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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1994-11-16, Page 1Huron �, E-4EX� Sly 70 cents plus 5 cents G.S. (75 cents) HISTORY Why is a local school teacher dressed like a historic personality? see page three. Briefly Seaforth-area hunter injured by stray bullet A 38 -year-old Seaforth-area man was listed in good condition in hospital after having a .30-.30 bullet removed from his neck after a hunting accident near Hanover last Wednesday. OPP in Mount Forest say they believe the bullet ricocheted in thick cedar bush and struck Bruce Rowbotham, who is from Harpurhey,in a group of 11 hunters. OPP and the ministry of natural resources are investigating the incident, which happened north of Highway 4 about five kilometres east of Hanover. Your Christmas story wanted Around the world people cel- ebrate Christmas in many differ- ent ways. Do you celebrate Christmas in the Dutch tradition? The German tradition? The Spanish or French Tradition? The Huron Expositor would like to share the different Christ- mas traditions practised by your neighbours in a special Christ- mas edition. We would like you to tell the story of how you spend Christmas in our special publication, The Many Faces of Christmas. Please send your story to The lluron Expositor, P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ont. NOK iWO. Local farmers world champions at Royal Fair Staffa-area residents Brian and Alex Miller have been honoured with World Championship awards at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair. Brian Miller, of RR 2 Staffa, was winner of the Canamera Foods Challenge Trophy in Class 16 for Soy Beans. Brian and his father Alex were also winners of the Pioneer Hi -Bred Ltd. trophy for Soy Beans, class 6. They were also recognized in Class 7, pedigreed field beans with the W. G. Thompson & Sons Ltd. Trophy. Alex and Brian Miller operate a 250 -acre farm near Staffa. They specialize in pedigreed seed in rotation with corn. Brian is the third generation of the fancily to farm the land. He is assisted by his parents, Alex and Hannah. Brian and his wife Rhonda have two girls, Pamela, 9, and Dennise, 5. The Millers have a custom combining operation. Alex and Brian have been showing at the Royal for the past lour years but this is their first World Championship. The three World Championship samples were all processed by Lome Fell, of Roscbank Seed Farms in Staffa. Lome has been a World Championship winner in past years. INDEX Entertainment... pages 14, 15. Sports...pages 8, 9. Rec Preview...page 15. "Your community newspaper since 1860.. serving Seaforth, Dublin, Hensall, Walton, Brussels and surrounding communities." A The Huron Expositor, Seaforth, Ontario, November 16, 1994 MILTON J. DIETZ LIMITED SEAFORTH 522-0608 •Pesticides & Custom Spraying • Spraying Equipment & Parts • Nutrite Premium Fertilizer • Ventilation & Livestock Equipment PURINA FEEDS & PET FOODS INDUSTRY Seaforth Creamery makes inroads into U.S.... is top private salad dressing maker. GREGOR CAMPBELL PHOTO SILENCE AT THE CENOTAPH - Friday morning's Remembrance Day service at the Seaforth cenotaph was well attended as local veterans and non -veterans alike paid their respects to both those who survived and those who lost their lives serving their country in war. Town blasts site selection process BY GREGOR CAMPBELL Expositor Staff Seaforth Council is furious with the way the Huron Perth District Health Council (HPDHC) decided to locate its new offices in Mitchell, Dublin or Stratford. "I don't think there was anything honest or aboveboard about the process," councillor Bill Teal!, who spearheaded the Seaforth commitcc's proposal, said at last Tuesday's regular meeting. Some comments suggested the process was a sham to sugarcoat a foregone conclusion made behind closed doors, and it authorized then fired off a harshly -worded letter on its feelings to the Chair of the HPDHC Site Selection Committee Diane Aitken, with copies forwarded to the Ontario Ministry of Health, MPP Paul Klopp, the former chairman of the Huron site selection committee Paul Carroll and Huron County Council. Seaforth did its homework and forwarded a detailed submission that it feels met all previously HPDHC criteria, by the district health council's deadline on Oct. 24. The next day Seaforth councillors were shocked to hear through the media Mitchell got the nod, despite the fact it has no available building, with Dublin and Stratford as second and third choices. Scaforth's submission indicated this town already has two buildings that would be both suitable and available for HPDHC offices, among other suitable attractions, for instance its central location. "The Town of Seaforth, and many othcr communities, spent considerable time and effort preparing submissions based on criteria that your committee chose to ignore," states the letter: "We are left with the feeling that your committee 'went through the motion' of site selection while an informal decision to locate in a locality other than Huron County had already been made. "Otherwise, how on earth did you conscientiously review all those proposals and make your recommendations in one day?" Councillors were also miffed that when they asked the HPDHC site selection committee for copies of the winning proposal they were told to ask Mitchell. "Yours is the agency that received these proposals, which by the way, are public documents," the Seaforth letter continues, adding Council has "a right, and you have a moral and legal responsibility" to respond to a formal request for the competing proposals, copies of the Site Selection Report and recommendation to the District Health Council, copies of the Oct. 27 minutes and, the rationale for HPDHC recommendation, and how recommended communities meet each of the criteria established by the district site selection committee. "May we say that the District Health Council is off to a very poor start, and in the eyes of many, has no credibility," the letter from Seaforth Council concludes: "Your actions in responding to our requests will have a direct impact on how the District Health Council is viewed in the future." Robinet wins Seaforth council seat Seaforth's newest Councillor is Heather Robinet, 34 of John Si, who defeated two other candidates by a healthy margin Monday night's municipal elections. It was the only race in town. All other candidates had been previously acclaimed. Mrs. Robinet, a housewife and former community journalist, won every poll but one and finished with 369 votes to runner-up Sharon Medd's 166, her only win coming in her home poll 4. Tom Schoondcrwoerd finished third with 128 votes. Voter turnout was Tight, perhaps reflecting the lack of candidates for the various positions, with 663 casting ballots from an eligible total of 1,846. There were some real races and a few upsets in surrounding townships. Former councillor Ron Murray wrested the Reeve's position in McKillop Township from Marie Hicknell, who had held that post for the past dozen years. He finished with 420 votes to her 269. Incumbent councillors Sharon McClure and Jtm Ryan were returned with 608 votes and 440 respectively. Newcomer Fergus Kelly also won a scat with 378 votes, defeating challenges from Mary Vanden Henget who finished with 229 votes and Irene Roberts with 76. Sixty-eight per cern, or 710 of 1,038 eligible voters, cast ballots in McKillop. The turnout was 41 per cent in Tuckersmith where former councillor Larry McGrath, 38 of Egmondvillc, beat out the incumbent to win the Deputy- Rceve's position in that township. He edged Bob Broadfoot by 28 votes, 348 to 320. Former councillor Bill DeJong placed third in the race with 293 votes. Newcomer Doug Vock, 41 of Egmondville, topped the race of five candidates for three available council seats with 610 votes. Bernie MacLellan, 32 from Brucefield, also a newcomer who was very vocal on the Brucefield fire department issue, finished second with 521 votes. Incumbent Rob McLeod was returned with 397 votes, edging out Judith McCutchcon at 378 and Frederick Mulder with 276, There may be a recount in Mullett where Brice Bergsma edged out David Armstrong by two votes, 368 Election '94 to 366, for the third and final seat on that township's council. Both are newcomers to municipal politics. Robert Szusz topped the polls with 547 votes, and Douglas Hugill also made it with 443 votes. Veteran Thomas Cunningham narrowly won the race for Reeve in Hullet with 307 votes to Hugh Flynn's 286. Frank Szusz finished third at 112. Things went down to the wire in Hibbert Township where two incumbents were returned while two newcomers bawled it out for the final council scat. Barb MacLean and Fran Lannin were re-elected for their second and third terms, with 463 and 400 votes respectively. Louis Maloney of Dublin edged Cinth Vogels of RR 2 Dublin by just four votes, 301 to 297. Reeve Walter McKenzie and Deputy -Reeve Robert I. Norris were acclaimed, as were Police Village of Dublin trustees Don MacRae, Jerry Murray and Larry Parsons. In Grey Township, incumbent Reeve Leona Armstrong defeated challenger Dale Newman 426 to 216. Graeme MacDonald . was elected to council with 452 votes, defeating Charles Thomas at 176. On the liquor question in Grey the "wets" beat the "drys" 444 to 206, on the ballot question:"Arc you in favour of the sale of spirits, beer and wine for consumption in licensed premises?" Former Hay township Deputy - Reeve Murray Keys beat out Lionel Wilder, the incumbent Reeve, 500 votes to 335 in the Hay Township election race. (The rest of the council was acclaimed). In Hensall, there was no elec- tion race as all council members were acclaimed. Town sells land Scaforth Council passed a bylaw at last Tuesday's regular meeting authorizing the sale off– Mime land for $100 to Luke's Machine Shop Ltd. The property is described as Part of Park Lot 3, Plan 392, Part 1 of R P22R3680. Sharon Chuter is new General Manager of Tuckersmith Municipal Telephone System. Tuckersmith phone system names new manager BY TIM CUMMING Expositor Editor The new General Manager of Tuckersmith Municipal Telephone System is part of a three-person management team recently approved by the phone company commissioners. As new General Manager. Sharon Chuter will be . part of the company's transformation from a municipal system with the township as trustee to a cooperative company owned by telephone users. Tuckersmith Township has approved a transfer of assets to the co-operative. Official approval is still required by the Ontario Tele- phone Services Commission but that approval is, expected by Jan- uary of 1995. Everyone who receives telephone service from the Tuckersmith phone system will be a member of the co- op and have a vote and be eligible to stand for election as director. Directors can serve a maximum of three three-year terms and terms are staggered. The co-operative's Board of Directors has the option of pay- ing back dividends to customers (based on individual use of the phone service) if there is a profit. The new management team of the phone company consists of Chuter, internal plant manager Ken Steckle and outside plant manager Rob Van Aaken. The phone system also employs two part-time people as well as full-time staff members Linda Middegaal and Murray McKenzie, who has been with the company for more than 40 years. Chuter started with the company as a secretary about 21 years ago and for the past 12 years has served as Plant Superintendent. She is currently taking a management course to help prepare for her new position. She is married to Eric Chutcr, a mink rancher. The family runs Cedarwood Fur Farm at RR 1 Varna. They have three children. There are issues of change in telephone technology as wireless technology is expanded and the 'information highway' is paved into rural Ontario. The former Plant Superintendent doesn't see management inexperi- ence as a big issue as she prepares to assume the job of General Man ager. She says will small telephone companies will face technological and other changes with a unified effort through the Ontario Tel e- • Association tut A) and by sharing information. "We have a strong Ontario Tele- phone Association; she said in an interview on Monday. "They keep everybody up to date as to what is happening." The new phone manager says she doesn't sec big changes taking place with the way the Tuckersmith phone system is run. — "We're here T6---gv -VC service possible to our customers she said. "That's not going to change." see Commissioners, page 3