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ECEMBER 3�, 1976—PAGE 13
Kinsmen build 4.09.0 addition to ioorkihopfor retarded adults
(continuedfrom page 11)
elderly and physically
handicapped persons.
The Goderich Area 'Plan-
ning Board withheld approval
in principle of a 110 unit for
building apartment-eomplex
proposed by a Sarnia -based
firm to be constructed in the
east end of Goderich. Planner
Nick Hill unveiled the
complex seeking approval for
his Sarnia clients but the
board tabled any decision.,
until their next meeting
asking for time to review the
proposal.
Four in -patients and five
day-care patients are now
receiving treatment at the
psychiatry, department at
AM&G Hospital at the former
' GPH on Highway 21 south of
Goderich.
Mayor Deb Shewfelt cast a
deciding motion to have a
tree in front of Hayter motor
sales on Kingston Street
pruned rather than rernoved.„. „
Almost a month ago Hayter
made a request to council
through a letter explaining
that sap from the tree dripped
on the cars and the roots of
the tree also ripped up the
sidewalk.
Goderich Town Council
passed la motion. Monday
night to give $375 to the
Celebration '75 committee to
help erase a deficit from last
year's activities.
Committee representatives
Brian Markson and Reg Bell
ap.proached council
reqiiesting the additional
funds since, the committee
was asked to undertake an.
additional two projects after
their budget had been
prepared. These.two projects
were Canada Week and the
Mississauga band. These two
projects left a deficit of $375.
A recommendation to the
Huron board of education by
director of education John
Cochrane on the pupil teacher..
ratio for 1976-77 was referred
.to the salary committee on
" motion of vice-chairman
Charles Thomas.
Thomas said he •felt the
•PTR should be giVen, more
study. Cochrane's submission
said superintendents had,
examined proposed class-.
grade organization in each
school. •and -recoinmended
..that 313.4 teachers who would
generate a PTR o 22 to one be
engaged for grades one to
eight.
APRIL 15
Goderich Town Council
gave final reading to a bylaw
calling for the closure of
Mary Street east of the Maple
Street limit.
The citi4ens of Bennett, Tilt
and Jones Street -petitioned
town council in a letter to
rectify the water drainage
problem that exists ,,on
Bennett Street. Spokesman
Harold Young said the area is
serviced by an old box drain
and that the area flooded in
the spring.
Although there seems to be
The crew of the Westdale from Hamilton, watch in disbelief after a crew -mate Rosaire
Desroches died in Goderich Harbor while testing a lifeboat. The lifejacked thrown to
Desroches lies near the ship.
some confusion as, to what it
-will be used for, it is almost a
sure thing that the Clinton
Public .Hospital will cease to
be an active treatment center
on June 1 and will be closed. -
Dr. Bette Stephenson,
acting Minister of Health,
told the hospital board in a
letter on Monday night that
they must give all their 110 .
employees severance notices.
The hospital is to accept no
more patients after May 1.
The hospital will be allowed
to have an ambulance, an x-
ray facility and a lab, and
accommodate day surgery.
Council agreed to a motion
to rezone a section of
property on Bennett Street -to
allow construction of row
housing unit pending ap-
proval of an appropriate site
plan.
Council concurred with the
recommendation from the
planning board that
suggested the rezoning of the
property to R3 using the site
plan zoning bylaw format
following council's approval
of a site plan.
Councillor Dave Gy/has
some plans he hopes can be
instituted in Goderich this
summer, through the -
provincially funded
Experience '76' program.
The Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority will
be participating in this.'
program and is planningto-be
able to. undertake some
projects for its member
municipalities. In previpu(s
years such municipal work as
cleanup .of dumps, roadsides,
cemeteries, river banks,
painting. of bridges, minor
erosion control and landscape
work have been done..
row and the otherWas divided
into twiS groups of nine units
with a driveway between
each one.
Goderich Kinsmen Club'
officials broke the, ground at
their property on SoUth Street
signifying the start of cont.
struction on a $40,000 addition
to the workshop they sponsor
for mentally retarded. adults •
in goderich. The addition will
include a workshop ex-
pansion, washrooms., ' a
storage area and a club ropm
for Kinsmen meetings.
Ted Bissett, a member of
the Goderich Volunteer Fire
'D t tf 47 and
Department
men or years
• chief for the past 13 years Northern Music:.
$18,428,354, an increase of
$2,330,250 from the actual
expenditures in 1975. It
amounts te about 14.4 per-
cent. • •
The town of Goderich is
h.eving a birthday party and
inviting the world. The party
is. Jubilee Three, the 150th
founder's day for the town. To
kick off
been' put to mimic. The song,
two verses and.a chorus, is an
originalef Rick Banks .and
has been 'copyrighted by the
town. The music was;
arranged by Laurie
McAllister and has been
recorded and copyrighted by
. '
handed. in his, resignation to - A subcommittee of the
Chief. Bissett told council • Submitted plans to the beard
that he _was "too old" and if of education'for the use of a
town council Monday night. Goderich Recreation Board
was time he was "getting out parcel of land across from
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to pasture". He said that he GDCI.
would end his 47 years on the The bOard of education had
originally offered use of the,
"department on May 31, and
added that he was also land to the town as a site fur
retiring from his employment
on that date.
A proposal to move the 27.6
,KV on the southern ldge of
the Suncoast Estates
development in Goderich to
keep it from bisecting a park
planned in the subdivision's
next stage of development
has been ruled out for
the recreation complex. The
plans for the project were
dropped and an -alternate
project was proposed.
The importance of
agriculture in Colborne
Township was stressed in the
township's secondary plan
aired- last week in a public
meeting at Carlow and
economic reasons. brought several reactions
f
The suggestion, originallyrom about 100 land owners
present who wanted their
made by Suncoast Estates,
to move the line 00 feet
holdings zoned - to Permit
was 3
south to the town limits to add , housing developments. •
aesthetically to a subdivision County planner Gary
to be developed on the land Davidson; author of the
secondary plan, told the
the line crosses now. The
original plan for the sub-
meeting at the outset that the
division had most of the 2,600 main purpose of the plan was
feet of high voltage line on a to protect the agricultural
street allowance but meant base of the township which he
that a park planned for the said had national importance
as an agricultural resource.
housing development would
be cut in half by a Brie . of MAY 6
hydro poles.
The town of Goderich is
headed towards its second
annual Arbour Day
celebrations On April .?9 and
parks chairman Elsa Haydon
claims this year the town will
be having a modified version
. of last year's efforts to "keep
paying 22 pewent more for Goderich green and clean
thepower they purchasefrom Most areas were treated to
Hydro due to an increase the record high temperatures
last week making Easter all
that much more enjoyable.
The Maitland Tennis Club
is only one step away from
reality needing only the
provincial supplier an-
nounced effective January 1-,
1976..
Ian Deslauriers resource
manager for the MVCA in-
formed town council that a approval of the shareholders
lakeshore study of 15 miles at the Maitland Country Club
along Lake Huron is expected to bdcome official. The club,
to begin next year.
He explained that the study
will outline the erosion
now a caucus of twelve
organizers, has received
permission from the Maitland
problem along that stretch of board of directors to build
the lakeshore and suggest
solutions and their probable
costs. He estimated that the
town's cost share in the study
double courts on the club's
property and has received
financial backing from them.
Maitland Conservation
F d tion has Jeteived a
would be approximately $5099 oun a
-• . _ . for their twp miles ofsbdr_e... • total of $1300 in donations.
APRIL The two cheques represent
Goderich Public Utilities
Comihissioner Dave Rolston
announced _thi§ week that
hydro rates will be going up
13.8 percent on May 1. An
increase to the PUC. from
Ontario Hydro was cited as
the reason for the hike ac-
cording to Mr. Rolston. -
The Goderich PUC is
Goderich Town Council
granted approval to a site
plan for construction of an 18
unit row housing develop-
ment on Bennett Street.
Contractor Gerald Walter
of RR 4 Clinton presented two
plans to council for -the
construction of 18 rental
housing units on a 1.5 acre
parcel of land. One plan hpd
the 18 units connected in one
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Huron CothitY Property committee chairman John Baker Goderich and was, chosen from a imbiber of entries sub -
looked on as Warden lack McCutcheon unveiled the tie* mitted fora design contest. (staff -photo)
county flag. The flag was designed by Gladys Stiles of
the first major donations to
the foundation which held its
inaugural meeting May 7,
1975 and will be directed
towards the purchasing of
ecologically significant
properties within the water
shed. - •
APRIL29
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The , tax •rate for school
purposes in the County of
Huron for 1976 will be in-
creased by 28.7 percent as a
result of the budget approved
by the board- of education
trustees last Wednesday
night, April 21. "
The total budget for the
year was approved at
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Membefi of Huron CountY'
Council are considering
reducing its members from 45
to 29 but it isn't likely they
will come to a decision until
June at the earliest. A report
of the local government study
committee was tabled until
the May session but council
probably won't be ready to
vote on the matter until the
following meeting at the end
of June.
Goderich Town Council
agreed to table discussion of
the subject.
Goderich tennis promoters
proposing the formation of a
club based at the. Maitland
Golf and Country Club served
up their ideas to a Maitland
shareholders meeting
recently won - the seal of
approval from the members
to go ahead with the plans.
The plans for the complex
two specially- sur-
faced double tennis courts
plus Wind screens, special
lighting and fencing costing
about $30,000.
Council was "stumped"
Monday evening after vetoing
- a proposal by Councillor Elsa
Haydon to stop charging
Goderich residents for .tree
stump removal on town
property.
Mayor Deb Shewfelt said he
would hear alternate motions
from council concerning how
to handle the stump problem,
but there were none. Coun-
cillors . apparently seemed
content to continue charging
the $6 stump removal, fee
under a resolution which
according to the town
Administrator Harold Walls
and the town solicitor Dan
Murphy is illegal.
The tender for a storm Stan Profit Will return tO the
Sewer on Raglan Street South council table. The reduction
on Keays Street, web ap- is hoped to save council large .
proved without question by amounts a time, with a "
couniI,
cil, but the method of smaller and therefore easier -
opening the tenders was hotly
eroonutr,to workwith, as well as
debatediiiorsby several •coun- money,
eliminating 16 people
e
The 13 tenders for the' frorii the county payroll.
project were opened Monday MaYor "Deb Shewfelt broke
a tie _vote Monday evwning
afternoon at a Works and and swung down. town
. •
Engineering Committee
council's support behind , a
meeting
which Burns Ross,
vva§ oject to buy new lights for
the town's engineer, •
present. The.committee -jhe ball diamond ' in
3,
Agribulture Park. •
recommendation to accept The town will finance the
the tender of Ron Sutherland,
Met*
lbourne, for $83,859.12 was project up to $5,000. The cost
is estimated to be bet
approved by douncil. $15,000 and $20,000. .
The Goderich Planning Problems of restraint
Board will reconimend to
facing Ontario milk
Town council that a deeming producers thiS. year ' have .
bylaw be passed on the been caused by a surplus of
property on Bennett Street "thilk powder in Canada that
bounded by Mary a,nd Maple the federal .and . provincial
Streets. The bylaw, if pass.ed governments, the , 9ntario
Milk Marketing Board and
even Mother Nature had a
hand in creating.
The restraint, basically a 15
percent cutback in quotas for
producers in the province has
been deemed necessary by
government and the 01VIMB
in an attempt to bring the
national milk product supply
and demand figures back into -
line..
A bylaw to deem registered
plans not to be registered 4"
(deeming bylaw) did not .
spring.
.
• Branch 109 of the Royal make it through a third and
,
final -reading at the council
Canadian Legion undertook table.
to promote the massive
planting as part of the The bylaW, not on the
agenda handed out to council,
celebration of the Canadian was introduced at the last
Legion r - "Golden Anniver-
sary". Orders were taken a minute by town ad -
year ago at this time and ministrator Harold Walls. It
fall's planting. had been recommended by
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bulbs arrived in time for last the Goderich andarea
p
panning board at its last
A bylaw to rezone property
on Bennett- Street to perMit meetingin the interest of
"good
row housing was passed by planning".
council giving the
the go-ahead to Nearly three months of
depression and tension ended
the new develo
The Goderich Area Housing oinClinton Monday and an air f
Committee intends to contact jubilation and elation
the Ontario Housing Cor- swept over the town when
poration rClintopians learned that their '
equesting them to hospital won't be closed.
send a 'field officer to
A decision by the Divisional
Goderich to conduct a need Court and the Supreme Court
Surv'ty for the government- of Ontario said the provincial
sponsored senior citizens' government cannot order
housing here. • - Clinton, : and three other •
The move, made in the hospitals to close as a means
wake of the committee's own of cutting expenses. *
survey on the hou..ing needs Councillor i Leroy Harrison
of the elderly is the first re& reported to Goderich Town
tape hurdle the project faces Council Monday that 42 alph -
and brings it one step -closer Kingswell, - a .volunteer
to reality. ' fireman for the last 31 -"Years
The town of Goderich could and deputy -chief for the past
end up with a minimum two years has accepted. the
maintenance"bylaw that will 'appointment as fire chief to -
force -homeowners in the town replice Ted Bisset who is
to keep their residences up to retiring.
government safety and health James McKenzie, -
standards with regard to acknowledged as.the world's -.
plumbing, heating, wiring foremost highland dancer,
and Aructure. The ,hylaw, was in town recently to teach ,
. suggested by councillor Bob a seminar for a grotip of local
Allen, may be a by product of highland dancers.
the town's involvement with a . ._ .
provincial home renewal - _
program, MAY 20 ,
by council, will squash a
subdivision on the property
that was designed and ap-
proved in 1906.
The property, zoned
developmental in the town's
official plan, is broken up into
small parcels with several
owners holding rights. The
plan of subdivision contains
about 30 lots and has two
streets bisecting it.
" The "Prettiest Town in
Canada" is emblazoned with
some 14,000 new tulips this
, .
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The decision whether the , • • .
62 -bed Clinton Public After two consecutive •
nights of budget meetings and ,
Hospital will remain open is
now up to the Supreme Court various other committee
of Ontario, as acting health meetings and individual
minister Bette Stephenson hours by council members
won't back down on her and , town administrator
Harold Walls, the budget for
decision to keep the hospital
1976 in Goderich was struck
at 179.45 mills residential and
206.73 mills commercial for a
public school suPporter. -
' This represents an oVerall
The majority of Goderich increase of 14.20 percent for
Town Council members seem to be in favour of fewer residential and 13.94 percent
more for commercial. On an
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a
county council members, but average assessment of $3500
further discussion of the for a public school supporter,
subject will take place next it is an increase of $78.12, ora '
week when it is hoped Reeve (continued on page 14',
closed,
MAY -13
Goderich Police Chief P.D. King gets his sideburris Checked
at Mike and Ray's Barber Shop as he signs up for the beard
growing contest sponsored by the Jubilee 3 committe
Goderich.
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