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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Citizens News, 1981-07-23, Page 1THE MOONSHINERS ---- Enjoying a little white lightning and a free ride in the Zurich fair parc-e Saturday are (from left) Mark Laporte, Greg Overholt and Derreck Overholt. piev Good turnout, good show at Zurich fair • The Zurich Agricultural Fair is a small fair, but is great in spirit and dedication. So saying, Zurich reeve, and Huron county Warden Fred Haberer of- ficially opened the 117th Zurich fair. The fair got off to a good start Friday night with the opening ceremonies, a talent show and the crowning of the ' fair queen. In his welcoming remarks, Huron -Middlesex MPP Jack Riddell paid tribute to the agricultural society for preserving the traditions of the fair when so many other traditions have died out. "It's a pleasure to come out of .the hustle and bustle of Toronto to a quiet rural setting." the MPP said of his return to "good old Huron County." Haberer noted the fair was "so much a part of our com- munity" and commended the fair board for keeping the agricultural aspects of the fair while still making fair attendance popular to the modern tastes. During the talent show part ofthe evening the audience was introduced to the fair queen contestants, and later in the evening Jackie Bedard of Zurich was crowned as 1981 fair queen. Bedard, 16, was sponsored by the Hensall District Co- op. She was crowned by 1980 /04,kgy, i;4 fair queen Joanne McBride. Runner up in the contest was 17 year-old Kim Bedard. Also from Zurich, she was Please turn to page 2 zv • +v, •9 No. 29 'FIRST WITH LOCAL NEWS QUEEN'S JESTER — Brian Gillis of CFPL hams it up with newly crowned Zurich fair queen Jackie Bedard, 16, of Zurich. JULY 23, 1981 Price per Copy 25 Cents Council discusses pavillion duties The agreement between the Ausable-Bayfield conser- vation authority and the Zurich village council con- cerning the Zurich park was again the topic of council's attention at the July meeting Wednesday. Councillor Bob Fisher wondered aloud who would pay for gas and tractor ex- penses. garbage bags and collection, and maintenance of the washrooms by the pic- nic pavillion. He said community centre manager Jerry Rader had been doing much of. the work, but that the recrea- tion. parks and community centre board had not put these items in their budget. Reeve Fred Haberer said this was one of the things that wasn't clear yet, who will do the work. He noted "all maintenance including pumping out of the toilets is our responsibility." "Someone has to be designated, he said, to take care of the pavillion area. Haberer also wondered who 'was in authority to designate use of the pavillion as a large family reunion was held at the park last week. He maintained though that Beanfest schedule set as advertising beains With the 125th anniversary celebration slowly passing into memory and the 117th annual Zurich Fair, history, the community is beginning to anticipate the 16th annual Zurich Bean festival. Festival committee chair- man Chuck Erb said the committee has lined up "probably the best enter- tainment we've ever had." Entertainment this year includes a dance Friday August 21. The music of Spirit will kick off this year's festival with a dance planned especially for the teens in attendance. As in other years, the festival itself is held Satur- day. This year's edition begins with the traditional pancake and sausage breakfast at 7 a.m. Satur- day. August 22. Other entertainment planned for Saturday in- cludes a magician and barbershop singers during the day and the Bean festival dance tops off the weekend, Saturday evening. ` Some 15.000 people attend- ed last year's festival to par- take of homecooked beans and ham dinners. Planners hope to include an old fashioned bean salad with this year's meal. As in other years malls will be set up along Zurich streets and the Canadian horseshoe pitching cham- pionship will be held Satur- day afternoon. brochures on this year's festival are available now in Zurich and other area businesses. And again. as in other years. volunteer help is always needed and will be appreciated.. Festival events include: A Friday night teen dance to the music of "Spirit". The dance begins at 9 p.m. at the community centre.' Saturdays ekents are: 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. old fashioned breakfast with pancake and homemade sausage served in the street by the Zurich Minor Athletic Association members. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. — home cooked beans: throughout the day healthy servings of home -cooked beans, served with tasty sliced ham. 12 noon to 1 p.m. -- horseshoe pitching registra- tion followed by the Cana - Please turn to page 2 the pavillion area would have to be kept clean or peo- ple would treat it like a junkyard. • Fisher asked if a list of items the arena is responsi- ble for could be drawn up for next's year's budget plan- ning. Clerk Sharon Baker reminded council that the village had not yet officially taken over the park, but that she would ask Rader to keep the costs of maintaining the pavillion seperate for next year's planning. Fisher also reported for the parks board that he had received complaints about foul balls being batted over the backstop at the ball dia- mond. He said he would be look- ing into the purchase of a net _or an extention to the ex- isting backstop to prevent the problem. Leroy Thiel suggested a line of trees be planted behind the diamond both for shade and to divide the playground from the dia- mond area. Council also passed the minutes of the Zurich hydro and water system. This in- cluded approval of the in- stallation of a streetlight in the commercial area next to the Mothgack subdivision. Baker pointed out the mo- tion would be written to say the light was in the commer- cial area, as it is village policy for subdivision developers to pay for the costs of streetlighting in residential areas. A good portion of council's time was taken up in processing correspondence, including resolutions from other councils. Zurich council approved a resolution from the united townships of Bangor, Whickglow and McClure, urging governments to allow tax arrears to be collected, by tax sale if necessary, within two years rather than the current three year period. Baker pointed out that if there was a hardship, the council could write-off taxes due. It would not necessarily mean kicking someone out of their homes she said. Thiel asked if the. "written -off" taxes would be assigned to the property even though they weren't be- ing collected. Baker said they were not. And Thiel pointed out the house could be sold later at a profit by people who hadn't paid taxes. A resolution from the township of Kingston was fil- ed. It asked for the provin- cial government to in- vestigate other methods of education finance to ease the municipal tax burden. Councillor Isidore Laporte advised the council to file it. "-We elected all the porfessionals to handle it," he said. What the hell are we doing?File it." "Who are we to tell the hot -shots in Toronto what to do." Thiel said. A town of Techumseh resolution got village ap- proval as it requested lower inflation rates. Laporte shrugged and said council might as well spend some more money and do something about inflation. Thiel disagreed, calling the resoluiton and resolutions in general, gar- bage. Haberer said many resolutions do get incor- ported into government policy and there was oc- casionally feed back on the resolutions. But Haberer may have agreed with Thiel when he Please turn to page 2 LEADING THE PARADE -- vehicle in the Zurich agricultural fair parade Saturday. Zurich fair queen, 16 -year-old Jackie Bedard rode the firct