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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1988-04-27, Page 4Page 4 Times -Advocate, April 27. 1988 Biddulph Four township residents attended in the future without notification the latest meeting of Biddulph being made to the citizens of the council to extend their .thanks for area. the support they received when the Council members also expressed University of Western Ontario made their sincere appreciation to O'Shea application to store PCB's in .the and the citizens fo Biddulph for township. their excellent presentation to UWO After protests from Biddulph farm- which in council's opinion was the crs at two public meetings, UWO main reason the university with - decided to abandon the plan. • drew the applicaiton. Spokesman Mike O'Shea asked In dealing with another delega- several questions regarding what cit-. tion, council advised Cliff Holland izens could do or what protection that he should apply to the Mini- might be afforded if such an appli- stry of Environment for a certificate cation was made in the future. authorizing him to store salt brine While firmly disagreeing with the in tanks located on the property of legislation regarding the storage of Dennis Maguire on part of Lot 10, PCB's, council .could not make any Concession 3. promise as to whether citizens Council further directed clerk - would even bc notified or a public treasurer Ray Hands to contact the hearing called if a further applica- planning consultant to determine if ..ion was made to the Ministry of this type of use would be permitted the Environment. on Maguire's property. If not per - Council advised the citizens they missibte , a request for a rezoning would attempt to have this legtsla- application should be filed immedi- • tion amended in order that such an alcly. app:i. ation could not be considered Three Biddulph farmers are expect - questioned further on PCBs Stephen o Stephen township has received a supplementary road subsidy for 1988 for additional road work in Huron Park: Road .superintendent Eric. Fink- bcincr has been instructed to call fenders for paving of roads. and re- building manhole covers in several Iiuron Park locations. In addition, Finkbcincr will be calling tenders for "A" gravel in connection with the annual summer gravelling program and reconstruc- tion of Concession road 16 for a distance of one and one- quarter miles from the South Boundary. Township arena manager Frank Funston has been directed to pursue the Gasamo program for the town- ship arena and the community cen- tres in the township. Gasamo is a municipally based consortium which claims can reduce gas bills by as:much as 20 percent. Council endorsed a letter from Jerry Van Bruane to the Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communications. _ Van Bruaenc, a resident along Ilighway 21, north of Grand Bend is asking for a reduction in the present 80 kilometres per hour speed limit zone to 60 or 50. Building official Milton Dietrich presented his report for the month of March. It revealed seven permits had been issued for a total value of S158,965. In the first three months of this year, 17 permits have been issued with an- estimated value of S944,690. The figure for the same period in 1987 was S113,379. • Producing the increase is expan- sion at the Oakwood Inn, north of Grand Bend and the' agronomy building on the Centralia College research farm on Concession 3. Drainage superintendent Ken .Pickering was instructed to repair the closed portion of the Hill mu- nicipal drain in the police village of Crediton -on request from Allen Pfaff and Eldon Smith. A report on the Khiva municipal drain 1988 was accepted. A court of revision has been set for May .17. Tenders will be opened at the same time. Repair of the Stanlakc municipal drain in the Grand Bend arca was provisionally adopted. Approval was given to the Dash- wood Frcidsburg Days committee to serve alcoholic beverages during their Civic Holiday weekend event. The budget of the Pinery Cemet- ery committee for 1988 was accept- ed and a grant of S800 submitted. Stephen arena tnanaget Frank Funston will be attending a seminar in Waterloo on May 3 regarding the Three accidents kays work in area of OPP Only three accidents were investi- gated this week by officers of the Exctcr detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police. At 10.50 p.m. on Monday, April 18, a vehicle driven by Charles Walker, RR 1, Brueeficld collided. with a parked vehicle owned by Jef- frey Forrester on the Hensall Hotel parking lot. Damage was light to both vehicles. The same. day at 11.30 p.m., a vehicle driven by Find Suzich, Hcnsall struck a mailliox on Con- cession 2-3 of Stephen township. Damage to the vehicle was moder- ate. Tuesday at 4.45 p.m., a vchicic ocprated by James Thomas,.RR 5, • Clinton struck a parked car owned by Clarence Volland, Hensall on the Hcnsall Co -Op parking lot. No damage was sustained by the Thom- as vehicle while the Volland vehicle suffered light damage. - During the week, officers of the Exctcr detachment laid 56 Highway Traffic act charges, 10 for Liquor Licence Act offences and six Crimi- nal Code charges. In addition two drivers were charged with impaired driving and driving licence suspen- sions of 12 hours were issued to seven drivers. During the upcoming- week arca motorists are reminded that officers of the Exeter detachment will be continuing their R.I.D.E. program surveillance on various area roads. Future Direction of Recreation. Council received a petition op- posed to Sunday shopping- from the congregation of Crediton United Church. ing to participate in a government approved program whereby unem- ployed workers from high unem- ployment areas are brought in to pick stones. — - -. - Hugh and Hubert Dietrich ap- proached council requesting permis- sion to locate a 65 feet by 12 feet trailer on their property to house the workers. In order to obtain the _workers, it was necessary for the farmer to pro- vide satisfactory housing. Work must be guaranteed for from 40 to 70 hours per week' for approximate- ly two months. Dining that time five or six em- ployees would be expected to cover 4,000 acres of land picking up stones. The tender of Jennison Construc- tion of Grand Bend was accepted for the supply, hauling and spreading of "A" gravel on township roads for S4.69 per cubic yard. The bid of Hodgins and Hayter Limited in the amount of S2,172.72- was the Lowest of seven tenders for construction of the Mal- colm -Wallis municipal drain. Council supported a request from Scclster Farms and St. Patrick's Church to have the intersection of Highway 4 and Concession road 6-7 illuminated as considerable prob: !ems have been encountered during the evening hours. Also supported was a reduction of the Regulatory Flood Standard to one based on the historical 1937 flood as proposed by the Upper Thames River Conservation Au- thority- It was noted the public no- tice placed in the Exeter Times Ad- vocate and the St. Marys Journal Argus produced no objections from citizens. A petition for municipal drainage works submitted by C. Kempen to drain part of Lot 36, Concession 6 was accpcted and Sprict Associates Engineers will bc requested to bring in a report. The Franciscan Friars of Mary Im- maculate will be asked by council to submit detailed plans to con- struct a Friary. An application without detailed plans for a Friary being 32 feet wide -by 82 feet long and 20 feet was received. Council notcd it would be neces- sary to receive approval from the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Au- thority and the Middlesex London Health Unit and also the proposed building appears to be large enough to accommodate more than six per- manent residents as permitted under the existing zoning on the proper- ty. Councillors agreed the township was not interested in establishing a landfill site for the city of Toronto. PRICE ARTICLES - Laurette Siegner and Jean Little are shown pricing articles at Thursdays South Huron Hospital Auxiliary rummage sale. Rec Board shopping around The South Huron Rcc Board heard a presentation from energy. consul - tam Doug Ankenmann of D and S Consulting Thursday night in their on-going search for the energy man- agement system most suitable to the Rec Centre. - Ankenmann told the board that all areas of the centre can stand im- proving. Ile also noted cncrgy costs in .a comparable arena are roughly S28,000 per year while the South 1 luron Rec Centre runs up a bill of • approximately S48,(X)0. . The cncrgy consultant suggested installing a programmable comput- er which he referred to as "a smart controller" to run the heating and cooling systems at the centre. Ac- cording to Ankenmann, there arc 22 different things which need control- ling, among them the cooling and defrosting cycle in the arena. "Energy management really is turning things off when they're not needed, and what we're discussing here arc ways of doing it," Anken- mann told the board. Ankenmann guaranteed a mini- mum savings of 511,000 per year, adding: "I would be unhappy if S20,000 (per year) isn't achieved." 11\1 11 !1\111 la A 11 lMIR I\l;