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Brenda and Bernard Campbell were among those Getting Active during the
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PAGE 6. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2004.
Booze ban drives county councillors to drink
By Keith Roulston
Citizen publisher
A ban on serving alcohol
for the warden's reception
next month at the Huron
County Museum has led
county councillors to change
the location of the event.
Past warden Dave Urlin
raised the issue at council,
expressing displeasure not
The number of social
assistance cases in Huron
County edged up 2.2 per cent
between August 2003 and
2004 with a jump of 9.4 per
cent in the number of
beneficiaries, figures released
at the November meeting of
county council showed.
The August figures also
showed an increase of .66 per
cent in cases and 4.28 per cent
in beneficiaries from July to
August, 2004.
***
Justice J. M. Donnelly's
retirement from the Ontario
Superior Court next February
could mean a bonus for
historians in the county.
In a letter to county
councillors Justice Donnelly
offered his service free of
charge to update James
Scott's Settlement of Huron
County which is the primary
historical resource in the
county but is nearly 40 years
old.
He estimated it would take
about two years to do the
work. He asked only for some
office space in one of the
county's buildings and use of
county secretarial staff to type
By Keith Roulston
Citizen publisher
Huron County's Field to
. Table Network was
nominated for two awards at
the Foundation for Rural
Living Excellence Awards.
Oct. 18, bringing home an
honorable mention.
Craig Metzger, public
health manager for the county
and a member of the
Network, told county
councillors Thursday that the
program was nominated for
only that alcohol wouldn't be
served at the reception but
also that council wasn't
consulted before the change
was made.
Warden Bill Dowson said
staff had approached him
with liability concerns and he
had spoken with Doug
Layton, only declared
candidate for the warden's
chair in the December
the manuscript.
Justice Donnelly served as
a Goderich councillor from
1955-59, a county councillor
from 1957 to 1959, Was
county solicitor from ,1967-
1985 and was appointed a
judge in 1985.
The social and cultural
services committee will
consider the offer at its Nov.
12 meeting.
***
Howick reeve Rosemary
Rognvaldson is expected to
miss at least two monthly
council meetings because of
illness.
Larry Adams, chief
administrative officer, told
councillors that Rognvaldson
is suffering from pneumonia
in hospital and recovery is
expected to be prolonged.
*** •
The Huron County Library
Board has voted to continue
funding for operation of two
libraries in Howick until a
new facility is completed and
operational in 2005.
***
The county is exploring
working with the Maitland
Valley Conservation
awards in "excellence in
economic development" and
"excellence in community
leadership", getting
honorable mention in the first
category at conference of The
Ontario Rural Council in
London.
Metzger also showed a
short video about the Huron
Good Food Box program,
operated by Field to Table.
Following Metzger's
presentation Ben Van
Diepenbeek of Ashfield-
Colborne-Wawanosh recalled
election, and neither objected
to the idea of having a non-
alcoholic reception.
Chief administrative officer
Larry Adams explained that
no senior manager was
prepared to sign for a special
occasion permit for the event.
Beth Ross, director of
cultural services said the
passage of Bill C45 last
spring put huge liability on
Authority to do forest
management work in the
county forest system.
County engineer Don.
Pletch told council that all the
county tracts were within the
MVCA area and the
conservation authority is
already doing work in its own
woodlots so it may make
sense to co-operate.
Past warden Dave Urlin
raised the issue wondering
where -the county's forest
management plan stood since
he had heard there were trees
falling down in the county
tracts without being cleaned
up.
***
Rent in county housing
units will be increased 1.5 per
cent on Jan. 1, 2005.
***
Renovations to the Jacob
Memorial Building, part of
the former Huronview
complex, will not likely begin
until late February.
Pletch said drawings
needed were late in arriving
which delayed calling
tenders. Originally it had been
hoped to commence work in
December.
attending a wedding in
Collingwood this summer
and people telling him how
they had come down to
Huron County to see the
Good Food Box program in
operation and had been very
impressed.
"At budget time we have to
remember this," he said. "It's
very important. It helps a lot
of folks get good produce."
A proposal to include
funding for the position of the
Good Food Box co-ordinator
in the budget of the health
unit was turned down by
council in last spring's budget
deliberations.
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council and staff. "That bill is
my concern," she said.
Given those circumstances,
South Huron councillor Rob
Morley moved to have the
reception relocated to the
Bedford Hotel and the motion
was passed.
The booze ban also affects
the Christmas dinner of the
past wardens' association
which was scheduled to be
held at Huronview. 'Urlin
noted this group too had been
told they couldn't have
alcohol at the event, even
wine with their dinner.
Ben Van Diepenbeek noted
events like this had been
moved to county facilities to
make money for the county.
Huronview provides the
dinner and the past wardens
pay for their meals, he said.
But Nancy Kalbfleisch,
acting homes administrator,
noted there would need to be
staff with "smart serve"
certificates on hand if alcohol
was going to be served, even
wine with the meal.
"I think we're taking this
too far," objected Bernie
MacLellan, - East Huron
councillor. "Let's allow them
their wine at dinner." He then
made a motion to seek a
special occasion liquor
permit for the past-wardens'
event. The motion was
carried unanimously.
Councillors agreed that if
the permit can't be obtained
the even would be non-
alcoholic.
Plan improves access
Continued from page 1 system to the other and
with 17 other library systems provide training to all library
across the province. employees on the new
Middlesex County Library system.
just released their Unicorn in "People can stock up on
October and Bruce County books and CDs now to tide
will follow in December. them over the closings.
This initiative meets the Books borrowed now will not
Library's Strategic Plan be due until December,"
priority 1.3 "to improve explained Ross.
residents' access to Huron Also new at some public
County Library resources libraries are expanded hours
through' better use of on Sunday. Clinton, Exeter,
technology." Goderich, Seaforth, and
All libraries in the county Wingham libraries are now
will be closed from Nov. 18 — open Sundays from 1 - 5 p.m.
25 inclusive to make the September to May except on
transition from one computer long weekends.
County council briefs
Social assistance cases
rise 2.2% in county
Field to Table wins award