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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1988-03-08, Page 17rs g'.` )..'",',.�q',7,.`' �. 1v •A 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 *0)04014f yt ?.e a;,'g Prot�ioni at o► ?t 'r.01#1*etI V Ic 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 } Other members elected'to the exe- cutive include:, Arthur Pield, second vice-chairManFDM,Fidlend• management advisory board chair, man; Barb Fisher, Tandy Manae: _s.. � � g � ! 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- . ..$ • el r• o�FiiW +siFVi •«Rf+'l��r In the Peet, the' , libr .,r, ` has catalog* ' ' ..tits books ' and : . Y� 1 ferxnation �: 'd ..+ea =rpeasurin neje n- (C�c�t Djsc` ead`-Only 11I+ cry) figto Wert its catalogue into:.:. n electreide. format. 'tinder the Job • Development :Pro am f Kept l '13r, , Q manuallyA oynt and :'i�gr�ation Canada,*.'two workers, were em- ploys to convert the c;alog'ue. ' herr °the �r� visions= . . . ,.,.. ,. P,, � �: � . �: pf the over -a_.ye ad to r ude< a five ince by tier inches. ' se 'taresw, e ere.pgr•otced;h;��� � manually and. °aearehe l time -con 1m g .pert `los which also we; t:conipl etely • effeytive.in some cases. ia •�N = the : t IC did of a.. ,i _ �� 7 ,_ _� y eSvliat words .. the ` atron . ?Wo ld :use itt. au th' . traiaingoourat5,fO e*, n The entire • p�, rem of database 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 N . 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 : • 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 �.._ _.... . ... Vie. 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 4 :A Pray Ie iteral-, over '.•-..ate.+r..�s va wa!If�.74' ,. 0 :ilii hat mplete the :course, e� fn+d rifle work ,and, one lett for fug=tifne;lra�ining. the •cots i ort !ern his. :t% ‘..-- **keit . hew Iomttes wolG IC ieatab i � elr success Since these w� e s k4 a UOW proficient in the %se f micrecom •putera sad semb of the ost popular b m-softwa' p ges, and: have tat-'ear''nnds- o_ u fence. it is anticipatted that their success• ... ...a fir• • Y *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 41,f0ittittielPOSIlitki in her old And the other :choosing to stay home With her family. • 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 g 72 o - from llurorn Cbhnty ' ibr. 44.