HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1992-11-11, Page 19Fire prevention officer not
needed, say county councillors
When the 15 draft recommenda
tions of the Huron County Study
are circulated to the municipalities
and the public, the proposal for a
county fire prevention officer will
not be included.
That was the decision of Huron
County councillors Thursday as
they asked for amendments to the
study before it was sent to the
municipalities.
The proposal in the study to con
sider the fire prevention office "cre
ates a position," said Tom Tomes,
reeve of Stephen Township and
currently the only candidate to
become warden of the county next
year. "Personally I don't think we
need a fire prevention officer." He
said volunteer fire departments are
very close knit and wouldn't wel
come someone coming from anoth
er part of the county to tell them
how to do their work. "I think it
(the recommendation) should be
eliminated right now and not go
further." Reeve Tomes thought the
recommendation has already been
eliminated after comments back in
March and was surprised to see it
still in the report. He said travel
expenses, let alone the salary of the
officer, would be prohibitive.
Goderich Reeve John Doherty
also felt the recommendation had
been sidelined at an earlier meet
ing. He agreed that his fire depart
ment wouldn't be pleased with an
outside person giving advice. Bob
Hallam, reeve of West Wawanosh,
said he was "definitely opposed" to
the cost of such an official.
Jack Coleman, deputy-reeve of
Stanley Township said many fire
departments are under pressure to
hire a full-time fire chief because of
the administrative burden of doing
fire inspections. The idea behind
the hiring of a county fire safety
Soil and crop meeting coming up
by Brian Hall
Farm Management Specialist
for Huron County
If crop farming is compared to
baseball, then November is the
bottom of the ninth inning of the
seventh game. Very soon there will
be no guessing about what effects
different production factors had on
yields - the proof is in the bin.
Your local Soil and Crop
Improvement Association has been
keeping score of the players,
treatments, and what really affected
yields. The line-up includes com
hybrid, soybean, wheat and canola
variety trials, fertility, plant
population and seeding and harvest
method comparisons.
Before we head into next year's
competition and the World Series,
we should review what happened
this year and pick out the real
winners.
Trial results should be sent soon
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be sent to either Bruce Shillinglaw,
RR 1, Londesboro NOM 2H0 or to
the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture
and Food office in Huron or Perth
County. Trial results should be sent
in by Nov. 23, however, later
results will still be accepted.
Remember to include your
County council asks for road report
The Huron County Road Com
mittee has been asked to provide a
report of what roads should be
down-loaded from the county to the
local municipalities.
Hullett Reeve Tom Cunningham
asked for the report after a motion
of the road committee to circulate
information about the county
extending County Rd. 35 in How
ick Township but also looking at
removing County Roads 29 and 33
officer would be to take that burden
off chiefs so there wouldn't be the
need for so many full-time chiefs.
An amendment was passed (put
forward by Wingham Reeve Bruce
Machan) to delete the provision for
the fire safety officer.
Also in the amendment was a
move to include hard services like
water and sewer to those soft ser
vices like recreation and day care,
that municipalities be encouraged
to co-operate on providing. Anoth
er provision to turn responsibilities
for police villages over to the
municipality was deleted because,
Reeve Tomes said, the Ontario
Municipal Act already gives that
power to local municipalities.
Norm Fairies, reeve of Howick,
said he didn’t see anything wrong
with the police village situation as
it now stands. There are three
police villages in his township.
"Why eliminate them? What's the
problem?"
Tom Cunningham, reeve of Hul-
lett said police villages* boards of
trustees had so few financial
resources that they could hardly
cover street light costs, let alone
other services. In the case of
Auburn, the townships of Hullett,
East Wawanosh and West
Wawanosh got together to provide
road improvements and split the
cost of fire protection, he said.
Villages split between townships
have difficulty getting proper repre
sentation on municipal councils
because their vote is also split,
Reeve Cunningham said. If police
villages were to be dissolved, those
split between two or three town
ships should be included in one of
those townships so they might have
the voting strength to elect some
one to sit on township council.
Executive
The executive for the Blyth Legion Branch 420 are, clockwise starting from bottom left, Donna
Dougherty, president; Joe Chatterton, executive; Ralph McCrea, Sgt. at Arms; Alan Caldwell,
poppy chairman; Robert Mclnnes, secretary; William Vincent, membership chairman; Gord
Haggitt, first vice; John Stewart, service officer; Mary Lou Stewart, public relations officer and
Clare Vincent, executive. Absent were: Robert Hillis, second vice; Donna Govier, treasurer;
Chris Courtney, youth and education chairman; Colleen Bell and Doreen Ritchie, executive.
The Huron Soil and Crop
Improvement Association has
organized its annual production
meeting on Thursday, Dec. 3,
6:30 p.m. at the Blyth Community
Centre. Tickets are available
through your local soil and crop
director or the Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food office in
Clinton.
Some key players and pinch
hitters will be at the meeting to
review this year's cropping trials
and plan for 1993. Three of the
players include Alan McCallum,
Soil and Crop Advisor for Huron
County; Laurence Taylor,
Chairman, Land Stewardship
Committee and Chris Hoskins,
Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority.
One pinch-hitter this year is Dr.
Erna van Duren, Agricultural
Economics, University of Guelph.
township and whether the trial was
grown by no-till or conventional
tillage. Com companies have also
supported the Association by
sending in variety trial results.
Please check with your dealer to
ensure your trial results are sent in.
The more results received, the
better the score card on varieties.
from the county system. Both are
also in Howick.
Reeve Cunningham said it isn't
fair to make such changes one at a
time, leaving municipalities that
were losing a county highway iso
lated from the support of other
municipalities.
"If council wishes I can bring a
map of roads that don’t meet the
county criteria," Mr. Merrall said.
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