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Clinton News-Record, 1977-03-31, Page 3No more recreation land: Stanley By Chris Zdeb Stanley Township council was told Tuesday -night, that recreational development should not expand beyond the 900 acres it now occupies in the township. A crowd of about 130 attended the third, workship pn the township's secondary plan, which will outline the township's present and future land use. The 900 acres ,under recreational development represents 2.5 percent of they township total 46,0001, acres. Almost all of the land is located along the lakeshore, 90 percent of which is • privately owned, with the rest being unusable gully land, Huron County planner George Penfold told the audience. Township farmer Phil Durand said the secondary plan should follow the Huron County plan which limits recreational development along the lake. He said a lot of good agriculture land located near the lakeshore must be protected from further ,development and suggested other sites be found for recreation • • Farmer Bev Hill agreed that recreational development should be restricted btit 'questioned whether the township's landfill site could support further development even if it was allowed. " "We shouldn't allow any more vacant land to be developed recreational or residential, until we've come to grips with the garbage disposal problems. The landfill site shouldn't be over- burdened," he said. Township reeve Tom Consitt said the landfill site is designed to meet the township's needs for 20 years under the present rate of development. After several years of no population growth, clerk Mel Graham said the number of residents grew slightly in 1976 to just over 1,600 people. County planner George Penfold said he hoped some decision would be made on further cottage development along Lake Huron and that regulations would be estabilshed as to how far back from the lake cottage development should be allowed. In some areas, cottages are in two and e% cn 1 ni tiers. he said. When Councillor Don Brodie suggested that no further recreational development be allowed in the township including no new trailer parks or campsites, a few people in the audience • criticized Brodie and the council at large for its negative attitude towards the secondary plan. John McIntyre, owner of the Sugar Bush Inn who is presently expanding its facilities, told Brodie that the council members "should not take such a negativ,e attitude towards these meetings." The general public should be feeding in its ideas -on the secondary plan, McIntyre • said, and council "should not be dictating ideas." The controversy o.ver council's control on the meetings died off when Coun• cillors Brodie and Paul Steckle both said that they were voicing their personal opinions on the plan, not those of the whole douncil at the workshops. Urban development will be the theme of the nextworkshop in Varna Town Hall, Tuesday night. Clinton council acts before asked Clinton council acted very fast last week, so -fast that they beat a delegation and a group of petition holders to the draw. Council, at their meeting last Thur- sday, revealed that they had already taken action to relieve flooding on Erie Street, following a story in the News - Record on March 17 about the near _ . drowning of a two-year-old 1.2.1. ie street lad, Timothy Elliott, the previous Sunday. The action, to put in a storm sewer on Erie Street, was initiated last Wed- nesday by- council, a day before a petitio'n, signed by 10 residents of the street, reached council. Four of those residents were at council Thursday night to rpstate their ne,88,,S14 demands, and council agreed that a serious problem existed. Mayor Harold Lobb and public works chairman, councillor Erie Brown had met with the Town's engineers, B.M. Ross, and plans are already underway for the design and construction of the new sewer on Erie Street and should be ready next week. One of the spokesmen for the group. Garry Elliott, young Timothy's father, said that the new sewer "won't solve the ' entire problem, but it will help." Mrs. Frank MacDonald, another of the delegation, said that part of the problem lies with the Canadian National Railway's right of way behind the houses, as there is no proper drainage. Mrs. MacDonald said she had con- tacted the CNR two years about the problem, received no satisfaction, and wondered if the town could step in and clean out the ditch. Councillor Roy Wheeler wondered if the town could go in, fix the drainage •ditch, and then bill the railroad, but Mayor Lobb. said that they couldn't go onto private propert Cliff Hallam, another of the residents, also wondered if the town couldn't put up a yield sign at Dunlop and Erie Streets to stop all the heavy truck traffic, and "dragsters." "We hope to have some tax dollars spent on our end of town," Mr. Hallam said. • In other business connected with seweps, council lifted a ban against Huron Pines Construction building houses on Townsend and Ransford streets, •after they learned that the sanitary and storm sewers meet the town's requirements, But the town also learned they will • have to put in two catch basins on Ransford Street, as, the basins were not in the subdivision agreementwith Huron Pines. ,rx CLINTQN NEWs.RgcORP, TOURSDAY,IYMIi(* 31„ 1977,0-Piat: Officials of the Clinton Public Utilities Commission, and the premium was raised from $4,000 to $27,000 per year, Sherlock -Manning Piano Factory in Clinton will meet to because there wasn't adequate volume of water to run the discuss enlarging the water main into the building. The plant's sprinkler system. (News -Record photo) company may be forced to leave town after their tnsurance Board demotes two administrators The Huron County Board of Education took an unprecedented step last week when it declared two major ad- ministrative positions redundant and moved the personnel back into the education field. Director of education John Cochrane and Board Chairman Herb Turkheim announced Monday that one superin- tendent' S job and the assistant to the administrator's job were no more. The men, Ralph Smith and Gord Phillips, will be taking over positions as prin- cipals. Smith will become principal of Robertson Memorial Public School in Goderich in September and Phillips will be named principal of Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton. The moves were made in conjunction with the retirements of the two principals now at the schools, Garnet Harland of Rober- tson and Robert Homuth of CHSS. The move was made to cut spending in education in Huron and to bring per- sonnel numbers in line with declining enrolment in the county schools. It is viewed as necessity by the board. Cochr-ane explained that enrolment in elementary schools has been declining in the past few years; 'resulting in reduced funds from the province. The ministry of education offers grants to boards in the province based,on a per capita ratio and the declining number of school children reduces that figure annually. "The' board does not look on the. change as a demotion but as a fact made necessary by a tight budget," said Cochrane. The director said he felt the move was perhaps indicative of the situation boards will face in the future, but added that was his- opinion only. He said the shuffle will save the board about $60,000 annually based on current salaries by not having to appoint two principals to fill the vacancies. The board had four principalships open in,September due to three retirements and the opening of Vanastra Public School. As well as Robertson and CHSS, the principalship of Seaforth Public School was open. John- Talbot retired from the school and vice- principal Paul Carroll was named hif replacement. John Ross, now the vice-principal of Wingham Public School, will take over as head of the new Vanastra school. The board will appoint the new vice - principals later in the year. Under board policy set down by the education act, any personnel who have their positions declared redundant automatically take the next position available which in this case is a prin- cipalship. The move was a combination of good luck and good timing, according to Cochrane who said he couldn't foresee any openings at the principal level for another eight to ten years if present staff stays with the board. The education director said he took the proposal for the shilffle to the board and told trustees they must act now or live with present staff for at least that long. The removal of. one superintendent's job will mean .a change of geographical boundaries for the remaining three superintendents to pick up the schools now under Smith's jursisdiction. Smith is responsible for the Seaforth-Clinton area and has five elementary schools and two secondary schools in that area. The board will have•to break that area up amongst the remaining superin- tendents and will have to return some administrative duties now handled by (continued on page 12) 4 The old Gliddon Dry Cleaning building on King Street, now owned by the town, , has been nearly demolished by the Public.Works department. Several hundred , • dollars worth of Centennial decorations were lost when the roof collapsed in early March under a heavy snowload. (News -Record photo) 0 8165,000 to replace.... (continued from page 1) per cent behind keeping racing in Clinton and standing behind the Kin- smen in any attempt to either repair or rebuild the grandstand. "It seems like Toronto wants to attack us," said Deputy -Reeve Frank Cook. "There's so much going on at the park now," said Mayor Harold Lobb, "and there could be a lot more if we had a better grandstand." "This' (the raceway) has been a real asset to the town, council- should get behind them," Reeve Royce Macaulay said. APRIL IS CANCER MONTH a. giro A good name to grow by YOU ARE "STILL" MAKING TVIE DIFFERENCE•••CANCER CAN BE BEATEN•••OUR GOAL FOR THE CLINTON-BLYTH-BAYFIELD DISTRICT, THIS YEAR IS '5800.00 we eheek-up cheque ••• CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY CLINTON BRANCH • CANVAS'S MARTS APRIL 4th EE US N For Your Fertilizer Needs This Spring At Agrico W, we have the latest equipment for applying: * ANHYDROUS AMMONIA We have Tool Bar Applicators available, from 15 to 27 feet. 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