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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-09-12, Page 13.t Council still waiting completion lotion of roads 111oarris Towaft ORM is go waiting for midways in the platcb vi" to hebrallght up is standard before it agrees t1 accept them and clean the way for granting of severances in the development. At its meeting Sept. 4 council heard that the land division committee at Goderich has approved a severance ap- plication in the names of Sam and Thelma Match. However the approval bas several conditions attached to it, among them that the proposed roadways be up to township stan- dards, that the .township accept the raids for maintenance and HOUSE PLANS DRAWN s residential design a architectural drafting . project management free estimates - no obligation SCHAEFER RESIDENTIAL DESIGN LIIKOWEL 291-1448 that a development agreement be signed between the Pletcbes and the township regarding the provision of services. At the same meeting Council received a copy of a letter tram its engineer, B. M. Ross, to Mr. Pleteh noting there is still Con- siderable work to be completed before he can recommend that the township accept the roads. A new development agreement has been drawn up between Sam and Thelma and Keith and Bonnie Pleldn and the township of Morris, but council is waiting for the Pletches to sign it before it will sign. Disagreements arose over an earlier agreement when. the original copy could not., be found. In other business at the, meeting council accepted an agreement between the township and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Taylor of West Lincoln, Niagara Region, for another new subdivision in Belgrave. The Taylors intend to create 10 new building lots on a parcel of land at the corner of Hamilton and Jane streets on the east edge of the village. The Taylors had applied to the land division committee for Five year annual interest Rates subject to change a. STANDARD TRUST 237 Josephine St., Wingham, Ont. 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Council also recommended approval of a severance for William Shortireed, who intends to sever a house and bare from land on Part Lot 17, Can. 9. It recommended consent not be given to an application by William Armstrong to sever a house from land on Lot 14, Con. 2, noting that no Iameway was provided and a severs ... would leave the house effecAjvely landlocked. If a laneway were included in the application it would consent, council indicated. Councillor Tom Millar is to look into the problems which have arisen regarding the heating of the Walton library and come up with an interim solution until a permanent solution can be found. At a meeting between Walton residents and the councils of Morris, Grey and McKillop townships it was decided to keep the present library =tbtd:hope of eventually a new building to be built in MCKilbp township. Council accepted a petition to abandon one branch of the Brewer Draw; the petition was signed by all the affected Ian - downers. It also received a petition tat a drain to replace a branch of the Nichol Drain on tills south half of Lots 20 and 30, Can. 6. Maitland F•nginewing was engaged to prepare a report on the drain, subject to the approval of the Maitland Valley Con- servation Authority, and Councillor Ross Procter was appointed commissioner for the drain. Council agreed to donate $25 to the muscular dystrophy association and also approved tax rebates for ratepayers who had buildings destroyed or removed during the year or who had sold their 1, sinesses. Morris council will meet next at 10 a.m. Oct. I. The W4gham A&aaw Those. September IL IM—FW-198 Corn market*ing',proposal more than veer from vote, Townshi continues to ress theagecost p operating it would average aptely 20 cents per metric ton or I,4 cent per bushel.a • would be acting a8 a spokesman Among the duties of the board rova l of s u Iviesion faira for corn growers, who currently �P have none negotiating and ad - East Wawanosh Township is continuing to press for approval of a subdivision planned for its side of the highway in Belgrave. At its meeting Sept. 4 township council passed a motion noting that the zoning bylaw for the subdivision conforms to the of- ficial plan for Huron County and Township Clerk -Treasurer Winona Thompson said the township solicitor, Robert Campbell, was going to Toronto to see whether the Ontario Municipal Board would approve the amended bylaw. The first bylaw had drawn objections, principally from John and Noreen Gnay whose farm borders the proposed sub- division, and following an OMB hearing it was refused approval. The rejection was based on grounds that a proposed 15,000 square foot commercial plot was too large and a planned 30 -unit apartment building was not justified. Since then council amended the bylaw, cutting the commercial block to 5,000 square feet and eliminating the apart- ments. .,Mr.,and Mm QW have MXW filed a notice of objection to the' bylaw, claiming no need for the development has been demon- strated and that the new bylaw would allow the apartment complex to be built at a later date without an additional hearing. In other business at the meeting council passed a bylaw stating it does not accept a strip of land around the controversial James Coultes property. It was charged that the transfer of this strip to the township was an attempt to create a severance without going through the normal channels. Council also denied approval to �E PEOPLE JUST AREM CUT OUT TO BE GOLFERS... If you're one of the former . . . why not sell those golf clubs to one of the latter? A low-cost ad in Classified will find a cash buyer for you. Wingham Advance -Times PHONE 357== J an application for severance of to provide for an additional $41.72 It will probably be at least a group of unpaid volunteers has year and a half before Ontario been following up on the idea, he corn growers will be asked to said, and invited anyone in the vote on a marketing board for area interested jn helping to their product, farmers attending contact him. a Huron County Federation of Asthe corn board Agriculture meeting last week would ��� after the were told. pattern of the soybean marketing Bruce Shillinglaw of Lon- beard, he reported, that is as a desboro told the group at East '"non -agency board which does not Wawanosh Public School the take any direct control of the ideas behind the board are still product. c hanging and organizers are still He noted that of the estimated trying to formulate exactly what 1.7 million acres of corn grown in should be included in it. ` Ontario about 60 per cent is He noted the proposed corn stored on the farm and 40 per marketing board had its start cent fed on the farm, con - about 114 years ago and since sequently an agency -type board then has suffered "growing would be impossible . pains". During the interim a The board would be involved for tile drainage loans. Its total only in sales of corn for large growers, particularly in reprocessing, he reported, and Townshi continues to ress theagecost p operating it would average aptely 20 cents per metric ton or I,4 cent per bushel.a • would be acting a8 a spokesman Among the duties of the board rova l of s u Iviesion faira for corn growers, who currently �P have none negotiating and ad - East Wawanosh Township is continuing to press for approval of a subdivision planned for its side of the highway in Belgrave. At its meeting Sept. 4 township council passed a motion noting that the zoning bylaw for the subdivision conforms to the of- ficial plan for Huron County and Township Clerk -Treasurer Winona Thompson said the township solicitor, Robert Campbell, was going to Toronto to see whether the Ontario Municipal Board would approve the amended bylaw. The first bylaw had drawn objections, principally from John and Noreen Gnay whose farm borders the proposed sub- division, and following an OMB hearing it was refused approval. The rejection was based on grounds that a proposed 15,000 square foot commercial plot was too large and a planned 30 -unit apartment building was not justified. Since then council amended the bylaw, cutting the commercial block to 5,000 square feet and eliminating the apart- ments. .,Mr.,and Mm QW have MXW filed a notice of objection to the' bylaw, claiming no need for the development has been demon- strated and that the new bylaw would allow the apartment complex to be built at a later date without an additional hearing. In other business at the meeting council passed a bylaw stating it does not accept a strip of land around the controversial James Coultes property. It was charged that the transfer of this strip to the township was an attempt to create a severance without going through the normal channels. Council also denied approval to �E PEOPLE JUST AREM CUT OUT TO BE GOLFERS... If you're one of the former . . . why not sell those golf clubs to one of the latter? A low-cost ad in Classified will find a cash buyer for you. Wingham Advance -Times PHONE 357== J an application for severance of to provide for an additional $41.72 , ministering advance payments the property on the grounds that on the construction of the Hunter and helping establish a the severance would not conform Drain extension was passed. stabilization plan for corn, to the county plan in its intent to Building permits were ap- negotiating a payment for prevent scattered, isolated proved for: Archie Purdon, an premium quality corn and residential developments. addition to the house;. Peter making sure it gets passed back After hearing a delegation Verbeek, a building to cover a to the producer, supplying from Auburn regarding the dumping area; William Empey, market information, in - reopening of Goderieh Street yin ,a pit silo; Gordon McBurney, a vestigating export opportunities that village council passed -a carport, implement storage shed and acting as a watchdog on motion approving the opening of and addition to barn; and the drying and handling charges, he the street to County Road 25. Westfield Fellowship, an addition said. Council has_ applied f an to the church. Permit fees were He noted the proposed board additional allocation to be°14 waived for the church. has run into opposition from for tile drainage loans. Its total Council also approved a grant large growers, particularly in allocation for the year of $32,900 of $100 for the Oxford, Brant, areas where growers are has been divided on a pro rata Haldimand-Norfolk Disaster familiar with the bean marketing basis, based on the cost of the Fund to help victims of the recent board and fear another such finished construction, among the tornado in that area. agency -type board. . six applicants. A grant of $250 given last year Plans now include distributing A petition for maintenance on to the Auburn centennial com- flyers to explain the proposal, the Harrison drainage works was mittee was repaid by the com- setting up county meetings and accepted and an amending bylaw mittee. eventually holding a province - wide meeting before asking the farm products marketing board manyaftend meeting to call a vote. He said he didn't know when the vote might be, but predicted it would be at least a year and a half away. o� historica,l socia It will be up to the farm products board to decide who is eligible to vote, he added, but it -BEIrxRAVE — Approximately . the band. will probablp use a Iist of growers lit oft* aJ%Md the register at' Mrs. Simpson of Hensall gave W116 ti Q ` r Lr6*ed ' C6rn the Huron County. Historical the report of the convention held stabilization payments or else Society meeting hosted by the at Orillia. ask each person voting to sign an Belgrave Women's Institute in After a short business meeting affadavit that he or she is a corn the WI Hall September 5. Clarke Johnstone entertained grower and entitled to vote. While people were gathering with musical selections. A DIRECTORS, DELEGATES for the meeting the Brussels reading was given by Mrs. Gor- ELECTED Legion Band played severaf don McBurney, which was In other business at the numbers outside the hall, which followed by a ladies' quartette of meeting, one of two federation were much enjoyed. Mrs. John Anderson, Mrs. regional meetings, members Mrs. Walter Scott, curator of George Procter, Mrs. Glenn elected their regional directors to the Tweedsmuir history, wel- Coultes and Mrs. William Coultes the Ontario Federation of comed members and guests from singing "Grandfather's Clock", Agriculture as well as delegates the surrounding area and opened and "Put on Your Old Grey to the OFA convention in the meeting with "O Canada", Bonnet". Toronto. with Mrs. Norman Coultes at the The regional director for piano as she was for all the musi- Ross Procter was the guest northeast Huron, taking in cal numbers. speaker for the evening, giving Turnberry and Howick town - The president, Mrs. Leonard the history of the hamlet of Bod- ships, is Gerry Fortune and the James, welcomed all visitors on min using his tapes and slides delegates are Bev Brown, Louise behalf of the Belgrave Women's and told of his family's own busi- Marritt and Max Demaray, with Institute. ness enterprise of Bodmin Ltd. Ross Veitch as an alternate. Mrs. Walter Scott called on the Mrs. Garner Nicholson For northwest Huron the band which favored with thanked all those taking part and director is Merle Gunby and the "Amazing Grace", after which helping in any way to make the delegates are Walter Elliott, she introduced each member of evening a success. Clete Dalton and Dennis Con - GLASS MA —Tom Wharton looks over some of his collection of more than 300 glass bottles. He has built up the collection, which Includes some quite unique pieces, over the past 10 years since his Interest was sparked by finding, a small medicine bottle marked with the name of W. T. Bray, Drutpist, Wlfgham, and the date Tan. 18, 1881, In an excava- tion. Some of the bottles he found and many more have been given to him. He also has some antique farm tools, old lanterns and quite a collection of clocks at his Arthur Street WW home. nelly, with Vince Austin as alternate. This region includes Ashtieid, East Wawanosh, West Wawanosh and Colborne town - Huron central, including Hulled, McKillop *d. Morris townships, has Jerkin Van Been as regional director and John Nesbitt, Mery Smith and Bob Robinson as delegates. Bill Pullen is the alternate delegate. Mr. Gunby, president of the Huron federation for the past year, addressed the Inesting outlining the work of the OFA during the past year and >ipting some of its successes and failures. Probably its most significant activity was sparking the inquiry into the food industry, he said. The inquiry has shown that large food chains demand larger discounts from suppliers than are justified by the volume of their business and this puts the smaller retailers at a disad- vantage. Other activities included Pushing successfully for changes in the Petty Tresspeas Act and Line -Fences Act and establishing the Farm Price Index, which informs consumers just vft gets their food dollars. Lad .year it brought down the retail price of beef 20 per cent and it has also shown chicken retail prices are too high, he said. It shows, con- sumers that farmers are -not the ones responsible for Increasing food prices. In addition to the spectacular su - . : ,. the federation had some spectacular failures too, he added. It didn't gel the Ontario government to take agriculture seriously, since the agriculture budget is less in real dollars than last year; there was no govem- ment action on imports or farm fuel costs and the results of the GATT negotiations on trade and tariffs were disappointing. A strong farm organization is needed more than ever, he declared, and this requires a greater. commitment from everyone. He said he feels every farmer in the province should belong to the OFA and challenged members to talk to their neigh- bors about it. - Bev Brown explained the rde of a Convention delegate she described as challenging rewarding. Delegates must bt well informed about agric ultuse, she said, since city people are very interested but extremely ignorant about farming. Farmers must be prepared to fight for their land and their marketing boards, she declared, noting: "It's for sure no one else will do it for us." The annual convention has been moved to Toronto this year from Hamilton and she predicted terrific media. coverage ss a result, but warned: " lbey get tricky in the city." She also said delegates have a lot of fun at the convention and can really gel an education by mi>ing with other delegates from northern and eastern Ontario and learning about their problems. Delegates are reimbursed far their travel, hotel and meal expenses - FOREIGN _ OWNERSHIP HOT ISSUE Near the end of the meeting a number of the farmers got into a debate with Floyd Jenkins of the Huron -Perth assessment office m the question of foreign in- vestors buying up farm land. Mr. Jenkins, who attended the meeting to explain the proposed revision of assessment equalization factors (see separate story in this issue), claimed that in his experience fordgnh speculation -in land is not as big a problem ' here as it ap- pears to be from media reports. He based his contention on the fad, he has seen few land tran- sactions in which the 20 per cent surtax required ' from foreign M asers has been paid. However Adrian Vos com- mented this doesn't prove foreign speculators aren't buying local farm land, it only shows they have smart lawyers. He pointed out it is easy to avoid paying the land transfer tax by forming an Ontario - registered , ; � , tion and a number of other farmers cited evidence from their own that this is indeed MRS. LEWIS STONEHOUSE Belgrave Personal Notes Mrs. Dennis Ensom of Sarnia visited last week with her mother, Mrs. Robert Procter, and hey sister, Mrs. Howard Zettler. Whey went to Manitoulin Island last Monday where they toured St. Paul's Anglican Church which was erected in 1845. ,They also visited at Little Current, spent a few days at the Ensom cottage, Southampton, visited in Elmira on Thursday and Benmiller on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Van Camp of Guelph visited on Satur- day with Mrs. Olive Campbell and attended the threshermen's reunion at Blyth. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Water - field of Ottawa spent a couple of days last week with her uncles, Douglas and Elmer Bruce. Joanne Edgar and Dianne Scott left this week to attend college at Centralia. Mrs. Jack Henry of Belleville and her daughter, Mrs. Roger May of Thornhill, spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Wightman and also visited with other relatives in the area. Mrs. Olive Campbell and 30 members of her family gathered at the Benmiller park on Sunday for a picnic. Those coming from a distance were Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Campbell and boys of London and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Campbell and Heather of Kit- chener. Mrs. Ron Hill, Jeffrey, Richard and Robbie of RR 1, Tavistock recently visited with their aunt, Mrs. Robert Procter. Mr. and Mrs. William Willoughby of Molesworth visited last Thursday and Friday with Mrs. Stewart Procter. Mrs. Ron Hill and family of RR 1, Tavistock, Mrs. Ste*art Procter and Mrs. Robert Procter visited recently with Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Alton of Lucknow. Mr. and Mrs. Glare Van Camp were presented with a decorated cake in honor of their 30th wed- ding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Ran McLeod and family of Etobicoke spent the weekend with her mother, nibs. Nelson Higgins, and all attended the 30th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pletch of Brussels on Saturday evening at the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre, The September meeting of the Belgrave Women's Institute will be held September 18 In the WI hall at 8:15. The theme of the meeting will be The International Year of the Child. Highlights include a debate: "Resolve that today's young people have a more difficult childhood and adolescence than did the young purple of 50 years ago", by Dondda Lamont, Janice Coultes, Janisa Coultes and Mrs. [Aslie Bait. Lunch committee is Mrs. Ivan Wightman, Mrs. Walter Scott and Mrs. Roes Taylor. CLASSIFIED ADS nuny J, THE ADVANCE -TINES 0