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Steckle •bests Consitt
Fisher tops polls, Turkheim in
After an absence of eight Haberer went in by ac-
years, ratepayers in Zurich clamation.
returned to the polls Monday Ratepayers in Stanley
and came up with a few township were among the
surprises. most active in the area as
Becoming the youngest they elected a new reeve,
member of council in the new deputy -reeve and a new
village's history is 21 year- council,
old Dan- Turkheim who Residents of Stanley
collected 248 votes for a township went to the polls
strong third place finish, Monday and they gave the
Bob , Fisher topped the candidates for , political of -
polls with an even 300 votes fice a few suprises.
cast in his favor. In the battle for reeve,
In second spot was in- current deputy -reeve Paul
cumbent Isidore Laporte Steckle defeated incumbent
with 285 votes while Leroy Tom Consitt 469 votes to 395.
Thiel, the most senior of In the race for deAuty-
Zurich's elected officials reeve Don McGregor, an
received a major scare from eight year veteran of council
newcomer Don Van Patter topped fellow council Don
who came within 15 votes of Brodie by 70 votes in taking
gaining a seat on council the second most important
Thiel received 191 votes township position 460 votes
compared to Van Patter's to 390.
177.
Zurich had the distinction
of being one of the first
municipalities to have its
election results finalized as
the final count was known by
8:45 p.m.
Just over 50 percent 'of
Zurich's eligible voters cast
ballots with 344 people
turning up to the polls. •
Zurich Reeve Fred
_Toppingthe polls for the
three member Stanley
council was political
newcomer' Howard Arm-
strong as he captured 614
voters. In the runner-up spot
was the only returning
councillor Clarence Rau .with
588 votes. •
Picking up the final seat on
council was Jack Coleman
with 454 votes. Finishing
fourth in the race was Bill
Chipchase with 358 votes.
In neighboring Hay
townshi0 Bluewater
plumber Dick Rau seeking a
second term on council
topped the polls as he picked
up 621 votes.
Gerald Shantz making his
second bid for council
finished second to Rau with
522 votes.
In third spot was in-
cumbent Tony Bedard who
polled 483 votes. . Former
members of council Claire
Deichert and Don Geiger
did not fair well in their bid
for a council seat as they
finished in a tie for fourth
spot with 422 votes.
Official results of the Hay
election were delayed for
well over an hour due to a
delay in receiving the official
vote count from the Dash-
wood poll.
Acclaimed. as reeve was
current deputy -reeve Uoyd
Mousseau while councillor
Lionel Wilder moved up to -
the deputy -reeve's job.
Two new faces on council
Members elected to serve
on Bayfield council for the
next two years are John
Chapman, Dave Johnston,
Gwen- Pemberton and
Barbara Sturgeon.
Well over 300 voters
braved the chilling tem-
peratures to cast their
ballots in the Monday
election. Little interest was
shown by the summer
residents" in Bayfield's first
election in many year&
However, based on the
permanent residents vote
the turnout was around 75
percent.
The close race saw Dave
Johnston lead the poll with
266 votes followed , by Gwen
Pemberton with 226, John
Chapman with 206, Barb
Sturgeon with 195 and Reg
Wilson failing to hold his seat
on council with 193.
It was an interesting but
umpredictable race as none
of the five had ever run in an
election before, the three
incumbents all being ac-
claimed or appointed at
various stagesin village
history. Combined -with the
Isidore Laporte
Dan Turkheim
Leroy Thiel
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FIRST WITH LOCAL NEWS
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NOVEMBER 13, 1980
MISS OELINAS CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY -- Miss Marie Gelinas celebrated her 103rd
birthday yesterday. On Sunday Miss Gelinas had a visit from 11 year old Beth Sweeney at
a family gathering at the Mozart Gelinas residence. Miss Sweeney is Miss Gelinas' great -
great niece. Staff photo
Increase demands halved
A fact finder appointed by
the Education Relations
Commission has recom-
mended a salary increase of
8.5 percent for Huron
County's secondary _ school
teachers.
In a report delivered to the
commission five weeks ago,
Malcolm Stockton suggested
the increase for the 1980-81
school year was warranted,
based on salaries paid by
surrounding boards of
education.
At the time that Stockton
interceded, the local of the
Ontario Secondary School
Teachers' Association had
requested an increase of 15
percent plus . the settling of
several other issues. The
board of education had of-
fered an annual increase of
5.6 percent.
With respect to staff
allocation the fact finder felt
the formula which the board
and teachers are presently
employing should be
maintained despite some
problems but that the board
should be entitled to
maintain an overall set
pupil -teacher ratio such as is
contained in the Grey County
secondary agreement.
Stockton has requested the
teachers withdraw some of
their other outstanding items
so that the teachers may
establishsome priorities at
the bargaining table. He also
recommended the teachers
reduce the size of their
negotiating committee from
the present 16 to facilitate
the "holding of meetings and
to shorten caucus time."
In a preamble to the report
Stockton notes that since
1971 "the collective
bargaining process in the
secondary panel in Huron
County has at times been a
difficult one".
In 1971, mass resignations
were submitted while in 1978
teachers walked off the job
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MPP tells Chamber:
riy �itrfsIi in Canada
-According to area MPP
Jack Riddell there is no
energy crisis but only an oil
crisis.
In a rambling address to
the Zurich and district
Chamber of Commerce
Wednesday Riddell told
the 16 members present that
Ontario could be a leader in
the production of methanol
which he termed "the fuel of
the future".
Methanol could be made
from garbage, wood, farm
crops or peat bogs, all
Proceed with
`Wagon study
The Zurich and district
Chamber of Commerce is
proceding with the
examination of some form of
Welcome Wagon for the
community.
Ron Heimrich told the
Chamber's November
meeting Wednesday that
similar operations in other
centres are currently being
examined.
The village of Zurich will ,
be sent a letter thanking the
village for renovations to
Mill and Victoria streets.
Don Beauchamp who
suggested the letter be sent
said the streets look
"beautiful".
Robert Westlake said the
first aid course which the
Chamber had organized
needed more people to take
the course if the St. John
Ambulance Society was not
to loose money on the course. -
Trade and industry
chairman, Anson McKinley .
reiterated comments which
he made at the October
meeting of Hay township
council concerning the lack
of industrial land in Zurich
and vicinity.
renewable products which
the province isrich in.. In
addition to lessening our
reliance on oil as the basic
fuel for transportation -and
heating, methanol
production could produce
20,000 jobs.
In a related matter,
Riddell said a cross -province
tour by Liberal party
determined that the major
concern of Ontario citizens
at the grass roots level is the
declining economic situation
of the province. Ontario's
rate of economic growth is
the worst in Canada and 90
percent of new unem-
ployment in the country has
occurred here.
Riddell said he was not
blaming any particular
group or political party for
the decline in Ontario's
economic status but he
suggested . some . drastic
changes must be made. The
province will never again see
the "golden days of the `60's"
but he was sure the province
could cope with the future.
According to Riddell the
province of Alberta poses the
biggest threat to the well-
being of Ontario with
Premier Peter Lougheed's
entity enticing small
business away from Ontario.
He also said Alberta was
making a concerted -effort to
develop highly technical
secondary industry. "I
believe we've seen the last
expansion of Sarnia's petro-
chemical industry," said
Riddell.
The veteran MPP, former
teacher, farmer and auc-
tioneer gave a brief address
on a concern which he raised
quite frequently in the
legislature this past year,
the question of foreign
ownership of Ontario farm
lands.
Riddell stated there has
been an increasing public
awareness of the problem
and he termed the selling of
land to foreign investors "a
retrograde step" in the
development of agriculture
in Ontario.
Once farm land is sold to
overseas investors it will be
very difficult for that land to
be purchased by a farmer.
The land will in all
likelihood stay in the hands
of a non -Canadian resident
because its a good hedge
against inflation. Riddell
said he would hate to see
members of the farming
community relegated to the
status of tenant farmers and
he criticized farmers who
had sold out to foreign in-
terests. Land is not like a
stock which is sold and
traded on a regular basis but
that farmers are "stewards
of the land", he said.
As a detrimental side-
effect of the change in
ownership, small com-
munities could suffer with
the reduction in the number
of people needed to farm
land.
One of the major problems
which the province and
Canada is faced with is a
lacked of skilled workers. He
called for changes in the
education system which
place greater emphasis on
trades and the introduction
of apprenticeship programs
by industry.
In a question and answer
session the MPP said he
believed that Premier
William Davis had good
intentions when he told the
legislature in the spring that
the gap in rural and urban
hydro rates should be
narrowed. The problem as
Riddell sees it is that the
g. ✓ernment does not have
control over Ontario Hydro.
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