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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1998-02-25, Page 2Page 2 Times -Advocate, February 25, 1998 I�LTHE_NFJNS MEW Regional wrap up Mitchell teen missing MITCHELL - A I7 -year-old Mitchell area girl has been re- ported missing since Feb. 6, re- ported ported the Mitchell Advocate. Hannah ,Hoffineyer, of RR 3 Mitchell. is 5'8", 165 lbs.. with blue eyes and blonde . hair. A warrant is out for her arrest, since she breached probation. stated Mitchell OPP Sgt. Bob Jackson. "All we want is for someone to call home and let us know if she's well," Jackson said. OPP changes names GODERICH - The Goderich OPP has changed names to the Administration Centre of the Huron County Detachment of the OPP, stated the Goderich Signal -Star. The OPP detachment on High- way 21, south of Goderich has changed names due to internal restructuring taking place with the OPP. The changes have re- cently seen the Exeter OPP linked with London, making it difficult for the detachment to be referred to as Huron County since parts of the county are no longer included, the article re- ported. The name change effects offic- es in Goderich, Clinton and Sea- forth. New service at Clinton Public Hospital CLINTON - A new ophthal- mology service was launched at the Clinton Public Hospital Feb. 12, reported the Clinton News - Record. With the service, the hospital will be able to.. offer cataract clinics and surgery due to the al- liance with the London Health Science Centre. ' The official opening" was launched with a ribbon' -cutting ceremony at the hospital with the chair of the hospital board of directors Marg .Makin and . a number of dignitaries present. More than 100 fire calls in Mount Forest MOUNT FOREST - The Mount Forest Fire Department responded to a total of 102 emergency calls during the past year, stated the Mount Forest Con federate. Fifty-six of the calls were in Mount Forest and included six alarms at the Louis Marshall Hospital, four alarms at the Sau- geen Valley Nursing Centre, 15 alarms from remote locations and 31 alarms ranging from fires to carbon monoxide. There were 12 responses to Egremont Township, 22 re- sponses to Arthur Township (one of which was a tornado warning from the OPP), five re- sponses to Normanby Township, three responses to West Luther Township and four responses to Proton Township. Blanket scam in Huron HURON COUNTY - The Hu- ron detachment of the OPP have issued an alert to all citizens of a fraud dealing with a misrepre- sentation of blankets being held out to be handwoven, reported the North Huron Citizen. A female suspect has been at- tempting to sell blankets that she claims she handwovc on a loom. She asks upwards of $400 per blanket but are worth at most $60 from a department store. The suspect is described as be- ing a white female, 56 years of age, stout, wearing glasses with a slight Scottish or English ac- cent. • Biddulph council moves to straighten Adare. Dr. curve By Craig Bradford T -A Reporter BIDDULPH TWP. - Biddulph council decided to ease some of the. curve out of Adare Dr. at last week's meeting. Works foreman Joe. Dewan filled council in on what it would take to straighten the curve on the road at last week's council meeting. About $17,000 in work would be needed to clear .brush and •straighten the curve, Dewan said, though only $1,000 would be needed to allevi- ate much of the problems. Council approved up to $2;500 in work be done. Administrator Larry Hotson said Adare Dr. needs the work because of increased traffic including a school bus route. Brush and the curve make for poor visibility along the road, something that wasn't much of a problem in the past when there wa : Tess traffic. Other notes Irom last week's meeting: Insurance up Insurance premiums for the town- ship arc up to $22,530 for '98 from about $22,300 in '97 as quoted from Frank Cowan Co. Ltd.'s Jeff Coleman. The small increase is a normal adjustment, Hotson said. One concern Coleman pointed out is leaving the Biddulph- Blanshard Fire Dept. practice car out in the open. He said it could be an invitation for youngsters to play and possibly get hurt. Coleman's company is dealing with a liability claim similar to this in eastern On- tario. Fire Chief John Damen was contacted to see if the car could be moved. When asked .about savings through a possible amalgamation, Coleman said Middlesex Centre's premiums dropped by about 23 per cent after the three previous mu- nicipalities merged with more sav- ings to come when excess buildings and equipment are disposed of. Building system down Biddulph's 24.71 per cent share of the North Middlesex District Building System budget is down to $14,762.64 in '98 from about $15,500 in •'97. "Hotson 'said the budget is shared by north Mid- dlesex municipalities and is devised from a complicated formula with many factors including number and cost of building permits over. a Bluewater Recycling Association elects new board of directors three year average. Hotson said Biddulph's share should be even less in '99 due to a decrease in per- mits in recent years. On the beat? London OPP detachment com- mander Karen Moffatt visited coun- cil to fill them in on plans for the Lucan and. Exeter offices. When asked about what the OPP is doing • about youth crime, Moffatt said a • task force has been set-up to look at youth crime including a number of break-ins and vehicle thefts. The task force has identified some sus- pects who are now being watched by the OPP. When asked about speeding on Biddulph roads, -Moffatt said a ra- dar' team will be' brought in on a random basis. Moffatt_ encouraged Biddulph to form a community policing com- mittee and programs like. Citizens on Patrol (COPs) since similar HURON COUNTY - At the first general meeting of the new year, the Bluewater Recycling Association membership elected 12 representatives of the 39 member municipalities to form the Board of Directors of the As- sociation for a three -year -term. The board governs the Association's af- fairs through the development, approval and evaluation of policy. " The following individuals, under the chairmanship of Phil Maguire from the Village of Grand Bend, will serve as the Board of Directors of thr• Bluewater Recycling Association for the coming term: Huron County: •Dave Jewitt; Town of Clinton •Ron Murray; Township of McKillop •Andrew Robertson; Township of Stephen Lambton County: •John Walsh; Town of Bosanquet •Tom Boon; Town of Forest •Phil Ma- guire; Village of Grand Bend -Chairman Middlesex County: •E. - Lynne Burns; Village 6f Ailsa Craig, •Gordon Moir; Township of McGillivray •Ila Herrington; Township of West Williams Perth County: •Meredith Schneider; Town of North Perth -Vice Chairman • Louis Ma- loney; Township of West Perth •Heather Goad;.Township of St. Marys New chairman elected at Ausable-Bayfield t Continued from front'page . maintaining the municipal levy at 1997 levels. With a vote based on assessment, the vote was 81.7 per cent in' favor of maintaining the levy. Only Hay and Biddulph Townships were oppbsed. Mark Westbrook who represents Clinton and Goderich Township as well as Fred Lewis representing Middlesex Centre were not at the meeting to vote. After years of drastic cutbacks, the ABCA had a budget shortfall of nearly $25,000 in 1997. It has bud- geted for only a $10,105 shortfall in '98 even though revenue is bud- geted to decrease by nearly $71,000. The total budget is $1,068,975 with $344,340 coming from the general municipal levy. The ABCA is fortunate to have healthy reserves including $220,000 in the vehicle and equip- ment reserve. The property man- agement reserve is $144,000. Strang said clean water will be the focus of the future. "The interest in clean water is there," he explained, citing the pub- lic demand for good water quality in Lake Huron and throughout the watershed. Committee formed for new arena roof STEPHEN TOWNSHIP - It's time for a new roof on the Stephen Township arena in Huron Park. "It's in a deteriorated state in bad need of repairs," said Stephen Township administrator Larry Brown, adding the damage was caused by age. A committee was formed for the replacement of the roof and in- cludes Brown, chief building offi- cial Milt Dietrich, arena manager Rob Funston and councillor Jim Dietrich. The committee will inves- tigate alternatives for a replacement of the roof. Some of the alterna- tives include steel, a rubber mem- brane, asphalt or tar, Brown cited as examples. The committee will meet with B.M. Ross & Associates Engineers today to discuss the alternatives. committees have reduced oc- currences in communities like Del - awake. Reeve Earl French asked councillor George Marr to direct the Optimist Club to look into spearheading the project. Hotson added the Businessman's Association may also be of as- sistance since they have staged suc- cessful foot patrols in Lucan during the past couple Halloween and Devil's nights. No dough yet French, councillor Doug Ander- son and Hotson pitched Environ- ment Minister Norm Sterling for funding for the Granton sewage project at a recent meeting. French said the meeting went well but, as expected, Sterling didn't commit any cash, Sterling told them his staff have received over 400 ap- plications for the province's clean water grant program and are now sorting them out and making a pri- ority list to earmark the funds. The wish list Dewan filled council in on the five-year works program. Hotson said the items on the list are in no particular order and projects would be done when money becomes available. 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