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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1975-01-09, Page 1a • , 21'he ; inaugural meeting of Bayfife_l,FL *Village Council tools acet ie ,CoUr 0 Phambers on Monday evening, Jan.,. 6. Following the, Declaration of Oath. of Office.. • .taken by Res.te d mO ait'son 'Qouncillors • t' , McFadden, Donald 'Warner, Milvena rickson and- Frank Burch, blessings were , .00hed upon eouticil.,by Rev. James Red- doehc Rev. George ' Younnatot'f and Mon- • seiigneur .Bourdeau. Several residents were ;prese`nt `for the ceremony. talt� �,. ..... Reeve than thanked -Th -09e wJ o had part, welcomed the new councillor Frank Burch and greeted the older• council members. He outlined the agenda followed -at each meeting and presented each coun- • cater with a copy of the agenda and listed committees on which they would be ser - Several pieces . of correspondence were read by the clerk:• from the Ontario' Building Officials Assoc. stating"..each Municipality' should appoint an official to carry out duties provided in the building code, Bill 62, which will replace all. others in existence; from the ministry of environ- . ment on . Holmesville Land Fill Site, with a --complaint regarding the covering of household waste; from the ministry of labour. in respect, sto arena construction__ with a report to ie filled out -and.returned to tine rltinistr'; received t1 a annual report from the Atable-Bayf Old Conservation _from letter ,the Authority; :�;. rec�c.yed a ministry of environment acknowledging the Village's support of a resolution from the Township of. March with respect to the banning of non -refillable containers. Council, accepted an invitation frock the ministry of treasury and intergovernmental affairs to attend a seminar in Goderich on Thursday, Jan. 30 which is intended to Clinton, Ontario Police bust The Goderich Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police, working with the Clintdn Police Department, have broken up a gang of break -iib artists who were responsible for six cases of break, enter and thefts -at several local'biusinesses and slobs. The gang, which consisted of two men and a'woman, havebeen charged by the OPP and . Clinton police. .Two have been apprehended and. police are seeking a third a,l'dAc , �.•. provi a municipal officials with ififor, motion with 'respeot t provincial ministries that have operations at••affeet•. municipalities within eacii'County, Council perused a booklet, frotn- the Association of Q. Municipalities of Ont, dealing with po. icy guidelines, resolutions and co nstiitut ns and received a copy of a letter from Dry Dock Marina to Mr. Moffatt, Env,iranmelt Canada, .in respect tQ, their dissatisfaction over some of the aspects.of the South Shore development. Council was informed by the M.T.C. that an extra $2,000 for supplementary con- sttuction and $600 for maintenance had been allocated to the Village, • In Other business, Councillors McFadden and Warner will inspect -the Bayfield ,Library following a .complaint inrespect to the heating system frgm John Perry, sec- v, creae.'Qf' he-"il taxon County Public Library Board. Bayfield- also signed a contract for 1975 w:i,th. Mr. Bud Chamnley, Aq ;,tern or :the -removal of waste from the. Village and • accepted two letters of request for zoning (continued on page 1.2) break-in gang man. • ton youLci with careless driving in a first for Charged with possession of stolen goods . • Clinton. Last New Year's. Eve, Clinton is Judy Anderson of Clinton, who will police were involved in a high speed chase make a court appearance in February. with the youth, who was driving a A 15 -year-old Clinton juvenile boy, who snowmobile. was charged last month with two counts of An accident' on January 4 at 5 p,m. arson, nine counts of break and enter, and caused about $550 diamage when a car three counts of theft, was committed last driven by Thomas peeves. of Clinton spun Monday for an unspecified • time to the out of control and struck the Royal Bank Oak�'i'1'1,e"Reception and Assessierit Centre, —Building at the corner of Albert and Huron Police have charged -a 16 -year-old Clin- Streets. irmionsimimermwmw 25- cents Clinton News -Record Thursday, January'9, 1975 110th Year -No. 2 a Weather 1975 1974 HI 1.0 .- HI 10 JANUARY 1 3:3 26 - 23 16 2 :35 15 18• ' 11 3' :33 22 25 13 " 4 :37 26 23 16 5 • 30 10 26 5 6 :35 23 23 4 Snow - ,6" Snow . 7" uc.ke�smith reeve BY WILMA OKE ' At the inaugural meeting of Tuckemith council Tuesday night, Reeve Elgin Thom pson said he would like to see the township zoning bylaw changed to more reasonable one for the township. Mr. Thompson -said when the bylaw was ,passed, he had thqught, it was more flexible. Ile told of a former building lot two miles east of Brucefield, surrounded by "trees which was turned down recently for severance as a building sight by The Huron County Land Division Committee because it did not meet the terms of the township zoning bylaw. "People should not have to be crowded into a small village. Some like a little more privacy", Mr. Thompson said. He spoke of the small piece of land in Buliding111 The high cost of borrowing money is being blamed for the slump in building in Clion during 1974, after a record was set in• fl 973. Last year, only 75 permits worth $68.3,743 wre issued in Clinton, compared ;with a record $1,043,636 in 1973. By Jim Fitzgerald After waiting seven days, Clinton finally has a Centennial baby, The new arrival, a bouncing baby'boy, came into the world on • 'Tuesday night at 10:30 p.m. and is a son for Mr. and Mrs. Mark Kennedy of RR 1 Londesboro. wantsreasonable plan Egmondville which Miss Vera Pierce said she was willing to donate to council to be used as a park for children of4.lie jamlet:-0', Mr.. Thompson asked that a committee be planned to ready the property for a play park. - Mr. Thompson said—that he hoped at least one new bridge would be built in the Township 'providing the ministry of tran- sportation and communications came up with its share of the money'. He said he hoped another mite and a quarter of town- ship road would he built. Mr. Thompson said that work way progressing fine on the• swimming pool at Vanastra and he hoped it would be ready for use by spring. The Reeve said council ,would'ppoint a committee to set up the day care centre at Vanastra to be ready as soon as the gover- Clinion s * * * The area around Clinton and Goderich Township -will be highlighted on the CBC - TV program "Performance" this corning Sunday night at 9 p.m. The story is the now famous, ','Farm Show" written about the ✓ x p, his ,ar,ea.:b,„then TJ e e -.age; M ` `iiiille two ye-atar age:- it can be seen- on., KNX or CPPL-TV. nnient gives final approvement of the . totalling $21,212,.27, which ..included project. ro�ec . Vanastra Recreation Expenditures - He---concluded.-.b cautioning. council,_ $9,473.46, and road expenditures of I' -he ----road- -superintendent's—Eta to ry per year was raised to $11,000 from $9,500. Rates for road employees or other em- ployees of the Township were raised to $4 per hour for mechanics and grader operators, $3.80 for a grader operator, $3.25 - fbir open machine operator and other members of council. ."labourers,. $.3 per hour. Five home owners in Harpurhev atten- In, 1974 township taxes to be'collected :led the meeting to present a request for amounted to $470,024, of which 311/2 per -- street lighting in the Hamlet", Council will cent have not been collected to' date at ask Ontario ` lydi`r& to survey• the lighting Vanastra and seven percent over the rest of needs in the -->area as well as the cost of the ToWnship. There, are thirteen proper - providing lighting only at the three entran- ties -in the towrship presently- with three ces at ,Highway No. 8 • years taxes overdue; making them liable Passed for payment for tax stile later in the year; unless all the members that care Should "be taken in -how - the public's money should be spent. 4 believe we have always been careful", he said. Rev. Murdock Morrison presided over a short devotional period. The new member of Council, Robert Bell, took the oath of office along with the were accounts ws slump In 1974, only 11 new homes worth $337,000 were started in Clinton, compared\ to 28 permits worth over $700,000 in 1973. Mrs. Grant'Rath, Clinton's Building In- spector, said, that 75 per cent of the houses were started before last March. Mortgage rates started soaring about April last year. There were six building permits issued last year or $265,500 for industrial, com- mercial and institutional construction. Tops on the list were the new $150,000 facilities at the Fleming Feed Mill. About $5Q,000 is being spent on a new commercial We received many reactions; most .of hem positive, on .the __1875 front page we an last week as an opening to Clinton's entennial Celebrations. We should have xplained the idea more clearly, as •many eaders thought the News -Record was get - mg a new format, and they found it too and to read. * * * •If your haven't already heard, this area, ccording`to the weather offices in London nd Toronto, 'experienced its mildest ecember in nearly 50 years, even though e had our average amount of snowfall. he weatherman says the balloon will urst this weekend when sub -zero tem- ratures will return. * * * It shouldn't be too cold however next edilesday, January 15 when the Clinton entenri:ial Committee holds their _regular oirthly meeting at the Towne Hall at 8 .m.• * * * �If 'money slips too easily through your ngers, here's a..little joke you may or,may of appreciate: "We all know there are rms on money. But few of.us are exposed it long enough to .catch anything.” outlet for Hudie Lumber, and a $30,000 permit was issued for the new Ford dealer- ship on Highvjey 8 west. Other major per- mits were issued for Haugh Tiren Marcon Ready Mir, ,and the Fellowship , Bible .Chapel. In 1973, only $50,000 worth of industrial permits were issued. Last year, Clintonians spent $101,243 'ori 58 home improvements permits which in- cluded construction of five pools. In 1973, 49 permits worth a total of $93,000 were issued, including 10 pools. BeIIin-g at fire About $5,000 damage was caused toa house at 57 Gibbings Street last Friday af- ternoon when fire burned through one corner of the structure. The fire was ac- cidently caused by a workman's torch, Here Clinton firemen Harvey Carter, (on roof) Al- Finch; and BrtIce Schoenhals cut through the rod, fo put out the fire. (News-Recorrd, photo) taxes are paid up,..,_ Membership fees were paid to Ontario Good Roads Association ($25) and the On- tario Association of Rural Municipalities. The following two year appointments, were made - Reeve Elgin Thompson to represent the township- the . Ausauhle- Bayfield Conservation • Authority and the Hensall Fire Area Board; Victor Lee - to Seaforth Community Hospital Board; Councillor Cleave Coombs to Seaforth Fire Board; Deputy Reeve_Irvine Sillery to the Clinton, Fire ,Area Board and Councillor' Robert Bell - to he Tile Drainage Inspec- , tor. Named to the Vanastra Recreation Parks and Community Centre Boards for 1975 terms are - Reeve Thompson,Deputy (continued on page 12) ire burns Clinton home A fire last Friday afternoon at a house at 57 Gibbings Street in Clinton caused an estimated $5,000 damage and forced tem- porary evacuation of part.- of the. -home, which is divided into two apartments. The occupants of the - front apartment, Mrs. Mary Malpass and her three children, were forced to move out temporarily because of heavy smoke and water damage, and a charred room. The fire broke out at the house, which is owned by Harold Wise of Clinton, about 3 p.m. when a plumber, Dave Mustard was 4 Showing artist's touch The snow was of excellent packing quality over the Christmas holidays, so, Carolyn Guetter, 11i shown in picture, her sister Irene and brother George, along with. a cousin spent three hours sculpturing this elephant that sits in theqGuetter's front yard, Just north of Clinton. The pachyderm's knees grew a little weak during a recent thaw. and he started to lean. (News - Record photo) antam soldering a pipe in the bathroom of the front apartment. A torch Mr. Mustard was using acciden- tly touched some dried burlap that years ago had been stuffed in the floor, and •hefine`,'1Mir:rMastard could put it out with his fire extinguisher which he carries with him, the fire had raced over to a wall and up into' the ceiling. The Clinton 'Volunteer Fire Brigade quickly had the blaze under control, but had to cut a hole in the roof to get at the blaze. tourney The Clinton Recreation Committee's' Seventh: Annual Bantam Tournament begins tonight (January 9) with 46 teams slated to play 56 games in the seven day tournarnent which runs for two weekends. Action gets underway this Thursday and continues on Friday night, and all day. Saturday and Sunday. Championship games will be played next.. weekend, .January, 17, 18, and 19. For the second year in a row, the tour- nament is being played six weeks earlier becauseu organizers thought that the late February start of previous years was in conflict with many of the invited team's playoffs. on/ ti Chairman Len Fawcett has lined • tip some exciting matches with teams travelling to Clinton from , all over the - province. Included are teams from Hamilton, Brantford, Kingston, North Bay, London and parts of Toronto. One of the classes feature triple —A" teams that in past years have provided some excellent hqckey action. Action gets underway this Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. and this year each par- ticipating player will receive a Centennial Hockey Crest, which will also be on ,sale at the arena booth. Each team will also be served a light lunch following the games. Huron bd. hold inaugural At the inaaygural meeting of the Huron County Board ofEducation in Clinton last Monday, the trustees voted officially to confirm the election of Wilfred Shortreed of RR 1 Walton as chairman for 1975 and. Herbert Turkheim of Zurich as vice- chairman. They had been acclaimed at an organizational meeting in- December. - The steering committee composed of Alex Corrigan of RR 1, Bluevale, Clarence McDonald of Exeter, Mrs. Marion Zinn of RR 2 Lucknow, and chairman Shortreed -Pfesentett-h :fnitowirtgTnmmittees;-whieh were approved by the board: education committee,. Robert Elliott, Blyth; E. Cayley Hill, Goderich; Mrs. Mollie Kunder, Seaforth; Charles Rau, RR 2 Zurich; Charles Thomas, Brussels; Mrs. Dorothy Wallace, Goderich; and Mrs. Marion "Zinn, RR 2 Lucknow; management committee, J.P. Alexander, Wingham; Kenneth, Cooke, Clinton; Alex Corrigan; Harry Hayter. RR 2 Dashwood; Clarence McDonald; Rt •;art Peck, RR' 1 Zurich; and John Westbrook, RR 2 Clinton. Mrs. Kunder was elected chairman of the education committee and Mrs. Wallace vice-chairman by the committee members. Clarence McDonald was elected chair- man of the management committee and John Westbrook, vice-chairman, by the m committee mehers. In his inaugural address, Mr. Shortreed welcomed the three new member's, Robert Elliott,'Charles Thomas and Robert Peck, and spoke of the improved relations with teachers during the past two years giving credit to a small group of teachers and a small hoard committee, working well together. He said policies must he under review and up-to-date, special education classes for those with learning difficulties con - tintred and he hoped a committee could be named to study what can be done for those students with • exceptional abilities to promote their skills and caliabilities. Mr. Shortreed said the chairman's ad- visory committee was important and help- ful and he said he would like to see it enlarged to 'five . members, with the . im- mediate past chairman on the board which would give some continuity to the commit' • tee. Mr. Shortreed said there were still priibrems with n ►un'rcatinn--be€ween•4he•- - board and the public. •e commended`"`v'he weekly newspapers' press reporter for the work she did in providing a detailed report on what happens at the meetings. Mr. Shortreed said,, "I don't know how we're going to inform the public of what we do if they don't read the papers and if they don't come to meetings to hear what we do." Mr. Shortreed suggested , that perhaps the editors of the weekly papers and the daily paper he invited to attend one or ttvo meetings a year as a possible -solution of the communication problem. „ Mr. Shortreed suggested that the format of the meetings should be considered as last years chairman, Cayley Hill recom- mended in his farewell address as chair- man at the December meeting. He asked that the trustees take an active part in the meetings, to be frank and open and work as a team. I -le said that any trustee who was not satisfied with the ac- tion taken on. any problem, could ask that it be re -opened at of future meeting. He recounted how one trustee ,last year had been defeated twir`'e on one •'motion at a meeting and that when it was brought up again at a later date had succeeded in having his proposal approved.