Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-05-13, Page 1139 YEAR - 19 GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1987 60 ('Ey'I'S PER COPY Town awarded legal costs of Hydro joint board inquiry Plans to build a new 5,000 -foot runway at the Goderich Airportreceived a $17,000 shot in the arm, in the form of recovered legal costs from the town's appeal to the Joint Board on the Ontario Hydro Bruce - London Power Corridor. Goderich Town Council was informed of the decision at their May 11 meeting, in a letter from town lawyers Donnelly and Murphy. Ontario Hydro will reimburse the town $17,639.21, representing 90 per cent of the legal costs of their appeal to the Joint Board. Earlier, the board ruled in the town's favor, ordering Ontario Hydro to pay the town $100,000 toward the cost of the new runway, as compensation for the planned power corridor's er,croachrnent on the ex- , isting runway. The existing runway is a 5,000 foot long, 75 foot wide strip. However, the usable por- • tion of the runway is decreasing due to the increasing height of trees at the end of the runway, for which the town has been unable to obtain cutting rights. The recently -approved hydro line now poses a Merle Coulter holds her Granddaughter .Melany who holds her doll at the fifth annual Mother and Daughter evening; at the Calvary Baptist Church in Goderich, Friday. The guest speaker for night was Jean Hanna of Guelph.(photo by Ted. Spooner) Separate cc new for 19 ard initiates ut outr" _olid 7m8 school year BY WILMA OKE Come September 1 tobacco smoke will no longer waft through the meeting rooms at the Huron -Perth County. Roman Catholic Separate School Board office in Dublin. Ash trays will no longer dot the trustees' desks in. the board room. • At a meeting in Dublin Monday •night the board updated some, of its policies acid `by- laws. A new policy on smoking states the board recognizes smoking is a health hazard, and is encouraging its trustees, ad- ministrators and staff to take strong leader- ship to ensure adverse health effects from both direct or "second hand" smoke are minimized and that wherever possible, students under the board's care are discouraged from adopting the smoking habit. Student smoking will be banned on all pro- perty owned by the hoard. Trustee Ben Brown, of Sebringville, ques- tionned how the board will enforce the new policy. ' "If we can't enforce it, why make these rules," he said. While it declared all properties under the board's, jurisdiction to he non-smoking areas, the board did say smoking could take place in designated smoking areas within the schools. Those areas should be deter- mined by a. consensus of staff within the school. ' Only one trustee openly opposed the smok- ing ban. " I don't like rules and regula- tions set down like this," said Vincent McIn- nes, of Wingham. Mr. McInnes added come September he would declare his desk space at the board's meeting table to be his private office. Mr. McInnes smokes a pipe. Another policy involved computers. The board approved the establishment of the Computer Assisted Learning Committee for the purpose of providing both short and long term direction to the Board, relative to the development and implement'atron of com- puter programs. A third policy concerned teacher place- ment following a leave of absence without 'pay,for the following year, and.called for such a request in by April. 1. On, return the board will attempt to place the teacher in vancant positions as close to their home ad- dress as pessible. A fourth policy involved authorization for use of scnuol facilities and a lengthy, and detailed list of rules are provided to cover this. • OTHER BUSINESS The board accepted the resignation of Patricia iMcCr'omick, a part-time teacher at St. Mary's School, effective August 31. The board hired. Pamela Haid, as prin.- cipal's relief and in library part-time at St. Mary's School, effective September 1. The board approved a cost sharing for- inula with the Perth County Board of Educa- tion when the two boards jointly host Pro= vincial Education Week next spring. Perth Board will pay 70 per cent of the costs while the Huron -Perth Catholic board will pay 30 per cent. The Maitland Valley Conservation Authority representative will attend the next board meeting on May 25 in Dublin to outline the present programs offered and future development proposals for ,the next five years, to schools in Huron, Perth, Bruce - and Wellington Counties at the Wawanosh Nature Centre in East Wawanosh Township: The Huron -Perth Catholic Schools are one of the largest groups using the Centre. The board approved the annual report of the special education advisory committee. It provides programs specially designed for pupils with exceptional needs to develop toward the maximum of each child's poten- tial. As well the board continues 'to offer summer school for pupils with speech and hearing problems and behavioral problems. Gifted pupils are also to be continued to be given top priority in summer school, and during the regular school year. Joanne Campbell was erected GDC( school Queen and Tom Bean was mined her King. Campbell and Bean were crowned at the Spring Formal, Friday.(photo by Ted Spooner) further threat to incoming aircraft. The proposed new runway would be 5,000 feet, by 150 feet wide and will be oriented to the prevailing winds, where the old run- way was in a cross -wind position to the prevailing winds. - The estimated cost of the total project is $1.5 million. The town has already received confir- mation of 80 per cent funding for the first phase 1 the first 3,500 feet) from the provin- cial government and is anticipating finan- cing from the Federal 'government for the second phase. Council approved a motion to add the recovered legal costs to the airport reserve fund. The town of Goderich was the only municipality to receive either, compensa- tion, or legal costs from Ontario Hydro as a result of the Joint Board Hearings. The Airport Committee is currently in the process of submitting proposals for an engineering • study' for the nw runway. Council members will attend- an on-site. evaluation of the proposal on June 9. a' Emma Hollingworth, a GDCI student, concentrates on her work. She participated in the GDCI Car Wash on Saturday to raise money for the Concert Band. The band hopes to earn more than $60,000 through a number of projects for a trip to England next year. They have raised more than $20,000 already. (photo by Ted Spooner) Fire hall plan A motion to authorize preparation of final drawings for tender on the construc- tion of a proposed new fire hall has been referred back to the committees level by 'Goderich Town Council, at their May 1 meeting. Council felt authorizing the drawings would be premature at this time, as finan- cial considerations such as funding sources and firm cost estimates have not been finalized. Councillor Glen Carey, who made the motion to have an architectural firm create the drawings based on a revised proposal calling for an eight -bay garage, less a hose tower, felt it was the , next logical step. 'There's a tendency here to jump to the to be studied bricks and mortar stage, said Carey, ad- ding he felt the drawings were needed at this time so council and the Fire Commit- tee would know what they are dealing with. Councillor John Stringer and Deputy Reeve ,John Doherty both stated council should know where funds for the proposed hall will he coming from before authoriz- ing the drawings, which will cost in the neighborhood of $15,000, The proposal was referred to a joint ses- sion of the Fire, and Works and Property committees, and to the Administration and Personel Committee to meet with Fire Committee Chairman Carey to discuss financing. Area boaters still missing A Provincial Police search has found no further sign of two area men, missing on Lake Huron since April 25. A Goderich •OPP detachment spokesper- son said the missing boaters, Bill Daters, 28, of Exeter and Doug McKay, 32, of Kip - pen, still had not been found as of Tuesday afternoon, the 19th day of the search. The men were last seen at 6:30 a.m. April 25 when they headed out onto the lake from Goderich in a 12 -foot aluminum boat. Relatives reported the men missing the next dayaround 4 p.m. and the search, which initially involved c.anadian Armed Forces aircraft and Canadian Coast Guard boats, as well as police helicopters and boats and a ground search of the shoreline, began. The search was scaled down after the boat was found several days later, as were two lifejackets and a baseball cap iden- tified as belonging to the men, -but is conti- nuing during daylight hours when weather permits_, Search efforts are being concen- trated in the area between Goderich and Grand Bend. Lights tender is accepted Goderich Town Council has accepted the rider of a Toronto firm for the installa- tion of traffic lights at the corner of Bayfield 1{uad and Suncuast Drive. Acceptance of the $43,637 tender is sub- ject to approval from the Ministry of Trarisporatiun and Communications, which has agreed to grant 90 per cent fun- ding to the project. while the remaining 10 per cent will conte from town coffers. The tender is slightly higher than the figure budgeted by the MT(' for the pro- ject, so they will face the options of creasing allocation to match the tender ur doing the installation work themselves Public Works Commissioner Ken Hut er said if the M'l'(' elects to do the work themselves, it could be December before we have those lights blinking," as the ministry has very busy summer schedule. Council anticipate's approval of the tender in the near future and still hopes to have the lights in place sometime this summer. Old dump to remain shut '1'he former town dumpsite, over the railway tracks on Maitland 1{oad, near Op- tiniist Park will remain closed. despite a request from local businessman Art Bordeau to use the site on a one -lane only basis for the clean-up of his property. The Works ancl Property Committee, at their May 5 meeting approved 0 motion by Councillor Stan, Profit, seconded by d'oun- cillor Peter McCauley, to allow Art's Landscaping to use the site to clean his yard on a one-time basis. However, after checking with the Ministry of Environment, it was discovered such a use would be illegal unless the town applied for and received a new Certificate of Approval .for the site, a costly • proceedure involving numerous studies. Councillor McCauley withdrew his seconding of the motion before it was plac- ed before council Monday night, snaking it incomplete, so the motion was dropped. Public.Works Commissioner Ken Hunter noted, that since gates were placed on the site in the fall of 1986, the town staff has been using' the site' to dispose of road . sweepings, brush etc. and that three demolished buildings have been placed at the site. The concrete .from these buildings has been used for erosion control at the beach, while the wood from the demoli- tions was. piled at the 'site by the contractor. • A -burning permit was issued to the con- tractor in each case and the wood from the demolitons was.burned. No members of the public have been authorized to use the site since it was closed. Although there were two further demoli- tions scheduled to use the site in the next few. months, council agreed theyshould not continue using the site for this purpose, in light of the recent discussions with the MTC. and will discontinue such use in the future. S NSI E T H L_ SIGNAL_ STAR Nurses Week '87 Since this week is Nurses Week, The Signal -Star visited and talked with a number of nurses who work in a variety of nursing situations. No longer do nurses only work in hospitals and wear white uniforms. For a look at today's nurses, see the front page of the Com- munity section. Track and Field The GDCI Viking Track and Field Team was defeated by F.1' . Madill S.S of Winghani in last week's Huron -Perth Track and Field Championship. After three years of holding the title,. the Vik- ing team was defeated by Madill S.S. 522 to 585. For pictures, see the Sports front and for story see inside the Sports section. Red Hot Lovers The GLT's performance of "Last of The Red Hot Lovers" took to the stage at the Livery last week. For The Signal - Star's review of the Neil Simon comedy, see inside this section.