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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1980-01-17, Page 1et4 , -r•vt0A-.4.• • • • — • e• • • • = • itt• , 3 •,;,- ." "t" •I•tA. t•••••••—, ' ;32 1 • D • . • , • BYDAVESYKES Goiderich,„ recreation director Jim Moore .cannbiipced. this week, thaitown wili-be hosting •-'ithree major sporting,eyenti this summer. At a special meeting of the recreation board • last Thursday Moore conf(rtned" the fact that , Goderich will host Sportsfeit Win August The datee-are August 1546 and 17: • Sportsfest isorganized•andiponsored by the. „ Lake Huron Zone Recreation Association in co- ' Operation -with the Ministry • of Culture and Recreation. • The objectives of•the eVent tournaments are to promote inter -community competition and , ••• 4"••,' . -.2'10 • K.,: • V. . SP; ^4, • . • tg-it t41:: • , • ....I.:- t- tt•.; :t 3.•-•ia • • . • participation in recreation activities at,10,y/Rnd - medium skill levels. Sportsfest encoutakS participation, sportsmanship, fun and lowkey competition. In previous years Sportsfest has included such sports as euchre, archery, horseshoe pitching, soccer, T -ball; softball, slowpftch, swimming, 'table tennis, gymnastics, karate, diving and sailing. • • Moore explained that the host community has -the option,of adding sports to the program -and he is hoping to introduce women's slowpitch, windsurfing and cycling to the 1980 program. Staging the ° games will - also. require a tremendous amount of 'volunteer support thp community. "The -money for the games is provided hy the Lake Huron Zone and they hire a co-ordinator who will work from the Goderich office," • Moore explained. "Goderich will provide free use of the sporting facilities and we will: also need volunteers to make it work." Moore, is confident thattoderich wifl atrract • Over 2,00 participants to Sportsfest a figure that has yet to be reached.or surpassed in the • past. Also on the same Weekend Goderich will host • an Ontario . Cycling -Association race in co - ,.,• • • , • • .•. • • •-• • •,l_••— • ' • , •-•"' •• ' ," operation with: the 'London Cycling Club. The races will be held Sunday, August 17. Moore said he hopes•to promotesome cycling: interest in the area antrthe.money races will be preceeded by a novice class competition. It is 7 hoped that 150 to 200 cyclists will be here for the .races that day.• • - 'On July 12, Goderich will host the second Goderich.10 km. Classic, a race Which'last year attracted 121:runnersfrom the area. • - This year a masters category, for runners Over 40, will be added and due to the success of last years classic over 200 runners are expected' , -this year. •• • 1 132 YEAR -3 • tHURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1980 • ...41•Romomoommommomomosil# • ).• • • 1 Town studies townshin annexati RYI:EFFIEDDON • „ - pianitud7t5 take a look at bi:inginrtherland— -;..Anriexation, lOng a dirty. word in Goderich political circles„will be -studied by town council • in lthlf) as a result bf a elOsed door decision' • Made Monday night. • • .• After a private session at -the tail end pf - emincii!s Monday night-meetingcouncil surst...1 • prised"Goderich township and developers of a ' 96 ilot subdivision south Of Goderich by an- , ' •flouncing a plan to study annexation oPtown: — shiPland. • , Council went behind closed doors to congult bra request from the township that the town - consider an agreement in principle to, sell • • services to al lowraw land in the township tobe cleVelOped. Council's reply to that request was a . • refusal to sell services and an announcement it under the town's winv• - 'The move ends .1engthy 'and at times 'con-- troversial negotiations with the township -over, the sale of services. The two Municipalities have:. been meeting" for nearly two "years to attempt to come -up-,with.snme Means of cOSt- sharing expensive services for 1,145 acres'of • land immediately south of the.town The dealings began- in 1978 after a study of sQrviding' needs for the -area indicated $11;2 Million Would •have to be spent installing, sanitary and:storm sewers and,water The ton, r.ealizing .tha Servicing would upgrade landin industrIA park and in some rei-idential',1ands -alreadyArr•the town, began; meeting with the tawrishict:tO see if both could • W.E. ELLIOTT , • • • • • 1883 -1980 '1 •• • William Edmund (Bill) Elliott, 94 Arthur Street, Goderich, died quietly Friday, January' • 11, - 1980.; at Alexandra Marine and General Hospital. He' was 96; and until his death had remained active as a trusted . historian for Goderich as Well as Huron,'Bruce and Perth, Counties.. • • • • • -.71FTElliott was well known t Siiffal-Star • readers for his accurate and detailed accounts Of Goderich andared pioneers and places. • Throughout,the, years, dozens of W.E. Elliott, • b-e iefirfrom splitting those-cests7T1wcovrOhip , agreed since wgreat deal a the land serviced was w ithintoWnship boundaries. " ThoSe negotiations were 'proceeding well until Conklin Lumber Co.,•introduced plans to develop ,33.5 `acres of land behind the Veteran's Land °Act subdivision southdaSt oT;Gbdelich. • That development called for.- 96 building lots that required town services. • To attempt to .get :servicing, to that: sub-, . , division the cominittee•looking at cost sharing fin: the 1;145 aeres of, land narrowed its sights on the 'Conklin property., NegotiatIons centered around the proposal untilAhe township pressed .council for an agreement in principle to allow servicing agreements to be worked ont,,.on the -Conklin land alone., ••! • , • , • • features delighted Signal -Star readers, and in• .19.77 when the town, was celebrating its • sesquicentennial,- W.E. Elliott Single-handedly researched and wrote a 150 -page tabloid for and about the Community's past. • ' That edition was heralded by many, as the • Most; comprehensive history of Goderich' ever • compiled. • •° Following 50 ears in dailye ' •, when he retired in 1958 to return to Goderich, ° his native town, William E. Elliott continued • reporting for •several years, Wrote numerous ..,feature' stories and in the' 1960s contribated to = • • • •.; at • t. • A-ccordtng---to-T-deputrreeve---Bob--Al len,. • chairman of the joint committee s‘f town and township, Goderich cannot afford to spend any. Money servicing one'area of land and ignore the rest. , ' „ • , .Allen ,told council Monday '-night the in- stallation orervices for the Conkl divisicin, ,required the town to..spend massive ,•amounts'of money,with very little return • , • • Allen explained ,that the costs 'for servicing the subdiviSiOn, had to haspread over 'all the land .serviced, rather than one area. He said :. negotiations ',with representatives of Conklin, .. , indicated they were not prepared to spend the kind of money.needed to install proper services:: . He said they were suggesting temporary hookups that would have to be changed, at.the , town's expense, whenever the:land inquestion McQuail heads • .1 1. - ..:. . ..„. • N, • •,, D- .pi• n. Euro n:.: 7... 7, .by Shelley McPhee , . , • . In the party!s firsteontest in five years, Tony ,MCQuail, . a 27 -year-old West - 'Wawanosh Township farmer,'has been 'chosen to lead the NDPs in.. the Huron -Bruce riding fol. the February 18 Federal election. A large crowd of ever , 50 .NDP supporters ,. . chose McQuail on the first•ballot over°0'sborne . "Bernie" Fansher of Bayfield at a nomination• 6 meeting held in. Clinton on Monday, January 14. ' . A third . candidate, ,Carl Hernitingway .of - 'Br'ussels, declined the nomination, but'offered his.• full, sup.port, for, the, party. A fourthcan- , testant,Philip Walker, a , Stephen Township - • ' farmer," who had 'earlier announced that he w"ausidnor'tnn chosen 'asan since NDP hcandidaten ai nt 0 trh ef a ri iieddi ntgot - • appear at the meeting. .‘1* • McQuail, a -newcomer to the 'political scene, . - came to Huron COUnty nine 'years ago. ,He received his. Grade .13 education at Goderich ' was properly serviced. , • • '. Allen -also told council, in a' rep9rt prepared by him, reeve Eileen Palmer,. counCillor Stan • .... . . Profit and mayor Harry Worsell, that Conklin - - was not interested -in ster6 sewers Preferring . open ditcheilor drainage. ' • 'The' report said Conklin had sbee advi ed • • the editorial' pages of variou 'Western Ontario dailies. He= was the author of three booklets about early Huron homes and families, and an earlier book entitled Politici is Funny,. which. ran through two editions, is now out of print. It was, basedon • his Many years of experience as a • Member' of the Press Gallery in Ottawa and TorontO., - •He was born in Gbderich, July26, 1883, eldest. son of George M.' Elliott and Esther (S.waffield) Elliott. He attended. public and high school here,' and business college in. Chatham, where • he -was a gold medallist in short hand, a skill which he retainedall his life, He worked in Sault Ste. Marie, on a Manitoba far ni and in 'his father's, grocery. In 1905 he became correspondent for several, daily papers And at the end of 1906 Went to a full-time, job with Tfie News, in Toronto. From the telegraph desk there he Weht in 1909 to London Free Press, continuing, eiccept .for four years with the Canadian Army in World '• War One, uti1.1927. He was Western Ontario eciitor and political reporter for The- Free Press, in both federal and provincial fields. At the end of 1927 he became Legislature reporter for the Mail and -Empire, then in 1929 returned to Western Ontario as managing editor of Woodsteck Sentinel -Review. On Loan to the Wartime Prices and Trade Board newsreom. in 1941, he joined the Telegram staffin Toronto in -1943 and "remained nearly 15 years, first on the copy desk and then ag editorial writer. was at that. time he published his book of political reminiscences. Joining the 33rd Huron Regiment in 1901, Mr. Elliott' served in various ranks and took two courses at Wolseley Barracks. In London he joined the 7th Fusiliers as orderly room clerk. In 1915 he left the Free Press to enlist in the Corps of Military Staff Clerks (Permanent Force). In 1917 he was seconded to the Canadian Expeditionary Force and 'went overseas as Sergeant of a cyClist platoon. Posted to the 4th Reserve Battalion at Bramshott, he crossed the Channel in a draft for the 1st Canadian Infantry Battalion. Sgt. Elliott served in the orderly room of that unit in France, Belgium and Germany. It was demobilized at London. Ontario in 1919. He continuedlor a time in CMSC as Staff -sergeant, then rejoined the Free Press. The family was Anglican, but those who migrated from Goderich township to Colborne in 1845 found no Anglican Ohurch and attended the nearest. Wm. E, Elliott resumed the connection at St. James, (Westminster) in London, Ontario, and later in Woodstock was for 12 years a member of New St. Paul's, which he represented as lay delegate to the Synod of Huron, serving for a short time as a memberof the Synod executive. For about 12 years he conducted a churotrclass for young men at New St. Paul's. • While employed by the Telegram he lived in Mimic') and was a lay delegate from Christ Church to the Synod of Toronto. In Goderich he served as vestry clerk of St. George's under Canon Taylor, and for some years' was a delegate to Huron Synod'', Whlhfln Mimico, Mr. Elliottserved two years Turn to Page 16 • •. • that to service the subdiviSion a charge of $2 564 per ly! would be levied. It said the developers • considered, that. fee "unreasonable" • and - disputed it. ' • Doug L nds controller for Conklinand the :-company spokesman in negotiations kir the • suhdivision, was upset' with council's actions Monday aigit. • Lynds-claimedrnuCh-of the-repori-prepared--- by Allen's committee' was false and was angry that „council refused to grant Conklin the op- - portunity to address council on the matter. wentintodoinmitteeof the whole in camera Without allowing Conklin opportunity •to',Speak ori the matter and then votedniithe 'annexation proposal. It then asked if Conklin W.E. Elliott ,Turn to page 16 • Charges laid after shooting • -District Cpllegiate Institute and after a year's travels across Canada, bought a 100acre farm in West Wawanosh where he and his wife Fran - raise goatsandsheePIMPQualLis.inyolved number of farm organizations arid is a solar energy advocate. - He teaches courses on • ' heating withwood, windpower and solar energy and has been involved in governmenprograms on alternative energy. andlifestyles. He is also acAmNeTmDbu,,er.of the anti-nu&lear organization - .. In his nomination address, McQuail stressed the need for preserving Canada's energy sources and research into other forms of usable, energy. In his lengtV speech, McQuaii told NDP supporters, -I am appalled by the dishonesty • • and incompetence of our leaders in recent A 20 -year old Goderich area manfaces charges of threatening with an • offensive •. weapon and careless operation of a firearm .following a shooting incident in Saltford Monday morning. potty the Goderich „Police Department and OPP were involved in the arrest at Saltford Heights, after the suspect fired several shots from, a .22 calibre rifle, one of which struck the door of a residence. . The incident began at 3 a.m.' Monday when • three men were removed frOni, Alexandra Marine and General Hospital by ,police for creating a disturbance. Three hours later, after several stints were fired, police mrrounded the home and made the arrest. lor' • .1 mistry years. Unless a change is made, Canada will continue to muddle about, failing to take the • opportunities which today could•be ours.'' • He also -pointed out, In opposition NDP -policies have been implemented after elections, because they were good policies. The NDP is continuing to Produce good policies and it is time they got to implement them .as the Government." , McQuail told riding supporters that present, high interest rates are crippling small businesses and agriculture and noted, "The NDP Jully supports the family farm as the foundation of Canadian agriculture which ensures that our food system will'ineet human needs and not corporate greed." The second nominee, Fansher told the NDP supporters that Petro Canada is an instrument that' can be used in exploring other .energy sources. He alsostressed the need to lower -interest rates and reduce profit taking, thus leaving rhore for the consumer, decreasing • the unemployment rate and increasing the Gross • National Product. • "We the voters are like painters who over the years have -painted themselves into a corner and can't get out without leaving marks," tansher, said. He suggested that voters leave their.mark with an)( for the NDP party on their voting ballot. Michael Davidspn, MP for Hamilton Centre, Was the guest speaker. He came down hard on the Liberal and Conservative parties and said, "Never was there a time when we needed an election more," . • Inhis speech, Davidson noted that there are no real differences between the Liberal and ConservatiVe tharacters-or policies. • • • "This is a rare opportunity for the NDP , party," he said. -Now the voters see what the NDP have always seen. All we've asked for is a chance to get the country back on the road."' ' The Huron -Bruce NDPs are confident that their partywill havea good chance tolead the country. • '• Paul Carroll, riding election chairirin and NDP party -member for the past10 years told' the supporters that he had never felt more pride in being an ND.P• and stated, "People aren't going to brush us aside. They're going to listen." • approves • - 1 and General Hospital to proceed immediately learnischp•re pa" with the relocation of the psychiatric unit from , the Bluewater Centre for the Developmentally Handicapped to the -min hospital -building in Approval has been received from the Ontario -Ministry of Health for the Alexandra Marine God . . , . red by .the London archt•ectural firm ofTillmann and-Rtith ittieate that the relocated service can be provided by adding a' third floor to the 1967 wing of the -hospital and by renovating a portionof the second floor of the same \ing in space previoUsly utilized as »the Paediatric Department. , • The preliminary estimated cost of the project including furniture and equipment is $1,000,000. The Ministry. of Health has agreed to provide two-thirds of -this cost. The remaining sum will be funded by the hospital nver a five-year period from 'savings, arising directly from the move of the psychiatric unit to the main hbspital building. It is anticipated that construction will begin during May of this year with the new addition ready for occupancy by December. ••• At•"•.. • , •