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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1977-02-09, Page 2Page 2 Citizens News, February 9, 1977 Rural mart delivery returns Monday was the first time in nine days that mail has been distributed from the Zurich post office to rural routes in the Zurich area. Stormy weather blocked roads and kept them blocked making it impossible for the rural mailman to make their deliveries. R.R. 1 Zurich did fair better than the other two rural routes as Duart McAdams delivered the mail to the doors of home owners along that route by, what else, snowmobile. However, even with the snowmobile he was only able to get the mail through twice during those nine days. People living on all three rural routes were a great help to the post office during the nine day siege according to employee Linda Neeb. "Just about all the people on the rural routes would get into town to collect their mail" said Ms, Neeb, "one person would sometimes get through to collect the mail for the entire line." she explained. This helped to keep the post office from being completely swamped by a backlog of rural mail, newspapers and junk mail. "We only have a small space for mailing," said Ms. Neeb, "and with the newspapers and rural mail lying around it gets pretty crowded in here." Luckily for the post office, mail was also slow being delivered from other areas due to road and weather conditions and the Zurich post office was able to cope with the situation. But, it seems there is something which does stop the mail from going through. It may not be sleet or rain, but when the winds blow across Lake Huron for days at a time, even the mail can't negotiate the roads. THANKS FOR THE TOW -- Ron Heimrich needed a little help getting his car out his lane in Zurich last week. Above, Mr. Heimrich drives the car as Chuck Erb gives him a tow while Jim Parkins throws up his arms in victory as the car moves. Photo by McKinley Hay finalizes fire agreement Hay Council signed the finalized fire agreement with Dashwood at a council meeting held last Tuesday night. The agreement differs from last years in several areas. Last year's agreement had Hay paying Dashwood a flat retainer of $1200. This year the retainer will be three mills in the assessed area, a total of $1372.70. Last year's charge for the first hour of a fire call was $90 with each additional hour being $75. This year the charge for the first hour will be $125 with each additional hour costing $100. Also new in the agreement is a $50 per hour charge for the water tanker recently purchased by Dashwood. An application by W.B.R. Incorporated to sever part of Lot 15, Concession 1 was rejected by council, but two other severance applications were approved, They are Robert Hoffman's application to sever Lot 22 Concession South Boundary and Gerald Regier's application to sever Lots 13 and 14 Concession 10. Hay township has decided to engage the services of Harvey Clausius as building inspector, and in the future all building permits will be issued by him not the clerks office. Mr. Clausius is also building inspector for the village of Zurich. Council requested a meeting be held with Hensall and B. M. Ross Associates in regards to the proposed storm sewer outlets for the village. A request has been made to the Ministry of Transportation for an additional subsidy for road ex- penditures. The increased cost of snow removal has seriously depleted the township's road budget and additional funds would be very helpful to enable the township to do some work on the township roads this summer. One application was received and approved for a tile drain loan in the amount of $7500. Two members of council were authorized to attend the Rural Ontario Municipal Association Convention being held in Toronto this week. cklog of accidents The Exeter OPP detachment officers are slowly clearing the - backlog of accident reports following the severe winter driving conditions of the past three weeks which resulted in over 40 accidents. However, another seven were added to their list this week, most of them occurring during white- outs on area roads before the weather finally cleared on Sunday. OPP Cpl. Ray Brooks said damage in those seven accidents was $8,755 and there was one. minor injury reported. The reports were not completed to provide details of the crashes at this time. To add to their woes, the police were advised that seven cottages at Poplar Beach were broken into during the past couple of weeks and these are now being in- vestigated by Constable Bill McIntyre. Because many of the owners have been unable to get to their cottages, there has been no verification of thefts. Last week, Constable McIntyre recovered $485 in stolen property. These were mainly CB radios that had been stolen from cars in the area earlier in the year. Other statistics contained in the weekly press release were as follows: 10 vehicles removed from roads to facilitate snow plowing, one wilful damage, one theft, one dog bite, two domestic complaints, one insecure premise and one impaired driver. Two juveniles were reported missing but both were located. I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE — This car almost made it out the kine before the snow became just too much. Even if it had made it cis far as the road; that would be as far as it could go as the road itself was also blocked With snow, photo by McKinley PROBERT WESTLAKE INSURANCE Specializing in GENERAL INSURANCE 236-4391 ZURICH J. E. 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