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this month.' ".Clerk -Treasurer „Clerk-Treanin- Winona,
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also receives $1500 car
auowanve, $1,500 in u of a pension
and QWP coverage.
Roan • Superintendent Ralph
Campbell?s hourly rate has gone to
$12,68 from $12. The rate for full-
- time grader operator John
McClinchey has gone to $12.10 per
hour frorn$11.50.
The full-time roadmen also each
receive $1,500 in lieu of a pension, as
well as OHIP coverage.
Part-time grader -operators
Murray Vincent, Donald Pattison,
Jim Scott, Leonard Robinson and
Neil Olson also will be paid $12.10
per hour and double time- for
holidays.
Reeve Ernie Snell's yearly limor-
ariurn is unchanged at $1,700, while
Councillors Fred Meier, Don
Schultz, Jim Hunter and Maurice
Hallahan will be paid -$1,200 per
year,
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cONTENTS 40;7_11/1FIRE --- The contents of this Bluevale home, owned by Dan Elliott, were lost to fire
last Saturday evening. A spark from a soldering 017 is being blamed for the blaze, which resulted in
almost $35, 000 damage.
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Issue of hydrant costs
faces fire board again
The issue of whether or not $20,000. "It should be worth a whole
Wingham's fire :hydrants should be lot more to the Town of Wingham to
considered fire equipment is again, have the fire hall right here and
before the Wingham Area Fire have 100 per cent protection."
Board. Mr. McGrath ,again pointed out
At least one of the town's fire that Wingham pays its proportionate
board representatives says yes, that share for tankers and their
hydrants should be considered fire operation. His motion calling for the
• equipment and as such, have their board to include the $20,000 for
annual maintenance and operating hydrants in its budget was seconded
costs included in the fire board's by Turnberry Township rep -
operating budget. resenta five John Cox.
At the- hoard's regular January "I think Bill has a point," Mr. Cox
• Meeting last week, it appeared as said in seconding the motion,
° though Wingham representative Bill following a notably lengthy silence.
-.McGrath was heading for the same "Then I guess it's about time that
brick wall reception which greeted we figure out how much the tankers
_ 7 other Wingham attempts to get the cost and how much they take to
fire board to assume the annual operate," Mr. Elliott said.
'„ hydrant costs of approximately At this point Mr. Gaunt toldthe
$20,000. board that replacing a tanker in 1988
• However, at least two of the would have cost about $85,000.
township representatives indicated Wingham's share of that purchase
they are open to Mr. McGrath's price under the current formula
argument that the hydrants are would be $30,770, for a vehicle which
_every bit as much fire equipment as Mr. McGrath claims the town is
the department's tanker trucks likely never to use.
which are virtually of no benefit to At present, the other muni -
the town. cipalities contribute the following to
The issue was raised during dis-
cussion on the amount billed for fire
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the fire boar! budget (with the share
Of 'hypothetical .40Iter price) :
Howick Township, 29.6 per cent
(25,160); Turnberry Township, 17.8
per cent (15,130); Morris Township
8.7 per cent (7,395); and East
Wawanosh Township, 7.7 per cent
(6,545).
Using the same breakdown the
proportionate contribution to fire
hydrant Posts would be: Wingham,
$7,240; Howick, $5,920; Turnberry,
$3,560; Morris, $1,740; East Wawa -
nosh, $1,540.
During discussion on Mr. Mc-
Grath's motion, Howick Township
representative Norm Fairies said he
believed the issue too great to be
decided at the board level.
"This is something that has to be
decided at council," he said. "I'm
not going to vote either way."
A motion to table the issue
carried, and Mr. McGrath agree to
have the Town of Wingham re are
a doctiment outlining the town's
proposal on hydrants which will then
be distributed to board members for
presentation to their councils.
afl injured
in accident
north of town
A Teeswater-area man received
minor injuries in a two -car mishap
last Thursday, just north of
Wingham.
A spokesman for the Wingham
detaclunent of the Ontario Provin-
cial Police said the accident
occurred at 3:10 p.m. Jan. 12 on
Highway 4 just north of Con. 10-11 in
Turnberry Township.
• Ilruce Lang, 29, of RR 2, Tees -
water, was northbound on the'
highivay when he Acidded sidewaysinto a vehicle driven by Elsie Smith,
69, of RR 2, Wingham. Mrs. Smith
was stopped in the northbound lane
and making a left turn into a private
driveway. -
According to the police, the Lang
vehicle ended up in the west ditch.
Mr. Lang's 1981 Pontiac and Mrs.
Smith's 1979 Plymouth both are
listed as demolished by the OPP.
Neither Mrs. Smith nor the 16-
year-old passenger in her vehicle,
Fay Rawn of Wingham, were 7
injured.
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receives all buikling fees he enligerS.,
as well as $10.50 per 'hour" and
mileage for Ontario Home Renewal
Program work. In 1988 Mr. Bruce
received $2,648 in permit fees.
The township rate for skilled labor
• was set at $8,50 per hour, while -the
rate for unskilled labor .was in-
creased to $7 from $6.50.
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$10 134 ft'
for tree. p
The Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority has been awailec.1
.-a
$19,134 grant under Section .25 of the
Unemployment Insurance Job.
Creation Program, Ruron-BrUce
MP Murray Cardiff basannounced.
The money is to be used toward a
work project for planting trees • and
improving woodlots in the Maitland
Valley area, This will result in three
jobs consisting of a total of 54 work
weeks, ,
The UI Section 25 program —
formerly referred to as Section 38
under the same program — is
designed to provide opportunities for
unemployed workers to maintain
and utilize their work skills during
periods when they are: laid off and
Without other employment.
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Contents lost
in house fire
A fire last Saturday evening in
Bluevale gutted a house in that
hamlet.
Wingham Fire Chief Harley Gaunt
estimates the lost contents at
$35,000. The owner of the house is
Dan Elliott, who was not at home
when the blaze broke out just before
p. m.
Mr. Gaunt says he suspects a
park from a soldering gun used
artier that day in the basement
may be the cause of the blaze.
In two separate incidents last
week, firefighters were called out to
owick Township.
Firemen responded to a call last
aturday at 2:15 a.m. to the Valerie
urns residence in Fordwich. A
malfunction in an oil 'furnace filled
e house with smoke, resulting in
100 damage according to Mr.
aunt.
C. James hired
at landfill site
Calvin James of RR 5, Brussels,
has been hired as Morris Township H
landfill site supervisor for $7 per
hour.
The decision was made at the first B
monthly meeting of Morris council.
Mr. James starts his duties Feb. 1 th
and must complete a three-month $
probationary -period,
since the five municipalities are
calls. Mr. McGrath clahned that Board considers options
each year asked to absorb a deficit,
for its fire calls. n
the board is not billing a fair price Inew vehic e purchase
What's more, he said, some muni- '
cipalities are being penalized by this The Wingham Area Fire Board
system. Wingham, for instance, had continues to consider the available
only 17 fire calls in 1 , but will be options before deciding whether or
asked to pick up 36.2 per cent of the not to proceed with a proposal to
deficit because a true price is not purchase a new pumper.
billed for calls answered by the At its regular December meeting,
department. the board discussed purchasing the
Mr. McGrath said the town ex- new pumper this year for delivery in
pects to be billed about $20,000 for 1990 and spreading the purchasing
the hydrants this year by the cost over the two-year period.
Wingham Public Utilities Com- , Fire Chief Harley Gaunt claimed
mission. at the January meeting that the
Instead, he suggests that the bill board could save as much as $20,000
should go to the fire board where by ordering the pumper in 1989
Wingham would then absorb its 361 rather than waiting until 1990.
per cent, the same as it now does for At the board's January meeting
the cost of other fire equipment, last week, Mr. Galmt reported that
Morris Township representative information provided by manufac-
Bert Elliott, however, argued that turers indicated that although a
• the town should pay the whole custom chasiis would cost more
money in this budget year, the over-
all cost of the the pumper would be
about the same as if a stock chassis
were- purchased at a lower cost in
the first year.
The difference, he said, is in the
second year when the cost of out-
fitting the rest of the truck shows up
in the budget.
While the custom chassis costs
about $99,000 — compared to an
estimated cost of between $70,000 to
$80,000 for a stock chassis — Mr.
Gaunt told board members that less
work is required to complete its
assembly next year.
In ddition, the manufacturer
claims the all -aluminum custom
chassis will last five to seven years
longer than the conventional stock
"The end result is that they both
cost about the same," Mr. Gaunt
said. "fn Met, the custom chassis is
less expensive overall because we
geta better vehicle, one that we
know has been built to be a fire
truck."
He has also estimated the cost of a
stock chassis to be $70,000 to $80,000
with an estimated completion cost of
$100,000 next year. For the custom
chassis, those figures are reversed,
he said.
The board has asked Mr. Gaunt to
include this recent information in a
report which is to be distributed to
the councils of the five muni-
cipalities in the fire board area.
The houseis owned by Morley
Brears.
A fire last Wednesday destroyed a
driving shed at the Syl Lassaline
property at Lot 13, Con. 3, of Howick
Township.
Mr. Gaunt estimates the loss of the
shed and its contents at $15,000. An
overheated woodstove is being
blamed as the cause of -the blaze.
Area man elected
board chairman
Fred Meier of RR 4, Brussels has
been elected chairman of the board
of Gay Lea Foods Co-operative
Limited.
He replaces John Campbell of RR
3, Hayfield, who held the office for
the past three years. Mr. Campbell
wili continue to serve as a director.
ALso elected to the executive were
John Stafford et RR 1, Wroxeter,
first vice-chairman; and George -
Pinkney of RR 3, Listowel, second
vice-chairman.
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