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Thursday, December 21, 1978
In Tuckersmith
Dog costs may triple
By Wilma Oke
It's going to cost Tuckersmith
Township residents more to own a dog
in 1979 if the by-law for the proposed
new fees for dog licences is approved at
the next council meeting in January.
Councillor Frank Falconer proposed
Tuesday raising the fees in the hope
that it would deter keeping more
than one dog int.a household.
T proposaj,calls for the licence fee
for firs, mai dog to be raised to' $6
fro th pre nt fee of $5; a first
fertile dog frim $10 to $12; second
ma eIto remain':=the same at $20; second
female if be rated from $25 t"o $30; for
an •addieonal number of males over
two,* remain t1 ', same at $30 each, and
for `Additional tOmales to be raised to
$50,fjom $30 each.
Edith ' and Norman Turrall of
Egi ;ondville wrote council a
hurr ± urous ditty on the dog problem in
thei hainlet, They called their hamlet
"Dogvil1e, commonly known as
Egrrxondville". They report many dogs
runiing tree causing a nuisance.
Another • problem in Egmondville
surf ced. at the meeting when Allan
Nignolsdn, road. superintendent, who is
al n charge df the water system also,
sal a several, residents complained
ab{o,t the bad taste and the bad smell
their wafer had during the past two
weeks. •
Clerk Jack McLachlan said ac -
Weather
1978 1977
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Dec. C C F F
12 2.5 -3 35 -8
13 2 -2 36 33
14 1 _5 37 34
15 3.5 -2 38 32
16 3 -7 37 33
17 2 -3 38' 30
18 : 0 - 6 39 2$
.- , -No Rain ,k
No snow
No hydro rate increase
cording to recent Health DepartmOnt
tests on the water that it was
satisfactory.
Following a discussion on what might
cause the problem, Mr. Nicholson was
instructed to work with Neil Hopper,
well driller for the well to attempt to
clear up the trouble. Mr. Nicholson said
only a few wells seemed to be affected
on dead-end lines while the rest of the
customers had no problem. including
the township garage where the water is
good.
An application for a building permit
by Art Havercamp, lot 32, concession
2, Huron Road survey was-approved»for-
alterations to his barn. Passed for
payment were accounts totalling
$15,626.92.
A new fee schedule at the Vanastra
recreation centre as proposed by
Dianne Durnin, the director, was given
approval. It will raise all the fees and
this was considered necessary to help
cut down on the deficit which results
each year.
Members of council and their wives
were invited by Seaforth legion branch,
No. 156 to the New Years Day Levy on
January 1 which the Legion is holding
in their hall.
Council agreed to accept a proposal
by Principal John A. Ross on behalf of
the pupils of the Vanastra Public
School to plant 50 trees of several
different species in•the park behind the
recreation centre. The students have
been using the park for a playground
and this is their way of thanking
council for the use of the area . by
buying the trees from money they have
raised. They will plant them under the
,supervision of the Ausable-Bayfield
Conservation Authority.
Deputy Reeve Robert Bell said the
planting should be done in co-operation
with a council representative in. order
to avoid grass cutting difficulties.
Councillor Frank Falconer did not vote
for the proposal as he felt the little
trees would not grow with other large
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,.txees.., sQ, PIMe.,. aws ,004, his.treaSntho<
gave for objecting.
Council approved an application
PUC gives present
Electrical power users in Clinton got
an early Christmas present this week,
when the local Public Utilities Com-
mission decided they won't be raising
rates on January 1st, unlike most area
municipalities, who will see a six to
nine percent increase.
The PUC decided last Wednesday at
their inauguaral meeting of the year to
hold off any increase in hydro rates
despite a wholesale power cost rise of
9.8 percent from Ontario Hydro.
Guss Boussey, PUC manager, said
the Commission decided to absorb the
increase in rates from Ontario Hydro,
because an intrim audit showed the
Utility to be in good financial shape.
"When we get our final audit finished
for the year, and we can make a
projection on next year's costs, then
the Commission will decide when we'll
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first
column
have to pass the increase along to the
consumers, 'likely next April," Mr.
Boussey said.
John Wise, a 13 -year member of the
PUC was elected to his fifth year as
chairman, and new member Bob Irwin
was picked as secretary, Hal Hartley
started his 25th year on the Com-
mission.
In other business, the Commission
decided to change their meeting date to
the fourth Monday of each month,
rather than the third Monday.
The water works department,
meanwhile, had their first -water main
break of the winter last Thursday
morning when a four -inch main broke
on Beech Street in front of Huron
Laundry. Water was only off to a few
houses for a short time while the break
was fixed.
from Joseph and Margaret Lostel! for
severance of their 100 -acre farm int°
two strips of land. A motion to oppose
the severance was defeated- when
Reeve Ervin Sillery broke a tie vote by
voting against the opposition and then
voted for the acceptance motion, when
it was made.
Council expressed no objections to a
severance application of Jacomina
Kolkman in Stanley Township.
Council made some appointments for
1979 including naming Councillor
Robert' Fotheringham to represent
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No Christmas concern'. 'is complete without a performance of
the Nativity Story. 'J ie kindergarten and Grade 1 class at
S
Holmesville Put;.ic hoot not only learned of the tale, but
also performed it to a full house on Monday and Tuesday at
the school's annual Christmas concert. (News -Record
photo)
Freedom of Choice society formed in Huron
BY JEFF SEDDON
Despite an air of confusion that
prevented a group of Huron county
residents from clearly defining its
goals a Society for the Freedom of
Choice was formed at an informal
meeting in Goderich recently.
About 19 people attended the meeting
on an invitation basis and after a two
hour session decided on a name for the
group and came up with some basic..
goals for it. Goderich town councillor
Elsa Haydon promoted the gathering
pointing out to those invited that she
used no "rhyme or reason" in sending
out invitations but had more or less
included people' who had been vocal in
the past on issues concerning in-
dividual freedom.
One of the issues at the top of the
suggested list of goals for the group
was lobbying for the Huron county
Board of Education to lift its classroom
banning of The Diviners by Margaret
Laurence. The board took the novel oil
the approved list of material for high
school English clas4es after the Huron
County chapter Of Renaissance
International succe . Of
campaigned
to have it taken out -the classroom.
The group not 'Wily had difficulty
deciding on its airs but had trouble
naming itself. Mari of the people at-
tending the inaugur I session had little
concern for a name. ut rather seemed
to have a number of issues they felt
should be supported. Rather than limit
itself to an individual concern , the
group decided to ,delay ,planning any
definite action until another meeting
could be held and more support for the
group gathered.
Haydon said she organized the
meeting to defend the novels the
Renaissance group wanted banned.
She said she intended no attempt to
"convert anyone's thinking" nor did
she intend to form a bona fide group.
"I feel it is very important to show
people outside the county that while
there are people in Huron county that
want the books banned there are also
people to fight against it," she told the
group.
Haydon said she was disappointed in
the action of the county board of
education and county council over the
book banning. She said the credibility
of the elected bodies was in doubt since
many members supported the banning
without reading books. She said it was
"very poor due" for anyone to vote on
Ice delayed week at arena
There likely won't be any ice in the
Clinton Community Centre until at
'past January 1, because of delays by
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rac 'he•. lc .. fart- -w
ep ns - scheduled re4o`e •
turned 'on Tuesday, to begin the slow+`
week-long process of cooling the new
floor before ice can be made, but has
been delayed because the new tractor
room isn't finished and a ' sub-
contractor hasn't- installed the plastic
puck boards yet.
Arena Manager Clarence Neilans
said he hoped to have ice by January 5
at the latest.
Meanwhile, the Clinton recreation
committee learned at their regular
meeting last Thursday night, that
because the Junior "C" hockey club is
;playing out of town because of the
ena;,,;renovations, their expenses have
een. very high, and revenues low';' and.•
asked the rec committee to pick up any
deficit.
Junior "C" executives Frank Cook
and Doug Macaulay were present at
the meeting, and Mr. Cook, a former
rec member, reminded the rec board
that they were the sponsoring body and
were therefore responsible for any
deficit in the club.
"We've never had a deficit yet, and I
don't think there'll be one this year, but
we just wanted to warn the committee
in case there was," said Mr. Cook.
Minor fire stirs talk
at Clinton nursery school
A minor fire that destroyed a piano in
Wesley -Willis United Church last
Thursday morning, created quite a
conversation piece for 15 three and
four-year-old children attending
nursery school.
The fire in the piano in the upstairs
auditorium was discovered by one of
the Clinton Nursery School teachers,
Nancy Wise, who smelled smoke while
working in the basement school,
She went upstairs, discovered the
fire, and then with the help of super-
visor Sally McNichol and helper Rekah
Kalokhe, rushed the children over to
the post office, and phoned the fire
department.
The piano, worth several hundred
dollars was destroyed, said Rev. John
Oestreicher, and some smoke damage
was suffered in the church. "But we
were open for business as usual on
Sunday," he said.
The fire, which may have started
from a Christmas candle, comes
exactly 50 years after a disastrous fire
burned the church nearly to the ground
in 1928.
'The committee agreed they would
have to follow their promise, passed
several years ago, but several mem-
bers
wanted to seethe t Mustangs s books
if the -town were going to. pay .out any
money. -
The rec committee also changed
their split of the gates with the club
from a 60-40 percentage with the
Juniors paying the referees,to a 50-50
split with the cost of the referees (about
$80) coming off the top. '
The rec committee also agreed to let
the club continue to run the upstairs
bar during hockey games for free,
providing they clean it up afterwards.
In other business, the rec committee
learned that the annual bantam
tournament is set for January 11, 12, 13,
and 14, and January 19, 20, and 21.
The committee also agreed to pay the
arena workers a $35 Christmas bonus,
but won't pay them any overtime to
clean up the arena flooring con-
struction, as they were kept on the
payroll during construction rather than
be laid off.
Donations to the arena floor fund
have been reduced to a trickle this
week with the Christmas season
coming on and only $190 came in,
bringing the total to $52,612.50.
This week's donations include :
Betty and Wilf Heard, Bayfield $25
Lion Ted Davis $52
Case Postma $50
George Cantelon $50
Names only: Fred Munnings.
Total to date $52,612,50
the matter without being familiar with
it.
Bruce Shaw, principal of South
Huron Secondary School in Exeter, told
the group that he felt "some kind of
voice" had to be created to balance the
"negative force" given by the book
banners. He said it seems everywhere
he goes people are making "snide
remarks" about Huron county because
of the book banning and he "doesn't
like being branded by the same brush",
Adrian Vos told the group he was not
convinced all information about the
book banning had been given. He said
he was upset when he read in
newspapers that the books had been
banned but then was told by a board of
education trustee that the books were
not banned but that • "discussion of
certain books" in the classroom had
been prevented. He said the books were
not banned pointing out that they are
all still available in the school libraries.
Haydon pointed out that one of -the
aims of the Renaissance group was to
Turn to page 3
At last, the big day is finally here,
and all those eager months of an-
ticipation will culminate this coming
Sunday night when old St. Nick
arrives.
Whether there will be enough snow
for his sleigh to glide on or not is still
a matter of conjecture. Along the
lake, and in the south half of Huron,
the possibilities of a green Christ-
ivas are still high, according to the
weather office, while the people
inland from Lake Huron, just north
of Clinton, will almost surely have a
white Christmas, as the result of
several heavy 'snowfalls dumped up
to two feet of the white stuff in the
past two weeks.
Clinton is caught in the middle,
and it could swing either way in a
couple of days, but yours truly is
predicting a white Christmas for
Clinton, but it may be only a skiff.
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In all our rush in the next several
days, we should pause for a minute,
like we did at Thanksgiving, and
think of just how good our life is here
in Canada, and particularly Huron
County. We enjoy the festive season
heft like no one else in the world.
The food is 'abutidatit,, itt fact over
abundant, the gifts unequalled, and
the . comp anianship. overwhelming,
at least for -nest of us. Despite in-
flation,
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Datioonmie,., `.thht la ,.. e � and' „World,
srifd, tost of us here
will StillhaVe
the best Christmas ever.
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And Christmas this year will be a
bit of a longer holiday than usual.
Most of the stores in Clinton will
close at 6 p.m., Saturday night
December 23, and won't re -open
until Wednesday, December 27,
while the banks will close Friday
night at 6 p.m., and will likewise re-
open Wednesday morning.
Your last chance to stock up at the
local firewater stores will be
Saturday night at 6 p.m,, as they too
will be closed until Wednesday
morning.
The post office will, operate as
usual on Saturday, offering both
rural route delivery and counter
service, but will be closed Sunday,
Monday, and Tuesday, except for
the lock box lobby, which will
remain open.
Don't bother to mail any letters
after Saturday at 2 p.m., until
Tuesday evening, as they just sit in
the mail boxes.
And last but not least, yours truly,
along with Shelley, Gary, Freda and
Peggy, will be taking a well-
deser'ved rest, as the News -Record
will be closed from Friday night
until Wednesday morning~
Because of this Monday and
Tuesday holiday, too, the paper will
be delayed one day, and will hit the
streets late
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