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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1995-06-07, Page 8Gardening is an investment It adds to the value of your property There's still plenty of plants to choose froth at TE-EM Farm including Nursery Stock, Hedging, Perennials, - Annuals, Potted Containers and Planters, Hanging Baskets and bags, Geraniums, etc. Our own Asparagus in Freezer quantities Our perennial display garden is a must to see! Ted's tasty tomatoes are ready TE-EM FARM A Gardener's Paradise RR #1 BAYFIELD OPEN FROM DAWN TO DUSK 482-3020 7 DAYS A WEEK unless otherwise noted. Ted & Emma Vander Wouden * family We're Movin The folks at The Workshop hate the thought of packing up and moving - So we are having a sale NOW! JUST IN TIME FOR FATHER'S DAY Shorts SAVE 25% Summer Casual & Western Shirts SAVE 20% T-Shirts SAVE 15% Summer Hats SAVE 20% Summer Cotton Pants SAVE 20% Australian Oilskins SAVE 25% Opening July 3rd at new location 180 Josephine St. (One store south of Stainton's Hardware) Wiiikshop FEATURING MEN'S WORKWEAR osephille Street in: PAGE 8. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1995. Ashfield Twp. gets rep on landfill committee Bar earned These members of the Belgrave Brownies received their Golden Bar, recently. With leaders Alice Yuill, left, Connie Dawson, centre and Lianne Swanson are, middle row, from left: Felisha Price, Nicole Meier, who also received an award for best attendance and for always being in uniform at meetings, Janisa Cloakey, Camerra Yuill. Front: Amanda Dorsch, Leanne Elston, Lindsay Malhiot, Ellen Procter. County studies MOH sharing With the resignation of Dr. Maarten Bokhout as Medical Offi- cer of Health (MOH), Huron Coun- ty's Board of Health is exploring the possibility of amalgamating its board with a neighbouring county or at least sharing an MOH The board, at a special meeting May 30, approved a temporary arrangement with the Middlesex- London Board of Health for tempo- rary coverage of the MOH position The paving of County Road 20 through East and West Wawanosh west of Belgrave was completed last week, Denis Merrall, county engineer told the June 1 meeting of county council. Merrall said the highway is now completely paved from Belgrave to Highway 21, a project that has been on the books for several years. *** It was the last county council ses- sion for Bill Alcock after 20 years as county treasurer. Tom Cunning- ham, reeve of Hullett and a former county warden, rose to pay tribute to Alcock. Thanking him for his work while he was warden he said "I'm going to miss you Bill." Alcock replied that he wanted to thank council for the "opportunity you've given me over the last 20 years to meet all the wonderful people I've met in this building." *** Welfare rates in Huron continue to drop with a 16.54 per cent reduc- tion in cases in March 1995 com- pared to March 1994. Huron has the fifth lowest welfare rate as a percentage of population, of 61 municipalities reporting in a recent survey. Huron's rate was 2.31 com- pared to Kingston which had 10.99 per cent of the population receiving welfare. *** The Social and Cultural Services Committee supported a resolution from the city of Timmins which called for a task-force to investigate the feeling of parents that they no for up to three months. Under the agreement, Huron will pay $3,500 a month, plus expenses, to have the Middlesex-London MOH Dr. Gra- ham Pollett, serve as acting MOH. His associates, Dr. Verna Mai and Dr. Bryna Warshawsky, will also be associates in Huron. One of the three will be on site one day a week and will be avail- able for telephone consultation seven days a week. They'll attend meetings of the board and the longer have the right or are able to control their children because it is too easy for 16 and 17 year olds to get welfare assistance. Timmins calls for regulations to be tightened to make it harder for youths of that age to get assistance unless there are circumstances of abuse or they are a single parent. After reviewing the budget rec- ommendations for 1995, McKillop council set new mill rates at the May 2 meeting. The residential and farm rate will be 4.207 and the commercial and business rate will be 4.950. Several tenders were accepted by council. The first issue discussed was insurance for the upcoming year. Frank Cowan Co. Ltd. was award- ed the tender with a low bid of $14,236 plus taxes. Grass cutting in the township will be handled by Carl Gower Welding Repair who submitted a bid of $28,890 for a three year term. Asphalting work will be complet- ed by Lavis Contracting Co. Ltd., at a cost of $275,809.80. Council agreed that Conc. 2/3 from Vincent's Farm Equipment entranceway to Sideroad 30 would be built up. The road superinten- dent will call tenders in the Daily Commercial News. The road superintendent's vouch- er was approved for payment in the amount of $17,335. Recommendations from the joint building committee, which outlines senior staff of the Middlesex-Lon- don health unit will be available for assistance. The three-month period will be used to explore options of joint action with either the Perth District Board of Health or Middlesex-Lon- don, Board of Health Chair Bill Clifford said in an interview at Thursday's Huron County council meeting. Clifford said the fact finding isn't just a matter of looking for cost savings but a chance to look at where the future of the health units is heading. Currently the homecare comes under the health unit juris- diction and grants help pay a por- tion of the MOH salary. With the evolution of Multi-Service Agen- cies for long term care, this job may be taken away from the health unit, reducing the workload of the MOH. There are other services which the health unit should be supplying, like a qualified dental officer, which it can't afford to provide on its own. By sharing with another county, Huron might be able to get these services a few days a week, he said. the remuneration and cost sharing for Paul Josling, chief building offi- cial, were agreed to by council. The recommendations included: 50 per cent of group insurance pre- mium being shared by the five municipalities who employ Josling, cellular phone costs of $25 per month divided amongst the group plus each municipality's calls, daily rate for meetings and conferences be set at $100 with $50 for half days, meals and other costs paid by receipts, approval for the purchase of a printer with the $300 cost shared and approval to attend two conferences, OBOA in North Bay and Planning in Action in Barrie. Seaforth Agricultural Society was given approval for a special occasion liquor permit for Aug. 5 and 6, for Homecoming events. A voucher, in the amount of $8,486.16, was approved for pay- ment. Council passed bylaws allowing for the repair and maintenance of the O'Rourke Municipal Drain, the Kistner and Elligson Municipal Drains as well as approving the Kistner Drain repairs under a Grey Twp. bylaw. Ashfield Township finally has a representative on the Huron County waste management committee looking into a landfill site, but it might not be for long. A bylaw was passed at the June 1 meeting of county council, restruc- turing committees so that a repre- sentative of Ashfield can sit on the Planning and Development com- mittee while it is sitting as the land- fill site committee. The bylaw was prepared after Ashfield council asked for special arrangements to allow them a voice in landfill mat- ters. Although the only remaining site in the current round of site selec- tion is in Ashfield, no one could represent the township's concerns because Reeve Allan Gibson is owner of one of the properties in the site. It meant he was in conflict of interest and had to leave the council chambers every time the waste management issue came up for discussion. The new arrangement could be short lived. Drilling on the Ashfield site to test the depth to bedrock and subsoil conditions has now been completed. A report on the suitabil- ity of the site is expected to be ready for the June 12 meeting of the Planning and Development committee. If the site is unsuitable, the search would be opened up for a wider potential list of properties. It would mean Reeve Gibson would no longer have a conflict and the appointed representative from Ashfield would be withdrawn. Meanwhile there was some dis- cussion about how a new landfill site should be financed. Exeter Reeve Bill Mickle said that tipping fees should finance not only the operation of a new site, but its con- struction. Otherwise, he said, some municipalities that have years of life remaining in their landfill sites, will be treated unfairly. Tom Cunningham of Hullett agreed. A municipality with 20 years life left in its current landfill would be paying for construction of a site they won't be using, then would have to pay a full share of finding another new site when this one was filled. While the county will finance initial construction, he argued, tipping fees should be used to pay back this cost and set aside a good fund for future expansion or finding a site in 40 years when the first county landfill would be used up. COMING SOON Pick Your Own or Ready Picked STRAWBERRIES Orders will be taken TE-EM FARM "Where personal contact is assured" R. R. #1, Bayfield 482-3020 County council briefs County Road 20 paving job done McKillop accepts tenders