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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1976-12-30, Page 19ij 1 • r 4:,•m,..,A•7 Keith !.C"iOIaERIC1�I 6iGNA1.-STAR, THURSDAi�,man rightful oWnr Fi of Indian Isiond (continuedfrom page 2 2• question and according to rules of procedure the motion: was lost. There will not be a town coat -of arms. The Goderich Recreation Committee decided at its last meeting to take steps to get the Arena Building Fund. back into high gear. The fund is $30,000 away from the total amount needed by the town to pay their portion of the reconstruction. A hearing before a master at the . Supreme Court of Ontario has determined that Keith Homan is the rightful owner of the property along the Maitland River known as Indian Island. The municipality, who at one time claimedownership- of the property, are still endeavouring to reach an agreement with Mr, Homan which would provide 'public assess from North `Harbour Road to the bank of the Maitland River. OCTOBER 14 Finance Committee' Chairman Clifford said on Tuesday evening that he believed the present town council had "an obligation to at least bring in a report" on the financial standing of the municipality and its `possible fiscal direction for the future. Mr. Clifford made the comment in an interview with the Signal -Star on the question of Goderich's financial position in relation to expenditures which may be necessary to meet the terms of an agreement with Borg- Warner Limited.- Goderich Police .Chief Pat King reported to the Goderich Police. Commission Friday that the new Bell Telephone communications system the police have is twice as• ef- fective and half as costly as the old -answering service.. In an :effort to assure persons and property will be well protected -October 31 'the police chief announced plans for the •swearing .in of 10 special constables to support the regular police force. : In addition, Chief King said he had also received the support of the local. Citizen's Band Radio Club which will place 10 vehicles on patrol on Hallowe'en: The commission turned down a proposal Friday from Goderich Taxi to double dab fares'. during early. morning hours and to sell taxi tickets in lots to customers ata lower price. OCTOBER 21 The,. voters of Goderich almost got a chance to say on December's ballot whether or not the town should have seven council' members in- stead' of nine, However, a recorded vote showed that the eight members of council•who attended Thursday's meeting were deadlocked on the matter and thus the motion was not passed. Another deadlo"Cked decision was reversed in the same meeting. • A second recorded vote in three weeks on the matter of an official coat of arms for Goderich received five votes in favour and two opposed. Goderich will now apply to the Royal College of Arms for an official coat of arms. The Works .• and Engineering Committee of the Goderich Town Council met with Goderich Township Council Tuesday night and. reached an agreement for the • town to install the Industrial Park storm .sewer on town- ship land. . Town clerk Harold Walls announced recently the ap- pointment of Larry McCabe to the position 'of' assistant - deputy clerk to replace the retired Marnie McKay. The appointment is' effective in early November. The town may take steps to become involved in 'the Neighbourhood Improvement Program, a plan spon`sore.d by the 'provincial and federal governments aimed at. assisting municipalities in upgrading ,designated areas Within their boundaries. Zehrs Food • Markets an- nounced this week that they are very close ,to completion of their new 22,000 square foot store in Goderich Township and are confident their' November 3 opening date will „lie met. George Lloyd, Regional Superintendent of • Airways for the Ministry, df -Tran- sportation, told the Goderich Airport Committee that, a. jet screen for the runway's east end was unnecessary since no aircraft should be using the runway extension• for run -ups and extending their takeoff runs and it should only be used as • an emergency overshoot area on landing. • Ken McGee and Sonny Chisholm have had to . part with their 1911 Carterar. Because of the very nature of the car it had to go- to -a museum, ` the Canadian Automotive Museum in. -Oshdwa. It demanded ` con- stant upkeep because of its special fixtures.- . OCTOBER 28 Goderich Town Council approved a tender from Logan Construction Company of Stratford of $427,914 for the reconstruction. of the Goderich Memorial Arena. J. F. Burgess, president of .Textral : Fibers Limited, announced Wednesday the company's' Goderich operation was . closing of festive Friday, October 29. "The continuing deterioration of the Canadian. textile market for textured polyester yarns has forced .this decision upon. us," he said. "In the past few months the federal government has made some moves to assist the textile trade and we have maintained • limited production during this time, believing that we would be able to get enough business to resume a'satisfactory level of operation. but this has not happened." - Goderich Township Council pissed a special instruction bylaw Monday afternoon that is the last step necessary for the town to ask the Ontario Municipal Board for ' per- mission to "debenture for the $1.5 million Industrial' Park Storm Sewer. Council hopes to get OMB; approval in ;,time .,to permit.„., construction of the sewer this winter to handle 'spring drainage problems. Town council was offered some local autonomy' Wed- nesday night at a special meeting but hesitated until the merits of the autonomy could . be . measured. Council met with a six man delegation from the Ministry. of the'. Environment about the possibility of taking over the. provincially -owned water. - treatment plant on St. Christopher's Beach. Goderich "Town Council authorized a letter Monday to be sent • to, the Ontario••• Ministry of Housing stating the Town's intent to par- ticipate . in the . ministry's Neighbourhood•Improvement Program in 1977. The letter does not bind the town in the program ' but' merely establishes its eligibility for grants under the program next year. ro NOVEMBER 4 Councillor Jim Peters, chairman of the ' Harbour Committee, came under attack Monday evening. when -Al Scharlach appeared before ,council to complain about the electricity being turned off at Snug Harbour. According to Scharlach, the electricity had - been off last. week when two fishermen were -dumped into the river at the harbour mouth. The tug Donald Bert MacAdam, would not have reached the men in time to save their lives. The tugs rely on electricity to start quickly. Preliminary rough estimates brought to council by the Works and Engineering Committee show that if Neighbourhood Improvement Program'fiitnds are• sought from the gover- nment the total cost will exceed $1,700,000 and the area to benefit, the northeast corner of town, will be con, .: siderably smaller than first realized. - There will be at least one vacancy on Goderich Town Council when election time rolls around Dee -ember 6. Councillor Jim Peters, elected to council in 1974, says he will not be back for another term. NOVEMBER 11 The .Town of Goderich may fate -same -crucial financial decisions in the coming years, attempting to provide the nesessary services for .potential industrial and residential growth. 'Over the past - two years finance chairman Bill Clif- ford has commended com- mittee chairman and council members, in trimming their comrnittee budgets to the minimum. In the 1975 budget taxpayers faced a mill rate increase of approximately 38 mills and council managed to trimthat to 19 mills. A recorded vote 'of council showed five in favour and two against the new flag sesign, with two members absent The design for the town bunting is now official,.,and a model was hung in council chambers Monday for all to see. The former Colborne House is gone and in its place is a lot f<u11 of trucks; property of McGee Motors. According to Mayor Deb Shewfelt, 'Anything parked there would look better than what was onthere before. But appearance alone may not suffice. Building in- spector Roy Breckenridge Ducharme Excavating -Dashwood 236-4230 TRUCKING - BACKHOE - & DOZER SERVICE' GCl' RILL IiiICIC DO'1►HANIUI s2n►2�aa t;li'E R I G H • • told council that the use of the' property at the corner of Hamilton and -Newgate Streets contravene a zoning bylaw. Effective this Friday 60 employees of Dominion Road Machinery. Company will be laid off due to what General Manager John Cook calls "general economic con- ditions." • Last week the Dearborn Steel Tubing Company laid off three production workers. These layoffs followed those of six projection workers and six welders about three weeks ago bringing the total of Dearborn employees out of work to 15. •u Rev. G.L. Royal conducted the funeral service on Tuesday, for the late Norman • Clifford Jackson, M.D.,F.R.C.S.(C), who died November 6, after more than half 'a century of medical practice:' ,Following its. its. weekly Session last Thursday the Jubilee Three :committee announced plans to .dedicate the new. Goderich flag in a special ceremony Wed- nesday, December 1 in Court House Park. NOVEMBER 18 The December 6 municipal elections in Goderich will be a low key affair with `contests confined to _sets on town council, the public utilities commission and position of trustee on 40he Huron -Perth Separate School Board. Goderich, . Maybr Deb .Shewfelt -.arid. Reeve Bill Clifford have been acclaimed to those posts for the 1877-78 term, as -have Goderich'. trustees to. the Huron County Board of Education Cayley Hill and Dorothy Wallace. All members of council - appointed' boards and com- mittees will receive $150 per annum beginning in January. This' decision was reached at Monday's council session follciwing a' lengthy and sometimes •heated debate about honorariums for Goderich citizens serving in the interests of the municipality, The Goderich Public Utilities Commission an- nounced that effective January 1, 1977 the average monthly hydro rates will increase by 24 percent. Goderich may have a 50 - unit senior citizens' complex under Construction as early as spring of 1977 if the red tape involved, in the project can be cleared on schedule. The complex, a creation of the Goderich area housing action committee, received the approval of the Ontario Ministry . of Housing this month and now moves into the development stage at the Ontario Housing Corporation level. Council agreed Monday to purchase a 1.86 -acre parcel of land at . the beach from Marathon Realty Company Limited. The property in question was formerly oc- cupiedby the Imperial Oil fuel storage tanks. • Municipal planning agents have been engaged by' the town to complete the ap- plication for an NIP grant. The cost is mint to exceed $750 aniI it is felt the consultants could also tell whether the municipality would •have a Goderich Mayor Deb Shewfelt put the top hat on the first captain to put into Goderich Harbor this year. Captain James Scott of Sault St. Marie brought the E.B. Barber from Bay City for salt. NOTlcI TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN GODERICH BUS DEPOT TELEPHONE:524-2092 INFORMATION WILL BE GIVEN OUT BETWEEN THE HOURS OF: 9:OOa.li1. to 5:00. . m. P. MONDAY *to FRIDAY ONLY INFORMATION WILL NOT BE GIVEN OUT FROM ANY` OTHER TELEPHONE NUMBER IN EFFECT IMMEDIATELY - 11 chance to be accepted in the program. recorded. • The Goderich Airport Committe will make •a recommendationto councilto accept a tender bid of $28,568 for electrical work at the airport by :Huron Pines `Construction Company of Clinton,, The t Goderich Airport Committee will make a recommendation to council to accept a tender bid of $28,568 for electrical work at. the airport by Huron PinesConstruction Company ' of Clinton, - • Three tenders were . received for thework to upgrade the electrical system at the airport' by splitting the service and supplying power for a rotating beacon and new • runway and approach lights. The Goderich 'Minor Hockey Association financial future is very bleak and the GMHA executive announced Monday that the minor hockey season may be over at the end of 1976 if more funds cannot be.raised. A random telephone survey conducted Monday by the , Signal -Star; revealed that only two people out of -100 could name the entire town council, 81 .knew the mayor, 16 percent named the arena. closing as the town's biggest . issue, and 10 percent named the top concern as jobs and re.placement in the area. DECEMBER 2 There will be no Borg- Warner plant in Goderich. The latest offer to purchase filed - with the town of Goderich expired at midnight on November 30'' and no fur•t ?er response from the company has been .received •bythe town. .The Goderich Recreation and Community ,Centre Board has delayed decisions on two pledges from service club's in the area for the arena building fund to iron out • difficulties in . concessions sought for the pledges.' 'The Goderich Lions-. and Kinsmen Clubs pledged' donations to the building:. funds• over a . three-year period and also asked for, certain concessions for the pledges. The Lions Club, who originally pledged $20,000 for the funds, pledged an . ad- ditional $12,000' over three years with a clause granting NOVEMBER 25 The Goderich Arena Roof Fund is now only $27,000 away from its goal. A committee meeting brought an- nouncements . of 1$17,000 in donations not previously the club 100 'percent gate receipts, from Young Canada Week and -other concessions. The Goderich Arena Roof Fund Celebrity Dinner held Friday night at the Legion Hall was a smashing success. The dinner was attended by . about'200 people, and was one of the few fund-raising events people actually enjoyed. According to a report by Huron County Pioneer Museum Curator Raymond Scotchmer, attendance was down slightly (19,00 people last year to 18,000) but because of higher admission prices income was • slightly up. 9llrit4, • R 3O 1970. --:PAG 2 • WIi.IAT DO NVIJSAY? ESTIMATES OWEN,. 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