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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1995-05-24, Page 1As there were no municipal road departments as such, each landown- er was required to provide a num- ber of hours of statute labor to maintain the roads near his proper- ty. In 1891, there were 2,442 days liable for statute labor in Turnberry. As well, there were 3,157 cattle in the township, 2,399 sheep, 1,214 hogs, 923 horses and five steam boilers, according to the assessment roll. The document was signed June 15, 1891, at the Bluevale Post Of- fice by John Burgess, municipal By JIM BROWN when the bill did not come into ef- The Advance -Times feet until after the application was, made. He told council last Tuesday that the application for the five residen- tial lots on land where the former Bluevale train station used to be was made March 10, and Bill 163 Please see COUNCIIJ2 Neil Warwick is looking for the support of Morris Township coun- cil in his effort to have former CN land in Bluevale developed. He can't understand why the main stumbling block is Bill 163, ARP I <.POO Code: .. 1 SubacrIPtlon rates .• 1 Canada within 40 miles (65km) ad - 1 dressed to non letter carrier address - 1 ea $27 plus $1.89••GST. 1 Autslde 40 miles (65km) or any letter I carrier address" $40 plus $2.8o GST. . Orsi Is Canada S80 {Mus $5.60 GST SR YOUR CREr �IT CARD 1: Citial40., DDOODD;LI❑ I . '•x •ODEI DLiH-. t eluate: � Visa ❑ Master Card 1 Cheque enclosed ❑ 1 Return To: 1 WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES 1 P.O. Box 390, 5 Diagonal Road 1 Wingham, Ontario, NOG 2W0 L. 11. tu're•458dub r1t$n9 tc. nggham Advance Times, using put, Use tills, Caupttn W and subscdhe today' rein^ „s Members of, the Wing- ham Braneh,18Ox:Royal Canadian .Legion were honored at` I May 12 banquet. Page 2. Phil Payne, a student at F.E. Madill Secondary, School penned an essay on the current landfill situation. Pg. 5. Madill's Girls Soccer team,gaVe Exeter a run for their money in the Huron County finals. See. Sports, Page 6 the Local man nailed for illegal alcohol Vehicle, 500 bottlesseized by RCMP 754 Recyclingcarnpaign expanded in Wingham As of yesterday, recycling in the bag must bear a tag, which must be Town of Wingham was expanded bought from the Town Hall at a and divided into two collection cost of $1 per tag. • days per week. In terms of recycling changes, The expansion comes just days the west side of: the, town from before the curbside .bag. tags are to Josephine Street and the riverside be implemented. This will allow neighborhood development will be each household just one free bag of collected on Tuesdays. The east household garbage at the curb per side ofph he town e n REDUCTION/3 Josephine week. Every bag after the one free Dam.beavers causin Tube introuble OWen Thomas. Curtis, 45, . of 21 Victoria Street fac- es charges of possession of spirits unlawfully imported into Canada after being arrested by police. The Wingham Police Service assisted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in their investi- gation into smuggling of alcohol from the United States. The WPS issued a statement Friday indicating the two forces had seized a vehicle and more than 500 bottles of liquor. Curtis is scheduled to appear in Wingham Court on June 14. Mrs. Rae to address concerns Arlene Perly Rae, wife of On- tario Premier Bob Rae, will be the special guest at a "Family and Women's Issues Forum" to- day (Wednesday, May 24) at 3:00 p.m. at the Huron County Museum in Goderich. Rae and her husband have a long-standing personal and polit- ical interest in family and wom- en's concerns. The public are invited• to at- tend. More information is availa- ble by calling 1-800-881-8673. Harris on tour through Huron/Bruce Progressive Conservative leader Mike Harris will be cam- paigning throughout the Huron and Bruce region. The Tory leader will join Bruce candidate Barb Fisher for breakfast in Kin- cardine at the Sutton Park Inn at 8:00 a.m. From there, Harris will join Huron candidate Helen Johns in Goderich and then travel to Ex- eter to campaign with Johns. Legion news Page 2 Editorial Page 4 Letters Page 5 Sports Page 6 Community Page 8 T.V. Guide Page 11 Classifieds Page 12 Horoscopes Page 18 Crossword Page 18 A COOK AT iitil'PaVrle, an F.E. Madill stOidollthas penned an es - y n tie landfill crisis. Page 5 yhi Wtngham'Advance-Times is a`rh'ember of a farrilly of community hewsp'apers providing news, advettlaing and information leadership M Family Fun Day...The annual Family Fun Day at Wingham Public School was he ld Last Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. Former students, parents and people from the community partic- ipated in the fund-raising event. Proceeds from the event, this year, are geared towards the Grade 7 class's trip to Ottawa and Quebec. About $900 was raised for the trip. Megan Malone was one of many students to have her face painted during the day. • Century -old documents found in old works shed Documents uncovered at the old cleared land in Turnberry in 1891 Turnberry works shed are provid- and 2,879 acres of woodland, ac- ing a picture of lift in the township cording to the assessment roll. Oth- over 100 years ago, council learned er statistics include: 7,524 acres of at a meeting held late this month. swamp, marsh or waste land; 369 A number of documents have acres in orchards and gardens and been found as employees clean out 1,894 acres in fall wheat. the old shed,'which has been sold. The documents will be handed over to the Huron County Pioneer Mu- seum at Goderich for its archives. Among items found is a list of statistics from the , assessment roll for the year 1891 Council mem- bers were interested to learn that 2,270 people lived in Turnberry that year, almost 500 more than to- day. Councillor Bill Purdon noted that 100 years ago, farms of 50 and 100 acres were the norm with each property occupied by a farm fami- 20,800 acres of clerk. ly. There were Johns maintaining Huron Progressive Conservative candidate Helen Johns has main- tained a hectic schedule since the election call and said she is encour- aged by the interest people have shown in the issues. "The people of Huron are: natu- rally concerned about health care, education, welfare reform and in- vestments in agriculture," Johns said. "There is, however, an under- standing that only sound fiscal Beavers are causing a lot of problems on two Turnberry drains, • township . Road Superintendent Ross Nicholson re (torted at last week's meeting of council. Nicholson said he had been out ,,sial times cleaning out beaver dams on the McCreight Municipal Drain, as well as the Thompson -Lamont - Deyell Municipal Drain. He may even be forced to dynamite a dam this week, The only way to solve the prob- lem is to trap the beaver, doted Nicholson. Council gave instruc- tions that road employee Len Baird trap the heaver on township time. Warw.ick seeks Morris support for development Have your say on June 1 Concerned' about just what lay, happen in the upcoming election? Frightened by the pros- pect of another "Vote for any- body but..." victory in Ontario? On June 1 at 8:00 at the' Wingham Armouries,. the Ad- vance -Times will play host to the candidates in Huron seeking your vote in the upcoming elec- tion. The theme for the evening is primarily small business and employment, but the candidates will be available to field ques- tions from the public following their initial debate. Questions will be delivered through a mod- erator. Refreshments will be served. `hectic' pace management and responsible gov- ernment will restore hope and op- portunity." Johns added that people are no longer fooled by promises that le c- steridti unit at elec- tion yappear y K tion Brite., ' , • „ "The pri Wesof the l Party. as outlined in the Common Sense Revolution, were introduced over a year ago. They have been tested, scrutinized and represent asignifi- iripped.011 pater. ORG contends vandalism cant change in how Ontario will be governed." Ultimately though, each of us has a right to expect the values and interests of Huron County to be ef- fectivel Y' represented at Queen's 'Park..I ate, discussed the represen- tation One' ' and with Mike e Harris we agree.•eVCry MPP should listen to, and vote'on behalf of constitu- ents. I will do that. Anything less is not representation." s vdalis r r campaign The Ontar alis for Responsible Brown added, "The fact that Govetiiniettt ate claiming vandal- someone would go to the trouble isn't as the'watt behind a giant of vandal zingour r Campaign must rd tear in their IOW billboard. • shows that be The sign .was, erected earlier effective, otherwise they wouldn't this month as pad of the ORG's bother." unelection cartipaign against Pre- The' ORG plans to have some Mier Bob Rae and the NDP. This .69 of the "Bye, Bye Bob, Social - was their letegt billboard blitz, ism didn't work" billboardss 8 which initiall blegani a Couple of ed across Ontario by the June Ii lope de - years ago with the Farm Labor election. Last week, as etre Legislatioir prof itbunced the 11 'SI/Obi ted .;_ _ mantter for the'dth pel�cat pair . ,-i oY p tib x .`rt�.illtYy�. ii s, ws. that' • ties to get around e .. ' � of th som ne hadorn away Pi of the rifles, but contends on each ., lb d " ORG .resident Colin issues, the•ORO has been Wrong, till.. "Maybe it's a gopthomeit, rov!tri said$; "Vete' in3tf blaming P PAu orany: incumbent MPP tbld, the Acly: =MP )r' lite incl- vote -Times. "They have been Yii'll would x be wrong, on every issue so-` tilicly f ast'alitir finding, MPP r� pert- ' i+ sioil5 rind fieri unioni tiott. , rrF�. deriotii1ee 5;