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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-10-27, Page 3ortcommj1bte€.tcr:name fu e Goderich Airport Committee expects to e a permanent full time airport manager by tuber 1. 0 Gu we to roe wilh ePeQ p e Wo' It moll )DERl4 :tion' R' i iY. LY x'44 '• INK JDs 'ATTEI P VAL FOAM 1ws EA 4 McLennan, a senior cross country runner Brookside School, showed her fellow is recently that a person can do something really want to. Karen competed in an tary school cross country race at Point Provincial Park and completed the three ter course despite a severe sight han- Karen requires a special magnifying to see blackboards from her seat in class s to have written material inches from her see it. That didn't prevent her from trying d making the school cross country team though she didn't win her race she did give est shot. (staff -photo) Goderich Town. Council approved the com- mittee's recent request to hire a full time manager to•look after maintenance, registration and the general business at the airport. The committee will be laying out a work schedule for the new manager soon. At an airport committee meeting on Wed- nesday evening, October 19, the committee agreed to look into the expense of renovating one of the Old Timers' booths used during the Air Show. Committee member Dave Gower suggested that if the booth was fixed up it could be used as a work area for the new manager. Gower feltthe manager could look after registration and fuel sales from this booth. Registration of transient aircraft is important at the airport because statistics can be derived from these registrations'and statistics are very important when applying for grants. Art Bourdeau was present at Wednesday GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27 1977_pA0E 3 ime ma evening's airport committee meeting to discuss a problem pertaining to his property on the east side of Highway 21. He had approached Colborne Township council at an earlier date to have his property rezoned from agriculture to com- mercial on the secondary plan. Colborne Township council passed a motion to rezone the property as long as it didn't interfere with the airport in the present or future. Greenhouse feasibility study may suggest another site The Kincardine greenhouse project steering committee has to plow through a hefty two - volume report before it will make any recom- mendation about where the project should be located. Recent reports in daily newspapers have said that the proposed site in Kincardine Township would be too expensive to be considered seriously. Bryan Grant, town councillor and steering committee member, said in an interview that the committee will likely make a site recom- mendation next November. He and the rest of the committee, including Kincardine Township Reeve Alvin Thompson, reviewed the preliminary feasibility study last Friday. Coun. Grant said committee members will read the study and make comments and recommendations on it to the engineers in charge of it. Conestoga -Rovers and Associates, of Waterloo, were hired to do the study. The study includes a look at all the aspects involved with setting up the project at two, five and 10 miles from the site. Coun. Grant said that the committee will report back to the engineers November 7. The Davis • from page 1 recalled the jlaned skidded on some ice and went off the runway forcing him to find an alternate way home. Immediately after making the comments, lightning lit up the sky outside and a clap of thunder made him suggest that perhaps he wasn't going home on the plane. The premier did make some serious comments during the speech pointing out that Goderich had showed a strong sense of pride in its community during 1977 and that a lesson could be taken from that and applied to national unity. Davis said the town had made it clear that it was proud of itself and that Canadians had to take the same attitude if national unity was to be preserved. He said Goderich may not be able to do anything on its own to promote national unity but if it joined with every other town and city in the country, Canada would be assured a strong and united future. engineers will incorporate comments into the final report to be made November 22. Then the committee's job will be to decide what to do. Coun. Grant feels that part of this job will be recommending a project site to the provincial government. Some committee members may balk at making such a decision but Coun. Grant will insist it be part of the committee's job. Reeve Thompson said the project's location was never really discussed at last Friday's meeting. He also questioned . the reports in daily newspapers about any location propos%ls. Meanwhile, the town options on township land Hospital....... • from page 1 a participatorypresentation where groups were presented with actual arbitration cases and without having the arbitration award were asked to determine their position had they been ar- bitrating the case. After those presentations were made by each group then the actual ar- bitrators' award was distributed and the results were exceedingly interesting. Other areas of interest were presentations by senior medical personnel relative to medical staff privileges, care evaluation, medical staff bylaws and their requirements. It was indicated by the Administrator that the papers presented at the meeting would be distributed to Board Members for their in- formation in the future. It is of interest that the admissions for this year to date are marginally greater than last year by approximately 113 admissions. Total patient days are up by approximately 3,000 at this time. An interesting statistic is that during the nine months ending September 30, the visits to the emergency .department are up by 1,700 over a similar period in 1976. This certainly indicates the level of activity that has taken place during the recent number of months. For statistics gatherers, it is notable that in 1977 year to date, the hospital has done 223,545 pounds of laundry as opposed to the me period in last year we did 184,145 pounds. This of course indicates the increased usage of the beds and of the emergency department. between the Fifth and Seventh Concessions will expire October 31, There has been no indication so far about .whether the town will renew the options or let them run out. Town council originally aquired the options to keep prices in line and avoid land speculation in case a decision is made to put the project close to town. Arena signs • from page 1 regretted the loss of income since income was dearly needed for the arena but added that erection of the signs would only detract from the appearance of the arena. He claimed the signs did not have much advertising value. Paul Schutz said he couldn't entirely agree with the recreation board decision but admitted the arena looked good with the signs down. But then there was the matter of the revenue. "Our arena isn't so much better than Maple Leaf Gardens and we don't have money like Harold Ballard," he said. "In that respect I don't agree with what they did." Bill Clements of French Dry Cleaners was also concerned about the lost revenue from the signs. "There's $1,200 they could have made this year," he said." I went and got my sign and now it is sitting in the basement collecting dust but I think they will change their mind." Jim Hayter although surprised at the board ruling said it was not his decision to make and he wouldn't kick up a fuss. He agrees that the ap- pearance of the arena has some bearing but believes there are alternatives to advertising in the arena. What he didn't agree with was the approach the board took. "Their approach through a letter wasn't quite proper," he said. "At least they could have approached the businessmen and asked us what we thought." Recreation Mike Dymond said that before the board decided to remove the signs the yearly fee would have risen to $40 from $25. He added that due to the new balcony the east wall was the only feasible alternative, but then many signs would have been left out. wnship concernedpaving may ng problems me Township council mile long. Council expressed Gower of the authority Water Council passed a township e leery about paving a concern that the paved strip Management Committee and building bylaw "which con- ection of township road would become a dragway if Ian Deslauriers, resources tains several changes such as County Road 31 at speed signs weren't erected, manager. The two explained Iler to the Falls and speed regulations en- to council the river's flood e Conservatgion Area. forced. 1 had a request from plain paying special attention aitland ValleyquCon-m It also felt that since 99 per to the area of Forester's cent of the traffic along the Bridge, the Maitland Con - on Authority to pave road goes to the park area cession' and the village of essroad to the park. then perhaps the cost sharing Saltford. Council asked for fthe esti offered to should be changed. Some more detail about flooding estimated $20,000 councillors felt that the due to ice jamming on the for resurfacing the township should be respon- river and requested that the of road just under a sible for only 25 per cent of mapping of the river plain at the costs since the authority Forester's Bridge and the had requested the work. Saltford Flats be changed due Decision on the cost sharing to continuous flooding in was tabled. those areas. Council also In other business council agreed to inform the received a detailed ex- authority of any building or planation of Maitland River structural change along the Fill Line Mapping from Dave township portion of the river. se of humor is what oil laugh at something ould make you mad, if ed to you. diNMILLER INNS LIMITED announces the appointment of Mr. Christopher Gowers, as General Manager of Benmlller Mn near Goderich, Ontario. 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Again and Again!!! "There's no way' I'm trying to interfere with the airport but neither do I want it to interfere with me getting my property zoned," said Bourdeau. Bill Bogie, Colborne Township councillor and member of the airport committee, said Town- ship council had hesitated to rezone 'Bourdau's property because "if we zoned it commercial it would double the property's value and make it more• expensive if 'the town later had to ex- propriate". Bourdeau said he paid commercial value for his property in the first place. He wanted to know how his property would interfere with airport expansion. He said as far as the height restrictions on buildings goes, he could always move his buildings to the north. He said he wanted to make it clear that he was not asking for a building permit but rather the rezoning of his property. DEPENDS ON REPORT The airport committee told Bourdeau that how much his property would interfere with airport expansion would depend on the Ministry of Transport's decision regarding an instrument approach gr a precision approach for the new runway. A precision runway would require more width. Buildings would have to be 1200 feet back from this kind of a runway as opposed to 750 feet back from an instrument runway. If a precision runway were built it could affect a small corner of Bordeau's property. Dave Gower expressed his feeling that the wider precision runway was not needed. "We don'' need another Toronto International here," he said. Gower felt that people could get upset with the choice of a wider precision runway because there would be "far too much property af- fected". The airport committee passed a motion to have the airport chairman take the necessary steps to determine the location and extent of the proposed new runway and how it will affect Bourdeau's property. The information will then be sent in an official letter to Colborne Township Council who can in turn make it available to the county planners. Dick Wright, airport committee chairman said he was quite willing to go to Toronto to try and push the airport engineering study through ,The engineering study will determine the logistics of the new runway. Until the study is completed and until the lines on the committee's maps of the proposed runway are verified, the alignment of the runway won't he known. It therefore cannot he determined how much property will he affected by expansion. The airport committee received correspon- dence requesting building permits•in the airport area of Colborne Township. With regards to this correspondence, the committee decided to'apply the same motion as they applied to Bourdeau's request for rezoning in order to see if granting the building permits would interfere in any way with airport expansion: •The airport committee also passed a motion that the airport committee instruct Goderich Town Council and Colborne Township Council to petition the appropriate federal agencies to implement proper restrictions in regards to development at the airport. This motion was designed to help the committee once again to determine how much property would be affected by development and expansion, Head for the "New" Market for these Rollies Meat great.... .. $ 1 3 9 t-Ei. II . 7 - '•tiM FSS% h` 0 • `^"' SPIN OR GARLIC PURE PORK -FARMERS SAUSAGE TRY OUR NEW HOMEMADE PURE PORK -BREAKFAST $ 1 4 9 SAUSAGE LB. . LEAN -BUTT $ 3 9 PORKCHOPS LB. •. HOMEMADE $ 3 5 HAM & PICKLE LB. . 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