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Submitted photo
of Lay Reader JoAnn Todd's (Seen holding the
who attended her party.at the. Hall.
bring a fond farewell
A group pho o taken at St. Peter's Anglican Church Parish Hall
cake) last service with St. Peter's.This photo is of all members
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BY DENNY SCOTT
Signal :Star Staff
Mark "McDougall owns an odd
piece of land just north of
Goderich on Hwy 21, that has two
houses on it, separated by a gorge,
And due to a technicality, he inay
not be able to split the properties.
McDougall owns property that.
borders on Blyth Road and Hwy
21, and contains two houses, one
that was previously known as the
Exchange Hotel, and, despite hav-
ing no farmable land, and despite
being surrounded by other resi-
dences, the land is considered
agricultural by ACW's compre-
hensive zoning bylaw,
The lot can either be considered
prime agriculture, or environmen-
tal, and neither of those can be
split for urban growth. County
plans indicate that the only place.
new lots can be made with urban-
ization in mind is m urban areas.
According to County Planner
Monica: Walker -Bolton it is
against policy to allow someone to
splitagricultural ricultutal land to make two
a•
residential lots, no matter how
small the land is, or what current-
ly exists on it.
ur ent-lyexistsonit.
Any area that isn't settled, or
urban, is now , considered prime
agricultural land.
"According to the Provincial
Policy Statement, any land : that is
not designated as a settlement area
is considered prime agriculture
land.. • [that ruling] is designed to
prevent urban sprawl, and protect
future rural development," she
explained. "There may not . be
fields, or barns, but it is near prime
agricultural land, and that's why
lit properties
it's designated as such.
Walker -Bolton explained that,
as she has to make a suggestion
based on her ethics, and existing
code, she could not supperthe
idea of splitting the land.
Council sided with McDougall
though, and had strong words
about not being able to make the
changes necessary.
"There is no prune agricultural
land there,"Coun. Carl Sloetjes
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exclaimed. "We're painting every-
thing . with the same, brush, this is
ludicrous."J_ kis AO
Coun. Barry Millar disagreed
with the idea, saying "It's tune we
put up reasonable ; resistance to
these decisions [handed down
from other bodies]."
ACW decided to support
McDougall's bid to have the land
separated, and will make that rec-
ommendation to County Council.
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Marilyn Scott
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Horticultural Society holds annual luncheon
The Lucknow Horticultural
Society held its annual soup and:
sandwich lunch on May. 14 and it'
was a very successful affair.
Many, people attended .and the
business community supported
this event with many take-out
lunches delivered around the vil-
lage: Thank you to all who par-
ticipated, as it is through these
events that our village will be
beautified once again this year.
The Lucknow Horticultural
Society is, in full swing gearing
up for the beautifying of our Nil
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lase for the spring and summer
months. A.fiower committee has
been formed to determine which
kind of blooms will be planted
and once the threat of frost is
gone, you will see the flower.
boxes • spring up on Campbell
Street and blooms will blossom
in all the other places around
town.
Upcoming events include a pot
luck dinner at the Waterworks
Park and afterwards a garden
tour on June 16 and the flower
show and tea which will be held
at the United Church on July 15.
A bus trip is planned for some-
time in August- details to come.
Grey Bruce has first confirmed case of H1N1
The Grey Bruce Health Unit has
received laboratory confirmation of
a positive case of H1N1 flu virus in
Grey Bruce.
The individual was not admitted
to hospital and is at home recover-
ing. The illness was not connected to
travel to Mexico.
"Based on the numbers we are
seeing province -wide, it is not unex-
pected that a case would be identi-
fied in Grey Bruce," said Dr. Hazel
Lynn, Medical Officer of Health.
'This caifirms the H1N1 flu strain is
out and about in our community. Our
surveillance will continue and we
ask the public to take the usual :.pre-
cautions of washing hands and ;prop-
er cough etiquette to prevent the
spread of this disease."
The Grey Bruce case is one 626
cases reported in Ontario. Almost all
of the cases to date are considered
mild. Ivince-wide, six people with
the H 1 N 1 flu virus are currently in
hospital, most also have underlying
medical motions.
Syms of the H1N1 flu vinis
are similar to seasonal influenza (flu)
including, chills and cough followed
by fever, loss of appetite, muscle
aches and fatigue, runny nose,
sneezing, watery eyes and throat irri-
tation. Nausea, vomiting and diar-
rhea may occur in adults as well as in
children. In mom severe cases, or in
people with chronic conditions,
complications suc as , pneumonia
may develop. 4' 4
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