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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1975-10-09, Page 1Ot. ".AEN"�niPx By W meek* the councils of'"I ckersmith and Sia loy T hips will aSk the ministry of corn, maty d :s to conduct n Or a MOW cions' itta ao�th ps, r smut rit of Stanley Township, in a letTuesday night asked the "ckersmith Council if it was intereSted in the survey, Mr. Grp reported that Stanley has had correspondefICP with the Ministry It was suggested that several ottmlOipailties might Wider the con- struction of a 35 -,apartment unit. Bracefield was considered as a possible sight as it is situated on the boundary line of the' toweships. The government pays all the building cats send 92.5 percent of the deficit of operating costs plus a grant in lieu oftaxes for this type of housing. Tuckersmith Clerk James McIntosh reported there are 12 children registered at the Vanastra Day Care Centre. Two of them are from Seaforth and some from another municipality, which one he was not sure, but thought it might be Goderich Township. Mr. McIntosh was instructed to write to the neighbouring. municipalities--Seaforth; Clinton and the townships of Stanley, Goderich. Hullo,. and McKillop to ask them to assume 20 percentof the deficit for any child from the 1 municipality. The . government pays 80 -percent of the deficit. At the previous meeting of council, Robin Gates, a member of ihe'Day Care Board. had the would be a deficit unto were 43 childre.n. registered. errs +fid are hopeful more chime will be registered soon. Mass Karen McEwing, the director of the Care Centre, which Opened on Sep- tember 27, asked Council to set her salary and benefit,program, and the same for her staff. Members of Council were annoyed that her salary had not been set when she was hired by the Day Care Board. "This should have an been done before she was hired" deputy Reeve Irvin Siilery said. Councillors Bert Branderhorst and 'Cleave Coombs, ,council members on the Day Care Board, said they were not notified of the meeting when Miss MeEstlin was hired. miss cEwing asked for $3,900 to start; $k500 at the end of three months. and $8.990 at the end of (he first gear. For her staff member, she asked starting salary of $.5140 and earn creases for her and also for any additional staff members in the future, as well as support staff.salarles which she suggest start at $2.40 per hour. She asked ter n salary review every six months and a coat of living clause and Sick -benefits. A final saw agreement is expect to be signed at the next meeting of the Day Care ward when details will be worked. out. Huron County board of education members Monday rejected a request from the Huron County Singles Club to rent the auditorium at Seaforth District High School for a New Years Eve dance. The- club request asked that permission be given to serve alcoholic beverages at in Clinton crash One person is dead and three others were injured as a result of a three car collision last Sunday, October 5 at 10:50 p.m., on Highway 4, one half mile south of Clinton. Dead is Calvin Pressey, I7c of RR. 2, Kippen. Injured is Marsha Elizabeth Pressey, 13, sister of the deceased, Mrs. Hazel Weber, 52, of RR 3, W"ingham and her husband, Irwin Keith Weber, 53. !Pass Pressey and Mrs. Weber are in the Clinton Public Hospital with possible concussions. Mr. Weber is in University Hospital in London with a broken neck and back injuries. Mr. Weber, towing a house trailer behind his vehicle, and a vehicle- driven by Michael A. Redmond, 22, of RR 5, Goderich were heading northbound on Highway 4. The vehicle driven by Calvin Pressey was heading southbound when a nor- thbound vehicle collided with the Pressey vehicle. OPParestill investigating the accident. the proposed function. In au oxtin�e request, Seaforth trustee Molly ex said other county boards permitted alcoholic beverages in schools for special ,occasions, She added that the Leeds and Grenvtlle County boaids of education have a policy statement allowing this type of activity for special occasions only. The Eastern Ontario group said they do not approve of alcoholic consumption on school premises but do make special exceptions for service clubs and community organizations. The Singes cjub letter suggested that revenue from the dance and bar, after expenses, could be given to a local service club or for arena renovations in Seaforih. The group in the past has made donations .to the Victorian Order of Nurses and bought equipment for the kitchen at Vansastra. Board vice-chairman, Herb Turkheim, said an Ontario Select Committee on the utilization (if educational facilities has recommended that sale of alcohol be perknittedin schools. • Turlheim added that a specjal Huron Board committee in examining the use of school facilities had rejected the alcohol Propasai- The request with alcohol privileges was defeated in a board vote with Mrs. Kunder the only one approving the move. It was agreed the school couldbe used for the dance but the alcohol ban would stay in effect, A pile of rubble isall that's left on Hlgh r 4 on Monday morning .following a three car crash late Sunday night -that claimed the life of a Klppen youth and lured three others. Provincial police are still inveatigatittg the ate d t bat wrecked a trailer towed by one d the cars. It occurred one-half mile south of Clinton. (News - Record photo) Council may pick-up leaves Falling leaves blew into the Clinton council meeting again last Monday night and council may enforce an anti -burning By Jim Fitzgerald • .The perfect fall weather of the last week has the local farmers jumping for joy as they can at last get their corn and bean crops off and even bale some late hay. We are more fortunate, around`here than many farms we saw around Elmira on a drive last Sunday. They have had their grain cut for a month and much of it was still not combined. +++ Many are hoping the fine weather 'con- tinues through the Thanksgiving weekend, with Monday a holiday. but with our luck it twill likely snow. + # f That annual burning question has sur faced in Clinton again with everybody taking sides on whether to burn leaves, mulch them or rake them up and send theirs to the dump. Town council expressed interest in having a leaf collection, but with a heavy pall of acrid,idack smoke hanging over the town atready.the leaves will have all been burned by the time council takes anyaction. Quote of the week: "When a man says he bas a clear conscience, it often means he 'whoa r+�s a bad memory." 'ttJ!e'r'e glad to report we a still have wrt on hand and with the strike t set in British Columbia, the senit look so gloomy. 8t t likely sooner have the Ontario paper k in operation when a postai I prevent the papers from ming bylaw and pick-up the leaves instead. That was the concensus council came to, but no definite course of action was taken:. Councillor James Hunter said that if burning leaves was banned, council was obligated to provide a special pick-up day for bagged leaves. In other business connected with gar- bage. council decided that it won't accept anymore verbal complaints on garbage pick-up unless they are in writ ng and are sent to the clerk or Reeve Harold Lobb, who is chairman of she sanitation and waste committee. Public Works- dhairman Ernie Brown told counct% `that some sidewalk may be laid this falirf the.weather stays nice. Mr.. Brown informed council that an agreement has been worked out with contractor Bud Kuehl on a storm sewer in Wintercourt, and he and Deputy -Reeve Cook were not satisfied with the drainage situation at the new senior citizens' apartments on Ring Street and wanted the council going down on record as being unhappy with it. Industrial chairman Burt Lobb told council that it , could cost the town nearly 510.000 an acre to set up an industrial park in tpvvn. , Councillor Lobb leaned those facts at an urban development meeting sponsored by the County. Frank Cook is on the com- mittee. which is seeking to attract more industry to Huron. Mr. Lobb said discussion also centred around Clinton annexing part of the surrounding townships and Vanastra. In another move, cou cil refused, en the prodding of Councillor Hunter, to 'pay a 52,500 bill from the PUC because the hill had no itemized account. Another request by Mr. Hunter to have an agenda for all council meetings met with mi3ed reaction, and further study will be radgpn the matter. An application for severance was granted tato K. W. Colquhoun for a duplex on Huron Street, and building permits were granted to William Falconer, addition. 56,000; Wayne rupee, addition, 5400; and Torn Coiquhounn, addition, 55.000. Brian Cook, chairman of Conestoga Colge, Clinton Centre. announced Friday to members of Huron County Council that the facilities at Vanastra will not be closed as *as feared. "There is no doubt the coil'ege will continue in operation in Huron County." Mr. Cook said. "We are not as seriously off as we originall=y thoght and I don't expect a change in geographical location or operattaa ' • Rumor of the college fecilitie s Locating elsewhere in the county were not untrue in the past. Mr. Cook suggested alternative ,facilities had been seught, but were unavailable either in Clinton or t ioderich. The ' college is providing a valuable educational role its the county. Mr. Cook told council. He said in the past year" Clinton Centre had graduated 10 from secretarial programs: 10 from cashier - teller courses: 12 certified visiting homemakers: 50 from 40 -week courses in academic upgrading and commercial ; and 103 others in continual education courses such as accounting. real estate. interior design etc. Looking to the future. Conestoga Clinton campus hopes to offer machine shop and weld me ,.ssr.ies next year.' A new cover on the county's official plan. That was the opinion of Huron County Councillor Bill Elston when council members discussed the culmination of two years of study into the ramification of urban development in rural areas (UDIRA). Similar opinions were ex- pressed by other mernbers of council concerning the report entitled Countryside Planning. The $110,000 report was presented to county council Friday for "discussion only 'to enable planning , board to make recommendations", County Planning Director Gary Davidson told members. Prepared by J.F. Maclaren Consultants Ltd. of Lydon, the report concentrated on the three main land uses in the county - agriculture. urban, and recreation, The study was financed through 80 percent •provincial government money and 2) percent Huron County funds. It is , the first time that land use planning from an agricultural perspective has been studied in the province. Huron was chosen as a pilot study area because it was the first rural county to adopt an official county plan. Goderich Township Reeve Gerry Ginn. however, didn't feel there was much new or helpful in the study. In fact, according to Reeve Ginn, the study only confused him more than ever concerning land use planning for Huron. "I thought this study would look at planning from a rural point of view." Ginn told council. " don't think this does." Reeve Ginn had plenty of questions to ask concerning what fs contained in the report. Most important, he wanted to know how the planners proposed to restrict growth in villages and harntets while allowing towns to grow as quickly and as large as necessary. Gary Davidson told him that villages and hamlets would expand with their abilities to provide services. He said that growth ire the village would come from the area's around them and it would not be "ex- ceedingly fast", while growth in the towns would be encouraged, Reeve Fred Haberer of Zurich called villages an "important arm" in the county cmunity. He charged that the Maclaren study was a "rural report and a big town report', but had nothing of value Clinton's newest councillor. Helen Tench. right. was sworn into office by Clerk Cam Proctor last Tuesday morning, after she was elected to the post Monday night by council. She replaces Don Hall who reiigned in June to move to Chatham, Mrs. Tench said she was surprised at council's move to elect her. (News -Record photo) Women named to council In a surprise move last Monday night, Clinton council elected Helen Tench to fill a vacancy on council. Mrs. Tench, 52. was chosen from four candidates nominated to the post to fill a vacancy left when Don Hall resigned in June and moved to Chatham. A public accountant, Mrs. Tench won the seat on the third open ballot, defeating former councillors Ab Shaddick, Russ Archer, and Bill Crawford. Mrs. Tench had finished eighth in a ten man race for the six council seats last December, and had asked for and received a recount in hopes of moving into seventh position behind Bill Stauttener,.but the five vote difference stood. Mr. Stauttener was approached but refused the position. Mrs. Tench, who has attended many of the council meetings in the past two years and was at one time a thorn in council's to offer the villages and hamlets of the ' county. The study Makes two major recom- mendation.s. One is that urban develop- ment should be onto poor quality farmland when it is necessary to expand; the second is that it provides the five county towns with room to grow in a specific radius around them and that .within this circle. thew growth should be orderly and predictable. Farmers with property within the growth area of one of the five towns would have 10, 20 and 30 year assurances, the report suggests. with the farmers on the outer perimeter of the growth circle having the 30 -year assurance and the permission to remain on their farms for the remainder of their lives if that were their wish. Reeve Warren Ztnn of Ashfield was concerned about the "old . surveys" scat- tered throughout the county. "Building is going on but it doesn't seem to be going on correctly," Reeve Zinn observed. "How does this plan control that?" Planning director Davidson said the initial step would be to determine boun- daries and then control development. Bayfield Reeve Ed Oddleifson argued there was "nothing in the report about specific areas for development". He was particularly concerned about recreational land use along the lakefront. He learned that for the present at least. agricultural land was considered more important than recreational land side, was very surprised to find herself now on council. She was sworn into her new post on Tuesday morning by Clerk Cam Proctor. In other business, council is having engineering studies done on the recon- struction and ;having of four, one;biock streets in town. Depending on money availability, one block of Rattenbury, Joseph. John and Wellington could be paved next year. Council was also in full agreement about putting two street lights on two poles, on John Street next to the hospital to light up a nighttime parking area that is subject . to vandalism. Two • tenders for police uniforms s were accepted. Campbell's Men's Wear will supply shirts, gloves etc. for 51.452.20. and Aikens will supply boots and rubbers for 5247.54. Chief Westlake was also given another $54-45 for his petty cash fund. One specific area of development in- terested Reeve Ginn. He wanted to know what "scenic easement development" was and he learned that where scenic easement development was in effect, there was a fee paid to the landowner to permit public access to -a particularly scenic or natural beauty spot. As Warden Anson McKinley curtailed discussion on the report, he reminded council this was only the first of 'many opportunities to debate this document, It now goes back to the planning board for study and recommendation before coming Wel to the council chambers at a later date. At the Hull tt ownship Council meeting held Monday e t ming, October 6. a motion was passed close up and sell. a portion of an unopened road allowance in Auburn. In other business. the council will comply with the ..request of three petitioners to clean out the Pollard Municipal drain. A motion, was passed to apply for a government subsidy on the sidewalk the council laid in Londesboro. It was also decided to advertise for tenders for snowplowing in the Township. - Council is also going to advertise for a tractor and mower to cut the grass on W Winship property CHS els u o✓shop A maintenance • workshop at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton Is ex- pected to be belt within the next two weeks. At Monday's regular meeting: the board acted a bide from Cale Doucette of Clinton to construct a 24 feet by 36 feet block construction building with a heighth of 10 feet. Doucette's bid of $5,745 was the lowest of two received. The Clinton contractor in- dicated he was prepar'eMd^ to start int - mediately + rs tlreproject