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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1996 PAGE 7.
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.
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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.