HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1985-01-16, Page 1single copy 35c
KNOWSENTINEL
Published in Lucknow, Ontario Wednesday, January 16, 1985
20•Pages
Construction on the new eing at. Wingham and District Hospital will
continue through the winter months as the hospital board property
committee has approved the%eost of changes to the roof design to
• permit winter -construction. A conventional roof will take the place
of the concrete slab roof originally planned. Hospital fund raising
efforts continue with the hospital lottery, draw for the second price of
$1,000 scheduled for January 31. Tickets are available locally at The
Lottery.. Shoppe, The Luclmow Sentinel, the Mayfair Restaurant,
Lucknow Variety and McDonagh Insurance. [Photo by Sharon Dietz]
Local farmers
receive award
Fivelocalfarmers were recognized for
-their work in the promotion of conservation
practices at the Huron Soils and Crop
Improvement Association banquet held in
Seaforth this past weekend.
Raymond, Lawrence and Francis Hogan
and. John and Steve Howard received the
Norm. Alexander Award which recognizes
farmers in, the county who have .imple-
mented conservation practices on "'their
farms and worked to promote conservation
practices within the county. '
The brothers held a. demonstration day
June, 28 to inform Ashfield Township and
other area, farmers about the soil conserva-
tion practices they employ on their farms.
A tour of three of their -farms included
reduced tillage practices and water man-
agement structures to control soil erosion.
T•
he . Hogans and; Howards were one of
.seven nominations eligible for the award,
Fred and Ken Phillips of Ashfield Town-
ship were also nominated • for the award/
The nominating committee includes repre-
sentatives of the Ausable Bayfield Conser-
vation Authority, the Maitland Valley Con-
versation Authority, the Clinton office of
the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and
Food and the -Huron Soil and Water
Conservation, < District. The nominations ,
were then judged by a panel of three of the, .
former award winners. The award'has been
presented for the„past five years.
Council members to be paid for attending committee meetings
Lucknow Village Council met January 8
for their inaugural meeting of the new
year. Various housekeeping by-laws con-
cerning the interim mill rate, the authority
' to borrow money to fund current expenses
and the establishinent of council honorar-
iums were 'passed.
Council decided their honorariums will
remain • the same at $1,000 for the reeve
and $9011 for the councillors but councillors
will now 'be paidfor, committee meetings.
In the past councillors have'beeit' iaid'$30
for each special meeting of council but they
did not receive payment for attending
committee meetings such as fire board,
arena board and medical centre board
meetings. Council will now .receive 530 for
each committee meeting they attend as
well as payment for special meetings of
council in addition to their remunerations.
Send Letters
Letters were sent to CN Rail requesting
they remove the rails on Ludgard Street
before the resurfacing of the street is
started during this year's road construction
program and to Ed -Miller of R. 1, Carrying
Place, who ,purchased a house on Wil-
loughby Street sold by the village at a
public auction in October, requesting
Miller to remove thehouse as soon as
possible.
Objects To Land Designation
Oliver Glenn met with council to ask why
his commercial property on Campbell
Street across from Treleaven's Mill was
now described as floodplain .land.'
Councillor Herb Clark explained to'
Glenn that in the village's_ secondary plan
the property is designated floodplain but
council is requesting the area 'and two
other areas in the village be classified as
special policy areas in the secondary plan
to permit building on the property. Clark
said the special policy area ' is awaiting
approval by . the Ministry of Municipal
Affairs and Housing.
Glenn said the town needs all the tax
assessment it can get and possibly a motel
or something of an asset to the town could
be built on this property. instead it' will be
a swath of grass to cut, every year if
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Huronview renovations will giveresidents more privacy
The possibility of spending millions of He has asked several of his colleagues
dollars in renovations at Huronview, a , and they too said theplan to renovate
home for the aged, over the next few years Huronview was new to them too.
came as a complete surprise to at least 1 "I've been out beating the bushes telling
some members of Huron County Council. municipal councils that we can afford the
Draft sketches of possible interior (Huron County Pioneer) museum,” said
changes to the 32 -year-old building were the reeve who added that the county has to
presented to county council at its January 3 consider how much money the Huronview
meeting by Huronview administrator renovations in total could cost the county.
Wayne Lester. Mr. Lester said the renovations were no
"This comes as a complete surprise," surprise, bu+ added. that nothing is'
said Bayfield Reeve Dave Johnston. definite. The "dream" is to change the
facility from .four bed wards to 'two bed
rooms with more toileting privacy.
in the acute care wings of the 310 bed
home, residents use a washroom with eight
to ten sinks and toilets lined up beside each
other.
The Huronview administrator said a
$19,000 feasibility study approved last year
by both county council and the ministry of
community and social services was carried
out by Snider, Reichard and March of
Kitchener.
The plans aren't finished and no cost
estimates are available. The administrator
estimated the cost of renvoations would be
about $2 or $3 million. ' If in the future,
approval is given to the renovations of
Huronview, the county will be expected to
pay 50 per cent, or half of the costs.
The board of management authorized
Mr. Lester to put capital money into the
home's 1985 budget. • The administrator
said he might want about 5500,000 a year
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Lucknow Village Council passes property atandarcls by-law
Lucknow Village Council passeda
property standards by=law at a special
meeting December 19 which subject to
approval; by the Ontario Municipal Board
will apply to all property within the village
limits and will be enforced by the by-law
enforcement officer.
The by-law permits the ,by-law enforce-
ment officer or any person acting under his
instructions to enter any room or place
actually used as a dwelling without the
consent of the occupier under the adthority
of a search warrant issued under Section 16
of the Summary Convictions„ Act.
Following a notice of violation, if the
owner fails to comply and is found to be in
contravention of the order, upon conviction
of the offence, the owner can be fined a
penalty of not less than $5 and not more
than $500 for 'each day he is in contraven-
tion of an order that is final and binding.
The by-law sets standards for yards,
parking lots and vacant property; weeds,
grass and plantings; vehicles; sewage and
drainage; safe passage; accessory build-
ings, structures and fences; garbage
disposal; excavations; maintenance of
buildings including structural soundness,
foundations, basements, cellars and crawl
spaces, exterior walls, roofs,. eavestrough-
1
ing, overhanging extensions, doors, and
windows, stairs, porches and ramps; chim-
neys. fireplaces and fuel burning equip-
ment; interior walls, and ceilings; enclosed
space access and venting, floors, insula-
tion, dampness, cleanliness, maintenance,
animals and pets and signs.
Sections of the by -.law also address
G building health and safety standards
including heating, electrical service,
plumbing, drains and sanitary facilities,
washrooms and bathrooms, ventilation,
lighting, pest and vermin control as well as
additional standards for, property, addition-
al standards for , residential property in-
cluding standards for fitness for occupan-
cy. This section addresses plumbing, water
supply and sewage disposal, electrical
service, lighting and ventilation, kitchen
facilities, toilet and bathroom facilities and
egress. -Occupancy standards include maxi-
mum dwelling occupancy, habitable
rooms, basement space and/ nonhabitable
rooms.
Under maintenance of, buildings the
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