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-Urge. more urban, rural towoperation
s ..
in -many Huron'
County services,./
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,kM1. By Jim Fitzgerald different , ways of
amalgamating municipalities
More co-operation between' in Huron.
urban and rural Warden Anson McKinley,
municipalities in Huron , Reeve of .Stanley Township,
County was the dominant chaired the meeting'and said
topic discussed during a two- the county wanted • to get
hour meeting on restruc- more ideas from the public.
turing of government in "I'm not denying that it
Huron 'County. The meeting, would -cost more to
in Clinton last Wednesday restructure government in
night, (November 26) at- Huron, the ''real quest: n is
tracted about 115 persons, but G. what is the, cost -be -Mit
it
less than a dozen of those ratio," Warden McKinley
present were from the said. Recreation cost sharing,
general public. Most of the between the towns and the:.
others were members of the townships was the biggest
various levels of municipal item discussed, with the
. government in Huron, and towns on one side of the fence
administrators and boards of and the rural townships on
education members. the other.
No concrete scllutions were "The. towns are supplying
put on the table about the the townships with•recreation
political restructuring of but are getting no help with
Huron .County, but many of their operating expenses."
those at the meeting em; Clinton Deputy Reeve Frank
phasized more co-operation is. • Cook said.
'needed between the various ''' Hullett Township Reeve
political bodies in Huron, as - John Jewitt said his township
well as better cost sharing, w.as willing to help the towns
agreements. with recreation costs, if they
County Council in October had some say. . •
sent the restructuring `Are the•towns prepared to
Committee back to the give up some authority to run
drawing board after the 45 the recreation if . it 'went
county council members county wide?" Mr. Jewitt
overwhelmingly rejected. a asked.
report that recommended two Bill Howson k of Blyth
[OCHALSH
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wa
fix$'
Mr. and Mrs. Lorne
MacDonald returned • home
during the past week from a
(trip to the Hawaiian Islands:
tip
Webster and friend Joe
Rakim;• of Kitchener, visited
during the weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. Wellington Webster.
MacKenzie, Gary and Neil
MacKenzie. '
• Mr. and .Mrs. Donald
McCharles and family, .,' of
Chatham; were recent
visitors with Mr. and Mrs.
Oliver McCharles.
John Van der Veen, of Congratulations to Donna
Calgary, who is sales :Elphick on ''winning a
manager fora chemical firm. progres-s .awa`"rd at the
recently held Ccsm=
mencement at Ripley District
School. •
Mr. and Mrs. Donald
implement sale, which was'McTavish, Mr. and. Mrs..
held Saturday afternoon Cecil Hollands; Mrs. Gladys
following the Elmer Culbert` .Arnold. and . Mr. and Mrs.
sale. {diver McCharies were
Fine weather, sunshine and
plenty of moisture during e
Past few weeks,
has perha s
been
instrumental in a second
crop of barley developing.
Barley which took to
--growing from seed dropped
,over by the, combine.' has"
advanced to the stage of
being out in head and several
by -passers stopped to see the '
new crop.
New onions, leaf . lettuce
and `'now barley for late
-November may some sort
of a record.
Several from the area
attended the Roy..al Winter
Fair in Toronto, during ,the
_past week among them were
-"Mr. and Mrs. Jack
4
with offices in Calgary and
Toronto visited with Mr. 'and
Mrs. Lambert Van der Veen
recently. Plans were made
for the Van der Veen farm
guests at a dinner for past
executive mennbers on the
Ontario Ass-ocia.tio
of
Agriculture Society
District 10. •
in
SMILE
argued that his village had
three townships represented
pn the Blyth recreation
board, and even though 50
percent of those using the
Blyth facilities were from-t•he
townships, they were only
supplying 10 percent of the
revenues.
Goderich Township Reeve,
Gerry Ginn ° admitted his
township didn't pay their fair
share of recreation costs, and
also wanted more say on the
rec boards. " `It's (recreation)
a two way street," Mr., Ginn
said, noting that the town-
ships .have many• outdoor
recreation facilities that, are
not available in the towns,
such as ' 'golfing and
snowmobiling.
"It can be worked out," Mr.
Ginn, said: "The people are
happy with .the fire area
boards and the garbage
disposal boards."
Mr. Ginn Said that progress
will be made, in sharing
recreation costs -t'as long as
-we are talking to each.other."
Bill Morley of Osborne
Township echoed Mr. Ginn's
thoughts, saying . "we're all
brothers. We can set up a
pretty workable system if we
want. The townships should
pay a share of what they
use,"
Exeter Recreation director
• Jim McKinley argued the
meeting had its priorities
turned around. "It's people
first and then finances. The
people have to get together
and talk about the real
essence of co-operation."
Warden McKinley said the
county is doing its own
recreation study now because
an earlier study by Exeter,
and Goderich contained some
"distorted figures."
Roads and police were also
discussed briefly as being two
other areas the county could
increase services in, but
Warden McKinley said no
good report was available on
restructuring the police 'in
Huron.
"We're more parochial
than practical on this mat,
ter," Warden McKinley said,
noting that in Western
Canada,. the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police did most of
the policing.
County roads engineer Jim
Britnell said that if people in
Huron want better roads,
they will have to pay for
them,
'W e can't afford to
maintain county roads in the
same state as the King's
Highways as their costs are
eight to 10 times' higher per
mile than ours,'o- Mr. Britnell
.said.
Clinton Reeve Harold Lobb
said that because Huron has a
small„population, `'per,capita
wise ,we're paying too much
for services.”
Warden McKinley said it
was a matter of getting the
provincial government to.
change their priorities.
"We've got to get away
from th b -idea that a given tax
is tied to a given servi'ce,
Warden McKinley said.
Bayfield Reeve Ed
Oddleifson wondered what
the county could do about the
rumored closing of two or
three hospitals in Huron
County,
Huron, presently . con-
tributes $30 million towards
the Ontario Health budget.
No plans were announced
at the meeting for any more
public discussions on
restructuring.
ill,
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