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PUBLIC NOTICE
PUBLIC ROAD NAME CHANGES
Section 210 (11I) of the Municipal Act, R.S.O. 1990
Notice is hereby given that the following Councils intend to pass
a by-law to rename public roads which were previously named
and due to 9-1-1 regulations the Councils have deemed it
necessary to change the names of certain streets/roads in their
respective municipalities.
The public road naming changes will facilitate the County-wide
Municipal Addressing System which is required for the 9-1-1
Emergency Response System.
The following are the roads/streets affected by the change:
From To
1/ For the Turnberry Ward in the Municipality of Morris-Turnberry and Ward 3 of
the former Town of Wingham in the Township of North Huron
i) North Street B Line Road
(east of Josephine Street)
ii) North Street North Street West
(west of Josephine Street)
iii) Macintosh Street Victoria Street
2/ For Ward 1 of the former Village of Blyth in the Township of North Huron
i) Victoria Street Thuell Street
3/ For the Turnberry Ward in the Municipality of Morris-Turnberry
i) Turnberry-Culross Road Turnberry-Culross Road West
(west of London Road)
ii) Turnberry-Culross Road Huron Bruce Road
(east of London Road)
iii) James Street (Lower Town Wingham) Maitland Street
iv) Queen Street (Lower Town Wingham) Augusta Street
4/ For the Morris Ward in the Municipality of Morris-Turnberry
i) Queen Street (Hamlet of Walton) Blyth Road
ii) High Street (Hamlet of Walton) Brussels Line
Additional Information relating to the proposed renaming of public roads is
available for inspection at the respective Municipal Office.
Dated this 17th day of August, 2001
John Stewart, Clerk
Nancy Michie, Clerk
Township of North Huron Municipality of Morris-Turnberry
519-357-3550
519.887-6137
Municipality Clerk
Municipality of Nancy Michie
Morris-Turnberry
Township of John Stewart
North Huron
Public Meeting Date
Tuesday, September 18, 2001
8:00 p.m. -
Monday, September 17, 2001
7:30 p.m.
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WINGHAM & DISTRICT HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS
MAITLAND BRAIN INJURYSUPPORT GROUP:
This local group offers support Through social and educational gatherings for survivors of brain
injury and their families. For more information contact Pat Pietrek at ext. 267 or Joanne Bregman
at 392-8442:
HOSPITAL AUXILLIARY:
The next meeting will be held on September 10 at 1:30 p.m. in the Terrace Room at the hospital.
This is a regular auxiliary meeting. Anyone interested is welcome to attend.
LIVING WITH STROKE:
The rehabilitation center is offering the Heart & Stroke Foundation's "Living with Stroke" program.
This program is designed to help stroke survivors and their caregivers understand stroke and pro-
vides a basis for communication with others in similar situations. The program will run weekly
from Sept. 12 to Oct. 3 from 3-4 p.m. For more information contact Liz Rackow at 357-3210 ext.
234. No physician referral is required, however you must pre-register.
PARKING:
All visitors are reminded to use the lot in front of the hospital when visiting. The back lot is for the
use of employees and clients visiting the health center.
VOLUNTEERS:
Volunteer Huron presents "The Value of One, The Power of Many", Wednesday, September 26, 7
p.m. at North Huron Community Complex, Wingham. Free. Local performing artist Ted Johns will
present different aspects of volunteering. For anyone who is involved with volunteering. For more
information call Cathy at 482-1482.
BACK EDUCATION:
Are you experiencing frequent back pain or have you been diagnosed with a back problem? Learn
more about how to care for your back. We plan to start the program on September 19. For more
information or to register contact Josh Mason at 357-3210 ext. 293.
DIABETES EDUCATION CLASS:
The next class will be offered on September 27, from 8:30 am. to 3:00 p.m. in Room 107. Please
call ext. 362 to register.
GROCERY STORE TOURS:
If you would have an interest in attending a Grocery Store Tour, to read labels; find better nutrition
alternatives, etc., please call ext. 275. With 6 or more people, we will schedula'a date together.
PALLIATIVE CARE TRAINING:
Multidisciplinary Level 1 Palliative Care training is scheduled for Monday evenings from September
17 through November 26. Place: F. E. Madill High School. For information contact Kathy (357-
2720), Shirley (527-0655) or Karen (235-2510). Fee: $25. Registration deadline is Sept. 10.
CHOLESTEROL EDUCATION CLASS:
This class will be held on September 25,from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. in Room 107. Please call to regis-
ter at ext. 275. Doctor's referral is required.
NEW HURON PERTH PARTNERSHIP WEB PAGE:
Check out the new web site for the partnership. Filled with information on all eight hospitals, this
site provides a link to the Wingham & District Hospital web page. The web page is located at
www.hohp.org.
COMMUNITY FORUM:
Mark your calendars for the next community forum. This_will be held on October 17 at 7:00 p.m. in
the Hot Stove Lounge at the Complex. Chaired by Verna Steffler, the theme' of this forum is:
Wingham Hospital: Challenge, opportunity, Partnership. Plan to attend.
SPEECH - LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY:
The Rehabilitation Centre is pleased to welcome Janelle Albrecht to our staff, Janelle is a speech
language pathologist and will be providing services to preschoolers through the smalITALK pro-
gram and to adults on an inpatient and outpatient basis. Janelle may be reached at ext. 289. -
Phone: 357-3110 Fax: 357-2931 _ E-Mail: winghos0Pwcl.on.ca
PAGE 6. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2001.
St. Anne's changes rules for smoking students
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
Officials at St. Anne's Catholic
Secondary School in Clinton seem
always to be catching up with the
Avon Maitland District School
Board regarding student smoking
areas. This time, they're scrambling
after receiving much later requests
than Avon Maitland officials for
changes from Ontario's chief med-
ical officer of health.
Starting with the first day of
school, Sept. 4, smokers at St.
Anne's will be-told to move back to
the rear access road they utilized up
until June, 2000 for their habit.
According to Superintendent of
Education Ray Contois, the older
site is less favourable because it's
barely visible from the school, mak-
ing it difficult for school officials to
monitor student activities and dis-
cern whether or not non-students are
present in the. area.
He also notes it's immediately
adjacent to two elementary schools,
potentially allowing younger stu-
dents to be influenced towards a
decision to smoke.
Last year, the school followed the
lead of several Avon Maitland
schools, including • Central Huron
Secondary .School in Clinton, and
arranged for the municipality ,to
lease a small section of school prop- '
erty for use as a smoking area. Such
arrangements were undertaken as
attempts to circumvent provincial
legislation prohibiting smoking on
school property.
In the spring of 2001, school offi-
cials began receiving letters from
district health units in Huron and
Perth suggesting the Chief Medical
Officer of Health believed lease
agreements Contravened the spirit of
that legislation. Several Avon
Maitland schools promptly tackled
the issue anew, arranging stakehold-
er meetings and, in some cases, find-
ing alternative solutions.
But Contois says he only heard
about the chief medical officer's
concerns after Avon Maitland
schools began their work. He then
called the Huron health unit and
requested a letter. It arrived near the
end of June.
For now, he says, students will
have to return to the old smoking
area. But he'S hoping a solution can
be found, especially since the munic-
ipality of Central Huron recently
established a subcommittee to
address student smoking issues.
"Right now, we're just gathering
information," he said. "I guess•we're
putting ourselves in danger of look-
ing like we're supporting smoking
but, in actual fact, our intent is to
decrease the visibility of it (for ele-
mentary school students) and, there-
fore, not influence others."
Ministry gives $500,000 for 21 school wells
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
Ontario's Ministry of Education
will contribute almost $500,000 in
2001-02 to help insure 21 schools in
Huron and Perth Counties which
have their own wells are brought
into compliance with proposed new
water quality legislation.
At a regular meeting Monday,
Aug. 27, trustees of the Huron-Perth
Catholic District School Board were
informed the board will soon con-
tract the services of a registered
water engineer to examine and
report on the systems at all five of
Technical
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
Expansions to technical education
programs and facilities at two sec-
ondary schools in Huron and Perth
Counties will be celebrated this
autumn by the Huron-Perth Catholic
District School Board.
Students and teachers will begin
using the additions at Stratford's St.
Michael Catholic Secondary School
and Clinton's St. Anne's Catholic
Secondary School when classes
begin next week, but official open-
ing ceremonies will be staged at a
later date.
In each case, Bishop John
Sherlock will officiate an outdoor
mass starting at 2 p.m. The first cel-
ebration is Sunday, Sept. 16 at St.
Mikes, and it will be followed by a
ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The $3 million addition to The
existing building, upon which work
began about a year ago, includes
facilities for transportation, manu-
facturing and construction programs
as well as additional classroom
space and a new chapel. Huron-Perth
the board's schools served by on-site
wells.
That's just one of the requirements
expected to be included in the
Drinking Water Protection —
Designated Facilities legislation,
which came about in the wake of last
year's Walkerton E.coli tragedy.
Other requirements, according to a
memorandum sent to school boards
b' Assistant • Deputy Education
Minister Norbert J. Hartmann,
include the provision of a trained
person to operate each well's treat-
ment and distribution system, week-
ly flushing of the systems, specific
sampling and reporting techniques,
board chair Ron Marcy says those in
attendance Sept. 16 will be welcome
to take a tour of the addition follow-
ing the service.
The official opening at St. Anne's
is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 4.
That project began in October,
and the use of accredited laborato-
ries for testing.
"Boards would become responsi-
ble for developing and implementing
policies and procedures to ensure
compliance with all of these provi-
sions in each of their schools with
their own water distribution sys-
tem," Hartmann's memorandum
states.
The deadline listed for compliance
is Dec. 31, 2001, but Huron-Perth
management chair Mike Miller
noted the government has yet to
even release draft legislation, giving
him reason to believe the deadline
will be pushed back.
2000 with a projected cost of just
under $2 million. Transportation,
manufacturing and construction
courses were again the focus, but the
renovations also allowed for expan-
sions to the school's library and
music facilities.
However, the memorandum does
state that "ministry staff have been
asked to prepare a regulation to
authorize the payment" of one-time
funding to help school boards com-
ply.
An appendix included with the
memorandum shows the Huron-
Perth board will receive $112,500
for its five schools with on-site
wells. The Avon Maitland District
School Board, meanwhile, will get
$360,000 to deal with 16 on-site
school wells.
In total, there are 577 schools in
Ontario served by on-site wells, and
the education ministry will con-
tribute almost $13 million to help
comply with the proposed legisla-
tion.
programs expanded