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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1985-05-15, Page 2Your Hom.Iond appliance .tore -111 ge 2 Times -Advocate, May 15, 1985 Rec board unhappy over grant allocation The South fluron Recreation Centre board is unhappy about their 1985 budget. to say the least. "Then built us a Cadillac and then don't give us any money to run it," chairman John Pym complained. Ex- eter council has granted the board a grant of $89,000, instead of the $1050X1 they asked for. Stephen, L,'sborne and flay kept their allotments at the same figure as last year. 'Most of the $16.000 gap will be made up by reduced wages. The board recently accepted the resignation of Don ('atnpbell. who was a full-time employee. Also. the budget had allow? ed for six percent wage increases and a merit increase; there will be only four per cent wage increases and no merit increase Some of the budget gap may be - made up by increasing the cost of cen- tre programs. Ways of increasing revenues such as selling advertising space are also being considered. The board had hoped that money from the ministry of tourism and recreation would help their budget situation, but that looks unlikely. The centre's 1982 grant will finally be paid in 1985. The centre is eligible for a Wintario development program, but that pays for planning and leadership items that are not big figures on the budget. rather than the capital pro- jects for which the hoard would like funding. The provincial employment development branch is going 10 pro- vide funding for two playground staff at the centre this summer. but the ex- act form of the funding is unclear. The branch would like to give 17 weeks total of funding, to be spread between Iwo people, eight weeks for one and nine, for the other. The recreation director would prefer to hire four peo- ple for five weeks, all to be working at the same time. The registration fee for the playground may be raised from five to ten dollars per week. The board has decided to go ahead with the ball diamond lights, now that half of the money has been raised. They hope to receive more donations from other groups. They accepted the tender from [)on Bender Electric for the lights. for $14,800. bender is an area contractor and his work is well known to the board. The location of number one ball dia- mond has been changed. This will allow for future development. The change was done at this time because the change of diamond lights made it convenient. Volunteers provided the labour. - Jon [)inney made a presentation to the board on behalf4)1* the Lions Club. The tee for renting the Centre for their homecoming weekend has been raised to $1000, and in view of their work on behalf of the centre, some Lions felt this was excessive. The fee was explained by board members as being quite reasonable considering the facilities involved and the loss of revenue for the centre that weekend. i)inuey then proposed that an excep- tion be made to the centre's mix policy. The Lions can get pop provid- ed free, and would like to provide their own mix. The centre normally makes a profit on mix,. and counts on this as part of their revenues. The matter has gone to facilities commit- tee to discuss. A discussion over how to allocate the reduced budget led to some heated debate between board members. The $89.000 did not specifically include any capital money. It was considered whether to take $5,000 of operating money and use towards capital projects such as a swimming pool cover or a grass sweeper. Councillor Gaylan Josephson suggested that if money could be spared for capital costs. when the budget had been cut by $16.000. perhaps the budget was padd- ed in the first place. Carolyn Merner • explained that the budget cuts were being handled by reduced wages, and that it wouldn't be easy to take money out of operating costs. but that capital costs couldn't be postponed forever. Others proposed that the $89,000 was WOMAN OF THE YEAR Joan Morgan was voted the woman of the year by her Exeter Alpha Pi chapter. Lillian Campbell presented her with her tiara, the symbol of the honour, lost week. Agricrew preparing. 'Stdents, a"re you looking for a sum- mer Joh" If you are between 1:► and 2-1 years old. have unlimited energy. and are willing to learn and work - Agricrewy wants you. Agricrew is a great summer work experience bonded he the Ontario Youth Secrelaril and administered by the Ontario N1inistry of Agriculture and Fond 11 gives students a challenging job with plenty of varie- ty and provides farmers with extra help at peak periods and for odd jobs. All crew mem l:ers are Minislery r►I Agriculture and F'cx►d employees. The crew foreman is responsible for 1ransport ung the crew from a pick-up ltc►ntt In the farm. All paper work is handled by the coordinator. If you an. interested in working on an agricrew this sunt mer please coo School board Continued from trout page member to study the current situation in I luron secondary schools and how (hey can he brought within ministry of education guidelines There will also he an evaluation of family studies and industrial arts in the elementary. schools "We've studied Technical education quite a few times. is this another ex- ercise in futility''" questioned trustee John Elliott Allan said the idea is to put forward a proposal to the provincial govern ment lo update technical studies The director was basing his request on Premier Frank Miller's election pro- posal "Enterprise (httario Huron's action. will give it a head start towards Mr Miller's objective of providing funding for school train- ing programs. Although Allan said he didn't know- what effect the outcome of the provincial election %motel have on Enterprise Ontario. the board will go ahead with the study Ile said either a principal or vice- principal will be used for the study Allan stressed this is not an add-on position f tact i,ynne Dodds at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Box 159 Clinton. NOM IDE or by phon- ing 482-:3428 or 1-801-265-5170. The .Junior Agriculturalist program is an experience program in which ur- ban youths ranging in age from 16 to 18. with no previous farming ex- perience work on a Host Family Farm during the summer. The students experience rural life and are encouraged to participate in com- munity programs with (heir host family. The .Junior Agriculturalist works for 12- days and receive two days off. (lost families must run a full time commercial operation, and have an interest in supervising and wyorking with inexperienced youth to help them develop the skills needed on a Farm. The Junior A\gricillturalist receives a wage of twenty dollars a day for their services. in addition to room and board the host family supplies eight of the twenty dollars The remaining twelve dollars is supplied by the Ministry of Agricu ore and Food This yep ' is still a need for host families in Huron County. If you are interested in hiring a summer stu- dent through the .Junior Agriculturalist program. please con- tact Lynne llodds. GRANT DETAILED The :1usahle-Bayfield conserva-. tion Authority has been granted $579.218 to undertake various water management. conservation and recreation projects within its water- shed for 1985, Natural Resources Minister Michael Harris announced today. This funding is part of an overall total of $36.9 -million in 1985 provincial grants to the 38 conservation authorities in Ontario. Mr. Harris noted that the level of grants. to be used for capital projects as well as for general administration. is fully in line with levels for all agen- cies which receive provincial funding the board's to spend as they saw fit. There were also fears that there would be further suggestions that the board was given too much money. "If we put something into capital. it's go- ing to be said we had too much to start with", Jim Workman said. The mat- ter was eventually given to the staff to discuss. Other business included the sugges- tion that a meeting be held with the insurance representative and the 19 uninsured groups who use the centre so that they can decide* about in- surance. No date has been set for such a meeting as yet. A meeting will be held on June 27 at 7:30 at the centre with the area townships and towns to discuss surcharges versus user tees and recreation budgetting. The Junior Hawks hockey club complained in a letter about the state of the dressing room after the Mohawks team used it. They ques- tioned who owns the dressing room. The board'agreed that no club owns the dressing room: that the board owns it. NOW PAY ATTENTION— Leader Dennis Hockey explained to the Exeter Cubs Saturday the proper method of planting trees. The Cubs and Guides worked together in planting over 200 little trees on conservation authority property. From the left ore Cubs: Danny VanRoestel, Brad Chambers, Tony Arm- strong, Matthew/ Spears, Matthew Sims, Tim Nethercott, Rob Welsh and Matthew Nethercott. CAMPBELL homeland appliances Joins with IbIDFFflY for THE INCREDIBLE PPLIANCE REBATE Get Your Dea Before the Rebate Expires BONUS! Buy 5 appliances and get a brand new microwave. Prices Slashed on all Moffat Home Appliances Deluxe Washers from $579 Microwaves from $299 from $549 Deluxe Dryers from $379 30" Ranges Campbell Homeland Appliances 63 Main St., (Lower. 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