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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1978-12-21, Page 1• 1 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 $30 each. Edith ' and Norman Turrall of Egi ;ondville wrote council a hurr ± urous ditty on the dog problem in thei hainlet, They called their hamlet "Dogvil1e, commonly known as Egrrxondville". They report many dogs runiing tree causing a nuisance. Another • problem in Egmondville surf ced. at the meeting when Allan Nignolsdn, road. superintendent, who is al n charge df the water system also, sal a several, residents complained ab{o,t the bad taste and the bad smell their wafer had during the past two weeks. • Clerk Jack McLachlan said ac - Weather 1978 1977 to 10 N1 Ili Dec. C C F F 12 2.5 -3 35 -8 13 2 -2 36 33 14 1 _5 37 34 15 3.5 -2 38 32 16 3 -7 37 33 17 2 -3 38' 30 18 : 0 - 6 39 2$ .- , -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 .. ,.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 1 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 Turn to page 3 • 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 � cont tO 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. -1- -I- 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, n- Datioonmie,., `.thht la ,.. e � and' „World, srifd, tost of us here will StillhaVe the best Christmas ever. 4 4. - 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 Th uts;.. ay night. Bet'w}she s fo a o ofirs season; from all of tt liege at • ...., � the ew:� Record, les been a real pleasure ge ryl g a t '9,O0O' 1 you. • '90,000 Arena Rog!, canvass `75,000 '60,000 '45,000 0 '35,000 I '22,000 '10,000 r ,e , re Ch eta ed b. h s wa , . � � �► prays tcx � at le . y. �� 1*� t i. p o � tiho lyoavj'�"'' baa ed in a" strangee itto '1i1`. iiWlllis ;lditet# ,.1a Chtirc �, �t �'hur�ctay rrrea��lci ;:,I�e;,1'irc; ie a y have started froz a Christmas decoration on ► `aa , was disc+sver'cd`,by a nursery" schoolteacher and *tie action, moved the i5 hildren to the post office ,. q .. e itr background. 'The church suffered only smoke damage e and recoward'sphpo'a'ta), cked for thetunda-y service as usual. News- 'fit( .,... 10,