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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-07-21, Page 3E T IE RS ducharme of RR 1 Dashwood' wigs tfr ed, buiidin semi detached units, rather than sin le " 1'. t� x g g g of $1Q9.;G6 for se'rrll detached unit, the proposal nesday evening, by. members of Goderich family dwellings,: It *as painted ,nut that both. noted, n council to make use. of the p ,..per channels units Would eontain 1,060 s. - ft;'butt that the total t � � q G„�. That s not to besneezed at,” interjected Kiar. oderich for rezoning. . selling Cost for the single �''.family dwelling would' ,Taxes paid to the town per foot frontage ucharxne-appeared beforetpwtn;council alongbe„$4✓ ,5$0; a11s,'o, useto $37,50Q for. the°demi- on ea ,, 10 semi-detadlied..:.unit;.:7,-:3$1171..11-92.-.per foot for the Chris-Kiar of Kierairad'�Rass Assoefates;`to detaehed•d,we11rng:” " y, semi-detached unit er the purpose for a request fop zoning ; Saving$, are 'most noticeable in land cost - dwelling, P foot for the g .•� single-family dwelling, age on'the prpperty between South and Eldon $8,250'191;44 semi-detached dwelling and $15;750 "As can be seen from these figures, the town ets, known as $authridge Acres, upon which for a singte #em`tlydwelling. willgain $fi.07 g to n number. of For `ttc{rKie per assessable foot frontage by p hie wrier, it was pointed out, the . rezoning' to R -2" --,--the proposal stated. berme is tanning to build 'a' numb Rings, Including two shall apartment monthly paymeaht including principal, taxes and As further—reason—for allowingthe se i- dings.-T'heltw cere,401d._tatake up the' matt'em---ante;,i?Iexalr?,,5�,4,,yeec.mortgage,Is:�374,87.fora„�•;,detaclied units to be.,buiIt, Duchare and I�'m ' iar the Goderich Area Planning Board. semi-detached ,unit ,,and ,$4133.53 for a sin le. said the semi-detached units -could be purchased e area, the former 'Leaman-Yopng property, family dwelling tThe down 'payment would be by i 'family with a combined income' -1..Ducharnie s request is for a R- considerabl different too - $1 175 for. a semi- of $d the w zoned °R q y- per year. At the same time it was argued the signation fo-allow semi - detached temestobe" detached: unit and $2,425 for a singlefamily combined family income for a single family unit ; there. - , dwelling. Municipal taxes would be $601.70 on the would have to be $21,470. cluded in the proposal was some comparison semi detached unit and $778.20 on the single " is can be seen from these figures," the type - res which showed the favorable economics in family dwelling. It works out to a monthly saving written Submission stated, "the semi-detached ounty won't Blease agreement ron County Council d not to give up the rights gravel pit in Usborne have known the gravel belonged to the county. Reeve Morley said the nship , despite the ob- owner of the property, ons of Usborne Township William Cann, had 'recently ve Bill Morley who claims died, but added that the ounty is being "unfair". deceased was• under the a meeting Monday impression before his death ing in the council that 'the agreement was no bers in Goderich, it was longer in effect. Reeve ed that Raymond Cann Morley said it was the in- sborne Township had . tention of William Cann's ested the county to sign a widow to give the township Claim Deed releasing sole rights to the gravel on the ounty's interests in about property, at the going rate. -acres of land on Lot 26, Britnell said there had been 7 of the Township of .: no offer of money iWde for rne. The agreement,. the release of the agitkment. d May 31, 1931aa.,.. •'e He said the committee was to ty the rights tee, oval agreed, the agreement was elfrom the property worth a good deal of money to ting,from the tree by the the county, and that it would of the laneway". The be good business to exercise of $1,000 was paid to John the county's rights to the at that time owner of gravel there. roperty. Reeve Bob Lyons, chair- ording to, the Huron man of the road' committee ty Road Committee, the , said, "I don't think the county ment had no time limit can afford to give away since, it has been $65,000. By exercising this ated that as much as agreement, the county would 0 cubic yards of gravel„ be saved a , considerable the site, it was agreed amount of money." o sign the Quit Claim John Jewitt, reeve of and to exercise the Hallett said, "It appears to y's rights to remo'e me it is our gravel and I don't 1. see how, we can_just give it is seems, a little bit up." Reeve Morley Si SiffirnOns, reeve of d, He said that at Exeter, suggested an s prices for gravel, the agreement without an expiry meet -is definitely to the date can be broken. Britnell ty's advantage. He, said he was unaware of that. sted it would be in the "There have been two y's best interests to sign generations and this estate uit Claim Deed. has not been settled," Reeve Britnell, county Jack, Tinney said. "The eer, disagreed. He said agreement was made With 1,000 was a good price at John Cann and stated 'his me the agreement was heirs and assigns'. To me, and that the county had that sounds like forever." right now to exercise Britnell told council there greement. Britnell felt may be some negotiations to sign the Quit Claim that could be considered would be against the between the road committee y's best interests since and the solicitor for the 1 is so expensive at the widow of William Cann, but nt time. pointed out it was up to engineer admitted that council to decide ' on the years in the county's bmatter. Council made no y, he had not known iinention of arty negotiations the agreement. He said to be undertaken when ap- Raymond Cann had not proving the report as for a Quit Claim Deed, presented. ounty still would not In othbr business, members.,. of Huron County 'Council hired an engineer to replace Jim Britnell who is leaving the county employ this. summer. Robert Alexander Dempsey, who was born and raised in the Stratford area, and who is presently deputy city engineer for the City of Stratford, was hired effective August 29, 1977. His salary will be $25,000 per annum and he will have a car supplied by the county. That salary is to increase to $26,500 per annum on January 1, 1978. Mr. Dempsey IL 28 years old and has been ff'c'tive in the Kinsmen Club and `com- munity affairs in Stratford. Man dies suddenly at home 0 Roy McLean Graham died suddenly at his home on 34 Suncoast Drive in Goderich on Friday, July 15. He was 66 year's of age. He was, born in. Kinloss Township on March 19, 1911. He was married on January 19, 1937 in Kinlough to Kathleen Eckenswiller. Following his. marriage he lived in Kinloss Township, Lucknow and Goderich. The late Mr. Graham Worked as a self-employed carpenter. He was a member of the Anglican Church in- Kinlough. He is survived by his wife; two sons, Ronald of Goderich and Gary of Scotland, Ontario; three sisters; three brothers and eight grand- children. He was predeceased by a daughter, Madonna in 1966. Funeral services were conducted by the Reverend Jack King at the McKenzie Funeral Home in Lucknow at 3 p.m. on July 18. Interment was in the South Kinloss cemetery in Lucknow. GODERIQH SIBS ' U 111. would be within reach of far more families." Reeve Bill Clifford,'a realtor, asked Ducharme if he believed the semi-detached units would sell. "We have found (semi-detached units) very unpopular" Clifford told Ducharme. "People are notinterested in them at all. And too, it is dif- ficult to get the type of people in them to keep them maintained." Ducharme answered that the secret was in the layout of the units, and said he'd visited some .semi,fletached___subdivisions ' that weremost pleasing to homebuyers. He said he'd considered several good floor plans, including back to front splits. Councillor Dave Gower asked why Ducharme and _Kiar had come to council before goingto planning board, the usual procedure. He said he) felt planning board might be concerned about the zoninr: nhanee particularly cinre it. would mean Business and pleasure • huni,rit;4 1 since April 26, 1977 called it a'"normal turn" in the harbor basin. The first mate of the Algosea since May 20, 1977; Bond Immanuel Sevor, said the turn was somewhat unusual because of the difficulty with the generator. Paul Carroll, Seaforth, formerly of Goderich, was docked in Snug Harbor the night of the in cident. He made a written report to council last Wednesday charged there had•been "apparent gross negligence" on the part of the Algosea. He said the "near tragic consequences appeared to be avoidable," Three American boaters - Paul C. Eckenrode of Clinton, Ohio: Ray Jarocki of Mount Clemens, Michigan; and James Holland of Columbus, Ohio - told council in their written submission the Algosea had entered harbor "at an excessively high speed". They described the incident in these terms: "The freighter became stationary in the water and -two tugs tried to push the stern around. At the same time the Algosea used his own thrust. His screw was turning at highspeed. This caused excessive turbulence in the harbor basin, par- ticularly in the area of Snug Harbor. "The stern of the freighter was during the .turning maneuver, not more than 50 -feet from the Snug Harbor dock. The closeness of the fr0eighter to the dock and backwash generated by the screws caused several boats to be partially swamped. . "One boat broke loose completely, one dinghy - was torn off the transom of the Roja (the Jarocki boat) and the backwash was sufficient to cause water. to break over the dock to 'knee level height. The three visiting boaters said they felt the incident could have been avoided if the Algosea had' gone further into the harbor before making the turn; docked along the south wall; or made use of the tugs and used less thrust. They also said they felt a warning could have been issued to boats moored at the marina, so they could have been moved before further at- tempts were made to turn the Algosea. In a second report, written the day after the incident,. Paul Carroll also complained that the Algosea "seemed to he proceeding much faster than usual" coming into harbor. Carroll wrote, ''It became immediately evident that a serious problem had developed. The tugs began to assist. The Algosea did not proceed as deeply into the inner harbor as is the usual case for vessels of her size. The Algosea altered engines full forward, full reverse' repeatedly. Bow thrusters appeared to be working." ANOTHER ENT WITNESS Ron Graham, a familiar figure around the harbor and the author of a regular Harbor Report which appears weekly in The Goderich Signal -Star, said be was standing on the Sifto pier as the Algosea came into harbor. Graham said the boat was entering at a usual speed. Graham observed that the H.C. Heinbecker was tied up on thew south pier toward Goderich Elevator and was occupying the -space usually used by lake boats for turning. 'In Graham's opinion, the Algosea had to stop earlier in the basin or it would have hit the Heinbecker. Graham also said that in his opinion, there was no"real''da'nge'r"of "sinking small boats tied up in Snug Harbor. Some small punts were upset, Graham admitted. Captain Carlsen of the AAlgosea said he'd been advised by the tug operators before entering harbor of the lieinbecker's position in harbor. It is also believed Carlsen asked the tug operator to advise the Heinbecker and the boats in Snug Harbor of his arrival. While Captain Carlsen had never docked the Algosea in Goderich Harbor before last Tuesday evening, he had previously docked the Algoway, a ship of approximately.e same size, in harbor here. Docking time was o er one hour, according to Carlsen's statement. TURN BEFORE ENTERING? Councillor Elsa Haydon told council last Wednesday evening she understood from con- versations with people who knew about lake freighters, that it was possible for ships to turn around in open water and back into harbor. She suggested that if the Algossp had used this procedure, the problems which developed in the harbor last week could have been averted. Al Scharlach, the owner of a pleasure boat and also a tug operator on occasion, said the Algoma Central Railway freighters sometimes do back into harbor, in the interests of saving time. Scharlach said, however, that this procedure is only possible when there's "no wind and a flat lake". He said if there's a wind, it is necessary to approach the harbor in the normal manner since it is impossible to sufficiently control a ship in reverse under such conditions. Disband PUS....'... • 1 that and he intended to ask that it be done. Town clerk Harold Walls said that the Public Utilities Act states that any commission formed by" -council with the consent of the electorate could be disbandedby Tlte same. He said that meant that for council -to disband the com- p mission it would have to have a plebescite to have the ratepayers in Goderich vote the com- mission out. He said the plebescite could be instigated either by council or by a petition signed by ratepayers. Searls said be, was annoyed with the com- mission because it appeared as though it didn't have to answer to anyone. He said the com- missioners were only there to advise the em- ployees of the PUC pointing out that the com- missioners aren't on the job telling workers how to lay water lines or maintain hydro lines. They are there to guide the operation of the utility. "Why are we paying top money•to the foremen and managers if they can't operate the utility?" he said. "They run it.. They merely go to the com'mission for permission to do things. Searls said he wasn't impressed by the reaction of the commission at its last meeting when he and Bud Oke attended the meeting to try for a response to the petition. He said he felt he was politely asked to leave the meeting, was offered $500 to drop the matter and had a short spat with Worsell over the City of Stratford sending a delegate to the convention. He said he offered the commission some statistics on other PUCs and their attitude to. conventions. He said a city the size of Stratford didn't send anyone to the AWWA convention and Worsell disputed the claim. Worsell said he rode on the plane to the Denver convention with a man from Stratford. Searls disagreed at the meeting but later said the city did send a delegate to•the Denver convention. Herb Murphy offered Searls $500 to settle the issue and Searls asked him 'to pay the money to the PUC. Murphy refused claiming he did nothing wrong and only offered to pay the money to satisfy Searls. Murphy said later he offered the money -in a series of comments made trying to pinpoint exactly what Searls wanted the commission to do. He said he asked Searls what was upsetting him so much and couldn't get him to say exactly HERE ARE MORE SAVINGS ADE DAILY RESH SAUSAGES 1 Albs R LB. 694 BAR.B.Q CHICKENS ENDER—WELL TRIMMED LADE STEAKS ZEAL FOR THE BAR L, 7 9 0ME DRESSED INSPECTED MEATS WE DELIVER- - AT WHOLESALE PRICES AINSLIEMARKET LIMITED $2 98 • Each -106 SHOPPERS -SQUARE $24-8551 WE siveiALixEjay CUSTOM KILLING lretty Allan sits with part of'het- Christmas design which will be show l at the Flower Festival in the Court House Park council chambers today until Saturday. This year's theme is ( elebrations. (staff photo) an increased load on the'services in the Vii,.,, "because of the number of homes you wantto.put there", "Economics are of secondary concern to•us, of course,' Deputy -reeve Eileen Falmer told Ducharme. .• 41, Mayor Deb Shewfelt referred to the building inspector's report before council which showed that only nine new; ingie.famliy,,dtlrplithgs.hacl ... been built so far this year in'Godrich.-He said in • communities. around Goderich, many more housing starts had been recorded. "I think we have to.have `a good hard look at this type of development (semi, -detached unit- s)," said the mayor who feels that land costs and taxes in Goderich are making single family dwellings too expensive for the majority of people. Scharlach, who observed the incident from his own' boat, said there • was a significant wash in the harbor basin during the turning of the Algosea. He .felt many pleasure boaters were frightened on Tuesday- evening, but that by Wednesday morning most people had realized it was the type of things which probably wouldn't happen again for a long time. Scharlach also commented he was surprised that more of the small craft owners did not move their boats. He said he suggested to one boater that it might be wise to move his boat, and was advised that if he had no authority in the harbor to mind his own business. "So I went hack to my own boat and just watched,"' said Scharlach. Scharlach said that pleasure boaters docking in Goderich realize it is also a commercial harbor. He suggested this combination of pleasure boats and commercial freighters sometimes is difficult to mix. , "But Goderich harbor is first and foremost a commercial harbor," said Scharlach. "What happened last week: may not happen again for 20 years - but things like that do happen in a commercial harbor." what he wanted the PUC to do. He said in an off the cuff manner that 'tit it's the money that is bothering you (Searls) I'll give you $500." Searls said there was no way he could take the money for any reason claiming it could be construed as °extortion. He said' he asked. the commissioner to give it back to the ,utility but admitted that had he (Murphy) done so it would have been an admission of some type of guilt. PUC manager Dave'Rolston, whoattended the meeting, said he didn't feel Searls was asked to leave the meeting but was rather told that the commission had already reviewed"`the subject and did not want to spend any more time on it at that meeting. He said Searls was advised that the commission was,going to go on to other items on the agenda. Searls agreed with that assessment but added that. when the comment was made he felt he was politely told good night. Rolston said the commission didn't' make any decision on the petition but merely agreed 'to take it into consideration in the future. He said he got the impression that the commission didn't want to adopt the petition as poli, ,y,because they felt it was construed as having one person "dictate" what they should do. He said the statement given Searls was prepared by Murphy and that the commission was not prepared to go any further•onthe subject. Elderly • from paw, I possibly postpone institutionalization. MacKinnon has a list of about 400 homebound people in the County who could use the services offered in the newhome support program. He said however, some of these people may not want such services. The program is also dependent on a needs test and income test. Only needy people on fixed incomes will be eligible for the program. If family members can provide services covered in the program, then those applying do not qualify. MacKinnon says up until now, the Huron County Social Services work has been 90 per cent incofne maintenance oriented with such programs as welfare but the new Home Support program may be a shift toward the start of more social service work. Flowers up! Flower Festival 19 -7 opens Beginners apprentice with today in the Court House's more experienced pars Square -council chambers at 1 ticipants and then are en - p.m. couraged to try designs on The Festival is in its eighth their own. year and this year its theme is "Qelebrations" since it has Jean McKee of Benmiller first brought back the idea of been a year ,of celebrations for the -people of Goderich. Colorful floral designs reflecting various celebrations throughout the year such as Easter, Christmas, Mother's Day, Octoberfest. Pay Day, 25th Wedding Anniversary, St. Patrick's Day, Opening Night at the theatre and Jubilee 3 will he displayed. Backdrops called niches, drapes and accessories are used to enhance the floral designs: in all there will be about 17 designs and about 25 people involved in the show. Those involved do not necessarily have to belong to the Garden CIub,Anyone with an interest in, floral design can par- ticipate. Those involved in the Festival are always looking for new pari ieipants. a Flower Festival and got it started in Goderich after a trip to England where she saw that such showings were popular, especially in churches. Mrs. McKee says the Festival is different from the average horticultural showing in that it involves non competitive interpretive design. Because it is non combetitive, there is less tension involved. Par- ticipants help each other out with ideas and they lend props to one another. This year's Festival co- conveners are Dorothy Feagan and Edna Shaw. The. show,takes place from I to 9 p.m. on Thursday, 10 a.m. tog. p.m. op Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. A silver; collection will be taken up