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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-06-09, Page 1liner p c Eileen Palmer, deputy -reeve for the Town of Goderich, will be travelling to Toronto later this month to take part on a committee which is to study Confederation. The conference is to be known as Destiny, Canada Destinee and will be held at York University June 27 through 29. A cross-section of Canadians from coast to coast is participating in the" discussion con- cerning Canada's, future. Chariman of the committee is H. MacDonald, president of York University. "It is my hope that some of the questions and perhaps some of the answers that arise during the conference, with he valuable to governments the Sideris, left, and Jim King dig in to pull g'o'war at Victoria School's play day ay afternoon as Lori Steckle gets set to ttle muscle to the team effort. The s were competing in the turn of the teld day which included such games as rolling a hoop, an egg and spoon race and rolling a peanut with your nose. This team was out pulled in this battle and the two key men at the front end of the rope were eventually pulled off their feet and dragged over the line. (staff - photo) ndidates agree be. disagreed BY JEFF SEDDON ree candidates in Huron -Middlesex ed a crowd of about 250 that they would any government attempt to close or impose health councils in the riding. eary, New Democrat, Jack Riddell, and Anson McKinley, Progressive five candidate in today's election said Id oppose any move the province in - those areas.' t e co tituents in their e opposed tot. ey said he would not support a decision ealth councils in Huron -Middlesex or pitals here even if it meant voting s own party. He said he would be support voters in the riding and would against a minority government if he what people wanted. He said he would feeling of people here by `discussing ith municipal councils in the riding. hospitals are vital to small com- and ``I would fight to keep them open eabtgoing against my own party," he uggested that government had totally ed its attempt to cut spending in the health care program. She said the nt had done little to solve the problem much to arouse voters. She said the he government seemed' to adopt to oyes left room for doubt. s silly if not stupid to investigate how s are needed after you close the said Weary. aid his party was"committed to keep flats operating, pointing out that their efficiency levels and cost of operation are much less expensive to the taxpayer than large teaching hospitals. Riddell added that he was totally opposed to an arbitrary decision to unite Huron and Perth counties in a health council just because of population. He said the governm'ent's decision that a health council should govern 100,000 people had no merit by itself and the decision should not be based on shear number but on background and lifestyle. "Why should we in Huron be grouped with anyone on a government matter?" he said. "We are capable of looking after ourselves." McKinley was charged by one reporter with trying to take advantage of the country's misfortune in his party's election campaign by stressing a need for a PC government to protect national unity. The question suggested that unity was a federal issue and should be kept out&of the provincial election as a pertinent issue in the politics of Ontario. McKinley said the issue. was -probably more important to Ontario than any other province other than Quebec. He said unity was more than a federal issue and was vital to each and every Carilian regardless of where they lived. Wary said national unity was like "motherhood and that everyone was in favor of it" but added that Ontario should be concerned about Ontario now. She said the province should. be endeavoring to make sure that it is unified and that the people in the north are getting the same benefits and opportunities from their government as the people in the south. Riddell said he felt national unity should not be e demi; six injured uglas J. Stephens Torn topage 2• A single car accident on Highway 21 one mile north of Kintail claimed the life of 20 -year-old Douglas J. Stephens last Thursday evening. Stephens was the passenger in a car driven by Dennis H. Powell,. 20, of Regent Street in Goderich when the vehicle was involved in the crash. ' The Goderich detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police reported that Stephens died in the crash just after nine o'clock on ,Thursday, June 2. Police said that the car was travelling north on 21 when it went out of control and eventually overturned in the ditch, Four other passengers in the car were injured in the mishap and one man escaped unhurt. Powell was treated at Alexandra Marine and General Hospital and released and David Geddes, 20, Tammy MacAstocker, 18, Catherine O'Hagan, 17, and Elizabeth Burt, 16, were also treated at hospital. 'James Smith, 20, was not injured in the accident. Police are still in- vestigating. e in Canada as they deal with issues of C federation," Mr. MacDonald said. The delegates, estimated to number about will consider themes such as '"What Canadians want?", "What economic intere cultural values, political institutions do we w to retain?" and "How do we go about achiev our goals?" Members of the consultative panel are fr nine •of the ten provinces. Mrs. Palmer who fluently bilingual, said she was unable to say h many delegates will be drawn from Ontario,' from what areas. erich IGNAL 130 YEAR -23 THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1977 Haydon's verist to encourage A motion termed "a pompous piece of non- sense" was approved Monday evening in Goderich Town Council chambers by the six male councilmen present. Deputy -reeve Eileen Palmer refused to vote in favor of the motion to censure Councillor Elsa Haydon for her actions on the evening of May 2, 1977. The motion put forth by Councillor Don Wheeler and seconded by Councillor Stan Profit stated that it was to "show their disapproval of Councillor Haydon's actions by officially cen- suring her". Censuring in effect is little more than a procedure to declare to the ratepayers that in council's view, Mrs. Haydon has misbehaved and such action will be duly recorded in the minutes so that futurer guPSals„may also know of council's ': view concerning the conduct of Councillor Haydon. There is no other action taken as the result of a motion to censure. Councillor - Wheeler told council Monday evening he hoped to "dispel the notion" that the motion was brought forth for effect only. "On the contrary, this course of action was only taken after serious and sober consideration of what the consequences might be if nothing was done to show disapproval of Councillor Haydon's action," said Wheeler. "If council supports this motion it in effect reaffirms its support of our procedure bylaw," Wheeler continued. "The effect of this I hope will be to ensure that 'the actions of Councillor Haydon will not be precedent setting." Councillor Wheeler said it was his fear that if nothing was done to show council's disapproval, a precedent would have been set and the con- sequences would make "deliberations by this council difficult and at worst cause such ..-disruptions so as to make deliberations im- possible". He said he could not accept Councillor Haydon's statement that she is not answerable.to council for her actions. "We are all of course ultimately responsible to the citizens of this community," Wheeler said. "However, we were elected by them to exercise the powers of•the corporation by action in the proper form," Wheeler went on, "either by resolution or bylaw, and it is a cardinal rule of municipal law that corporate affairsmust be transacted at a council meeting." Wheeler said that since council deems it wise to pass bylaws to govern conduct at meetings of council, it is his contention that councillors are indeed responsible to council as a whole for their actions while council is in session. "In this regard I also believe that it is the responsibility of councillors to ensure that all corporate affairs should be transacted at council meetings, and not as some might suppose, through the editorial pages of the press," Wheeler stated. Wheeler said he did not intentionally go into the "motives which precipitated the incident" because it would involve getting into "individual personalities and assessment of character". "My only concern is to disapprove of an ac- tion," Wheeler insisted. "My motives in presenting this motion are to ensure council continues to function in an orderly and efficient manner." HAYDON'S TURN • Co ncillor Elsa Haydon called the motion of Wheeler and Profit "a pompous piece of non- sense". She said a motion to censure is nothing more than a fancy procedure by which to ad- minister a "tonguelashing", Haydon said procedure bylaws are passed by councils "as guidelines for getting through meetings". "They do not even mention a penalty," Haydon stated.,, • She said that according to the Municipal Councillors' Handbook, "deviations from procedural rules adopted by councils are treated as irregularities". "Nothing more," she said. In another chapter. Haydon went on, it states that "the actual presence of a councillor at a meeting is sufficient to count him in making up a quorum and it is of no consequence that some refuse to vote or are only there to protest". Councillor Haydon suggested that some members of council felt she had -left the cham- bers just after Mayor Deb Shewfelt called for a motion on the Borg-Warner situation. She denied this, and said she had left prior to the call for the vote and she distinctly recalls hearing the mayor call for the vote while she was outside the chambers. "I left the council chamber quietly and peacefully in what I felt was a ladylike manner,"; she said. "I did not return later for the rest of the meeting. I was not even the only member who left the meeting early that night. The colleague who left even earlier 'had a good and valid reason. So did I. And it says nowhere that one reason is more acceptable than another.". Hearings set for August 5 August 25 is the date set for a preliminary hearing into the charges of murder and at tempted murder against Terrence Lloyd Bullen, 45, Bayfield. Bullen was charged May 22 following an in cident at the Bullen residence in Bayfield in which Ronald DeJong, 25, and his brother LeRoy DeJong, 22, both of RR2 Bayfield, were shot, Ronald DeJong is dead and LeRoy DeJong late released from hospital after being treated fo bullet wounds. Bullen appeared in provincial court in Goderich Monday. He was released froth Walkerton jail on May 27 and his bail was set a $1,000. Both charges will be tried by a Supreme Cour judge and jury in Goderich.