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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1980-03-06, Page 19• .Bm Partriage says' ants sOwee pule" s, :a trying but, libraky.syste library has in boois nd equiproent, In an int4rview last week. County' Librarian Bill Partridge said facilities have been "a - bugbear scirt gf• perennial issue because libraries have been let ge" „ But he added he isn't blaming •the . • BY HENRY 11B99 • . . The Huroit *COUnty library system is being caught in the middle of a funding Squeeze between • the province and the municipalities, making it hard to keep up the libraries in some of the smaller eentres.• • • „ Tie report .of, the library heard to eeatity cuunell last Thursday noted there has been e problem with leek of heat and with the ceiling falling in at the .porrie library, and that Con- sequently the beard. is looking for other ac- eeinmodation there. • The board also_ been having problems. with . the building.. at Walton .as well as. 000, or two ,others, and last month it reported that .if branches' ere not properly maintained, .it may become- necessary - for the libraryboard to suspend ,serviceS certain °cases, to: protect the large Investment the is 111111111i:—I S -T- 101/81A INA 1111111 W. J. HUGHES REALTY LIMITED 38 EAST ST. 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Most arenas got grants throUgh. •Wintarie, he noted,' and libraries got into some of them, but not Many. , Also a freeke on fundirig by the provincial government is dumping an ever larger share of •the cost of operating the library system onto the local governments. At one timeabout half the funding for the library system came from the province, -he - reported, but a freeze on funding at the 1977 level OODERIPROGNAPSTAR, TOR4/644.40.. 'Op has reduced this to about one third-. Of the total today. . • Public libraryser, vices are really sup-. porta by the municipality," he said. He noted that the rental fee of $2.00 per square foot per year which the library board pays for facilfties is really only a token .amount and the burden of providing ,space, in most cases falls on the municipalities: At the same time he pointed out that a third of the people in the county have library cards and use them, so the service provided is a major and not a minor one. Total , book circulation --in-the Huron system was 386,253 last year, an in- crease of •nearly 20,000 Wingham gets rabies depot BY HENRY HESS A depot for rabies serum will be established at the Wingham and District Hospital in the near future, Dr. Brian Lynch, medical officer of health for Huron County, reported to county council last week. In the past the special serum, for use in the treatment • of urgent cases, has been available only from the Ministry of Health Central Phar- macy in Toronto. Wingham will , supply the neighbouring areas of Huron, Bruce and Grey counties and •an ad- • ditional depot in London will also supply Huron. • Although he • did not give any figures, the doctor said Huron has had a low incidence of rabies during the past few years. He credited this partly to luck, but also to an effective control program. In his report Dr. Lynch al-sq-di-s-ou-ssect-briefly-the- futute outlook Tor health units in the province. The whole package of health services in Ontario is changing • rather rapidly and every hospital and health unit has had to adapt to lower funding, he noted. Each year the 'provincial subsidy has been "a couple of points below the cost of doing business". He said health units are a good investment for the ministry and con- sequently they haven't suffered too much from funding cuts. The cost of operating the Huron unit is about $11-$12 per capita, he reported, and it can offer valuable ' ser- vices such as • im- munization programs at low cost. In other health related business, council ap- proved a grant of $5,943.50 toward the, paving of a parking lot at the South Huron Hospital, Exeter, 'as well as an' additional grant of $23,675.25 for renovations regarding fire safety. But although Huron hasn't realty felt the, money squeeze so far, he can foresee a time when it will have to adapt some of its services to the dollars available,. he added. • Over 1978, he reported.. The biggest increases were at Hensali (41 per cent) and Wingham (13 per cent). He said the circulation figure is an enviable one nd he has been asked by other country librarians - why Huron ;cOunty's circulation is so high. He 'attributed • the success partly'to the many outlets the library has, even in small centres. In his report to council Mr. Partridge noted the -19-78-hudg&-of $449,799 amounts to only $8.05 per capita. Salaries, at $200,234, accounted for 46 per cent of the budget,_ with books next at $112,500 for 25 per cent. The remainder is divided among rents, benefits, miscellaneous costs, processing and equip- ment. The library board report also showed the floor space of the various libraries a*ound the county, " showing Wingham at 800 square feet with less than -half the space of any of the other town libraries. Mr. Partridge later explained this is because Wingham was the only town not to -apply. for a Carnegie grant back around the turn of the century. These grants helped towns to build separate library beildings, while Wingham was left using two rooms in the town hall. He said both he and the library board have been 'trying to work with the town to get larger -qtiarters. They had hoped to get the bottom floor in the •old post office buildingbut this has been field up by the town's agreement to use the space as a day care centre, he noted. Turnberry reeve ffot--•PAGB 19 • • Blyth hall gets renovation Dressing in a tem- porary trailer and,, sharing washrooms with • theatre patrons -will soon be things of the past for actors at Blyth Memorial Hall, home since 1975 to the nationally acclaimed Blyth Summer Festival. Construction of an addition and installation of improvements to the existing circa 1920, Blyth Memorial Hall, costing a total of $316,000 are ex- pected to be completed by May 1. The Blyth SuMiner Festival, heading into its sixth season, is one of the few theatres in the country -performing only original Canadian scripts. Its budget has grown from $10,000 to a °proposed $143,000 this summer and 1979 audiences in the'400 seat theatre topped 21,000, a 13 percent increase over 1978., The 1980 season is the fe'stival's first under new artistic director, Janet Amos, who takes over from -founder JamestRoy: The two storey ad- ' dition, _Which will provide a box office, an Art gallery' and community crafts room on the ground floor and dressing rooms, washrooms and storage facilities on the second floor is covered with red brick from the company which supplied the brick when the original hall Blyth Festival are being approached now and the local campaign will begin in the spring wiren weather in this snowbelt area of Western Ontario is more predictable. Construction, which includes new access for the disabled and will allow the hall's old balcony to be used for audiences, is being done by Wayne Stable General Contractors Ltd. of Kitchener. Interior painting will be done by volunteers including board members of the • Blyth Centre for the Arts. A permanent scroll in Memorial Hall will list the names of those who give $500 and more to the building fund. Vote for ward system CLINTON - Over 160 of the ratepayers in Vanastra, south • of ' Clinton, have signed a petition asking Tuckersmith Township council to set' up a ward, system in the municipality. The ward system would divide the township into areas, with Vanastra as a separate ward. Each Oaf - area ivOidd vote for • . It BmrRao-noasadsgc--a ni ItonrgeCnKcNraX 1m—rinep.--reesfefnectat tivme-taokViOnUgnt„Ire retires - atingof a, • Ltd., in separate race in each BY HENRY HESS Don Eadie will be resigning as reeve of Turnberry Township when the township council meets later this - month. Mr. Eadie announced in a letter to Huron • County Council last Thursday that he intends OWNER TRANSFERRED 3 BEDROOM -FAMILY HOME with formal dining room, 2-3 , pc. 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Eadie is in his fourth year as reeve of the township. He previously served for four years as deputy reeve and his in- volvement in ,municipal , politics goes back more than 10 years': ,Wingharn, is the building ward. Under the award fund campaign chair- system, ratepayers man. Joining him on the would no longer •vote for building fund committee the whole council, but are Susan Howson and would ,only choose the Helen Gowing of Blyth, reeve by a vote at large.• Lynda Lentz of Wingham, Division of a Mildred McAdam . of municipality into wards Clinton and Sheila can be used as a way of Richards of Brussels, ensuring that various president of the board of geographical areas - get directors, Blyth Centre representation, but much for the Arts. • hinges on how ward Grants from various boundaries are drawn. levels of government Although council have contributed over refused to send the $200,000 .and so far, petition proposing the . $25,000 of the $95,000 goal ward system to the has. come in from the • Ontario Municipal Board private sector. (OMB), the Vanastra , Mr. Hamilton says committee forwarded the potential provincial and petition to the OMB national supporters of the themselves. Kingsbridge BY DELORES Van OSCH congraetintions to . and Michelle (Austin) Rourke on the arrival of their first child, a son, born at St. Joseph's Hospital, London this past week. Another grandson for Vincent and Idell Austin. Mrs. George Nelson (She- ila Sinnett) and little soh of _ Calgary, Alberta, are visiting her parents,'Jim and Yvonne Sinnett and family. Congratulations to Maria Dalton, grade six student at St. Joseph's School here, who paced third in the final school zone public speaking competition held at St. Pat- rick's School,. Dublin on Thursday evening. Friday visitors with An - tone and Delores Van Osch and family were Eddie and Margaret Heffernan and lit- tle daughter, Laura, of Bell- wood. Congratulations to Mary Luanne Clare, a grade twelve student at F. E. Madill Secondary School, Wing - ham, who placed first in the girls' division of the Wing - ham Lions Effective Speak- ing Competition held at the Wingham-Golf and Curling Club last Tuesday evening. Members of the Lions Club, the speakers and their guests enjoyed a dinner, then the speeches were heard, follow- ed by three minute impromp- • • ' CLOSE TO GODERICH Blacks Point Road • beautiful lot. A-1 condition, Priced in 40s. F-2 Sunset Beach - ", acre treed lot, low taxes. Priced to sell in 30's. B- 12 W. J. HUGIjES (REALTY WORLD) 38 East St. Gaderich Rita Allen 524-8480 524-9131 11111‘...a...1.111ho • tu speeches. Jack Whytock of Whitechurch placed first in _ the b_oys'.d.iYisi.o.n—Thes.e. two._ will note enter the Regional Competition to be held in Wingham on March 26th. Weekend visitors with Walter, Mary and Mary Lu- anne Clare were Mr. and Mrs. Phil Ryan, their daugh- ters, Dorothy Ryan and Lau- ra Roden and grandchildren, Matthew and Andrew, all of Toronto. Sunday visitors with Mrs. Yvette Heffernan were Ray and Sue Hefferrian and Mark, Lucan and, Jerry. Hef- fernan. Stratford. Sympathy is extended to Jim and Irene Gilmore and Art and' Rita Gilmore of Lucknow on the death of Jim and Art's sister, Mrs. Della Kretz of Kitchener. Mrs. Kretz, who had been ill for several months, passed away on Saturday, March 1st. The funeral was held Tuesday, March 4th in Kitchener. Delia was born and raised on the 12th concession of Ash- field. A correction in last week's news column should be made regarding the item that Ther- esa Courtney had been inter- viewed by JThT Thompson of CKNX, Our Town Canada. Bill had called to suggest an interview but no final plans had taken place. Sorry for any inconvenience this might have made to the ones involved.