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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1995-06-21, Page 1jer 11'you0 0 not subscribing to The Iiliingham Advance -Times, you're missing out. Use this coupon I. Mow and subscribe todayl Name: Address: City: Prov.: Postal Code: Subscription rates Canada within 40 miles (65km) ad- dressed to non letter carrier address- es $27 plus $1.89 GST. Outside 40 miles (65km) or any letter Carrier address $40 plus $2.80 GST. Ouside Canada $8Q.plus $5.60 GST USE YOUR CREDIT CARD Card No. 0000❑000 ❑❑❑❑❑❑❑❑ Expi Date• Visa[] Master Card ❑ Cheque enclosed ❑ Return To• WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES P.O. Box 390, 5 Diagonal Road Wingham, Ontario, NOG 2W0 L aha t 1 IEI1. The rebuitsare-in and it seems studonte Nn Huron CounW have improved. on thdir tests. Page I: zrig%am Hall of Fame Layton wants town to get behind project Councillor Doug Layton is encouraging the town to get behind the Barn Dance Hall of Fame Historical Foundation and help promote,iy their project to encourage tour- ism in Wingham. The foundation, which now has a new board of directors and • executive, has attracted the at- tention of some big name Cana- dian Country Music stars, in- cluding Larry Mercey. The foundation has been giv- en approval to use the upstairs room at the Wingham Armour- ies at a proposed $500 per year rental fee. "I feel they have' a lot going for this. They would like to see it go in Wingham, but it could go anywhere," Coun. Layton said trying to encourage coun- cil's support. The Barn Dance Hall of Fame plans to run six workshops per year in the Armouries, ranging from topics such as violin play- ing to video making. They also plan to renovate' the upstairs room at their own expense. Coun. Layton said he was hoping the foundation and the Crossover Music Festival (Primetime Country) would be able to co-ordinate their efforts to 4pand on each other's ef- forts. "I can see a.Iot happening with the Crossover Festival. I would like to see both groups get off the ground. If they do, Wingham is a big winner." Local grad wins Fanshawe award Tim Currie has been awarded the Harry Rawson Award, tt Fanshawe College for academic achievement. The award goes to the col- lege's graduating student who has maintained a "8" average and an uncommon ability in communication/interpersonal • skills within the college commu- nity. Currie is currently em- ployed by Wescast Industries. /-171 Council News Editorial Letters Sports Hospital News T.V. Guide Classifieds Horoscopes Crossword Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 8 Page 11 Page 12 Page 16 Page 16 A LOOk AT_ _ _ Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers takes over the Stratford stage. The Back Page The Wingham Advance -Times is a member of a family of community newspapers providing news, advertising and information leadership The Wingham and Area Fire Department took delivery of their new tanker truck. Page 3., an • F.E. Madill handed out their annual: awards at the athletic banquet last Tuesday. See Sports un� $5,000 fine for local man A local man was ordered to pay $5,000 for smuggling illegal alco- hol into Canada. Owen Curtis, 45, of 21 Victoria Street in Wingham, was charged in late May after an investigation by local police and the Royal Canadi- an Mounted Police. Curtis was arrested when the two police services found over 500 bot - ties of alcohol. In addition, police seived a vehicle. It is not known whether or not Curtis will regain possession of the seized vehicle. Nabrotzky will be charged under village's zoning bylaw TEESWATER--The owner of a property upon which a Teeswater business woman has a trailer parked, will face charges under the village's zoning bylaw unless the trailer is moved. At its first monthly meeting, Teeswater council members moved to instruct the village's bylaw en- forcement officer, Dennis Thomp- son, to charge property owner Bill Flett with the vintotion.The trailer or. Flett's property is owned by Flo- ra Nabrotzky of Flora's Flowers in Teeswater. As she explained 'to vil- lage council earlier this year, Na- brotzky uses the trailer to protect bedding plants during the frost sea- son. After numerous attempts to come to a consensus with Nabrotzky, council members said they believed their only alternative now is to lay a charge under the zoning bylaw. According' to the Teeswater zon- ing bylaw, trailers are an unpermit- ted use in the village `unless they are made permanent with a founda- tion or footings. Nabrotzky applied for a minor variance earlier this spring to provide for a zero -foot setback. However, the Bruce County Planning Dep'aitittent would not agree and asked, for a toning bylaw amendment. The matter has been ongoing for some time and at last week's meet- ing, council members appeared ready to take action. Councillor Karl Lang said, "We're not putting her (Nabrotzky) out of business now because•there's no frost." Councillor Dave Montgomery agreed that Nabrotzky had been given. numerous Chances to comply with the bylaw. "We tried ;to do, everything we (council) coutd," he' reasoned It's time to close the door and check out this (zoning) bylaw." 'People have hassled me more. over this trailer than anything else," added Lang. "We've given her tats Of chances." wir 75 Changing focus challenges WDH The Wingham and District Hos- pital Board has continued to face many challenges, in the past year, thrust upon it by changingfocuses in health care delivery and finan- cial restraints, ' board chairman Doug Fortune told the hospital's annual meeting last Thursday. He added that there are many is- sues facing the board involving many different areas. • "The development of a strategic plan will give future boards clear objectives for the .focus of activi- ties in the coming years," said Fortune. "This plan is being devel- oped mainly by our own staff after consultation with other persons and groups." He added that these included health care providers, both inside and outside the hospital, and many other individuals and groups from the community who are outside the health care field. Fortune said this would be. his last meeting as chairman of the board. He said that the highlight of his two years as chairman was the look on Pete Bender's face as he cut the ribbon last 'fall to officially open The Terrace room. ' He said that the arrival of a Hu - Please see HOSPITAL/8 Amalgamation will hurt educatim levels CHESLEY — Co-operation with neighboring boards, not amalgama- tion, is the way to `save money in education. • That's the stand taken by the Bruce County Board of Education in response to the province's push to cut the number of school boards in half by amalgamation. In a one-page report, BCBE chairman Don Stobo said amalga- mating with either the Huron or Grey County boards of education would cost Bruce ratepayers about $3 million extra to equalize pro- grams and services, and to cover transportation and administration costs for the larger board. Stobo is also concerned that amalgamation would lead to a de- cline in quality of education. "We, as a board, are very proud of the quality of education we de- liver in Bruce County. I'd be con- cerned that the standards could get watered down considerably by amalgamation. The standards that we have, we maybe couldn't afford them in a new board at this time." Director of Education Paul Mar- tindale said in a recent teleconfer- ence with John Sweeney, who has been appointed to oversee the amal- gamation process, 28 of 31 boards opposed amalgamation. • "There is grolging. consensus," Martindale said, "The myth that (amalgamation) willsave lots of money is just not true."'. In April, the Bruce -Grey Separ- ate School Board issues an 80 -page report showing that amalgamation for that board would threaten a va- riety of special programs, and would cost three to ' nine dollars more in operation costs for every dollar saved in administration. The Bruce board says it is com- mitted to working with other boards on cost sharing in purchas- ing, transportation and professional development. At the same time, it is asking parents, student and em- ployees to speak up against amalga- mation. "I personally hope we can con- vince the' minister that at this time (amalgamation) is going to be a dramatic increase in cost," Stobo said. Pruncipal`.. vlrayne Tessier presents the ,Olympianaward, to Jufle L iss ki. For story and photo, see sports. ,x,