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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1981-01-07, Page 1,0 sbc i 3YEAR-1 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7,1981 50 CENTS PER COPY Boardwill rule on park use.. BY CATIh WOODEN Goderich Town Colwell decided at its regular. meeting Monday. ' to refer all requests for the of. Harbor Par -`'fid its bandshell to the re( board. This includes the requests teem the Goderich Laketown Band for the bandshell every Sunday throughout the summer, a,nd from the Goderieb and District Optimist Club for the use of the park the weekend of June 26, 27, 28 for their major fund-raising, event off the year. Councillor Jim 4earls repeated a proposal that was previously rejected by council that these requests be referred to the recreation board. "The recreation director has a calendar which all town events should be co-ordinated through," he said. Coan(dllia°=John Doherty seconded Seerls motion. Councillor Elsa Haydon said' that council was only "'saving trouble tonight,",and questionned whether or not council bad to approve or disapprove the liquor license that is bound to be requested by the Optimists. Members were, of different mind to the answer of this question. However, the question will not have to , be dealt with .until a recommended= comes back....... from there creaition board:T "�°_-,:.___-- Record low recorded BY JOANNE BUCHANAN Both the Goderich detatchment of- the Ontario Provincial Police and the town's police department have red a relatively , quite New Year's Eve holiday period despite, slippery roads and some. -Stormy weather. "It- the holiday Period) is one of the best we've ever had." said an OPP spokesman who attributed the small number of accidents to people. being more carefuL . From December 24 until January•4•Goderich OPP. investigated approximately a dozen minor car ac 'cidents with four of these occurring on Sunday,- January unday,January 4. None of them involved injutieEN • The OPP closed Highway 21 following the shore of Lake Huron to Port Elgin bn Sunday and also at- tempted ttempted to keep drivers off Highway .8 between. Goderich: and. Blyth as wind-whipaed see* severely decreased visibility. ..'' ' Town police inGes tgated eight minor car'accidents between' theafternooe of Friday, January -2 and the• evening of Saturday, ihnuary 3. The first accident occurred at noon on Friday when a car slid intoa stop sign at the corner of Bayfield and 'Britannia Roads Causing $0 damage to the sign. The second occurred at 1;15 p.m. between two cars on Bayfield. Road at the entrance to the mini -mall. This resulted in $600 to one of the cars. A third accident took plate -"fifteen minutes later. between two cars at the sane location and resulted in $180 damage to one car and $450 to the other. Op Saturday at 9 a.m. wear towing a trailer was backing into a,driveway and hit another car. At 12:23 p.m. a driver who was going to turn Onto Huron Road from Bennett Street slur into a brand new parked car on the Strickland Motor; lot causing $800 damage to the new car and $20 to his own. Less than hall an hour. later there was another accident at the same location between two cars with $600 damage to one and none to theother. Meet Alexandra Marine & General Hospital's new year's baby. Jeanette Joan ("J.J.") Hoggarth was born at 7:13 p.m. New Year's Day to Mary and Victor Hoggarth of RR4 Clinton. Dr. Chan delivered the seven -pound, 3131,2 ounce baby girl, who is the Hoggarths' first born. ( Photo by Cath Wooden), English a problem for refugees BY DAVE SYRES The Huron County Board of Education will hire an additional teacher to accelerate the integration of Indochinese students in the school system. The .board gave unanimous consent to the motion Monday after learning that 44' Indot »nese iti' the – Huron County school system were having problems integrating due to their inability to speak or. un- derstand English. • fi • t? Director of Education, John Cochrane, said the board faces a real problem with the refugee students because they -cannot speak or understand Epglish. Before the students can be fully integrated into the education system, he said, they must be taught Ki hsh• „ , .. e major .problem is with the 22 secondary students, 20 of whom are at Central Huron Secon- Turn to page 24 her At 6:30 p.m. two cars collided at the corner of Hamilton Street, and the Square causing $400 damage to one car and $200 to the other. At 11:15 p.m, there. was an accident between two cars at the corner of ,Bayfield Road and Blake Street. One driver left the scene off the accident. The car remaining had, $400 damage. No accidents were reported in town on Sunday which was the stormiest of the three weekend clays. Where accidents were concerned,. surrounding towns were no so fortunate as'Goderich. On Highway 83, 10 Ian' west of Exeter,. Scott R. Hasselback; 17, of Exeter was killed instantly when the car he was driving- slid under a milk tanker at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday. His passenger, Michael Trendergraft, 16, of Grand Bend, remains in serious condition in University Hospital, London. The tanker driver, received minor injuries . • 'Cogestable Jun: Dore of Wingham OPS. was treated .- and released from.Wingham and District Hospital on Sunday. after being struck by a' car, while'directing traffic at the scene of an eight -vehicle pile-up en Highway 4, three miles north of Blyth. . In fact, multi -vehicle accidents and fender. benders - in. surrounding areas kept police busy 'for much of Sunday as drifting snow and slippery -road patches turned highways into trouble. While numerous people; including a load of horses, lZe a storm -stayed in G.odeiaeh, Exeter OPP rted about 200 people stranded overnight. at the Dashwood Community centre and Exeter Legion with others billeted inprivate homes after the stormy weather cutoff access to many acs north of Exeter. Louis .Stadelmann, who has been keeping weather . 'records for Goderich and area for the Ministry of • • Environment over the last 30 years, reports that.21 cm (eight inches) of snow fell here over the weekend. Last winter, he says, hardly any snow fell until the end of January and then there was 20 cm (seven in- • ches) all at once on January 28. Turn to,page 24 'rustees veto increase a ,owanee., By DAVE SYKES Huron County Board of Education trustees will receive the same $300 monthly allowance this' year following the adoption of • a hoard member's allowance scale Monday. . ro The motion to retain the same pay scale met with considerable opposition around the board table and passed by an 8-7 margin. • While board members voted to maintain their allowance at the previous rate the motion included any increase for chairman Donald MacDonald. He had been receiving one-third more per month–digit other board members and that .stipend was increased to one-half. McDonald's monthly allowance is now $450. - Several board members indicated a willingness to raise the member's allowance claiming it hasn't Marsha Kerr and her four children last everything in Haven last Tuesday. The family Is staying at her a fire that occurred in her mobile home at Huron parents in Londesboro for the time being.(Photo by Dave Sykes) • changed in four years and has fallen victim to in- flation. Others argued that •board members know . what they're getting into when seeking office. Tuckersmith-Clinton trustee Frank Falconer suggested the board increase the allowance by 10 per cent. • "It's poor policy to accept the same thing," he said. "If trustees were . paid ,$300 for rubber stamping they're worth 10 per cent more for a voice." Murray Mulvey echoed Falconer's. sentiments adding that if a trustee's remuneration increased at' half the pace of inflation, they would be earning $400 per month. In consideration of the number of iieetings attended by the board chairman, Mulvey suggested, his allowance 'be increased to $500 per month. • Trustee Bert Morin also favored an allowance increase in view of the number of meetings attended" by trustees. :Swine trustees; he maintained, were underpaid. "For five years were set the example here with no increase. The last example was for the intent of the press to pick up and aid and abet but they baried it," he said. "The aim was not achieved. We are not 'overpaid and there are voices 'on this board and not rubber stampers." .. Vice-chairman Morin wanted the trustee's allowance raised to $350 monthly while the vice - Chairman and chairman would recieve $400 and $525 respectively. Trustee Jean Adams told the board it could set a good example by keeping the same' allowance but, Morin countered that nobody seems to care if the board sets a good example. Dorothy Wallace' toldtrustees they were familiar with the pay scale when they made their decision to run... _:;� ►; "If they didn't think the pay was adequa,te'the didn't need to run," she said. "Where is our sen§e public service? This is 'no time to raise salaries' because trustees don't have to be here if they don't want to." Trustee Eugene: Frayne said the bickering over allowances was not, impressing anyone and that the public must be made aware that education costs will continue to rise. "Trustees must change their attitude and tell the public it will,host more each year for education," he siiid. "We're talking pennies here and not nickels and dimes. There are days when I have to debate losing $3000 by going to the board meeting or $300 by not going. I knew that when I ran fir the job.but $350 is' not out of line." The motion to retain"the allowance structure with ther,,exception of the chairman was passed in a recorded vote. Jean Adams, John Goddard, J.Jewitt, Clarence McDonald, Donald McDonald, Joan Van Den Broeck, Dorothy Wallace and Marion Zinn voted in favor of retaining the pay structure. Trustees Frank Falconer, Harry Hayter, Eugene Frayne, Bert Morin, Murray Mulvey, R.K. Peck and Dennis Rau voted a; . inst the motion. New bylaw restricts flashing sigiis Goderich Town Council passed a bylaw brought down by the traffic committee at its regular meeting Monday night regulating and restricting signs within. . the town limits: Only- DeputyReeve Bob Allan voted against the passing: of the by -law -.which -:re e.ais the sign by-law passed in 1968. 1 The main source of discussion surrounding the by- law was ,that of the .stipulation that signs and- ad- veitising devices will not be allowed to flash on and off either regularly or intermittently. Other features -of the by-law restrict signs that are red, green, 'or amber -lighted in such a way that they will confuse ,motorists: Also, signs which overhang the road allowance without a building permit will not •�.n. ._._:.. Other than a facia sign; no sign or advertising device will be allowed, to . be erected on 'private poperty closer than ten feet to the road. f This by-law will not affect. existing signs, but• will . regulate and restrict signs that people wish to: erect, Negotiations ;• will resume Contract negotiations between the Huron County Board of Education and its secondary school teachers will not likely resurne:until the ends -of January. The two sides were unable to reach anagreement in initial bargaining sessions -arid Professor Jeffrey Gandz of the University of Western Ontario was appointed to assist by the Education Relations, Commission ... Gandz mediated:talks. between the board 'and teachers for three days in December at Benmiller Inn.. but that negotiating session failed to produce any hint of settlement. Negotiations will resume by the end of January and Gandz said they will take place in London. "We will organize meetings before the end of the month in London," he said. "Right now the teachers 'and board are meeting in their own groups to reaf- firm their positions or whatever." The personnel committee of the board will hold special meetings during the third week of January. • INSIDE THE SIGNAL -STAR Flyers lose The Bedford Flyers fell to defeat on Monday, night to 'the Zurich Buckeyes 5=2: In other hockey action, the Sailors beefi�t Lucknow 10-4 on Friday, and the Juveniles outscored Belmont 5-3 on the weekend. See,thesports pages, Vandals busy Vandalism in 'Huron County schools cost the taxpayers about $6.000 in the last four months of 1980. Robertson. Memorial was hard hft in Goderich with eight incidents. and Central Huron in Clinton accounted for half of all high school damage. See page 3. ,p.• Wants report Council is demanding an audited financial statement from the Trotters Associating _ before it will cor>'§ider a $5,000 grant to the group. Seethe council briefs on page 5. ' i;,Regular ,Features $;, Tid Ritz . , ..,. Pg. 2 H. Board' Pg. 13 2 "Editorials' Pg 4 ' ClImsified.... Pg. 22.23 ('olunrns'Pg. 4 Real ]':rotate Pg. 23 } Obit' ' Pg.3 Church Pg.9 ~ports Pg. 19-21 Farm Pg. 16 Entertainment.. Pg.. 13 .coatings Pg1.6 t tet ; t re , 'i" "5li«3-TO:f-VE7x•Pscli'rryg?'"fie.