The Citizen, 1989-06-28, Page 3April Van Amersfoort gives her tires one last check before
going on the bike rally last Saturday. Members of the Christian
Reformed Church in Blyth participated in the rally to support
Pro-Life. Approximately $4,000.00 was raised in pledges.
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1989. PAGE 3.
Council\hriefs
Blyth council donates to drain
Blyth
People
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Johnson, Kari
and Kurt of London, also Rev. and
Mrs. Donald Snell of Drayton
Valley, Alberta, visited on Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Snell.
The struggle to keep downtown
Blyth looking nice had another set
back last week. Elaine Scrimgeour,
owner of The House, on Dinsley
Street East found five flags that
usually decorate the outside of the
shops were missing. These aren’t
ordinary flags and Elaine says she
had to make them up specially to fit
the holders.
Blyth UCW
season ends
The final meeting of the Spring
Season of Blyth U.C.W. was held
Thursday, June 22 at the home of
Margaret Kai in Wingham.
Joan Clarke conducted the wor
ship on the Spring Theme. The
worship was concluded by a lovely
musical selection played by Mar
garet Kai.
Marie Toll led a session on
“Stewardship of our bodies - the
use and abuse of prescription
drugs’’. It was noted that the most
common over-used and abused
drugs is the sleeping pill. She then
showed a filmstrip which identified
the different abused drugs.
Susan Howson (in the absence of
President June Peck) conducted
the business period.
A dainty lunch was served by
Deanna Snell.
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Gordon and Catherine Caldwell,
Jean Woods and Edna MacDonald
visited Saturday and Sunday with
Philip and Linda Powers of Oil
Springs and attended a meeting in
Brigden of the Independent Order
of Oddfellows where Philip was
installed as District Deputy Grand
Master for St. Clair District #4.
Congratulations to Jean Woods
who has recently graduated from
Lambton College in Office Admini
stration, Medical, and was on the
Dean’s Honour list.
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Blyth Village councillors voted,
June 14, to give $2,000 toward the
cost of repairs to an east end drain
but ask the property owners involv
ed to look after getting the work
done.
The drain in question comes
down through open farmland in the
east and before hooking into a
major village storm sewer. The
original drain has caved in in
several spots, council was told and
mud is entering the drain, threat
ening to clog it further, and
perhaps damage the storm drain.
Two or three of the largest
property owners have agreed to
share in the costs of repairing the
drain, council heard, a cost that
could run from $6,000 to $9,000.
Council decided to ask the land
owners to handle the repairs to
save the possibility of having to call
in an engineer to decide who
should pay how much of the costs.
An engineer’s report drives up the
cost of such drains.
*****
Village Works Foreman John
Rinn received permission from
council to tear up parts of Morris
Street where the pavement has
broken up badly. The pavement
and earth will be removed and
drainage put in to prevent future
frost heaving problems.
Mr. Rinn also presented a list of
nine areas where sidewalk repairs
will be made.*****
Council will ask Eugene Mc
Adam, village building inspector to
institute a new policy for permit
applications to prevent future sur
prises from the village being asked
for services that aren’t present.
The policy will see a completed
building permit application submit
ted to the village office for perusal
by the Public Utilities Commission
and village employees before a
permit is issued. Councillors hoped
that this procedure would let
officials know for sure what was
going on without delaying the
issuing of a permit by waiting for
approval to be given by a full
council meeting. The completed
application will be available for
information purposes to councillors
at their monthly meeting.
*****
Council decided to file for infor
mation, a request from the United
Groundhog’s Day Committee of
Huron County that Reeve Albert
Wasson support their position on
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the disposal of railway lines when
the situation is discussed at Huron
County Council.
The committee wants the land
turned back to adjacent landown
ers, not used for other purposes
such as a proposed recreation trail.
Blyth council had earlier supported
the trail proposal but some council
lors had indicated subsequently,
they might have had second
thoughts.
“I still think the government
should maintain ownership (to the
land),’’ Councillor Dave Lee, say
ing he found nothing wrong with
the land being put back in the care
of the farmers. “It seems idiotic to
give up ownership of a corridor” he
said, noting the expense that has
been incurred acquiring land for
power corridors locally.
*****
Fees for the recreation program
in Blyth will increase this year to
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government grants for the pro
gram. Councillor Dave Medd said
he didn’t feel last year’s charges of
$20 per child or $25 per family are
high enough. The new rates will be
$30 per child and $35 per family.
Non-residents and seasonal resi
dents will be charged an extra $10.
Hired to run the program were
leader Michelle Cronin and assis-
Lawrie. They were to attend a
special two-day workshop on June
26 and 27 at Walkerton sponsored
by the Lake Huron Zone Recreat
ionists.
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Blyth’s tourist information booth
will open for the season July 1
weekend. Hired to staff the booth
is Gayle Poore and Debbie Logue.
They were to attend a tourism
workshop sponsored by the South
western Ontario Travel Association
in London June 26.
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