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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-02-14, Page 1Canada How much do you know about the country you live in? See page 4 Another View Triple A president responds to stories on the new league. see pages 4, 8 Legion Branch 156 members receive awards & honours see page 6 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 — Seaforth, Ontario Briefly Black ice blamed for car accident A Seaforth Ivan was taken to Seaforth Community Hospital following an acci- dent in Ribber' Township - last Wednesday. Schringvillc OPP Const. Ross Marshall said William Alin; 51. of Seaforth.---was attempting_10 pass a slow moving vehicle on Perth County Rd 10 near Hibbert Concession Rd. 12/13 at 4:03 p.m. last Wednesday. He lost • control on black •ice, left. the • roadway and rolled. - Alin and his passenger Linda Alin. 46, were taken to Seaforth- Community Hospital to have their injuries treated. The Chevrolet roehi ole' they were driving. was - demolished. - Const. Marshall said the Schringvillc OPp investigat- ed six -accidents last Wednesday caused by dri- vers travelling too fast, for road conditions. The. ground drifting resulted in sonic- , onic, snow-covered sections on the roads which were slippery. Clock to get face lift The big clock from the old Mitchell Post Office is going to be spitted up. Council recently okayed - S5,000 worth of work on the old clock, in mothballs since the old. post office was torn down 22 years ago,- and believed to be close to 125- ycars-old. The original • potion came from Mitchell's Architectural Conservation Advisory Corn- mince, and the funds will conic from a special reserve fund. Town goes for cash Seaforth Council decided to. go for. the cash and modify its Nevada liccnsc policy at last Tuesday's meeting - allowing a Canadian Liver Foundation application to sell the popular break -open tickets at the Beck- er's store on Main Street. In 1993 council limited the number of outlets for Nevadas in town to a dozen, with eight for local groups, two for provincial and 'national beneficiaries and another two for county groups. When the liver foundation applied last • month, Council asked for more information on whcrc the funds raised .by the national group would go, and noted `only: county and local categories currently had • openings. But ec tic t'tl•} Alcvclopment officer Cathy Garrick reported to council last week that Scaforth's policy could be deemed discriminatory in relation to Ontario's licensing policy and the "Province may override a municipality's denial - of a request" and then pocket the liccnsc fee which would normally go to Scalor(h, "S576 in this case". "What's the magic in the 12?" Deputy -Reeve Bill Teall .said. Council decided to take the revenue if it can't control it. Coun. Michael Hak agreed, but said this might further cut up the Itondraising pie and make it harder for local groups (for instance. minor hockey), already trying to keep their heads above valet-,, to raise funds. The rc-submiucd liver 'bun, dation application noted chap- ters in London, Chatham and Sarnia naw service surrounding communities and counties, "such as London servicing Seaforth and Huron County". Councillors hear presentation on dogs Town councilto change pit bull bylaw ICY (;REGOlt CA141i'IlEll, done. , Expositor Staff Seaforth Conn. il has recon- sidered an amendment to its animal control bylaw that would have made owners of pit hulls and crosses of the breed Inutile them in public and pay a higher SIOO tag fee. "Vicious" .(logs can still singled out for muzzling in public in the bylaw, as it is now amended • in, preparation for third leading at this lv.'ek's Session of Council. Anita Hansen,. who offers a seasonal course in do(; obedience at the arena, made a presentation at last Tuesday night's council meeting where 'she used photographs to make her point oI how difficult it is to identify the breed, officially known as an American Star- fordshirc Terrier• or Stall fordshirc Bull Ti'errie•r. - -She said nwnrrs more than genetics make dogs' vicious, and supported public controls .against any canine so deemed. •But she 'said it was ''trendy" to pick on pit bulls and wrong to single ellen) out, as' other municipalities -in Chi• area have According to ligures com- piled by the county and herself, Hansen said there is .no real problem with only three pit bulls in the Seaford.( arca; one of which is old and on its last legs. • She added there have been 987 dog . bites serious enough to have been reported. in Huron County in• the last seven years,- only scvcn of which were caused by pit bulls. , Needlessly muzzling pets in public causes dogs, no matter what 'the breed, to become angry and more aggressive, Hansen argued., „ She said. American Staf- Iordshirc and Staflordshire Bull Terriers that have been cared for and trained properly make excellent companions and provide. good protection. • ' Animal Control Officer Robert Trick incntilined several troubling pit hull occurrences in the county recently, not. all when dogs were being walked by owners. He stlxnl by statis- tics that indicate pit hulls cause -far more -deaths in the United States than guy other breed. ' Maybe our dugs arc completely different in Scbforth," Trick concldded.. Seaforth cuts pins, trophies from budget IlY GREGOR CAti1P11E1,1. Expositor Stall week. Cutting back travel expenses by setting limits for council and municipal staff, and • Pin and flag give-aways arc reducing borrowing costs and gone and So are trophies for general administrative sports teams dear go all the tinatcrials, will save an' es - way, bur Seaford' Council timatcd additional—S4,500 in decided to try medallions in this year's budget.' Place of the latter at last''fdesCouncil approved same other day's regular meeting. • cost-cuttng.initiatives it started . • Council, continuing a pre- to investigate last month,- such budget cost-v'utting procss as an increase: in liccnsc and which began in earnest at last • permit fees, which 11 estimates month's meetings. will save a total of 59,5(10. For "We anticipate being able to Nevada fieenses the town's cut Inset provincial cutbacks is now the maximum .al - (S64.,000) • withotit much Towable;• three per cern. trouble," Clerk/treasurer Jim Crocker said after last week's Eliminating a 1998 election most -recent round of municipal-, bar and dinner from the budget cuts. will save an estimated $1,250. The vine Orr eliminating The town alsoapproVed tying trophies to winning sports _ PUC rent to inflation. (cams was tied, so Mayor Irwin Reducing the number of Johnston was the deciding vote council meetings in the sum - as council opted to give chant- flier, and perhaps next Decem- pionship medallions a try bcr, will also save an estimated instead. The) don't cost as, $1,650. much. Council still can't quite make Earlier council had eliminated up its mind what to do with the town pin and flag give-aways, • suggestion to eliminate Canada which will further save an Day fireworks at a possible estimated S1,500. . savings of $2,300. It decided to New suggestions were ap- leave this until later in the proved that will .result in es- budget process. inflated savings of S14,050. Recreation director Marty Rather than have the public Bedard said he felt there was utility commission collect room to "save the. town's. sum - sewer surcharges in Seaforth, mer recreation program, in co - council decided• it will now operationwith the local' include the surcharge in its chimren's centre which wrote a final two tax notices, thereby leiter of concern. Councillors saving the estimated S5,000 the • agreed this was still a pos- town now pays the PUC an- sibility, that they had only nually to collect it. agreed. to eliminate the Council estimates it will save program's 1995 deficit of about S5,(XX) by eliminating summer $9,000 at last month's office help, also approved last meetings. Class raising money for computer A class at Seaforth District High School is pounding the pavement locally trying to raise money beyond the budget for a new computer. 1 he Challenging Learning Needs (CLN) class formulated a business plan last month and. the nine students arc now col- lecting fine paper and pop cans, sorting and crushing them to cash in at an arca recycling depot. The local youths, ages 14 to 21, are learning challenged. Teacher Karen Joy says com- munity contact, both ways, is a valuable offshoot of the exer- cise. Anyope who might be sur-. rounded by fine paper and cans they can do without, can reach her through the school. e• February 14, 1996 — 75 Cents Plus GST DAVID SCOTT PHOTO A NEW COAT OF PAINT . Members of the Seaforth and District Youth Group recently vol- unteered to help clean and paint the facilities of the new Seaforth Food Bank located in the back alley of the police station, where a former temporary station was set up. From left: 'Amanda Manuel, Kristie Moran, Nicole Crawford, Brad Crawford. The food bank's board will have a representative from each of the local churches on it. Many donations of supplies have already beeh received from local businesses including old book shelves from the library to store the food on. Organizers are looking at the end of the month as a possible. opening date. ' It's . o fficial! Dashwood area site to host IPM in 1999 BY PATRICK RAFTIS SSP NEWS STAFF . It's official! The last International Plowing Match of the mil- lennium will be,hetd at a southern Huron County -site hear Dashwood. ' The Ontario Plowmen's Association accepted Huron's bid, the only one on the table, to act as hoar for the 1999 IPM at it's annual convention, Monday night in Kitchener. A strong dele- gation from Huron County was on hand at the meeting to sup- port the bid, saki Fari Becker, who's farm north of Dashwood will be the host site of the '99 match. "We're pretty excited said Becker, who will host the match along with his partner, son Michael, on the family's cash crop farm, which covers nearly 2,000 acres, (about 1,200 to 1,300 rented from neighbors). While that seems like plenty of room, Becker saidea plowing match requires a lot of land. The tented city traditionally takes up about 100 acres, with another 100 acres set aside for camp- sites. Parking requires about 3-400 acres, with about the same amount needed far plowing. Then theme are space require-_ ments for machinery demonstrations and displays. "First thing you know, you've got 1,2000 acres," said Becker. Becker said the match will be a total community effort, involving some 30 canmiuees working on preparations over the next three years. A plowing match can draw as many as 150.000 to 175,000 people said Becker. providing economic spin-offs to the entire;*a. it's going tb put this area, Dashwood, Zurich and Hay, on the map," said Becker. $30,000 worth of BIA bucks sold Kevin Cardno and Jason Wheatley have both been appointed to the Seaforth Business Improvement As- stk•iation advertising and promotions committee. Cardno has also been Q appointed to the BiA's executive committee. The committee is recommending a zero per cent budget increase this year as compared to last to ' the BIA's annual meeting next month. The Seaforth Bucks Christmas promotion was described as "fabulous" by BIA secretary Cathy Garrick with S30,000 worth sold with 54 per cent, or S16,315 redeemed at 29 businesses. 'Another $13,685, or 46 per cent, were redeemed at businesses "that cannot be identified". The committee says .there arc 81 businesses/offices in the Seaforth BIA and 26 of these are government offices or services where Seaforth Bucks were unlikely to be redeemed (ie. library, post office, financial institutions etc.). It concluded 29 out of 53 businesses "could be identified as benefiting from the BIA Buck program, and "the majority of the customers who purchased (them) were from the Scafonh area, people who would normally shop and bank in Seaforth."