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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1998-03-25, Page 25Page 24 Times -Advocate, March 25, 1998 COMM'l J1V[TY Stop the presses! Historical shamrocks,. Shamrock Antique Show co-organizer Carol Kowalchuk, .left, finds an interesting headline from days gone by at Fred lsraels display on the Weekend at Lucan Community Memorial Centre. The seventh annual shoal and sale featured 33.. exhibitors. London's lsraels has penned two local history books,' Londoners Remember Part ! and Part Fun at the Rec Centre Singing Into spring. Children at the South Huron Recreation Cen- tre March Break program were singing about dinosaurs with leaders Tracy Hartman (left) and Sarah Neevel on Thursday morning. At left: Never too young. Three -month-old Lauryn Overholt shows Brittney Foster how the game is played at a South Huron Recreation Centre youth bingo Wednesday afternoon. - Lucan still waiting for the numbers:. LUCAN - Loran and -other On- tario municipalities are learning a lesson at patience waiting-.lr the province to announce, its Who Does What (WDW) downloading fig- ures. The latest word from the prov- ince is that municipalities and school hoards will find out the new education numbers on March 3 I. Village administrator. Ron' Reym- er said theprovince is notorious for taking a long time processing grant applications and -for not meeting its own deadlines when •revealing its WDW. plans to municipalities. And the deadline for applying for -the provincial program meant to ease the pain of downloading for municipalities is also a moving tar- get..The first deadline for the Spe- cial Circumstances Fund was March 13. but it has been extended to April 17. • Lucan-Biddulph sewer deal almost done LUCAN - Biddulph Township residents will soon ••hc able to hook 'up to Lucan's-sewer system but they'll pay dearly- for it. The final,agreement is being drafted by • Bid- dutph's lawyers. Lucan administrator Ron Reymer .said. The deaf, was discussed at last week's Lucan council, meeting. • - The. agreement calls for Biddulph homeowners/ businesses to pay a 53.265 "cap- ital dram ' coditettion charge" (CDC) for regular 4' private drain • connection; on top of the actual work on their properties to hook int() the• .system. The CDC 'for larger. drain connections for busi- nesses,. and industries will cost double that.' Reymer said the charge is exact-' ly what new Lucan homeowners. pay to hook into the village sewer' system as part of the development charge. The total development charge is $7.943, with the S3.265 sew- er hook up cost accounting for 4 t .1 per cent. The to- tal hill for a Biddulph homeowner wanting to hook up to Lucan's sewer system may top $5.000., Comparatively. Biddulph residents wating to hook up. to Lucan's water system pay $1.2,25 or 15.4 per cent of the development charge. Unlike some other capital improvement projects. homeowners will not he able to pay Off the CDC =over I()yearS through their taxes. Rcymcr said. • Other public works notes from the meeting: It's tender time Council' awarded the tender for the engineering phase for.two of its federal -provincial infrastructure program projects to L(indion's Dillon Consulting. Dillon will be paid between $9.600 and $I0.600 - for drawing up the- plans for the $35,500 Kent St. sewer extension and the $34.00( sewer plant clar- ifiers.. Lucan. the province and the federal government pick up a third each of the whole project cost under the infrastructure pro- gram. The agreement calls for Biddulph homeowners/busines ses to paya $3,265 "capital connection charge" (CCC) for regular 4" private drain connections. Get to it The village will send a letter to North. Middlesex Holdings on its contractual obligations regarding the Erin Meadows. suhdivision. ' ' • Under their agreement. -Mirth ,Middlesex* Hold- ings has to fully construct Kent St.'s curbs. gutters. sidewalks and asphalt between Oak and Beech streets and install the Oak St. waterntain and Beech St. sewer line before October. Seven homes have heen' built in the proposed 34 single family home subdivision :so far. Lucan was • to receive . only a couple thousand dollars from the original provincial, program meant by smooth the downloading transi- tion. the Community Development Re-lnvesuncntFund. The . province's numbers show Lucan-needs to -find $59.000 in sav- ings to make the downloading 'rev- enue neutral', 'hut Middlesex County administrator -Nigel Bell- chantber's figures show the village needs to find $167.030. Reymer hopes the village will re- . ceive most or all of the shortfall un- der the Re-Invcstinent Fund. the Special Circumstances - Fund or- a combination • of both. Like other Middlesex municipalities, • L.ucan- applied to the Special Circum: stances Fund for the entire $167.030.' though the province wants those municipalities to re- apply and include more specific in- formation on where the money will go. . The above numbers don't take into account the $90/household or ($70.000 total for Lucan) policing cost the province is telling mu- nicipalities they must pick up. Councillor Perry . Caskancttc asked when the village will hear hack' from the province. Rcymcr .said they have to know by June when municipalities by' law have to set their annual mill rate. Artful Huron Painting the shore. Richman Gallery's Barry Richman pos es with London/Grand Bend -artist Barbara Jackson's 'Near St. Joseph: Road to the Edge', -the grand prize winner at the Paint the Huron Shores art contest, exhibition and sale in Grand Bend on the weekend. Painting shores in the 'Bend GRAND BEND -'You could almost hear the water lapping against a Lake Huron Keach at stmsct at Richman Gallery on the weekend. • That's because Grand Bend artist Barry Richman opened his first Paint the Huron Shores 'art contest.- exhibition and sale 'at his tem- porary gallery at 57 Ontario St. S. in Grand Bend on Friday night. London/Grand Bend artist Barbara Jackson's 'Near St. Joseph: Road to the Edge' won the $2.00(} grand prize grand prize for 'Near St. Jos- peh: Road to the Edge'. - London's Jackie Bourns won second prize of $500, in framing for 'Sacred Things'.' • Richman hopes Paint the Huron Shores will become an annual event with $5.000 for the grand prize next.ycar. He also hopes to.capture the Huron Country Playhouse as the exhibition site. • This year there were 82 entries from 55 artists from. throughout southern Ontario including Grand Bend's Jack Winn. Josy Hilkes and Vic Jansky. 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