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referred'to council
A recommendation by the for the sake of one candidate who with Cathy McKinley, project eo- the awards; Leonard Miltenburg
Executive Committee of the had yet to be elected to the body. ordinator in 1975, and the ooWty of RR 7, Lucknow, Avon Toll of
45,000 Huron County Council was The recommendation was librarian to determine exactly RR 3, Blyth and Mary Miltenburg .4 ,, - 4
referred to the new 1977 council finally turned back to the new what records or documimts of RR 7, Lucknow. At the Uni-
at the regular council meeting council for the 1977-78 term of should be microfilmed or other- versity of Waterloo County
last Thursday. The committee office. wise retained to ensure avail- , Scholarships went to Donna Ren-
had recommended that the meet- MICROFILMING ability. When this has been deter wick of RR 1, Clifford and Tony w 3,
ing day be changed from the last In other business arising from mined, the University of Western Roest of RR 1, Clinton.
35.000 Friday of the month to the last the Executive Committee report Ontario, the Huron County Board The Executive Committee re-
Tuesday. County Council agreed to begin of Education, the Huron County ported on a meeting with rep-
The recommendation of change organization of a microfilming Historical Society, as well as any resentatives of the University of
30.000 was introduced following an ar- project of county records. other agencies who might have Western Ontario an Uni-
ticle which appeared in the The committee had discussed an interest in the history of Huron versity of Waterloo in n +
November 4 edition of the Exeter the advisability of microfilming County are to be contacted to de- with bursary awards. There were
25.000 Times-Advocate indicating that a or otherwise retaining the termine what records they may 42 applications for the ten $100 «.
member of council was unable to various documents and materials have or may wish to have in their bursies for students at Western - y
run for reeve or deputy reeve indexed by the students who had safekeeping. an(Y applications for the ten _ -
20,000 since the regular county council completed the History Project in $100 bursaries for students at the
sessions were held on the last 1975. Some of that material is al- SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED University of Waterloo.
Friday of the month and Friday ready on microfilm, but, the Five university scholarships tf` ffrg on a recommendation :
15.000 is usually a busy day for people in committee noted, it would seem were announced and confirmed from the Executive Committee
business. that unless a minimum of two at last Thursday's county council the council approved the intro-
During discussion on the other organizations or institu- session. Scholarships are duction of the Canada Savings R.
recommendation many coup- tions are interested in securing awarded to students having a t`
10000. utg 1}and payroll savings plan. The A
cillors indicated their willingness copies, the cost would be prohibi- cumulative average of "A" and aetion was taken following w.
to make the change though a few tive. represent $100. reyu4sts by a number of em-
felt that it did not seem totally The committ" had authorized Three students at the Uni- ployees that the county adopt the
5.000,, logical to make a meeting change the clerk to arrange a meeting versity of Guelph were named for scheme.
In previous years county rep-
resentatives on various local hos-
pital boards have been invited to ANOTHER CHEQUE PRESENTATION to the Wingham Arena Renovation Fund was
the November session of council received by Treasurer Tom Deyell Friday. Sandra Lee, president of the Wingham Towns
to present their reports. As a Players presented a cheque for $900, the proceeds from the sponsorship of the Grand Bend
ARMA result, the reports were not al- Country Playhouse presentation of "Anne of Green Gables" in August.
R040VATwN FUND ways', completed for the same
ooNwnoNs
period of time,making compari-
son of costs difficult.
Attendance
It was agreed that in future K D
representatives h rn rut to SaqJa CI I s totownat mUse �' � report to the February session GUS
COMIng
" each year, and that the reports be Yes, he is. Jolly Old St. Nick is year we have the JCs to thank.for bands and majorettes, Brenda
down slightly based on the previous calendar slated to arrive in Wingham on a good slice of the Yuletide spirit. Foxton and Steve Burke.
year. turday of this week. The various committees are
According to a report by Huron W As Christmas and New Year's Y ng Come to Wingham on Saturday.
Mrs. Bill Keil and her Junior headed b the following members gh y
County Museum Curator Ray, r> i Day fall on Saturdays this year, You're as welcome as Santa him-
mond Scotchmer to the Count 3, "" Citizen helpers have all the ar- of that organization: general
with . Boxing Day on Sunday,
Council last week, attendance �.. _ ? � alternate days will be granted to rangements completed and chairperson, Sandy Brenzil; self. By the way, the parade is
+ shortl °after the lunch hour a big floats, Lori Kopas; candy and expected to reach the downtown
over the past year was, down county employees for the normal rad will be formingat the Santa Claus, Marlene Hastings; area at two o'clock.
slightly (19,000 last year to 18,000 �. �! days off work. „4'
high school. The Brussels Pipe
this year) but because of higher Council agreed that Friday and
admission fees the income . ac- sr Monday be the designated days Band and the Lucknow High
tually increased somewhat. �, odf in connection with Christmas, School Band will provide plenty
r of iQiu3fc and from 15 to 20 floats A d u !t , w or �C S h o� t o- of d
The highest rate of attendance . `. t. and Monday m txlmieetris with _
was in 1972 when 25,000 visitors New Year's for all county depart- will follow along Carling Terrace
passed through the museum at _\, ments except where offices must Past the hospital down to Jose-
Goderich. r be open on the Friday andor the phme and then south through the e r a f t sale o n Saturday
THREE RETIRING NURSES from Wingham and District Hospital were honored at the business section. Three groups of sured that none i
Earl this year the museum Monday, in hick case alternate "Living Skills" is one of the y s available.
Y Y annual Christmas dinner for Registered Nurses and Registered Nursing Assistants at majorettes will add to the color- However, the r
hired a registrar to do catalogu- Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church parish hall Thursday night. The three nurses, front days off will given. ful. parade, along with several of most important programs for grant was applied
ing as well as helping in making y y Union secretarial salaries have those citizens who are mentally for in 1975 and hasn't arrived as
row, Mrs. Betty Moncrief, Mrs. Mar Grant and Mrs. Florence MacKenzie, were Santa's elves and assistants.
of new labels. Registrar Nancy now been finalized and an in retarded. This is the program yet.
Beaver also worked some week- Presented with gifts by Mrs. Eileen McGlynn, Miss Gwendolyn Norris and Mrs. Margaret crease of eight per cent has been Following the parade Santa which is stressed at the Wingham In the meantime, Wingham and
ends to lighten the load on other Campbell. Mrs. Moncrief has 13 years at Wingham, Mrs. Grant seven years and Mrs. awarded in those contracts. Claus will adjourn to the armour- Adult Workshop for the mentally District Association for the
MacKenzie, 18'/z years. Council approved a les, where he will greet all his Mentally Retarded has been sup-
schedule
staff. pp pay Dun friends and hand out candy retarded in the basement of the Y P-
schedule for non-union secre- young y town hall. porting the-- workshop. Money
taries which awards similar in- to the youngsters. A Crafts Sale will be held by the from the various sales has been a
creases effective July 1, 1976. Mrs. Keil tells The Advance- workshop on Saturday, Decem- big help in purchasing supplies to
e Group one secretaries will re- Times that the Junior Citizens ber 4. It will open around 11 a.m. keep the ten adults working.
ceive salaries ranging from the have done a fantastic job this and will continue during the The workshop, which Is-now in
alary minimum of $7,020 to the maxi- Year, making all the arrange- Santa Claus Parade and on into the basement of the town hall,
ments for the event. They have will be moving to the site of the
mum of $8,580, Group two from the afternoon. People of the area ulg
been holding planning session Silver Circle School when the re-
$7,410 to $8,970, Group three are asked to remember this when P
$7,800 to ;9,360 and Group four since July, sometimes at inter- they are in Wingham to watch the school children move into the new
0 0 $8,684 to $10,244. vals of only two weeks. So, this parade. Day-Care Centre which is under
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of county
The workshop, which opened in construction. It is hoped that the
September 1975, has applied for a. money from the Community and
• grant from the Community and Social Services will be received
Bayfield Reeve Ed Oddleifson given other employees. He told Rector going to Dorchester Social Services and have been as before the move a made to the
called a $1,508 ceiling on salary the meeting that the lower end of for the deputy clerk-treasurer smoother for a recommendation larger accommodation.
increases "discriminatory" and the scale was held back last bringing their salaries to $25,870 that mileage allowance be inAt the present time quarters
rY pay Rev. T. K. Hawthorn, rector of are rather cramped. There isn't
called for a recorded vote when year and this year would make up and $22,360 respectively. The creased, effective January 1, St. Paul's Anglican Church, much room to proceed with all
the Special Committee tabled its for that inequality. planning director will receive an 1977, from 14 to 16 cents per mile Wingham, will move to Dor- the crafts and programs that
recommendations for salaries at Stan Profit, Reeve of Goderich, increase of $887 bringing his sal- for those receiving the car allow- chester, in the London area, at Esther Cantelon, manager,
Huron County Council on Thurs- said he did not agree with the ary to $23,062, the county li- ance of $60 per month and from 19 the first of the year. The an- wants to get established.
day afternoon. Bayfield Reeve's objection. He brarian gets $656 more bringing to 21 cents per mile for casual nouncement was made by Rt. Some of the basic skills are
The vote lost 49-5 but Mr. said because it was a percentage the salary up to $17,056, the ad- mileage. h Rev. David Bragg, Bishop of the being taught, but Esther would
Oddleifson told County Clerk- increase, all employees appeared ministrator at Huronview now Exeter Reeve Clarence Boyle Anglican Diocese of Huron this like to get equipment to teach
Treasurer Bill Hanly to be sure to be getting the same treatment, earns $19,292 after a raise of $742. told the meeting that anyone who week. Mr. Hawthorn's successor some of the other skills which she
his name was recorded as being when in fact the "higher paid The social services administrator would take 20 cents per miles was will be named after consultation
in objection to approval of the help" was getting significantly received an increase of $634 to "a robber." is sure adults in the program can
recommendation. more mons raise his sale to $16,484, the de- He said that even if with local parish officials. master. She and her assistant,
y. salary gasoline U'
P g ng- goes to 11.00 gallon it would Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorn have Joan Clark, are doing their best
Mr. Oddleifson was protesting Before the increases the MOH vela ment officer of $611 bring- per g ! served St. Paul's parish since with a limited budget.
a clause in the committee's received $35,520 and the Engineer ing his salary of $15,886 and the still only cost him $6.00 to attend October, 1969 and have been ac The public is invited to go in
recommendation which said that $31,080. museum curator received $520 in
a "six per cent increase be grant- Other raises increases bringing his salary to a county council meeting where five in community activiti^s and see what is being accom
ed to each of the Executive Group Other increases include ;1,456 $13,520. he received a free meal, "Which I during their years here. plished and how the workshop
personnel, to a maximum of for the clerk-treasurer and $1,274 The sailing wasn't a great deal should not get" and $12.50 At Dorchester Mr. Hawthorn operates. e," like to have visit-
will succeed Archdeacon Clifton ors anytime," Esther comment-
remuneration. "I would still be Y
Gardner, who retired and moved �.
$1' making a profit by coming here," to England at the end of Septem-
The Bayfield reeve said that a he said, "and I shouldn't." Need volunteer
everyone else was entitled to a her.
six per cent increase in salary it Goderich Reeve Stan Profit s
was descriminatory to place a ' suggested that at least the county
ceiling imine top-paid County Citizens. Band operators councillors should be taken off • investigate
to deliver for
employees. Those affected by the the list of those to receive the 21POI'ce
ceiling were Medical Officer of a a cents d mileage. Meals-on-wheels
Health Dr. sank Mills who Warden McCutcheon suggested • • The "Meals-on-Wheels" or-
earns p find missing boy "that is easy for someone who
five accidents anization of Wingham earns $37,024 per year, and Coun g ng am is looking
walks to meetings to say." for volunteers to deliver meals to
ty Engineer Jim Britnell, who re- Dramatic hours of anxietyof Citizens Band operators in In the end council approved the
ceives a yearly salary of $32,578, ended happily Monde night near town who Were largely res n- increase in mileage rates as w, it Wi ham's Police Department by M'ss Stella Dubelaar of Blue- elderly citizens of Wingham, for
after the increases. pp Y y g g y p° g P ! WINS AWARD whom they are provided.
Oddleifson said it was not the midnight when a 12-year-old sible for finding the young boy as an increase in the per d'.em was busy last week as five acci- vale as damaged while it was Don Pletch received the The drivers would have to be
Wingham boy was found safe and who had taken refuge from the rate for councillors. That rate dents caused estimated property park on Diagonal Road by the Atkinson Foundation Award available for one-half hour once
money he was objecting to but well after being missing for five cold in a shed behind Beaver will be increased from $44.00 to damage of close to $3,000. There arena in Wingham Damage was
that it was a point of principle. g at the seventh annual Awards or twice a month. The meals are
hours. Lumber Co. He was returned to $48.00 for a full da were no injuries reported. estimated at $100. picked u at the Wingham Warden Jack McCutcheon, who y or night meet ] Po Night, Fanshawe College, on P P ng am and
his home, apparently none the i and from $2'7.50 to $28.50 fora Last Tuesday an accident oc- A vehcile driven by Harold - District Hospital at 4:30 m., Be-
headed the Special Committee Kelly O'Hagan, son of Reg worse for his experience. Kerr, Summit Drive, hit a hydro Nov. 5. The award is pre P P
made up of council executive O'Ha an, had left after school to half day meeting. The warden's carred on John Street at the y sented to the student with the livered and the boxes returned to
committee and the chairmen of g The severe cold caused concern honorarium was increased by the corner of Carling Terrace when pole on Saturday near CKNX, the hospital.
make collections on his paper for Kelly's well-being and time same motion b six r cent from vehicles driven by Alan Skelton breaking it off. Damage was esti- highest potential in his field of
all its other committees, said the route. When he failed to return y work, as well as being an Tbe hospital can handle a
limit was of on the increases for being of the essence, police and $2,500 per annum to $2,650 per an- of Diagonal Road and Audrey mated at $900. g maximum of t5 meals each day.
P home for supper, his father noti- volunteers worked hard in cover On Sunda an accident oc- honour student showing ex
num. Currie of Summit Drive, collided. Y Two drivers are required daily to
the two employees because of Pied Wingham Town Police who i the area where he had last Damage was estimated at $1,400. curred on Carling Terrace be- ceptional achievement. Don deliver seven and eight meals.
provincial government regula- immediately joined in the search. been seen. He was found about Warden McCutcheon told the g tween vehicles driven b Randall is a civil engineering tech g
tions on such increases. The After three hours of futile search- meeting that increases for the Also on Tuesday a minor acci Y All meals are delivered in Wing-
government Po in an official report was filed 11.30 council members were often left dent on the Electrohome parking Hafermehl of Kincardine and nologist with M M. Dillon
government pays a large portion pa ng ham to elderly citizens who
o[ their salaries, he pointed out. g' p° Appreciation from Kelly's without moving up-to reality" so lot caused damage estimated at Stillman Harrington of Wingham. Consulting Engineers and qualify, to insure them of one
Reeve with CKNX Radio and Television family and the Town Police is ex- that one council was left with $150. The accident occurred be- Damage was estimated at $300. Planners, London. His wife nutritious meal in the day.
1 Siad rhe men were given 11 who requested the help of anyone pressed to the Citizens Band having to make one large in- tween vehicles driven by Dale During the week three charges Connie and his parents, Mr. Anyone able to help out :o this
ley who had information of Kelly's operators who donated their time crease. The increases he said Sewer*, RR 2, Wingham and were laid under the Liquor and Mrs. Tom .. Pletch of worthwhile program is askew 4o
per cent raises last year which whereabouts. and equipment to assist in the were in "keeping with the Maureen McCrea of Blyth. Licence Act and 45 under the Brussels attended the pre contact Mrs. John Mann : ' 357-
were much larger than those Assistance was also requested search. times P g On Wednesday a vehicle driven Highway Traffic Act-
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