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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-03-18, Page 7ecisio regardi UC industrial irnpost ftabled due to investigatio A lengthy discussion between members of the Works and Property Conunittee and the Goderich Public Utilities Commission ( PUC) concerning industrial impost fees occurred during the March meeting of the PUC held last Thursday. • At its February meeting, the PUC was made aware of the town's disapproval and discontent with the PUC's proposed in- dustrial impost fee schedule ($660 per acre for industries I. At that time, the commis- sion decided to hold a meeting with the Works and Property Committee to discuss the various issues concerning the fees. The first, of what could be a numaer of discussions, took place at the PUC m'ting last week. - "I think everyone knows why we're here and why we feel so strongly on this par- ticular point," Ken Hunter, commis. I,,ner of property and works, said. - "We've been working on promoting in- dustry strongly. If you go over all the in- dustries in Goderich's Industrial Park you will see there are no strangers. They are local and expanding industries. To bring strangers in is hard. There are. 600 . municipalities fighting to get -industry to come to their location and naturally they go where they get the best deal. The Municapl Act says that the municipality. 'shall not give any incentives to industry but we can make things simple for them. Legion Br We've bought all the land, zoned it correct- ly, priced it competitively and serviced it. We've been working very hard and the on- ly way we can get them here is to have everything in place. The town purposely has kept impost fees off that land." Hunter continued his campaign against industrial impost fees by saying, "If you don't come up with a new industry- one ' every two years,.you lose. The population goes down. The future of Goderich depends upon keeping a strong industrial base. We're not looking for another GM - Suzuki or Toyota, „We're looking for those industries with a few employees who will build to 100 or 200. Industries are good for. everybody." He alsq noted that serviced land in the Industrial Park sells for $8,000 pe.r acre. Mayor Eileen Palmer said, "We only sell serviced land. Both she and town administrator Larry McCabe noted that under the Municpal Act there was some question as to the ability of o the PUC to levyindustrial impost fees and suggested that the PUC check into the situation further. "We are afraid people will" comae back saying 'You sold us serviced land and now the PUC wants us to pay x number of _ —dollars for impost fees'," McCabe said. "The additional cost I of impost fees l is prohibitive and it's hard enough to attract, ch 10 The annual joint honors arid awards night of Legion Branch 109 and the Ladies ,Au-,- ., iliary was held on Saturday, March 7.in the Jubilee room with a large number of members present. Following the opening -cerem'ony'Zonducted by Branch President Alvin Blackwell the Auxiliary awarded their year pins which- included 40 ye' r pins. to Anne Anderson, Evelyn Carroll, ' Vietta George, 1VIyrtle Good, ,,Norah Hugi'll, Del Jarvis, Norma Kingswell, Ferne Moore and Margaret Young. Gifts Were presented to Margaret 'Horn- blower, Marj Emmerson.,' Marion Hayes, Rose Sheardown, Myrtle •MMcNair, Linda MacDonald and Harold Chambers., The Ladies Auxiliary presented Legion Diamond Jubilee Medals.. to Heidi.Beatle, Margaret Maben, Peg - Wood, Margaret • McMillan and Lorraine Jones. new industry. Eighty per cent oI our in- dustrial development( comes from within our own boundaries," Mayor Palmer said. PUC commissioner Dr.' Jim Peters ex- plained that_, each PUC customer should carry his or her own rate and not subsidize `another customer. However, he did feel something should be done. "I would like to see a couple of things done. I don't think some customers should have impost -fees and others not. Wipe im- post fees right .off," he said, adding that, fur example, metering the water Would take the place of impost fees. "All we are asking for is a reconsidera- tion of impost fees. If you don't want to get rid of them, • then we can meet in a Joint Committee. We have concerns.over the in- dustrial impost fee schedule," McCabe re- iterated. "Try and help us out with our endeavour to get industry in town by knocking down the impost fees. It's entirely us that has to bring the industry in," Jim Semis, member of the. property and works com- mittee, said. Both the Works and Property Committee and the PUC decided that there was a lot of legislation to be' looked into as well as fur- . ther discussions to be held concerning the matter of industrial impost fees. A deci- sion on the matter was tabled until a future meeting was held. ' h.lds aw The .branch . awarded year pins, to` members `w"3ho had . attajnecl continuous years of membership commencing with ten years arid this included twenty members, who had forty years of service. • Legion Certificates of Merit were award- ed to Bea Dowell, Hudson Milburn, Bert Squire and the Rev. John Wood. 'These cer- tificates are. awarded to those who have madea significant contribution to -.the ::br'ancii,,._ r. ....-.. _. . . Legion long -service sheilds were. awarded - to Ralph Kingswell and the. Rev. 'Robert Crocker, Rev, G.L. Royal will receive hi''s long service shield at the Vimy dinners A Media Award was presented to the Signal -Star for their support of the branch. . Marcel 1i)e,Winter received. an Horiourary membership in Branch 109. for his contribu tions to the branch. . . Variety of ideas at Port The Port 'Albert Public Meeting was held March 9 and many' ideas were put,forward. Some of. the suggestions were: baseball PORT ALBERT sweaters for the children's Port Albert baseball teamI , m ; a scholarship fund, tender_— ing out grass mowing at the diamond, trash cans, streetlights, beach. clean-up and a' ds 11i* ht G-ODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1987—PAGE 7 G FOR T: E FECT GIFT? Past President Bob Chapman was -recognized with a, Life Membership as was Murray Johnston with a Meritorious Life membership. President of the Ladies Auxiliary Marg Baker presented a cheque for $3000 to Branch President Alvin Blackwell. This cheque will be put into the Branch building fund to help,reduce the Branch loan. . Following the closing'ceremony the even- ing .concluded with a dance.. Branch 109 extends best, wishes to Steve Allen, Sonny Moore, Kevin Rumig,, Gerry -.Ross, Shirley'' Schmidt and Jerry Rivett who will be representing the bran 'h at the Legion Provincial Five -Pin Bowling Tour- namcrit• Saturday., Sonny' Moore qualified for the singles tournament and also for the doubles competition along with Shirley. • Albert n�eetin S Port Albert, Day to , be held on the long weekend in July. Nothing was'definitely set- tled 'and a' follow-up meeting will be ,held April 6 in the , church basement to discuss everything in more detail. The possibility of incorporating ourselves is being looked into and it was suggested a contest he held to choose a name. ' . • Jim and Donna Hayden and family were ' presented with a car, rally trophy and, as last year's winner of the rally, they will be organizing this' year's event. The trophy will be .passed on with this year's wisher organizing the rally in 1988. 0 • It isThoped that more people will attend the next meeting on Api'il 6. This reporter received a hot tip that Tom Dickson is preparing' for his upcoming trip, at the local tanning parlour or is it treat- ment for his 'alleged emphysema? Elton Draper celebrated his 70th birthday at Pete" and Edna - Petrie's on .Saturday, March 14. All the best Elton. • Many of our residents are either corning or going- south right now. ' Ron and Diane Durnin just returned from the Dominican .Republic and Jeff and Gwyn Fisher are heading that way next week. Glen Weaver recently returned from Florida and Jerry and Sharon Weaver are leaving this week.. George and Ethel Williams are home after a Donations for fireworks display sought by police Dear Editor: Once again 1 am soliciting donations froia citizens, businesses and:gt'oups for our An- nual Fireworks Display. This year Goderich is 1.60 years:old and -we should try to make our display even better than, in the past as this is a 'very' special occasion. The display will be held in conjunction with the activities planned for the Canada Day week. • Any donation, large or small, would be greatly' appreciated. I would like to have donations in as early as possible so that I can match the donation receipts with the monies allotted by the Town of Goderich in order to better plan the programme. Cheques should be made payable to the: Town of Goderich, Fireworks Fund. Dona- tidns'can either be addressed to me at the Pqlice Station, -85 West Street, Goderich, N7A 2K5 or to the Town Hall, 57 West Street, Goderich, N7A 2K5. Yours truly, Pat King Fireworks Chairman Town of Goderich UCW opposed to 'ligour law changes Dear Editor: On behalf of the 'Nile United Church Women may 1 draw to your attention our concern over the proposed changes in our province's liquor laws, and the way it was reported in your paper of Mar. 11, 1987. Shame on your paper,which went to the local bars to do your survey and come up with the headline "Locals like idea of bar li- quor laws." What would one expect? Prisoners on Death Row are also known to be against capital punishment! , C►ui $i yap ieetn Li 'at Inc pt upubeu changes will encourage .more consumption of. alchoholic beverages leading to an increase in car accidents. Some with fatalities, no doubt, not to mention increased auto in- surance for all of us, also more broken families, some of whom will be abused. and in all probability an increase in alchoholism. Is this what the people of Ontario want for their province. We think not. Sincerely, Shirley Drestour. Archivists to meet in Waterloo Dear Editor: I should like to alert your readers of an important upcoming event, especially all those who keep photographs, documents and clippings around the house or office, etc. and aren't sure about keeping them in the best way. The Ontario Association of• Archivists is 'sponsoring an archives fair called "Paper Heritage Festival" in Waterloo on the last Friday and Saturday of March (Friday 27, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday 28, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.). it will be held in Hilliard Hall at First United Church, one block south of the new Seagram Museum which is on Erb St. There will be demonstrations concerning do's and dont's, book repairs, scrapbooks, midro£ilming, etc. Probably the most tmpTirtant teatime' will -t be an archival supply house representative • • in attendance with examples of all the brand new safe mylar plastic protectors for photos and documents as well as proper envelopes, protective paper; scrapbooks and storage boxes. Visitors will be able to purchase these on site in whatever small quantities they wish. This aspect really makes the trip to Waterloo *orthwhile, This archives fair will be of interest to everyone incl.uding W.I. curators of Tweedsmuir histories. Visitors 'are welcome to bring along items needing repairs, etc. for advice. The Ontario Association of Archivists does not anticipate arranging another fair of this kind in this region for several years. Please plan to attend if this interests you. Sincerely yours, .....-.-., -- Parr'ie&Arfde'f8hi1, Stratford -Perth Archives lengthy stay in Florida. A card party was held March 6 in the church basement: The party was organized by .Gary and Pauline Nicholson and well - attended.. Harold Adams and Mrs. Joe Franks were high scorers and .Jim Hayden and Linda Hayden were low scorers. The next card party will be on March 20 at 8 p.m. with Don and Darlene making the ar- rangernents. • This will likely br the' last euchre party of the season. 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