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PAGE 6. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2006.
County council briefs
Ambulance monies flowing across borders
Money has started flowing
at last among counties for
cross-border ambulance
service, Huron County
councillors heard at their Oct.
5 meeting.
Warden Rob Morley told
council he had picked up a
cheque for $190,000 from
Bruce County while at the
recent meeting of the
Association of Counties and
Regions conference in
Haliburton earlier this month.
The money pays Huron's
ambulance service for calls
into Bruce County up until
2005.
Huron also recently gave a
cheque to Lambton County
for calls by that county's
ambulances into southern
Huron.
Huron is also working with
Perth County to resolve fine
points in what calls were
made between the two
counties, explained David
Lew, manager of Huron's
ambulance service
Until now Huron had only
been able to work with
Middlesex on cross-border
billing issues.
Chief administrative officer
Larry Adams told council that
Huron's moves seem to be
getting action from other
counties. Morley noted that
Grey County is now meeting
with Bruce to resolve billing
issues.
***
Work on the new Winghatn
ambulance station is coming
along nicely, Lew told
councillors.
The new station is
scheduled to be operational
on Dec. 1. said.
***
The Huron County Health
Unit recently had a visit from
Ontario's Chief Medical
Officer of Health, Dr. Sheela
Basrur.
Penny Nelligan, health unit
director, said staff had 48
hours notice of the visit and
thanked board of health chair
Neil Rintoul for being able to
take part on such short
notice.
Dr. Basrur wanted to know
the effect of recent
government changes on the
local health unit, Nelligan
said.
Praise also came from the
doctor's staff for Huron's
educational work with county
residents and staff's
willingness to work with the
public to solve problems.
***
Huron County will get to
keep all the money it received
from the province for the Best
Continued from page 1
Seili said he couldn't support
downloading the bridges
unless the county brought
them up to standard, Bezaire
said he intended the bridges
would be brought up to
county standards before
transfer.
That prompted Oke to
say he couldn't sup-
port bringing Ball's Bridge
up to county standards
because is would cost $5-10
Start program, John
MacKinnon, social service
administrator told council.
Huron had a target of
creating 110 new day care
spaces through the program
and if it hadn't created that
many, would have had to
return some of the money. But
128 spaces were created, he
said.
"It assures our funding for
the foreseeable future,"
MacKinnon said.
***
Repairs will soon be
completed to the tomb of
Huron County's founder, Dr.
William "Tiger" Dunlop,
Beth Ross, director of cultural
services told council.
The successful bid was for
$7,900, under the budget of
$9,000. All the mortar in the
monument will be replaced,
said F.oss. Though original
mortar generally retained
and matched in heritage
projects, there is so little of
the original mortar after
various repair jobs over the
years, that there was nothing
to match, she said.
An error in a date on a stone
on the tomb will also not be
repaired, slte said. For one
thing, heritage restoration
does not correct mistakes of
the past, she said. For another,
the stone would need to be
raised so the original
'tombstone underneath could
be examined to see if the error
was simply in the newer stone
or the original, she said.
***
Huronlea will get its fire
access lane at the back of the
building.
While the building has met,
and continues to meet, fire
code requirements,
emergency workers have been
disturbed by the lack of a
roadway around the back of
the facility, meaning vehicles
would have to drive over lawn
at all times of the year, to get
to an emergency at the back
of the building.
BM Ross engineers will be
asked to include an
"evacuation lane" in its plans
for the building.
***
The County of .Huron's
Small Business Enterprise
Centre will receive $243,607
in funding from Human
Resources and Skills
Development Canada over the
next two years to support the
Self-Employed Benefit
Program. The grant will assist
88 employment insurance
eligible individuals to explore
self-employment.
Since the program began in
million.
Bezaire got things even
further off topic when he
suggested there should be a
one-tier road system because
the split jurisdiction adds
expense.
His motion for a study on
how to divest from all county
bridges was defeated and
another motion to discuss the
future of the bridge at
the Oct. 17 meeting was
carried.
1993 the program has helped
230 people to start businesses.
***
The Shakespeare to
Shoreline tourism program
has received $10,000 from the
Ministry of Tourism's
Industry's Industry
Partnership Proposal
Program.
** *
The planning, agriculture
and public works committee
has recommended that capital
money be provided for a
permanent household
hazardous waste site to
reduce the need for three one-
day temporary sites scheduled
each year.
Ball's Bridge
debate continues