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Huron Expositor, 2004-06-30, Page 1tflSL s s.,. a-sc•.s PRINTER INK CARTRIDGES COMPETITIVE PRICES eM41010 ot4iW'„ Wednesday, June 30, 2004 • $ i .25 includes GST ithiatiowimealik GICs & Mutual Funds •RERSPs •RRIFs •RESPs •Life & Disability Insurance •Employee Benefits 'Retirement & Financial Planning 1411 blinking( & lea kis 15 Main St. Seaforth 527-0794 In brief Vanastra Church hosts Canada Day fireworks By Hillary Long student reporter Canada Day fireworks for Huron East will be held in Vanastra this year. Marty Bedard, Huron East fire chief, said the fireworks will be held at the Vanastra Community Christian Reform Church. Those attending will be able to park on site and there will be officials showing them where they can do so. Bedard said there will be a charge of $10 per car load to help offset the cost of the pyrotechnics. . "The fireworks start when it gets dark, around 10 p.m.," he said. Before the fireworks, Vanastra Recreation Centre will be offering activities for children at the church starting at 8:30 p.m. Children can participate in various. games including three-legged races, potato sack races and kick the shoe. Prior to the fireworks, the recreation centrg will have a snack bar open. Proceeds from the snack bar will go to the Vanastra Rec Centre. Bedard said the fireworks are put on by Huron East. He said, "You have to be licenced to set the things off," adding, "Seaforth has four firemen who are licenced and will be setting them off." The chief said the fireworks were held in Seaforth last year and Brussels two years ago. "It was the intent to move the fireworks around to different locations in Huron East," he said. The local firefighters will also be holding their annual Canada Day breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m. at the Seaforth fire hall. Inside... West Nile risk in Huron County lower than last year MN 11 Local student receives humanitarian award P096 6 Steckle re-elected for fourth term Voter anger at Martin causes Liberal minority, says Steckle By Matt Shurrie Goderich Signal -Star Editor Huron -Bruce voters unanimously returned Paul Steckle to Ottawa on Monday for an unprecedented fourth term. Steckle, the Liberal incumbent, finished with 25,311 votes — just under 50 per cent — while Conservative candidate Barb Fisher finished with 15,669 votes. New Democratic Party candidate Grant Robertson finished third with 6,644 votes. Green Party candidate Dave Vasey was fourth with 1,501 votes followed by Christian Heritage Party candidate Dave Joslin. Marijuana Party candidate Glen Smith was sixth with 635 votes. Elections Canada reported a voter turnout of 66 per cent with 50,710 of 76,813 residents casting a ballot. "I want to first say thank you to the people of Huron - Bruce for your restored confidence in me," Steckle said during a victory party here at Sacred Heart Church. "While the numbers indicate that we may be headed for a minority government my representation is not going to be diminished by what happens across the country. "I've always said the people of Huron -Bruce come first even though the positions — as you well know — have not always been popular with the government I serve. I've always done that and I will continue to do that." Steckle, surrounded by family, friends and party supporters, said this election, more than any of his previous three, was a hard fight given negative voter .opinion throughout the campaign.: "They were angry at the man who leads this party and who is the prime minister of this country for whatever reasons one can only surmise." Steckle said. "This man has been a good prime minister the short time he's been there and he certainly did a great job in terms of being the finance minister of this country. "I believe the people who handled his campaign and basically managed him— throughout this campaign did a lousy job. That's not what some people would want me to say but I'm going to begin Matt Shuffle photo Huron -Bruce liberal Paul Steckle gives a speech after his win Monday night. Steckle, who was re- elected for his fourth term in office, won the election with 25,311 votes. this mandate by calling it the way it is." Steckle said one of his main priorities would be to seek re- election as chair of the government's standing Arena debate continues Seaforth arena capital improvements approved By Susan Hundertmark Expositor Editor Seaforth will be playing hoc',key and other on -ice sports this winter as Huron East approved an amendment to the 2004 budget, paying close to $100,000 towards capital projects - including new boards for the Seaforth arena. The hotly -debated issue was again the subject of a long debate at last Tuesday's meeting of Huron East council. "When we go for a smoke during the break, there may be some fists flying," joked Deputy -Mayor Bernie MacLellan. The issue of capital improvements to the Seaforth arena, including a new furnace for the upstairs hall at $12,000, new boards and doors on the arena ice should be used to pay for the upkeep of municipal buildings. "If we have to forget road construction for a year, that's the way it's got to be. We have to redirect money to pay for what we have," he said. But, Grey Coun. Alvin McLellan continued to argue that Seaforth should be expected to fundraise the way the people using the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre have over the years. ,"We paid for our floor scrubber, our boards and new tables. We did that. But, the people in Brussels are going to think they're craiy for doing that. We might as well come and bcg at this table for money," he said. "You open the door and volunteerism goes out the doors. This is a kick in the butt to all our volunteers up north. We paid our share and I don't think Brussels and Grey should be paying for it (Scaforth's arena repairs)," said McLellan. Grey Coun. Mark Beaven added that Brussels ratepayers have traditionally fundraised for improvements to the arena because the former municipality of Brussels didn't have the money. "The people using the arena had a choice - they had to fundraise or it wasn't going to get done." McGrath conceded that Brussels might be able to share with Seaforth the secret of recruiting volunteers, saying See FUNDRAISING, Pogo 2 Quoted 'If we have to forget road construction for a year, that's the way it's got to be,'-- Tucker:mith Coun. Lorry McGrath surface at $46,500, new flooring in the dressing room and lobby at $25,000 to $30,000 and a new cleaning machine for the floors at $8,000. was tabled at the last meeting because the new Municipal Act requires council to advertise any unbudgeted expenditures after the budget has been set. .Last meeting, Tuckersmith Coun. Larry McGrath said he wanted to make a motion to dissolve Huron East because of his frustration with councillors only wanting to pay for projects in their own wards. And, while he joked that he couldn't make that threat a second meeting in a row, he continued to argue that tax dollars committee on agriculture where he would reopen the case against Canadian meat packers in the wake of the BSE crisis. "That is going to be one of the first things I do given the circumstances with the border still being closed," Steckle said. Soo RURAL, Pogo $ Proposed child porn bylaw a first in Canada By Susan Hundertmark Expositor Editor • Huron East will become the first municipality in Canada to fight child pornography if it passes a bylaw requiring internet providers located within the . municipality to block kiddie porn. Grey Coun. Mark Beaven presented the bylaw to council last Tuesday, where it received first and second reading. "After last week's Holly Jones trial , I sat and tried to think what we could do here locally. When I looked through the Municipal Act, I realized we had an opportunity to show some leadership," Grey Coun. Mark Beaven told council at last Tuesday's meeting. Michael Briere, who pleaded guilty recently to the murder of 10 -year-old Holly Jones, of Toronto, told the court he committed thc murder after viewing and downloading child porn off the Internet. Beaven said the Municipal Act's Section 1-50 gives municipalities authority to regulate businesses under the conditions of health and safety, nuisance control and consumer protection of local residents. The bylaw will fine any internet service provider within Huron East that fails to install filtering software from $2,000 to $5,000 or jail them for 30 days. Howe ver , Tuckersmith Communications Cooperative (TCC), the only internet server within Huron East's borders said Friday that thc bylaw may not be feasible since any filter that blocks child porn would also block any legitimate information, such as news articles and studies, about the topic. "We don't have the jurisdiction to block porn sites. A law enforcement agency would have to pmyide us with a list of sites before we could block anything," said TCC manager Sharon Chuter. 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