HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1976-06-03, Page 1Clinton council last Thursday night
Ow out a controversial fee schedule
set up by the recreation committee, but
told ate committee they could go ahead
and negotiate on their own new fees with
various groups and clubs in town who
use the park and arena facilities.
open meeting
,e nearly tour -hour,
featured at times some very "lively*
,
discussion, and centered around the rec
ommittee's right raise money to
cover their proposed$133,0 budget, of
hich$75,comesfrom the taxpayers.
Rec chairman Len Fawc said after
e meeting that the co ittee would
fit down with each gro and discuss a
fee levy that everyone and fair.
"This was just a oposai in the first
,lace," parks ch man Bill Crawford
laid. "We justwanted to initiate some
discussion...
al points
Among the most controversi
c. fees, td,
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a ro sal to rent for the auditorium, a $400 yeatlY
of the fee schedule was ki pa' grant each from the fair board a
charge the Kinsmen two percent of the
ass handle for the using of the park on turf club for two barns. a $10 per game
&r
$16,000
and the
Sundays, which would amount to about
per year.
The
y wanted School o
The rec committee however.
to- take over the $3,500 cleaning bill for
the park from the Kinsmen.
Council last month decided to urge
the Kinsmen $2,000 a year to cov r in-
surance and track grading costs, but the
rec committee has to pay the insurance,
and say they never
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The rec committee also wants a $6►000
government recreation grant to be put
on their budget. instead of going into the
town's general coffer.
Among the other fees that the rec
committee will have to negotiate are a
$150 a day rent for the arena floor, a $400
a dart rent for the whole park, a $75 a day:
in Stanley, Tui
t0 all juvenile age and over clubs
e bal diamonds,°and a SIO per
:Marge to reserve the picnic area.
The Huron County board of education
is sending out a letter to parents of
school students living in Tuckersmith
ani-- Stanleyinschool baundargthe
ie m
possible changes n
the county.
The letter reads as follows: •
"A committee studyag school
boundaries in the county is attempting
to
inform residents of enrolment problems
that exist. it should be noted that no
arbitrary decision is being made at this
time, b
solicited before any final decision is
made.
"Because of declining enrolments in
some schools, and overcrowding in
others, the board has appointed a
committee to study school boundaries in
the county.
"As you are aware, there has been a
large influx of pupils from Vanastra
during the past few years. These pupils
are attending Clover overcrowded conditionsPublic
atl.
is
has resulted in
at that school, to the point where one
portable classroom has been added, and
the need for more additional space is
becoming evident.
"At the same time, Hensal.i Public
School has experienced a large decline
in enrolment over the
nod at years.
Enrolment has also
Public School.
but
that parental opinion will be
t married 50 gears
The Sign, "*Just Married, 50 Years Ago" adorned a town last truck
St at t took k Mr. and
Mrs. James East of Clinton through the streets
of in celebration of their 58th wedding anniversary. News -Record photo)
By Jim Fitzgerald
-• Municipal services in Clinton have
certainly taken a turn for the better in
the lastyear, as first a new fire hall was
constructed (or renovated) and the
lice department then got long overdue
.ry
new quarters. The police station was Holmes united the two in marriage.
"Officially opened two weeks ago, and
now the Clinton Area Fire Board are The couple
wererried refaredetdethay was
..they
wing an open house and official had to be
ening of their spacious new building ready to be cut. and that after the
Huron Street next Saturday, from 2 to wedding, they returned to the farm to fix
'4:..m. and from 7 to 10 p.m. The firemen fences in a poem . written by their
p daughter-in-law. Mrs. Harold East. The
Will be on hand to explain the workings was read during a reception at the
Of the "extinguished brigade", and the poem
Fids can even sit in the big red trucks Vanastra Recreation Centre last
and try on one of those funny hats.., Saturday night.
efreshments will also be served.
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May, 1976 was almost a complete
�ntrast to last year, the weather office
ports. This year, instead of summer
armth, May was cloudy, wet and cool
Month, with snow being recorded on
three days, the third, sixth. and 18th.
ere was only 75 percent of the normal
shine hours, while precipitation was
ellabove the average. All in all, a very
iiscouraging month for farmers,
rimers, and gardeners.
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But now that June is here. things are
ireaO looking much brighter. and the
t weekend in the sixth month always
Ings the Clinton Spring Fair, which
raises to be another humdinger. See
there this Friday, Saturday. or
ttnday. + + +
e News -Record is helping observe
re a Student Week" this year, as are
rter for the
may chant
rsm%th twps
SF _ committee is of the opinion that
fa;ilies in the southern' part of
eramith and Stanley townships
wUd agree to have their children at-
tend Hensel or Zurich Public School if
heir home is closer to one of those
sebools than to''Huron Centennial School.
"If these pupils did attend -Hensail or
Zurich, the schools could continue to
operate effectively:and Huron Cen-
tennial School would be able to ac-
commodate some of the Tuckersmith
pupils presently living in Vanastra.
"The Huron County board of education
does not plan to make any boundary
changes for this coming September, but
is considering changes beginning in
September 1977."
A gar smile smiling
years after 50 of
Mr. andg Mrs. John Guettercelebrating their golden wedding anniversary today
marriage. The couple a >1
June 3. (News -Record photo)
rearinffs to be held an Stanley cottages
Ontario Municipal Board (OMB)
hearings will be held early this month in
Stanley Township where developers of,
two major cottage subdivisions along
Lake Huron, about three miles south of
Bayfield, will be seeking approval of the
projects.
The hearings will outline changes for a
100 -lot development which has been
Town gearing up
or
annual Sprti-rg Fair
Over $14,000 in prizes will be presented
ented
this weekend at the three-day.
annual Clinton Spring Fair, sponsored
by the Huron Central - Agricultural
Society.
The Clinton Fair, which begins this
Friday, and continues Saturday and
Sunday, will be marking its second year
as a "B" fair. making it second only to
exhibitions like the Western Fair and the
Toronto CNE.
As well as the usual events connected
with the fair, such as cattle exhibits.
horse and commercial exhibits, the fair
has a midway and two grandstand
shows, one Friday night and one
Saturday night.
The show on the opening day. Friday
will feature the Queen of the Fair contest
and the Senior Citizen's Queen contest.
Tour town for 50th
Mr. and Mrs. James East of Clinton
celebrated their 29 th wedtouring than-
rough
niversary on Mayby g
the streets of Clinton in a 1946 Mercury
truck owned by their daughter and son-
in-law. Lillian and Bert Evans.
The decorated truck bore some
resemblance to the'1916 Model T -Ford
that took the young couple to Wesley -
Willis United Church in 1926 where Rev.
taken on a cub repo No
deer: She is Shell ie McPhee of 5th Avenue entrance
hazoff s road.
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n'u,rnaism student at Ryerson she slope of a hilitions it dwhen it was located on
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trir�+crsity in Toronto.
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The celebrations included a family
dinner attended by 41 people and alliance
at which more ,than 300 guests were
present. Along with the reading of the
poem; the couple were piped to the stage
by Murray East, a cousin of the family
and were later entertained by a bagpipe
solo of "Amazing Grace."
While Mr. East. now 76, farmed. Mrs.
East, 67. remained at home to raise their
six children, Jack, Harold, Kay, Carl.
Charles and Lillian. They are also
grandparents of 22 children and have
seven great grandchildren.
Special congratulations were received
from the Governor General Jules Leger:
Joe Clark, opposition leader; Premier
William Davis, MPP Murray Gaunt, and
MP Robert McKinley.
During the contests.
Family of Cambridge
the Grandstand..
Saturdays program will start off with
a parade at 1 p.m. through Clinton.
which promises dozens of floats. The WIparade is followed by the official opening
of the fair.
About 2:30 in the afternoon. the ever
popular baby show will begin in the
arena.
At 3:30 the livestock parade will begin
in front of the grandstand. Following the
parade, the presentation of livestock
specials will take place. the
Following a break for suFeer
harness horse teams will be judged in
front of the grandstand. ll and thetlargest
t
three years is any
heavy horse show ir. Ontario will en-
thrall young and old alike. which
the Bridgeman
will entertain at
stalled because it is against the Huron
County official plan. A 30 -cottage
development has also been partially
rejected even though it is permitted
under the county plan.
Meanwhile, an agreement was signed
on Friday, May 2$ between Stanley
Township and a campground developer
to continue work on the $1 million Yogi -
Bear's Jellystone Park, eat of Bayfield.
Opposition to the project
the campground covering a 140 -acre site
had previously been designated as green
productive. Two other development
by
programs have been proposed
London realtor Will - Webb and Zurich -
area farmer Phil Durand. Mr. Webb is
arguing that the land is of poor quality
and Mr. Durand is planning to Seek
approval for the entire plan at the OMB
hearings:
Although a year ago Stanley Township
decided to halt any new cottage
eiepments.aiong.Jts� t0 -mile shoreline
because it was felt that there were
enough cottages my the area, both the
space in the Huron County official plan. pblp nnt1. tSF a ; Fc..e ,.
r. .•
The county pfianning t d f3 cottage development pplatt-. but the
ministry of housing have opposed the ministry of housinghowever,feit that the
other extensive cottage developments development should be half as large as
because these projects are proposed on originally proposed.
farmland which would be agriculturally
Vanastrawaflts new entrance
By Wilma' Oke
A proposal to open an entranceway to
Vanastra off No. 4 Highway at the
Ontario Hydro location to lth Avenue,
was made to Tuckersmith Council
Tuesday night.
Allan Guest of Camden Holdings,
owner of property in Vanastra.
suggested the plan for Council's con-
sideration when he attended the council
session, to discuss the construction of
four more houses, in addition to the 11
houses nearing completion at Vanastra.
Among the reasons given for the new
entranceway was -the need for ready
access to Vanastra for fire protection
and to provide more direct routes for
commercial outlets to improve business
for them.
He referred to the recent el+ sure of the
•NV
The evening grandstand show
prove a
gets underway about 9 p.m.
real treat for Country and Western
heads
as recording artist Jamey Y
the biilipg and Al Che ney and
showMaurice
take
Boyle'. of the Tommy Hunter
to the stage.
Sunday, the final day of the three day
fair, will feature a horse show with the
judging of weltern games and show
horses.
A local auctioneer. Bruce Rathweil
will be Master of Ceremonies, taking passedthe
place of "Tory" Gregg,
who away earlier this year:
transportation and . communications
officials asked for the closing of the
dangerous entrance this past winter. the
scend of numerous accidents.
Mr. Guest said to locate the entrance.
Tuckersmith would require the
agreement of Ontario Hydro to use its
access road into its property.
Reeve Elgin Thompson questioned
whether Ontario Hydro officials would
share this entrance.
Mr. Guest suggested a 66 -foot wide
strip through his lot from 7th avenue to
the Ontario Hydro road would be
satisfactory providing Hydro acrees.
Mr. Guest said he thought the officials
would agree. "1 can't see why the Hydro
entrance should not be closed off too
when 5th Avenue was. The danger is
there, whether it's Ontario Hydro or
Fifth Avenue.
Reeve. Thompson agreed to approach
Hydro officers for a meeting to discuss
the proposal. ('continued on page 2
neymoon
start of new life
Mr. and Mrs. John Guetter who are
celebrating their 50th wedding an-
niversary today. June 3. waited until
1949 for their honeymoon when they
immigrated to Canada from Holland.
Mr. Guetter noted that since then they
have had several honeymoons
throughout Canada and the United
States and are planning another trip to,
Alberta. Although they consider these
trips second honeymoons, many of their
vacations have been spent visiting their
family and relatives.
The Guetters have six children. Chris.
Rita and Jean all of Clinton and, Pete
from Fenwick, Harry from Arizona, and
Teresa from Whitby. They also have 33
grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren.
To celebrate their anniversary the
family is planning --an open house at the
Christian Reform Church Hall this
Saturday. A family luncheon has been
arranged and later in the day. a dinner
will be held at which 100 guests are
expected to attend. A reception will
follow in the evening.
Separate board debates
second supervisory resignation
By Wilma Oke
Faced with the loss of two supervisory
officers in two months' time, the Huron -
Perth County Roman Catholic separate
school board debated the problem at a
special meeting of the board Monday
night.
Se man..: choices
i)ecislsrns, Decisions. Jack Armstrong rubs his hands in glee, trying to decide
which piece 0fle he should try: Mrs. Eric Anderson is having the same tpe of
problem but Mrs.1.ta tl ripe, on the other side of the table, isstrying to help her
decide. The pie was dessert at the Londesboro United Church's ham supper
held last Wednesday. Over SO guests were served. (News -Record photo)
Joseph Tokar, superintendent of
special services, and Alexander Easton,
superintendent of program. have both
resigned effective July 31.
Mr. Easton has accepted a position as
superintendent of education with the
Kent County separate school board.
Last month Mr. Tokar of Stratford was
named director of education for the
Elgin County separate'School board.
For almost two hours in committee of
the whole the bfl frmembers thrashed
out the problem elacing the officers.
Just before 10 p.n.s. the board went into
a general meeting and the lone press
representative was allowed into the
board room.
The heated debate centred around
whether to advertise for a supervisory
officer or a superintendent of special
services. Finally in a recorded vote,
asked for by Howard Shantz, on a motion
to advertise for a superintendent of
special services, eight trustees voted in
the affirmative — Ronald Marcy, Joseph
Looby. William Kinahan. Donald
Crowley, ,Vincent Young. F. J . Vere. Ted
Geoffrey and Greg Fleming. Opposed
were Howard Shantz, David Teahen,
Michael Connolly. John O'Drowsky and
Francis Hicknell.
Next came the recorded vote. again
called for by Howard Shantz. on a
motion to advertise as soon - as possible
for a superintendent of program to fill
the second vacancy. Those opposed
wanted to hire only a supervisory officer
and not name the position. The af-
firmative vote carried nine to four.
Opposed to the superintendent of
program were Howard Shantz. David
Teahen, John O'Drowsky and Michael
Connolly, with the remaining nine
trustees approving.
A committee was named to (continued inte� v
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