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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1998-04-08, Page 11COMMUNITY County restructuring talks begin Times-Acltkvafe, April 8, 1998 Page 11 Th• sixth succ ssfW Ladies Breakaway was presented by the Zion West U.C.W. Saturday, at the Kirkton-Woodham Community Centre. Over 300 women attended the event, enjoying various dis- plays, speakers, a fashion show and • lunch. The world renown harpist Eduard Klassen, pictured below, entertained while at right, Gail Baker applies make-up to ,win- ner of a lucky draw Leona Morley. Saturday breakaway Centralia area women attend Ladies Breakaway it was held at the Kirkton-Woodham Community Centre on April 4 By Mary Peterson Centralia correspondent CENTRALIA - On Apnl 2. Cre- diton UCW joined several women from Dashwood as guests of Credi- ton • UCW. Guest •speaker Cathy Skinner gave a heartfelt talk about Foster Parenting. Thc Grand 'Cove Singers from Grand Bend per- formed several numbers. Many women displayed their home made Easter bonnets later in the evening. Donna Smith. from Centralia UCW won One of the prizes for her creation. • Theresa Finkbeiner spoke about the practice of Aromatherapy. She - displayed 'many of the products and explained their purpose. • _ The women from Centralia thor- oughly enjoyed their visit to Credi- uin. • Many women from the Centralia, congregation also attended the La- dies Breakaway hosted hj Zion West UCW at the Kirkion- Wo odham Community Centre 6n April 4. The full da)..program was packed with activities and included presentations by naturopath Wil-• lems Jacinto. harpist Eduard Klas- sen. fitness expert Sharon Stasiuk. and Linda Johns from Exeter Dc- cor. • Diane O'Shea's presentation was entitled Come to Dinner. John Morgan provided information about fire safety. Thc fashion show was presented by Tabis' at Mason- . ville. - El la Powe. and • Donna Smith were fortunate recipients of door prizes. - - On Palm Sunday. April 5. com- munion•was celebrated at Centralia United Church and the focus for- worship orworship • was Healing the World. - The Sunday School appreciates scinport for their Lenten project. the Healing Fund for the United Church of Canada.• Centralia United Church and Zion West United Church will hold a combined worship service . on ; Good Friday. The service will he held at 11- a.m. at; Zion. • •Everyone is invited to join in the celehartion of Easter Sunday. -.April 12. Worship will he .held at 9!45 a.m. at Zion West -United Church and. at 11:30 a.m. at Centralia Unit- ed Church. The Sunday School at Zion • West will. service coffee and muffins at 9 a.m. A special Easter Cantata will be presented *at hour churches that day. On April 19. worship will he held at Centralia United Church at 10 a.m, Zion West. will hold wor- ship at 11:15 a.m. The Sunda) -School will host a spaghetti lunch- eon at Zion following the service. Upcoming events - • - Centralia United Church/ invites everyone to a pork supper on April 18. There will he a sitting at 5 p.m. and also. at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $9.50 for adults and $4.75 for chil- dren. Alan Powe has -tickets (228- 6557). Volunteers to help cook a pork roast or scalloped potatoes or cheesecake would be appreciated.. Please call Alan Powe. ,'• Centralia Faith Tabernacle On Good Friday. there- will be a special service at 11 .am. •..Com- munion v, ill he served.•Everyone,is welcome to attend. On April 11. all youth and young at heart are welcome to attend the Toronto Airport Fellowship. The bus. will leave 'at .5 a.m. for a large .gathering of youth for a day -long` rally. There will be a small cost for gas to travel to Toronto ,-.....- A special Easter Presentaticin will be held on April 12 at 7 p.m. Eve- ryone is welcome. Nursery facili- ties will he available. • A reminder •that there is a La- dies'. Bible Coffee Break on Tues-, day mornings at 9:30 a.m. Men's Bible. Study Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. and Family Night Bible Study •on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. -- Each Sunday. Sunday School'be- gins at 9:40 a.m. and is -followed by morning worship at 11 a.m. An Evangelical Service is held Sunday evenings at 7 p.m. Euchre results • High hand winners at the euchre at Heywoods Restaurant March 30. were Andy .Thompson and Esther Hodgins. The hidden score was. won by Janie .McDowell. Bernice Squires and Alan Hill were lone hand winners. Have a news tip? Call the Times -Advocate 235-1331 Herbs discussed at latest WMS meeting Roberta:Templeman • Sta a correspondent CROMARTY - The Marian Ritchie W.M.S. Ladies hosted a coffee hour Monday evening at Cromarty Presbyterian Church. The evening began with dessert and coffee followed by an interesting- speaker: nterestingspeaker: Judy Glenn from Glenn Farms. She spoke about the growing of herbs and their. many uses. She had brought along an assortment of jams and. vinegars she had made from her herb garden.. ' Palm Sunday was observed at Cromarty Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning with Rev.• Kevin Steeper in charge. Following. the children's story.. the junior choir sang accompanied on the piano by Carol Ann Scott.' A social time fol- lowed the service. A potluck luncheon will be held at Cromarty church on Good Friday. Following lunch the guest speaker will be Anne Blanc. daugh- ter II Lucie and Bill Milne. who will be showing slides and telling about her trip to India. Everyone is welcome. Open Good Friday & Easter Sunday 7 days a week, 10-5, 238-2818 1 1/4 miles south of Grand Bend on Hwy. 21 HURON COUNTY - Huron County Council held a strategic planning meeting March 31 to discuss restructuring options out- lined in a report released recently by the county's Strategic Planning Committee. The report details various alter- natives for one -tier and two-tier governments in the county. At the meeting, which was held in Goderich, council members formed discussion groups to "refine" the report before it is passed on to municipal councils for further review and comment. The provincial government has mandated municipal governments reshape and shrink themselves to become more efficient. Most municipalities in the province have already taken action. Now • it's Huron's turn: Politicians only With the release of the report, restructuring options are now being reviewed but the topic raised little discussion Thursday at the regular monthly meeting.of Huron County Council. Thc only discussion concerning restructuring stemmed from a res- olution by Reeve _Mason Bailey 'of Blyth suggesting county staff be excluded from the restructur-: ing process. He said the "big losers" in restructuring will be•the county's employees, and as such. rulesneed to be put in place to ensure decisions are not based on self-interest. Thc resolution stated any per- son (or family of that. person) on, the county's permanent payroll "shall not be given the opportuni- ty .10 impact restructuring." Essentially. the only role county staff could have on county restructuring would he to get information from tiles as request- ed by county cotincillors. Bailey said the. county's politi- cians need to be able to say,' "We made certain this (restructuring) was a matter decided by the elect' - cd iicrsons. of Huron County. • Reeve Roy Triebner of Exeter responded quickly to the -propos- al, questioned its legality. and far from excluding the staff, invited - them to be -part of the process.. ' He said the county should not . limit staff input. "If we don't have staff, you have to have outside consultantsdo the work," said Triebner. The council voted .against Bailey's resolution. The county hopes to have a restructuring option ready to initi- ate a triple. majority process py Ian. I of next year. Three part question The county is considering the restructuring question in three parts: services, governance and transition. The 'services' portion looks at who will provide services such as road maintenance under. one- and two-tier governments, 'governance' focuses on munici- pal boundaries and electoral rep- resentation, and 'transition' takes a look at staff issues which will arise from whatever form of restructuring is undertaken. Service second to none Under the services -category of the Strategic Planning Committee's report, the question centres on who will provide ser- vices such as administration, utili- ties and recreation under a one - tier or two-tier system of govern- ment. Under the one -tier option. it says there would be one govern- ment structure for all municipal services. Under a two-tier option, Iwo levels of service delivery (county and local) would remain. The • comm ittee recommends the one -tier option as offering the "greatest opportunity for saving" because.it would eliminate ser - :vice duplication and optimize "econoinies of scale" in local ser- vices. Thc committee docs admit the provision of services by a one -tier government in a wide- spread rural county like Huron would require special arrange- ments. but suggested "service access centres" as a possible solu- tion to the problem. - "Residents don't' want to iravcl long distances for recurrent ser- , vices such as licenses, permits. inspections and :information. the .report notes.. . Who's in charge? - Thc -majority of the Strategic Planning Committee's report is dedicated to outlining options for restructuring the -'governance • structure' of the county. ; • .Under the one -tier option. the first_of thtee alternatives would sec the county's 26 existing municipalities converted into 'wards' which would leach send a 1 representative to County Council, much as they do now. ' Some councillors would/be given multiple, votes at County• Council depending on the size and population of the ward they represent. The other two alternatives Under the one -tier option would give. one vote to each councillor but change the ward sizes to reflect equal populations. These alternatives would split the exist- • •ing municipalities to form the equal -population - wards. Depending on the population size chosen (be it for example 3,000, 10,000 or 20,000 electors) tach ward would have one or several councillors to represent it at coun- cil. Undcr the two-tier option, existing municipalities wouid have to be grouped to form "larg, cr local government units." Each grouping of. municipali• - tics would form a federation and would send representatives to County Council. The three alternatives -under the two -.tier system present .different groupings of municipalities (or - parts of municipalitics) depending on previous discussions, demo- graphics or populations. . The first grouping would reflect local discussions which have already taken place between municipalitics such as Godcrich; Godcrich Township and Colborne Township. Thc second alternative would • see the urban and rural communi- ties grouped into separate com- munities. Clinton, Exeter, Goderich. Scaforth and Wingham would form urban wards and the. townships would he grouped into live rural wards. Thc third alternative would cre- ate "same size" municipalitics- based on population. A 10,001) population size: for example. would yield six municipalities. '- Position Position on transition Undcr transition,- the concerns expressed in the committee report focus mainly on the impact restructuring will have on staff currently employed by the munic- ipalities and the county. -"In either a one- or twp-tier option, new organizations will be created and there will he fewer staff," the report states. . • The. report goes on 4o say the ' county needs to establish -"a clear - .- statement" about employment in the light of restructuring and makes it clear "that unrpn and ' iron -union staff will ,he treated in a similar manner." - Breakaway event a hugehit By Muriel I. ewis Granton correspondent - GRANTON - A number from this area enjoyed the 6th annual La- dies Breaktaway; sponsored by Zion West • UCW .at the . Kirkton- Woodharn Community Centre -on April 4. . Sympathy'from the community is extended to the family of Percy Hodgins of St. Marys and formerly of Granton who died at the Memo- rial Hospital March 31. The funeral service ,was' held at St. James Anglican Church. Si Marys. April 3. At St..- Paul's Anglican Church. Kirkton on Passion Sunday. Rev. Glenda Meakin led the Liturgy of the Palms and celebrated the Holy Eucharist. Her message was about the im- . portance of following the events of Holy Week to the Resurrection 'on Easter Sunday. A Paschal Candle was also dedicated for use next Sunday. The Lenten Reflections was held Monday, March 30 at.St. Paul's led by Rev. Meakin, reflecting the need for repentance, mercy and forgive- ness. Several local people attended the Lenten Service at Holy Name of Mary Roman Catholic Church in St. Marys on 'April 1, led by Father Hunter with a meditation on Holy Week. • Cornerstone of Life At Granton United Church on Sunday. Dave Williams of Kirkton took charge of the service• when his sermon -was. about Christ,. the Cor- nerstone of Life. The lessons were from Isaiah 50, Philippians 2 and Luke 19. . The congregation extends sympa- thy to Valerie Hodgins of London (who took charge of the service last Sunday) in the sudden death of her husband Stanley last•Sundav night. - There will be an Easter Sunrise Service and breakfast at Granton U.C. on Easter Sunday. \11'1 iii \I •1-i 1-800-668-1507 UCW news Unit one met April.2 for a noon luncheon at the home of Amelia Jameson. President Doreen McRo- ben opened the meeting with a reading, Don't/Pass Me By. The general U.C.W. meeting will' be held Tues., April' 14 and the Re- gional Rally was announced for April 21 at North Nissourj United Church. , - Audrey Wessman gave a program presentation on "the Joy of doing without" and Madeline Hardie con= eluded with a challenging word contest. COMPUTER TRAINING ACADEMY 301 MAIN STREET • EXETER, ONTARIO (519) 235.4CPU FAX 0 0 (519) 235-0550 We are offering on demand Quick Books course taught by qualified instructor. Evening classes will begin the end of April. Call today to book your seat. 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