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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1994-11-23, Page 1PUBLISHED IN LUCKNOW, ONTARIO Wednesday, November 23, 1994 5.50 G.S.T included Village receives infrastructure funding Three projects worth $59,683 in the Village of Lucknow have been approved under the Canada/Ontario Infrastructure Works program. Funding will go towards the already completed sidewalk construction to the public school, the watermain replacement along ,_ Victoria Street, and the• hydro substation fencing. Tree lighting is Friday. The ,Lucknow and District Chamber of Commerce will kick off pre -Christmas events .,this Friday night with the annual tree lighting at the old post, office ,building at 7:30 p.m. Children arc invited to bring their handmade ornaments to help decorate the community tree. Enjoy a time of carol' sin- ging and a cup of hot chocolate to keep your inners warm. See you there! Santa •Claus • • is coming The Lucknow and District Kinsmen are preparing for the fifth annual evening Santa Claus parade' on Friday, Dec. 2. So, it's time to start thinking about your float. This year's theme is Fantasy Land ,and there will be six $60 prize winners. Floats are asked to assemble. on the north end of Havelock Street, and horses on the south end of Havelock. The parade gets underway at 7:15 p.m. Following the parade, Santa and •Mrs. Claus • will greet children at the arena where free treats will be handed out and you can enjoy free public skating, courtesy of the local Chamber of Commerce. Kinsmen in . charge of the parade are Dale Loughccd 528- 3607 or Paul Zinn 528-2411. Don't forget those Ho Ho letters 'Only 31 days until Christmas and Santa and Mrs. Claus, along with their faithful elves arc working at a hectic pace. Santa would like to remind all his little friends in-Lucknow-and ,arca to get their letters to him early. Special arrangements have been made at Luckhow's two postal retail outlets - Finlay's and Lucknow Farm Supply - to receive those letters. ' Address them to: Santa Claus, North Pole, Canada, HOH OHO, and don't forget to put your return address on the envelope so Santa, can reply. ' Country Clem (Don Vair of Belgrave) gets ready to give his long lost `sister' sabel MacPherson a great big bear hug, as Isabel's husband, Bill, wonders where in the world his wife has been hiding this guy all these years. Country Clem was the entertainment at this year's Lucknow and District Chamber of Commerce banquet last Saturday. (Pat Livingston photo). Bruce County .Council Ashfield cow featured In progeny showcase A bull 'progeny showcase at Port Perry, including one cow from an Ashfield Township farm, drew visitors from more than a dozen countries around the world last week. Drennan Farms' (Scan and J.C.) `Trisha' was one.. of 22 cows featured in the showcase, as was '129' owned by Vandenberg Farms Ltd., Walkerton and, `Sheila' owned by Rubbsuuc Holsteins, Mount Forest. The cattle are daughters, of the Holstein . bulls• `Hanovcrhill Lieutenant and Roycedale Ap- proval' owned by United Breeders artificial insemination co-operative. These two bulls received their first Agriculture Canada daughter sum- maries in July, and both were rated in• the top one per cern of Canadian Holsteins: Since young bulls arc used very randomly the daughters in the showcase group were gathered from farms across central and midwestern .Ontario and, taken to Hanovcrhill Farms, Port Perry, where they were on display. The timing coincided. with the, Royal Winter Fair in. Toronto, giving foreign visitors an oppor- tunity to attend both events. Local farmers also took the opportunity' to travel in bus loads from as far as Dundas County. Breeders from around the world use Canadian bulls through artificial insemination, and arc always interested in the newest and latest, •see Farmers, page 2 Accept library assistants' pay cuts ' A.i'n,endments By Pat Halpin There were questions but no real objegtions as Bruce County council approved the county library board's demotion and pay cut for 17 assist- ant supervisors, effective Jan. 1, 1995:. At council's Nov. 15 session, Board Chair Roy Pennington said reclassifying the assistant supervi- sors as clerks and cutting their pay by $6 an hour to minimum wage is just the first step in restructuring that many county departments will be forced into. as budgets shrink. Pennington said pay equity will eventually soften the blow of the• pay cut for the former assistants, but he emphasized that the county's job is to provide the service it can with the tax dollars available. He also revealed that the job reclassification, which demotes assistants with as much as 20 years experience to the same level as supply staff, was suggested by county director of personnel Doug Harris and' approved by library staff and board. • Dome Fitzsimmons, Tiverton reeve, said the restructuring plans for the .library should have been presented as a complete package. He said the piecemeal approach adopted by the board "can be con -i strued as hitting .on the'branches." Dale Wilson, Walkerton reeve, echoed that sentiment when he accused library director Iv arzio Apolloni as forcing cuts on a non- union employee group. "It doesn't matter," responded Apolloni, who added that "every- thing is on the table" as the library looks at "revisioning" its role. Fringe development raises questions Restructuring may be the only solution to continued friction over development on the fringes of municipalities, according to one Bruce County reeve. • Amabel Township Reeve Bill Ferris : pointed to last Tuesday's (Nov. 15) roundin the debate at county council over fringe develop- ment as evidence that the county has to solve traditional rivalries between urban and rural municipal- ities if it hopes to attract invest- ment. Ferris said lengthy disptites erupt when townships want development on the edges of towns, or when towns want to annex land from townships to accommodate new development. Those fights and die delays they cause leave investors frustrated and looking elsewhere for business opportunities, Ferris said. "Towns and township are going to have to get together," Ferris said, adding the lack of cooperation between to two groups "has to stop." The committee supervising Bruce County's new official plan tabled a report Tuesday that would have allowed wide-opeh fringe develop- ment, even though the consultant working on the official plan recom- mended that towns annex and ser- vice lands they need for hew devel- opment. • • Port Elgin Reeve Ann MacKay tried to have the recommendations on fringe development delayed until the December meeting so, that municipal councils have a chance to. look at the issue. "I just received the package on Friday," MacKay said, in arguing for more time to study recom- mendations. Weir Sheane, Kincardine Town- ship reeve, urged council to "vote on it as is" in order to meet the goal of completing this stage before 'the term is over. Shcanc, who is retiring from county council, also took a parting shot at MacKay. • "It wouldn't he right' if Ann didn't write an amendment every time we came to council," 'he said. In one of his last motions as county councillor, outgoing Walkerton Rccvc Dale ,Wilson succeeded in amending the report. The new official plan will now have to set out specific policy and mapping to control so-called fringe development. Even with the amendment, con- sultant John Kennedy warned coun- cil that "county policy will run counter to province's philosophy. to Bill 163 are passed Amendments to Bill 163 have been passed and it should go before the House of Commons the • first week of December. The bill was to have been read a third :time in the House of Com- mons on Tuesday, Nov. 15. Doug Hindson, research . and policy analyst with the Ontario Taxpayers Federation, said the delay could be because of its size, adding that he heard the bill could possibly be divided into separate sections. W . • He said a justice committee was reviewing about 200 amendments and looking at all the bill's legal implications. The bill is now being printed, said Hindson, adding that a document of this size norm411,y takes about 10 days to print. Bill 163 is a piece of legislation covering the Ontario Planning and development Act, the Municipal Act and the Local Government Disclosure of Interests. One of the key issues of the hill is that it will remove from -an owner's use areas designated as Areas of Natudal and Scientific Interests (ANSI), wetlands, shorelines of lakes and river~, areas with significant views and areas provincially defined as cultural and heritage significance. Another section of the bill makes the declaration of assets a yearly duty by municipal representatives.