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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-11-13, Page 124 Page 12—The Wingham Advance -Times, Nov. 13, 1985 Turnberry council ec. •08C 'miss • ra A representative from the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Recreation attended last week's meeting of Turnberry council to discuss recreation grants with members of township boards and sport- ing associations. Melanie McLaughlin also discussed the implications of a new municipal accounting system with Marg Moffatt, Tim Tolton, Jeff Dickson, Murray Mulvey, Jack Jenkins, Gord Chiddicks, Don Eadie, Pat Evers and Bob Raper. "I am not a bad guy," Ms. McLaughlin started by saying. Up until this time the ministry has not enforced the accounting system set down under the Municipal Act, but she suspects it soon will. Under these provisions local boards and associa- tions will fall under the municipality's accounts, meaning the clerk must co-sign all cheques. Failure to do so could result in a municipality's recreation grants being cut off. Mr. Chiddicks asked if these new, restrictions would give council more control over its local boards. "It's up to the council to decide what role it will play," Ms. McLaughlin replied, but added it should I not be much of a change. bers t system If a board has money le over at the end of a year, can council take that money away?" asked Mrs. Evers. Ms. McLaughlin said it is up to the individual boards to draw up agreements with council to ensure the funds are protected. Turnberry Deputy Reeve Doug Fortune agreed, saying it is important there be a "binding agreement" between council and its boards as councils change and circumstances change. Ms. McLaughlin was asked to address the annual meeting of the Belmore Chamber of Commerce in mid-January to discuss the grant system. SUNDAY SPORTS Mrs. Moffatt and Mr. Tolton, members of the Blue - vale Recreation Association, remained to discuss a com- plaint about Sunday sports at the Bluevale ball park. Some members of the Bluevale Presbyterian Church lodged a complaint last month about sporting events held during the normal Sunday morning worship time. The Bluevale ball diamond is used mavb ft the tournament was held, prohibits spo events before 1 p.m. Tournament organ e Sunday morings per year, explained Mr. Tolton. It was used on a Sunday morning during the all -Ontario Squirt playoffs ate this summer because a bylaw in Wingham, where Homemakers discuss letter from Sweeney A letter from John Sweeney, minister of community and social services, was discussed when the board of directors of the Town and Co entry Homemakers met at Clanton recently. Mr. Sweeney advised the board that implementation of the integrated home- maker program for the frail elderly and adult physically handicapped is in progress, but pilot project sites have ' not been selected. • Executive Director Jean Young reported that 15 new homemakers are enrolled in i R. W. Bell OPTOME i iciST Goderich The Square '524-7661 thank the voters of Turnberry - Township 'for their support. Sincerely Rudy Hooftman the course at Conestoga College, Vanastra. During the past month 28 home- makers attended a nutrition course sponsored by the milk marketing board and several also participated. in a one - day workshop on multiple sclerosis. Mrs. Young and two coordinators • attended the meeting at Clinton on health care . planning for Huron County. The Ontario Association of • w Visiting. Homemakers 'has been preparing a submission for grant money from the Trillium Foundation: The money would be used for installation of computer systems in homemaking agencies throughout On- tario. This submission has been postponed until next June for a more thorough eicamination. The board recommended that a more visible sign be purchased for the office in Wingham. It also , directed Mrs. Ydung to obtain cost estimates for smocks for the homemakers. The board felt that,' distinctive smocks, together with name tags, would more clearly identify the '"homemakers . to the public. At the close of the meeting the '. vice chairman, Mrs. Betty McGregor, distributed cases of amaryllis bulbs to be sold by board members to raise funds for the agency: being rting izers wanted to get play over as soon as possible, he since some of the chil journeyed from as far a as Ottawa, therefore Turnberry park was use It's not as if local were playing and they being taken. out of ch and Sunday School," Mr. Fortune, adding he c see an argument aga organized sporting ev every Sunday morning Bluevale. Council took no furt action on the matter. In other business R Brian McBurney gav report on a recent meetin the ad-hoc commit looking into the replacem of the Wingham Lower To Dam, washed out over year ago. The reeve said the co mittee had met w representatives of Maitland Valley C servation Authority on 0 30, but before Mr. McBurn got into his report, he w asked by Councillor Ran Scott, a member of t dam's fund-raising co mittee, why he never h been notified of da meetings. "I just got the notice of meeting from (Wingha clerk -treasurer) Byr (Adams)," replied t reeve. "I''m not in favor of puttin (Turnberry Township) m ey into it (the dam)," sa Mr. Scott. Mr. McBurney said i township money has bee committed to the projec The meeting, was merely ask for "technical and mora backing" from the con servation authority. "I didn't send out the in vitation, I just got one, concluded Mr. McBurney. The matter' 'of all-terrai vehicles using the aban doned,CNR right-of-way als ing a To n S'..:.JOtIigrht In one of the final acts of setting for c it its term, Wingham T Council has agreed to sp about $3,500 Lighting up front of the Town Hall. At its meeting last w council approved a mo from the property co ounc meet - own ings he commented. end "We're still in the Dark the Ages. He suggested that "as soon eek, as the library situation is bon appropriately resolved, m - with mittee accepting a bid from said, Wayne Pletch Electric dren install a system of spotligh way shining on the hall. the Property Chairman Jam d. A. Currie told council committee had so "cushion" in its budg since it spent less than pected on, the new heati system at the Town Hall. He said the plan "w accent our core area", a ding he would like to see old post office lit up too in near future. He also said hoped people would not thi this an "unnecessary frill" The plan calls for two 4 watt high-pressure sodi lamps to be stationed on th lawn in front of the Tow Hall, shining on the buildin with four 250 -watt lamps o the roof directed at the be tower. In a related motion council agreed to spen $1,110 carpeting an decorating some newly renovated meeting rooms i the basement of the Tow Hall. This money also wa he reallocated from elsewher m- in the property committee as budget. m Mr. Currie also said he hopes the next council wil the take a look at updating the m council "chambers. "One on thing this municipality and he council really need is a more • ,f formal and - appropriate . kids were urch said ould inst ents in her eeve e a g of tee ent wn one m- ith the on- ct. ey as dy there will be space in this facility" for a new council chamber. is He also suggested that major modifications are es needed in the Armouries to his make that building better as me a drop-in centre for seniors. et, He noted that a lot of work ex- has been done restoring the ng upstairs auditorium in the Town Hall and called it "a ill job well done". However he d- said something must be done the with the stage to make the the room more useful for events he other than theatre produc- nk tions. Mr. Currie expressed 00- appreciation to his com- um mittee_ members for their e work and said he hopes n future councils will take the g, same long-sighted approach n in their spending decisions. 11 In other business, council approved an application from Reid and Associates to d replace some windows and d doors on its building. Since - the building has been n designated as a heritage n building, the company is s eligible for a $2,000 grant e toward the work, which was cleared by the Wingham LACAC (local architectural conservation advisory 1 committee). Council also agreed with LACAC recommendations to designate* the former Romelda • Taylor house on John Street as a heritage on- id r MRS. LEWIS STONEHOUSE no n t. Belgrave Personal Notes Fraser Haugh, Bluevale to and his daughter, Mrs:: Car - 1 _man Nixon, London, visited with Mrs. Leslie Bolt on Sat- - urday evening. Mrs. Glenn Coultes, Mrs. Ross Higgins, Mrs.. Leonard James and Mrs. James Hunter attended the 71st an- • niversary of the„London area Women's Institute in London 2725c.HJL Stands out at liarvesttime Characterized by its red grain and exceptional bushel weight, K1184 has consistently proven to have the best standability in its maturity. It achieves top results under high plant populations. 1984 PERFORMANCE 114TA Yield Broken % Bu/Acre $/ stalks Moisture @ 15.5°k Acre° Pride K1184 6.5 31.1 110.5 344.76 -Pioneer 3949 12.4 27.9 109,4 346.80 Average of all varieties 10.4 29.5 96.3 303.35 Data collected from Pride test plot program •$/Acre based on $3 50ibu after drying costs ROY PENNINGTON 519-357-1559 as discussed at the meeting. Council had received a complaint from a ratepayer who was concerned • about ,people using the abandoned right-of-way . as a track for their all -terrain vehicles and "dirt bikes". Councillor Don Morrison suggested fencing off the area at the roadways, but Mr. Fortune asked if council had the authority to do so since the land still is owned by the railway. Members .,finally agreed the only way, to rectify the situation is if the railway deeds all lands back to the adjoining landowners, some- thing for which Turnberry council has been lobbying for some time. A •resolution ,asking that 'the lands be given back to the landowners will be sent to the railway and the member of parlia- ment. ' Several building permits were presented and op:- proved p-proved at the meeting: Harold Bell,. Lot 14, Coag. C,, a catlleham-H y-Vellmer ; - Lot 18, Con. 10, a milk room; , Royal Homes Ltd., Lot 28, Plan 410, a sales office; John Bilney, Riverside Drive, remove porch and construct new one; Hodgins Home Care, Lot 13, Riverside Drive, new home; Don Rawls, Lot 11, Con. C a storage shed and h mobile home and Jim Dennis. Plan 410, a storage area. The next meeting of Turnberry council is scheduled for Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the municipal office, Bluevale. Seniors host a card party FORDWICH — The senior citizens' card party was held last Friday evening in the cotTrmunity-ha-11 with 1 -0 -- tables in play. The winners were: high lady, Marian Keeso of Listowel; high gent, Clarence Carswell, Ford- ayi #ow- -1-a-d3;-.... Miss — Fothergee, Listowel; low geht, William McLelland, Listowel and special prize, George Bartman, Kurtzville. The next card party will be held Nov. 29 and is to be sponsored by the Women's Institute. on October 30 and 31. The Belgrave Women's In- stitute is holding its meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 8 p.m. Mrs. Jean Young of the Town and Country Home- makers will be showing slides and speaking about their work in the community. Everyone is welcome: At the Canadian Cross - Country Championships re- cently held in Etobicoke, Kelly Walsh of Kitchener placed first in the Mite girls' division, running the 1,000 metres in a time of 4:06 minutes. Kelly, coached by her father, David Walsh of Kitchener, is a grand- daughter of Mr, and Mrs.. Clifton Walsh of Belgrave.:: Mrs. Margaret Darland of Merrill, Michigan, Mrs. Mary Dzuba of Tawas, Michigan and Mrs. Douglas Runchey of Drayton, Ontario calledon their cousins; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Stonehouse on Saturday afternoon. Council is opposed to strikes by teachers In one of its last 'decisions permitting strikes and lock - at the final regular meeting : outs by teachers and school of its term, Wingham Toviin • boards. Council — which has seldom The resolution says that endorsed any of the where an agreement cannot 'resolutions circulated from be negotiated between a time to time by other bargaining unit of a municipalities voted teachers' federation and a strongly in favor of a school board, "the matter resolution from the Town of shall be resolved by binding Durham calling for the arbitration and ... it shall be banning of teachers' strikes. an offence for teachers to • Noting that secondary strike or walk out or for a school teachers', strikes are school board to lock them currently dragging on in out." Grey and Wellington Wingham council voted _Cautities__ aad___aha-t--t-he--unarn-,- 0 i, t'o--endorse-the- educational system in other resolution, . with two coun- areas has been similarly 'cillors, Jack Kbpas, who is a disrupted by strikes in the high school teacher, and past, Durham council calls ” brute Machan, whose wife is on the Ontario government a teacher, declaring con - to amend the legislation flicts of interest. n sor•j.,••n building and to appoint Ed Rich to the committee. Two other appointments sent John Currie and Susan Wright to the Day Care Board in place of the retiring Marc Forrest and Maureen Lisle. "11N THE '"FART OF DOWNTOWNS VARNA" 1 03 THE H � L MOON "CLOTHES FOR HER" J announces that we, will once again, hold our fabulous Pre -Christmas Sale on Fri. November 15 from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. We will offer you, our customer a storewide saving of - 25/o OFF Throughout the day we will also offer selected merchandise at PRICE 228 Durham St. E. 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