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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-10-02, Page 1.;a Housing committee establishes goIs The Goderich Housing Action Committee will undertake a senior citizen housing needs survey after a similar project was rejected by the Ontario Ministry of Housing. The Ministry conducted a survey earlier in the year and indicat,d to the town that there was no demand for ,such accQrinpodation In Goderich, .The Ministry checked with .... John Lyndon, .housing manager for Gad'erich, and found 11 applications on file for housing and determined that only three were in need of immediate housing. The minimum sized'project considered by the Ministry„is 10-15 units and a ministry spokesman said it was nit feasible • to consider a development. If the housing need changed then Council will sanction Highway 21 the ministry would reconsider its decision at the request of town council. The housing Action committee has decided that it ‘91 now attempt tp conduct its own housing needs.studywith the cooperation of the townships. The committee cited the main reasons for the lack of.applications for the program was that senior citizens were not aware of the existence of the housing authority, and the ministry based its needs study on, the applications. The meeting of the committee was its first. Don Wheeler was elected chairman and the committee set out its aim of examining tl>le housing situation in the town. 0 ry erg d . 1 2 R YEAR -40. THURSDAY, ,OCTOBER 2, 1975 SINGLE COP Y.,2 5 c is nnin Goderich town council agreed in a cornmitte,e meeting Monday afternoon that they would definitely be giving the.. - official OK at„aregular council widening` n.�wf�r efficient r�ute desiq.n. meeting in' October to widen Highway 2.1 from ,Vittoria Street to the required `southern limits of the town. The decision was agreed to in Mirror,. mirror on the wall 9 1 Who is the ugliest person at Robertson Memorial School? Well,,.' entries it will be a tough decision. A person may vote for his that won't be decided until Friday but pictured above are the favorite ugly byo contributing a nickel. The contributions front' contestants in the ugly person contest and judging frotn the the contest are being. used to purchase a cuss set of snowshoes. • 04. ° President says .Sunday er I C morning.. is . fir church will buy hockey ice time in BIyi ., The. Goderichecreation of the minor hockey provide. He estimated that the Board agreed to purchase ice association, explained to board , five nights could net ' ap- time on three successive members that teachers ex- 'proximately $1,000 in revenue Friday nights in •Blyth for the, pressed some concern about plus the canteen sales, minor hockey association who µthe participation of players who Mr. Jackson also unveiled approached the board travelled out of town\during the, plans for a minor hockey requesting ice time in Goderich week. He noted that the Friday exhibition program at the on those nights. night ice time was an excellent arena on October 31 in lieu of This year the Goderich alternative for the reason at public skating. The evenings Sailors Intermediate B hockey ' ,least. However the minor activities were to also feature a club changed its home dates to hockey program is scheduled to raffle and a draw, Mr. Lumby Wednesday night leaving the start on October 20 and because suggested that participation in Friday night time slot open. of public skating, alternate ' an evening's events could best Minor hockey picked up the time was needed.„, for” ..some be generated through public available ice' time but the teams. , skating. « Friday night schedule could not Arena manager, Bill Lumby Board member Lynn Myers start until November 14 stated that Friday night public' reiterated the sentiments of the because public skating . was skating was a far more arena manager, „claiming that booked until that time. lucrative venture than a hockey schedule on that night Rairiford Jackson, president anything minor hockey could would be taking awA'y from the the special „committee meeting called to allow council to discuss the project with several representatives of the provincial Ministry of Tran- sportation and Communication. The goahead nod from council brings the project, one steer, cleser to reality with,the only major decision remaining being the design of the widened highway. Council investigated several possibilities for The widened roadway to allow for the most efficient manner of traffic flow using the least amount of property. They asked the MTC representatives • to meet with them, to advise • •:them of the merits of the proposals made , for the project. The end.,result of the meeting was yet another idea for reconstructing the roadway moving the centreline of high- way 21 slightly west at the intersection of Bayfield Road and Britannia Road. The move would allow for two lanes,, north and p two south 'but would require the purchase of only one of the lots at the in- tersectiorri. 'Previous plans called for the purchase of lots on both sides of • ,v. kids who don't play hockey or figure skate. He explained that a good percentage of the arena ice time was devoted' to' youngsters who play hockey or figure skate and 'a child who does neither is lost in' the shuffle. The only alternative was to purchase the ice time :for the league to accommodate the variety of activities.' Mr. Jackson was satisfied with the 'arrangement and stated that ° the association has been for- tunate in gaining a goodper- centage of ,ice -time this year. The minor hockey association has shifted ice time from (pontrnued ort page 1b) �fraveliersRotary visitors and &*� Four'students involved in the Rotary International exchange program were hi Goderich Tuesday night at a `Rotary meeting explaining the operation and benefits derived from the ex- change. The students included Doug Anderson (left) of Stratford ,who spent a year'iln Brazil; Sylvia Silva of Barretos, Brazil who came to Canada in February and is living in Stratford; Yrjo Leskinen of Tempere, Finland, who just arrived In Canada on Sept. 1 and is also living in Stratford; and Wendy Roode, Stratford, who spent a year in Brussells, Belgium. ( staff photo) the highway -that now contain a house on the west side of the corner and a store on the east. The- new scheme+ requires the purchase of the lot containing the house and only a small portion of the one housing the store. Town engineer Burns Ross was requested r by council to prepare a plan showing the land requirements and the road patterns at • the intersection ' with the centreline of the high- way moved. The new plan will have traffic travelling south on the highway, ,moving the' save as they do under the present system except vehicles will have a turning ramp onto Bayfield Road off Britannia. Traffic going north will be able to turn west at a stop sign and proceed north.on Victoria on a turning ramp from Britannia. All traffic turning east, on Britannia Road from Bayfield Road will do so on °a Earning ramp to keep the lane clear and facilitate a more efficient flow of vehicles. The only other consideration offered to council that had not been suggested previously was to consider the intersections\as onelarge corner. Patrick Laurin of the MTC traffic division of London suggested installing lights at the corner of Hayfield and BritanniaRoads •and timing them with the lights already installed at the five , points corner. He said that by doing this all traffic at the corner of Victoria and Britannia will be cleared by the lights simply by timing them to, allow the traffic to complete the entire section of road through to Bayfield Road. 1-1,e pointed out that the system would mean more time required for motorists to wait for , a light change ,since more time was needed to allow' them to clear; he intersections. Burns Ross ruled put . the prospect, claiming that np,t only would the .lights make pedestrian crossing at Bayfield Road very hazardous but would "probably mean that- all traffic, corning north on Bayfield Road that- wished to go east on Britannia , Road and were aware of the lights, would turn on a sidestreet before reaching the intersection which would only serve to move the problem to another area. Good fortune for sisters Seven women, all sisters in. the same family, will split $100,000 rafter one of their tickets proved to be a good one in last Sunday nights Olympic Lottery. The winners, who will get about $15,000 each,,in the seven - way split, wereMrs. Hugh (Donna) Flynn of tLondesboro,. Mrs, Bill ( Beryl) • Storey of Constance, Mrs.• Orville""( Lila) Storey of S'eaforth, Mrs. John ( Margaret) McDougall • and Mrs. 43oyd (Celia) Hartwick, both of Stratford, Mrs. Ray (Dorothy) Davis of Thorndale, and Mrs. Don (Hazel) McLeod of Ailsa Craig. All sisters were Norris girls from- Staffa, and several left immediately for Montreal Monday morning to rlairri their. prize. There were also several $100 winners in the area, and several $1,000 winners were reported. d JllrIe congratulates new citizen Eleven new Canadians received their citizenship documents Tuesday night when .Ridge Francis Carter"gave them the oath of allegiance in Citizenship Court held in the. Huron County Court House. Here the judge,congratulates Emmy Franken of the Netherlands as (from left) Elizabeth Bosch, Netherlander; ' Vivian May Westlake, American; Michele Patricia Hansen, American; and Thomas Earl Parker, American, look on. Others receiving their , citizenship were Gerrit Jan Raidt, Netherlander; Gerhard During and Erika During, German; Johanna Dolgos, Netherlander; and Adrianus Nicholaas Antonious BonnCma, Netherlander. (staff' photo) ec. Board is over budget; ill submit supplemental needs The Goderich Recreation Board will submit a sup- plemental budget ,to town' council following overex- penditures in the current and capital budget of the board. Town cotincil requested the submission of the supplemental budget after, circumstances necessitated the hiring of la bookkeeper by' the board and revenues from fall • and program 'receipts have yet to materialize to balance the expenditures. The request for ' thr , sup- plemental budget arose from overexpcnditures in both' ad- ministration and programs, An additional $5,500 is needed ,in the' administration budget to cover the costs of a boc keeper an4, supply changes incurred through the new bookkeeping system. The budget also included $S00 m for the purchase of Santa Claus parade -equipment and $2,200 for the maintenance of outdoor skating rinks which the board thought would be included in the town works budget. The additional budget required, by the board vvill amount to, $8,500. The town budget allocation for 1975 was $61,444 which included a pool rimovrttrn. on grant which has not been received and capital from the pool and arena boosted the figure' to , $99,944. The pool renovations required an ad- (tilronin $639 above the' ....allocation of $36,000 and as of August :11 the overexpenditure ,0noUtlt+'d to $1,41353. 'the \k ill! also in- vestigate the feasibility of a concret+d at the Cambridge Sti.eet Playground location foir use ,is a tennis court in summer ,and skating,. rink during the Vs inter months. ' Ruth Erb of Goderich-told hoard memhers she ap- peoached Huron Concrete with the proposal and the company agreed to donate the cement for the project. Mrs. Erb stressed the need for infproved facilities at theplayground because of the concentrated number of children. in the Cambridge Street area. "There is not another group in town working for a nark like our committee," she said. "If we bothered to form a com- mittee then 1 think the parks hoard and the recreation board should at least listen to us and help us." • \ Board , members reacted.' favpeably to the concept of th . project and if the concrete is\ 'donated the parks crew would \ only have to prepare a base for the pad.