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Mayor Seili
challenges
councillors
to support
radiothon
Huron East Mayor Joe Seii
is again challenging his coun-
`cillors_ to donate towards the.
CKNX Healthcare Heroes ra-
diothon on Oct. 17.
Council received a fundrais-
ing letter asking for a dona-
tion from the Seaforth Com-
munity Hospital Foundation
towards its $50,000 goal for a
new $450,000 medical imag-
ing unit. at the Seaforth hospi-
tal.
While Clerk -Administrator
Jack McLachlan pointed out
that it's council's policy not to
give donation§ to campaigns
where the taxpayers are al-
ready being asked to donate,
Seili said he'd challenge the
councillors to give up. their
pay for one council meeting
towards the cause.
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celebration at the Van Egmond House over the weekend.
Examiner strike preventing
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donuts
for
the
crowds
at
Dan Schwab photo
annual Clderfest
the
teens from getting a licence
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Teenagers looking to acquire their
driver's licence and some freedom be-
hind the wheel of a car are being forced
to wait until a strike is settled between
Ontario's DriveTest centres and the ex-
aminers employed there.
For the • past five weeks, DriveTest
Centres across the province, including
one on Beech Street in Clinton, have
been closed due to a walkout.
Seniority is the main issue. Driv-
eTest wants the ability to lay off senior
full-time employees and keep part-
time employees, if a DriveTest centre
only requires part-time work. Union
officials representing driver examiners
and customer service agents are op-
posed to this.
As long as the doors of test centres
remain lockedwith nobody to answer
the phones, teens and parents contin-
ue to search for answers.
They're turning to driving schools for
guidance.
"I'm getting calls from parents and
students saying, 'What do we do?'"
says Margo Cleasby, owner of Domin-
ion Driver Training. "It's causing a lot
of unrest."
Cleasby says enrollment in driver
training courses hasn't changed and
teens are still signing up for classroom
sessions, but they need to pass a writ-
ten exam and obtain a G1 licence be-
fore they can get behind the wheel of a
car and begin taking the 10.5 hours of
in -car training.
A new driver must hold a Gl licence
for a minimum of one year before tak-
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OMB dismisses
appeals against
subdivision at
former SPS site
Susan Hun:dertmark
The Ontario Municipal Board has
ordered that appeals be dismissed
against the zoning amendment by-
law for a new subdivision at the for-
mer Seaforth Public School site.
A decision was issued by OMB
chair J.P. Atcheson on Sept. 17 in re-
sponse to a hearing held Sept. 3 and
4 at Seaforth's town hall.
The 13 -page document summa-
rizes the 10 concerns addressed by
the four neighbours, including Helen
McNaughton, Don and Kathy Pletsch
and Dr. Jason Datema, at the hear-
ing but concludes that based on plan-
ning policies, there are no grounds to
overturn the zoning bylaw amend-
ment.
Atcheson, in his findings and con-
clusions, said that while the appel-
lants "placed great weight on the fact
that the zoning bylaw amendment
was passed prior to the execution
of the development agreement," the
"spirit and intent" of the Huron East
official plan was followed by council.
"At the time that council gave third
reading to the zoning bylaw amend-
ment, council was advised that the
development agreement had been
finalized and at the very next coun-
cil meeting, it passed the necessary
documents to authorize the execu-
tion of the development agreement,"
said the OMB decision.
Atcheson also said that council's
decision to authorize a front-end con-
tribution for infrastructure with a
$125,000 contribution which will be
recovered through a lot levy at the
time of the sale, was also not a valid
reason to overturn the zoning bylaw
amendment.
"This is common practice, particu-
larly in smaller municipalities and is
within the discretion of the munici-
pal council," said the decision. "The
board heard no evidence that the
development agreement entered into
was beyond the jurisdiction afforded
to the municipal council or was in
any way flawed."
See OMB, Page 2