Times-Advocate, 1984-02-01, Page 21
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Dear Mr. Batten:
I read your editorial last
week with a great deal of
disappointment and an-
noyance. You saw fit to com-
ment upon my appointment
from your "ivory tower",
relying on secondary sources
rather than checking with
me, the original source. The
reporter who interviewed me
in Wingham misinterpreted
what was being said; you ob-
viously knew that what was
written was questionable as
that was the only part of the
article that you underlined
when you forwarded a copy to
Mr. Shaw. Yet you still failed
to contact me to check the ac-
curacy of the reporting.
For the record, when I talk-
ed to the woman who inter-
viewed me in Wingham, I did
talk of being Head of the
English Department at
S.H.D.H.S. for ten years and
I did say that I was finding
some of the administrative
tasks attached to the Head-
ship too demanding on my
time as a full time teacher. I
could have added that my
marking load as an English
teacher was too demanding
for my role as English Head.
I was looking for alternatives.
There were two - return to the
full time role as a teacher or
consider a different challenge
- an administrative role with
less teaching. I chose the
latter.
I suppose one could infer
several things from my
statements. One might infer
that I was looking for a job
with "reduced actiWty" as
you put it. However, a more
sensible and accurate in-
ference would be that I was
looking for a new challenge
which I could approach with
less frustration.
It is too bad that the first In-
terviewer chose to write the
article with her personalin-
ference.yvhich is a misinter-
pretation of what I was saying
to her. It is annoying -to have
a second person from the
press to base a commentary
on the first erroneous in-
ference when the information
was obviously questionable to
that second person, and ac-
curate information was
available through a simple
phone call to me.
In conclusion, I am enjoy-
ing the new challenge at my
new school, F.E. Madill. You
will be pleased to know that
the job does not involve
reduced activity, and it is pro-
viding a realistic challenge.
Possibly it is time for you to
consider a new challenge as
well.
S. Eddy
READY TO SNOWSHOE — Grade eight students at Exeter Public School spent a Winter CtA
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Morrison Dam, Thursday. From the left preparing to snowshoe are Jeff Dalrymple, Shelley Skinner, Heather
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Tuckersmith council accepts petition
to supply water to Egmondville
Tuckersmith Township
Council accepted a petition
from the residents of
Egmondville, diving in the
built-up area south of the
Bayfield River, to have water
supplied to those who want it.
Council will forward the peti-
tion to the municipal solicitor
for his direction.
Councillor John
Brownridge, who lives in
Vanastra, was named by
council Tuesday to be the
resource person available to
the .School Accommodation
Review Committee for the
Vanastra Public School. The
committee has been named to
study the future of the school
which has a declining enrol-
ment, now 92 students from
kindergarten to Grade six and
a high pupil cost of $478.92
each compared to the
average cost of $187.30 per
pupil in the school system in
Huron County.
Council will join the Ontario
Association of Committees of
Adjustment and Consent
Authorities for 1984 at an an-
nual fee of $35.00.
Gravel rates were set for
1984 at the rate of $3.25 per
cubic yard for gravel from
the stock pile. $1;90 per cubic
yard for uncrushed gravel, 75
cents per cubic yard for sand,
and 60 cents for cubic yard for
fill for material purchased by
the road department from the
municipal gravel pit. Private
contractors may purchase at
the rate of 90 cents per cubic
yard for sand and 60 cents Der
cubic yard for fill for material
purchased fromthe township
gravel pit.
Council will apply to the
ministry of citizenship and
culture for a grant on behalf
of Mr. and Mrs. George
Romanik of RR 4 Seaforth,
for improvements to their
designated residence on Lot 6,
Concession 4, HRS.
Council donated the
Vanastra recreation centre
hall to the committee in
charge for the Van Den
Neucker benefit dance with a
Fines high for
drinking drivers
Getting caught on a drink-
ing and driving offence is
often a case of being in the
wrong place at the wrong
time and that circumstance
was augmented for six of-
fenders when they appeared
in Exeter court, Tuesday.
They arrived to find Judge
Seneshen in charge and he
levied fines of $500 or 30 days
in jail against the accused.
That was $200 more than the
fine normally imposed by
Judge W.G. Cochrane for first
time offenders. -
Pleading guilty to charges
of driving with a blood alcohol
level over the legal limit of 80
mgr. were Friederich
Bischoff, RR 1 Centralia;
Ralph Neil Wasson, 61 Main
St. N., Exeter; Michael R.
Berry, Leamington; Douglas
John Insley, Exeter; Paul
Thomas Pridham, Exeter and
Wayne Keith Parsons, Main
St., Centralia.
In addition to the fines,
each had his driver's licence
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Bischoff was stopped on
November 9 and a
breathalizer test showed a
reading of 210 mgs; Wasson
had a reading of 180 mgs. on
December 6; Berry was stop-
ped for erratic driving on
December 18 and had a test of
200 mgs.; Insley was charged
ori December 22 after his car
went into the ditch and a
breathalizer test showed a
reading of 150 mgs.; Parsons
was stopped on November 19
and had a blood alcohol con-
tent of 230 mgs.; and Pridham
had a reading of 190 mgs. in
a breathlizer test on January
13 after his car became stuck
in a snowdrift on Sherwood
Crescent in Exeter and police
were called by local citizens
regarding his erratic driving.
Paul Joseph McVeeney, 184
Queen St., Ailsa Craig, was
fined $300 or 30 days after
pleading guilty to a charge of
possessing marijuana on
December 16. He was stopped
for speeding originally and a
small amount of the drug was
found in his jacket after a
policeman detected the odour
of marijuana in the car the
youth was driving.
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council has authorized clerk -
treasurer Ray Hands and
councillor Kenneth Lyons to
sign the cheques for'the Gran-
ton and area fire board.
Two tile drain loan applica-
tions totalling 850,369 were
given approval.
Reeve Wilson Hodgins and
clerk Ray (lands have been
authorized to petition for sub-
sidy from the Ministry of
Transportation and Com-
munications and to sign the
road superintendent's ap-
plications for road subsidies
for the period of January 1,
1985 to November 30, 1985.
Council directed the clerk -
treasurer to send invitations
to several insurance com-
panies asking if they would be
interested in tendering for the
township insurance policies.
levy of $50 for the clean-up
and supervision of the event.
The family lost a pig barn in
a recent fire.
Regarding a winter car-
nival in early February to be
held by the Vanastra Lions
club at the recreation centre,
council agreed it had no ob-
jections to the club applying
for a liquor license.
Wayne Caldwell; County of
Huron Planning Department,
attended the meeting to pre-
sent the modifications that
have been received from the
ministry of municipal affairs
and housing. Council will
recommend to the county that
the recommendations be in-
corporated into the township
secondary plan for final sub-
mission to the ministry.
Council delayed taking a
stand on the engineer's report
on the Williams Drain until
the next meeting. Present for
the discussion on the report
were Ken and Dorothy
Williams, Engineer Henry
Centen of R.J. Burnside &
Associates and Peter Pulham
of the Canadian National
Railways.
Nay approves wages for .1914
The major part of the after-
noon session of the regular se-
cond January meeting of Hay
township council was con-
ducted behind closed doors
while council established the
1984 pay scales for
themselves and township
employees.
• After almost three hours
spent in first hearing from the
employees and then discuss-
ing the matter in camera, the
reeve again opened the
meeting to announce the
results of council's
deliberations.
The five men had decided to
hold the' line in some cases,
adhere to the five percent
provincial guideline in others
and make some exceptions.
Reeve Lionel Wilder's sti-
pend for attending regular
meetings increased from $100
'to $105 per meetings attended,
deputy reeve Tony Bedard
will now by paid ;100.62 in-
stead of 895.83, and coun-
cillors' pay increases from
$91.67 to 896.25.
Council members will still
receive 870 for a special day-
long meeting, and have in-
creased the amount for half-
day special meetings and
committee meetings from $35
to $45. They raised their meal
allowance at conventions
from $10 to $45, and will
receive a gas allowance of 25t
per kilometre while on
township business. Reeve and
deputy reeve's fees for sign-
ing cheque's is $25 per trip, up
from 820.
Before detailing the new
pay scale for township
employees, Wilder said coun-
cil's decisions implied "no
criticism of any employee's
work. We tried to be as
generous as possible, but
were forewarned of what in-
crease we could give". He
added that the guidelines may
be changed next year and
"maybe we can do more
then."
Road superintendent Ross
Fisher and assistant clerk -
treasurer Betty O'Brien each
received an increase of $1,000,
bringing O'Brien's 1984 salary
to $16,000, and Fisher's to -
825,400. The $1,000 figure was
obtained by totalling
employees' salaries (with ex-
ception of the clerk -
treasurer's) and taking five
percent of .that amount.
Fisher and O'Brien are each
entitled to three weeks'
vacation.
Hourly rates for full-time
works department employees
went up 43e. Gordon Smith
now earns $9.78 per hour and
a five-week vacation, Ross
Horner $8.43 and four weeks
off and Mike Masse $8.73 and
a two-week holiday. Part-
time laborers will receive
86.30 per hour, up 30t. One
pair of safety boots per year
for works employees will be
paid for by council, subject to
the discretion of the road
superintendent.
Fringe benefits for full time
municipal employees include
having their OHIP, dental
plan and Mutual Life
premiums paid in full by their
employer. The employees pay
their own long term disabili-
ty premiums.
Clerk -treasurer Joan
Ducharme will receive no pay
increase this year. Wilder
said council felt 828,000 was
the maximum Hay can pay in
1984 for their clerk. He said
members reached a
unanimous agreement after a
long discussion. In addition,
Ducharme will no longer be
given time off in lieu of extra
pay for attending all regular
and special meetings.
Mrs. Ducharme voiced her
objectios, pointing out this
proviso was in effect a
decrease in her remunera-
Elect judge
and jury
Local boat builders Karl
and Frank Vermaeten have
selected trial by judge and
jury on a variety of fraud,
theft and possession of stolen
property charges.
The charges against the two
men were laid following in-
vestigation by Exeter OPP
and the OPP anti rackets
branch in Toronto.
The two face combined
charges of fraud, theft and
possession, while Karl Ver-
maeten faces two additional
charges of theft and one of
fraud.
They appeared in Exeter
court, Tuesday, and elected
the trial by judge and jury. It
has been scheduled for
Goderich on April 24.
tion, but council remained
unmoved.
Building inspector Hubert
Miller will now receive $10
per permit issued, 814 per in-
spection and 25t per
kilometre on township
business: He will be paid a per
diem rate of 850 for attending
relevant seminars and
workshops, and his $30
membership in the Building
Inspectors Association and
his 815 licence fee will be paid
by the township.
Tile drainage inspector
Lloyd Mousseau will receive
$14 per inspection. and 25t a
kilometre.
All rates are retroactive to
January 1, 1984.
In other business, Claire
Deichert reported that the
Zurich and area fire board
budget for 1984 is $17,270, up
from 1983's 816,173. An
estimated surplus of $1,458
will reduce the budget to
815,811; Hay's share will be
87,589.33.
Council accepted Jake
Hovius' H ithdrawal from any
action leading to a municipal
drain on the north branch of
the Black Creek. Another mo-
tion recommended that no
repairs be initiated on the
Datars-Miller drain until pro-
perty owners upstream from
Rudy Becker are notified,
and a majority sign a petition
for repair.
Wilder, reporting for the
farm safety association, said
signs warning of dangerous
gases around manure pits are
now in the hands of the
building inspector, who will
give them to the property
owner during final inspection
of such facilities. Wilder said
the county association, in con-
cert with other safety associa-
tions, will advocate standar-
dization of gear shifts and
other controls (including
hydraulic systems) on all
. makes of tractors as one\vay
to reduce the increasing
number of deaths caused by
unfamiliarity with various
models.
A call for tenders to supply
fuel for Hay township and the
Hay Municipal Telephone
system will be advertised in
local papers in the February
16 and 23 issues. Tenders for
gravel will be advertised in
London publications on
February 17.
As a result of a special
meeting called on January 20
to discuss with Zurich the
joint -use landfill site, Steve
Burns of Burns Ross and
Associates was instructed to
draft a letter to Mrs. A.
Martens to . explore the
possibility of leasing or pur-
chasing more land to expand
the present waste disposal
site. Burns was also asked to
convey the proposal to the
Ministry of the environment
and see if an environmental
assessment would be re-
quired for the proposed
expansion.
Wilder announced that
council is not taking "No" as
a final answer on the water
question. Despite the fact en-
vironmental minister Andy
Brandt turned down a request
for financial help to build a
new pipeline along Highway
21, council will continue their
efforts to get a provincial
grant for the project.
The preliminary report on
the Mousseau municipal
drain was also read at the
special meeting. The petition
contained sufficient names to
support further action;
engineer Bruce Holdsworth
was instructed to prepare the
final report on the drain.
The next regular meeting of
Hay township council will be
Wednesday, February 1 at
10:00 a.m.
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