HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1987-12-22, Page 16PAGE 16. THE CITIZEN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1987.
Amy McCrea honoured by Blyth Council on retirement
Blyth village council started off
its meeting Dec. 15 with a
presentation by Reeve Wasson on
behalf of the Blyth Memorial Hall
Board and the Recreation Commit
tee to Amy McCrea on her
retirement after 19 years as
secretary-treasurer of the groups
(along with the Blyth and District
Community Centre Board which
had presented an award the
evening before).
Mrs. McCrea said she enjoyed
the job but in the last few years
there had been so many changes
that she didn’t enjoy the job
anymore. She reminisced about
taking the job over from Jessie
McKay who pushed her into
accepting the position when she
worried she wouldn't be able to do
it.
The council's presentation was a
figurine. The arena board had
presented her with a clock.
*****
The village streets will be
sanded with a new, tractor-operat
ed sander specially constructed for
the village. The project will be on or
under budget, village foreman
Merv Ritchie said.
The village tractor has a snow
blower on the back so the village
has reached agreement with town
workman John Rinn to pay him for
the use of his tractor to power the
sander at a cost of $5.70 an hour.
Since he won't be able to put a
snowblower on his tractor he will
be able to rent the village tractor if
needed, at the same rate of $5.70
an hour.
Murray and Mike Siertsema
were present with maps to describe
their hopes to sever two lots on the
west side of Gypsy Lane from the
Siertsema farm. One would be
used for a new house for Mike and
the other help for possible future
use bv Murray. A road allowance
would be left between the lots in
case of future development farther
back in the farm. Councillors
approved the idea which must still
go before the Planning and
Development committee of Huron
county council.
Speaking of that committee, it
appears the ongoing dispute be
tween village council and the
planning committee over return of
a severance fee when the village
purchased property from Mr.
Siertsema to expand the fair
grounds appears to be over at last.
The debate which had gone on
for months seemed to be settled by
a terse letter from Bill Hanly,
Huron county clerk-treasurer and
administrator that the severance
application had been made “by an
individual”. The village as a
municipality is exempt from pay
ing severance fees but individuals
aren’t.
It appeared from the applica
tion, that acting clerk-treasurer
Ann Nesbit has been acting as an
agent for Mr. Siertsema, even
though the cheque enclosed for the
fee was a village cheque. Counci
lor Bill Manning who has led the
village’s side in the argument said
he was satisfied to let the matter
drop although ‘ ‘ if an individual
made the application why would
the county accept a corporation
cheque?" He said it looked like the
county was just glad to get the
money and maybe even happier to
take the village's cheque than an
individual’s because they knew it
would be good.
There was some talk at the
meeting about the inadequacy of
the space in the Blyth branch of the
Huron County Public Library and
some feeling that perhaps the
village should be looking at
alternatives in the future to provide
better facilities.
The lift at the Blyth and District
Community Centre is now fully
installedbutcan’t be used because
it hasn’t been approved by provin
cial inspectors yet. Apparently,
Councillor Bill Howson reported,
all the inspectors have been tied up
in a hearing into a construction-site
elevator accident in Toronto.
When the project had been
undertaken there had been only
one tender for the construction
portion which was turned down
because it was felt (at $30,000) it
was too high. The arena board
decided to contract the project
itself and the final bills for the
construction portion came in at just
over $25,000 but that figure also
included $3-4,000 in extras such as
carpeting the stairs and all interior
painting which hadn’t been includ
ed in the original tender.
Council dicussed some sort of
tag or other identifying marker to
indicate which garbage bags and
containers contained burnable
garbage and which contained
garbage that had to be buried.
Councillor Lloyd Sippel said he had
been getting complaints from
people who separate their garbage
but it seems to get thrown into the
truck along with unburnable gar
bage and they’re tired of doing the
work of separating it if it isn’t going
to make a difference. If there is
some way of ensuring the two types
of garbage won’t get mixed up,
“the feeling 1 have is that people
will sort it,’’ he said.
“Everybody is fed up with this
explosion of garbage out there that
we can’t burn,” Reeve Albert
Wasson said.
The tagging idea which might
cost Blyth $200-$300 for the year,
will be investigated further. Also
being considered is a system of
indentification cards for everyone
from the Village and the township
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all To all our clients we wish a
a goodnight!" —santa ciaus Healthy & Happy Holiday Season!
From John & Barnie
& the rest of the Staff at
523-4930 LAWRIE DECORATING Blyth
'During the year, in the rush of events, we tend to
overlook the important friendships that are the true
basis of business relationships. One of the great
pleasures of the holiday Season is the opportunity to
exchange cordial greetings with those whose friendship
and goodwill we value so highly.
In this spirit it is our pleasure to say
“<Yhank You” and extend our sincere appreciation for
the very pleasant association we enjoy with you.
Jrfay a bright and prosperous J\ew Year bring
happiness to you and to yours.
Elliott Snsuratue brokers
of Hullett using the dump. There
are a lot of people, particularly
from the township, who the staff
don’t know and they want to make
sure that only garbage from the two
municipalities gets into the dump.*****
Council agreed, reluctantly, to
be part of a county-sponsored
study required under new provin
cial pay-equity law. The study will
rate all jobs in each municipality to
make sure women are fairly paid.
The study, if done separately
would cost Blyth more than $2,000
but it’s hoped that by many
municipalities getting together
costs can be cut.
Councillor Manning said he
would go along with the proposal
because it would save money but
he had mixed emotions about
capitulating to this kind of provin
cial government pressure.
Councillor Howson said he
wasn ’t against women getting paid
equally to men but he was against
the principal of this whole matter of
the province forcing municipalities
into this kind of study. Eventually
all agreed to go along with the
inevitable and join the study.
We’ve saved up a wealth of season’s
cheer, along with our sincere thanks.
Merry Christmas to all!
MANAGERS AND STAFF
Canadian Imperial
Bank of Commerce
Blyth and Brussels Branches