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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2000-12-27, Page 3News /otrino Oietz photo Santa w sits-- — --� Santo made a recent visit to Rona Cashwoy in SeafOrth to find out what children wonted for Christmas at a speclot open house event. Board recycles cabinets from shut Vanastra school By Stew Slater Special to The -Huron Expositor Five -year --old cabinetry from the recently -closed. Vanastra. Community School .is being recycled by the. Avon Maitland District School Board, with much of the material moving to a new library and resource centre at Howick Central Public School. - "We believed we wouldn't have gotten any more money for,(the sale of) Vanastra with or without the millwork, so we decided it would be best to keep it and re -use it somewhere else,, 'said Avon Maitland superintendent of business Janet Baird -Jackson. The Avon Maitland official couldn't specify the value of the- recycled material, which waspart of a renovation at Vanastra five years ago. But she says the recycling initiative will save the board beyond the. obvious elimination of the need for new cabinetry: She also notes that skilled tradespeople who build cabinets are, often busy, and, the need for new cabinetry can lead to delays in such projects. Baird -Jackson presented trustees .with a tendering recommendation for the Hawick project during a regular board meeting Wednesday, Dec. 13. The lowest bid for the addition. and renovation to the R.R. I Gorrie-school was valued at $283.015.' • Work is expected to begin over the Christmas holidays, and Baird=Jackson notes that the board hopes to have as much of the recycled material removed from the former Vanastra school- before the. real estate deal closes later this month. A small amount of material has already been -reconstructed in Brookside Public School at R.R. 7 Lucknow, and the rest is expected to be sufficient to completely outfit the. hely resource centre at Howick. In a strange development. Baird - Jackson didn't reveal the names of the four contractors because board staff had. so far, been unable to obtain satisfactory reference checks on the. Third Ni l `: By Scott Hilgendorff Expositor Editor A better balanced water system is the result of one of the final projects -:being . completed by the Seaforth PUC as. it dissolves_ in four days to become part of Festival Hydro in Stratford on Jan. I. A 10 -inch water main at Sperling Stree now gives three connections between the town and the water tower at the town?s eastend. "It's part of our long-term planning. It means abetter flow," said Jim Sills of•the PUC. The .connection provides three that cross the' railroad tracks now and will help ensure a good flow of water if there is heavy usage in one' part of town, that, in the past, might have reduced flow to another area. Also. Sills said the change wilI!now give the- town more ways to isolate areas to work on without cutting water off to as many people when work on the watersystem is necessary, such as if a water main was to burst. Now, the sale of the PUC, through provincial deregulation of the electric industry, and the town assuming responsibility for the water system, leaves future projects up to Huron .East council. Sills hopes the new municipality will continue with PUC plans to drill a third well for the community, another part of the PUC?s long-term planning. "We're trying to leave a dependable system for the council and reassure it for the future," said Sills. Second access still needed Sills, who is also a captain on the Seaforth Fire Department. is hoping the issue of an extra crossing at the railway tracks at Sperling Attention All Customers DEADLINE for the January 3 issue of EilHuron' 11 Main St., Seaforth 527-0240 is Frid 12:00 29 oon lowest bidder. The recommendation for trustees . suggested accepting the low, ttid pending those reference checks, then goingto the next lowest hid if that wasn't possible. The next lowest hid was valued at $286.750. and board officials explained satisfactory. references have already been obtained forthat contractor. Newly -elected Stratford trustee Rod Brown wondered if the board shouldn't disregard the low bid. since the difficulty in securing satisfactory reference checks might already point in the direction of questionable quality. When pressed,. Baird -Jackson admitted two references for the company had already been, received. with one stating they would. "never use the contractoragain. and -the other stating the work was "okay." That was,. the reason further checks were being made, she said. In the end. however. Brown supported the motion. Street will also bepassed along to the Huron East council. 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