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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1981-05-21, Page 1:www ii.:....a:w.:r+..,'aw,s:e�=:►a%•s,:i.:•�: Zurich council discussed park's future Zurich council discussed the future of the Zurich park in an in -camera session at the May council meeting, Wednesday. Meeting with council members was Tom Prout of the Ausable=Bayfield Conservation Authority Which owns the land Zurich maintains as a park. Council requested a 50 -foot area around the picnic pavilion be sodded by the authority in time for the 125th anniversary festivities. The meeting was to dis- cuss what work was to be done and who would pay for it. Councillor Bob Fisher of the finance committee reported a Zurich, Switzerland, bantam hockey team may visit the village later this year. He suggested the village provide gifts for the players; perhaps flags for the team and individual crests for the players. Reeve Fred Haberer agreed, saying something like a crest could also be given to other visitors to Zurich. Fisher also reminded council any applications for capital works grants must be planned well in advance. He said municipalities had "lost thousands over the years" by not. having pro- jects planned well in- ad- vance to apply for loans. The streets committee reported that Mlll Street would be adapted for angled packing between Goshen and Victoria Streets. Councillor Isidore Laporte said angled lines could easily be painted on the street as It is not heavily travelled. Dan Turkheim said the Zurich recreation, parks and community centre board had met with representative of groups using the ice time In the arena. He said com- plaints had been received that there wasn't enough public skating time. He said the schedules could be altered by having groups start earlier in the day and the arena could then .provide more public ice time • on Saturday afternoon. Laporte suggested a seasons ticket for public skating. This he said would guarantee an income for public skating, get people out skating more regularily and be comparable with other groups who pay a year- ly rate for ice time. The board will discuss scheduling further at its next meeting. In other business: The council officially ap- pointed members of the 125th anniversary com- mittee as council. committee members. This will let; the members apply for any special permits required for the anniversary and cover the committee for liability ti insurance during the celebration. Reeve Haberer will attend an Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference in Toronto, August23to26. Councillors Bob Fisher and DanTurkheimplan to at- tend a Minister's Conference on Recreation also in Toron- to, October 5 to 7. The ministry of culture and recreation notified coun- cil it could not fund a student worker for the municipality under the Experience '81 program. The ministry of transpor- tation and communication notified council of an ad- vance payment of $6,540 for the roads subsidy. NO. / 'rl . FIRST WITH LOCAL NEWS MAY 21, 1981 Price per Copy 25 Cents Mill rates raised Stanley, council sets 1981 budget Stanley Township council set its 1981 mill rates at the May meeting last Wednes- day. The residential rates for 1981 have been set at 217.86 mills for those supporting the public schools, and 214.07 mills for those providing separate school support. The rates compared to 171.16 for public shcool sup- ,.: par.t..and 175.5 for saute school support, last year. As well as increases in the county levy and school board mill rates, the mill rate for general township purposes increased about 53 percent from 47.29 mills in 1980 to 72.06 mills in 1981. Clerk Mel Graham said the council was trying to keep the mill rate low, but said it should have been higher last year. He said there was a lot of road work expenses last year and the increase in mill rate was basically because of the deficit of the last two years. Residents of Brucefield, Varna nad Kippen have ad- ditional rates of 6.42, 6.00 and 16.37 mills respectively for street light purposes. Expenditures and transfers in the budget total $1,135,323, the clerk said. This includes approximately $115,000 to the county and about $400,500 to school boards. Other budget items in- clude about $123,000 for general government. Includ- ed in this is the third pay- ment on a farm the township bought in 1979 to use as a gravel pit. The farm is to be paid off over a five year period. This year's payment on principle and interest is $33,000. About $48,000 will be spent on protection to persons and property. This includes fire protection and payments to the conservation authority. About $240,000 will be spent maintaining township roads. Recreation balldia- mond maintenance and grants to Zurich, Bayfield, Hensall and Clinton recrea- tion committeesaccounts for $17,500. A severance requested by J. Vandecamp was turned down by council Reeve Paul Steckle questioned why so much land was to be retained with a farm house when the rest WATCH THAT STEP — Susan Wassmon helps Danielle McKinnon down the stage stairs while Judy Savoy describes the outfit Matthew Anderson is wearing. The Zurich and Area Figure Skating Club held a childrens fashion show at the Zurich public School, Friday. Purse -snatcher gets 30 -day jail sentence A Zurich man was sentenced to 30 days in jail and an Exeter youth receiv- ed a 10 -day jail term when they appeared for senten- cing before Judge W. G. Cochrane in Exeter court, Tuesday. Edward J. Neeb, Zurich, was given the 30 -day term for a purse snatching inci- dent in Exeter on December 29. The accused ran up behind a 69 -year-old Exeter woman and grabbed her purse. The purse was later found in a creek and $22 in cash was missing. Paul Thomas Pridham, Exeter, was sentenced to 10 days in jail for the March 1 theft of stamps from his mother and another 10 -day term, to run concurrent with the first, for taking a motor vehicle owned by his mother on March 14 without her con- sent. He had previously pleaded guilty to the charges. Michael McQuiggan and Timothy McQuiggan, both of Exeter, were placed on probation for one year. Michael was given a suspended sentence on two charges of possession of stolen property and Timothy was fined 1100 for theft of approximately $800 worth of jewellery that belonged to his mother. A Huron Park man, Floyd Sydney Costain, was fined $500 or 50 days on a charge of dangerous driving arising from an incident on December 19 when he rammed the rear of a vehi- cle with one he was driving. Costain was also placed on. probation for six months and ordered •to refrain from drinking alcohol during that period. Costain was in custody awaiting sentence for the driving charge. Two Zurich area men, Christopher Groot and Robert P. Jeffrey, appeared to face charges of wilful damage. Groot pleaded guil- ty to two charges and was fined 1100 and placed on probation for three months. He was ordered not to drive a motor vehicle between the hours of 8:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. Jeffrey was given a suspended sentence and placed on probation for three Please turn to page 9 was to be sold. The property is on Paul Bunyan road south of Bayfield. Chris Kair, representing Vandecamp said it was thought the property could be easier to sell if severed in this way. Steckle said the purpose of the township's planning was. not for severances. Planned development is encouraged though, he «said, and he suggested It be redesigned under a plan of sub -division. Council voted to send grants to the Federation of Agriculture, $400, and the Farmer's Union, $100. The grant to the Huron Country Playhouse will be increased from $100 to $125 this year. The Cancer Research Socie- ty will be given $50. Council has already donated $100 to the Canadian Cancer Socie- ty. The village of Hensall re- quested a recreation grant, and Hensall, Clinton and Bayfield will each be granted $1,500. Zurich was earlier granted the same .amount, The rec cemmittee reported it would be chang- ing the locks at the ball dia- mond building to have all the locks match a single key. It also reported a local lodge had donated a set of baseball sweaters to be used by a township team. An advance payment of a subsidy from the Ministry of Transportation and Com- munications was received. The payment is to be $32,160. Council set May 28, at 8 p.m. as the time for a municipal drain report on the Lidderdale drain to be read. The clerk - rePorted no allocation for tile drain loans had yet been received, but there were more applications for loans than last year. Building permits for April include applications -to build three new houses, at an es- timated value of 1150,000. MOST APPROPRIATE -- While most of us were shooting pretty colors into the sky to celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday, promoters at HuIIy Gully had a few pretty colors chute down from the sky. Motorcycle fans got a chance to see two shows of skydivers during intf 1 missions in the racing.