The Citizen, 1996-06-12, Page 3Rambunctious reflections
Darrell McDougall, left, and Derek Cook had a great time shining cars at the Blyth Public
School fundraising car wash Saturday. Supported by the Optimists, students and staff,
washed cars, offered wagon rides and served up a pancake breakfast to raise funds for new
playground equipment. The old wooden play centre had to be removed when it no longer
met safety standards.
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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1996 PAGE 3.
Support continues
for Blyth campaign
At the regular meeting of Village
of Blyth Council held June 3, Clerk
John Stewart reported that support
is continuing to come in on a daily
basis for Blyth council's province
wide campaign for the removal of
education taxes from property.
Stewart reported that to date 321
municipalities have replied and the
momentum continues with more
letters of support arriving daily.
Two hundred and one councils
have indicated full support to
discontinue collection of education
taxes as of Jan. 1, 1997. Forty-six
councils have sent letters to support
in principle. Twenty-one have
referred to committee. Thirty-six
received and filed and 17 indicate
no support.
Stewart said he is now attempting
to arrange for council to meet with
the Minister of Education and/or
the committee that has now been
appointed by the provincial govern-
ment to deal quickly with tax
reform.
Reeve Mason Bailey expressed
his satisfaction in the way the
campaign is progressing, saying
that since the last meeting the
Cities of London and Orillia have
added their support. Also a letter
has been received from the Federa-
tion of Ontario Cottagers' Associa-
tion offering support and assistance.
Council authorized Reeve Bailey
to encourage their organization to
lobby their respective MPPs
however possible. Reeve Bailey
added that the letter to the City of
Metro Toronto is now being
processed and should come to their
council shortly.
Council was encouraged that the
provincial government has now
acted positively in appointing a
committee to quickly make new
recom-mendations for Tax Reform
and are looking forward to
presenting the results of their
campaign to them in the near
future.
30 members at Swinging Seniors dinner
The Blyth Swinging Seniors had
their pot luck dinner on May 22 at
noon at the Blyth Memorial Hall
with about 30 members in
attendance.
After dinner Isabelle Craig,
president, took the chair and
everyone opened by singing 0
Canada with Graeme McDowell
accompanying at the piano.
Following this Vera Badley and
Hary McDowell led a lively sing-a-
long. Happy Birthday was sung to
Hary McDowell for his 82nd May
birthday, also Happy Anniversary
was sung to John and Rita Blake
for their 55th wedding anniversary
and Hary and Feme McDowell for
their 53rd wedding anniversary.
Lawrence Plaetzer then intro-
duced the guest speaker, Rev. Paul
Ross from Exeter, who is the
United Church minister at Londes-
boro and Auburn. He told many
amusing stories about the
adventures and misadventures of
being a minister. One incident was
when he was ready to baptize a
new baby and found the fount was
empty. This was his first
experience at dry cleaning the baby
he said. He had some experience
with unwanted animals or birds
getting into the church and a field
mouse caused quite a stir once.
Also, he said, as Art Linkletter
used to say, "Kids say the darndest
things."
The Seniors enjoyed his talk very
much. Rev. Ross said the ministry
is never dull and could always
expect the unexpected.
The president took over for the
business portion and the usual
reports were given. An invitation
from Huronlea was read for June
28 at 1:30 p.m. for a luncheon and
entertainment.
It was discussed about putting a
float in the parade for the
Homecoming reunion on Aug. 10.
A committee will be looking after
it.
The next meeting will be a picnic
on July 24 at the Lions Park at
noon. It will be a potluck dinner.
All are welcome.
It was decided not to play cards
and the meeting was then
adjourned.
Strawberry
Social
Thursday,
June 27, 1996
to be held at
Blyth United Church
Basement
5 - 7 p.m.
All you can eat cold buffet
with cake, strawberries and
whipped cream for dessert
Advance Tickets $8.00
At the door $9.00
Children under 10 $5.00
Children under 4 FREE
All proceeds for the
beautification of Blyth's
Downtown area
Tickets are available at:
Carol's Candies & Collectables,
Christmas & Country
Flowers & Gifts,
or The North Huron Citizen
Sponsored by The Blyth
Business Association Council seeks deal with OCWA
By Bonnie Gropp
A busted pump at the Sewage
Treatment Plant could cost the Vil-
lage of Blyth close to $4,000.
Plant Manager Henry Rouw was
present at the June 3 meeting of
council to discuss the situation. The
pump had broken in March and
concern over not having a back-up
pump during the high waters of
spring, prompted Rouw to get the
repairs done as quickly and effi-
ciently as possible. "Under normal
conditions we would probably have
tackled the repair ourselves but we
really had to have a second pump
for back up."
However, under the agreement
with the Ontario Clean Water
Agency which looks after the cost
People
Alvin and Gene Snell visited last
weekend with their daughters, Jack
and Shirley Johnson of London and
Jim and Audrey Timpany of
Aylmer.
of general maintenance the repair
to the pump, which included the
replacement of seals, bearings, and
o-rings, was considered a capital
expenditure.
Councillors disagreed, however.
Noting that it was regular wear and
tear that would begin again as soon
as the pump was put back into use,
Councillors Doug Scrimgeour, Rob
Lawrie and Gerald Kerr argued that
this seemed to be more a routine
maintenance than a capital expendi-
ture, especially when the pump was
repaired, not replaced.
Rouw and council eventually
decided to approach OCWA to ask
for at least a split in the cost. Rouw
is to bring the answer back to the
next meeting.
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