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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1977-07-07, Page 3t .Qbr.�.�lrSt,l4b`�},e • d w, } 4•th • •eLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, 31401(-"-7,, 1971 . AO ersirm. council t1dtbere's .pknty 4 Rye Wilma Oke Anyone wanting work- may find a job in the rural `beautification program in Huron County - at the minim'urn wage -- it was learned at Tuckert°mith council ,nnetin,g Tuesday night, All a person in the Seaforth area has to do is contact the. r6ad .superintendent, Allan Nicholson, at the Tuckersrnith Township Garage in Egmondville. ' John McLachlan, the Ow cler'k- treasurer for the township was "on' the job at the meeting. He reports he is getting settled in the township office now located in the former Bank of Montreal building at Vanastr'a. He hopes to have his telephone connected up within a few days. 4 4 • If the Shell Oil company don't find"oil under Huron County, it won't be from lack of try.ing, as the area has been a bee hive of activity this summer with seven rigs' drilling test holes along area,road,s. Here Jim Suttie, left, of Camrose, Alberta, and Dave Durnin of •R R 3, Auburn,'d�ri11 holes alonggtjre 16th of Goderich recently. A small charge is placed in the hole and a seismographic reading taken. It may be several years before results are known. (News -Record photo) He was given permission to hire somone to clean the place which has been vacant fora long period, Council is still awaiting word from the bank's head office confirming' the lease. and the rental fee. The Federation of Agriculture is a;tenant in the building as 'wel}.... - Court • of Revision was set for July 9'on •the, Black Creek • - Mousseau Drain. There were no appeals. •,. In his report to Cnuneil, road superintendent. -Nicholson said that Ken Miller recently 'hired as a grader operator fbr the . township will com- mence work on July 11. He .said the new grader is also in use, • drain in the industrial area at Vanastra is WQ,Cice.cl And he is checking out the cause to remedy the problem. The following building permit ap- plications wereapproved: Art Haverkamp, RR 5, Clinton„ addition to house, `implement shed and grain bin; ',rank Nigh, RR 4-Seaforth, hog barn; George Romanik, RR 4., Seaforth, mobile home; and Bill Riley Concession 2, pt. lot 10, demolition of house. Passed .for payment were the following accounts: Vanastra Day Care, $3,705.78, Vanastra Recreation, $6,551.46, =roads, $83,776.02 and general accounts, $21,620.53 for a total . of $115,653.79. He reported a 26 -inch storm sewer �A letter was received from James and Brenda M.rntnsh thanking council for be July 19. ' the gift of ap tray given them by council after serving 16 years as township clerk- treasurer. S.andralee Ross .of Regina Street, Vanatra, Wrote a. letter protesting that theminimmtun water charge at Vanastra was far too high - $120.0,0 per year. Council is going to study the situation: . The .road superintendent was , presented with his Ilth year seal.. for completion of the roads school math and.- metric nd.-metric course at Guelph University last May. Mr. Nicholson thanked council for sending him to the school, and stated it would he of value to him in his work. The, meeting was adjourned at 12:50 a.m, Wednesday. The next meeting will • ' • �untyadopts long range Boa "Huron County council adopted a long range $9.2 million road program' at its recent session and 'will budget for the items in the `report as money and needs determine in the next few years. No deviation from the plan will bemade without council approval. • Jim Britnell, county engineer, outlined the report that details 54 miles of road construction at about $4.1 million, 70.5 mjles of road resurfacing of about $2.8 million and construction of four bridges at$1,2 million. Britnell told council that compared to other counties in the province the Huron road system was in above average condition. He said the road system was Compared to other, counties to try to determine the amount of subsidy .the provincial ministry of transportation and communication will chip in to Huron's road work. The engineer said that according to ministry rules the.county has only about $2.5 million worth of road work that is deficient now or will be in the next five years. He said some counties in western Ontario have about $15 million worth of bad road. He said .the comparison to other counties was admirable in that Huron has one of the better road systems in western Ontario but " added that council would have to ,dig deeper, in its own pocket to keep the system up: . The province set up criteria used to determine road conditions as part ofa restraint program aimed at keeping costs down and roads in good shape. Etritnell said however, that in Huron the restraint program .limits the amount of work that can be taken on if the county does not spend any money above what they need to thatch the ministry subsidy. He explained that this year the ministry felt that only $2:5 million need be taken on and of that nine percent or $225,000 is the figure used to calculate the subsidy. If the county limited its construction to the $225,000 it, would be doing slightly more than two miles work per year. The engineer said in his report that while some county roads - are below standards acceptable to him and council no work will be done unless money permits. He said the long range forecast will be followed as closely as possible and any deviation from the plan will be with council's approval. Britnell said the' county bridges are in good shapeand noted ''that the only bridge on a county road that is deficient olicy is-wHorresters Bridge near Hoimesville! He ., said tom,__ long. bridge over the Maitland River would probably cost •" $500,000 to --replace and until the ;traffic pattern on the bridge changes drastically ,ate would not recommend its replacement. Hullett deputy' reeve Joe- Huning asked the engineer why there is a six ton load limit on Ball's Bridge 0 -no -bridge in the county is deficient. Britnell pointed. out `that the bridge safety is calculated under ministry criteria the same as roadsand is based on the traffic pattern bn the road. He said the ministry did not consider that bridge deficient because of the roadit was on adding that if it were on a busier road it would be replaced. He said the load limit is calculated so that any margin of error is on the safe - 'side. He said the limit is designed 'to. scare -people into safe practice and•that he knows of one bridge that has a low load limit that regularly is crossed with an 18 ton load. He said that practice is neither safe nor right but pointed out that under-. ideal conditions and the proper driving habits a bridge can hold a far greater amount than if it is crossed fast or accelerated on. Britnell said -hat some county roads that are now gravel need paving ac- cording to some ratepayers but ex- plained that for the ministry to subsidize paving the road must have moreGthan 400 ' cars a day travel on it. He said he and the road committee felt that figure was high adding" that no county 'gravel road has that kind of traffic and so none are eligible for Subsidy. , Brumfield man IOOF headT - John Broadfoot has always-15een an active man in the Brucefield area. He has been a trustee on the Huron County School Board, has been an active member of the Brucefield 'United Church for the past° 30 ears, is th ast n Y P •` president of the Huron County-iberal • County may administer senior's housing Huron County Housing 'Authority chairman Harold Knisley asked county -council in June if the county would give the authority the privilege of placing senior citizens in the county in any senior's facility regardless of 0 municipality. Knisley said the authority, has a problem with senior citizens units in the county and asked if it could disregard municipal boundaries when placing seniors in a facility. • The chairman said that some town- ships have no working agreement with neighboring towns for senior citizens to move into senior citizens complexes jointly operated and financed bythe federal, provincial and municipal government. - He said the situation means in some instances that although a unit is available for occupancy and a P person or couple are in need the two • OMB called.. continued from page 1 plan and amendment. One man, who stormed out of the room after speaking to the board panel; 'said it "there . are tactics whish go beyond commmtinism." •, Ano er man, Gordon deJbng of RR1, Bruceield, said at the original meeting to di uss 4he bylaw five years ago 99 perc t of the audience were opposed to its i pelementation, but now it was bein; forced on them. _ H said he came to Canada„an.1949 but now "I'm beginning to Wonder which side.f the Iron Curtain I'm on."' er speakers said they objected to. • Wbei g put under zoning when their neigh - :d bo - in other townships and ev - n in the " Association and an active member of the . Federation of Agriculture. . However, all these interests and duties _ m • have not been - too much' for Mr Knisley said the placement of the seniors is done at their own request and that if someone didn't want to ,move into a particular unit because of.location they wouldn't have to. He said in some cases the people ha'e moved quite.a distance but they have• asked adding that the placement would not be done in any arbitrary fashion. Seaford reeve John Flannery said he may be wrong but pointed out that'when • • tl :r-u,nitsc :built. in !Seafoth, were under construction the.. town learxied ,.that it ' , qualified for a 'second comple '..• He said the,_,,qualifications were based on Seafor-th'"s population and that no -official application had been -made by McKillop township. He said he arta Most everyone connected with the project knew there were eligible seniors in the township but could do nothing about them unless the township council formally applied. - Council 'did not grant. the authority the right to placement of the seniors but did agree to examine the merits of the county authority being responsible for placement and the county , being responsible for absorbing any losses on the projects. The county would pay the losses and then'. assess them against the appropriate municipalities.', ti .can't comply because the seniors live in a township and don't " qualify for . residency. a McKillop reeve Allan Campbell said he knew of the situation Knisley was referring to and that it existed in .his township. He said, McKillop 'had no big towns that could -qualify for a senior citizens complex and that Seaforth was the nearest town and had two. He said his Council had tried its4darndest to link` up with Seaforth when the units were • being builtand had not been successful. . Campbell said a questionnaire was.. - sent out to senior citizens in the township and that the council had never seen or heard of the results. Hes"aid the returned forms were sent to Toronto and although quite a number of people in the township qualify for a unit nothing'' -was ' ever • heard. .,• ••• southern half of Tuckersmith are not. Robert Fotheringham of RR 3, Seaforth, said if the zoning is meant to help Vanastra, then only it should .be zoned and the rest of the affected area should be left ,alone. , Menzies 'asked the panel to delay implementation of the bylaw for a few more months untilthe problems in it can be worked out. He said "the official plan amendment, for the area was not well put together, and it • would be a mistake AD_ pass_ another piece of legiafation supporting it. . The panel said it would, submit a written 'decision on the bylaw "as soon as possible." "My God is there no way McKillop can get implicated with either Brussels or Seaforth," he asked. Knisley said • that -there were five vacancies in the -Brussels unit., recently and that the McKillop people in need would have been there if. the county" authority had the privilege of placing them. He said McKillop would have to make an agreement' with Brussels to handle the appropriate share of any losses the unit incurs,.and t e reide ! would be free -to move in as t CCnit&al; .. available. . The municipality sponsoring the units is responsible ,for seven percent of any annual losses it suffers and Knisley suggested that the percentage of.the loss would be"calculated according to use per municipality involved.. Bayfield Reeve Ed Oddleifson said there was a -senior'sunit in his village and that the village council. had Tried to be liberal minded when people not from the village.applied for. residency. He said he could agree to the authority having the right to place people in`'the units but felt that the right should be tempered to prevent someone -from the north end of the county from being moved to a unit in the south end. fi Broadfoot and on June 23 he was named Grand Master of the .Oddfellow 's Lodge of Ontario. It has been the first time since 1911 that an area man has been elected to that .position and Mr. Broadfoot .took over the position at the 87th Ontario Session of the Oddfellows and Rebekahs John Broadfoot . at the Royal York in Toronto.. Some 1500 delegates from. across :the province attended the six-day event. There are presently 16,500 Oddfellows - in Ontario and the Grand Lodge of Ontario was formed in 1855. The Rebekah Assembly was formed in 1895 and has a provincial membership of 24,000. ; As Grand Master, Mr. Broadfoot will. attend lodge functions throughout the province as well as Manitoba, Quebec and New. York State. Some 100 tripare scheduled for this year. Mr. Broadfoot has been a meinber of the .Oddfellows since 1948 and he was appointed deputy of the Huron District in 1968 and two years ago .he was elected the Warden of Ontario. He also held the position of Deputy Grand Master last year. , Along with looking after its members, The Oddfellows ,contribute ' funds •, for relief of disasters and help to support cancer research. The groupt,,also' maintains a chair for eye resear ' ;y.,at'• John Hopkins University in the U. :The Lodge also, sponsors an annual tri number of Ontario students to the U, ited Nations in New .York. 'The students selected •to go are chosen from public speaking events held throughout ",the province. - As if Mr. Broadfoot's new position isn't enough to keep him busy for some time, he and his wife Marjorie celebrated their 40th anniversary recently. More than 300 friends and relatives gathered at the Vanastra Recreation Hall to honor -the couple. 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