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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Advance-Times, 1977-08-10, Page 151 tA.or."ii44 ko, NOTICE IF YOUR ADVANCE -TES L.At9EL READS AUGUST 9-8-7 YOUR SUBSCRIPTION IS DUE Advance slimes Strand :717o ADVENTURE CRUISING IN THE SUN • 4. FROM ONLY *399 ONE WEEK CRUISES PLUS TAxES FROM ONLY *es e TWO WEEK CRUISES INCLUDING. FLIGHTS FROM TORONTO --- "Winter Brochures" Available Contact TN. taLIVA WCRLD. WINGHAM 357-2701 • • y lome ImproVem • • , - . ,Nr=ge,,,Ptp,e4 4 , , ' ' I l'4°',40'.0." • •- • • ei .. ,04 • N 0.."• . . • . . • n ° •—• •••• ' • •• MVCA refusedi--payment from • Turnberry Twp;Ot this time Turnberry Township Council is not prepared at this time to pay any more money into the Mait- land Valley conservation _Auth- ority's flood plane land acquisi- tion program. Council passed this motion at the Aug. 2 meeting, since MVCA had not notified council of pur- chase prices for Lower Town properties and had not shown it offers of purchase. Under the agreement between council and MVCA, council must approve the purchase price of any property MVCA buys. Council also noted in the motion that last year it gave MVCA $10,000, twice the yearly sum agreed upon, and that MVCA is again asking for more than the original amount this year. Coun- cil also felt that the lots being purchased were not in real dan- ger areas. The motion was decided upon after Harold Finley appeared and said MVCA told him they could not buy his property until council agreed to pay its portion. Water has not entered Mr. Finley's trailer, but has surrounded it Council added to t6e. Motion it would not pay, at least untll Offer- ed the opportunity to appt,Ove purchase pries and properties. Council is in the process of find- ing out if it does or does not OWn a gravel pit it purchased from Don- ald McCormick in 1975. The prob- lem arose when Joe Kerr, con- tractor, brought, an agreement to council he had made with John and Donald McCormick in 1971, to use the gravel and pay seven cents per cubic yard. The agreement could, be re- voked by either John or Donald McCormick by a registered letter to Mr. Kerr. The agreement was registered in 1974 and has appar- ently never been revoked. Council felt its lawyer, Robert Campbell, should have found the agreement if he searched the deed when he handled the sale. He had also handled the agree- ment between Mr. Kerr and the McCormicks. Council is advising Mr. Camp- bell to search the problem fur- ther. CONGENIAL - LEADERS—Beth Shier (left) and Kirk Grayson conduct children's workshops in. Blyth this summer under an Experience '77 grant. Miss Shier is ,attending Ryerson, studying theatre production, and has two more years. Miss Grayson has graduated from Ryerson and plans on moving West after the summer. Both women really enjoy teaching the children. • E White Aluminum Horizontal Siding White. aluminum siding to . give your home both beauty and protection. Asphalt Shingles Black 210 Ib shingles. sq. sq. (more (less than 14 sq.) than 14 sq.) Alum. Vented Soffit White aluminum. 16"x 126". 1099 1799 lsq =100sq.ft. 50 88 sq.ft. 998 Gypsum. Wallboard 4' x 8' 329 %weft: Ilsotbacilist • atat— Via* --04141 111,_.11Elok • Entrance Door Cedar entrance door. 2'8" x 68' x 13/4". 52 97 #130 Aristocrat Aluminum Door Strong aluminum storm door with mill finish. Pre - hung. 11/4" thick. 2'8" x 6'8" or 2'10" )( 6'10". 75 Economy Spruce 2 x 4 x 92,/2" or 98" 670, Spruce Construction 2 x 4 x 8' 1.33 Select Fir-T&G plywood 4 x 8 x 5/a" 14.89 Aspenite Sheathing 4 x 8 x 1/4' 485 Fir Sheathing 4 x 8 x 1335 BEAVER 405 JOSEPHINE ST. ININOHAM PHONE 357-2581 Cosh 8 Corry Prices in Effect. ...I...NW MioWN,•;•,.,A.,..W.VP.,.....,..:'0\sc...,}NV.K,..., '\ ., %P.. • - nkmini,.".„..:p—viivA.:..., , ...,,,,,,:et,.., ..:,:Te,omA.:::.:.:....,1::::,:.::.....'...1::";:>.,lt.:::::44:k.tESNiliKM:$:ls../t:::;,:.:l.,,,,•:',..A. \:•k..,,'S:,,,;:s \s.; '..t. :•,.....,.., .., ......z..„...;...,,,;:,,?;..%\ ,...;,.'%.,WwsWe'. •••':'*'•''1":1'..:'. '..'kkk&xs•.k.... .•:;.;:•::i?..X.k:K.4s, ;,.::::,..m„..1.0t,,,,c;.,xs:tt.::!:...'.:.:.,..:...:•..:,:......,.:,.....:•:•:, • ........ ... • ,......:,...........:........,....., .„......., .., 4...„ . . In other business Len Baird, road superintendent, was advised to look after shouldering on con- cession 10 and also draining it. Mr. Baird said the road is sinking and Reeve Don Eadie said the shouldering would help. The clerk is to arrange a Meeting with residents involved in the Junctionville snow plow agreement and to include Murray Jenkins who does the plowing. Council discussed invoice payment to Ed Boyce for the • Abraham draM. They decided not to pay Mr. Boyce until the work is done. They also decided that no money is owing to John Fischer for clerk fees ori drains. Mr. Fischer assisted the former clerk, Victor Bakker. Since it ap- pears that all clerk's fees owing to ME., Fischer were paid as the work was done, there is no fur- ther money owing, council de- cided. closed. Council gave third reading to Bylaw No. 21 to deem part of a plan not for sub -division control purposes. It applies to the town plot of Wingham, lots 17-20, 42-46, 71-75 and 90-94. A letter was received from the Brookhaven Nursing Home ad- ministrator, R. N. Keay. He is concerned about an old home be- hind the nursing home which ha( been vacant for three months. Mr. Keay feared that fire could start and be a hazard to residents in the nursing home. Council is contacting the De- partment of Health and Welfare and the present owners to see what their intention is with the property. Building permits were ap- proved for John Green, barn; Shirley Cragg, house trailer; Arnold Steckley, addition to house; Ken Zinn, modular house; Joseph Moir, addition to house Council received its second ad- and Garry Double, addition to vance road subsidy of $19,200 house. A septic tank approval from the Ministry of Transporta- was granted to Bill Melton and tion and Communications. council has no objection to an ap- Council prepared a list of re- plication for severance by Brian pairs and materials to repair the and Arnold Alden. shed roof and is asking for ten- Council approved general and ders from Jeff Lemmex, Les road accounts and stressed that Greenaway and D. Haldenby. people must have their bills in by These three showed the only in- the 25th of each month to get terest but their methods were so paid. different council felt it was unfair • . . • to compare them. In preparing a • list of What is wanted, the tenders will be bidding on the same things. Ken Zinn appeared before West Street and the 20 -foot lane- • or this year s plowing 'match cbuncil to request that it close The Wingham Advance Times, Wingharn native recti Sgt. Wilfred J. Caskanette was presented with a certificate and a cheque for $940 after being named the winner of the DND Suggestion Award Program. B. Gen. J. A. St. Aubin, Commander of 1 Combat Group, CFB, Cal- gary, made the presentation to Sgt. Caskanette. He received the award for a suggestion he submitted for standardizing the method of mounting electrocardiogram re- cordings on a pregummed form using the Littman ECG mounter. This method, now in general use throughout the Canadian Forces, not only reduces the average. mounting time frena eight InLn", utes to less than tWa, hitt Provign for a reduction in the number of forms required, a saving in file space and a more legible Wilfred joined the Cloadian Forces in October 1963. tie has been stationed at Ottaw,a, Clin- ton, Halifax, Camp Borden. He also served in Vietnam for six months in 1973. He is preSently stationed at Calgary where he is serving as a medical assistant with LdSH (RC) in Calgary. He is a son of Mrs. Agnes Caskanette of Wingharn. Final touches almost complete way 6etween Kate Street an West Street. The clerk is to pr eeed- with closing them. Do Filsinger also attended council t discuss having fence bottom cleaned. He said he would be wil ing to pay for maintenance af the brush is cleared away. Council passed a motion t have the township clear brush arid stumps from the fence bo tom and roadside and that Mr Filsinger is to keep the roadsid maintained. There was discussion o acquiring land • for. the Blueval d o- Planning for the 1977 Interna- -gtional Plowing Match began over o five years ago when Frontenac s County was awarded the event at I. the annual convention of the On- * tario. Plowman's Association. Now, with only two months to go, o activities on the Greenlees Bros. farm .near Kingston have picked t_ up. Final touches Iwill be com- • pleted on the site to make it ready e for the almost overnight con- struction of tented city. . fl T e he Greenlees farm, located match from Tuesday, September 27 to Saturday, ---October 1. The International • Plowing Match returns to Eastern Ontario for the first time since 1961, when Hastings County was host. Fron- tenac was the site 30 years ago in 1947. This year's match will be offi- cially opened by Flora MacDon- ald, MP for Kingston and:Islands. 1977 marks the first time a wo- man has 'opened the match, Just a few miles north of Highway recognizing the incalculable ' 401 via either Highway 15 or the contribution which women have post office. Marie Walklr, new postmistress, must buy land for the post office since all publi buildings must • now have wash room facilities; which the presen post office lacks. - -Miss Walker must buy the land herself as the post office does no -assist offices with fewer than three employees. If she does not succeed in finding land and build- ing, Bluevale residents would probably have to pick their mail up in Wingham. She has one year before the present office would be Joyceville Road, was chosen TT as made to agriculture throughout c the 1977 • site three ' years ago. - t . history. Since that time, the tented city Beginning August 1, crews location and some of the competi- from Ontario Hydro, followed by' tion plots have been in sod to en- Bell Canada installers, will ser - sure a solid area. - vice the tented city site with dee- , tricity .and telephones. By Sept - Additional sub -surface drain- ember 8, OPA Headquarters and age has been added to keep the all exhibitors location stakes will environment -as dry as possible as be in place. -,......_ well as encourage the sod cover Exhibitors are expected to to create a firm .loundation' for start moving on September 12 the fully serviced comlnunity. onto the six street plans. Space which will rise for the five day must be booked with the Ontario Plowman's Association before August 1. Over 500 exhibitors are -expected to snap up every inch of the 20,000 feet of available space in tented city. 'The match itself will 'feature 300 expert plowmen in 15 classes daily, vying for over $35,000 in prize money. Other highlights clude daily parades, the Queen of the Furrow &mutest, midway rides from Canada's Conklin Shows, helicopter. flights over tented city -and the popular ladies'. program. There is sonic.— thing for everyone at the plowing match. Frontenac coimiy is an- area steeped iri history and tradition. The host county exhibit is a show in itself, telling the story of the area. The historic,' and . antique displays are always interesting. This year, the city of Kingston and neighboring counties are heavily involved in the plowing -tatch; they haVe been promot- ing the show at every opportunity all year long and the city is co- sponsoring the awards banquet slated for Friday, September 30. ouncil responsible for maintaining rural life GORRIE—Meting with Ho- wich Township Council of Friday to discuss severance problems, Huron County planner Gary Davidson left little doubt as to who must bear responsibility for maintaining the township as a rural municipality. "The change from a rural to an urban municipality happens right here in these council chambers," mMer. Davidsonrtold council mbe "We are concerned mainly with three kinds of severances, one for surplus residences, one for sons and daughters of far- mers and one for retiring far- mers. The long range plan is to preserve the farm area. By granting these severances, you might be taking care of the short term problem, but you are adding to the long term problem. As far as I know all the major farm groups are against these kinds of severances and at -public meetings which have been held, the indication is that the people are also against them." Mr. Davidson told councillors he could sympathize with them. "I don't have to get elected," he noted. "1 know these decisions are difficult but then no one ever told you that Manning was easy." Questioned by council regar- ,ding the possibility of the township buying a farm or part of a farm near Gorrie for the pur- pose of industrial and -or residential growth for the village, Mr. Davidson said it could be done. "The township could buy a farii without obtaining a severance and it could sell 10 acres, 50 acres or whatever, also without obtaining a severance," he said. "The assumption is that a municipality will act in its own best interests While a private bestiinte Citizenmaytn.?! act in the public's Mr. Davidson advised council 'to "talk to Morris Township, they've done it in Belgrave; but you'll Tind it isn't that cheap to develop." The planner rioted that the only thing the township is not allowed to do in such a venture is to make a profit. "That's no problem," corn. mented Coun. Bill Newton, "we're used to not making a profit here.". •Coun. Newton asked Mr. Davidson what the possibility was of granting severances to alldw residences to be built in rural area on the sites of aban- doned gravel pits. "There is very little use they can be put to and it would seem to me that this would be a practical thing, the best use for it would be a house," he said. "I understand your thinking," replied the planner, "but you must remember that you are not only trying to protect good land HOWICK PLAN—Howicle Township Reeve Harold Robinson (left) and Huron County planner Gary Davidson discuss the township's official plan In Gorrie on Friday. Council requested a meeting with Mr. Davidson regarding severance problems. (Staff Photo) but also to protect the farm community." Reeve Harold Robinson said he was strongly .opposed to provisions in the township's plan for long term leases which he maintains are a Substitute for a severance. "It's defeating the purpose of the plan." "I agree with you," Mr. Davidson replied. He added the township could have the provision deleted from the plan if they so wished. In another planning matter, Mr. Davidson advised the township to require Harold Finlay to construct a seivice road in his Belmore subdivision rather than an number of access roads. He said the one road would be easier to maintain and would also keep development in the haMlets • rather than encouraging it "by making it cheaper to build in the country.",Couid you leave it as a gravel road?" asked Mr. Finlay who appeared before council with' his problem. "I would," Mr. Davidson replied. "A tar and chip road is the worst kind to try to maintain in a snow area." Howick road superintendent Carroll Johnson agreed with the planner. Council instructed Mr. Johnson to meet with Mr. Finlay and draw up an agreement regarding the road. While council approved ap- plications for a number of severances during the afternnon session, one, submitted by Murray Flatfoot for a single family dwelling on part lot two. con nine, was deferred. , Members of council feared the dwelling would interfere with two farm operations in the immediate area and decided to consult the Ministry of Agriculture regar- ding the Agricultural Code of, Practices before reaching a decision.