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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1980-02-14, Page 1Mush! This group of energetic young ladies was quick off the start in theiteb.a; gan races held as part of. the GDCI Winter' Games,' Friday, • Naturally the teachers inherited the soft job of and hockey and broomball matches between riding the sleigh. The winter games included the teachers and students. (photo by Dave pyramid building, tug of war, tobaggan races, Sykes) Name committee to study vandalism Goderich town council took a vandalism study one step further Monday night when it named people it intends to ask to serve on a committee set up to study the effects of van- dals. Reeve Eileen Palmer presented council with a list of names of people she felt would make effective committee members. She moved that council adopt the-narnes—and-send-"e-tter-s-tothe: - people requesting their participation. She added that council should select a member ofcouncil texound out the committee .numbers. Included in Palmer's list of names was police chief Pat King, or a police officer, lawyer Norm Pickell, head of Family and Children's, Services John Penn, Provincial. Court Judge Bill Coohrane, Deb Shewfelt, Robertson School Principal .Ralph Smith, .the president of the, GDCI' Student's Council and councillor Jim Searis. Palmer. told council 'she proposed the list of names to expedite formation of the Committee. She said she felt it was a high priority pointing out that vandalism costs takpayers in Goderich a great deal_of money. Palmer said 1979 works and engineering budgets showed that "the ; town'. spent $17,000 replacing street signs knocked down by van- dal<s. Councillor John Doherty noted that the windows in the Beach Hut restaurant on the South Beach had been smashed again by vandals.„ . " ' " "That's the third time for those," said • Doherty. Teacher goaltender Bruce Baker was taken hostage by an irate group of GDCI students during the teacher -student hockey game as part of Winter Games festivities. Baker was an obvious target of student discontent as his monumental goaltending inspired the teachers to a victory. (photo by Dave Sykes) _ 132 YEAR -7 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14,1989 35 CENTS PER COPY • Building safe BY JEFF SEDDON A complaint,.about lack of snow removal almost ended up with town council asking a Goderich man totear down abuilding he owns. The town's works and engineering committee recommended to council Mondaynight that the town send ; a .letter_ to. Melvin__Cranston requesting that he demolish an old building just off Kingston Street. According to.works and engineering chair- man the request 'was not intended to be in- sulting but rather was an effort to guage Cranston's reaction. Allen said the letter was by no means an •"order" from the town to demolish the building but rather was a request. He said the land the Murray Cardiff Graeme Craig BY JEFF SEDDON Murray Cardiff says his style is to be Murray Cardiff and''let people take me as I am'r-- That's the way"the 45 year old Brussel's area cash crop farmer has treated his effort to win a Progressive •Conservative seat for. Huron - Bruce in the February 18 federal election. He's run a low key campaign befitting his character. He shuns much of the hoopla that some political campaigns make use of to at- tract attention. He prefers to look voters in the eye when he's seeking their support. Cardiff was born and raised on a farm just north of Brussels. The home farm, 150 acres, has been in the Cardiff family for -three" generations, and will probably be Cardiff for three more. ' The PC candidate has always,farmed for a living but was not always -to survive on the land alone. When he purchased the familydarm from • his father he was forced to work off the land to Make ends meet. He worked in Brussels as an assistant to the town's' funeral director, a job' that his quiet personality made him a natural for. He says now that he enjoyed the work because it was "rewarding helping people". His farming career forced him to give up his outside jobs to concentrate on agricilture. Since striking out on his own he has twice ex- panded his farm and is now in the process of entering a partnership with his oldest son. His •Committment to agriculture took him away fI'om the farm several years ago when he began tq serve on the Ontario White Bean Marke+mna board. Now chairtnan of the board Turn to page 16 .17 Tony McQuail N ame a street Ever wanted to name a street? If you've always had a secret desire to be the one to come up with a snappy name for one of Goderich's thoroughfares this may be your big chance. Town council decided Monday night to invite any interested citizens to sit on a street naming -_ rnmmittee-�The.__streets neediegidentifica. are in a . subdivision planned by Suncoast Estates for the south-west side of Goderich. Reeve Eileen Palmer suggested council name the chairmen of its works and engineering and traffic committees to the street narking committee and invite interested ' citizens to take part. Councillor Elsa Haydon remarked the idea of asking citizens °to participate was worthwhile pointing out many citizens complain that the streets in^town pay little attention to the town's history. Commissioner of works pointed out later that the $17,000 was nottentirel'y due to vandals but leather was the entire amount the town spent on signs in 1979. Hunter said the town is still in the process of ' changing its street signs to a blue sign with white letters that is nlore easily read. Hunter said those signs that were knocked down were not entirely due to vandals. He estimated that 80 percent of the signs knocked down each year were accidental. BY DAVE SYKE.S The campaign pace is frenetic as election day approaches but for Liberal candidate Graeme Craig the long days are now vital. A last effort to make an intrinsic impression on the voter-, perhaps sway the undecided. Craig, a 33 year old Walton -area farmer, is seeking election for the second time, having run for the Liberals in the May 22 election. He admits its a struggle in a riding that has ex- clusively given, its support to Tory federal candidates. The Huron -Bruce riding takes in all of Huron County and the four southern townships of Bruce County. The electorate of the riding have traditionally supported 'a man' with undivided loyalties for several years. Yet, while the riding has been a Conservative stronghold federally, the Liberals have been supported provincially. Bob McKinley has represented this riding in Ottawa for the past 13 years before announcing he would not seek re- election in the February 18 election., Craig admitted the retirement of McKinley has fostered keen competition in the riding and is confident the race will be close. His main opponent is Murray Cardiff, . a 45 year-old Burssels area farmer, who is chairman of the Ontario White Bean Producers' Marketing Board. Tony McQuail, a West Wawanosh Township farmer is plugging renewable energy sources for the New Democratic Party. While voters may have been disenchanted with the fall of the government and the sub- sequent .election call, Craig inists it is Turn to page 18 BY SHARON DIETZ The Huron -Bruce Democratic Party can- didate, Tony McQuail, a Lucknow area farmer, thinks the Progressive Conservative budget and high interest rates are two issues voters in this riding are most concerned about going into the February 18 federal election. Voters are concerned about the budget's implications and the apparent lack of'cbncern for small busin4ss and farmers, McQuail says. It's these people who must pay high interest rates because they carry such heavy debt load. The Conservatives themselves can't defend the Crosbie budget, McQuail charges. All three parties supported the idea of deducting wages to a spouse so the person can pay into the Canada Pension and ' Unemployment Insurance. The NOP have supported the policy for years, says McQuail. "Noiw the Conservatives are trying to make it a plank in their election platform," quips McQuail. "It's a sliver." McQuail feels the Liberal promises in this campaign are promises of 12 years ago which they have repeatedly made throughout the 70s: energy, security, 'Sound money management; regional development, jobs, Canadian control of the economy and sharing Canada's,wealth^ They promised sound money management and took the deficit from $II million to $11 billion, McQuail points out. • "Hot air is cheap, but we can't heat our homes with it all year round," he says. McQuail is especially concerned how Con- servative and Liberal policies' will affect far- mers. New Democrats would cancel the excise Turn to page 7 • 0 letter 'building sits on may be better used for parking space. He noted that perhaps ,Cranston would agree with the town's suggestion but council was going to "shoot it down,before it got off the ground". ' Councillor James Magee said the building was below Standard structurally, was a fire-- hazard: mina"was .unkept. He said the town had a minimum standards bylaw designed to prevent that sort of thing suggesting it's "time council takes action"'. Councillor Jim Searis said. the town is going about the matter in the wrong way. Searis said the man pays taxes on the building and the town has no right to ask it be torn down. Searis suggested if council wanted the. building • demolished it offer to buy it then tear it down. Councillor Elsa Haydon asked when the town "got the authority to ask someone to tear down a .building". She said it was one thing for the town to offer to buy it with the •intent of demolishing but another to ask the owner to wreck it himself. • "I.., think it's offensive," she said of the suggestion. Mayor Harry Wo& -sell said he had no idea where the committee got its ideas. He said his firm, Worsen Brothers Plumbing Ltd., had rented half the building and the Club Grill the tion ntherhalfHesaidll_►is firm has.three trucks and has no problem getting in and out of the area "and haven't for 40 years". Allen told council the works and engineering committee had received a complaint about snow removal in the alley behind the Club Grill and the issue went from there. ' Worsell said "I was the one that asked for the snow removal and I was told to get a truck and haul -it out myself". The mayor said "that's Turn to page 8. Bureau opens Goderich finally has a new licence bureau ?ffice. Bruce Manifold of the Ministry of Tran- sportation and Communication announced this week that the Goderich Licence Bureau will be located at Gords Sport and Cycle, 211 Bayfield Rcsad•. The bureau will be officially 8pened Thur- sday, February 14 at which time all licence renewal stickers will be available. The bureau will be open frorn,8.30 a.nl,. Tb 5.30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thtirsday and Friday. Wednesday and Saturday hours are from 8.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Town hires Goderich man .Goderich hired its second building inspector of the year Monday night when it accepted the recommendation of Ata committee formed to interview applicants for the job. Doug Harrison of 143 Stonehouse Street will take up building inspector duties March 3 replacing Jim McQuire who resigned before taking office. In a report to council the interviewing committee recommended Harrison be hired at a $17,000 a year wage and that he be put on probation until the end of the year. Harrison will receive a $1,000 raise in 1980 and will be eligible for three weeks holidays next year. He will also neceive a $100 a month car allowance for using his own vehicle on town • business. Councillor Jim Magee, asked why the town was offering a new employee three weeks holdiays after his first year on the job. Town clerk Larry McCabe said it was merely one of the terms of employment. He said if the town didn't offer three weeks vacation it probably wouldn't get many applications.