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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1976-11-25, Page 9• Lions The Goderich Recreation and Community Centre Board decided to back a proposal made° by Paul Schutz recently granting the Lions 100 percent of the gate receipts from .Young Canada Week for three years in return for a $12,000 pledge from the service club for the arena roof. In a special meeting Friday night • the board decided to offer the Lions the deal provided they respond with a- $12,000 pledge for the roof. If the club does not comply with the pledge, demands, the decision to grant them_ the gate receipts. automatically expires. The suggestion for the trade off ' was made at a meeting of fund raisers called by Chris Cavanaugh. An off- the-cuff remark suggesting w that the town give the arena to the' Lions to run resulted in the suggestion by Bob Allen, a member of the arena building 'committee, that the Lions be given the arena- for Young Canada Week in return for financial support now, for the roof. Paul Schutz expanded the .suggestion to cover the three year period in return for a $12,000 pledge. He explained to the board that he was only. suggesting the deal and would have to take it to the Lions' board of directors • and • ultimately to the club members for final decision. Some board members seemed to have mixed feelings about the arrangement. They all wanted to see the arena roof fund get the help it badly needed but they felt they may be setting a precedent that would cause problems in the future. Mayor Deb Shewfelt said he was flatly opposed to the proposal claiming the rec board had striven over the years to keep the arena running "►n the black without having to charge high rental. GODERICH SIGNAL-STAR,'1 He said if the board gave the Lions the arena some other group would be at the next meeting . asking the same thing and if that continued the person ending up paying the costs • would be the arena - Conimittee to seek ' b aid he surBoresedAllen slip � m onbee P so ewould _ prevailed on the board for lease. oh M free use of the arena in return A Lepfor a donation and pointed out that the Rotary Clu The Goderich Airport Gower said he would be in administrative committee clined to lease the machine will. seek an agreement with and determine how much use Dominion Roads Machinery it receives at the airport. He Corporation for the lease and suggested it be rented at an possible option . to buy , a hourly rate since the town snowblower, recently pur- would still keep the' runways chased by the company. clear and the machine would The airport committee be usedto�clear bands. passed a motion calling for .Gerry,,. Ginn claimed that the _ administrative corn- the use of two machines was mittee . to negotiate an -full impractical. ;"If you blow the lease with Dominion Roads snow then you blow it,all the for use of. the snowblower time," he said. "We should with or without an -operator. not be plowing. the runways There is also to be an option and blowing the banks." clause that the rental of the Warden ,Jack McCutcheon, unit be applied against the after learning that the purchase price. The full lease machine was.purchased for agreement would (require the use at the airport, suggested company' to maintain. the that the committee should snowblower and supply the end up with a Lease with the option to buy so the•machine would become part of e airport equipment Gower .insisted • that the machine should first be recited' for a period of one year and he was not in favor of an outright purchase. Clifford also claimed that/the machine should be leased since he was concerned with mai en.ance of the blower. • "' Committee .member Grant MacPhee . added that the snowblower was old and delicate. fuel. Airport Committee chairman Bill Clifford in- formed members that Dominion . Roads purchased the snowblower for $3,000 for use at the airport and the committee must 'decide' whether to rent, lease or buy, the machine• and at what price. • • ``Committee. member Dave CIVIC CORNER Thursday; November 25, Goderich Town Council In Council chambers, 4:30 p°.m. - Monday, November 29, Meetinguse of Agriculture Park, council chambers, 7:30 p.m. ' Monday, November 29, • Harbor and Property com- - rnittees, council chambers, 8:15 p.m. ' Tuesday, November 30, Planning Board, council chambers, 7:15 p.m, No. 1 No.. 1 KERR CADILLAC THE LARGEST CADILLAC., PONTIAC BUICK, GMC TRUCK VOLUME' DEALERSHIP THIS— EARTH EARTH.. WHY! Contact . 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'' He said the public is paying for the roof out of its pocket,and would probably be upset if the ice - rentals go up sharply whenthe building is reopened. - Board member' Lynn Meyers said -'he was very concerned about' comments made at the fund raising meeting concerning, con- ditions at the arena. He said - the Lions had- moved their bingo games • put of the building . due to . the dirty conditions pointing out that there was something wrong_. there. "We hired a third man to clean the building -and if it is not clew something is wrong. If the building is not :going to be kept spic and• span we should fire the extra person and use the money on a (continued from page 1) tractor and had worked out a pledge to support the roof fund and hadbeen told that the club -was •not prepared to go the extra money. Mr. Schutz said he may be able to persuade. his 'club members do pledge another $12,000 if the town turned over 100 percent of the gate from Young 'Canada Week for a three year . period. He said that - should bring the club about $9,000 based on the gate receipts from the past ,years .'and the remainder may be .made up from club members • working with -Larry Jeffrey on another bigger celebrity dinner for the arena roof. -Mr. • Jeffrey said he would be willing to help organize a, dinner for next year. ,;sand hoped to ,make the ;affair' bigger by asking more celebrities to attend. He said this : year's effort should realize $8,200 for the fund and a bigger dinner may mean half that again. Bob Allen told °the Lions representative that everything on the ' arena Elsa Hayden -said she had project .had been ;geared to, been listening to the Young Canada Week. He: said discussions during the the committee had •met evening and felt that very few several times ' with the con- , positive ideas had been suggested. She said there may -..be one avenue to raise money as a 'result of the meeting • but the rest of the 'night had been spent discussing negative thoughts. She added that the donations announced during the meeting should be refreshing for fund raisers. • The committee members discovered that Conklin Lumber had donated $5,000; Signal -Star Publishing $2,000; the Rotary Club had pledged another $2,000; the Inter- national Union of Aerospace Workers had pledged $3,000; and that the celebrity dinner should make about $8,000. John Doherty said. he was appreciative of the efforts of service clubs but added he felt the people of Goderich relied too heavily on the clubs in situations like this. He said he wondered where allthe people. doing all the "mouthing" were , when meetings were arranged and asked why they were not "putting their money up". "People come up to me on the street and ask why the hell we did something!" he said. "I'rn getting fed up with it." Chris Cavanaugh pointed out that it is hard to say to the town in general that .people haven't given enough when some people have given more than. enough. He suggested that perhaps there was no individual community spirit here, only the spirit' generated through the ser-. vice clubs. work schedule that vertually guaranteed the arena would' be ready in time for the Pee Wee tourney. . "If you're thinking of Moving the tourney to Clinton tell us•° so we can take the pressure off the contractor,"° said Mr. Allen. "There's no pressure ion him. He's getting paid," said Larry Jeffrey. "The pressure is all on us." • • • - Jim Peters said that any completion date the bon 'tractor gave would only be in - good'faith. He._-said.•the con- tract doesnot have .any contpletion date in. ;,it which means the contractot.11asno legal requirement to finish. the project, t. Lion Ben 'Graham added that the club would have to be 1 absolutely sure of the arena's completion before they mailed out invitations to teams for YCW.. - DONATIONS ANNOUNCED. - contract cleaner," he said: :John Doherty agreed with Mr. Meyers adding, "There was no damn reason people should sit at the arena and get filthy, playing bingo while thrixe people sit around". Mayor Shewfelt said the cleaning problem is nothing new pointing out that the town should have gone to a con, I tract cleaner years ago. He said the town was asking the. arena manager to clean the arena building when they don't ask the town clerk to clean -his office. 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