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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-08-14, Page 1Close-up Keeping the greens clean. See page 2 Feature This is just part of a rare winning beauty. See page 12 Sports Thousands will descend on Walton this weekend, including TSN. See page 7 Mr J 1111111141 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 — Seaforth, Ontario Briefly Isabelle Brasseur married in Montreal wedding Lloyd Eisler's figure skat- ing partner; Isabelle Brasseur, got married Saturday. She wed Rocco (Rocky) Marval, an American pairs skater, she met in a competi- tion eight years ago. islcr, from Seaforth, and Brasseur now skate profes- sionally, and will continue to do so - together. They won the World Championship in 1993 and twice won Olympic bronze medals. • Lloyd was an usher at Saturday's small ceremony at St. Patrick's Basilica in, Montreal. Another prominent 'skater, Kristi Yamaguchi, was a bridesmaid. Marval plans to also contin- ue in competition with his on -ice partner, Calla Urbanski. The Marvals will live in Mount HylIi y, N.J. Huron Plowing Match next week The 69th annual Huron County Plowing Match takes place late next week, two miles south of Walton at the farm of Neil and Marie McGavin. It runs August 22 and 2;1, with Friday the main day. That's when they get down to barbecuing pork chops and the serious plowing, and, also hold the "Queen of the Furrow" 1 competition. Reigning . "Queen" is Charlene Townsend of Scaforth who will represent thc cot►nty at the International Plowing Match in Haldiman-Norfolk at Selkirk next month. The Huron ,"Queen" crowned next week will attend next year's IPM at Cookstown in Simcoc. Interested young women should call Lynn Godkin at 235-0777. Perth County's plowing match is Saturday. Aug. 24 at Warden John Van Bakel's farm at Brodhagcn. Plan to reduce hospital admissions The Huron/Perth injury pre- vention committee recently presented an action plan for reducing hospital admissions in the two counties by the year 2(X)0: • by 10 per cent because of falls by seniors (65+). • by 10 per cent due to farm injury. • • by 50 per cent because of motor vehicle accidents.. • by achieving 95 per cent helmet use. thereby reducing cycling injury in the 5 to 15- ycar-old age group. • by decreasing hospital admissions due to trauma by 25 per cent. An injury prevention pro- ject co-ordinator was hired in July last ycar and the plan- ning committee first met, with 14 attending. in October 1995. Their action plan is a strategy to assist service clubs, groups, agencies and organizations to look at the prevention of injuries. 1 August 14, 1996 — 75 Cents Plus GST Sifto Summer Camp PHOTO BY GREGOR CAMPBELL STRANGE SIGHTS OVER WALTON - Brett Lee, 21, of Walton will be only one of the hundreds of competitors at the Grand National Championships just outside of town Thursday through Sunday. It is Canada's largest motocross competi- tion and television station TSN will have some of the races on tape delay in two weeks. Brett put his bike through some stunning paces jumping over the sun at the family track, next door to this weekend's event. More photographs and the story are in Sports on page 7. Ship helps promote Children's Aid fundraiser Captain Neil McCallum of the ULS carrier Canadian Transport' has been presented with a "care hear" for his cabin by the Children's' Aid Society of Huron County. The ship, will .travel, to nearly 100 ports this station, and also has seven -foot high logos promoting "Summer Camps for Kids" emblazoned on its stern, to both port and starboard. A major Sifto (North American Salt) and CAS summer camp fundraising committee initiative this summer was the sale of tours of Sifto's Godcr'ich mine, which included dinner and an opportunity to win one of two port-tc-port trips ion a , salt carrie>'. All 120 tours sold out with- in two weeks. A press release from the committee notes there is now "a waiting list of people Ifom outside the arca, some from as far away as Michigan, who -wish to he alerted of next year's offer- ing." "Camps for Kids" in Huron provides residential and day camp programs for 250 needy youngsters from across thc county. Canadians own more computers per capita More Canadian households (28.8 per cent) than American (25.5 `4) arc at present likely to have a com- puter, according to a recent Statistics Canada profile which points to a couple of intriguing differences use within the two countries. More low-income earners had a computer in Canada than the U.S.. hut fewer high- income earners had one here than across the border. Similarly, Canadian com- puter ownership was higher than the U.S. rate for all edu- cation levels, hut particularly among those with very low levels of schooling. A computer was found in about nine per cent of Canadian homes where the "head" had Tess than a Grade 9 education. but only among three per cent of comparable American households. Two-thirds of Canadian homes aren't hooked up to today's "wired" world. The penetration rate for computers in Canadian homes has risen by 9.8 per cent in the last five years, since 1991. . Restructuring proposal for Huron Split county into rural and urban BY NELLIE EVANS SSP News Staff A restructuring proposal that might split Huron County into urban and rural entities received favorable reaction from the'Village of Zurich last week. But Zurich councillors stopped short of giving full support because they see a few .,problems with the Kingston/Frontenac model being held up as a "unique solution" by Goderich Mayor Deb Shewfelt. In a draft governance com- mittee proposal presented to the public on July 8, 1996, the Township or Kingston and a pottion of the Township of Pittsburgh -will merge with the City of Kingston effective January 1, 1998, to become a new city. Thirteen townships which comprise the current Frontenac County plus a por- tion of Pittsburgh township will become the new rural municipality or divide into a maximum of four new this year; the latest in July. municipalities. (Pittsburgh "Items for discussion township had the choice of would include the elimina- completely joining the new tion of one level of govern - city or accepting a split. The ment; the model as presented township was to take the by Kingston/Frontenac to see issue to its constituents and if it could be adapted, in make a decision by July 31.) whole or in part, to meet the The restructuring would needs of the taxpayers of the eliminate the county level of municipalities of Huron government, County," said Shewfelt. In an accompanying letter ' He also suggests that a gov- to Huron municipalities and emance review committee be county council, Shewfelt established to try to find "a said in his opinion the model solution to restructuring." "resolves the so-called The committee, in his opin- urban-rural split that is defi- ion, would contain five urban nitely showing up in Huron's mayors and five rural reeves restructuring talks." plus the warden. Shewfelt called for a meet- "It might be something ing of heads of municipal worth lookingat," said councils plus Huron County Zurich Councillor Brad Warden Bill Clifford and Clausius. clerks or administrators to Some councillors said discuss the Huron would have to be split KingstonlFrontenac propos- along urban &nd rural lines al. But Zurich councillors because it has no city to will recommend the matter become a natural centre. be discussed at the next Councillor Nick Littlechild Huron County Strategic was teary of the world and Planning meeting, yet to be suspicious, of the Town of scheduled. The county has Cioderich which he believes hosted two such meetings wants to "take,over and be the centre." Reeve Dwayne Laporte also supports the proposal in principle. "Single tier (government) has been discussed at Huron County Council before," he said. "We've got 26 munici- palities. We would need more councillors." In the new urban munici- pality recommended in the Kingston/Frontenac model, . 17 people would sit on the new urban council with 12 district councillors and a "board of control" made of four councillors and a mayor elected at large. The rural council would have 27 mem- bers with 14 district council- lors representing current township boundaries plus 12 councillors and a mayor elected at large. The rural area must further refine its municipal structure to create up to four municipalities before September 21. Other points recommended by the Kingston/Frontenac Governance Review CONTINUED on page 3 Summer half over Last Tuesday evening. August 6, we passed the mid- way point of summer here in the northern hemisphere.