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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1991-10-16, Page 3• Newcomer John McAlpine will be seeking a term as councillor, and in- cumbents Norma Thompson, Una Amos and Allan Cunningham will run for re-election. Two nominations have been received for trustee to the Middlesex Board of Education, representing the Township of McGillivray, Township of East Williams and Village of Ailsa Craig. Glen Baillie and Irene Lynn have both announced their intentions to run. Usborne Township EXETER - There will be an election in Usbome Township this year due to four seeking the three councillor positions. Patricia Down went unchallenged in her bid to take over the reeve's chair from Gerald Prout, Margaret Hem will be acclaimed as deputy - reeve, but Ken Oke, Brian Hardeman, Carolyn Bradford and incumbent Robert Morley will be fighting for council seats. Tuckersmith Township VANASTRA - Tuckersmith voters will be deciding on November 12 who will represent them as deputy -reeve, councillors, and separate school board trustee. Incumbent Rowena Wallace will be contesting with Robert Broadfoot for the deputy -reeve's chair and Ronald Murray, Gerry Ryan and Bruce Hardie will be running to represent separate school board sup- porters. Running against incumbent councillor candidates Larry McGrath and Bill Dejong are Robert McLeod and Doug Smith. Acclaimed as reeve is Bill Camochan and Alan Carter will be returning for another term as Huron School Board trustee. Continuing Education Computer Courses, Centralia College Instructor: Jayne McCann • Computer Orientation Saturday, October 19/91 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. $35 This one day course is especially for those who have had little or no exposure to computers. Topics include: components, termi- nology and Disk Operating System, plus what to look for in choosing a computer system. 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Times -Advocate, October 16, 1991 Page 3 Election update Continued from trout page Zurich ZURICH - There will be no election in this village as incumbent Bob Fisher is the lone candidate for reeve and only four applied to fill the four councillor seats. Marg Diechert indicated at the last minute she would run while Keith Semple, Barb Jeffrey and George Haggiu are the other members of the new council. Lucan LUCAN - The big race in this Middlesex village will be for councillor as there are seven seeking to fill three spots. The only incumbent is Bryan Smith. Former councillor Tom McLaughlin is the new reeve and incumbent deputy -reeve Harry Wraith will fill that chair again. Seeking councillor po- sitions besides Smith are Michael Anderson, Rob Brady, Steven Carter, Reg Crawford, Cheryl Leyes and Janice Silver. Grand Bend GRAND BEND - Reeve Bruce Woodley got his nomination in at the last moment for the position of mayor. He joins Tom Lawson and Todd Do- saulniers. There is no deputy -reeve spot this term so all the remaining seats will be filled by councillors. Four will be elected from incumbents Bill Uniac and John McDowell along with Don Boyes, Gord Bryan, Ed Fluter, Phil Ma- guire, Angelo Maruce and Cam Ivey. Stephen Township CREDITON - Kenneth J. McCann will be challenging incumbent reeve Tom Tomes for the top spot on council in the county's third largest munic- ipality. Tomes is not only running for reeve, but if re-elected will be seek- ing the warden's chair on Huron County Council. The race for deputy reeve has shortened to three candidates after John Bierling withdrew his nomination in order to pursue a seat as councillor. Still in the running are incumbent Garry Baker, William Weber and Steve Pertschy. There are seven contesting the three councillor seats: Bierling as men- tioned above, incumbent Gary Eagleson, Harvey Ratz, Murray Reid, Wil - mar Wein, Drew Robertson, and Mark Laye Sr. With three trustees required for each police village, only Centralia has a full slate of candidates: William Elliott, Borden Smyth, and Wayne Greb. Zurich may join anti strip -club band wagon ZURICH - The Village of Zu- rich may be joining the list of lo- cal municipalities which have moved to take measures to pre- vent strip parlours from opening in town. Zurich council on Thursday evening agreed to have clerk Maureen Simmons pattern a by- law after Hensall's which bans specific forms of adult entertain- ment which involve nudity. Hensall put its bylaw into ef- fect at a time when the Hensall Tavern was in bankruptcy. "If you didn't pass this bylaw and someone started a business like this, then you couldn't stop it," observed Zurich councillor Keith Semple. Council agreed that while there were no plans they knew of to bring adult entertainment to Zurich, a pre-emptive bylaw might be worth investigating. The Town of Exeter also re- cently passed a bylaw against adult entertainment, patterned af- ter Hensall's action. Who's in the race for November 12 Dashwood has only two nominated so far. Kenneth Rader, and Wilfred Becker. Crediton has only one trustee nominee: George (Ted) Wales. The Township will be re -opening nominations for those positions this week and if any remain unfilled, appointments will follow. There are two candidates for Huron School Board Trustee: Bonnie Slaght and Bob Heywood. Michael Ryan is the only nominee as trustee to the separate school board for the Stephen/Usborne/Exeter area. Hay Township ZURICH - As of press time, deputy -reeve Murray Keys had indicated he was running against incumbent reeve Lionel Wilder. Keys is also listed to return to the deputy -reeve's chair. He had until 5 p.m. Tuesday to make up his mind. Gerald Shantz is in the same situation as he is going for both deputy - reeve and councillor. Other councillor nominess are Blaise Ducharme, Jody Durnad, Donald Geiger and James Love. Stanley VARNA - Richard Erb of Bayfield will challenge Jack Coleman for the position of deputy reeve in Stanley Township. Coleman currently holds the spot while Erb is a sitting councillor. In addition, reeve Howard Armstrong has announced that he will seek re-election. Incumbents Murray Taylor and Bill Dowson will seek re-election as councillors, while newcomer Jack R. Dunn will also run. Robert Burton will run for trustee to the Huron County Board of Educa- tion representing the Village of Bayfield and Township of Stanley. Bosanquet THEDFORD - There will be a race for mayor in Bosanquet Township, as Leslie Hosier will oppose current reeve Fred Thomas. Jack Lasenby and John Russell have announced they will seek re- election as councillors, while deputy reeve Raymond Wight is also run- ning for a councillor position. They will be challenged by newcomers Harm Douma, David Pugh and Barry Tidball. John Boere, currently a school board trustee in Sarnia, will run for trus- tee of the Lambton County Roman Catholic Separate School Board against current trustee Leo Sanders. There will also be a race for the trustee position on the Lambton County Board of Education. Victor Alderson, Joanne Kettleson and Merle Sher - gold, all newcomers will challenge for the position. Biddulph Township LUCAN - Earl French filed for nomination in his bid for re-election as reeve of Biddulph Township, and since he remains unchallenged, will be acclaimed to the position. Wilson Hodgins will be battling incumbent Jim Shipley for the chair of deputy -reeve. There are five candidates for the three councillor seats: Loretta Shaw and Peter Nippa will be challenging incumbents Herman Steffens, Paul Wallis and Jim Barker. The three Granton trustees are acclaimed as Gary Barker, Jim Bakker, and Robert Foster, with Jackie Martens acclaimed as Middlesex School Board trustee. McGillivray AILSA CRAIG - Charles Corbett and Wesley Hodgson will seek re- election in their respective seats as reeve and deputy reeve. Survey of 1,000 residents may shape future of county planning GODERICH - A survey is on its way today to 1,000 Huron County residents. How they respond to its questions may have considerable bearing on the next draft of the County's Official Plan. "It's in enormous need of renew- al," said planner Nick Hill, who said the thrust of the current 1973 document may be changed radical- ly with the next plan. In 1973 the plan was drafted with the main in- tent to direct the future of the county while preserving good agri- cultural land. This next plan may have more far-reaching effects by directing the county's development towards more economic issues and even with a eye toward protecting the environment. "It's jobs, it's environment," said 11111 of the main concerns raised by 125 people who were interviewed by county planning staff in the summer. The concerns of those people shaped the questions that appear on the 1,000 copies of the survey that were sent out by each municipality's clerks to citizens chosen for their cross-section of opinion and background. A letter from warden Jim Robin- son accompanies each survey and planning staff are hoping that if all surveys are completed within seven days they can be analyzed in No- vember and the results released in December. — Hill already anticipates that the emphasis of the next Official Plan will be less on land use and more on the way in which local govern- ments deal with developmental is- sues. "The land is not the only ingredi- ent," said Hill. "Planning in the fu- ture has to become...far more, I don't like to use the word, but holis- tic." Hill said he could see planning becoming less of a regulatory series of hurdles and more of an attempt to keep growth up to pace with the challenges of the coming decades. "Government has to be more ena- bling...allowing communities to grow," said Hill. Hill said he expected the 1,000 chosen recipients of surveys would be well-informed people with wide- ranging concerns, and of a mind -set to want to effect a positive change. In addition to the survey's 18 guestions on six areas of interest,_ there is room for comments on each subject. "Put your comments down," said Hill, promising they would be use- ful to making the planning depart- ment more responsive to keeping "our quality of life together. We can't afford divisions or frictions." The planning department is also welcoming comments from resi- dents other than the 1,000 chosen by municipal clerks. Anyone can call the planning department in Goderich at 524-2188 to receive a survey form with a stamped and adressed return envelope. Enquir- ies should be directed to Nick Hill. Exeter firefighters rushed to the scene of this field fire on Stan Francis' 12th concession farm in Usbome Township last Wednesday afternoon. Sparks from a nearby bonfire lit the stubble In the field, quickly spreading fire towards an adjacent field of standing com. With the firefight- ers circling the blaze and a combine cutting a larger gap between the fire and com, the crop was saved with only a few metres to spare. Use our Christmas Lay -a -way Pian 421 Main St. S., Exeter LIstow.I, 13S Wallace Ave. N. NSW 1K8 291-3280 Wtngham, 201 Jossphk* St. NOG 2W0 357.1911 LNMted 235-2720