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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1978-10-05, Page 29• • • Tom Penhale of Bayfield, and Arnold Young of Godetich put their two pairs of Belgians together for the daily parades at the International Plowing Match at Wingham last week and proved a real hit with the more than 250,000 visitors who turned out at the biggest match ever. (News -Record photo) Extra health inspector hired BY JEFF SEDDON • Huron, County council agreed Friday to spend $13,000 in salary for a public health inspector to. ease the workload of three inspectors that the Huron County medical officer°of health indicated were sharing the duties of that fourth person. Dr. 'Brian Lynch, MOH for Huron, told council that the public health protection division of the health unit•had increased its workload over 200 percent . since losing a health inspector recently and that to stay abreast of the work a fourth in- spector was needed. Dr'. Lynch told council that the sudden increase of work was.not due to a sudden growth in Huron County but was due to the health unit doing a better and more complete job of inspecting public facilities in the county. He said the workload had increased from 2,000 cases a year to 6,700 since the number of inspectors was reduced to three'and -that the work was being handled by three regular inslpectors and a student. Lynch said that the workload was increased by efforts to do a better job of inspecting premises in the county. He said much of the work was already there butfor a number of reasons was not -dope properly. He said the health unit was much more effective because - of the added work but added that the effectiveness was being jeopardized by the stretching of manpower. The MOH explained to council that the health unit's reasons for in- specting public premises such as restaurants, dairies, public swimming pools and other food and water supplying facilities was to ensure that the utmost is being done to protect the public. He said it was not being done to be a thorn in the side of owners of the premises but was being done as a preventive measure. Lynch cited the International Plowing Match as an example explaining that improper ,inspec°tion of food booths at the match could result in tremendous problems for the health unit, match organizers and the medical services in the Wingham area. He pointed out that if food, poisoning was not discovered at the match and only 10 percent of the 'people there became ill that would be 5,000 to 10,000 cases of poisoning to be handled in a very short period of time. The 'MOH said health protiectior vitas a 5`f uh business" adding thathe found it much different from general practice as a doctor. He said rather than dealing with specific problems he is now "keeping an eye on things where there may not be' anything wrong but if . things do go wrong there could be tremendous problems." Lynch "said public celebrations and events like fall fairs were a particular problem for the health inspectors. He said the food booths at fall fairs are set up out of the blue and the health unit does not have ' the staff to properly inspect the booths. He said restaurants in the county are under regular in- spection and can be monitored but the booths at the fairs sometimes Time to Insulate! FIBERGLASS BATTS RIO -R12- R2O- R28 MICAFIL STYROFOAM SHEETS 1/2" 3/4" 1,1 11/2" 2" Special -While it Lasts SELECT 5/8" T & G FIRRLY s16.95 4'x!' STANDARD� 3/8 SPRUCE I DASHWOOD WINDOWS KENT PAINTS at the best prices around COUNTER CASH & CA -• • Y uil •:ing Su:pIies PRINCESS ST. WEST, CLINTON 482-9612 operate with no in- spection. "Most large outbreaks of food poisoning occur at events 'like this,',' he told council. Goderich township deputy reeve Grant Stirling didn't dispute the need for the health unit to inspect facilities at events like fairs but questioned some recommendatons arising from those inspections. Stirling said a health inspector came to a fish fry being staged recently in the village'of Bayfield by the Lions club and demanded that the Lions doing volunteer work for the event wear hair nets when working with the food. "Most of the Lions don't need a hair net they 'need hair," said Stirling. The deputy reeve added that a health in- 'sp etiCxi cn eAo th et i te- of the Bayfield Fall Fair and instructed fair -organizers to provide eight Johnny on the Spots for fairgoers. Stirling said the portable toilets were to replace facilities in the Bayfield Arena that had been condemned by the province and sub- sequently torn down. "The health inspector said we needed eight Johnny on the Spots and we only had two washrooms in the arena when it was open and they weren't busy," said Stirling. "I guess the rest were going to the bush." Stirling said he was not saying the health in- spectors were not needed but just pointed out tha perhaps, sometimes they overdo things. Some county councilors feel CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5,197$.4'AGE 7-A Rural planning may hurt BY JEFF SEDDON Some members of Huron county council feel that rural planning designed to protect agricultural land from urban development has gone overboard and is threatening small family farms. Council met Friday with Harold Flaming, a field officer with the food division of the provincial ministry of agriculture and food, and got sone insight into the province's philosophy on rural planning. Flaming ex- plained to council the reasoning behind the province's rural planning decisions and the government's desire to protect good farmland in Ontario and yet still give the agricultural com- munity some flexibility. Flaming said the province wanted to prevent farmland from being fragmented through land severances to the point that in- dividual plots of land are divided up into tiny parcels that can't support a viable farm operation. He said small parcels, if they are under the Ownership of a 'farmer working a large amount of land, can be part of a viable farm operation but on their own they cannot be self sufficient farm units. The ministry worker said the province wanted to keep land units in rural farm areas large 'enough to permit flexibility. He said the province was not restricting plot sizes arbitrarily but rather was trying to look at each severance application on its own merit to deter- mine if the results of the Separate board. .. • from page 6A ford, "I haven't made up my mind yet." Gregory Fleming, Crediton, "I plan to." R. Al 41.4—. 11,4F aYy Dubin, ".I intend Io run for another two years.'' John O'Leary, Staffa, "Yes, I'll be running again." Arthur ,Haid, Listowel, "I plan on coming back." Keith Montgomery, Wingham, William Kinahan, Lucknow, "I intend to run." Michael Connoll Kippen; Vincent Young, Goderi:ch, and ' Ted Geoffrey oZirich were -not at the meeting Monday night. Because. of Thanksgiving on October 9, the next meeting of the board will be held on October 16. severance leave lots that can be farmed by an individual or bought by someone wanting to start farming. "There's no way someone today can buy a 20 acre plot and start farming but if that lot was 80 or 100 acres he may be able to," said Flaming. Morris township reeve Bill Elston told council that he felt the planning practices had resulted in many family farms being taken over by huge operations and the farm buildings 1Pft to decay. Elston said planners had refused severances to elderly farmers wanting to sell land to another farmer and stay in the house and retire. Put he said in .many cases the severance was turned down and the farmer left with the option to sell his land and move off the farm or lease the land and attempt to look after the buildings himself. The Morris reeve said in many cases the farms were absorbed by huge cash crop operations and the farmland was- put Residents boil water Some residents in Listowel have been in- formed that they will have to boil their drinking water. The Listowel Banner reported last week that residents living east of Davidson Street and north of Main Street were notified about the water. The water was judged as unsuitable for drinking after a high coliform bacteria count was found in water samples in the neighborhood of the 65,000 gallon water reservoir located in Memorial Park. Water samples are taken regularly throughout Listowel and Match The news in the Wingham Advance - Times last week centered on the International Plowing Match. Big bold headlines noted that for the opening day, the sun • shone • brightly and thousands gathered to see the first moonwalker open the event. The Advance -Times noted that it was hoped the Match would attract up to 250,000 people during the five day event. Less than two months ago what was a large alfalfa field on the farm ofim Armstrong, was filled\ with • tents, .silos, streets„ water ' lines, people, machinery and buildings fh the event which has ben under hectic planni g for several years. erling .products and services for home and industry 22 North St. North Clinton 482-9411 CAN KEEP YOU ON THE MOVE THIS SEASON 1. *Gasoline & Diesel Fuel *Lubricants & Heating Oil *For.our customers, we offer Burner Service & Furnace Clean -Outs URRAY TAYLOR "Your sterling fuels Agent for Clinton, $ayfield and surrounding area., , this is believed to be the first time in decades that any source of water has been found to be unsafe. The Listowel PUC flushed out all the water mains in the area and planned to inspect the reservoir again. under crop by an ab;•. sentee landlord, The result, he said, was many farm buildings . aban- doned and left to decay, Warden Gerry Ginn told council he felt that as long as rural planning was under the control of the ministry of housing it is going to be a "farce". The warden said rural planning is done with agriculture in mind and should be handled by the ministry of agriculture and until it Is "we're wasting our cotton picking time". Ginn said planning is, designed to protect farmland from urban development, pointing out that the province has a great deal of land of lesser quality than Iluron County that could be used for urban development with no threat to the province's agricultural base. He said he recently drove to Huron County from Ottawa and "never did see any farmland until 1 got within 100 miles of Huron County". "There's all kinds of places in the province for this kind of development (urban)," said Ginn. "Everyone is moving to the country like tomorrow is the last day they can and there is a lot of land being wasted," said Elston. Wingham Memorials • Guaranteed Granite. • Cemetery Lettering • Buy Direct and save Commissions. BUS. PHONE 347-1910 RES. 357.1015 • N + TICE OF NOMINATION Nominations of Separate School Supporters • for Representation on the • Huron County Board of Education will be received by the undersigned' Commencing on Monday, October 16th and ntil 5 p.m., E.S.T. on Monday, October 23, 1978 Nominees must bea Separate School Supporter and may be from any of the following municipalities: Ashfield, Colborne, Grey, Howick, Hullett, McKillop, Morris, Turnberry. East -Wawanosh, West Wawanosh, Town of Goderich, Blyth, Brussels,Seaforth, Wingham. One representative to be elected. Required nomination forms may be obtained from any Municipal Cfbrk's office. 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