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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1995-04-12, Page 3-11 IL News and Views McKillop chooses road to pave BY GREGOR CAMPBELL Expositor Staff McKillop Council signed a one- year employment contract with Joseph Ryan at its regular meeting at the municipal chambers April 5. The new equipment operator/ labourer is a replacement for Frank Hulley who is retiring at the end of June after 33 years with the township. * * * The Township of McKillop voted to pave Concession 6 and 7 east of County Road 12 to the Huron -Perth boundary at last Wednesday's meeting. The work will cost about $290,000 for an application of 1 3/4 inches of asphalt, although the estimate is only rough because tenders have not been called, and eat up most of the township's $320,000 budget for road construction this year. The move may do little to placate a delegation that approached Council early last month, March 7, about paving another more heavily used portion of the same road, Concession 6 and 7 west of County Road 12, thereby lowering its significantly higher annual maintenance costs. This portion of the road is heavily used by trucks going to and from the four gravel pits located in the area. Figures presented to Council by Road Superintendent Wayne Dolmage and Treasurer Marion McClure indicate it now averages about $3,150 per year for gravel, calcium and grading to maintain a normal travelled mile -and -a -quarter in McKillop. Although the heavily used portion of the concession that the delegation wanted paved is slightly longer, at 1.463 miles, the road superintendent's figures estimate it would cost Tess than $80,000 to apply a two-inch layer of asphalt. The average annual maintenance cost is $7,625 because among other things it requires more than three times as much calcium, 18 tons against 5. The township's cost of maintaining this busy stretch is partially offset by license fee revenue from the gravel pits, about $6,000 yearly. McClure's figures, in her report to Council, indicate that by paving this busy portion of the concession, the project would pay for itself in less than six years with license fees and maintenance cost savings. She estimated maintenance costs at roughly $129,625 over a 17 -year - period, which by subtracting an estimated $77,250 for asphalt would result in a saving of $52,375. The 17 -year time frame was used for asphalt and maintenance projections because of the townships past experience with these costs and the Kling Pit at Concession 2 and 3. Road Superintendent Wayne Dolmage reported a 58 x 5 -foot culvert of the Reid Municipal Drain had deteriorated and Concession 12 and 13 near Lot 27 required emergency work because of its poor condition, at the regular meeting of McKillop Township April 5. At its ends where the culvert is visible it appears OK, the road superintendent added, but the rest of it is beyond Road costs increase repe1r Dolmage recommended the entire culvert be replaced, perhaps slightly larger and dug deeper, because inserting a section would be difficult because the old sections were imperial measure whereas the new ones would be metric, and couplers would add significantly to the cost. Council approved and instructed its road superintendent to get at repairs, "the sooner the better". *«* At its regular meeting April 5 McKillop Council decided to tender its grass cutting again this year by advertising for a tractor, operator and mower. The township used its own equipment and personnel for mowing until last year and saved about $3.000 tendering the operator and tractor, according to Road Superintendent Wayne Dolmage's figures. Council decided to tender the entire operation in 1995, and call for quotes for a three-year term, broken into one-year contracts, so that the township and its sub- contractor to could get out of the agreement if it did not prove satisfactory. * * * McKillop Township agrees with Brampton that provincial conflict of interest legislation, Bill 163, should be delayed. At its regular meeting April 5, Council endorsed the circulating resolution from the Toronto -area municipality. The township wondered why municipal and provincial politicians appear to be subject to differing rules under the bill, scheduled to become law later this month. Councillors noted an MPP can be excused for an "error in judgement" under the new conflict of interest rules, but municipal politicians are not. Similarly, an MPP can avoid a meeting to prevent conflict of interest, whereas the process for township councillors is not that simple. Keeping the dust down will cost much more in McKillop Township this summer compared to last. Council accepted the lowest of two tenders for calcium at $205.98 per flake ton, from Pollard Highway Products of Harrow, at last Wednesday's regular meeting. Last year the township paid $155.40 and used 319 tons of calcium, for a total cost of $49,572.60. The increase per ton means it would cost McKillop roughly $15,000 more this summer to apply the same amount of calcium as in 1994, and will require some budget juggling in regards to overall road maintenance allocations road superintendent Wayne Dolmage reported. Coun. Sharon McClure recommended that the township might have to "shave everybody some" to control costs, but Reeve Ron Murray cautioned that were the township to shave too much taxpayers might be "lined up to the highway". The first application of calcium in McKillop generally goes down early in May. The chemical also helps keeps gravel roads firm in the summer months. Doctor well-known Seaforth native by Dr. Donald Munn Dr. Bill Munn died on March 7, 1995 in Mexico, where he was visiting with friends. He had acquired a type of cancer called lymphoma about five years ago and had an excellent remission after receiving chemotherapy in London, Ont. However, last summer the cancer recurred and the chemotherapy was repeated. His condition did improve . for a while, but deteriorated recent- ly. He spent quite a bit of time in Mexico these past few years, where he had a trailer, and was interested in exploring various archaeological sites. He was also very interested in the indigenous peoples there, and their history. Although he rarely talked about it, I know he always took a load of clothing in his three-quarter truck when he drove down to Mexico, after his six-month check- ups. And last spring he located a type of seed that would grow very fast into a very useful tree, for these native people, providing wood, forage, etc. BACKGROUND Dr. Bill was born and raised in Seaforth 65 years ago, and his parents were Dr. Jim and Lois Munn. His father practised dentistry there for many years. Bill auended the Seaforth Colle- giate, and then studied at The Uni- versity of Western Ontario in Lon- don, where he graduated with his B.A. - M.D. in 1955. He was an intern at the Ontario Hospital (London Psychiatric Hos- pital) during his last year at medical school. There were about 2500 patients with serious mental illnesses there at that time, before the age of tranquilizers and other psychiatric therapies, and treatment relied heav- ily on electric shock, insulin shock, frontal lobotomies, etc. Nowadays I believe there are only about 300 beds at this hospital even though our population is much higher. After graduation Dr. Munn went on to do his internship at The Queen's Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. He then did a locum tenons in his home town of Seaforth for several months, and then went to England. Meeting to be held on industrial training planning There is a planning meeting lor Huron County on industrial training issues on Wednesday. April 12 at 8 p.m. at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) facility in Clinton. The former Huron Industrial Training Advisory Committee (now called Local Board Area 18) is seeking grass-roots input on Huron County training issues and presentation on the local f There he took a course in Lon- don, and then spent a couple of years as a resident in general sur- gery and emergency care, in Ply- mouth. He was also married there to his former wife, June Dale. TO LISTOWEL He and I came to Listowel in 1959. This was a couple of months after the tragic accident in which the Listowel arena collapsed. He practised here until it was necessary for him to retire in 1990. Dr. Bill thoroughly enjoyed the privilege of being able to practice medicine in this beautiful and very interesting town and area. He was very fond of his patients, and very interested in their well- being. Many of his old patients still think about him and ask how he had been getting along. He also thoroughly enjoyed work- ing and associating with the many excellent doctors in the area over the years. Great memories. x, • • • • MANY INTERESTS Bill was always interested in people, world affairs, astronomy, and history, etc., and greatly enjoyed discussing a number of subjects. One of his concerns was the explosion in the world population. After hundreds of thousands of* years the human population reached one billion in about 1880.- By --193 there were two billion, and now, there is 100 million every year over and above the death rate, giving an extra billion every 10 years. Shortly there will be six billion people on this planet, up from one billion a little over 100 years ago. Bill was also quite athletic, and years ago enjoyed playing hockey, and later snow and water skiing, scuba diving, tennis and squash, golf and sailing. His father had flown overseas during World War 1 with the Royal Air Force, and spent the entire time in World War 2 training pilots on link trainers in the RCAF. He encouraged Bill to take flying les- sons, and got his pilot's licence at Sky Harbour Airport in Goderich after the war. Bill's sailing experience started when he and I built a small sail boat in his garage, soon after arriv- in : Sri Listowel. He later sailed types df Crafts on. the Great 0 Another activity that he really enjoyed was photography, and two of his children are involved in this field, Michael in the Canadian movie industry, and Lee Anne in Still photography. He also enjoyed playing a little on his piano and organ. Dr. William has five children: Michael in Toronto, Susan in Lake Louise, Douglas in Halifax, Lee Anne in Montreal and Stephen in London, Ont. Dr. Bill will be greatly missed by all of us. THE HURON EXPOSITOR, Aprrll 12, 1995-3 7a'rS The Seaforth Agricultural Society would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of our Home, Garden & Trade Show. Special thanks to those of you who brought canned goods in lieu of admission. 7e I///Y/V��S $100 Winners ('ollen Dale Al Koehler Judy Scarrow Cord and Irma Prvice Brenda Menary Jannette Stoll Al Koehler Helen McNaughton - Deb Malone ist - Jean Haggitl 2nd - Bonnie Fortune 3rd - Cathy Melady C Ducharme Ken Middleditch Beth Read Heidi McClure Mary Ryan Mary Ryan Pat Armen Bonnie Glanville Lorie Falconer Maja Dodds Mrs. J. Young Rick Lucas Margaret Mennell Jean Lunn Ange Sharpe Joan Whyte Pal Bennett Pat Koehler Margaret Lairc-oix Clara Ducharme Mrs. Lloyd Lostell Catherin Wick Linda Dewit Lindsey Haney . Carol McNoll Scott Godkin Betty Lockhart Te -em Farms Clinton Credit Union Seaforth Agriculture Home Craft Box Furniture Malcolm Gray Insurance Country Cable Glavin Eavestroughing H & R Carpentry Hoffineyer's Mill Ball -Macaulay Hensall Co-op PUC Pork Producers South East Hope - Wednesday - Thursday Nelson Pullman - Wednesday - Thursday Shewan Ornaments McKillop Mutual Insurance Canadian Cancer Society - Wednesday - Thursday C.I.B.C. Marg Anderson Ronald Murray Pamela Miller C.W. Juvenile Girls Broomball Draw Broomball Ham,. Jacket Cross Stitch Pillow Wheat Doll Maple Syrup Bird Feeder Hair Products Handmade Quilt Fran Ellison - Grand Bend Carol Hunt - Walton Ron Riley - Seaforth Matt Townsend - Londesborough Jane McNaughton - Klppen Gail Price - Egmondville Sharon McClure - Seaforth Dianne Mero - Seaforth Christine Tremeer - Seafort h Betty Dowell - Vanaslra NMI • • ••• SEEWORTII '3IErS EEISTER EGG HCINT SAT(JRDEIY, APRIL 15t" 10 AM 1 VICTORIA PARK for Pre-schoolers - ST. J(IMES SCHOOL YARD 6-10 Years Old The Easter Bunny and his friends will be there too! Dads 8 Moms...RQmambar to bring your camera. REHM OR shine OR snow Sponsored by: Seaforth Business Improvement Association !1 \t ••