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The Citizen, 1994-07-13, Page 1Education ■ News ■ Travel M Review Area students among Clinton, Listowel scholars See page 6 Former Grey Twp. woman marks milestone See page 9 Finnish student visits Auburn-area on exchange See page 14 Writer says O'Neill play truly ‘a long journey’ See page 23 County’s MOH lectures council Dr. Maarten Bokhout, Medical Officer of Health for Huron Coun­ ty, expressed his disappointment Thursday, that Huron County has rejected a provincial offer to pay for enforcement of anti-smoking legislation. Dr. Bokhout's lecture was made to Huron County Council, at its July session, even though the deci­ sion was made by the Board of Health and county council has no control over the independent board. County councillors do dominate the board, however, and it was three council representatives who made the motions to turn back the grant. The $25,000 grant would have paid for an additional half-time public health inspector to inspect an additional 300 premises in order to comply with provincial Bill 119. The proposal to hire the extra staff was first tabled at the May meeting of the board on motion of Council­ lors Bill Clifford of Goderich and Pat Down of Usbome Township. At the June meeting a motion by Bill Vanstone of Colbome, second­ ed by Councillor Clifford, approved sending the money back to the province saying the board "detests the manner in which this money is being allocated and that it would prefer it be allocated toward education." But Dr. Bokhout argued that the additional inspector would be involved in education. Public health inspectors do not just "hand out tickets" he emphasized, but also Continued on page 6 CitizenTheNorthHuron Vol. IONo.28 Wednesday, July 13, 1994 6O0GSTincluded Huron takes first step to 911 service Huron County council has taken the first step toward establishing a 9-1-1 emergency telephone service in the county. Council voted Thursday to estab­ lish a working committee to inves­ tigate the feasibility of establishing and implementing a county-wide 9- 1-1 emergency calling number. On the committee will be staff from all municipalities and the county. Input from fire chiefs will be sought. There is concern on the part of county fire departments that the extra calls they would have to respond to would make it too great a burden for volunteer staff. There's also a matter of cost. The service would cost each telephone owner 32 cents a month but there would be additional costs, for call answering and dispatching. Lyn Murray, county clerk-administrator said the committee will be explor­ ing the costs and how they could be met. "It's hard to know what the costs will be before we know what resources we have," said Carol Leeming of the Huron County Planning Department who is head­ ing up the study. Part of the com­ mittee's work will be to see what alternatives there are, she said. The 9-1-1 system could be answered by Bell Canada or perhaps by a local police dispatcher. The first step if the program is to go ahead, she said, is to put munici­ pal addressing in place for accurate location of emergencies. That can take one to two years, she said. Lionel Wilder, reeve of Hay Twp., said the problem of imple­ menting the system in Huron is dif­ ferent than elsewhere because six phone companies are involved, five independents and Bell Canada. Nevertheless, all companies have co-operated and said it can be done. Warden Allan Gibson said accep­ tance of the system will have to be unanimous by all municipalities. In Bruce the system failed because all municipalities wouldn't go along. Frederick St. residents discuss Nichol Drain Brussels residents affected by the installation of the proposed Branch F of the Nichol Drain met with Morris Township council on July 5 to obtain more information. All landowners had received a report outlining the location of the main drain, its branches and the watershed which will be drained by the pipe. Jeff Dickson, of Maitland Engi­ neering Services, detailed the tech­ nical aspects of the engineers report and the total costs of the project. Mr. Dickson said, "The purpose of the drain is for containment and control of the pickup of surface water along Frederick Street and on Lot 29 of Morris Twp. The system has been designed with future development of the land taken into consideration." "At present there are no storm sewers, curbs or gutters along the west end of Frederick Street and drainage problems are occurring. Land owned by Bill Turnbull and Harold Steffler would be affected by the installation of the drain," says Mr. Dickson. "The system was designed to handle storms which might occur on a two year cycle. This is the minimum allowed though it was decided at the two site meetings held earlier that a five year system would be too expensive," he says. Included in the proposal is the installation of two ditch inlet catch basins on either side of Frederick Street at the extreme west end of Brussels. Mr. Dickson said there will be allowances for damaged lands and land taken due to the construction of the drain. The individual costs assessed to each property owner in the Nichol Drain watershed was not discussed at the meeting. Those concerns will be heard by the court of revision on Aug. 2. Only complaints filed with the clerk's office 10 days prior to the meeting will be heard. Dam ducks It wouldn't be the second weekend in July without the Brussels Lions annual Rubber Duck Race. Though typically one of the FunFest events, the race went on despite the demise this year of the weekend festival. Though not as busy as usual there were still several different events happening from Friday to Sunday in the village, including a slowpitch tournament, teen dance and in the downtown core, a bargain bash. Bulls tournament a success 1 ne Brussels Bulls Junior C hockey team held a slowpitch tour­ nament on the July 8 weekend as part of the village Big Bargain Bash weekend. Organizer Doug McArter says, "The tournament was very success­ ful and the crowds were good. The weather held off so the event went very well. The Bulls hockey club is looking better (after this fundrais­ ing event). " Sixteen teams took part in the three day tournament. The Brussels Relics took on the Walton Old Boys (past Walton fastball team) in the B final and captured the win with a 6-2 victory. Mr. McArter says the A final was a real surprise. "The Walkerton O.T.s had mercied every competi­ tor throughout the tournament, but were thumped when they met Blyth Body Glove in the championship. The Blyth team were triumphant with a 17-0 win. The youth of Brussels also partic­ ipated in the Big Bargain Bash by holding a teen dance at The Ark on Friday evening. Sallianne Patch of The Ark says the dance went very well and everyone had great fun. Approximately 50 young people gathered to enjoy music provided by Jester. "On Saturday, the kids from The Ark volunteered their services to help run the candy floss booth at the Lions Park Hill," says Ms Patch. "It was good to see the young Continued on page 2 Teacher resigns Buryi Wilson, a teacher at Seaforth District High School has resigned from his teaching position after begin charged with one count of gross indecency and three counts of paying for sex with a person under 18. Mr. Wilson was arrested May 27 in connection with the child pornography ring in London. Numerous pornographic video tapes and pictures were seized from his London home. Mr. Wilson was a teacher at the local school for more than 10 years.