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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-09-12, Page 1127 YEAR -37 T iURSQAIY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1974 SIAL U''Bruce .,Bjorkquist, .... Clinton Centre head. Wants to leave dark daysbehin After the upheavals last year center could ' not respond to at Conestoga College of Ap- community needsfully because ec no o it was directed from Kitchener. plied Arts and T h 1gy • which, led ' to the , resignation of James Church 'as president, college personnel are looking forward to a new_ era under 'president Kenneth Hunter. "Conestoga; s Clinton Center enters that era under a new chairman. Bruce Bjorkquist of Goderich 'became head ad- ministrator there effective Sep- tember 1. He reflected the optimism throughout the college-'4during " an interview . when he •said: "We want to ,get into, the sun- shine and leave behind darker days:" •Mr. Bjorkquist replaces for- iner .Clinton -Center Chairman Ross Milton who now teaches-• and works on' technology development • at Cbnestoga's • Doon Center. This -change, in administration had, nothing to do with the reorganization . of the college as a whole, however, Mr. Bjorkquist said. The new chairman : has worked at the Clinton Center since September...,1971. He taught English in the academic upgrading program ' and 'a English and psychology, in the secretarial science program. Prior to his move to Clinton he taught English at the college'.s - Waterloo Center To meet these needs, the new chairman plans to seek the opinions of area industries and businesses to find out what qualifica'ti`ons they m feel graduates 'of the Clinton Center 0should have. He. welcomes all s ggestions from the area residehts .about courses and programs: lipping strike rings layoff 0 100 workers , Over 100 employees of the Goderich branch of Sifto Salt were laid off last week as •a result of the strike against the Canadian Lake' Carriers Association which ,began August 8. ,Sifto has completely curtailed, u'nderground , production in " Goderich and will not go back into operation until the strike is settled. Mine • manager W.K. Coughlan said Tuesday that the men would be called back to work immediately after the " ships are moving again. Mr. Bjorkquist has' some Since the beginning of the strike involving 475 deck of- - ficers and 400 engineers, Sifto 5haa been forced to store about 130,000 tons of salt. Workers at the compa'y's' evaporator plant will noise as directly affected by thstr.ike and will be kept w, rking to process the salt that is shipped by rail acid truck. Mr. Coughlan,said that the company could riot ride out the , strike under present conditions if it went into the winter and • Transit Company has not run into any difficulty over the strike and is operating at a nor • - mai level.. The company has not • received any western. wheat since the, strike began but. have been kept busy handling .On- tario grain. According to one company spokesman the company has no Goderich Garden Club members weren't the only ones with forseeable problems as a result entcieS .at the flower show last °Saturday. Junior• , winners, of the shipping stoppage. mernbers of the Goderich Green Thumbers, were ,(from left) Tiilson6urg officials tel! Goderich delegatlon all The Complex Committee, a group ,'of .interested citizens gathering to promote the recreation complex, :met last Thursday night and gained the. support of three,more areas of population. Ideas of his own. would be forced to ship a great Towns p land and could be added to A study group about the "'con- deal more of their product by body at °GDCI were rail. 1 two °building problems with tw ar present arena. The rec director troversial Mustard Report, for , m •,. on best marigold; Patrick Madden, best Canada Michael Madden, 9 3 lily; Michael Moriarity, best table arrangement; and Sharon" Moriarity, best table arrangement. (staff photo) Township rec c'ompl Bill Bogie and Grant McPhee from Colborne, Wayne Horner from° Goderich Town- ship and Pat Conlon, president of the student council at GDCI, attended the meeting to express their interest and. accept their, reps begin e.x-proposal The lollowin comments enable the students to ,use it • g during. school hours. were made by Martha Rath - 'This thought triggered some burn who serves on,�the corn- • discussion on where to put the Alex committee and accom- buildings, tennis courts and panied-•--t-he group to Tillson- track and field facilities. Some -burg.. ► of the members .thought' that Goderich and ' Colborne - responsibility in 'the project. '° Agriculture Park should be BY MARTHA RATHB.URN at the new.ice surface hi' s ' and' the student . The men met with the coni- used so th the represented mattee to discuss planned at the specta meeting with architects commissioned to chitects from Kyles, :1{yle.' nd pointed out that the extra ice' t f Stratford would not be, economical now example,' could be started in The Goderich Elevator and sketch the new proposal. the continuing education program. Mr. "Bjorkquist would ask specialists from the county .. to lead this group to more un- derstanding about the radical .changes in 'health care by the report. ° •. A similar group might be established to ' examine-,trs n- sportation problems in the county. One problem could be how ,the inability "to travel af- fects- people economically and '°emotiotlall'y. These ideas illustrate 'the , ' Cuntinlied on page l(i ur�n MOH,blasts Dr. Mustard's plan.. Dr. Frank . Mills, Huron Planning Task' Force County Medica'1 Officer of Mustard Report. Health, spoke to- members of In ,outlining the implications no mention. of-eosts could be . facilities but not qui p p made until more concrete plans 'enough to provide off-street h R tar Club on of the report ° where the eo Ce f of t h e' Janet o • #'he apparent concern. of the but' that present . use ' M. the i'4: nships is their financial arena. makes alt .clear ' that in 'a responsibility in payment for few years, another rink dill be the facilities combined with a necessity. - ti their right to use them, while -The other plot of land con - the students would tike the sidered for the venture is the ' buildings close to the high board of education property at school for easy access during the corner of Bennett and- the nd - the' class time Eldon Streets. This plot'is large The committee realized that enough 'for , all the planned 'te big the (�odera c o, �• u4 rs nd resented to them of Huron are concerned, he said were made as to wharwould be pa k' e Tuesday.•a p It won't he a commUnity cen- •tre without U. This was , a slogan used , by the Community' Centre -Committee. of Tillson- burg. They .went on, then, with simplified sketches 'of floor plans and what the Complex will '1 ave for YOU. • Teenage 'Centre - with facilitieds for .youth activities. • . Mens and Women's Health Club - and Sauna. • Large swimming pool, Olym- pic size - 25 metre, with one and, three,. metre boards, • bleachers for spectators, change r,king or • � rooms and locker area - of comm If h t lot were put to course.. the facts concerning the Health. - theunity will be respon- con facilities b Iding. tanning board looks The 32 -year-old Windsor to neW dui native holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of ' Windsor,-�a Master of Divinity Goderich_ ,,Area Rlanning degree ...from' ' Concordia Board, Tuesday,.. continued Seminary, St. Lou -is, and a " study . of a possible design Master of Arts de ree inregulate the' g bylaw which- would - Philosophy from the' University outside appearance' of houses, of Waterloo. He is working . and other buildings. _ towards his doctorate in Jean M'onteith, with Philosophy. Municipal . Planning Con - Mr. Bjorkquist served sultants, explained to the board Lutheran Congregations in . the problems of design bylaw. New Hamburg, Tavistock, If the bylaw regulated the Dashwood and Exeter as a. lay type of brick a builder could pastor. He also helped establish use, for example, and a new a °new congregation in the •and better type came onto the Goderich-Clinton area, serving'market in the future, the bylaw as h f t pastor ere or two years. would. have to be ammended. Ms. Monteith recommended Along • with his scholarly the best solution for -better than n. gn law acoustically, , tinned, -sprung floor, large stage, make up and " change room, also a club room off the stage. Auditorium may be used as one unit or divided into three separate activity areas. For dances, conventions, drama and musical programs 4etc. - large enough. • -- Kitchen • facilities for banquets, club dinners, social events along side auditorium. • Meeting rooms and craft. rooms. , for many ac- tivities.Senior':Citizens Centre, with a group, meeting and Lobby area, film projection, of- fice: and ',kitchenette; also a "quiet Room" for T.V. or reading. . •' .General lounge and smack bar facilities. • . -Recreation and ad - Ministration. -offices. This was attached to the Arena 'facilities making one complex. Hockey, 'figure -skating and other.' strutted or what ui e • Floor hockey, indoor tennis, Bible for the building, staff' would b the coat '' tie emp v fixed ° and maintenance of a munity health centre; all s from the , to p ,, staffing wou a included in - • , Auditorium, no t corn- 'plex. They assured the two men use without the outdoor track capacity 60.0, continued on pale 10 ick. towns 's ' that a then` there -would be room for seating,cap people will be bused at public reasonable system of payment expense to this centre (in would be worked out between Huron, it •could conceivably be • all the councils whose populous Clinton); patients on errvvou ival' . - Id benefit from the services. will be screened by a noon- Pat Conlon expressed the , professional receptionist; and position of the school body con - the patient must accept cerning the complex. and said whoever is available to- handle that the majority of the driveways, `lighting, hedges, their problem students felt that there. was a fences and even where •garbage would � ' need for more t result in a complete breakdown recreational facilities in town. 'Would be placed, Ms. Monteith Dr. Mills said this*great ,said. Pl. d h Hospitals; t�O . .... of the traditional patient- He suggested that .-the With a bylaw such as this, doctor relationship. recreation director give him. inning board could pressure stats' according to Dr. some 'survey forms _ ' 1?e a builder into. designing is Mills, will be designated for ' distributed am-ortg the students building to. conform with iter- specific specialties -for exam to get a more detailed idea of taro neighbourhood ap- pre, Fall surgery could be•their feelings. - pearance, she said. • scheduled In 'Goderich, all ob- Mr. Conlon also brought up Building ,,inspecto,r Roy stetrics 'in` Seafort•h'etc... • .the problem of geography that' Breckenridge told the board All 'hospitals w'iluld change seems to be the big stumbling that under the present bylaws a nearly 500 cars between the complex parking lot ....and '-the high school lot. Some suggestion was made for using the airport property for the complex ;or moving the • track out of town to Skv Hari bor and using the' track land for' the project, d The final suggestion was that the architects draw up plans for Agriculture. Park. and the high school property with the idea•of `gaining maximum •use of land available and placing as many of the' .services on the same property as the complex. The committee went on a field trip to Tillsinburg to tour that town's new' community d t ain 'some in - Builder can give his building their pattern o use, s block. If citizens see these offences taking pl they a t' d th t the high school sight into what was needed and b the'OPP to record licence numbers of the cars violating it owners can no longer C-ar 'claim innocence,. ignorance. Owners of vehicles, not just drivers, will be charged for noise violations under a new policy of the Ontario Provincial Police, Goderich detachment. The Goderich OPP detachment advises that because police . often just get the licence number of a vehicle committing' a noise offense, the owner will be charged with the offense un- der provisions of the' Highway Traffic Act., The owner of the vehicle is liable to penalty if 'his cad is. - driven by'someone elae, but if the driver is' named only the 'driver will be charged, , c - The OPP will be watching for cars `with loud muffler systems, persons : using horns excessively, and persons driving cars who create unnecessary noise by squealling•tires and unnecessary fast acceleration, ace, re asked aid •Dr.. bl k. forthe committee. He complex an o. g any appearance as long as conforms to, zoning bylaws. f Mills. mentioned a Huron presently enjoys a would like to see the complex .what should be included in the v ,t the laws, and p re ort them to police: satisfactory patient/doctor ratio built near' their property' to Goderich proles n the province as a background, he has experience A similar problem could be thatwhole, the. MOH said. He went ° ' ° in industry with Rinshed aencountered if Zither types of Goderich would be.a design on to say, however, that if the f Canade and J.M. building' materials are review board composed of ar- Mustard Report was implemen- Mason Co. o regulated. The zoning bylaw chitects, engineers, surveyors, Schneider Ltd. r - ' Under the- new college would- have to be continually builders and other ° qualified resident, Mr. Bjorkquist said amended °so builders in town persons which would hew' buildings.' xamine ppace with develop- plans for . the Clinton Center will have could keep more autonomy to develop mens in their industry. Builders a agreementwith the courses' and• programs which Under the Planning Act, will better serve Huron County, bylaw_ could ne created to conform with plans,+ • sl In the, past, he continued, the regulate ; where parking lots, FIy-in'service • Restaurant serves all! Goderich may not ,Havethe wealth eating Aestablish- ments found in large citiesin Canada but those that are here eater to their customers. Nomatter what -mode of transportation hungry people in Goderich are using they can get to a restaurant and flying --is - no exception. Publisher R,G. Shrier was sitting in his car iii the parking lot at Sky Ranch restaurants last week when an airplane swooped down over the building, landed at Sky Harbor, taxied up to the restaurant,and four people -got ont and went, inside ,for a bite to eat. only, place in town you can't get a coffee is at the bot- tom of the harborr but who knows what some bright young developer` "will do with that situation. - The board• put the matter 'aside. fcir •a month for further ted. Huron- would stand to lose somedo'tors since doctors mill be restricted to practice in a designated area under threat of A Goderich area woman suf- expulsion from OHIP. fered head injuries as a result He said the hierarchy under _ ,of an auto accident September oman injured in auto accident • • i such a scheme would be all 4 at ' the corner. of Bayfield non-professional personnel 'Road and Blake Street, Continued on It"";c 16 Goderich police report. • study. , Man badly burned in. industrial mishap ,A .Goderich 'man was Beverly burned in an industrial acs• cident ,at they Lakeport Steel ` pl ill•.' bn Nelson,. Street early Monday{,.morning. Allen. Cooke of 213 Warren Street'in Goderich was taken to Alexandra Marin'e.and General Hospital irntnediately ,after the accident. Following treatment for burns was rushed to Univer- sity Hospital in London. He is in intensive are at the hospital (Attu *L&, 1,4)11111W/6 15 lisLeo as serious. - , According to the rnana'of. Lakeport Steel, Mr. Cooke was 'using a cutting torch on a 45 gallon druin when it exploded and started the fire. The.tanks for the torch caught, fire and the Goderich - Volunteer - Fire Department was,, called to the scene. ° The extent of the burns Mr. Cooke received= has not been revealed. t> Minnie M. Rope, RR 2 Goderich, was injured when the car she was driving and •ve•n by collided at the corner of Vic- .toria and Elgin Streets. '— Damages were $400 to the another vehicle dri Cameron , L: Reder, RR Bayfield, collided, Police estimate damages at Zwickmer .car and $600 to the ' 'f ay�r ca- police estimate.r $1,000 to each tier.• On September 5, ,ears driven by Charles C. ' Zickmer of Grand Bend and Roy W. Tayt r RR 2 Lucknow; -4001044111116 l l Damages were $1 5 o driven by Danny B. Rivett, of °Dungannon, and $250 to a car driven by James A. Bradley, tom, r 104 Newgate St., when the vehicles. collided September 5 on the Liquor Control Board of Ontario parking lot • In other duties, .polie,e laid two charges under the criminal, Code, 23 under the Highway Tra'ffie 'Act, four under the Liquor Control Act and, one un- der the Liquor Licence . Act. • - • This fenderbender cost $2,000