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At its next meeting, . ,the Witogham
Beard of Police Commissioners -will
aider the poSSibility of asking
Police Chief Bob Wittig to compile .
,, callswhich
*InTet onin gm.poiceare asked' to assist
the. local OPP detachment.
The board spent some time ..
cussing the matter at its - regular
March meeting, -following a qu .tion
posed by one of .i.: . members,
W Ingham Mayor: Jack Kopas
Although he eaa l ed that the
Wingharn Police Department has a
good working r-elahoihi with' the
OPP, he wanted�'to know statistics
wereavailable to show: the extent to
which local police are called on to
assist the detachment.
"There has been some -feeling
among municipalities, perhaps, tha
the:- province, is. counting on local
municipal departments to help
police the surrounding area,"`Ir.
Kopas.said. r
Ile also asked Chairman Fred
McGee to ask representatives at the
next district meeting if they are
c mcerned` with tthis issue and;j. they
fl,aneed�.to compile --statistics on
such calls' for assistance.
There are townships, he said
s
':z SAY'..
with'the OPP,
policingd at oat
Mr.. Mc olo,a t .-
a: InWeteipal= olive comMiSL.
subsidize. to Borne :degree
such coverage)." but .on te.ther
hand, the government also sub-
sidizes our departments:" •The•
• situat on, he said, is ogle whit. has
been tieing tailsornie't r�►e .fisrt j .
didn't::happen ti iSiest
Ile asked: Chief Wittig ifthere:shad
been :anyt•ail. or, ORP staff
recently'and`w,ee°ttold th lad titit,
In fa y`'.n said, the had.
leek, ado
"Perha.s: Lthen, they . (OPP).
recognizedrecogniZedAilkeater Worideat aid
are doh�oxnithingat tt Mr.
McG;eeS d.-
C .ref ' ittig acknowl.0
~r , t ., d there
are ether; md�ni�etpalitares ex-
pe rienclng difficulty ;because local
police are. being sk+ .ia assist the
OP - on out-of-tw . , b %-
dicated Such-la:t t le,. se here m
*Ingham.
• Although..
inequities., ,Mi
as wear* ge
costing us e
weshioult
herre w1
shwa
las
C t's:�adt
n i - -.lam
+fir. a cern is wi-
is r b.
produce, and I �..� .
ou th %"
If there is any truth to -
suggestion that . the .provincials
goverment is relying on local
departments to assist OPP in.
policing surrounding areas, then -the
municipalities should be cozn;
pensated accordingly through int'`
creased grants, he said.
On the matter of ' compiling -
statistics,.: Conirnissioner ` Doug
McBurney said there is no point in
d sso"bout leol ing.at,tt.froin
Mwe}�} F avt
'szdrns�'"by
ePttrit tt' , What,the* are dellifer Os:"
Of
., discussion, it was
`decided to ;'plait the i` on the
agenda for -the ' regular April
.meetingA
OA. was:,,a
Featival:h
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Prot�ioni at o► ?t 'r.01#1*etI
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wary Lou Thompson of Teeswater
is the 1968 first vice-chairman of the
Saugeen Valley Conservation, Audit-
ority. The Teeswater representative
was acclaimed to the position during
the authority's recent annual meet-
ing.
On accepting the position, Mrs.
Thomson ded it
the importance ace of 'looking -upon
SVCA as a whole unit. -` bink -the
we
sometimes tend to get Weal ' in our
thoughts, but we must realize we're.
taking care of the whole watershed
and
�iyq �/not just little parts of a
municipality."
A 17 year member of the SVCA
board, Harold Fair of Kincardine
Township, was acclaimed chairman
and replaces Karl Wilken who
;f
i' ed :dawn s o
.,t+ens as
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Other members elected'to the exe-
cutive include:, Arthur Pield, second
vice-chairManFDM,Fidlend•
management advisory board chair,
man; Barb Fisher, Tandy Manae:
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� ! tu04
waver rge t tEe,:
chaiirnian;'A -
n�� ate`
Watson, la N, managent repre-
sentatives. to continuity
lions Committee: Ann McKay: and
Bill Koeslag, water agement
represeentattives to he community
relations co .: •�tY�ltteer George Saha.
er, member at-
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In the Peet, the'
, libr .,r, ` has
catalog* ' ' ..tits books ' and : .
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electreide. format. 'tinder the Job
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manuallyA oynt and :'i�gr�ation
Canada,*.'two workers, were em-
ploys to convert the c;alog'ue.
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over -a_.ye
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five ince by tier inches. '
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manually and. °aearehe l
time -con 1m g .pert `los which
also we; t:conipl etely • effeytive.in
some cases.
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conversion�•and;fob tr'ainin was co- .
rdinated by the Ontario Library`
Consouuin, -which consists of -,15
county, four ciity, and, , two town.
libraries..: ,the consortium- hat
.retards ht -� iast..12 mento: and
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the paw:
woubinev d it, or lithe patron
sli tl t b the wording of. the
title, the search' again would be
unsuc�cess .:.•
A: 'electronic catalogue, will
remonte most a f�the anua ..labor -`
maintaining a card' catal igue and
vet*.-pa�trons-ena :
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converted over 1.5 n ll cit catalogue
-competed .te r ctrl fan. 30
This has been t e single 'largest.
:conversion .in pulrl r iibrarjes� Canada and has been completed in
reverttime•
In 'may >49 workers were hired in
libra es' acrossseroaa, the province to
transfer the records and Lasnbton
Ctglege,xan a, series of correspon-
has -awarded the
y, =crus deli and
ietordi of the
it►j�;' of R 1, Listowel,
tibndll ell low bid of $2.i p
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coils lest than he
Vol to the south end Of,
in 1997. The total
-contract, awarded at
week, is $08,500.
d will spray weeds thi.
Aoe4• Y'90 1
$ide Of' the road, .
tad, til spray the
'which was not done
of
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over
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,. 0 :ilii hat mplete the :course,
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lett for fug=tifne;lra�ining.
the •cots i
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wolG IC ieatab i � elr success
Since these w� e s k4 a UOW
proficient in the %se f micrecom
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b m-softwa' p ges, and:
have tat-'ear''nnds- o_ u fence.
it is anticipatted that their success•
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*tally; the Iluron County.Library
workers reflected this situation. We
worked- with the :,project during the
full year and completed the training
course. Another Started the project.
but left it Miley to accept a fll-
Aim'manent ,;position -With-: the
uron ;ou my Liry....-Two other
wOr eddor a o time, neleaving
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old And
the other :choosing to stay
home With her family.
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By May the library will receive a
entail Oliver -disc which will contain
the 'catalogue reeords of all the
books in the 21 libraries in the
consortium. This disc will give users
-the 'ii to search by.author, title,
ny, other word in the
er- . be able to
the records 'In the
fecal- library, but what is available
elleWhere r► the province.
Huron County Library will have.a
demonstration unit this spring and
will Make a decision on the number
of unitslo to install in 1989. These
publicaccess catalogues could be
installed in the 11 larger town and vitiate liibrarim, bruiting/0 liaron
County branch libraries a level of
access to information . equivalent to
that available -in city libraries such
as London- or Strettor-d. On the
eopact disc will be ire Ontario
Library Consortium's More than 1.5
million reeords, inel O0
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from llurorn Cbhnty ' ibr.
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