HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1981-01-07, Page 1Saturday's cold weather is blamed for a
hydro ±outage whi h occurred early Saturday.
Morning in the , : lage. Power was from
approximately a.m. until 8.30 a.m. when
s .overloaded fuse. blew at tie switches,
which feed the power to the village from the
sub -station, south of Lu*now on Huron
County Road 1,
1 7dro replaced the fuse but were unable
to get it to hold. They called in the Lucknow
Works Department to make switching,
changes in'the village Ito `atmw' attic fuse to
hold,
•A• similar situation occuned : Saturday
evening about midnight and power was. off
. close' to -two hours again *lime Wingham
P>JC and the Lucknow ' Works Department
the overload peobletn,
Ontario Hydro and Wingham PUC axe
looking":into balancing the load in the village
to *told such an overload in cold ;weather,,
The power outage' is suspected to' have
caused a break in the water main at the Bob
. .Street well which is the moan water supply
for tate village. When the power is 'restored.
the initial surge .of water through .the Main
cacties enough force to break it.
Ludmow's Weift Department assisted by
Cery' 33e
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 70981 .
20 PAGES Porter. Septic Tank Service repaired the
length of main during Saturday afternoon.
The Mount Forest Weather. Station re-
corded new low temperatures for January 3
and 4 when the weekend temperaturesl broke
existing records.
The highest the 'temperaturereached on
. Saturday was -19.2 Celsius which broke the
previous maximum low for that date of -14.4
C set in 1958:
The record low for .the day was in. 1918
when a low was recorded of -25.0 C. This
year the 'thermometer bottomed .at -28.0
Celsius breaking the . previous record.
On Sunday, January 4. the record low
maximum for the day was -13.9 set in 1920.
Sunday's temperature only reached -14.5 for
the day setting another new ;record.
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BY DAVE SYKES
Huron ' County Board of
Education trustees will re-
Ceive:the same 6300 monthly,.
allowance this year following
the adoption of a board
member's allowance • scale
Monday.
The motion to retain the
tame pay scale met with
considering opposition, .
around the board table and
passed•by an 8 - 7 margin..
While board members vot-
ed to maintaintheir allow-
ance al the previous rate the
motion included an increase
for chairman Donald Mac-
Donald. He had' been receiv-
ing one-third more , per
month • than •other , board
members .and that .stipend
was increased' to. one-half.
McDonald's monthly allow-
ance is now S4S0.
Several board members'in-
dicated a willingness to raise
the member's ' allowance
claiming it hasn't changed in
four years and . has fallen
victim to inflation. Others
argued that board members
know what they're getting
into when seeking office. ' .
Tuckersmith-Clinton trus-
tee E.rank Falconer suggest-
ed the board increase the
allowance by 10. per cent.
"It's . poor policy to accept
the same thing," he said. ;t' "1f
trustees ' were paid 5300 for
rubber stamping they're
worth 10 per cent' more for a
Voice."
Murray Mulvey -echoed
Falconer's 'sen'timents ad-
ding that if ' a trustee's
remuneration increased at
half • the pace' of inflation,
' they would' be earning $400
:per month. In consideration
of the number of meetings
attended by the board chair-
nfan, Mulvey suggested his
allowance • be increased to
$500 per month. •
Trustee Bert Morin also
favored an allowance in-
crease` in view of the number
of meetingsattended by
trustees. Some trustees, he
maintained, were, underpaid.
"For five years we. set .the
a . example here with noin-
crease. The la,stexampae was
Tot the intent of the pros to
pick up and aid and abet but
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theyburied- it.." • he said.
"The aim was not achieved:
We are not overpaid and..
there are voices on this board
and not rubber. stampers.
Vice-chairman. Morin
wanted '., the trustee's allow-
ance raised to. ,5350, monthly
while the vice-chairman and
chairman would receive S400
and S525 `respectively.
Trustee Jean Adams told
the' board; it could set a good
example by keeping ' the
same allowance - but Morin
countered that nobody seems
to' care if the board sets , a
good example.
Dorothy, Wallace told trus-
tees they were familiar with.
the pay scale when. they
made their ' decision 'to run.
"'If . they didn't think the
pay was adequate they didn't
need to ruin,'.. she said.
'Where is our ' sense of`
public service? This is no
time to raise salaries because
trustees don't have to. be
here ifthey don't want to."
Trustee Eugene Frayne
said the bickering over allow-
ances was not impressing
anyone• and that the ' • public
must be made aware that
education costs will continue
to rise. •
-"Trustees must change.
their attitude and tell' the
public it will cost snore; each -
year for ,education," he said..
"we're talking pennies here
and not nickels and dimesf.
There are days when I have
to .debate losing $3000 by.
going to the board meeting
or $300 by not going. I knew
that when I ran for the job
but $3$0 is not out of line."
The motion to retain the
allowance 'structure. with -the
exception. of the ' chairman
was passed in a recorded
vote.
Jean Adams,. John God-
dard, J. Jewitt, Clarence
McDonald, Donald McDon-
ald, Joan Van Den, Broeck,
Dorothy Wallace ai#d Marion
Zinn voted,in favor of retain-
, ing the pay structure:
Trustees Frank Falconer,
Harry • Hayter, Eugene
. Frayne, Bert Marin;° °Murray
Mulvey. 'it. K. Peck and
Dennis Rau voted.•against the•
motion. '
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The . record books were rewritten again
Sunday evening when the thermometer
dipped to a :low of. -32:0 C. breakingthe
previous record low -24.4 'C 'set in 1958.
The all time low recorded for the month of
January was a low. of -34.3 recorded on.
January 18, 19764 Sunday's low of -32.0 C
came close to breaking, that record, too.
An . accumulation of 7.2 centimetres . of
snow on Saturday is not that great a snowfall
but the white stuff was light and fluffyy and
treated a winter wonderland as it lay on
trees burdening their 'limbs and piled along
fence rails.
Winds on Sunday blew the snow into drifts - ` -
and drhring was hazardous:
Our world is a. winter wonderland following
snowfalls .of fightand fluffy snow which piled oat evergreen
trees and clung to fence rails and tree tr i ks. Record low
temperatures:'for January 3 and 4 were set on the 'weekend.
weekend
The
highest the temperature reached over the.'two day deep
freeze was .14:5 C. and the thermometer bottomed out at
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