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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1995-04-05, Page 1r 1 • if ,ou're not sebacgping to The Ill Ingham Advance -Times, you're missing qut USe This coupon below and subscribe todayl Is Notre: 1' dress: 1,;rov' �',Past3tl Code: 1 Subscription rates Qatlada within 40 miles (65km) ad - •I. dressed to non letter carrier address - 1 es $27 plus $1.89 GST. Outside 40 miles (65km) or any letter carrier address $40 plus $2.80 GST. Quside Canada $80 plus 35.60 GST USE YOUR CREDIT CARD Card No. OOOOOLOri DDEOOCIOO Exp Date: Visa Li Master Card D Cheque enclosedHattiml❑ WINGHAM A CEIMES P.O. Box 390, 5 Diagonnl Road `1, Wingham, Ontario, NOG 0 Wescast Industries will hire 47 people through jobsOntario funding for Wingham and Strathroy. Page 10. Turnberry Township will open their new works shed on April 8. Page 24. The Wingham IDA Atoms captured the hardware last week to end an great season, See Sports Wingham Airport now in Norris New location meets airport guidelines The Wingham Community Airport will now be lo- cated in Morris Town- ship, on property behind Bridge Motors. At Monday's council meet- ing, airport committee members Ian Moreland, John Schenk and Linda Cranston presented the new plans for the $2.3 million project. The Town of Wing - ham's share of $525,800 will be divided in two. Wescast Indus- tries is contributing $312,000; ,leaving the municipality to cov- 'er $213,000. The committee presented the plan to Morris, Township on Tuesday night,:following-press time. However, ' prior to that meeting, Moreland said he had been assured of 100 per cent support. Please see AIRPORT/10 Arrested for theft An 18 -year-old Wingham man has been arrested and charged after several vehicles were stolen over the weekend. Warwick Scott Chad Brown was 'arrested by Wingham and Walkerton OPP in the Wroxeter area following a motor vehicle accident. Police had received a call re- porting a vehicle had been stolen from Wingham. It was then re- ported involved in an accident in Wroxeter. Brown allegedly left that ' vehicle and attempted to steal several others. Brown was arrested for im- paired driving, and failing to re- main, four counts of auto thefts, seven counts of attempted theft, one mischief and one breach probation count, were laid. Brown was remanded in cus- tody for a bail hearing in Gode- rich last Monday. Wingham OPP constable Rick Schut is in- vestigating. Council News Editorial Letters Hospital News Sports T.V. Guide Classifieds Horoscopes Crossword mom, Page 2 Page 4 Page 5 Page 7 Page 15 Page 17 Page 18 Page 21 Page 21 A LOOK AT._ Thriving and riot Just surviv- ing on the Family Farm. Bonnie Gropp reports. Page 10 The Wingharn Advance -Times is a member of a family of community newspapers providing news, advertising and Information leadership i IQ. tei Rolling dough,..Volunteers'were at the Belmore Community Centre last Tuesday to prepare the pancake mix and bake bread for the annual Maple Syrup Festival. Berdella Kieffer is shown as she rolls the bread dough. 75c! Yearend reports presented to council Roads net budget through cuts,. Libraryimproves circulation system By. CAMERON J. WOOD The Advance -Times GODERICH — Through budgets, "self-interest groups" and retiring department heads, the Huron County Council managed to get a look at how they finished out 1994 and approve their zero per cent in- crease budget for 1995. The first surprise at the March 30 session was the retirement of county treasurer W.R. (Bill) Al- cock. Alcock has worked for Huron County since 1975. In making his announcement, he cited the offer made to county employee for an early retirement package. "In a time when many employers are downsizing their workforce, it is difficult for some of the younger employees to advance," he said of part of his reason for accepting the offer and therefore creating a job opening for other staff members. Alcock's last day with the Belmore preparing for county will MJune an 1995 annual syrup festival No county increase • ROADS REPORT County Engineer Denis Merrall told council the budget for 1994 was constraining, but a great deal of savings-werelfound.through non- priority cuts, and some service re- ductions. In all, the total budget was $1.4 million less then it was in 1991. "But I feel we were able to deliv- er a reasonable level of service with $700,000 decrease in our budget from the previous year. Some of Please see ANNUAL/3 • • 'BELMORE - The 28th annual aoill is used to make the pancakes. a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday. Belmore Maple Syrup Festival Over a ton of sausages will be eat will be held tomorrow and Satur- en during the two days of the an - But, there is more to the maple day. nual event. syrup festival than pancakes and Volunteers were out last week, The maple syrup festival will be maple syrup. There will be crafters stirring up the pancake mix and held in the arena from 10 a.m. to 2 in the auditorium and a variety of stival • b ead. About 1,100 pounds p.m. on Thursday and from 10 bands willte'performtng Just as promised, Warden Bruce Machan and fellow Jturon County Councillors brought in a zero per cent increase based budget. Earlier this year, Machan had sent a message to county depart- ment heads saying the residents of Huron would operation in bringing in a budget with no new taxes and on March 30, he got it. Although it was previously re- ported the countywould be able to bring in their second consecutive zero per cent increase budget, the whole matter was finalized during • Please see COUNTY/3 i �[•y 1eaQ@Y' 1Vlik@ !-.Earris Bridge 'not in cards' suggests single I.D. card LeVan tells council By CAMERON J WOOD The Advance -Times New ideas in politics these days seem few and far between. Pundits from all political camps spend a majority of their time arguing who stole who's platform for economic. renewal, or policies. Yet during his visit to the Wing - ham region last week, Ontario Pro- gressive Conservative leader Mike Harris suggested a new bend on plans to implement a photo identifi- cation card for health care in.Onta- rio. Harris said he had no intention presently of following through with the concept, but spoke with the lo- cal media on a more "What if..." basis. Harris said the idea of a photo health card did not sit easily with him, although he wasn't overly crit- ical of the current NDP govern- ment's attempt to cut into health care fraud. What Harris di4say was do Ontarians need another form of identification. "Why couldn't we look at having one piece of identification for all services. With the SniartCard tech- nology today, think about what we could do with just one card. You could have your health card infor- mation, driver's license, medical records all encoded on the magnet- ic strip on the back of the card." The Tory leader said it would be much more efficient to have such a system, especially when dealing with the medical field. Doctors could access medical files encoded on the magnetic strip, the pharma- cist could use it for providing pre- scriptions. thus saving paperwork and pharmaceutical fraud. As for the question of what to do if the single card is lost, Harris said he didn't think it would be any more of an inconvenience than re- placing the many cards people car- ry with them today. What it would mean is just one phone call to a central office instead of the Minis - P. A -T Illustration by Cameron J. Wood try of Health and the Ministry of Transportation, the local doctor, in= surance company, etc. Harris said he was a bit per- plexed by the move to a photo health cad when the plastic Bard experts do not use such a system. He questioned whether or not the photo 1.D. would cut into fraud. The actual level of fraud is cur- rently being contested: The NDP said they estimated fraud to cost Ontario $65 million per year, whereas the provincial auditor said it's more like million per year. The other controversy is the antici- pated $150 million it is expected to cost to phase in the new cards, By CAMERON J. WOOD The Advance -Times It took the principle owner and CEO of Wescast to clarify the situ- ation, but in the end the bridge pro- ject would not have gone ahead anyway. Dick LeVan attended Monday night's council meeting, replacing Adrian DeBruyn on the agenda and requested council move into closed session to discuss the rail way prop- erty in question. Following that, members of the public were invited back in to hear LeVan say that it was not the cost of the land that fi- nalized their decision not to pro- ceed with an entrance to Wescast from Josephine Street, but rather the $30Q,000 plus price tag to refur- bish the former CN bridge across the Maitland River. Please see LEVAN/3 Bluevale turns down .curbside bag removal The results of a questionnaire sent out to Morris Township resi- dents in the hamlets of Bluevale and Belgrave were announced at the March 28 council meeting. The questionnaire was regard- ing curb -side garbage pick-up in the two hamlets. The results indi- cated that the residents of Blue - vale do not want curb -side pick-up while the resid is of Belgrave want the service. ' Curb -side garbage pick-up will begin on the Morris Township side of Belgrave t [day. There will be weekly curb -side pick -tip ser- vice for each Morris Township Council News 2 household in the hamlet, and bi- weekly service for blue box recy- cling. In the original letter the Town- ship sent out to the residents, it stated that 52 per cent of the popu- lation of the hamlets would be re- quired ,,to receive the curb -side pick-up service. The final results were 67 per cent in Belgrave wanted the ser- vice, while 50 per cent of the peo- ple in Bluevale were interested in the service. p •