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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1981-01-15, Page 13Need shown some .senior housing for The draft report of a the job situation. The About 340 of Hensall's parable to centers with a per cent. Municipal Hou si ng statement says the over 800 workers are non-residents, similar number of em- Current sewage treatment Statement outlines a need for full-time jobs in Hensall are the report says. "Future ployment opportunities," the facilities limit population to six rental -assisted housing "unusually high" for a •population growth depends report says. 12550 persons, but could be units for senior citizens in village of its size. on...focusing on the village's A successful annexation of expanded to serve 1500 the village of Hensall. ability to attract a resident municipal boundaries is people the study notes. labour force..." projected by the Ministry's Water service capacity is It has been proposed that surveys, to increase the said to be 2000 people. Hensall . annex about 20 population from 989 in 1979 to Hensall council approved hectares of Hay Township. an estimated 1032 in 1984;an the Municipal Housing The report ' says this was annual growth rate of 0.86 Statement at their January approved in principle by councils in Hay Township_...; and Hensall. A proposed subdivision of 157 single family dwellings could be built, the report noted, on this land. The report indicated high interest rates have cawed few housing sales, and a lack of suitable land in the village has limited new home construction. • There is about 5.7 hictares of potentially developable land (about 148 lots) in Hensall, but high lot prices, The report, prepared by the Ontario Ministry of Housing at the request of Hensall council, also noted the need for an additional four non -assisted rental, or market -rental, senior citizen housing units. A study of Hensall demographics showed an average family income of $16,387 (the provincial average family income for 1980 is $23,016) . With the average cost of homes in Hensall estimated at about 840,000, the report states "there does not appear to be a need for. assisted owner- ship housing in the village." The report also stated since about 90 per cent of the houses in Hensall were built before 1960 (almost 75 per cent were built before 1946) "it would be practical to continue municipal in- volvement in the Ontario Home Renewal Program, pending the availability of funds." The village's future population growth, and housing needs, are related to Where they come from The Municipal Housing Statement for Hensall says about 340 people who work in the village, do not live there. The following chart, reprinted from the report, is . based on a 1971 Statistics Canada census. It lists the places of residence, and numbers of people who work in Hensall. Incommuters Place of Residence Location Hay Exeter Tuckersmith Stanley Stephen Clinton Usborne Zurich Seaforth I'3osanquet Hibbert Ancaster McGillivray London Total: No. of Persons 90 65 55 35 25 15 10 10 10 55 55 340 and vacant lots next to in- dustrial land, makes the likelihood of new housing within the existing villages minimal, the report says. From 1977 to 1979, Hen- sall's growth rate was measured at 0.5 per cent, "indicative of the lack of vacant residential land in the village, which has prevented population growth com- 12 meeting. Councillors agreed there was -little need indicated in the report for rent or ownership assisted housing, but will ask for a representative from the Ministry of Housing to meet with them to outline possible courses of action, in light of the housing statement. TEN YEARS OF SERVICE — Bill Tinney (left), Bob McKee, Paul Predhomme and Douglas Pinder all received watches for ten years of service at General Coach Ltd., in Hensall. Not present was another recipient, Larry Hamilton. Staff photo NO. //� !+\ FIRST WITH LOCAL NEWS JANUARY 22, 1981. Canvass will start Bob Hoffman, chairman of the bashwood Medical Cen- tre. said that a door-to-door campaign in Crediton and Dashwood to raise funds will start the last week of January. The fund-raising drive is to raise the 165,000 needed to build the medical centre. The rural campaign will start the first week in February. The money must come from the community and area because the federal and provincial governments do not give grants for such facilities. "They seem to give grants for everything, except for the important things," he said. Hoffman said that everything was ready to go last summer. but the doctor from Saskatchewan backed out at the'last minute. He said that the building would be built by volunteer labor just like community centre in Dashwood. There is no set floor plan for the building, but a five man committee has been to Toronto and taken a look at some other buildings. The building will accom- modate seven or eight doc- tors. The building will be owned by the community, because doctors do not seem to like to own their own buildings anymore, said Hoffman. He said that the rent would not be high. Contacting the doctors has been done by the committee of Mervyn Tieman and Anthony Martene. Dashwood has been without a doctor since the .death of Dr. Voldemars Gulens, who died last March. He had been prac- ticing in the area for more than 25 years. NEW SUPER -- Don Towton began work Thursday as Hen- sall's new works superintendent. New works super hired in Hensall Don Towton has been hired to replace Bill McLaren as works superintendent of Hensall. Towton, who lives at 78 Mill Street in Hensall, was chosen from four men who were interviewed after village council members had received 30 applications for the job. Hensall Clerk Betty Oke said she attributed the large number of applicants to quite a few people being out of work at this time of year. Oke said she was pleased with the number of, ap- plications from residents of the village. Towton had worked for a Hensall construction com- pany, driving a truck and doing snow plowing. He said the only difference between and the . works superin- tendent job, was looking after the sewage system. The ministry of the en- vironment would assist, if any' problems in the sewage system were to arise. Towton began work Thursday and McLaren officially terminated his employment Friday. Price Per Copy 25 Cents SS board get details about special education Two members of the regional office, of the ministry of education, attended the Huron -Perth County catholic shool board meeting Monday to outline some of the details of Bill 82, an act to'amend the Educa- tion Act on behalf of special education. Mrs. Sandy Posno and 'regional' superintendent, Douglas G. MacLeod, ex- plained that this Bill will br- ing the first major change in education in years moving education from "may" to "shall". According to the Bill, Education Minister Bette Stephenson shall ensure that all exceptional children in. Ontario have available to them appropriate special education programs and special education services without payment of fees by parents or guardians. The act describes an ex- ceptonal pupil as a pupil whose behavioural, com- municational, intellectual, physical or multiple excep- tionalities are such that he is considered to need place- ment in a special education program by a committee es- tablished for this purpose. Mr. MacLeod said it becomes complicated when you combine the regulations with this Act, but we should think in terms of the pupils and what it does for them. He said no one is excepted from education. He spoke of the provisions in the Act for the hard to serve pupils thosepupils assessed to be unable to profit from instruction offered by a board due to a mental handicap or a mental and one or more additional handicaps. He talked,of the trainable mentally retarded and also of the gifted pupil and how these identified and provided for. He discussed the respon- sibilities of the board to provide the programs and services needed. He said when a child is identified as requiring special education then a meeting must be held with the parents to discuss the program advised. Every board must have a special education advisory com- mittee, he said. Mr. MacLeod said the program is to be instituted in 1985. In the meantime, the boards must have a com- prehensive plan ready by May 1982 which will have to be submitted to the ministry for approval by May 1982. He reported there are 21 boards across Ontario (three in Western Ontario) in pilot projects which will provide planning guides for the whole program: He said these boards in this project are working very well. When asked about the cost of im- plementing the whole program in 1985 he said there is no estimate at this time but the pilot projects will give a better idea of what the costs will be to meet the needs of this special program. He said it is a challenge for the ministry of education to make the new Act work for the best of every child. The ministry will help boards by sending ministry people to act as a liaison and to hold meetings. He said there is a good commitment Please turn to page 2 Zurich to Oakville A tag, attached to a toy balloon released from Zurich, has been returned from near Oakville. It was one of an estimated 350 helium filled balloons released January 5, by school children, to celebrate the beginning of Zurich's 125th year. Each balloon was tagged with a student's name The tag was returned to a student at Zurich public school by Ronald J. Dougherty, RR 2 Hornby. Dougherty's letter congratulated Zurich on its 125th anniversary and said the balloon was found wrapped around a twig, while he was cross-country skiing near 16 -mile Creek north of Oakville. Another tag returned by Shiela Daunt, RR 2 Gorrie, wished Zurich a happy birth- day and said the tag was found two miles northeast of Molesworth, about 10 miles north of Listowel. Principal Don O'Brien was pleased with the early return of tags. Other letters have come from Seaforth and Staffa. "Kids won't remember too many math classes," he said, "but I'll tilt they'll remember balloon day." G.L. Blanchette, principal of St. Boniface separate school, said only one tag had so far been returned. As yet no tags have been returned to Ecole St. Marie, the third school involved in the balloon release.