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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-02-21, Page 1Legion Area students _ compete in public speaking at Branch 156. see page 13 County Landfill County Councillors debate the landfill issue & approve another study. see page 2 Awards McInally wins Junior Development scoring title: See page 7 • Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 — Seaforth, Ontario Briefly Town employee injures arm • Works Superintendent John Forrest caught_. his aria in one - of the - town - sanders early Thursday. nrarning•: Hc was operated on .later that evening .at London's St. ".loscpti's . hospital aril in- dieatioris are a tragedy has been averted. - The bone .Was broke half -way up the forearm. .• Works employee Doug Anstctt, ►wit► was. just iiisick the shop at. the time of the 8 tit. accident and rushed his )ss by truck to Seaforth Tont- unity 1lospilal, says nobody - but John Claw it happen. Hc' *Ids doctorssay the-iiI)Cration w nt well, there was nu nerve or 1 .' , i. damage and Forrest . will - ' n full use of his arni, alter rehabilitation and sonic Skin grafting perhaps. Austen . says fellow - employees -- first (cared their .superintendent -;had •iost liis hand when. he walked in -the . shop holding his. arm and said lied had an accident. I� I� c tys Forrest was ►vorking " oil . the trackless ,snowblower.; .is op- - . lxiscd to the I -ton atig'r, and the men were close by inside the Oak Street .town shed get- ting ready to go on shift." u' -• Anstcll praised the enrgcn- - cy -team at-Scalia111 Coui- niunity Hospital. He (Forrest) -couldn't get out of the truck, the • works eatplu) ec said, but there was "It *s• of -help and -quick." • • Forrest has et urged for Seaforth for the past 15 years. McIntosh on eighth egg term Jim McIntosh,. an egg pro= ducer from RR 4 Seaforth, has hccn rc-elected to • his eighth term' as a Director- of the Ontario Egg Producers' Mar- keting,. Board. ._ He is a nrcntbcr of the cgg hoard executive. the Fgg "Indus- try Advisory Committee and • rhe Pullet Committee. Hr and his wife Brenda, together with their son, daughter and son-in- law, operate McIntosh Poultry Farms Limited. Huron County teachers heading to Hamilton protest BY DAViD I;MSI.IE SSP News Staff Thc • Ontario government will be hearing from thou- sands of protesters this week- end during • the Hamilton Action Days. and Iluron County teachers hope to stake their voices heard as they ;ire sending five bus loads of people to the rally. . Wilhelmina Laurie, presi- dent of the Huron Women Teachers' Association, noted that the. live h►` loads of teachers will be - joining almost 1,(XK) buses i•roin across the province "just with teachers' groups" to attend the rally. Many thousands of other protesters from the public service will also he gathering in Hamilton for Action Days. Laurie noted that teachers have many conccrim with the Harris .govcrnmcnl's hoer CONTINUED on page 12 tf February 21, 1996 - 75 Cents Plus GST DAVID SCOTT HAPPY FLAG DAY CANADA Nichole Braun, 3, of RR 2 Bluevale, gets into the spirit of Canada's first Flag Day Iasi Thursday. Children at the Seaforth Co-operative Children's Centre made flags, wore maple leaf head -bands and had maple leafs painted on their faces. Canada's maple leaf flag flew for the first time on Parliament Hill 31 years ago. Seaforth Town Counr Expenses 'out of hand,' says Reeve IIY GREGOR CAMPBELL Expositor Staff Reeve Bill Bennett said Coun. Brian Ferguson's expen- ses were "out of hand" when Seaforth Council reviewed its statement of remuneration and t3xpcnstss for I()95 at lust Tues- day night's regular meeting. That report shows Coun. Ferguson got a total of S5,134.62 last year, even More than Mayor Irwin Johnston, well back in second place at 54,118.67. Coun. Ferguson's conference registrations :►tune cost S 1,260.55 itt 1995, compared to Coun. Hak who was second highest in ibis category at 5180.25. 'Mayor Johtlston's registrations cast 5113.67 lust year and the comparable figure for Deputy -Reeve 'Tall was S91.67. Council didn't pay a cent in registrations for Reeve Bennett and Counsellors John Ball and leather Rnbinet in 1995. NOT UNDER 11ANI)1•'.D Mayor Johnson agreed there "has to be a policy es- tablished", after Deputy -Reeve Bill Ttlf observed it was "nut going 00 without council's pCnnlssiun" and a policy should be considered before this year's budget is set, par- ticularly since cuui i1 ap- proved cutting back on conven- tions and sticking to seminars last month. . Council's total remuneration (including stipends; utilagc and Meals, conference registration and lodging) fox 19)5 was 523,435.06. Remuneration and expenses (made up of stipend, milage and meals, conference registration and lodging, respectively) for individual councillors last year. were: ('nun. Ferguson, S5,134.62 (52,74.5/5705..38/$1,260/5423 (69); Mayor JoliriOn, $4,1 i 8.67 ($4,005/$0/$113.0A0); Coun. kobinet,-$3,3302.21 ($3,270/ S32.211$00/$0): Coun. Hak, S3,10419 (S2,940/520.94/ S1 25/50); Deputy -Reeve Teal,. $2,968.86 ($2,655/ $222.19/$0)1.67/50); Coun. Ball, 52,(•42.87 ('2,625/517.87 /S(1/50); Reeve Bennett, 42,126.64 (52.070/556.64/ SO/SO). • POLICE BOARD" The three members of Seaforth's Police Services Board received a total of 54,161.62 last year, individual- ly accoun $, by: Chair Lin Stcftler, .'$1 .98 $18.98/50/50); comm issioncr Bob Dinsmore, $1,392.50 (51,195/571.44/ 561.80,564.26) and, Deputy -Chair Teals, 51,3000.14 (51,275/525.14/50/ $0). The statement of last year's expenses also included four special purpo c boards, which together cost Seaforth 53,172.50, the most expensive of which was recreation and parks at $1,192.50. Remuneration was 51,120 for rnembers of Seaforth's Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Board, -5500 for the committee of adjustment and 5360 for the planning board, Council is trying to curtail costs by eliminating honorariums for these special purpose boards this year, an Initiative begun in the wake of recent major cuts in transfer payments from the Ontario government. Later in last week's meeting, Rccve Bennett also questioned the cost and need for a police services board in Seaforth, now that it has engaged the OPP. CONTINUED on page 3 New video helps promote tourism in Huron BY DAVID I•:MSL11: SSP News Staff Thc many gains features that Huron County Iias to oiler to tourists are omiiliiucd in a new video titled !/Herne (.autly - Onlario'.c B'rr.►l Coast. Thc video, explained George Morfopoulos, who 'maimed the video with itis wife Pat, owner of the Computer Training Academy (crA) in Clinton, was made with the "express purpose of promoting tourism in Huron County." Thc couple did. however, have other goals in mind when they decided to put the video together: Morli►Ixnllos noted that Central Hun►n Secondary School has •u multi -media course, and they wanted to raise awareness of this course. At the sane time. he said, the students front that course, without the opportunity to use the skills they learn locally, will have to trove for work, and thus their skills will low lust to the community. Therefore, he continued, four multi -media students wcrc hired for the summer when the couple decided to sponsor the video initiative. Also as part of the project, computer infor- mation kiosks wcrc placed ;:round the county, and used to collect marketing information. on what tourists are seeing in the county, and what they like and dislike. Still as another feature of the summer work for the students, all businesses related to tourism in Moron County wcrc put on the Internet for free, while individual merchants wcrc given • the opportuaily to upgrade their listing on a .uscr pay basis, thus increasing the awareness and use of modern computer technology by the county's businesses. Pulling the busincsses•on the Internet was Lcana Morfopoulos, daughter of the video's producers. The video, he said, was a cooperative effort, as the Com- puter Training Academy funded the initiative, with the support of the Huron Business Development Corporation. Thc Huron County Board of Education was also involved, as thcy'gavc permission for the students to use the multi -media facilities over the summer. Input also came . from . the CONTINUED on page 3 Quiet January - except for bar brawl BY GREGOR.CAN1PBELI. Expositor. Staff 1t was .a relatively - quiet . January in Scalixth, Sgt: Frank - Young of the Ontario Provin- cial Police, Gcxlcrich dcta h- tncnt, reported to the Seaford) Police Services Board meeting Thursday night. .W said there were 43 ill cidcnts in sown, eight liquor, charges but no impaired. He also said -jO temporary suspen- sions were issued last - month, four of these to snuwmobilcrs. • • Hc confirntcd a- bar -roost �rawl•in Seaforth Jan. 22: Staff Sgt. Brian Baldwin, • Cmdr. of the Gcxlcrich detach- - ment, said the OPP would hope any new bylaw tri restrict heavy trucks from. residential streets would be "enforceable". If you do it by weight per axle, for instance, y►u need a - -scale. Another thing you might key on would be the hill of lading, he said. - Much of thea meeting • was spent" shifting - a good • lour inches of paper' in bulletins:and mailings from the board to the • police for disposal, because the OPP already.had copies. Sgt. Young said hwould see what Its could do about reducing the duplication, much of it. un- acccssary since Seaforth switched from. Municipal to OPP policing.'" The hoard agreed its duties will take less time because of the switch, and will cut back w' at least tight meetings in_ 1996, • perhaps soinc-of these only on an "emergency" basis. Board members and officers from 'the Gcxlcrich :detachment spent much time reviewing this year's draft budget. Sealorth's OPP contract is for S376,481 in 1996. , In reviewing ,last ycar's- figures, secretary Lin-Stcl'flcr noted life insurance went up 60 per cent after last year's budget was struck. Chair Dinsmore asked Staff Sgt. Baldwin to keep a: closer .tab on long-distance calls at the Seaforth OPP office, presenting • the latest Bell Canada bill, which was quite lengthy. Scalorth's representative on the ixtlicc board, ('our. Rill Tat; suggested sonic kind of log.. The Goderich commander said security would be a concern for the OPP, which is moving away from such logs and has a V -net system for inter -detach- ment exchanges and its own system that deals with personal calls by officers. He agreed the if the last bill is an indication for the year the total would be well in excess of the 51,800 budgeted. Staff Sgt. Baldwin said he would put some kind of log system inlace in Seaforth for at least a fw months and "see what happens". The board again. applied to the province for Seaforth to be included in the province's RIDE program, to control impaired driving. Secretary Steffler noted May 12 to 18 is Police Week and said "this would be a perfect year to pay attention to this." She suggested the OPP delay a planned local "waikaround" of Main • Steel business to introduce themselves to the community until that week. The board and Godcrich detachment decided to check around and think on it before their next meeting, scheduled for Apr 15. '