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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1994-09-14, Page 1Huron xp • S t 70 cents plus 5 cents G.S. (75 cents) AGRI-HISTORY Threshing was fun but dangers were always present. adigi see pages two, three. Briefly OPP costing awaits final approval A costing proposal for Seaforth OPP service is still awaiting internal approval, said Sergeant Peter McGuinness, of the OPP's contract policing section, on Monday. When the proposal is approved by the OPP bureaucracy it will then be taken to Seaforth Town Council and the Seaforth Police Services Board. "I'm hoping it will be extreme- ly soon," he said. The Town of Goderich has already received its OPP costing proposal although Seaforth's application was submitted first. - "The only reason Goderich got theirs is they're in a hurry," said Sgt. McGuinness. "They had a deadline for infrastructure grants (for a police facility)." The Goderich costing proposal for OPP service was submitted in July. Seaforth's proposal was submitted in June. The proposal has to be viewed by about 10 different people in the OPP before approval, according to McGuinness. Thc proposal will give differ- ent models of police service with costs so Seaforth can decide if it wants to disband its town police force in favour of OPP policing. Grandson of Seaforth couple is true hero The grandson of Scaforth's Ralph and Anna McNichol is a real hero, reported the Listowel Banner on September 7. Ryan McNichol, and friend Carley Miller, rescued an 81 - year -old Listowel woman who had slipped and broken her hip. Thc woman, Mrs. Frank Bartja, could not reach the phone and her lunch was burning on the stove, filling the kitchen and living room with smoke. The youngsters, aged 11 and 10, were delivering an invitation to a neighbourhood party to the woman's house when they heard Mrs. Bartja calling. They entered the home and called for help. Ryan's father, Ray McNichol, was working at the Listowel Memorial Hospital (where he is hospital discharge planner) when Mrs. Bartja was admitted. Ryan's grandparents in Seaforth, Anna and Ralph McNichol, of Main Street, can claim to have a hero as a grand- son. Green light for street lights Street Tight installation in Harpurhey was one of two projects for which Tuckcrsmith Township received approval under the federal -provincial - municipal shared infrastructure renewal program. The tender for the installation of 20 street lights was awarded to Les Bernard for a quote of $7,840 including GST. It was the lowest of four tenders. Work on the bridge at sideroad 25-26 was also approved. INDEX Entertainment...page 15. Sports...page eight. "Your community newspaper since 1860 -serving Seaforth, Dublin Hensall, Walton,, Brussels and surrounding communities." MILTON J. DIETZ. LIMITED SEAFORTH 522-0608 • Pesticides & Custom Spraying • Spraying Equipment & Parts • Nutrite Premium Fertilizer • Ventilation & Livestock Equipment t�l [iPURINA FEEDS �� & PET FOODS The Huron Expositor, Seaforth, Ontario September 14, 1994 COMMUNITY Local people will run, walk, bike to fight cancer for ;, Terry Fox Run. see page six. Your Full Line Dealer c.% FORD MERCURY Sales - Service- Selection HART FORD MERCURY USED CARS € wifitsa at.sVoaetaaR+rorrrs .Yen► . The Friendly Dealer With The Big Heart RANSIT irst major ndraiser r mobility us is being eld in aforth. e page seven. RESCUE TEAM HELPS WOMAN - Firefighters and ambulance attendants help Sherri Lalonde into the ambulance after she was run over by a vehicle on Thursday night on Side Street in Seaforth. She spent the night at Seaforth Community Hospital TIM CUMMING PHOTO before being transferred the next day to Stratford General Hospital. The driver of the vehicle is being charged with impaired driving causing bodily harm. Firefighters free woman from car BY TIM CUMMING Expositor Editor A woman was pinned under a car Thursday night and was removed with the help of the Scaforth Volunteer Fire Depart- ment. Sherri Lalonde had her Icg caught in the front left wheel well of the car in the incident, after being struck by the car. The driver was charged with impaired driving causing bodily injury. The driver was released after signing a promise to appear in court on Oct. 3. The driver of the vehicle had reversed from a private driveway onto Side Street, about 45 metres cast of Main Street North. The victim was running beside the car before being hit. Seaforth police officers arrived at the scene at 8:02 p.m. on Air bag used to free woman from car Sept. 8. The Seaforth Fire Department was called out at 8:13 p.m. at the request of Scaforth Ambulance Services. The fire department used a high pressure air bag underneath the left-hand coil spring to lift the car off the woman, said Fire Chief George Garrick. The woman was then placed in an ambulance. She was taken to Seaforth Community Hospital and stayed there overnight. On Friday she was transferred to Stratford General Hospital for day surgery. Her condition is not known. As of press time the Scaforth Police Services had not released the name of the driver charged in the accident. Other charges are pending. Ed Capelli is new principal or - St. Patrick's and St. Columban schools. . Dublin area students have new principal BY MICHELE GREENE Students in Dublin and St. Columban were met by a new prin- cipal on the first day of school last Tuesday. Ed Capelli, of Stratford, came from Si Joseph School, Clinton, to be the principal of St. Patrick's School, Dublin, and St. Columban School. He was at St. Joseph School for 10 yews but has been an employee of the Huron -Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board for 20 of his 22 -year career. 1.1 ' g after two schools will be the biggest change for me. Also, I won't be teaching," he said. In Clinton, about 30 percent of his time was spent in classroom teaching. In Dublin and St. Columbaa, he is a full-time princi- PalCapelli has worked with one member of the staff in his career but he said already knew most of the teachers before his first day at the schools. "It's a small board. You get to know everyone," he said. The enrolment at St. Patrick's School, Dublin increased slightly to 175 students, up three over last year. A Grade 6/7 class was added to accommodate the larger number of Grade 6 and Grade 7 students. There are about 40 students in each grade. St. Columban's enrolment dropped by nine students to 167. Discuss all options, township tells phone company BY TIM CUMMING Expositor Editor Tuckcrsmith Township put the rubber stamp away at its last meet- ing. Council said it won't approve a cooperative structure for the Tuckcrsmith Municipal Phone Sys- tem until other options have been discussed. "How can someone make a deci- sion if someone docs not have the alternatives?" asked Bill Camochan, Reeve of Tuckersmith Township. The phone system was expected to explain the cooperative system at an information meeting on Thurs- day, Sept. 22 (at the Stanley Town- ship municipal building in Varna) but a representative of the phone company would not confirm the date of the meeting or if the meet- ing was taking place. A petition of subscribers may force the company to hold a general meeting of sub- scribers. Tuckcrsmith .township is the trustee of the assets for the Tuckcrsmith Municipal Telephone system. On July 19 a delegation from Tuckersmith Municipal Telephone appeared before council. The group included former manager Alar Korgemcts and assistant manager Sharon Chuter as well as the com- missioners of the phone system. Council was informed a Supreme Court decision would affect the TI'CKERti111TII 1It'NIt'11i.11, TEIk1'IIH\E �1sTl:tl The Tuckersmith Municipal Telephone System is considering a change to a cooperative corporation. The council of Tuckersmith Township, which acts as trustee for the system, says It wants to know if there are other options before the phone system decides what structure it will adopt. One legal opinion says the phone system has to change to a corporation. There is some debate on the issue, however. structure. Council agreed in principle to allow the transfer of the phone system's assets at an August 2 meeting. Last Tuesday, however, council rescinded that motion after an appeal from three former com- missioners of the phone system. The former chairperson of the phone system, Dave Brock, said he was not dead -set against a cooper- ative but wanted subscribers to hear all the facts. at t t time requested a transfer of Ontario have several structures the phone system to a cooperative including cooperative corporation, municipal, public utility or other type of corporation. Bruce Munici- pal Teleptlpne System near, Kincardine rkently became a pub- lic utility. Municipal telephone systems do not have to pay corporate tax unlike cooperative corporations, said Brock. "What gives municipal telephones a leg up is it does not pay income tax," he said. "It has made it poss- ible. to.have more effOnleigcttt' arc and develop the system to the state it is in today." An advertisement in the August 31 issue of the Goderich Signal - Star informed users of the Huron and Kinloss Municipal Telephone System that it was becoming a cooperative corporation "in order to comply with the Telecommunica- tions Act." "The Huron and Kinloss Munici- pal Telephone System is required to be a share capital corporation," the ad read. There was some discussion at Tuck_hersmith's meeting, �however, a- bout eifer small pI'Ibtle-i ysteiilf had to become cooperatives. Phone commission chairperson Ross McBeath was unavailable for comment on the discussion. A lawyer for the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission said it's a risky move to not incorporate to meet the requirements of the Telecommuni- cations Act which came into effect on Oct. 25, 1993. "In the long run they have to satisfy the requirements of the act," said Allan Rosenzveig, general counsel on telecommunications. He said in the 'real world' a sub- scriber -owned system with the township as a trustee would not be considered incorporated. "You run some risks thinking that (the status quo) is good enough...it's probably in their best interests to become a corporation." The constituency office of Huron - Bruce M.P. Paul Steckle has been swamped with calls relating to changes at Tuckersmith Municipal Telephone System. Bob Swartman, special assistant to Steckle, said the MP's office is not taking any position regarding the phone system but is sharing any information it can find. The new Telecommunications Act requires a phone company to be incorporated but Swartman says there are various forms of incorpor- ation. Municipalities are incorpor- ated, he said. If anyone has questions for the constituency office they may phone 1400-4651726 or . Goderich 524- 6938. •for other stories on phone system Issues, see page 3.