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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1985-10-09, Page 1INCOHPOliATING-THE LYTH STAINIDARD-THE BAY BUGL$ 120TH YEAR NO. 41 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9,1985 50 CENTS FALL HIKE SE ON z Cold weather and threatening skies may have scared. off some morning of October t The hike provided exercise as hikers, but some 10 people braved the elements to participate taknowledge on,somecoMinonplants. (Annelklaregin photo) Wawanosh Valley Conservation Area's first public bike Or* the Election tirne • Who's runnin ? November 12 . is election day and municipalities across the. province are gear- ing up for the race for council,' committee • and board of education seats. In Clinton Mayor Chester Archibald is stepping down after six years in the chair. Mayor Archibald will be running. for a seat on the Public Utilities Commission. To date the sole contender for the position of mayor. is Councillor John Deeves. Upon the announcement of Mayor Archibald's' retirement, Councillor Deeves threw his hat in the ring, stating, "I'm in the field for mayor and mayor only." Longtime council member, Reeve Ernie Brown will be retiring from municipal politics at the end of this term. With his retirement, Deputy Reeve Frank Van Altena has announced/that-be will seek the reeve's chair. He will be opposed in the race by Coun- cillor Bee CoOke who announced that slit' "will challenge the deputy reeve inthe race.' Councillor Cooke said, "I would like to represent Clinton on 11uron County Council" ( as reeve). Councillor Charles Burgess is throwing hiS hat in the ring for deputy reeve after one• term on Clinton Council. Councillor Ross Carter and Councillor Gord Gerrits will again be seeking re- election and Councillor Jim Hunter's name will.also be on the ballot. Councillor Hunter has not determined what position he will run for In the upcoming election. An a1 -candidates meeting hasbeen scheduled for Wednesday, October 30 at the • Clinton Town Hall. Bayfield election 'Hayfield's outspoken Reeve Dave Johnston will be in the running again this term, as Will the Councillors Helen Owen, . Reg Wilson and Jim Quick. Councillor Lloyd Huffman reports that he is yet undecided about seeking re-election to the village coun- ' • Tuckersmith Township Uncertainty is still being voiced by, inunicipal representatives in Tuckersmith Township. Reeve Robert Bell and - Deputy Reeve well es More extruded care. beds okayed foiHuronview 129 residential care beds. Wayne Lester, administrator at Huron - view said, "I am really pleased with the news. These additional beds will provide a more equitable service for the older residents of Huron County." Mr. Riddell noted, "I am pleased that the Ministry can offer this assistance to help the home expand its services and. personnel. this illustrates the Ontario government's commitment to ensure that an appropriate, level of quality care is available for those seniors who need it. , • The conversion is expected to be com- pleted this month. 15$ CLINTON - Government approval has been given for the addition of -10 extended care beds at Huronview Home for the Aged. Huron -Middlesex MPP Jack Riddell, on behalf of John Sweeney, Ontario's Minister of Community and Social Services made the announcement last week. Mr. Riddell said that the ministry would provide assistance to Huron ebunty, the operator of the home, to convert 10 of its residential care bed a to extended care. Ex- tended care beds are usediby patients who require more than one -and -a -half hours of daily personal and nursing care. With the change, Huronview will be pro- viding 181 extended earp bpd. qnri total of Timbrell gets PC backing Former agriculture minister Dennis Tim- The alternate female delegate is Audrey brell will again have strong support from McKinley, RR 2 Clinton. the Huron -Middlesex riding delegates as he The male voting delegates are Jack Col - renews his bid to become leader of the On- eman, RR 2 Zurich; Dr. Grant Lee, Zurich; tario Progressive Conservatives. Robert E. McKinley, RR 2 Clinton; Michael Ten voting delegates and five alternatives O'Connor, Zurich. Alternates are David 'were chosen at a riding meeting in Exeter, Elliott, Centralia; Nico Peters, RR 4 Seafor- on October 3. th; Dr. Tom Jasper, Goderich; James Riding Association president Donna Hayter, Goderich. Wood, Clinton, said those elected as Youth delegates will be Sandra Coleman, . delegates "strongly favor" Timbrell'. Press- RR 2 Zurich, and Jim Veri, Exeter. ed for an indication of what that support Other riding residents who will be voting may be, she said that as many as nine of the delegates are „past Ontario PC president delegates may be backing Timbrell, who Elmer D. Bell, Exeter, and the liefeated finished third in the last leadership race candidate in the last provincial election, behind Larry Grossman and Frank Miller. Brian Smith, Lucan. Mrs. Wood, who was named as a delegate Leadership hopeful Allan Pope was in the in view of her position on the Association, riding on October 3 to seek support for his said that she was remaining undeclared at campaign. His airplane landed at Huron In - 'this point. dustrial Park and a meeting was held with She supported Grossman in the last about 15 area PCs. leadership battle. Mrs. Wood said Pope's visit.was arranged Some of those nominated as delegates with little advance notice. were undeclared, ' while some supported Grossman. None of the latter were selected Timbrell will be in the riding today by the 115 PCs in attendance at the meeting. ( Wednesday) and he'll meet with the Women selected to go to Toronto for the delegates and supporters at the Burkley November 15-16 leadership are: Muriel Restaurant in Exeter. Culbert and Beth Smith, Lucan; iDoreenininnGrossman. There has been no word yet of any visit by Webb, Dashwood: Donna Wood r William Brown have. to date made no firm decision about their election intentions and Councillor George Cantelon has given a "no comment" response. Councillors John Brownridge and Robert Broadfoot will be seeking re-election. A ratepayers' .meeting for township ' residents has been scheduled for Tuesday, October 22 at .Huron Centennial Sehool, Brucefield. ' 1 Ratepayers' meetings In Goderich Township, a ratepayers' meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, October 17 at 8:30 p.m. To the north, East Wawanosh Township will hold its ratepayers' meeting on Wednes- day, October 16 at 8 p.m. . Election dates Nominations for election candidates of-, ficially opens on Thursday, October 17 and closes on Monday, October 2i. Nomination papers are available at municipal offices. Election day is Tuesday, November 12 and advance voting day is Saturday, November 2. Recreation summer staff numbers 40 CLINTON - Main Street rumblings are correct. During the siunnier, the recreation department had 40 employees on their payroll. But contrary to public belief, there were the same number of people employed during the summer months last year. This year, from May to August, the 40 recreation employees collected approx- imately $48,751.75 in wages. IThis figure does not include the wages'paid to canteen staff or benefits to fulltime employees Seven of the employees were hired through government grants. As well the town received the assistance of 12 youth who participated in the leader -in -training pro- gram but did not receive any pay. According to former recreation director Kevin Duguay, the majority of summer employees earned minimum wage. The ex- ceptions were employees who held positions of higher responsibility. At the arena, three fulltime and ons part- time employee received $17,506.75. Two other employees were hired under the Summer Employment Experience Development (SEED) program for park maintenance and extra help at the arena. Seventy-five per cent of their wages were paid through the government grant, costing the town approximately $1 per hour. i ne pool had 11 employees with $18,000 in wages paid. Last year $17,993 was paid to nine employees. This year recreation committee members budgeted an additional $1,828 for the playground program salaries. They estimated the wages to be $6,000 this sum- mer while they paid $4,172 last year. In 1984 and 1985. three employees ran the program until the final session when another person was hired. "One more person had to be hired for playground due to increased enrolment," explained Ron McKay, recreation chair- man. Four youths were hired to assist with the roller skating program at the arena. The 1985 budget allowed $1,200 for wages, and according to recreation committee secretcry-treasurer Marie Jefferson, each employee worked approximately three to four hours per week. During the sununer, two canteens were in operation, employing 10 part-time workers with three or four maintaining their jobs during the winter. This summer was the first year Clinton had a sports co-ordinator. His salary was 100 per cent funded by an Experience '85 grant. His job was to organize and superevise events, such as Sports Days. A secretary for the recreation office was hired for 18 weeks with 75 per cent of her wages paid through the SEED program grant. The recreation director earned $5,975 over the summer months. 'Job sharing The number of employees for the canteen could have been cut back but the arnount of money paid for wages would have been the same, according to Mr. Duguay. "Let's say there were seven jobs, we hired 14 people: This gives local .youth mere jobs in town," he said. Mrs. Jeffers6n also noted that two pool employees shared one work week. • Other than the governinent grants, the leaders -in -training program was another way the community saved on wages. Twelve workers volunteered as many as 40 hours per week at the playground and the pool, assisting the employees with the activities. "Our recreation department is no dif- ferent than others. Good grants are available so we utilize them to bring good programs here," said Mr. Duguay. When commenting on the number of paid employees, Mr. McKay said, "It really doesn't matter -how many people are employeed, it's the number of dollars they cost." Powerful federation frustrates one teacher By Stephanie Levesque Powerful teacher federations have made at least one trustee throw in the towel. St. Marys and Mitchell area trustee Ernie Vanderschott announced last week he would not seek re:election in this fall's municipal election. He has served five years on the Huron -Perth Roman Catholic separate school board. Vanderschott pondered carefully over his words saying his years on the salary negotiating committee have proven to him that the federations are powerful. A power that he says has been given to them by the governments. -..‘ • • "School boards, they have -very ' little. negotiating power'. All the teachers' salaries should be. negotiated with the provincial. government," he said. "If salaries were negotiated across the whole province,. something would be done much more quickly." An 11 -year veteran of the school board, Bill. Kinahan of RR 2, Lucknow also an- nounced he is- stepping down. Serving the municipalities af Blyth, Ashfield, and East and West Wawanosh, Kinahan said he. will 'miss sitting on the board. Ray Van Vliet of RR 7,.St. Marys,. who represents Downie • and North and South Eagthope Townships, indicated he won't be seeking re-election. • "In all fairness to the board, I can't put enough time into it," said Van Vliet. Current board chairman Ron , Marcy of Stratford said he will be running again. A secondary school teacher in the city, Marcy anticipates no problems in his position with regard to extending funding to Catholic secondary schools. A Catholic high school is being established in Perth for September 1986. Although absent from the meeting when the announcements were made, the other Stratford trustee, John Devlin, ' will also - seek re-election. )tice-chairman Vincent McInnes of RR 2, Wingham, representing the Wingham and Brussels area indicated he too will run this fall. All other trustees running and their area are as follows: Dave Durand from the Zurich and Hensall area, Gerald' Groothuis from the Seaforth, Tuckersmith and Stanley. area, Arthur Hiad from 'the Milverton, Listowel area, Louis Maloney from Hibbert and Logan, Michael Moriarty from Clinton, Goderich and Bayfield area, Tim McDon- nell from Ellice Township, and Michael Ryan from the Exeter area. • ClintonWI ends 80 year era CLINTON - Due to lack of leadership the Clinton Women's Institute (WI) 'has been forced to disband after. 80 years of active work in this community. Organized in 1905 with Mrs. David French as the first president, Mrs. T.J. Watt as its first secretary, and Mrs. James Flynn the • treasurer, the WI can. be credited with both carrying out and assisting with • Many : worthwhile projects in Clinton, and has assisted with many worldwide 'humanitarian projects through the district and provincial levels. Turn to page 2 As far as Cory Shannon (left) and Shane Hesch are concerned, apple sauce is simply awesome. The two kindergarten students at Blyth Public School got a chalice to sample the homemade apple treat after the class made the apple sauce the old fashioned way on October 2. (Man Rivett photo) •