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Ilie, releasedthe "ming' , .. , alcoholessential health care services of basic and
and addiction tion unit' has guarantee a continuationoa int,,
on December 23 Concerning and treating a tuurnov
been admitting � Perth and Bruce Counties as provided by
Of GrPH, proposed for April 1, of Sig patients per week. As Of April 1, all .
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detoxification and treatment services the Goderieh Psychiatric Hospital.
wall cease» "Barring. that guarantee, the facility
'lr`rank Miller to close the "Forensic . aychlattcin services, must continue to operate,"
G+6derich F yehiatric Hosplttsi ham been t referrals at
made While an gtvea:�• ti�na►e will Mase six
de without -consideration for' handling five .oar scour Ali con .services.. �ha a . y - �tio. dies
pacovsion _ot alternatel i send= ;Mailable to other
the �ecotnorriic repent � such as the
lcrtiral cerrnnnwnity are' --ser R and school boards
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ussiuns in a largely su ilii
taus m them community agencies s Iwo are injured
s t loss of mental health, services .Children's laid :society a t of
t�elwe . the
to Huron, Perth and southern Bruce will cease. Geriatric services fordmos crash
aunties is. a severe blow to community - the area nu rsing homes will be ter -
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health inthese areas
, urinated.
"The Ministry► s plan to transfer. the "The Heather Gardens facility for One man was killed and two women
facility to the ministry of Gem inunity ,chronic psychiatric patients at Vanastra were injured in a head-on 'car accident
and Socia! Services for use as a resource
will leave 70 and a predicted 1400patients near Londesboro on Tuesday evening,
;centre for the mentally retarded is without psychiatric support services. December 23,1975.
Community links in Bingham and Patrick S. Cooper. 19. of Disley Street
lilulieti hopes
o buikI new shed
Fifty thousand dollars was allocated to
a special fund for building a township
at heyn the near future, it was decided
final meeting for 1975 of Hulett
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Township Council. The meeting was held
December 15, with. alt members present.
In other- business, a' contra;.. was
renewed with Bud Chamner of auburn
for garbage collection at Londesboro at
the same price,. f or° l9i6.
A. building permit Was issued to John
Wattimes .: L�1►t ` 412, Concession 7, for a
house; subject to' township bylaws and
the health unit.
A petition, given by Gordon Haggart
and others for a drain, was accepted by
council and the clerk will be notifying
the Maitland Valley Conservations
Authority. Y .
An extension was granted to Keith
Beckman on the Bowes Drain and the
Wallace Drain. Council realized that this
work tnuist be done as soon as conditions
allow in the spring, preferably by early
June 1976.
Accounts paid included: 'general,
$11,758.22; education tax. 584,101.89;
roads, 521,998.31: county, tax, 589,243,05:
• police village of Manchester (Auburn).
$1.496.00: arid drainage. $26,809.29.
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E t will cease to function. in Blyth, was pronounced dead at the
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"All marriage and famtily counselling another vehicle driven by Marilyn Sch-
services will no long, be available. The mah*. 22, of Geraldton. Lisa Schmah, 61,
Ministry has issued no public statement was a passenger in the car.
regarding the future of psychiatric The women had cuts and bruises, but
support services: including paid staff. at were released from Clinton Public -
the psychiatric clinic for the Stratford -Hospital the same night.
General H.ospitat- The accident occurred on Highway 4.
"The hospital is also involved in job' one-half mile north of Londesboro.
placements for physically and mentally ° Damages were estimated at $1,500 to
handicapped and has been working with each car.
Starts jan. 9
`' scene after his car hit head-on with
antam'
tourney still -on
Despite the handicap -of a month-long
postal strike, Len Fawcett, chairman of
the Clinton Recreational Committee's
bantam hockey tournament, Managed to
line up n excellent card again this year.
' 'The eighth annual affair gets un-
derway next weekend on Friday,
January 9, and the six day tournament
will run next weekend, and Saturday and
Sunday, January 17 and 18.
Because of the October postal strike,
which stopped the. incoming entries, Mr.
Fawcett has lined up 29 teams to play 43
games. Last year, 46 teams played `56
games- •
For the- third year in a row, the
tournament is being played six weeks
earlier because organizers thought that
the late February start of previous years
was in conflict with many of the invited
teams' playoffs.)
Chairtnan. Fawcett has lined up some
exciting matches with teams travelling
to Clinton from all over the province.
including Brantford, London, Kingston,
Chatham. and Oshawa.
The Double 'A' and Triple - 'A'
championships will be held the• first
weekend , ion January 10 and 11, while
the other 'championship finals in 'A'
through to `E' will be played on January
1i and 18, -
Action gets underway next Friday.
January 9th at 6 p.m and each team
will also be served a light lunch
following the games.
One of the hitlights.at the Varna Sunday School Christmas
concert held -recently in the Township Hall at -Varna was the
arrival of Santa Claus, who was greeted by doyens of eager
*youngsters from the Varna and Goshen United Churches.
(photo by- Mary Chessell)
By Mrs- Bill C hessell ,
The township hall in Varna
was fitted to capacity for the
annual ' ` Sunday School
Christmas Concert. Rev.
• Alex: Taylor was master of
ceremonies. and George
itson gave the welcoming
speech. There were the usual
songs. recitations, and skits,
with the little ones hamming
it up and stealing the show.
Two of the funnier skits
•
were by the interrediates
Offing g. on a Varnavitle
Christmas concert. with most
of -the group singing off-key.
and Santa, played by Paul
Consitt, arriving at the wrong
time: and the reading of the
Varna news in the local
weekly by an -old couple.
played 'by Bill Dowson and
Debbie Rathwell.' Their
comments on the news and on
Couny o planner
Iaet�re ear`e o as't►cactivity around McClinchey's
ern `tore and lunch co
h
unter, had
had star billing county "more than shows on the sur- - the county government or a change the audience roaring with
The planning boardrovincialle legislation. when Huron County Council met for its . face sjnCe many county employees provincial
� a of the county plan
laughter. The
were involved in it,. taking time from would give revision effective th landccounty
plan
Fist 1975 seseion ;in the county chambers their regular duties,
Friday, December 19. The im- He reiiuinded council. that because,of policies at both the subdivision and
.plennentTeep of the countryside its zeal - to curtail strip development, consent level, the time this would take
d bate too wgs the main item for le were buying up entire farms. must be weighed -against the time lost in
ounty and it took the entire morning for People
discuss it. '`I think this is a greater concern to developing basic Weal land use controls.
countyBy councillors however, to i had been agriculture in the county than perhaps This time loss is a direct a e siece
sial
adopted noon. pthe report strip development may have been; localized secondary plans eoy principle as aguide for Coca! warned Hayter. He congrt ulated required under the. approach developed
secondary plans to Huron. It was agreed Goderich Township for including estate in the study.
the county planning board and county _ The tut' to the county plan, then, is the
council would take an active role in planning in their secondary plan;
secondaryplans and that the , Bill. Elston, warden at the time of secondary planning,. As the process now
reviewing study was begun, told council he don- operates, neither the county nor the
secondary planning process now in
operation would be continued until a sidered the main purpose for the study focal municipality caw over -ride the
tannin program has been had been to plan housing developments other. The county ylaw and rep enforce a
basic planning P on land that was not much good for secondary plan it
established for all municipalities.nagriculture. He said he had spent a good on the municipality.
ti1t was further agreedlanithat untilsuch
has g council
tanning program deal of time with S.H. Janes of James F. On the other hand, as the coup y
beenen establishedsaa basicP MacLaren Limited, showing him the plana ng bard and the county
for allmunicipalities,ihcountyt of land available in rural coin- must approve secondary plans as
or until there is a change in the yt�,
tructure ,or • provincial munities for urban -type development. amendments to the - county plan, t e
planning legs '•W a in `Morris. Township need this municipality cannot unilaterally alter
planning legislation. no attempt will - extra revenue from this kind of the general guidelines of the county
,. recess is one which requires
made to redo the county official pian development," Reeve Elston said. He plan.The p
Besides this, county council had P
decided that' plans would be domplained that the study hadn't spelled mutual
the preparation tion.
of the secondary
perspective out the areasin the county that could be
grouped according to the Perspe plan is initiated at the local level and
areas of ' the Countryside Planning utilized for such urban -type building. approved at the total level prier to
e ^ort (Urban. agricultural or, Warden' Anson McKinley explained pp
le p' that the study was a -reasonably good submission to , the county, the local
recreational) grou with one planner assigned guide- With some aspects • of the plan municipality alto the s the effective ss. be "
#o each group to pursue secondary plans g
within the group based on the existing usable, and some not. •' says -Mr.
It would be nice to have a report that capable of inrplennentation,
pfiority system. gives us all the answers." said Warden Davidson. '"Like all laws. a plan relies and
in this regard. county council agreed McKinley. "The only trouble is we all on p
wouldn't agree:*e tante It rs therefore.
to hire George Penfold, an agriculturalGinn of Goilerich
.- engineer with the Ministry of Reeve Gerry •
Agriculture and Food. Clinton. as an Township expressed his concern for
additional planner. Mr: Penfold is a ,designating certain p:antlers• for certailr.
provisional member of the Canadian areas. Gary Davidson agreed this could
Institute of Planners. it was learned become a problem, especially. if one
"froth Gary Davidson, Huron . County planner tended to dump'"ti s problerns
PlanningDirectror. onto another ,area rather than treating
"Mr. Penfoid's salary will be $16,500 per the thing as a planing whole. But he
annum with duties to commence added that,ftime is an important factor.
February 1.1976, then it is almost necessary to give up
The countryside planning report was something in order to speed up the
prepared by James F. MacLaren planning process.
Limited. consultants. According to it was pointed out ley Mr. Davidson in
many county officials, the study and its his , report to c . cil* that the county
findarias"wtere "disappolntang plan's control ,eland use is • indirect.
former warden now titres
use is controlled g
Goshen Sunday
School . contributed several
recitations and musical
numbers, and there was a
drill by the Majorettes, led by
Mrs. Bob Hayter.
Children "of- both Sunday
Schools joined to Lead the
singing of carols until Santa
arrived to distribute the gifts.
The concert committee
consisted of Mrs. Barry
Taylor. Mrs. Don Taylor and
Mrs. Don Rathwell, with Mrs.
Doug McAsh at -the piano.
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Elmer Hayter,, a �trot .a zoning bylaw
serlving as chairman of the eounty land bylaws, not plans...
division conitrnittee, expressed his much
in order or effem to the ctive planning control
cra ncern to county COMICtl,
••l understoodthe report.would be. to exist the Inca' municipality must
more specific than it turned out to be." prepare a local secondary plan. and then Usbornc. East Wawanosh and Vi�est
said Mr. Hayter. a bylaw. ft is this process that many Wawanosh.
Hayter said the report was local moniCisalitieg are now in. The five towns and • the five villages
Mir, flay
tired "high paid personnel" Miro The revision of the county plan based townships uty �1ong nth l�akes.-a Ashfield.
•ail 80' perccc by the province and on the appriich ,srtd policies of the, > ' . ` ' Startles P d
paidThe Stanley Countryside Planning Report. %% told not f coiborne. Gude rich Hay
rpt, i t by the county. itu tion, 11t r-anl only tar. Stephen etre artsid redrc re tri+ stat
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far � d , he fa � ;panties. .,+_. .
nship ' �ntdt't t�, l Vit' dby basic "bonge in tits, Ir `tw, t,, moots
ithis
t#etif►trt ` the `t y had r� .. ..
heavilypublic acceptance
voluntary compliance. • , ,
essential that the local. residents and
their council understand the plan and
believe that it represents the best long
term future interests of their com-
munity. If the plan doe not have this
local commitment. it will not be ef-
fectively implemented."
".From, the discussion of local
s' fid try --plans, l would recommend
that the process of doing local secondary
plans involving local initiation and
active participation be continued, with
the county taking a more a+etiwe role in
thte review to ensure county wide policies
are maintained," added Mr. Davidson.
There are ten agricultural
municipalities in the county. according
to the country side planningpor"t• They
are Grey Howlett Willett, McKillop,
Morris. Tuckersmith, Turnberry.
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