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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1995-01-18, Page 1If you're not subscribing to The Wingham Advance Times; you're missing out_ Use this coupon below and subscribe todayl Name: Address: City Prov,: Postal Code: Subscription rates Canada within 40 miles (65krn) ad- dressed to non letter carder address- es $27 plus $1.89 GST. Outside 40 miles (65km) or any letter carrier address $40 plus $2.80 GST. Ouslde Canada $80 plus $5.60 GST USE YOUR CREDIT CARD Card No. DD[]EIEIDDE =00001❑ Exp Date: Visci Master Card ❑ Cheque enclosed Return To; WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES P.O. Box 390, 5 Diagonal Road Wingham, Ontario, NOG 2W0 L J East Wawanosht TWp, has hired a drainage superintendent 7Nts Jim Brown reports on gage 3 Madill -Pack Field has upsetthe high • school track world, tak- ing the championship from Toronto: schools, A•. The Jr, C Wingham ironmen split a pair of weekend games: See Sports -.I:. Network meeting planned for Huron Information . Superhighway running through Huron County? The drive tip .bring the in- formation highway into Huron County homes, businesses and organizations is picking up speed this month. Huron is included in a plan to launch a community" -wide net- work across five counties, with, special emphasis on serving ru- ral areas. A series of meetings is being held across the HOME - town region to explain the plan. HOMEtown will cover the counties of Oxford, Perth, Hu- ron, Middlesex and , Elgin and the cities of London, Stratford, St. Thomas and Woodstock. The public meeting in Huron County will be held Wednesday, January 25 at 7:00 p.m. at Cen- tral Hdfron Secondary School, 165 Princess Street, East, Cline ton. - HOMEtown will be a com- munity network available , to anyone, anywhere in the region. Computer communication (e- mail) will be' provided, as ,well as information - local informa- tion and access to the Internet.. HOMEtown is expected to play a pivotal role 'in rural communi- ty development and in the revi- talization of local communities. HOMEtown will give individ- ual users and businesses afford- able access to the information superhighway. With members contributing a small annual fee, the network is expected to be Self-sustaining in three years. • Access to the network will be via computer and modem on a 24-hour a day basis. HOME - town's business plan proposes locating hardware and software at the University of Western On- tario, but long distance phone charges will not be necessary. When fully implemented HOMEtown is also expected to be accessible in public libraries and other public locations throughout the region. First conceived by a grass- roots group of volunteers in the summer of 1993, HOXvIEtown has drawn suppoft from various organizations. New Ice Resurfacer...The Town of Wingham's recreation department received a new ice resurfaces for the Lockridge Memorial Arena. The machine was purchased through the proceeds of the Wingham Homecoming '94 committee and the Town of Wingham. Facilities manager.Pete Quennell demonstrates the new equipment to Homecoming chairman Doug Lay- ton and co-chairman Bob Foxton. Absent is co-chairman Ray Walkers E H Turnberry Township signs etre agreement with TeesivaterCulross By JIM BROWN The Advance -Times Turnberry Township has reached an agreement with the Teeswater-Culross Fire Depart- ment for responding to fire calls in the north part of Turnberry. Turnberry Township Deputy - Reeve Mery Baker, one of the two township representatives on the Wingham Area Fiore Board, told the board last Wednesday evening that under the agreement, the Teeswater-Culross department will supply a 'back-up. tanker for fires in the north part of Turnberry Township (Concessions, 10, 11 and 12). Baker noted that the Teeswater- Culross department will respond to "mistaken location' calls and bill Turnberry Township $500 per Please see AGREEMENT/3 Helipad fee unfair Teeswater next to consider bag tags By CAMERON J. WOO The Advance -Times 11- [ was just a discussion item on the agenda, listed under Works Department, but the issue of a user pay system and tipping fees for the Village of Teeswater drew some interest from local councillors. The topic was eventually tabled for further discussion, but not by the time several concerns had been expressed.. CouncillorSteve MacDonald Turnberry Township was still seeking to be reimbursed the $500 fee for a "fire call" to the helipad in late November. Mery Baker, one of two town- ship representatives on the Wing - ham Area Fire Board, said that it. hardly seems fair for one township to absorb the cost of the helipad. - "If this is going to be a constant happening, the board should deal with the situation now before it goes any farther," said Baker. "This is a community situation." He said that the township has paid the $500, but is billing the Ministry of Health in an effort to get the money back. Paul Elgie, the second Turnber- Please see TURNBERRY/2 Only three municipalities in Bruce County have sites with any lasting,.itture operation. "Teeswater is one of the big three that others want to share in," Kissner said. The Teeswater/ Culross site has approx- imately 27 years left in operation, if it is suggested the village send out 20 or maintained 30 bag tags with the first tax bill of at current the year. levels. Bruce Township's is expect - "After those run out, then you ed to last 40 years, and Kincardine have to buy more," he suggested. Township, 30 years. MacDonald did state he was op- However, according to the reeve, posed to the idea of bag tags, but Bruce County can take over a site added he felt something needed to with compensation going to the be done. owners and assuming liability. That Coun. Margie Bates said site was compensation would not likely .n...,comean.the fornnof money>, but system, saying "If at s not broken, rather credit. why fix it?" "Rift now the province won't Town Foreman Don Stewartsaid consider incineration. And the some of the village employees have county won't listen because then found garbage dumped at the land- the waste co-ordinators would soon 011 site gates from all over the re- - be out of a job." gion, including Kincardine. Kissner told the village council The issue was then tabled for dis- that the waste management issue at cussion at a later date. the county leetel had been tabled . The concern over waste manage- until their February meeting to al- meet in Teeswater extends to the " low the various councils to review future of their landfill site. Village the issues. Reeve Bruce Kissner said the land- Council did state for the record 011 issue is going to become much that they have' never said they more prominent at the county level; would not share their landfill with , and particularly the issue of landfill other municipalitics./At present sharing agreements between town- they have had inquiries from the ships and villages without a waste Town•of Wingham, Turnberry disposal site and those with one op- Township and the Town of Kincar- erating. dine. !,GARBAGE Council News Editorial Letters Sports Community T.V. Guide Classifieds Obituaries Crossword Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 9 Page 11 Page 12 Page 15 Page 16 A LOOK AT Local support and advocacy group in Huron County. The Swan Report. Page 5 The Wingham Advance -Times Is a member of a family5t community newspapers providing news. advertising and Information leadership NOON , sv New management• . •The Wingham Motel has been bought by two local couples. ONSFORR Wingham Motel re -opens under new ownership ,• The first thing to be done when the motel doors ly being totally gutted and redone. Watson said their opened was scrubbing everything down, Donna Wat- plan is to complete a small number of rooms at a time son said last week. Watson, her husband Don, and until all have been renovated. r Wingham native John Cox and his wife Linda; are the "When the renovations are done, we want'tb have a new owners of the Wingham Motel, one kilometer public open house for the community to come out and south of town- see whiz we have done." Watson said their plans are to gut all 18 rooms and Watson said until the foursome purchased the motel replace everything from the plumbing to the wallpaper. in late December, they never fully appreciated how "We're planning a total renovation inside and out," much it was needed. She said the community response she said of the facility. Currently six rooms are current- Please see MOTELS MERSI School board sends parents needs survey By HEATHER VINCENT Special to the Advance -Times French Immersion pro- grams are back on the agenda at the Huron County Board of Education. The board has sent home with students a parent survey i for the county to evaluate the interest in the immersion program. The survey is an attempt to gauge parental in- terest in French Immersion which has received criticism of late. As well, this action is in response to the Separate School Board's plan- ning to institute an immersion pro- gram. The Huron County Board of Ed- ucation met last week for their first session of 1995. The board present- ed certificates to students from ele- mentary and secondary schools who had participated in programs EDUCATION '95 ,n.r#zs•mrvaz�s.:�xxsmzmvxeA at the Ontario Educational Leader- ship Centre. These programs pro- vide reward and incentives to work. well done. Completed during time off school, such as in the summer, the programs range from a science and technology focus to arts and athletics. Paul Carroll's, director of educa- tion, report outlined 'the tender for the Goderich District High School Please see BOARD/2