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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-12-07, Page 2 (2)Page 3 • Times -Advocate, December 7, 1978 SANTA AT HURON PARK Thanks to the Stephen Optimists Santo Cloys visited Huron Park Saturday and toured the residential -area. He is shown above with David, Jason and Debbie Paul. • T -A photo Councillors set straight Continued from front page year's police committee had not started -negotiations on the new police' agreement, although the deadline called for in the Police -Act had 'xpired. "We have to get - cracking on that." Commend officer During his discussion with council,Chief Ted Dayadvised Bad weather causes several: accidents • Area drivers had their first taste of severe winter driving conditions, Friday. with the Exeter'•-tiPP reporting five collisions during the heavy snowfall which made conditions hazardous. • Only one.minor injury was reported, that being to Clifford Davidson, RR 3 "Wingham,' whose vehicle was in collision with one driven by Roy-Soldan,. Centralia, on Highway 21 north of Huron Road 21 in Stephen. Damage in the accident was listed at $2,600-,' Constable Wally, Tomasik. • A school ,bus driven by Stuart Triebner, RR 1 Exeter, was also involved in one of the five accidents. The other driver was Martha Robertson, RR 5 Goderich. They collided on Highway 83 west of Exeter. Neither driver nor the seven students on the school bus was.injured and damage was listed at $1,350 by. Constable Jim Rogers. Damage was set at $1,600 in a collision on High4ay 84. west of Zurich, involving vehicles driven by Nancy Michaud. RR 2 Zurich, and Jack !Forrester, HR 2 Zurich. Constable Rogers in- vestigated. Ellis Stewart. Hensall, and Gary Huston. also of Hen- sa1l.collided on Highway 4 at the junction of County Road 6 in Usborne Township with damage estimated at $1,400. Constable Al Quinn investigated. The other Friday accident -was reported on Highway 21 north of St. Joseph, in- volving vehicles striven by John Bartlett, Ottawa -`and Derek Adshead, R'R 4 Clinton. Constable Tothasik listed damage at $1,000. There were two other accidents during the week, the first on Wednesday when a vehicle driven by William Mann, Parkhill. struck a steel post of a bridge on sideroad 15 in Stephen Township. Constable Don Mason investigated and set damage at $600. On -Thursday, vehicles driven by Debra Denomme, Zurich, and James Land- sborough. RR 4 Seafof•th, collided on Highway 4 in Hensall with resulting damage of $550. Constable Mason investigated. Here's A Great . Gift �II. : '' , .. Idea AQUARIUM - STARTER KITS SPECIAL PRICES UNTIL DEC. 15 5'/2 Gallon Size '34.95 10 Gallon Size '45.95 15 Gallon Size ' ' '69.95 Hamster Starter Kit Now Priced $ 1 At Only 8.99 Remember ... We Have A. Good Selection Of Model Railways And _Models For The Kids On Your List Fc ,A Cheery Christmas ... Give A . CANARY - Drop In And Browse '- PATIPET SHOP 350 MAIN ST. EATER PHONE 235-3951 that it was necessary for officers to attend courses to be knowledgeable. HP suggested Constable Short had shown con- siderable initiative -in asking to attend the course and advised council that the. officer l ad•attained-a mark of 100 percent in the course, the first person to,ever attain that mark. at the Police College. • At the end of the discussion, Councillor -Jay Campbell - suggested that a• letter of commendation be sent to the officer for his effort at the course. "I never met a more dedicated police officer, Boyle said after council approved the letter. in his report for Novem- ber. Chief Day outlined the following statistics: 18 ac-. cidents „•ith three. injuries and damages of $40,975, 12 warning and nine charges. under the Highway Traffic Act. four charges under the Liquor Control Act, six parking tickets -issued, five an(malcomplaints with one owner charged, three house checks, one fraud .charge, one assault, one " mischief and one charge laid against a driver under suspension. County staff members granted pay increases By JEFF SEDDON Catch up wage increases given Huron county supervisory staff at Thur- sday's county council session resulted in pay increases for the 10 county departement heads ranging from ,1.5 percent to 15.2 percent. In a report to county council from the special committee given the task -of negotiating wage packages for- the county ad- ministrators council was given a salary schedule to be followed tor the next three years that is designed to give senior administration wages comparable to neighboring counties. Warden Gerry Ginn; chairman of the special committee, told council that t�t�-committee "believed" th county must "keep up to da e if it was piterested in good. young people" and to keep up to date it must. "pay decently." He said Huron county supervisory staff had been victimized by Anti Inflation Board - guidelines and had fallen behind in wages during the Three year tenure of AIB. Ginn said the committee had checked into wages paid comparable ptaff in neighboring counties and had attempted to. bring Huron county staff up to parity with those counties. He explained that, in some cases the increases needed to bring some staff to parity were too great to be given at once'and the committee had dr n up salary schedules ned to spread the in= c e over one, two or three • years. T)te average increase was aboul5 seven percent but som6'staff were given more than twice the average and sonic nowhere near the average. The county development officer, Spence Cummings; was awarded a 1.5 percent increase while C.A. Archibald, ad- ministrator of Huronview, was given a 15.2 percent hike. Ginn explained that Archibald's increase was given because the ad- ministrator is one-year away from retirement" and would not be working for the county long enough to have his in- crease spread over a number of years. He added that the 'committee. decided not' to award the development officer an increasebecause it was not certain the county needed the position and wanted to review the work of the 'development officer before deciding on a future wage.. ' - Ginn said he understood that the development officer had worked hard on the International Plowing Match held in Huron County this summer but pointed out that s ch an 'event will not happen again here for another len -years. He said the committee wanted the dlsvelopment office -looked at to "justify its existence." Thewarden told countil that Huron County Is one of three counties in the province with a" development office pointing -out that it was very • difficult to find a comparison wage. He said the committee just wanted to find out if the county really • wanted the office kept operating. . Morris township reeve Bill Elston did hot buy the committee's reasoning and told Ginn that there may not be another International in Huron for ten years but there would be other .things going on. Elston said he had worked with Commings on the plowing match ,and felt that the development officer did a "tremendoua-`amount" for Huron County. .He said Cummings had "brought a lot of dollars" to Huron and that tie. felt -the . job was necessary. He added that what the county paid Cummings was another thing altogether. Bill Morley, reeve of Usborne township, did not like the reasoning used by the committee. He said that despite the need to review the job done .lby .the- •devetopment officer the , committee had "jeopar- dized" the job by giving Commings only a one per- cent increase. He said the man still .worked for 5Huron .County and deserved the ' same as other employees. He said the committee can't justify giving one employee 15 percent and another one percent suggesting that an increase could have been awarded comparable to other staff and then the job reviewed. "He's still a working man in this county and this treatment is very unfair as long as he is an employee of this county," said Morley. John Flannery, reeve of Seaforth,•told council he felt the increases given super- visory staff were hypocritical. He said last May council began negotiating,with unions and were telling people the idea was to stay around four to six percent increases. He said that this wage package given supervisory staff was "not telling people the price of beef was going down." Ginn explained to council that.the AIB guidelines had been imposed between the time the county settled with union staff and sfipervisory Area people win The annual- Alhambra Cash Draw ane Dance held at the Parkhill Community \ Centre was well attended. recently with about 300 be- ing present. The winners in the draw were as follows first prize - $2.000.00 Lloyd Fahner. RR 1. Grand Bend. Ontario. se- cond $500.00 Marty Brown, Arkona. Ontario.:- third $300.00 Peter Boere. Forest. Ontario: -fourth $100.'00 Ted Dilts. London. Ontario: fifth $75.00 Charles Regier. RR 1, Grand Bend. Ontario: sixth 550.00 A.R. Vincent. RR 2. Grand Bend. Ontario. There were sixteen $25.00 winners as follows: Ray Rasenberg. Wm. Coeck. Ken Lovie, Paul Cyr. A. Gond. G. Cress. Rev. 'Father Boyer. Velma Russell. John Hen- drikx."Jack Herrington. Ken .Larmer. Neil Roszell. G Siren. Mrs. John Geerts Sr.. Stan Rumford and Ralph Genttner. • staff. He said three years ago, just prior to AIB, union staff was given a healthy increase (about 35 percent) and before negotiations with administration could be handled the AIB took over. Similar increases for ad- ministration was' impossible and for three years those increases had been withheld. He said it was now time to catch up. The ten department heads with their salary reviewed were put on a five level salary grid designed to put them at -the top of their level some time in the next three years. Increases varied widely according to what the committee felt it would cost the county to replace the person doing that job if that -person left. incrase will be making $17, 9$.- Museum curator Ray. Scotchmer got a 13.2 perc nt increase and will now be making $16,848. . Along with the raises given supervisory staff county council increased its own wage by two dollars a session. For a full day of county work councillors will now be paid $50 and for half a day they will get $32. The Clerk treasurer and ad- ministrator Bill Hanly is now making $27,222 and. on January 1 will receive an 8.6' percent raise taking him to $29,588. Deputy clerk treasurer Bill f(lcock now makes $23,712 and with his 5.3 percent hike will be paid 524,986. Bob Dempsey, the -- county engineer, will be - given a .1 percent increase taking him from $26;500 to $28,392. Dr. Brian -Lynch, medical officer of health, will get a 3.3 percent hike taking hint from 536,000 to $37,222. Bill Partridge, the county librarian, received a 9.4 percent increase and will be making $20,150 as com- pared to the $18,408 he makes now. Planning director Gary Davidson now makes $24,414 and will be awarded an eight percent increase bringing his wage to $26,390. SociV services administrator Jo n MacKinnon will be making $19,57t1 with his 9.7 percent increase. The administrator of Huronview got a 15.2 percent hike taking. his wage from $20,644 to $23,790.' Development officer Spence Cummings is now paid $17,238 and with a 1.5 percent warden's honorarium was also increhsed. The warden is being paid $2,750 a year and is now getting 53,000 annually. Mileage allowances for councillors was not in- creased. Ginn told council the committee felt the present aflowance was ac- ceptable adding 'that it was one place the committee felt it could "hold the line." FREE ELECTRIC START With the purchase of our- heavy-duty snow blower Save time, effort: and money this vAnter with a new heavy-duty John Deere Snow Blower. Drop into our place and take a good look at the John Deere 8 H.P. that cuts a 26" path. This 2 stage design blower is efficient. The John Deere 826 Snow Blower has features that come os standard equipment which are not even available on other makes. Priced at only $899.00. 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Brother of Jean (Mrs. Lorne Gordon), Fred and Douglas, all of Bosanquet Twp.. and Kay (Mrs. Reid Dunham) of Carlisle. Predeceased by Edna (Mrs. James Lambie). Resting at tl,e Gilpin Funeral Home, Thtdford, for service in the chapel ori Thursday, December .7, at 2 p.m. interment Arkona - Cemetery. ELLEN THIEL in the Rluewater Rest Home. Zurich.' Sunday. November 26. 1978. Ellen Marie ( Prang i Thiel. Belov- ed wife of the late Jacob George Thiel. in her 91st year Dear mother of Mrs. Karl (Helen( Haberer of Zurich. Stewart Elmore and Charles Henry. both of Zurich. Laird Andrew, of Lantz. Nova Scotia, and Leroy Frederick of Zurich. Twenty-four grandchildren. thirty-two great- grandchildren and one brother Roy Daer are sur- viving. Predeceased by two sons, Earl Andrew (19611. Louis Hugh (1975). Mrs. Wes (Alice) Hugill (1972) Two sisters and one brotRer and two half-brothers. The funeral was held Wednesday from the Westlake Funeral Home. Zurich with Rev. J. Dressier officiating Inter- ment in St Peter's Lutheran Cemetery. WILLIAM WORQEN William Carlisle (Lyle) Worden of Staffa passed away suddenly at his residence/on Friday. He was porn in Hibbert town- sh1 t%n June 28, 1890, a son of the;lite Joseph M. Worden and the - former Elizabeth Scott. Surviving are two brothers, Alvin Worden of H+e-44K2 Villa, Mitchell and Worden of Ribbert towhhip. He was 'predeceased by one sister, Mrs. Penelope Fell in 1975. Pre late Mr. Worden rested at the Lockhart Funeral Home where the funeral service was held on Monday with Rev. John Davies of- ficiating. He was assisted by Rev. Bert Daynard. Pallbearers were Reg Finlayson, Harvey Ham- bley, Jim Diehl, Bob Sadler, Bill Parsons and Duncan Scott. Flower bearers were Arthur Kemp, Mike Finlayson, Reg Elliott and Nelson Howe. interment was in Staffa cemetery. 2 Gift Set. handy! Set includes one 10' and one 5 Vise�OrIp with A wire cutters. Gift curved Jon, boxed. 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