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County council briefs
Cancer prevention and early
detection are important concerns for
everyone. General healthy self-care,
learning to know arid understand
one's' body, and undergoing routine
screening procedures help reduce
chances of serious illness.
Some people are able to integrate
these strategies into their lives with
relative ease; others find it more
challenging. For instanc, , sexual
abuse in childhood can contribute to
health difficulties in later life, and at
the same time make it harder for the
Women who have experienced
sexual abuse during childhood are
invited to participate in a free work-
shop in Goderich on June 23.
Celebrating Body Wisdom:.
Identifying Barriers and Resources
for Promoting Wellness in the
Prevention of Cancer is sponsored
by Huron County Health Unit and
Women's Shelter, Second Stage
Housing and Counselling Services
of Huron.
and reflect upon their own resources
foi= self-care — and their own
particular barriers to creating well-
ness, especially around cancer pre-
vention.
Another theme running through
the day will be the celebration of the
wisdom and wonder of the human
body.
The event will take place in
Goderich from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30
p.m. (lunch provided). It will include
Residents of Grey, McKillop and
Tuckersmith wards are one step clos-
er to getting a huge hike on property
taxes.
Under the proposed budget resi-
dents in Brussels and Seaforth would
receive a tax decrease while certain
areas of the rural areas face tax hikes
from 20 to 40 per cent.
Council rejected plans to lower the
taxes in the rural wards by giving the
urban wards a small tax increase
North Huron Deputy-Clerk Kathy
Adams asked council to look into
banning pitbulls after one of the
dogs attacked an- elderly woman's
small dog.
Adams pointed to Kitchener-
Waterloo where .pitbulls and pitbull
crosses are banned.
North Huron will make an amend-
ment to the dog bylaw banning any
new pitbulls into the area.
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informational presentations, dis-
plays, personal exploration, and a
creative activity ledby local artist
Linda Wiebe. Other presenters and
facilitators will be Linda Stobo from
the Health Unit, Blanche Savage
from the Women's Shelter and nurse
practitioner Debbie Selkirk.
Participants must pre-register for
this workshop. Women who want to
register, or who want more informa-
tion, may call Savage at 524-5333 or
1-800-265-5506, or Stobo at 482-
3416.
through a redistribution of the
Community Reinvestment Fund, a
suggestion made by Deputy-Mayor
Bernie MaCLellan at the May 22
meeting.
Council passed the proposed
budget last Tuesday but a final draft
of the budget is to be due next
Tuesday, June 20 for council's
approval. The tax rates for each
ward will be finalized at that
time. '
***
Blyth resident Rick Mclnroy
spoke to council about a neighbour
who baled his in-town property for
hay.
Mclnroy demanded that council
make the party in question to cut his
grass more than once a year, citing a
bylaw that says no one should have
their yard unkept.
CounLil will look into the issue.
***
Galbraith Park near Wingham is
being considered for possible con-
struction of soccer fields and tempo-
rary camp sites.
***
Council was presented with num-
berous items' from the Westcast
Complex in Wingham for their help
building the center.
***
Robert Trick was appointed to the
role of Provincial Offenses Officer.
***
Reeve Doug Layton and Clerk-
Administrator John .Stewart must
sign an agreement on behalfof coun-
cil for the rental of Belgrave
Community Centre.
Huron E. rural wards
• fac ing bib tax hike
Wellness workshop for sexual abuse survivors
North Huron council briefs
Bylaw passes
banning pitbulls
NH's Scott sworn in as county councillor
top Please Recycle This Newspaper North Huron's new deputy-reeve
Murray Scott was sworn in as a
member of county council at the
June 7 session. Scott is filling a
vacancy left by Jeff Howson.-
During the striking committee
deliberations two members from
North Huron, Howson and Doug
Layton, were inadvertently placed
on the health and planning commit=
tee. With Howson's resignation, it
was proposed that the situation be
corrected.
A bylaw amendment passed mov-
ing Central Huron Councillor Carol
Mitchell to health and planning and
Scott to the social and cultural serv-
ices committee.
***
Council supported a recommenda-
tion from the agriculture, public
works and seniors committee for a
letter to be sent to Brian Coburn,
minister of agriculture, food and
rural affairs, requesting immediate
approval of the county's Healthy
Futures proposal.
Asked by Mitchell what the status
of the proposal was, planner Gary
Davidson said it was his understand-
ing it was "on the minister's desk for
signing. This will be a good motion."
***
Currently videos at the county
libraries circulate for two days. In
the social and cultural services report
it was noted that when first intro-
duced the videos were costly and the
collection small. That has changed
and a recommendation was made
that in order to make the collection
more accessible to rural patrons, the
policy be revised so that the loan
period for videos is one week.
***
A bylaw passed so that speed lim-
its in Belmore, Seaforth and Brussels
be extended to encompass the urban
development.
In Brussels this affects the south
edge of the village on County Rd.
12.
***
Penny Nelligan was introduced as
the new acting director of the health
unit.
***
Council supported a recommenda-
tion that the Huron Federation of
Agriculture be advised that the tax
tools are not adequate because of the
capping provisions and that they be
invited to the next meeting to discuss
jointly advising the province of the
concerns about how the download-
ing of the farm tax rebate affects the
Community Re-investment Fund
calculation which should be revised
to fit current- value assessment
impacts.
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