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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1980-12-18, Page 1Yearly controversy No pay for committees: Counci By Shelley McPhee Rehashing an issue that has become a yearly controversy, Clinton council has held its decision not to, pay coin alittee-antilaoard-membem- - In a recorded vote, council defeated a motion to pay Councillor Geerge Rumball and Deputy Reeve Frank Van Altena $12 a meeting to sit on the fire area board. Presented by Councillor Rumball at council's December 15 session, the motion askedthat he and Deputy Reeve Van Altena be paid for the board meetings they attend. The motion also requested that former Mayor Harold Lobb and Deputy Reeve Van Altena be paid for the fire area.board meetings they attended in 1979 and 1980. Councillor Ruraball-explained that in previous years the board paid members for meetings they attended. However a year ago, legislation was • changed requiring the municipalities served by the board to pay members. Councillor Rumball reported that Clinton Fire Area Board Members, —from -Stanley-, Tuckers-mith, Hullett - and Goderich Township hve been receiving payment from their muncipaliCes, but Clinton council representatives have not. The various townships pay their members fees ranging from $15 to $25, depending on the distance they have to travel to the meetings which are held in Clinton. For the past two years, Clinton board members have received no payment and Clerk Cam Proctor reported that council was never notified of the change. Clerk Proctor reported that he had looked at the change in legislation and the law does not state that the municipality must pay rnernbers, but allows either the council or the fire area board to make Just before their stage appearance, there were the usual jitters, jiggles and giggles but with a red corsage for everyone, the Christian School Senior Choir looked as attractive as they sounded. The students performed for a capacity crowd at the school's Christmas concert. (Shelley McPhee photo) payments. He noted, "If the board sets' :the rate, then everyone will be paidthe same amount and it will be less -confusing-'2.- -- Unless the board agrees IV ,pay Clinton's members, they won't receive any money since Clinten Council turned down the motion in a five to three vote. Mayor Chester Archibald, Reeve Ernie BrOwn, Councillor Rosemary Aim Wong, Councillor Wayne Lester and Councillor Ron McKay defeated the motion with their "Nay" vote, while. Councillor Ross Jewitt, Councillor Rumball and Deputy Reeve Van Altena supported the motion. In rejecting the motion, Councillor McKay brought up past arguements by noting, "I've been on the rec committee and the fair board for four years. I haven't missed a meeting and I haven't collected a penny." "I think it's just grossly unfair. You either pay everybody or nobody," he stressed. Councillor Armstrong agreed and said that the issue had been discussed before when the cemetery board requested regular payments- -for meeting attendance. Councillor Arnis fr a th at She is- paid. $5-a meeting for sitting on the waste disposal site board but would do the work if she were paid or not. CouncillorMcKay said that the cemetery board received paythent only because last year's budget was not itemized. He warned that as finance chairman, this wouldn't happen again. The fire area board is the only other committee served by Clinton that pays their members. s "People who don't get paid work as hard as those who do and I'm not saying that I want to be paid," Councillor Armstrong added. Settle down kids, we still hve six days until Christmas Eve, so there's- no sense getting up early every morning to check and see if the jolly old gent has been here yet. You'll be so tired by next Thursday morning, youll all fall asleep before you can wreck any neviteys: As you can see, the countdown has started at our house, and. at many other houses containing both exuberant young children and sufficient income, the two basic necessities to a materialistic successful Christmas. Let's hope, the true Christmas spirit can shine through all the phoney tinsel and greediness that has become rampant in our Western World Christmases. + And sometime Sunday, winter officially starts as the sun reaches its winter solstice. If you're a pessimist, you'd look upon that as a depressing sign of three more months of winter, and with the temperature already hitting minus 19 C (-2 F) on Wednesday morning, it could be a long and cold one. However, if your an optimist, you'd look upon December 21 as a positive sign, as the days are now getting longer, and eventually we'll all be back out in the garden after supper, with our shirtsleeves rolled up! I think I prefer to be the latter. Again, because both Christmas and New Year's fall on Thursdays this year, our regular publishing days, we will be coming out one day early, so all the deadlines have been moved back 24 hours. Which means the classifieds have been moved back to noon on Monday, while the final copy and display ad deadline is 5 pm Monday evening, It would be a great help if our advertisrs and correspondents would sent as much copy in on Thursday and Friday as possible. "I think the editor has been had," the Main Street Wit said last week after seeing that picture of strange animal supposedly shot by Jack Peck of Kippen and party. "That's neither a meer or a douse, just a lot of bull," the Wit said laughingly. I owe you one, Jack ' -I- -I- We try as much as possible to encourage new talent in our community, given the limited space we have to work, with, so we're pleased to be publishing several budding cartoonists and hope they will become regular features in our paper. Bud Sturgeon of Bayfield is drawing the "Loogan Family", while Paul Samways of Goderich Township, a student at Central Huron Secondary School is drawing "Just Life." 4- + As is the custom this time of year with most weekly newspapers, Christmas concert p coverage becomes one of our main pastimes the middle of December. And this year is no exception with a dozen to be covered which means plenty of pictures. Unfortunately, it also means that, like the Santa Claus parade, we can't get all those photos in the paper, so you'll have to forgive us if you son, or neice, or granddaughter didn't make it this year. We'll get them in, eventually. The Wit says that the day before Christmas is nothing but a wrap race. To which we might add: eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow it will cost more. e CIL th,er -4980 1979 4H1 LO HI LO DECEMBER 9 2 -1 2.5 -7.5 10 0 -3 4 -5 11 -3 10 11 3 12 2 -8 - 8 1 13 2.5 -8 -3-8.5 14 -3 - 10.5 - 2 -5 15 3 Rain- Rain 14.5mm Snow 6 cm Snow 2 cm Neighbours Albert POstma, left, and Henry Dost were just two of the people who helped clean up ruins of a 200 by 40 foot barn that burned down last Sunday morning on the farm of Stan Vanderwal, south of Varna. Over 25,000 chickens were lost in the blaze'which caused an estimated $100,000 damage. (photo by James Fitzgerald) Anger can be handled experts say by Shelley McPhee Are you a screamer or a smasher? . Do you find yourself short of breath, with sharp pains in your chest or in tears?. At At one time or another, everyotW ' experiences one or more of these feelings for they all tie into one common, but complex anger Gaining a better understanding of the ernotiod, what- sets if off,- how to controL4t and how different people react to it was the topic of discussion when Huron's Women Today met in Clinton • Susan McPhail and Arlene Tim- mins, organizers of the Hawthorne Counselling Collective in London, met with the 15 women present to talk about the complexities of anger. The women, from -Clinton, Goderich, Exeter, Wingham and the area exchanged tpoughts and asked questions about the emotion that Mrs. McPhail described as an important one to: study because, "We have so many weird and wonderful ways of expressing it." Mrs. McPhail, who in the past has been involved on psychological studies on the emotion, said that anger is one of the most powerful feelings that humans possess and it shapes peoples' experiences more than many realize. "How Nve feel about our anger shows a little about how we feel about ourselves," she noted and added, "If I say I don't get angry then that means f'm probably hiding my emotions . "- Because of its strength, violent and aggressive implications, most people. are afraid of anger. Many fear that if the emotion is unleashed at full force Clinton council choose various committee members By Shelley McPhee With a new term, Clinton council is set to begin their two years in office. At their December 15 meeting, council passed a motion naming council members and Clinton citizens OS the various boards and committees of council. Deputy Reeve Frank Van Altena will head council's- firSt corwtnittee and will carry on his chairmanship of the police committee. The new council member, yet to be appointed, will look after protection to person and property and Councillor Ron McKay has taken ow? the task of managing the town's finances. A new member of council, Councillor Ross Jewitt will be in charge of bylaws and Mayor Chester Archibald will head any special committees, Reeve Ernie Brown is in charge of council's' second committee and he will continue to look after public works. Councillor Rosemary Arm- strong will continue to report to council on sanitation and waste. Councillor Wayner Lester will serve his first term in council looking after general government and' Councillor George.. Rumball will report on the industrial happenings in town. Council also made several ap- pointments to various committees and boards in the town and the area. Councillor Rumball will be the town's representative on the industrial committee and Reeve Brown and Councillor Jewitt will sit on the cemetery board. Councillor McKay will again serve on the recreation committee and Councillor Lester will also represent the council here. Deputy Reeve Van Altena and Councillor Rumball were chosen to sit on the fire area board and Councillor Lester will report on the planning board decisions. Councillor Armstrong will continue w ue Clinton's ii tie iocal waste disposal site committee and she will also sit on the Clinton Public Hospital board. Reeve Brown will continue to serve on the Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority and Bert Gliddon will again report to council on the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority. Mayor Archibald and Councillor. Jewitt were named as members to the -spring fair board and Councillor_ McKay will _again serve on the LACAC committee. Slippery roads blamed for ladies' injuries Slushy, slippery roads are -being blamed as the cause of a December 9 accident that sent two pedestrians to hospital with major injuries. The Clinton Police reported that the two ladies, Agnes Carbert, 77 and Margaret Renalds, 67, both of Clinton, were crossing Victoria Street when they were struck by an oncoming car. The car, driven by Thomas Vance, 16, of Goderich was unable to stop for the pedestrians when they stepped from the curb onto the icy, snow covered highway. The women were taken to Clinton Public HOspital were both are in satisfactory condition. Damage to the Vance vehicle was set at $50 and no charges were laid. Wayne Dowell, 20, of RR 2, Clinton walked away without injuries and his car only received $25 in damages,bui the hydro pole it hit was badly damaged and snapped in two. The December 13 crash occurred on Isaac Street after Mr. Dowell failed to negotiate a turn and instead slid off the icy street. Damage to the pole was set at $800. they'll be out of control, do something they'll regret later, offend others, make a foll of themselves and the greatest concern of all, fear that they could be angryenough to kill. The sometimes uncontrollable, irrational actions that result from anger are not only psychologically controlled. In fact, when the e motionaL spark to. _ange r_is lit leaves the brain and organs and concentrates. in the limbs. and parts.of the body where it's power can be discharged through the violent ac- tions of striking someone or something. With the rush., of blood from the brain, the emotion' can easily take control of the mind and logical, clear, rational thinking can be made nearly impossible. But according to Mrs. McPhail, there are ways of dealing with the emotion before it reaches this destructive level. When she, for in- stance, feels the fierceness of the emotion building up to a peak, she takes three deep breaths. h -at settles the anger down and caliiis me. It makes .me Stabte PPct grounds me." "Once you're more rational," Mrs. McPhail went on to tell the .group, "Then you can talk without laying the blame on someone else." "Destructive name-calling is useless. Anger doesn't have to be an explosive thing,- Mrs. Timmins added. Ange,r's release does not have to havethe power of dynamite. This is what the Hawthorne councillors term "dirty anger," a real explosion that's built up for a long time. Instead they stress the use of "clean anger," by letting your feelings known and deal ing with the problem on a small level, instead of waiting until a number of angers accumulate. Despite anger's negative con- notations, the emotion does. not have to be destructive. When handled properly, anger can be a positive force. Asi*er demands change, it says that you're 'Caring for yourself and'other By blocking the emotion and-tur- -- -ning -it- ir.ward7peoplernay. beCO.raP very hateful and lose their self respect. Keeping the feeling inside can a'lSo lead to a number of physical problems like migraine headaches, ulcers, chest pain 7 and even tooth decay. n to page 3 Fire level Slur Varna barn By Jim Fitzgerald Fanned by .high winds, fire last Sunday morning took only an hour to completely level a large chicken barn .son the farm of Stan Vanderwati- a 1/2 mile south of Varna on County road 18. The three-storey, 200 by 40 foot barn contained 25,000 young chickens, which were also lost in the blaze, The fire was discovered about 11:30 am in the north end of the barn in the furnace room, and the fire depart- ments from Brucefield and Bayfield were unable to do anything but watch it_burn to the _ground. Damage is estimated at close to the $100,000 mark, and was covered by insurance. A barn on the same farm also burned down seven years ago before Mr. Vanderwal purchased the farm. 4 01' Christmas just couldn't be complete without little fin soldiers and the Grade1,, 2 and Special Needs class at St. Joseph's Separate SChool in Clinton Wet% decked out in tall hats for Wednesday's Christmas concert. Standing straight and tall, the young soldiers entertained the audience with a medlay of tune played with their sticks, triangles, cymbals and bells. (Shelley McPhee photo)