HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-12-13, Page 364--.t ow Soothet, 'Wodsooday, Member 20, 1978
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Tinney acclaimed warden
BY JEFF SEDDON
Jack Tinney, -reeve of
Hay township, was ac-
claimed warden of Huron
County in a peculiar turn
of events at the inaugural
session of county council
Tuesday. Tinney was
acclaimed after Harold
Robinson, reeve of
Howick township, used
his five minute campaign
speech to council to with-
draw from the election
for warden. The Howick
reeve said he felt support
promised Tinney by
councillors after last
year's election for
warden was a "hard wall
to run up against" and
withdrew from the
election.
Tinney opposed Gerry
Ginn for warden Last year
and was defeated by the
Goderich township reeve.
He apparently turned last
year's defeat into this
year's victory.
Robinson told council
he had discovered the
support Tinney had been
promised when he began
campaigning for warden.
Candidates for the job
usually run a personal
type campaign amongst
county councillors prior
to the inaugural session
and Robinson said when
he had visited members
of county council he had
been told many had
promised to support
Tinney after his loss to
Ginn in 1977. He said, he
was convinced that
Tinney had the election
half won" before he even
started campaigning this
year. .
Tinney told council he
planned no major
changes at county council
adding that any changes
would come from council
since he was only the
chairman. The Hay reeve
conceded to council that
he may not be, the most
intelligent or able man
for the job but promised
to try hard.
He said he was not all.
that concerned with the.
need for county council to
be restructured and said
he planned no proposals
for council to consider.
Restructuring . was a
favorite. topic of Gerry
Ginn's and he used his
parting remark's :to'
council to mention .that.
council should .be_ ".
prepared to take a look at
the matter. Gin always
claimed that a 45
member council was too
large to effectively
govern the county and
that many of the mem-
bers were not needed. He
felt, that many
municipalities, or
perhaps all, did not need
to send both a reeve and
deputy -reeve .to council
an,d suggested that
deputy -reeves be taken
Off the county eouncil
roll.
Tinney said he ' felt
New
warden
deputy -reeves played "an
important part in the
county" and that the role
was an . "education for
them ' for when they ,
become reeve".
Tinney, a father of
eight, . has been a
politician for 16 years, the
past six of which have
been spent.. at: the .county
level., Robinson ' first
came to council in 1965.
and served until 1972
when his township "took
the halter off and turned
me out to pasture"
because of a bylaw
requiring county town-
ship employees to retire
at age 65. He said four
years later he was ap-
proached to get back into
politics and the "halters
were put back on and we
Were . asked to run the
township again
Retiring reeve Ginn
Retiring Huron County warden Gerry Ginn
makes some adjustments on the chain of office •
after he turned the chain over to 1979 warden
Jack Tinney, reeve of Hay township. Ginn, past
reeve of Goderich township, turned over the
chain of. office, the gavel, the key to the county
and the,. warden's pin to Tinney after he was •
acclaimed warden in the inaugural session of
county council Tuesday. (photo by Jeff Seddon)
told Tinney that his
philosophy of govern-
ment was to always be
vocal. He told council
that if members had
anything to say "for
God's sake say it". He
said he always did and
although he quite often
got in trouble he felt he
was respected for • his
participation.
"Good discussion
makes for f good gover-
nment," he told council.
Judge Frances Carter,
who gave Tinney the oath
of office, told council that
last year when Ginn was
elected warden he said
council had someone who
would "put some spirit in
council". This year he
referred to Tinney's
mer bership on his
township's fire board and
told council it had
someone wht would "set
the county on fire".
Carter said Huron
County had a lot to offer.
He said in today's society
"bigness is goodness"
adding that nothing could
be farther from the truth.
He said Huron's
agricultural resources
were far greater than
many other counties in
Ontario. He said the
county's -.ural base kept
the work ethic alive here.
He said farmers in Huron
still believe in "an honest
day's work". He added
that they "don't always
get an honest day's pay
for their work but by
golly, they give an honest
day's work".
"Don't sit in the sun-
shine crying about
yesterday's rain and
don't sit in the rain crying
about tomorrow's 51111 -
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