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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1999-08-11, Page 6PAGE 6. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1999. Letters Adult Day Centre staff does a wonderful job Continued from page 4 HADC and speak to employees about them anytime. The employees and volunteers became friends. I would hate to see this program become so expensive or discontinue because of the rent problem. It was a great benefit to my family when we needed it and I believe that this program is needed by families now. It is a great service to our community and I would like it to continue. Sincerely, Vicki Garland (former caregiver). Rent hike could cripple HADC THE EDITOR, I strongly object to the extremely high hike in the rent that Huron Adult Day Centre must now pay! The Huron County administration should NEVER have increased the rent five times the original $17,000 per year to $85,OOO/year (only Scrooge would have tried to pull this off!) The former Huron County administration board was quite satisfied with the Adult Day Centre paying the $17,000 per year in rent. Why the sudden change of heart with a new administration? Increasing one’s rent five times the original is both unfair and cruel. In the long run it will ultimately affect the alzheimer and the frail elderly as well as the physically and mentally challenged clients who are in dire need of the programs offered at the Day Centre. These elderly Huron County residents who worked their “fingers to the bone” so that their children and their children’s children could live in a better county should not be penalized in this way. The Day Centre is funded by the Huron United Way and through charitable fundraising is operating well within their budget. Where is the extra $65,000 for the rent to come from? The Day Centre programs are affordable to the average senior living on a fixed income. To increase the fees would only see a large number of these clients drop out of the program and become home-bound which in turn would lead to acute depression and eventually institutionalization. I have been providing foot care to the clients of the Day Centre since 1997 and I truly enjoy working there. My observations of the staff are that they are kind, caring and go out of their way to make sure that each client’s physical, emotional and social needs are met. Yes the program is extremely beneficial and at this point affordable. Perhaps the Huron County administration wants the Day Centre to relocate, hence the grossly unfair rent hike. If they do want the Day Centre to relocate why did they try so hard in the first place to keep the Day Centre in the old Huronview building when they (the county) were demolishing the building? Please persuade the Huron County administration board to reconsider not raising the rent for the Huron Adult Day Centre. Thank you, Margaret Lee. Jim Rice celebrates 90 years Century minus 10 Well-known former business owner Jim Rice celebrated his 90th birthday with friends and family at Huronview on Sunday. A man very well known to the residents of Hullett Twp. and sur­ rounding area celebrated his 90th birthday on Sunday. Jim Rice, former owner of Rice’s Store welcomed guests to Huron­ view in Clinton to mark the occa­ sion. Mr. Rice began working at the age of nine as a grocery delivery boy then advanced to selling papers. In 1924, he moved on to market gardening. He married Amelia Edith May Hendry in 1930 and they raised five children, Winnifred, Dorothy, Eleanor, Marjorie and Glen. Four years later they moved to northern Ontario but returned to Malton in 1942. He was employed as a stationary engineer at the Woodbridge cotton mill in 1949 then began buying and selling vegetables in the 1950s. They moved to Blyth in 1962 and a year later he began selling Rawleigh Products. He opened Rice’s Store in 1966 and sold it to Sandy Bechtel just two years ago. Bayfield, Hensall, Zurich, townships settle restructuring The deal is almost closed between Zurich, Hensail, Bayfield and Hay and Stanley Twps. The Aug. 4 Municipal Restruc­ turing Committee(MRC) meeting was held to finalize the plan and receive approval of details for the amalgamation proposal which will go to county council. If approved by all levels of gov­ ernment, the new Municipality of Bluewater would come into affect on Jan.l, 2001. Some last minute concessions helped close the deal as the MRC agreed to let the transition board determine the location of the new municipal office rather than insist on the Stanley Twp. site. Hay Twp. councillors had refused to approve the plan if that stipulation was not agreed upon. Stanley Twp. had been consid­ ered the central location until Tuck­ ersmith Twp. pulled out of talks. NOTICE OF PROPOSED BY-LAWS TO ESTABLISH A ROAD ALLOWANCE, TO DIVERT A ROAD ALLOWANCE, TO STOP UP AND CLOSE A ROAD ALLOWANCE AND TO SELL PART OF A ROAD ALLOWANCE Notice is hereby given that pursuant to the Municipal Act, R.S.O. 1990, the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Grey proposes to enact by-laws as described below to establish a road allowance, to divert a road allowance, to stop up and close a road allowance and to sell part of a road allowance. The proposed by-laws and descriptions of the lands affected may be viewed at the Grey Township Municipal Office at the address hereinafter noted. The Council of the Corporation of the Township will hear, in person or by counsel or agent, any person who claims their land will be prejudicially affected by the said by-laws and who applies to be heard at a meeting to be held at the said Municipal Office on the 7th day of September. 1999 at 8:00 p.m. Dated at the Township of Grey Brad Knight, Clerk Treasurer This 9th day of August, 1999 Township of Grey R.R. #3 Brussels, Ontario, NOG 1H0 By-law 21-1999 proposes to stop up, close, sell and transfer a road allowance known as Church Street, R.P. 240 (Ethel). Please refer to the diagram below. By-law 20-1999 proposes to establish and lay out on part lot 2, concession 10, Township of Grey a road allowance to be known as Maradon Road allowance subject to Lot 22, Cone. 7 Grey Twp. ETHEL By-law 22-1999 proposes to divert the original road allowance between lots 8-10, concession 11-12, Township of Grey more particularly described as Parts 6-10,13 & 14, Plan 22R-4403 to existing travelled road allowance more particularly described as Parts 1 and 2, Plan 22R-4403. By-law 23-1999, proposes to stop up and close part of the original road allowance between lots 8-10, concession 11-12, Township of Grey, more particularly described as Parts 6-10, 13 & 14 Plan 22R-4403. By-law 24-1999 proposes to sell parts of the road allowance that is to be stopped up and closed by By-law 23-1999. By­ law 24-1999 proposes to sell Parts 7, 9, 14, Plan 22R-4403. For By-laws 22-1999, 23-1999 and 24-1999, please refer to the diagram below.