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Zurich Citizens News, 1981-03-12, Page 1• Hensall by-laws set 81 renumeration Bylaw amendments ap- proved at Hensall councll's March meeting, Monday, will set remuneration for village council members and employees. The reeve will receive $800 per. year. Councillors and PDC commissioners will receive 1650 per year. In addition, council members receive an honorarium for any special meetings attended. These were set at $20 for an evening meeting, $35 for a half-day meeting and $60 for a full- day meeting. f Non -councillor committee Bayfield Conservation members are paid an Authority as Hensall's share honorarium of 120 for each of the 1981 levy. meeting, and 125 if they act Garth Postill will' be paid as chairman. 1325 a week for_ continuing Betty Oke, in her position maintenance at the Hensall as clerk -treasurer, tax dumpsite.. collector and licensing of- Radii was previously paid facer will be -paid 120,000 in 1300 per week and the price 1981. She will also receive a had not been increased since 120 honorarium for each -1977, special meeting attended. - Council is awaiting a letter Don Towton was officially from the Ministry of the appointed works superin- Environment to outline how tendent at a salary of 115,000 extensivea study is requited per year. to receive a provincial In other mess: certificate of approval for Council 'also approved to the landfill site. pay 12,189 to the Ausable- The council approved a site plan from Robert Erb at down a tree on his pr rty. the corner of Highway •4 and The tree roots are up Queen Street in Hensall to the sidewalks. It was ap- expand the business there to proved under council's include a used car lot. Part existing policy ` of having of the lot is to be coverted to homeowners plant another a gravelled parking area._.., tree for any removed. The planned expansion is Councillor Minnie Noakes still subject to planning reported on the Rural board approval. Ontario Municipal Council was invited to Association (ROMA) con - attend the annual meeting of vention held in Toronto from the Huron County Municipal February 8 to 11. The Officers' Association to be meeting discussed drainage, held April 16 in Lucknow. environment., tourism Clerk Betty Oke is first vice- education and 'government president of the association. grants. Council approved a Noaktes also reported on request by Glen Nixon to cut the first Ausable-Bayfield conservation meeting she attended. Council approved the minutes and operating budgets for the Hensall and district community centre. Plans for 1981include more hockey tournaments and perhaps inviting the Clinton Junior "C" team to hold a tournament in Hensall. A letter from the ministry of culture and recreation reminded council the Win- tario Capital Grants program was being reopenec for applications. Wintaric grants helped build thn community centre. No. 10 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS, MARCH 12, 1981 • 1. •. y+,• $ . STORYTELLER --- Denis Hartman (centre) has the fu*attention of everyone on stage. It is a scene from the St. BoiMCfcice operetta Rip, Van Winkle on Tuesday night. The rest are, from left to right; Joanne Verlinde, Sheila Regier, Janet Regier, Goof (the wolf) -Masse, Colleen Regier, Mary Ellen Van Aaken and Tracey Bedard. Hay supports stricter gun laws lay township council _ A motion was carried that supported a resolution from the council would apply to Hamilton Wentworth calling the Ministry of Tran - for stiffer gun laws. The sportation and ' Com - resolution deals with the munications for a grant of ever increasing number of $6,500, representing half of attacks on the members of the 113,000 cost of reser- police forces in Canada. facing concessions 12 and 13 The council concurred about 1500 feet north of High - with the part of the way 83 in Dashwood. resolution that stated that In other business, named anyone taught with a Lloyd Mouaseau, from firearm during the act of a council, to the Exeter crime should be sentenced to Nursing Home ad hoc a year -til teirm.. Qotmcil committee. did not concur with the pint The council also approved about the death penalty for the 1981 grants. The Huron anyone who shoots a police County Historical Society, officer. Canadian Mental Health, the Salvation Army, War Memorial Childrens' Hospital, Canadian National Institute for the Blind, March of Dimes and the Canadian Cancer Society all -will receive 32 and the Hensall-South Huron Agricultural Society will receive ;75: The council approved aline of credit be established at the Bank of Montreal in Zurich for the Hay Municipal Telephone Syat in. The line of credit in 1981 will not exceed 1100.000. The council decided that they would advertise for a dog licensing officer and that the applications must be in the hands of the clerk - treasurer by noon on Mon- day, April 6. Council- - also decided to send Ross Fisher to the J. Mahoney Road School from May3-6at the University of GueLast week it was in- correctly reported that the parcel of land, Lot 17, Concession 13, had been rejected on a severance application. The council had given approval to the severance to Benjamin Masse. Price Per Copy 25 Cents Hensall delegates etition Davis aid Premier William Davis while in Exeter Wednesday night promised to check into a' petition presented to him by the senior citizens committee of the Hensall United Church. The request concerns the church group's wish to build a non-profit development for senior citizens of Hensall to consist of rents geared to income andalsomarket value rents. A survey was conducted by the senior citizens club in co- operation with Hensall council in 1979 and a report of this survey has just been received from the co- -ordinator of Community Housing in Toronto. The_ report established a housing need for 10 senior citizen units but advised according to Ministry of Housing guidelines, a complex of this size is not considered economically feasible and senior housing needs should be met through the • provision of existing units in neighbouring municipalities. The Hensall committee • feels this is an unfair report based on ratios to need as established by the Ministry and clearly underestimates the needs of senior citizens in Hensall and surrounding area, leaving them no choice at the moment but to leave their village. Leaving the village would also mean leaving Church, family, friends and the organizations which they belong to and go at least 10 kilometres away to live with strangers. For them to do this at their age is unkind and thoughtless, especially when most of them have spent their lives in this com- munity. The brief to the Premier continued, "Hensall has a population of 1,100, a very low tax rate, six major in- dustries which employ ap- proximately 500 people, roughly 75 percent of these live outside the village and annexation of the surrounding township has been necessary and is. now near completion. A senior citizens building such as we propose would release homes for said workers to live in the village." "May we respectively ask for your favourable con- sideration for ofir development either through approved process to enable Federal funding or possibly direct a little of the 42 million of dollars which your Government is directing to building rental units." Students quiz candidates at high school meeting An all candidates meeting was held at South Huron District High School on Fri- day ri-day morning. Liberal Jack Riddell, Progressive Conservative Jim Britnell and New Democrat Gwen Pemberton were answering questions directed at them by the grade 13 and grade 10 students. Each candidate was allow- ed five minutes at the begin- ning of the meeting to ad- dress the students. Britnell spoke about how the PCs had put 14 billion into various school systems and that tuitions make up only one-eighth of what runs a college. He said that the other percentage is picked up by the government. - Riddell said there were 300,000 unemployed in On- tario and that 142,000 of those were between the ages of -18 ‘and -24. -He ' giso said that Ontario was in 10th place in economic growth in Canada. Pemberton used the time to introduce herself to the students and explain why she, and not someone younger, was running for the NDP The floor was then opened to the students to ask questions of any or all the candidates. The first question was directed at Pemherton about the incident inSeaforthwhere she was asked to leave =all- male service club dinner. She said that they were forc- ed to leave and were hungry also, so they were happy to go some place to eat. The next question was directed at all the can- didates. It was about the solution of company withdrawal from Ontario. Riddell- shed that -w)-.had been livin on the branch company pbllosophy for too long. An American company comes into Ontario and after a few yearsthey pull out. He also said that Ontario should use tax incentives to keep Canadian companies in On- tario. Britnell said that there had been problems with company withdrawal and that the present government wasdoingtheirbest to control it. Pemberton said the government must have a larger share in what goes on. She said if a government helps bail out a financially troubled company, that when that company starts making money the govern- ment should share in the profits. A question was raised Please turn to page 7 ALL CANDIDATES MEETING --• The three candidates for Huron -Middlesex met on Friday at South Huron District High School to talk to the grade 10 and 13 students. They are, from left to right, Progressive Conservative candidate Jim Britnell, NDP candidate Gwen Pember- ton and liberal incumbent Jack Riddell. Doug Raymond, student council president, (stan- ding) was the moderater.