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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-10-04, Page 3GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER Police Commission accepts Earl Rawson's resignation with regret The Goderich Police Commission accepted, with regret, the resignation of com- mission member Earl Rawson when it met last Thursday. Rawson told the commission that he was resigning with regret due to business com- mitments. He said he felt that it was an appropriate time to resign because contracts and most of the commission's business issues had been settled for this year.; His resignation has been forwarded to the Solicitor General who will in turn appoint a new member to the Goderich Police Commission. In other business„ the commission went into a closed session with the Board of Management of the Huron County Municipal Police Com- munications System to discuss the status of the system's dispatchers. The board of management. consists of the representatives from the five municipalities which are part of the communications system. A motion was passed that the board acknowledge that the civilian employees (dispatchers, secretary) of the Goderich Police Department fall under the collective agreement dated July 19, 1979 bet- ween the Board of Police Commissioners and the Civilian Employee of the Goderich Police Department. At the time of bargaining, ' the motion states, the Police Association. contract and the civilian contract will be negotiated' separately. The negotiating com- mittee will consist' of the mayor or his municipal delegate from the five par.t1cipating municipalities in the Huron County Municipal -Police Communications System. After coming out of ,closed session, the Goderich commission received and filed several items of correspondence. It was decided to send several delegates to the fall general meeting of the Association of Municipal Police Governing Authorities in Toronto in November. Chief King was ap- pointed to follow up on a letter sent to the com- mission by the Public Utilities Commission regarding the number of advertising posters appearing on hydro poles. The Chief will•:also be investigating the t ex- pansion of the police department into the recreation office following that office's move to the grandstand slated for October 15. The recreation office space is to be divided between the police and fire depart- ments. Chief King told the commission that the by- law respecting taxi meters would be amended to deal with metric conversion. • The Chief's activity report for the month of August was accepted by the committee. A break- in occurred this weekend at Don's Marina with a number of items being stolen. This break-in is still under investigation. The accounts for the month of July in the amount of $17,890.21 and for the month a•f August in the amount ,,i -•'4.095.98 were ap1:r : ed for payment by the com- Mission. On the suggestion of Goderich Town Clerk, Larry McCabe, it was decided to hold a meeting of the entire Police Association and Police Commission today' in Champion creates new company Champion Road Machinery Ltd. made some organizational changes recently creating a new parent company to oversee the firm's future growth. The shuffle is designed to provide Champion with long range planning and direction for future growth. The parent company will be called Champion Road Machinery Group Ltd., and will have as its chairman and chief executive officer Bruce Sully. Sully announced that other members of"the new firm will consist of executive officers of other Champion firms. The list of executives includes Jack Freeman as the president and chief executive officer, Iain Bain as corporate vice president of employed relations, Elmer Squires as corporate vice president of engineering and research and development, and Jack Selingers mark first anniversary Selinger Wood Limited celebrates its first an- niversary in Goderich on Saturday. When the, Selinger family • purchased Goderich Manufacturing Limited from the. Baechler brothers last October, seven men were working in the plant and two men' in the boiler room. There are now 45 men in the plant and five in the boiler room. Several of the 41 new men hired had to be trained so only one or two could be taken on at a time throughout the yeat-�, Since Selinger Wood Limited - doesn't,.- buy natural gas, the men working in the boiler room burn sawdust seven days a week, 24 hours a day. in order to heat the plant and operate the kilns which dry the wood-. An electrical generator is also being used now. The company Sells bowling. ,alley flooring and dimension lumber, that is whatever the customer orders, dealing mostly in local woods like hard and soft maple, ash and beech. Business, which had increased, ' is now levelling" off but still remains "pretty smooth, says treasurer, Bob Selinger. The company is a bit worried about the,. U.S. recession but has increased its overseas exports, he says. Freeman as a corporate the change. He > said vice president of finance Champion could no and administration. longer be considered a Sully said Champion's single company but dramatic growth in rather a group of recent years prompted seperate yet closely knit companies. New directory The Goderich Recreation Board last week distributed their new fall and winter ac- tivity program schedule and club service direc- tory. This winter the board is offering a myriad of varied adult and youth programs. The adult program schedule features basketball, cake •decorating, Christmas crafts, crossoundry skiing, drapery, Making, gourmet, cooking, guitar ,lessons, knitting, sewing, sheer making, ,tropical fish keeping., disco dancing, weaving and yoga. If enough interest can be generated a"home improvement course will also be introduced. There are also special programs lined up for youth and they feature basketball, skiing, drama, guitar lessons and tropical fish keeping. A new ' _.program, •Saturday special- events, w.i i offer differenr'•fiirri y oriented, activity days from . October . through December, The brochure The brochure also includes a service directory and a `complete lisitng of the clubs, groups_` and organizations- in goderich. • For any -information on fall and winter programs or :special Saturday events phone the recreation office at 524-- 8373, He said the four operating companies that will be reporting directly to Freeman through the new firm will be Champion Marketing Company Ltd., Gearco Ltd., Champion Road Machinery Ltd., and Champion International Corporation Ltd., U.S.A. Freeman will then report to Sully as the corporation's chief executive officer. . Bruce Sully Board agrees to hire third man' Thr.. Goderich Recreation Board agreed to the hiring of a third man futi• the arena Thursday after learning of the resignation of Bill Mcisaac: Mcisaac, who had worked both at the Goderich and . District Community Centra and marina, has'Meft to accept a managerial position in Em bro. Last week the board agreed to hire Bruce Allen at a salary of SI 1,795 effective October - I. Allen . , has -,been an employee, with public works and parks for the past three years. In other hoard business, the recreation offices will move to grandstaard as soon as phones can be installed, 7•he board hlrpcd- the move can he made by October 15. The recreation hoard. wilI examine the possibility of purchasing a new tray for to handle ice cleaning du itis. at the ;lien:!`. The tractor• used was on loan from George Wraith. but has now been ,sand. The hoard was still able to work out a lease arrangement of N800 per 'season on the• tractor but arena " n,uarfager, .Peter (manse; claimed that gas tractors al e.hcing phased out and the hoard should consider purchasing one. e the SUTTON PARK INN Jack Freeman YARD - SALE October 6, 7, 8 1/4 mile south of Hensall on Highway 4. SATURDAY AND MONDAY: 10 A.M. - DUSK SUNDAY: 1:30 P.M. - DUSK Various household ar- ticles -" small and major appliances. 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