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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1969-02-13, Page 1No. 6 --FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS ZURICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1969 TEDDY BEARS FROM This group of four young taking part in the Figure program, "Variety on Ice", ,A,!‘.,L LAND- 1:^slips will be Skating Club •>. t he Zurich Arena on Saturday night. Left to right are Karen Erb, Carol Regier, Elizabeth Datars and Patty Bedour. (Citizens News Photo) The council of the village of Hensall met on Thursday, February 6, with all members present. Min- utes of regular and special meet- ings of January 6, were read and adopted on motion of Baker and Rooseboom. By-law No. 4, 1969, was read and approved, this being a by-law to approve and set the salary of E. R. Davis, the utility man and road superintendent. Davis will receive an annual salary of $4,650, plus $300 ear allowance. By-law No. 5, 1969, to set the salaries of the reeve and council, was read and approved. The sal- ary of the reeve is to be $300, plus $125 for expenses, and. the salary of each councillor is to be $245, plus $105 expenses. If the reeve or councillors attend con- ventions or meetings in connection with council, the per diem rate of pay will be $15, but there is no pay for any special council meet- ings. R. Davis reported on his work of the past month and informed council that snow had been re- moved on Main Street once since the eouncil had met in January. He also reported that he had been kept busy snow plowing and sand- ing intersections. 'The problem of the drain on Mill Street had been investigated and Davis was of the opinion that said drain could be blocked in two places. Upon hearing this infor- mation, council ordered Davis to have the problems rectified as soon as possible. Mr. Davis also reported there was a problem with cars parking se both sides of the street in sev- Stm Bonif'tice To Hold Sessions The regular meeting of St. Boni- aee Catholic Women's League was held on Tuesday night at St. ,Boni- Eaae School, with 30 members present. A beautiful quilt was donated to the league by Mrs. Fred Regier, and this will be raffled at a later date. Members of the group voted un- animously to join in the . World Day of Prayer, which will be held in the near future. A series of adult education ses- sions will be held on the Pope's recent encyclical. The CW14 made a donation of $100 to the Young People's Club, eases S ' 1 iacations in the village. This creates much inconvenience, espe- 'ia'ty in the winter months when the plows are trying to keep the roads clear. He was reminded by cu::cil that there is a by-law re- l. arding the parking of cars and -vehicles on town streets at night, and was instructed to place tickets for parking violations if he deemed it necessary. Habitual offenders should not receive constant warn- ings as council felt the public knows of this by-law. The reeve suggested to Davis that during the summer months, when the mower is on the tractor, council would like him to spend one day per week at the Commun- ity Park, cutting grass and assist- ing in the cleaning of the park in general. If Davis must hire extra help to patch streets, etc., council was of the opinion that at least some of its members should be contacted before work proceeds. In regard to any drain or road work when .a •contractor's services are required, Davis was instructed to secure the services •of the con- tractor who is able to provide 'the service when council deems it nec- essary to proceed, without delay. Knight and Rooseboom were of the opinion that some progress might be realized in the near fu- ture regarding fire agreement with two townships. Knight reported that he and the fire chief had been Ne , :,. Office Hours At 1.4EI cal Post Office Effective Monday, February 17, ,there will be new hours in effect at the Ztlrich post office. According .to postmaster Murray McAdams, the office will close each day, Monday to Friday, at 5:45 p.m, Theoffice opens at 8:30 a.m. every morning, On Saturdays, in the future, the office will close at 12 noon. Mr. McAdams reminds post of- fice patrons that the mail leaves Zurich every afternoon at 5 p.m. • 0 Zurich WI Mrs. William Siebert will be guest speaker at the meeting of the Zurich Women's Institute, on February 18, at 8 p.m. The home economies program will be held at the Hay Township Hall. Roll call will be, "an economical house- hold hint". An invitation is ex- tended to all ladies in the eom- ntunity. 1 X called to the home of a ratepayer - recently due to gasoline fumes coming up through the drain. He reported that the source, had been found and the town drain had been flushed with water from a fire hydrant to clear the fumes. Also, Knight stated that several catch basins had quite a depth of snow on top of them which would pre- vent any fumes from escaping into the air. Reeve Jaques reported to coun- cil regarding his first session at the county council and informed council that he had been placed on the property committee. John Baker, Harold Knight and Hein Rooseboom were delegated to attend the Association of Rural Municipalities convention in the near future. Building permits for renovations were granted to Rob- ert Reaburn, Don Joynt and George Dowson. Bills and accounts in the amount of $43,450.86 were ordered paid on a motion of Knight and Roose- boom. Meeting adjourned on mo- tion of Baker and Erb to meet again on March 3. 10 CENTS PER COPY irkh Council Holds Tight Line on Salaries The council of the village of Zurich, at their regular meeting last Thursday night, came up with a stand -pat budget regarding their own salaries and those of munici- pal employees, No increases were given in any departments, includ- ing clerk, road superintendent and arena manager, at the recommen- dation of the finance committee of council. The reeve of the village will re- ceive $225 for the year, while mem- bers of council will receive $200, plus $10 for special meetings. An allowance of $10 per day is to be made to any member of council who is away on village business, and the car allowance for any vil- lage department was set at 10 cents per mile, two ways. Salary of the clerk -treasurer re- mains the same as last year, at $1700, The road superintendent will receive $85 weekly and the arena manager $4900 for the year. In presenting their recommenda- tion to council, the finance com- mittee pointed out that they hoped by holding the line on salaries for one year they might be able to prevent a tax increase to ratepay- ers of the municipality. Over the past few year the tax rate has inreased considerably each year, and higher rates for education costs annnar .a certainty this year, they pointed out, At the same time council ap- proved a recommendation of the property committee, urcing stricter enforcement of the building by-law in the village. In future. no new construction may begin within the village knits until plans are pre- sented to council, and a proper building permit issued. Over the RC School _Board The Huron -Perth Separate School Board allocated $19,860 for the pur- chase of library books for pupils Monday night. This amounts to $6 per pupil in Perth and Huron counties, The board advised principals to send the list of books they want to the business administrator by March 21. Tenders will be called from publishing companies. A petition was submitted to the board by the pupils of St. Michael's School in Stratford to hold dances in the school gymnasium. The board rejected the petition on the grounds that any request for the use of school property must come to the •boardthrough the princi- pals. The hoard decided to send re- ports of its meetings to the public school boards through the separate school representatives elected to the boards. The board approved paying for ice time for hockey competitions in Dublin, St. Calumban, Mount past years people have commenced their building projects before a building permit was issued, but this no longer will be allowed. Another clause in the recommen- dation which was adopted states that when a building permit is taken out for any given amount and the actual cost of the project is higher than the amount of the permit, an extra charge will be levied against the proprietor, for the difference in the cost of the permit. It was pointed out that in some cases building permits were taken out for a $10,000 home and when the project was completed the home cost the owner $20,000, resulting in a loss of revenue for the village. Members of the finance and property committee are Herb Turk- heim and Ken McCarter. A budget for the fire depart- ment, as presented by councillors Ken McCarter and George Haggitt, asked for expenditures this year in the amount of $7763, against an estimated revenue of $1250,. In- cluded in the budget was $1000 for a tanker and $1330 for two Scott Air Paks, batt council asked the committee to discuss these two items with members of the depart- ment, to see if they are absolutely essential. A by-law appointing the mem- bers of the fire department for this year was approved. Fire chief is Howard Kiopp, assistant, Jim Par- kins, mechanic, Elroy Desjardine, members of the brigade. Hubert Sehilbe, Bill Wagner, Lloyd Den- omme, Leo Meidinger, Ken Mc- Carter, Lee Regier, Eugene O'I3rien and Gordon Lavery. • Following a request of the water system, a survey was ordered for all village property located in the Mill Survey, Approval was grant- ed some time ago to the water system to use 18 feet of village property in the parking lot, for their proposed expansion plans. George Haggitt, chairman of the road committee, reported that snow removal in the village has already cost over $1,000 this win- ter. A budget of $9800 for this year was approved. In other business, Dr. W. B. Coxon was appointed as represen- tative for the village on the Mid western Regional Tourist Council. as well as being the industriel spokesman for the municipality. While no longer a member of t'aun- cil, Dr. Coxon has taken an active part in both these positions and consented to serve in this capacity again. Herb Turkheim was ap- pointed as the village representa- tive on the Midwestern Regional Development Council. The following people were ap- pointed as members of the recrea- tion committee for the year: Gerald Gingerich, Rev. A. C. Blackwell. Mrs. Joyce Armstrong, Mrs. Isabel Gascho, Mrs. Elda Wagner, Jim Bedard, George Haggitt and Lour Sehilbe. Four more members are still to be named to this commit- tee. v �' Ji. it ens 11&Ile a A $54,167 interest-free loan from the Ontario Development Corpora- tion has assisted in the establish- ment of a plastic drain tile indus- try at Hensall, Treasurer Charles MacNaughton announeed Iast week. The loan, granted under the province's equalization of indus- trial opportunity program, contrib- utes toward the cost of the $174,500 plant built by the Big "0" Drain Tile Co. Ltd. The company started production in September and mar- keted over 1,000,000 feet of its product before the end of the year. Principal use of the plastic tile, which is being produced in ui- ameters of up to 4 inches and in 250 -foot lengths. is farm drainage in Southwestern Ontario, where drain tile has been in short supply. However, the almost unlimited uses for the product have prompted enquiries from all across Canada. "This is the third E,I.O. loan for Huron County outside Centralia Carmel and at. St. JamesSchool, Industrial Park," noted Mr. Mac- Seaforth. . Naughton, MPP for Huron, "I am ct kt cin pleased to see development in nearby centres and I anticipate that the industrial park will en- courage other industries to locate in neighboring communities." "As I have indicated on previous occasions, our intention is to allow for a period of consolidation at Centralia Industrial Park before. phase 2 of the development is launched. During the interim peri- od, I am hopeful that a number of prospects will consider estab- lishing new operations in the sur. rounding area," Mr. MacNaughton • stated. The Hensall firm plane to pro- duce larger sizes of tile in the fu- ture, from 8 inches in diameter upwards, and will construct an of- . fice addition to its plant this spring. The new plant has a capacity al six milion lineal feet annually. It employs 10 people and is operating 24 hours a day. The ODC loan will not have to be repaid if the company meets certain conditions over a six-year period. QUILTING BEE--- While many people may think quilting bees are a thing of the past, there seems to be more activity in this line recently than for some time. This group of ladies are seen in the classrooms of St, Peter's Lutheran Church, busy making quilts for relief work. Left to right are Mrs. William Lawrence, Mrs. Earl Yungblut, Mrs. J. W. Haberer, Mrs. Ed Datars, Mrs. Victor Dinnin, Mrs. A. C. Blackwell, Mrs. Ferd Naberer, Miss Inez Yungblut and Mrs. Harold Thiel. (Citizens News .Photo)