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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1980-03-06, Page 1or 115th Year o, 1 C Thursday,-Mprch. 6, 1980. , - ' 35 cents celled, The plipils at Vaimstra Public Sehool had an added tieat lii,St 'friday during their Eskimo,. Day celebration, when' uckersmith council -against war 13o-ard (OMB) hearing, the the scheduled Ontario . Municipal ys caused by the objections and for Many it was their first trip, Wayne McFadden; and Dave Dunsmore drove the two sleighs and their delighted passengers. (News -Record photo) By'Shelley McPhee super -again,"' Clerk Cam Proctor told another objector-, =-Would make WasT, markete possibility yto of Cl another has council. that he'd, "leave It the way it sits." g Maynard Corrie, one of the ob- The third objector, Ozzie Kuenzig dergone a major setback. jectors the spot zoning which from the Clinton TGA, Was out of town Clanton council learned at their allowed -the supermarket in a zone 6 and unavailable for comment. March_3....nn ing that K :echtelaFood...., ---are .sairi--that -TMhe- would -drop his.......--To,....,p n further- pet-zo i Stores would no longer be following complaint for the time being, but difficulties in the area the super- their proposal to open a business at . would object again if another market was. to be built, council is the westerly limits of Clinton, . supermarket was proposed for the planning to amend the zoning bylaw., . Ina letter from the developers, who spot.. This: would allow a ,supertnarket in own the land between Potter's Farm Mr, Corrie had objected to the zone 6, a multiple. use area, rather Machinery and the Pim Haven Motor supermarket because he said the new then making special spot zoning Hotel where the store was to be business would weaken the existing change. located, it was explained that due to stores in the downtown core. dela= Clerk Proctor explained, Then you Regarding his objection, the, only won't have to go through, all of this comment that Gordon Johnston, everytime someone wants to built in By Wilma Oke Tuckeisrnith Township Council will oppose the petition Tor ,a ward system for Vanastra which 160 residents of the harnlet signed and presented to 'council 28 days ago on February 5. At a coUncil session Tuesday night, Councillor William Brown made a motion that council accept the petition as president "if that is what they (Vanastra) want". However no one would second his motion. , made___a_motlen, _that township For pool construction council opppse the ward system for Vana,stra and stay the same, as one tnunicipality. His motion was,. seconded by Councillor RObert Fotheringham and the motion was - Councillor Frank Falconer made a successful motion that the township solicitor, Donald Stewart of Seaforth, be authorized to advise the Ontario Municipal Board of the township's , objeetion to the petition. When the petition was received, council refused tp forward it to OMB, but the • Vanastra committee did. It is ex- pected that OMB will call a hearing on the proposal. . Council had questioned s__whether Vanastra ratepayers bad Wanted a ward system for Vanastra• onlY, or for the whole township, Harvey Ham- mond, a Vanastra ratepayer:- said that any meetings he had attended on the subject asked only that Vanastra be made a• ward but it was not in- tended that they push a ward system - • on the rest of the township. Council approved the 19_80 roa_d__, Nicholson, road superintendent, for "$265,450, compared to $273,000 last Contractor. wants ritiore$ $4,000 for safety devices (road signs). year. One item in the budget includes, The long and controversial future of the new Clinton pool is not clear yet. This week Clinton town council learned Mat the tender price they' accepted took an unexpected increase of over $7,000. At their March 3 meeting, council ° heard that the successful bidder, C.A. McDowell from Exeter, had in- creased his costs by $7,030, raisin the*. total cost of the proposed new pools from $194 700 to $201 730. In a letter to the recreation board, read. at council, it was explained that the mechanical costs were $1,800 more than Mr. McDowell expected, electrical costs were $1,600 and labor eosts of $3,600 had been omitted from his bid'. Mr. McDowell said he would sign the contract to build the pool at his, new -err ated price, but council is not eager to accept this. A meeting is being planned with the reerealtion committee and Mr. McDowell to negogiate a new price and council is' hoping that they won't have to re - 'tender the project for the third tirri-e. Clerk Cam Proctor reminded council that in 1978 when Mr. McDowell was tendering for the arena floor project, he omitted $40,000 and wanted out of the contract. In that bid he didn't include the price of the o an co rine system and would lose abOut $40,800 on the project. Although Mr. McDowell *anted out of the project, the recreation committee said he could sign the contract or lose his $15,000 deposit submitted With his tender. The contract was signed, and the job completed for the original lower contract price. As occurred with the arena, Councillor Rob Parr said that miscalculations on the pool costs where the contractor's own fault. I think it must be the Russians getting back at all North Americans for their loss of the gold medal in hockey competition at the recent Olympics. How else would you explain the recent cold snap that set new records.from Timmins to Key West, Florida. 1 In fact, accordirig to the newspapers, one could pick their frozen orange juice right from the trees in Florida this week, and the Canadian visitors and natives alike took to wearing Oats, mitti, and touques. Up here in God's country, the mecury droppped so low that it nearly froze a couple of nights, and the -29 degree Celcius reading (- 18.4 F) recorded out at Brucefield on Sunday morning, March 2, is believed to be a new all-time record low temperature for that date and for the entire mOnth of What warmth we had during the first part Of the winter was more than cancelled during February, --which will go down in history as -a cold, dry month. The mean temPerature forrthe month was a very chilly -7.2 C (18. F) far colder than the average of - with a total- of 46.9 mm of precipitation falling, coinpared to the average of 77 min. And March shouldn't be any tietter, according to all those supersitious readers of our fair paper. Look at what's going against the month: there are two full moons this month, one on the 2nd and another on the 31; there is the Ides on the 15, so keep a watch out behind you, if your name is or Ceasar ; and Mardi came in like a very cold lamb, which means it will go out like a lion. -lhe Main Street wit this week wonders why everybody i8 fighting conversion to the metric system. "It should be easy to learn;" he says. "How can a country that has been used to living with feet, furlongs, acres, rods, fathoms, B c9ps, petite, extra large, 'and Niko Queen -size, be confused by the metlic system." An over -eager heat detector at the Clinton Hospital last Saturday and again on Monday had the Clinton volunteer firemen scrambling for a few moments, but all were flase alarms. But they did answer a couple of real fire calls in the past couple Of weeks, both chimney fires. One was at the Bill Marsh home on High Street, while the other was to the Ed Deeves farm out in Goderich Township on February 27. There was little damage in either blaze. We'd like to welcome a new correspondent to our Vanastre Voice this week, Moira Robinson. She joins Esther Handy, who is also- - a relative newcomer to our pages in gathering that hamlet's news. Good luck repoiters. With spring still a few weeks off yet, winter activities continue to highlight many of the happenings in the area this weekend, and one of those highlights should be the Figure Skating club's skating show this Friday night, March 7 at the arena: I know the youngsters have really put a lot of work into their show, the first in quite a few year's, so they would appreciate your support. And of course, hockey is still very much alive and wellsin town, particularly with the Juniors, who have a good shot at winning the league title this year, but it's going tObe hard on the boys. They must have their series with Port Elgin finisheld by Sunday, so tthey will be playing Thursday night in Clinton, Friday night in Port Elgin,. and if necessary, Saturday night in Clinton and Sunday in Port Elgin, All games in Clinton start at Should the Mustangs win the series, then they would enter the provincial playdowns as early as next Tuesday against either Lem ington, or our arch-rivnm, Last year the cost_ to Tuckersrnith ratepayers for road signs was $3,346.45 and almost the entire sum_ was to replace signs stolen or destroyed by vandals. Approval has been received for the replaternent of one bridge in the township wileh will be located in the Three esca • Three Bayfield residents were hospitalized after the car they were travelling in rolled following a single car crash on Highway- 84,-- one mile west of Flensall on March 2. Patrick Brandon, 22, the driver of the car and passengers Mary Ann Rathwell, 18 and Michael Wainer, 19, all of Bayfield were taken to South • Huron Hospital in Exeter, following • the accident. Mr. Warner was treated 1 - • and released from hospital the same night and Miss Rathwell was tran- sferred to University Hospital in London, suffering from broken collar bones and minor injuries. Mr. Brandon was reported to be in satisfactory eondition in South Huron. The Exeter OpP said that the Brandon vehicle was westbound on Highway 84 about 7:30 pm when the car rolled at least twice before coming to rest. The Goderich OPP, reported that one driver received minor injuries following a two car crash on Highway 8. that resulted in over s5,000 in damages. Road budget needs $95,M0 Huron 'County will have tio come up _with an additional $95;000 to spend on roads in 1980, an increase of eight per, cent over -last y.ear. In the budget presented to county council last Thursday it was nMed that proposed expenditures actuailly are up only 6.7 per cent, a total 'in- crease • of $219,000. However the Ministry of Transportation and Communications has reduced its subsidy by $33,000 this year, meaning more of the money must be raised through the county levy. Engineer Bob Dempsey explained the major increaSe in the budget is due to the energy situation. Asphalt prices are up to $150-$160 per ton, he reported, corirpared to $70-$75 when he came fo.the county two years ago. MCKillop TOwnship Reeve Allan Campbell lied a suggestion how the county could save some money, but it didtiq get very Tar. Mr. Campbell said that while he had no quarrel with the $1,366 the county spent on repairing the Hullett- McKillop boundary bridge last year, he did question the $10,000 budgeted for engineering studies on that bridge and another one in 1990. He could have told the county the bridge is in bad Shape, he com- mented, and he Would have been glad to dO it for a lot less than $10,000. "If you'lliund 80 per cent of the cost I'll be glad tb 'take your word," Mr, Dernpsey responded. He- explained the 1VITC requires an engineering ittudy to qualify a project for subsidy. Weather 1980 1979 HI LO oard wants new accord over hall BY DAVE SYKES The Huron County Board of Education will ask Goderich Town- ship council to accept a reworded agreement on mutual responsibilities regarding the proposed township community centre in Holmesville. The board's management com- mittee presented an agreement to the car rollover Randy Schmidt, 28, of Goderich received minor injuries following the February 23 accident when his car and a second vehicle driven by Gerald Blake, 45, of Clinton collided. The Goderich OPP reported that the Blake car was eastbound on High- way 8, east of Holmesville, and the Schmidt vehicle waS westbound when the two eollided on the centre line. -D-a-mage to the Blake. car was $2,000 and damage to the Schmidt car was set at $3,500. Ruth Gates, 35, of RR 5, Clinton and a passenger in the car she was. driving, Tracy Ferguson, both received minutnual injuries following a March 3 car accident: The Goderich OPP reported that the collision occurred between the Gates car and a second vehicle driven by Kenneth Leddy, 45, of RR 2, Auburn while they were travelling down County Road 18, east of High- way 21. Damage to each car was set at $500. A high speed ride resulted in a damaged truck, broken window, parking meter and sign in Clinton on Saturday. Clinton Police reported that a vehicle driven by Richard Konarski, 35, of RR 1, Blyth wastravelling down Turn to page 3 • Monday session that was hammered out with the township listing con- ditions and responsibilities and general problems of mutual concern ‘over the proposed_cpmrmmity centre. However, several of the seven points listed in the agreement and presented by 'trustee, Bert Morin, came under close scrutiny from board members and sections of the agreement were subsequently The original aireeinent called for both parties to take dual respon- sibility for the maintenance of the septic tank and tile bed system located south of Holmesville School. The new community centre will be served by the existing. school water system, and the township agreed to share the maintenance costs of the system. At the insistence of trustee Dave Gower and others the board agreed to reword those points of the agreement to read that the township and the Board will take responsibility for maintenance and or replacement of the septic tank, tile and water system. The agreement also stipulates that the community centre multi-purpose rooth 'would be available to the school for at, least three hours' per day to conduct physical education Gower expressed concern that under a one-year agreement the township could, in future, either in- fringe upon the three-hour minimum or delete it altogether. The final point of the document called for an annual revision of the agreement but board members voted narrowly in favor of including the words 'cost sharing' in front of the the word agreement. Under the terms of the agreement the board will pick up added custOdial costs resulting from ' mutually arranged usage and they will transfer chairs and equipment to the centre for mutual use. the cosi of wahsroom supplies will also be shared bv both Board super retires Huron County Beard of Education superintendent, Jim COUlter,. sur- prisingly announced his retirement to the board in a committee -of -the -whole session, Monday. Coulter, who has been with the Huron board for 20 years as inspector and superintendent, will officially retire June 30. Coulter, who will be 55 in May, taid he planned the early retirement adding that a recent heart attack also influenced his decision. He began his carerr teaching in one - room schools in the pre war years and later taught elementary school in Kitchener. In 1955 he became master of the Stratford Teachers. College, a 'position he held for five years. In 1960 he accepted a position as government school inspector for the towns of Gpderich, Clinton and Seaforth and the townships of Goderich, Colborne,Hullet and McKillop. When the County school Boards were formed- in 1969, Coulter became the first superintendent for the Huron County Board. Following -the acceptance of the resignation the board agreed to re- _ evaluate the superintendent structure before seeking a -replacement. Coulter was one of four superin- tendents on the board's staff that includes W.D. Kenwell, R.B. Allan and R.B. Dunlop. It Wag family picket day foi the Clinton local of the Bell Telephone operators, who are members of the striking Communication Workers of Canada *Union. nusbinds and'children joined striking mothers as they walked up and down, In front of the Rattenbury Street smite*/ building on a very cold Saturday morning. No end is in sight for the two.month strike, and many women who are suppertin,ig families aro forced to live on $8 a week *hike pay, et timi a temporary job. (Newsoltetord photo) ,