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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1995-12-20, Page 2r A warm holiday thanks to all of our l clients, for counting on us throughout the year. Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for a memorable 1996. Whispering Brook Yorkshires S Sharon Douglas Reflexology 519-327-8558 '�CiY.h°G%%''f'i/.•`16:r'.'S%a/.c:;::iGo'sra%:/•"/.�si.'iiF.'aiiia:': Morris Township council ap- tin will represent the township on proved its appointments to the vari- the Wingham recreation board; and ous boards and authorities for 1996, reeve Elliot and Marilyn Craig will at its meeting last Tuesday. represent the township on the Blyth Marie McIntosh will sit on the Recreation Board. Wingham and District Hospital The Township of Morris recrea- Board, and Leona McDonald will tion committee will consist of all continue sitting on the Seaforth members of council, clerk Nancy Hospital Board. Michie, and roads superintendent Reeve Bert Elliott and councillor Lloyd Michie. Kevin Pletch will represent the Deputy -reeve Johnston and township on the Blyth and District Keith Moffatt will sit on. the Blue - Fire Board, and councillors Melody vale Hall board. White and John Duskocy will again sit on the Wingham Area Fire Board. Deputy -reeve Keith Johnston, Bill Sellers and Mary Barnard will represent the township on the Brus- sels -Morris -Grey Community Cen- tre Board; coun. Pletch and Bruce Higgins will sit on the Belgrave Community Centre Board; Ida Mar - Full Service Hearing Aid Offic= Est. 198 r THE WINDHAM IIiI INICE•WIMES Pilotwell drilled for new source Problems need to be solved with Well No. 1 sign, yield, water quality, and costs of the new production well. He added that if the test hole does come up dry, they will drill another hole. Lotimer said that if a test well proves positive, then a second well will be drilled. He added that with. a new well about 20 to 30 feet away, then present Well No. I could be used as a back-up well. By JIM BROWN The Advance -Times The Wingham Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will proceed with diagnosing the condition of the present Well No. 1 and also drill a pilot well for a possible new well. The decision was made at the December meeting of the the PUC last Thursday afternoon. Davidson Well Drilling of Wingham will do the pilot test hole and the diagnostic work will be done by Lotowater Ltd. of Par- is, Ont. The test well would be drilled to 350 feet. The total cost of the work will be about $35,000. The work will be done soon as possible, with the results of both being available for the January meeting of the PUC. Steve Burns of B.M. Ross and Associates of Goderich and Tim Lotimer of Lotowater Ltd. attend- ed the December PUC meeting to discuss the options available to the commission. Lotimer recommended that the PUC do the diagnostic work on the existing well, as well as drill the pilot hole for the new well. He added that there are so many op- tions available to the PUC. Commission chairman Jim Snyder said he would like to see just the diagnostic work done on the old well. "We should take another hard look at fixing the present well," he said. PUC general manager Ken Sax- ton said that it is worth drilling an- other well now. "I want to know the results of both," he said. Saxton said that he would prefer to have Well No. 1 on first duty in providing water for the communi- ty. As it is now, with the problems the well is facing, Well No. 3 is on first duty. Chairman Snyder then made a motion they go ahead with the di- agnostic work on the existing well and the drilling of a pilot hole for a possible new well. While Lotowater Ltd. will do the diagnostic work on Well No. 1, the test well will be drilled by Davidson Well Drilling, at the same time. Lotimer said that while David- son Well Drilling is a local com- pany, they are the best. "They are one of the top two (well drillers) in the province," he said. Lotimer said he felt the test well should be drilled to 350 feet be- cause of the geology of the Wing - ham area. "We have assumed that Well No. 1 is completed in the Detroit River Group formation. Beneath this formation are the Bois Blanc, Salina and then the Guelph forma- tions," he said. "All of these for- mations support major groundwa- ter withdrawals for municipal purposes, with the Guelph forma- tion, at a depth of about 200 me- tres beneath Wingham, being one of the most productive aquifiers." He said the test well could be terminated at 250 feet. However, he recommended that the test well not be terminated at 250 feet. Lotimer said that Well No. 1 is a good water producer, but it is close to 100 years old. "We are reasonably confident about simillar conditions if we drill a test hole 20 to 30 feet away from the present well," he said. Lotimer said that it would be difficult to drill a new well with- out having drilled and tested a pi- lot hole to confirm the final de Superintendentreviews old drains BELGRAVE - East Wawanosh Township drainage superintendent Geoff King was at township coun- cil last Tuesday to review some old drains. The first drain he reviewed was the Purdon Drainage Works at Lot 30 of Concession 13. He said that there is a tile problem due to a couple of blow outs and cattle get- ting into the drain- -e.cee '' King said that there are two branches to the drain which flow into an open ditch. He noted that a section of the ditch was cleared out. He added that there is too much water covering the tile to work on it. He stated that the drain goes back to 1956, and now there are concerns up stream from the present problem. Small working groups established at Food Share Last week the new board of the North Huron Community Food Share met for its organizational meeting. • Elected as officers of the fledg- ling organization are: Chairman Jim, Casserly; Vtee 'Chairman bon Newman, Treasurer Sally Campeau and Brad Beale, secretary. Small working groups were es- tablished to organize such matters as public communication, food col- lection, storage and distribution. There is much to do to get a com- munity-based and ecumenical food bank established for the North Hu- ron area. If the necessary tasks are completed, it is hoped that a food bank will be established in our re- gion within a couple of months. The first and foremost challenge is to find a food storage area in Wingham of approximately 400 to 500 -square feet and rent free. This area would have to be accessible to the community and lockable. If someone in the community were able to provide some, space of this; tiafure, the group would be most grateful. Contact Casserly at 357- 3887. Volunteers are invited to help this NHCFS project in any way they can. Resolving this communi- ty concern is going to take the shar- ing of many talents and many will- ing workers. A list of willing volunteers and their "gifts" is being drawn up by Joan van der Meer. Call 357-1246 for more informa- tion. King said that the open ditch still needs to be cleaned up, and perhaps a grate should be installed. However, he said that the drain is too small for today's standards. He added that the drain is carrying a lot of water, and even though it is doing a good job, the drain should be improved. In order to get the work done, King said council would need a pe- tition signed by the land owner. The second drain under review was the Sturdy Drain at Auburn. King said that Branch G, along the county highway, was dug out in three locations and found to be 80 per cent full of sediment. "There is still a lot work to be done on the branch," he said; King said there are two options. The first option is to use flushers, but he is uncertain if they can be used against sediment. The second option is to have the land owner.pe- tition for improvements. ''° He added that there are also a lot of problems on Branch F. Even though there is an' on-going prob- IONESDiIK DECEMBER ED,1995 r.1 r:1 .41 illnitnAournm Phon® 357-1830 ter 24 hour movie Information e1 r"1 ; 0sted + ►ecember 5 6. Cal For 1V1u'anee Isaforniatio l ecernbwr' 27,'28. 35747630 r=1 r=i ,'9 r-1 -�� r-1 . &' r--'1.:.:. r°1 c'S r'1% k.S" lem on this branch, King said the - owned has said it is working well. The third drain under review was the Hallahan Drainage Works. King said that the problems have been on-going on this drain. He said that there was a lot of tree growth atthe top of the en- trance. In the spring, King said the own- ers told hire they felt the drain was working well, and that they would remove the trees themselves. Council informed King that it was difficult to get the owners to clear the trees off the drain, as they had sent letters to the owners two or three years ago. King was authorized by council to remove the trees on the 'land owners property covering the drain, even if equipment was required. Roads superintendent Ralph Campbell said the drain should be dug up to see how bad it is. "I couldn't wear rubber boots, and that was on top of the drain," he said. Township approves appointments List of Advertisers to be .found in this week's 1:1:ittribain AbbanctirZiuto A. R. MacDonald Const. Howson & Howson At Wall Construction Huron Fuel Injection Ltd. Anstalt Jewellers Huron Tire & Auto Bakelaar Jewellers J & H Campbell Transport Bank of Montreal Jags Roadhouse Restaurant Bateson's Model Dairy Ltd. Joe Kerr Ltd. Barry's Service Centre Joe's Automotive Bavarian Brew House Jolly's Garage Beecroft's Collision Centre KG Electronics Belgrave Kinsmen Keil Insurance Bell's Pizza & More Kikkert Auctions Braemar Retirement Centre Lauretta's Hug & 1/2 Brian's valu mart Lewis Flowers Bridge Motors London Life C & M Transport Lucknow Boarding Kennels C.E. Mactavlsh Ltd. Lyceum Theatre Campbell Lynn Hoy Enterprises Ltd. Tolton Motor Sales Heating Service Maitland Welding & Machine Total Indulgence Canadian Agra McBurney Funeral Home Town of Wingham Ceramic Friends Maclntyre's Bakery Township of Morris Christine's Clothes Closet Coldwell Banker Country Cable Cowart Printing Crawford, Mill & Davies Cullen, John Chev Olds. Culligan Real Estate m Dave's Aluminum Davidson Well Drilling Doane Raymond Donut Detite Cafe Ernie King Music Evergreen Hide -Away Flower Nook Foxton, Bob Fuels Ltd. Gayle's Hair Fashions Glassier Physio Therapy Clinic Nixon, John Insurance Great China House North Huron Credit Union Godfathers Pizza NuWood Carpentry H. Kerr Construction Our Scissors N'Us Hamilton Fuels Pandora's Pantry Hanna's Mens & Boys Wear Pal -Da Landscaping Ltd. Reliable Automotive Tanks Robertson Photographic R & S Alignment Rosalind's Fashion Ave & The Male Room Snyder Studio Stainton Home Hardware Stapleton Interiors Steffen Auto Supply Stangen Home Improvements Stone's Radio & TV The 2- Step Teeswater Creamery Teeswater Falcons 30 Minute Photo Tiffin, Dave Maitland Concrete Touch of Class Maitland Restaurant Township of East Wawanosh Marks Bros, Auto Body Triangle Discount McCreery Auto Wreckers Token Treasures McFadden's Appliance Service Tumberry Township McNeil's Auto Body Vance's Guardian Pharmacy McGavin Farm Equipment Ward & Uptlgrove McPhee Pharmacy Wattam's, Bob Backhoe Metcalfe Auctions Wheeler Auto Glass Middleton Home Furnishings Whispering Brook Yorkshires Montgomery Mechanical Wingham Optometry Clinic Moran Mechanical Wingham Palliative Care Mrs B's Baskets & More Wilson Paralegal Service Murray MacFarlane Wingham Chiropractic Centre Mom's Place Wingham Golf & Curling Club Newell, John Construction Wingham Legion Wingham Mini Mart Wroxeter Collectables & Gun Shop Wingham Bowling Lanes Wylie Insurance Brokers Wingham Stationery Pegg Construction Watson's Home Hardware Pennington Lawn Ornaments Wingham, Town Council Pletch Electric Wingham Town Hall Rathwell Realty Heritage Theatre Reid & Associates The Workshop Heads Up Hessenaur & Shantz Ltd. Hillside Hearing Clinic Horne Vldeo Homuth Optometrists %1 Library Continued from front page However, the closing of these six 'Branch 3' libraries is just the first in a long line of cuts needed to meet the shortfall. The current $1.3 million library budget will be cut by approximate- ly $46,000 in 1996 and again in 1997, and the county's implemen- tation of pay equity will hit the li- braries for another $102,000. "We are trying to reduce our budget by between $150,000 and $200,000 in 1996," said Ross. She added that hours will be re- duced at other library branches, in- cluding Wingham. The reduction of hours will result in some staff being terminated. Ross said that she Was hopeful that no more branch libraries would have to be closed. She noted that it would be an- other month or two before the budget guidelines have all been fi- nalized. The direct cuts of the provincial government will reduce the li- brary's funding base, and second- ly, a 37 per cent cut to the South- ern Ontario Library Service will reduce support to Huron libraries in the form of consultation, inter- library loan services, and training. Deputy -reeve Johnston will sit on the Maitland Valley Conserva tion Board, with reeve Elliott, and Donald Craig sitting on the Blyth Union Cemetery .Board. Ed Stewart will represent the township on the Wingham Histori- cal Society, coun. Duskocy will sit on the Community Economic De- velopment Committee, reeve Elli- ott will sit on Wheels Away, and coun. White will sit on the Farm and Home Safety Association. Jack Cardiff will complete his two-year term on the Brussels Medical Dental Centre Board, and Betty Graber will serve her second year of a three-year term. The township drain commission- ers are deputy -reeve Johnston for Concession 1-2, coun. Pletch for Concession 3-4, coun. White for Concession 5-6, reeve Elliott for Concession 7-8, and coun. Dusko- cy for Concession 9-10. George Blake, Harvey Edgar, and Ronald Gordon are the pound - keepers for the township with Car- men Craig and Glen Casernore the livestock valuers. John Nixon, John Cardiff, and William Souch are the fenceview- ers for the township. Ken Shortreed is the alternate. John Gibson of RR 2 Seaforth is the weed inspector for the town- ship. Coun. Pletch will sit on the Wingham Airport Committee. The trustees for the Belgrave Well System are Paul McKee,. Steve Nixon, and Clare Weber. The trustees for the McCrae Street Wa- ter System are John Campbell, Dennis Leddy, and Mabel Wheeler. The Morris Township Commit- tee of Adjustment consists of all members of council with clerk Mi- chie as the secretary. COMMUNITY CALENDAR S onsored Corrie, 335-3525 Winghain, 357-2636 INSURANCE BROI4ERS (Wingham) Ltd. Listowel, 291-5100 'INSURING TOMORROW TODAY" Bill Keil Sunday, Dec, 24 • "Home for Christmas" Christmas Cantata, Gorrie United Church, 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 25th "Merry Christmas Everyone!" We Represent howick • Farm Residential • Competitive Rates • Inspection Service • Auto Gary J. Pietrek, Hearing Instrument Specialist & Technician Association of Hearing Instrument PracTitioners of Ontario; Also • I.H.S., N.B.C.H.I.S. Qualified' Hillside Hearing Instruments Est. 1988 Hearing Testing • Hearing Aids • Authorized Vendor & Dispenser • Prescriptions filled • All makes and Models • On -the -spot Repair Lab - Most repairs within hours Hours: Tues. - Fri. 9 - 5; 302 Josephine Street, Nhnghem, across from Post Office After hours appointments always available, 'r`- my home Is nearby 357-2326 r,{ s.- • ^ +! r' x"37 f ',•t,J At a Is'aWe kiittll !raemtr Aetirentent QLrntre Residential Building • All on one floor • Community oriented care centre • Health support services • Beauty and Barber Shop • Accommodation available • Caring, courteous & understanding staff WINGHAM 357-3430 a ti - Problem: Hmmm... What to get that hard to buy for person this Christmas?? The perfect gift is something that someone would pick out themselves if they were buying it. Solution: Gift Certificates from the following Merchants: The Gift Chest Pandora's Pantry Total Indulgence Bavarian Brewhouse Lauretta's Hug & 112 Bluewater Office Equipment The 2 -Step Family Footwear Hanna's Men's & Boys Wear Adriennes Hair Design Stylette Hair Design - Kay Ducharme Crystal's Aesthetics ' Token Treasures Wroxeter Collectables & Gun Shop KG Electronics Bakelaar Jewellers • The Workshop The Decor Shoppe Snyder Studio McPhee Pharmacy Mrs. B's Baskets & More The Toy Shoppe Rosalind's Fashion Ave. & The Male Room Middleton's Home Furnishings & Radio Shack 1 XV -