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Museum closes gift shop Continued from page 6 found and smokers are still required to go outside to smoke. *** Beth Wilke has been appointed acting director of the Huron County Board of Health. Wilke has been a public health nutritionist with the health unit since 1988. *** The arrival of natural gas in Brussels will mean substantial costs savings in heating Huronlea. With the estimated $13,000 cost of con- verting to natural gas the 1996 sav- ing will be only $5,000 but the saving is estimated at $18,400 for 1997. *** The Huron County Museum's money-losing gift shop will be closed. The shop became unprof- itable after a pay-equity settlement increased the wage cost by more than the income level. The move will save $1,000 a year. Some items such as the Huron County Atlas will still be offered for sale but the retail effort will be scaled back dramatically. *** The number of cases on welfare dropped by 10.6 per cent from November 1994 to November 1995 while the number of beneficiaries dropped by 7.6 per cent. Huron remains the seventh lowest munici- pality in Ontario in the rate of those receiving social assistance with 2.06 per cent of the population. The amount a welfare recipient can earn before having money deducted from welfare payments has been increased, retroactive to October. A single person can now earn $143 before deductions, instead of $120. A couple with two children can earn $346 instead of $200. It's estimated the changes will cost county taxpayers an additional $20,000 but the county expects to save $120,000 from the welfare cuts mandated by the provincial government. *** A company has bid $15,000 for the right to salvage trees damaged by July's vicious windstorm in the Morris Tract near Goderich. The Nature Conservancy of Canada, which has put in a bid to buy the property, has been consulted by the Ministry of Natural Resources about how to salvage the trees with a minimum of damage to the envi- ronment. Meanwhile, the county has asked the ministry to develop a harvest plan for county forests which will help pay off the county's debt to the province as part of the management agreement by the year 2000. "The aim is to continue good forest man- agement practices and to retire the debt by 2000," Warden Bill Clif- ford said. ''We hope not only to get enough revenue to retire the debt but also raise money to pay for pruning (of trees in county forests.)" Pruning of white pine trees makes the wood more valu- able by removing knots in the mature trees. *** Exeter officials met with the Planning and Development Com- mittee at its Jan. 15 meeting to dis- cuss the county redelegating planning authority to the town. When Exeter refused to pay coun- ty-imposed planning fees in 1994, the county withdrew from the town (as well as the Town of Clinton), authority to handle its own plan- ning functions. Since then a new uniform user fee system of planning fees has been adopted across the county and Exeter says it is willing to go along with the system. It wants the 1994 fees forgiven by the county, how- ever, since it claims Exeter was subsidizing other municipalities for seven months through the county levy. It also wants the county to reconsider the portion of the plan- ning fees that the county takes for payment. The committee took no action on the proposals and Exeter Reeve Bill Mickle asked at the Feb. 1 council meeting when an answer might be corning. "It's not proper just to set it aside and hope it will go away," he said. "This is too important an issue." He got no indication of when the committee might have an answer to Exeter's proposal. *** Interim funding in the form of a $5,000 loan, was approved for the committee bidding for the 1999 International Plowing Match. On Monday, Feb. 12 the county will find out if it has officially received the right to hold the match but at last report there was no other bid- der for the match. The committee has asked for $50,000 in loan installments leading up to the match, to be paid back by the con- clusion of the match, planned for Hay Twp. near Dashwood. HELPING THE WORLD WRITE NOW A• CODE Self-sufficiency through literacy in the developing world For information, call 1-800-661-2633 *** The county has set aside $100,000 from the 1995 surplus to help pay departments offset the impact of pay-equity settlements. The ongoing impact of the non- union pay equity settlement is $175,731. *** Tom Knight, director of the Huron County Children's Aid Soci- ety has also accepted a six-month contract to administer the Bruce County Children's Aid Society. At the end of the contract both coun- ties will assess the situation. Even on a six-month basis the move will mean substantial savings for Huron. *4* The county will contribute $3,000 towards the $10,000 cost of a study by Coopers and Lybrand to analyze the additional costs of trav- el, increased policing costs in travel and overtime, legal aid and increased costs for witnesses if the province closed the Huron County Court. While the Goderich court has been spared by the most recent round of cuts, Warden Clifford said, it will pay to be armed with statistics to support the argument against the next round of cuts. Family participation Local speed skating celebrity Cathy Hunt was on hand at Grey Central Public School, Feb. 2, for the kick-off of their Families in Motion campaign. Hunt told the children of many opportunities for families to be active and stay active throughout the year, even in cold winter weather.