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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1969-11-27, Page 1MRS, MINNIE NOAKES Challenger Hensall Residents Vote Monday For the second year in a row, voters in the village of Hensall will have the privilege of elect- ing a reeve and four councillors for the coming year. The same two candidates as last year, present reeve Oliver Jaques and former reeve Mrs. Minnie Noakes are the opponents in the race for the chief magistrate's posit- ion. While the fight for the position of reeve remains a two-way battle, six candidates are in the running for the four council seats, They are newcomers Willard Buchanan and Paul Neilands, along with four sitting members, John Baker, Harold Knight, Len Erb and Hein Rooseboom. The only position to be filled by acclamation at the Friday night nomination meeting was that of public utilities commis - loner, Rodger Venner was the only candidate nominated for the one vacancy on that board. Voters in the village will go to the polls on Monday, Dec- ember 1, and the two polling booths will be located in the Hensall Town Hall. Polis will be open from nine o'clock in the morning until six o'clock in the afternoon. In chairing the nomination meeting Friday night, clerk Earl Campbell told the gather- ing of about 35 ratepayers'that the finances in Hensall are in good shape. Ile added that Ilen- sall the smallest amount of tax arrears in Iiuron County. First speaker of the evening was reeve Jaques, who explained at great length the various as- pects of work that have been carried out during the past year. IIe told of the problems connect- ed with the expansion of a Hen- sall industry, Boise Cascade, and how most of the details had now been finalized. " This new industry, which will initially employ 150 people with the possibility of increasing to 200, will be a great asset to our community, " the reeve said, "But we need the people living here to benefit from this expan- sion." Mr. Jaques went on to say (continued on page three) OLIVER JAQUES Present Reeve 0 el1,4 No. 47—FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS ZURICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1969 10 CENTS PER COPY ANYONE FOR TREATS - There was plenty of cakes, pies and cookies offered for sale at the Blue Water Rest Home Bake Sale, on Saturday afternoon, and it only took a short time until the counters were cleared off. Shown here displaying some of the goodies are Mrs. Alice Thiel, Mrs. Theresa Stark, Mrs. Jerome Sweeney, and Mrs. Dominic Jeffrey. Separate School Board Plan To Replace Bus at Zurich The Huron - Perth Separate School Board at its sheeting in Seaforth last Monday night learn- ed that the Kinkora convent (St. Patrick's) which it believed it had sold to the parish for $l. 00 still belonged to the Board. The transaction had beenlefr for the solicitors to complete in May but rhe work was not finished. The result is that the Board agreed to pay the full amount of the taxes for the year --$162. 64, but bills amounting to $700. for repairs at the convent are to be given the parish to pay.- " Francis Ilicknell, chairman of rhe Property Committee re- ported furniture for the board room is to be delivered in eight weeks. In the meantime board meetings will continue to be held in St. James School, Sea - forth. Ile reported one floor polisher and one vacuum cleaner are being purchased and draper- ies for thirty rooms in eight schools. Arthur Raid, chairman of the Bus Committee, reported on a plan to replace one of the school owned buses at Zurich. He said on having the buses checked by a mechanic he found the second bus at Zurich was in worse condition than the one the committee intended to replace. " That bus could be put off the road (by rhe Department of Tran- sport) before the end of the year - the tires are practically nil, and the valves are no good," he told the board. Several price quotations were given on a new bus with trade- in prices. James Morris of Stratford quest- ioned whether the board should even be in the bus business. The board ruled it did not have suf- ficient information for the trust- ees to rule on what should be done and instructed the Bus Com- mittee to get more offers on a new bus and to get the cost of running a bus on the Zurich`zoute. At our Lady of Mt..,�arrrrel School at Dashwood the bus driver had had to travel an extra ten miles per day to pick up children for a family not on the original contract and the board recommended that he be paid 40d per mile for a total of ten miles per day retroactive to September 8. Grants for capital expenditures were discussed, especially in relation to a grant of $73, 000 for 1969 for work on the Immac- ulate Conception School in Strat- ford in 1968, and for the pur- chase price of $11, 000. of the former Egntondville public school. The arbitration board must decide how to credit these grants for 1968, but the board will indicate to the arbitrators that it feels that on capital ex- penditures grants should be ap- plied to surplus or deficit of the (continued on page 9) Union Negotiations Under Way For Huron Custodians (by Shirley Keller) The Huron County Board of Education has received official notification that the Labor Relations Board has received the request of the custodial employ- ees in Huron County to form a Union, and has certified the Service Employees Union as the bargaining agent. At Monday's re3ular meeting of the Board of Ecucation, a labor relations committee was formed by the board to be chair- ed by Dan Murphy, Goderich lawyer. Other members of that com- mittee are Garnet Hicks, Clar- ence McDonald, Gordon Moir, James Taylor and Mrs. Marilyn Kunde r. The committee will now meet to. decide whether they will meet with the bargaining agent or whether they will solicit profes- sional assistance in this matter. NEW MEDICAL CENTRE - The new offices of Dr. C.J. Wallace in Zurich ate now completed, and will be occupied beginning November 29. Located on East Street, south of the LCBO store in the village, the new centre has facilities for two doctors, along with several examining rooms, a'large waiting toom and a re- ception and nurses' office. The building has a complete basement and is equipped with electric heating and air conditioning. Con- tractor for the project was Donald Oke Ltd.