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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-02-21, Page 1Hold _100th annual meeting Kenneth B.., MacLean, Bruce Township, and Donald McKenzie; Goderich were • elected directors to the West Wawanosh Mutual Fire Insurance Company at their ..106th annual meeting on February16, 1979, in Dungannon. Retiring directors were Charles Anderson • who retired in September due to illness and • George C. Feagan who was not eligible far • re-election. .• Mr. Feagan has served as a member of the company for 26 years.. The meeting introduced to the member - Ship • -a •new secretary -treasurer, Stephen - Whitney and assistant secretary treasurer, Joanne Whitney, who replace Frank and Cora Thompson, who served in the positions respectively since. 1962. . Mr. Thompson said he was elected to the company as a director '23 years ago and during; that :time has missed only one • . CONTINUED ON .PAGE 2 et. Frank Thompson, right; and his 7,vg,Cotii;'*ere 'honoured on that'. ' Feagan, centre, .retired as a director Of the company after serving for . retirement as secretary treasurer and assistant secretary treasurer of 26 years., On the left are Stephen and Joanne Whitney- who have the 'West Wawanosh Mutual Eire' Insurance CoMpany, -al the -100th .. taken the 'positions previously held by the Thompionse . • Minna' meeting' Of the cOMpany IntungannOn on February'16.- They ._., . " [Sentinel Staff Photo] have served in their positions With the company sinee 1962.'. George, ., . . , • $11 A Year in Advance 521.50 T ---•-o U.S.A. and Foreign WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 21, 1979 Single Copy 25e 32 Luc• know Village Council expressed their concern about the cost to the taxpayers of Lucknow, when the village proceeds with a - sewage project in the downtown business core, at their February 13 ,meeting. Council agreed the downtaVyn core needs the service, but they .do not understand how the village will tax people living in the • extreme tuirth end of the village for a service to the downtown area. The concern was discussed with repres entatives of Burns. Ross Associates, Goder- , ich, who are doing the engineering for -the projedt. Burns Ross and Steve Burns • attended,the meeting to explain the method of application, for government granti and . • Lucknow Village Council discussed their disenchantment with Ontario Hydro at their meeting on Feburary 13. 'Councillor Ab 'Murray asked councillor Bill Crump, council's hydro committee, to write a letter t� Ontario Hydrotelling them council is dissatisfied with the , service Lucknow is. •getting. • Power was off in the village for close to nine hours On February 11, viten 'lightning' resistor failed at the Lucknow substation and • problems developed at the' Holyrood sill) . station. • "Saturday was the second time in a month that power has been off for over seven hours at a crack,' said Councillor Eldon Mann. Councillor Murray said he went out to the I Lucknow substation, the night the power was off, while hydro crews were working to • restart power. He said he thought it very "inefficient" there was no transformer for the Lucknow substation in Stock at Walker- ton and Hydro had to go to Owen Sound for a transformer for Lucknow. • When the then returned with the trans - • former said Murray it was the wrong size for Lucknow's station and Omer had to be brought in from Clinton. • Several farmers .in the area, who were without power February 11; found pipes. running between their . houses and barns frozen and have to carry water to the houses. One farmer's. pipes are frozen -ta,the barn and he has to bring . in water. for the barn• , Murray said that one of the crewSvorking at the Lucknow substation that night, said that many of the lines in this area have. never been replaced since hydro power was first installed. Some of the lines are 25 years old and because of budget restraints they have not been replaced. Murray Said he thought poor maintenance was the reason Lucknow has so many power outages and cOmmented there was no reason why a lightning resistor should be alloWed to put out power in sub -zero weather in the winter time. • Council could only wonder at the serious nature of the problem if there had been a severe snowstorm the night of February 11. how the project will be funded by the village. The building of sewers in the business core may slightly increaselthe mill rate in iucknow said Ross, because the sewers will be an asset to the village as a whole, but residents in othet areas of the village will not pay as much as those directly servieed, An assessment of the average home will be taken and the rate for Lucknow taxpayers will be basedon this average • assessment according to frontage. .There will be no burden for any one taxpayer. • •• Burns told the meeting that the Ministry' • has suggested that for the Lucknow project, • the cost the homeowner would be approximately $120 a frontage. Councillor Ab Murray told the engineers he is worried how the village will be able to operate a sewage 140 in years to come Burns Ross • explained to council that operating costs will have to be added to the • homeowner cost to cover both capital and operating costs. The Ministry of Transportation and ComMunicattoti gives such a large amount to the municipality that • capital • costs are reduced and operating costs will then be the largest portion of the rate to the home- owner," said Steve Burns. Councillor. Murray told the meeting he did not understand how the village would justify. building sewers for the business core and asking all village taxpayers to support the operating costs. "I can see servicing the whole town and the cost being shared by all the house- holders, but doing a relatively small area concerns me about the operating costs," said Murray. • "People think sewers are coming and should come, but they ate 'concerned about operating costs." Many in the village are on fixed incomes he added. • Ross told council that they would be much more likely to get a grant approved for the • business core, rather than the whole village; • because core area is where there is the greatest need. That's where the Brute Coubty Health Unit is pushing far sewers to be put in, he stressed. Councillor Murray made the observation • that council has no real alae apative but to • proceed with the project. • "i've been here three years. We started • with sewers in the spring of '77 and this is the closest we've gotten to anything," he said. •" • "It's going to come and we have to face it," said Councillor Bill Crump, "We can't keep running from it." en• from car Close to $3,000 was stolen from a car' -- parked in front of Greer T.V. and Electric on the main street of Lucknow on Friday afternoon around '3:30 p.m. 'The money was a payroll for Helm Welding Ltd., Lucknow. Constable Andy Burgess of the Kincar- dine detachment' of the Ontario Provincial Police investigated the theft which is still under investigation. •