HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1997-03-19, Page 3'Nti one should have SC letter befog council,' says Reeve
Matter remains unsettled
BY CALE COWAN
SSP News Staff
Theawo main combatants in
a itrllsted exchange at Hensall
village council March 10
remain unconvinced the mat-
ter is behind them.
Reeve Cecil Pepper indicat-
ed his letter of resignation
that night may not be off.tbe
table completely while Coun.
Jeff iteebum hasn't ruled out
Yapping down himself.
'They didn't accept my tts-
ignition -that night, however,
if 1 . did get to -the door, they
.probably would have.'
Pepper said later in the week.
The two council members
butted "heads early in thc
^sheeting after Pepper refused
to acknowledge a special
council meeting from Feb.
21,- urged iby Reaburn. The
issue at hand was a recurring
problem- of gas fumes in
King 8trect homes.
Pepper — who was sick —
contonds that the meeting
was not valid -because the
clerk -was not properly noti-
fied end only the head of
council can call special meet-
ings. -
Reaburn: was angered that
Pepper would not accept. the
minutes and reeommenda-
tions ,from that Feb. 21 meet-
ing and stormed out of the
room.
When he returned later to
deal with the gas fume proh-
Icm, Pepper offered his insig-
nation. Reabum also indicat-
ed he would be willing to
resign to mlieve the tension.
An incamera session later in
the meeting apparently pro-
vided a short-term solution as
all council members
remained and carried on with
normal business.
But when asked Friday if
ithe matter was indeed settled.
'Pepper seemed leas sure.
"1 sure hope so ... -but I'm
nut confidant of that. -1!m not
100 per cent sure, but I sure
hope so." Pepper said.
- Upset Over Procedure
He was still upset that prop-
er .procedure .had been
superceded and admitted that
position left him at odds -with'
his council
"You've got to put your foot
down occasionally."
And he maintained • his posi-
tion that the letter from a
Huron County health inspec-
tor regarding the gas .fumes
should not have been made
public earlier.
It was that letter that -was at
the heart of the -controversy,
as village clerk Luanne Phair
only -made it public after resi-
dents found out it existed.
March 10. she claimed it -was
for background information
only, although health inspec-
tor Don Hultah suggested in
the letter that it be distributed -
Why was letter not bro
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any drains connected to -the
- sewer.
Huilah. contacted by the
King - Street residents.
inspected their homes and
advised them as tri proper
safety measures. "When (the clerk) called me
it seemed like no one was
concerned about the the indi-
vidual. citizens." Huilah
explained during the meeting.
"So I followed it up on my
own ... -I wanted everyone to
know of the problem. .
"My intent -:was to help the
to residents.
"In my opinion, no one
should have seen that letter
before cquncil because it
needed clarification," said
Pepper, although it was over
two weeks before members
of council actually saw the
letter.
"That may have bean wrong
or it may .not have been
wrong. I can give you an
opinion either way." -
Residents were advised by
the Mork to.contact.the health
unit -for an inspection follow-
ing the -Feb. 10 council meet-
ing.
But while council has
agreed to notify residents of
the potential hazard and to
redesign a catch basin sus-
pected .to be causing at .least
some of the problems,
Reaburn remains disillu-
sioned over the whole ordeal.
He said - last week he
- believes council can carry on.
but admitted as tar as resign-
ing was concerned "1 haven't
ruled that out."-
-"The reeve and I can put
aside our conflict on this one
-issue, but 1 have not been
happy throughout this whole
thing and I'm still not
happy," Reabum said, adding
he was waiting to see if the
matter could be resolved. -
"I just don't know realisti-
cally that it can."
ught .rip ? ' as
people
The residents were less than
`thrilled that Huitah's letter
had not been made available
previously. -
"Why was this letter not
brought up'."" Ritchie asked. •
"This letter had the answers _
... and the whole time the
clerk was sitting up there
with this letter."
Phair explained the letter
was for background informa-
tion only and she needed fur-
ther opinion from insurance
carriers before proceeding.
That did not. however,
•
(sppcase members of council.
"That doesn't explain -why
you didn't share it with us so
we could discuss it as well,"
Coon. Towle said. - -
"hese were the very things
we wanted answers to and
were not privy to them,"
-Reaburn added.
"I was damn mad. We had..
the information, it just wasn't
put into council's -hands."
What was the solution?=
First, a catch basin along -
Highway 4 blamed" for the
original spill in January will
be looked over by the- engi- -
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Storm misses town
Saaforth and area missed
moat of the severe ice and
freezing rain storm just to the
south Friday.
But an Ontario Hydro
110,000 -volt transmission
line was knocked out in the
Seaforth area, and another
carrying power from London
to Sarnia, causing power
problems elsewhere - for
instance outages at Exeter, St.
Marys, St. Thomas and
Ingersoll.
Sirloins, CDs
stolen in break-in
Property with .an estimated
value of $8,500 was stolen in
a break and enter at a resi-
dence on Conc. 2 of
Tuckersmith Township.
sometime between' Mar. -3
and 7 while the owners wore
on vacation.
The Huron County detach-
ment of the Ontario
Provincial 'Police says
"unknown suspects" forced
open a window. causing
about S540 damage, to get in.
"Stolen property included a
Sharp VCR. model VC -
H$600. a Technics receiver,
model SA-GX330, approxi-
- mealy. 200 CDs, Bose speak-.
ars, Sony Discman, Model D-
232, Aiwai radio, 18 -inch
Herringbone .gold chain,
nurnisrous -costume jewelry,
sirloin steaks, loonies,
' loonies and - a -Global
Positioning system, used in
determining exact location
while flying an airplane."
ks resident
neers to see if they can pre-
vent further contamination.
They will work in conjunc-
tion with the Ministry of
Transportation.
Second, after much arguing, -
the village will work with the
health unit to draft a -letter for
Hensall residents, explaining .
the potential hazard.
Howpver, questions of lia-
bility werealso at stake, a
concern raised by Pepper.
"1 would rather we tell them
. rather than have a disaster a
month from now and then -
say- 'well, I wish we had told
thein',"Reaburn said.
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0655.
Newspaper. pioneer James E.- Bowes -dies.
town ,Crystal Centre com-
plex.
Bowes, known to friends
and associates simply as
later became part of the fami-
ly operation.
The newspaper became one
of the first in Canada to be
printed by the rotary offset
method in 1963 and. was the
first daily in thc country to be
published with this technolo-
gy when it went to five -days -
a -week status in 1964.
$owes, who retired as com-
pany founder and chairman
in 1989. had been in semi-
retirement in Kelowna since
1994 and active in commer-
cial development throughout
the Okanagan Valley.
He is survived by his wife
Fran, daughters Judi (Brian)
Dew of Edmonton; Jan
(Peter) Woolsey of Grande
Prairie, :and Deborah (Mark)
Ledwon of :Kelowna; broth-
ers Bill (Margaret) of Grande
Prairie.and Howard (Marilyn)
Pioneering Alberta newspa-
perman James E. (Jim)
Bowes, who parlayed the
weekly Grande Prairie Herald
-Tribune into a publishing
empire, died •Wednesday in
Kelowna, B.C., after a long
bout with cancer.
He was 73.
Bowes and his brother Bill..
of Grande Prairie. formed
Bowes Publishers Limited in
1950 to purchase the then -
weekly Herald -Tribune.
In, the space of 14 years, the
newspaper became twice -
weekly and. in April 1964, a
daily.
Fuelled by the Peace
Country's post-war boom and
a faith in the future of the
region, Bowes Publishers'
holdings expanded - first the
Record -Gazette in Peace
River and the Star in Dawson
Creek, then between 1965
and 1988 newspapers in such
diverse communities as Fort
.McMurray, Truro. N.S..
Kenora, Ont., a number of
small-town weeklies in
southwestern Ontario,
Penticton, B.C.; ,Kelowna
B.C., Portage la Prairie.
Man., and bustling towns in
north -central Alberta' includ-
ing Camrose. Hinton, and
•
Sherwood Park.
Bowes sold his Edmonton -
based company to the
Toronto .Sun -Publishing
Corp. in 1988. It -is now
wholly-owned division of
Sun Media Corp. of Toronto.
"JB", was born in Ingersoll.
Ont., in 1923 and grew up in
Moose Jaw, Sask. That's
where his newspaper career
began as a high school
columnist for the local daily.
He later became a reporter
for dailies in Woodstock.
Ont., and London before
joining the Canadian Army in
1943. He was a war corre-
spondent for the army's daily,
the Maple Leaf, in Maly,
Belgium, Holland and
Germany. •
He and his brother Bill
pooled war service gratuities
to buy the weekly Dresden,
Ont., Times in 1948. Two
years later, what was to
become history was made
when Bowes Publishers
bought the Herald -Tribune in
Grande Prairie. Two other
brothers, Howard and David,
It was not the. end of its
mushrooming growth, how-
ever. Today, the company,
headquartered in London,
Ont., operates in five
provinces with three com-
mercial printing plants, five
daily newspapers, and publi-
cations ranging from week-
lies to special interest maga-
zines to fart papers.
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in Grande Prairie four years
ago when the brothers funded
the Bowes Family Crystal
Gardens, part of the down -
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