. meeting Wednesday night at 8 p.m. to consider the vacancy of reeve, Councillor Neil McDonald suggested perhaps the public should be made aware of the resignation. Reeve TenPas’ terse letter was read saying only that he could no longer carry on as reeve. No motion was passed in open session at least, accepting the resignation. Mr. TenPas could not be reached following the meeting but acquain­ tances said he had been bothered since the June meeting of council which included several acrimon­ ious debates. He had first resigned in April 1986 but was talked into returning atthat time because the council was already without a clerk-trea­ surer and it was felt council could not be without a reeve at the same time. At that time he had said the continual disputes at council had been the cause of his resignation The tender price covers three phases of the work, two of which may or may not be included in the final job. Council agreed to award the contract to the company for the first portion of the project, which will extend from Maple Street across to the BMG. The cost of this portion of the project is $82,103.68. Thesecondpartofthe project would involve extending this sy­ stem up John Street to service lots in the area. The cost of this portion is $16,099.50. The third, at a cost of $8,055 would extend the sewerline “I was dreading going to council, wondering what fight I was going to have to referee,” he had said. Also bothering him was the number of times he was forced to cast a tie-breaking vote for the dead-locked council. “It bothered me to no end to the point it was effecting my health and my relations with everyone of you, ” he said. Late in the meeting, after Chairman Jacobs asked that the representative of The Citizen explain an editorial that appeared in the paper after the June meeting which spoke of too many * * ghosts of the past” being in the council chamber, Councillor Elizabeth Graber said that she had actually drafted a letter of resignation on the back of her agenda during the June meeting but had decided not to go ahead with it. Council will meet to try to resolve the problem on Wednesday night. up McDonald Drive in the new subdivision east of the arena. The latter two parts will only go ahead if the landowners involved agree to pick up the additional costs. Council’s motion said that they would inform the contractor by July 15 if the second and third part of the project would go ahead. In the meantime the landowners involved (about four in section two according to the quick calculation of councillors, and two on section three) will have to meet to decide if they are going to pick up the additional costs. An eight-year-old Londesboro boy was seriously injured Friday morning when the motorized mini­ bike he was riding collided with a car at the family’s driveway. A spokesman for the Goderich Detachment of the Ontario Provin­ cial Police said that Douglas Maize of RR 1, Auburn, apparently stopped at the entrance to the family farm on Concession 12-13 of Hullett Township, then accelerat­ ed into the gravelled concession County rejects new court house BY CHRIS LAWS A letter dated May 13, 1987, from the Crown Attorney, with regards to the fate of the court house was discussed at the July session of Huron County Council. It stated the concern of the Crown Attorney in the areas of limited office space and interview­ ing rooms, poor security forjudges and other court room staff, and the situation in which accused persons and witnesses are forced to stand in the halls or sit on the stairway while waiting. The letter went on to say that there is only one suitable court room in Goderich, and that in the future they would like to move the Wingham and Exeter Satellite courts to Goderich. The Crown Attorney suggested that the coun­ ty consider the province either leasing or purchasing the building sometime in the future. The Agriculture and Property Committee wrote a motion, for council to approve, recommending that the letter be acknowledged, and the Minister of Government Services, and the Attorney Gener­ al, be approached to see if they are interested in purchasing the Court House, or in building a new facilitv. All of the Reeves, and Deputy Reeves who spoke on the Court House issue were against its sale, and wanted the committee to find out more. One Reeve suggested road just as a car driven by Lorna Vincent, also of RR 1, Auburn, came over the brow of a hill. The child suffered major injuries in the accident, and was taken to Wingham Hospital by ambulance. He was later transferred to the Children’s Hospital in London, where he remains in serious condition. No charges have been laid. Damage to the mini-bike was estimated at $300, and to the Vincent car at $200. that the current Huronview facility be remodelled and made into a new court house. Other concerns were pointed out by Exeter Reeve Bill Mickle who stated that the courts should be easily accessible to the public, and asked for council’s support in retaining Wingham and Exeter as satellite court facilities. Bayfield Reeve David Johnston wanted to know if the county was going into the rental business - with regards to leasing the Court House - and thought that if they were they should know more about what they are doing. While the Clerk Treasurer Bill Hanly pointed out that they were only seeing if the province was interested, Hay township Reeve Lionel Wilder summed up the feelings of most of the council by saying, ‘‘We’ve got the museum, we’ve got Huronview, we sure as hell don’t need to worry about building a new Court House now! ’ ’ Exeter Deputy Reeve Lossy- Fuller was quick to voice her support of Wilder’s comment. While other Reeves rose their hands to request to speak against doing anything with the Court House, the motion was changed from the acknowledgement of the letter and approaching the Attor­ ney General to purchase the building, to a motion that the matter return to the committee for review.