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The Huron Expositor, 1994-09-07, Page 1Huron • X OSlt p. 70 cents plus 5 cents G.S.T. (75 cents) AGRI-HISTORY; Local custom threshers recall "" a bygone day when' T work was hard but rewarding.;.; see pages five, six. Briefly 1 l Blyth woman to help in Croatia Jayne Marquis, of Blyth, has joined a five -member team to help refugee children from Bosnia to Croatia. The team is scheduled to leave for Croatia on September 23 and return Oct. 7. The goal of the trip is to raise the spirits of the many refugee children in the war-torn area by offering love, friendship and kindness to children who other- wise feel forgotten and without hope. The organization, called Light the Way, consists of five people committed to bringing hope to needy and displaced children around the globe. The group has conducted previous Light the Way campaigns for children in Chernobyl, the Ukraine and Bosnia. A fundraising and informational cafe will be held at the Blyth Festival Garage The- atre on Thursday, Sept. 15 at 7:30 p.m. This will be an infor- mal social evsa}ng . with local entertainment and plenty of pastries, cake, coffee and good cheer. It will be a chance to find out more about the Light the Way organization and to contrib- ute positively to the project. The team will concentrate mainly around Split, Croatia, a peaceful coastal city around which hundreds of thousands of displaced people are gathered. Tickets for the evening are available from Marquis at (519) 523-4740. Volunteers are still needed to help with the cafe and to provide entertainment for the evening. Donations payable to Light the Way - Children's Fund International would be greatly appreciated. Huron people start alternative mag BY PAUL CIUFO GODERICH - The huge wild boar leering from the cover is a perfect mascot for the new arts and entertainment magazine. Wild boars are an alternative livestock, and a multitude of the beasts made headlines in Febru- ary when they broke free from their enclosures and rampaged across the county. The Wild Boar is an alternative magazine, one whose creators hope will rampage across Huron County and change the way people think about themselves and where they live. "We're trying to give a forum for a voice Huron County has and nobody knows about. People assume to live out in the country is to be a redneck and simple minded and secluded and uncul- tured. In fact that's not true and we're trying to foster the fact that it isn't true. There's arts and artists everywhere in this county," said Mark Cripps, Goderich journalist and former resident of Seaforth. Cripps and George Zoethout, an artist with photographs in galleries as distant as London, collaborated on the magazine's first issue, which became avail- able in late July. INDEX Weddings...page 16. Letters to editor...4. "Your community newspaper since X�1860... serving Seaforth, flub11I`i + Wli1f6ft- . Brussels and surrounding communities." 0 MILTON J. DIETZ LIMITED SEAFORTH 522-0608 • Pesticides & Custom Spraying • Spraying Equipment & Parts • Nutrite Premium Fertilizer • Ventilation & Livestock Equipment t�l 1. PURINA FEEDS 4 & PET FOODS S.ptonsb.r7, 1994 BUSINESS Area women have started a new group for people who are small business owners. see page nine. Your Full Une Dealer Sales - Service - Selection Ata MART F MErt uev uu :The Friendly Dealer With The Big Wort' } DAIRY A Walton -area woman is new Huron Dairy Educator. see page two. FIELD FIRE - The Seaforth Fire Department answered a call at approximately 1 p.m. on Labour Day at Lot 31, Concession 6 in McKillop Township. Farmers were burning brush near the DAVID SCOTT PHOTO roadside when it spread to some stubble in the field. The Seaforth Fire Department's pumper and two tankers attended to the fire which was extinguished in a matter of minutes. Province BY TIM CUMMING Expositor Editor Seaforth Community Hospital has been given the green light to build a helicopter landing pad. The Ontario Ministry of Health has agreed to fund the approxi- mate $41,000 cost of the heli- port, said Bill Thibcrt, Chief Executive Officer of the hospital. "Construction activities are to begin next week," said Thibert in a letter to hospital staff. "We anticipate little or no disruption approves with regerd,to hospital activities - though we will need to go on standby emergency power when the electrical service into the hospital is relocated due to the removal of the existing Hydro poles." (The hospital has an emergency generator). The heliport will be con- structed by Smith Construction of Seaforth, with a projected completion time of mid-to-late October of this year. It has taken about one ycar to complete a heliport study and receive approval from local, hospital heliport provincial and federal author- ities. "I believe the construction of a heliport, in these economic times of financial constraints, is a significant accomplishment for our hospital which will enable us to provide a more comprehen- sive level of service to the mem- bers of our community," said Thibert in his letter. The heliport will be located southeast of the health centre. The hospital will be required to maintain the landing pad and keep it free of snow in winter. Town prepares for '95 reunion BY DAVID SCOTT Expositor Staff Seaforth is joining together for a fun time in 4995, say the newly - appointed co-chairs of the Seaforth and District Homecoming '95 Com- mittee. At the August committee meeting, Joe Stefllcr and Carolanne Doig were both appointed as co- chairs in a coordinating capacity for Homecoming '95. The original chairman of the Seaforth home- coming was the late William Pinder. "The Homecoming is for anyone who grew up, worked, lived in Seaforth or is thinking of living in Seaforth," said Doig. The two new co-chairs stressed the co-operative effort of everyone in the community to make Homecoming '95 a suc- cess. "We're keen to have fun," said Doig. "Everyone is working together, playing together, co-oper- ating and profiting," she added. "It's a community effort," said Steffler. Several sub -committees already exist for Homecoming '95 - regis- tration, parade, food, entertainment, advertising, souvenirs, promotions, parking and accommodation. Homecoming '95 meetings are held on the third Wednesday of every month at the Seaforth District High School library beginning at 7:30 p.m. Interested people are welcome to attend. At each monthly meeting a draw is made for the Travel the World lottery to raise money for the homecoming. If any residents of Seaforth and ,area would like specific people invited to Homecoming '95 please contact Ken and Lois Moore on the Registration Committpe. The com- mittee is currently won WELCOME HOME - The Town of Sealorth mailingPHOTO list, according to DAVID SCOTT to Home -recently unveiled new SEAFORTH & DISTRICT HOMECOMING '95 *.„ 4UGUST3-6, 1995 The construction of the landing pad will not prevent the possibil- ity of locating the proposed water tower on hospital property. "The study done for the hospi- tal said that the water tower could be accommodated with no impact on the heliport," said Thibert in an interview. The hospital has said a second access to the facility would be a condition of allowing the PUC water tower's construction on the property. Welfare numbers down, costs up By DAVID GREENBERG The numbers don't tell the whole story fewer people are receiving welfare payments compared with last year; but Huron County is paying 3.4 per cent more, anyway and is already $69,000 over budget. "The number of cases has dropped, but the cost per case, has increased," GWA supervisor Dave Overboe said in an interview, last week. Overboe said many of those receiving general welfare assistance are single men; when they find work, it doesn't have the effect on the budget that a family of four might by going off assistance. And when the single male gives up welfare and is replaced by a family of four, the unbalance becomes acute, he said. County council last week noted that $2.69 million has been paid out to June 30, 1994, about $386,000, over budget - a 3.4 per cent increase over 1993s $2.59 million. The county's share of . the overbudget was $69,000. This despite the fact that the number of applicants has decreased 6.8 per cent and the number of individuals receiving welfare declined by 1.7& per cent. . •,.4. . Huron County had the third lowest percentage of population receiving welfare of a list of 57 municipalities reporting, with 2.28 per cent of the population receiving assistance. A single man on welfare in Huron County receives anywhere from $314 (this would apply to a 22 - year -old man living at home, for example) to $663 per month (for an individual who required an apartment); a childless couple receives from $700 to $1,200 a see Benefits, page eight Three towns in Huron refuse to pay county fees By DAVID GREENBERG Residents of Wingham, Exeter and Clinton may have to start deal- ing with Huron County planners instead of their local planning departments unless the towns start paying their bills. The county planning committee says the towns have refused to pay almost $5,000 since 1993 in a dispute over consulting fees. The county allowed the three towns to approve certain planning applications. The county has author- ity to delegate that responsibility. The towns handle most of the detailed work to make sure a propo- sal meets requirements set out in the official plan. In exchange the towns were to pay certain consulting fees to the county. Now the towns say the county doesn't earn the money. Exeter, especially, objects and has withheld about $2,000 in fees. County council last week rejected its own planning committee's rec- ommendations to take back the val rights unless the fees were ,, • Instead, the county has given everyone a month to come up with a solution. County planning committee chair- man Lionel Wilder says the prob- lem is relatively simple. "They have to pay the fees." But Exeter administrator Rick Hanley says it's not as simple as it sounds, and the county will be hurting Exeter residents, not Exeter politicians if it decides to become the heavy in the dispute. "We will be turned into a com- menting agency and the applicant would have to deal with Goderich. "The roles would be reversed. The way it works now, we do the planning report and the county sends a fairly general report to us. Our report is more detailed than theirs. "They won't know the local circumstances the way we do," Hanley contends. Residents apply for minor severances and other similar planning matters would find them- selves having to drive to Goderich to get approval or consent from county planners. "We don't think that's necessary," Hanley said. Open season on geese BY PAUL CIUFO You might have heard the dis- tant blasts of shotguns lately and noticed the Canada Geese in the area seem a bit nervous. The long - necked birds am jittery for good reason: for the second consecutive year, open season on geese started early in Huron County. '"Ilse goose population is fairly high around here. For the last few Homecoming '95 signs at the four entrances to townyelps. geese have been damaging coming co-chair Carolanne Doig, mklg put up by the crops in the ttpnng. 'ilia nip off Townie Week f]aeartmen PiMmal-r'om Ial1• coming '95 will take place August Hazel Hildebrand, Homecoming '95 Co-Chaks Joe Steiner and too many, they'll get ng 3-6, 1995. The next Homecoming Carolanne Doig. Costs for the signs were kept t0 a minimum. something they're not supposed 1 to '95 commiuee meeting is Septem- Hildebrand Paint & Paper donated paint for the signs which ware be eating," said BM Flynn, bar 21, done in town hsi colours. resource technician at Hullett wildlife management arca. The early season lasts from September 1-10. Normally hunters have to wait until September 24 to get out their guns. After the early crack at the geese, hunters will have to wait until October 15 to hunt the birds again. "The population of the northern goose is decreasing. They start migrating down here soon and the season will be closed until they -past through. _ They .a_a u1c smaller goose than the ones here. And they usually have a plastic orange or white neck collar," Flynn said.