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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1977-06-29, Page 1FIRST WITH LOCAL NEWS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1977 Includes 54 miles of construction Price Per Copy 20 Cents County council adopts long range road program Huron County council adopted a long range $9.2 million road program at its Friday session and will budget for the items in the report as money and needs determine in the next few years. No deviation from the plan will be made without council approval. Jim Britnell, county engineer, outlined the report that details 54 miles of road construction at about $4,1 million, 70.5 miles of road resurfacing at about $2.8 million and construction of four bridges at $1.2 million. Britnell ' told council that compared to other counties in the province the Huron road system was in about average condition. He said the road system was compared to other counties -to try to determine the amount of subsidy the provincial ministry of transportation' and com- munication will chip in to Huron's road work. The engineer said that ac- cording to ministry rules the county has only about $2.5 million worth of road work that is deficient now or will be in the next five years. He said some counties in western Ontario have ZURICH PUBLIC SCHOOL GRADS — There were twelve graduates from the Zurich Public school this year, and their graduation was held Thursday evening. Left to right are back row: Jackie Thornton, Edward Neeb, Michael Haggitt, Robert Willert, Halley Whitney, Bob Oesch and Bob Hay; front row: Margaret Deichert, Christine Bleck, Connie Steinbach, Brenda Riddell and Connie Neeb. Photo by McKinley County discusses seniors' housing Huron County Housing Authority chairman Harold Knisley asked county council Friday if the county would give the authority the privilege of placing senior citizens in the county in any senior's facility regardless of municipality. Knisley said the authority has a problem with senior citizens units in the county and asked if it could disregard municipal boundaries when placing seniors in a facility. The chairman said that some townships have no working agreement with neighbouring towns for senior citizens to move into senior citizens complexes jointly operated and financed by the federal, provincial and municipal government. He said the situation means in some instances that although a unit is available for occupancy and a person or couple are in need the two can't comply because the seniors live in a township and don't qualify for residency. McKillop reeve Allan Campbell said he knew of the situation Knisley was referring to and that it existed in his township. He said McKillop had no big towns that could qualify for a senior citizens complex and that Seaforth was the nearest town and had two. He said his council had tried its darndest to link up with Seaforth when the units were being built and had not been successfull. Campbell said a questionnaire was sent out to senior citizens in the township and that the council had never seen or heard of the results. He said the returned forms were sent to Toronto and although quite a number of people in the township qualify for a unit nothing was ever heard. "My God is there no way McKillop can get implicated with either Brussels or Seaforth," he asked. Knisley said that there were five vacancies in the Brussels unit recently and that the McKillop people in need would have been there if the county authority had the privilege of placing them. He said McKillop would have to make an agreement with Brussels to handle the appropriate share of any losses the unit incurs and the residents would be free to move in as the units are available. The. municipality sponsoring the units is responsible for seven percent of any annual losses it suffers and Knisley suggested that the percentage of the loss would be calculated according to use per municipality involved. Bayfield reeve Ed Oddleifson said there was a senior's unit in his village and that the village council had tried to be liberal minded when people not from the village applied for residency. He said he could agree to the authority having the right to' place people in the units but felt that the right should be tempered_ .to prevent someone from the north end of the county from being moved to a unit in the south end. Knisley said the placement of the seniors is done at their own request and that if someone didn't want to move into a par- ticular unit because of location they wouldn't have to. He said in some cases the people have moved quite a distance but they have asked adding ' that the placement would not be done in any arbitrary fashion. Morris reeve Bill Elston said he was on the committee operating the Brussels unit and that as of a meeting 10 days ago the bottom floor of the unit was full and there was a waiting list for the downstairs units. He said the problem with the five vacancies is not a lack of seniors it is the second floor. He said quite a few of the elderly want no part of a second floor unit. "The people .that are upstairs have to come down in a few years," he said. "The second floor is only acceptable to the Please turn to Page 2 about $15 million worth of bad He explained that this year the roads.He said the comparison to ministry felt that only $2.5 million other counties was admirable in need be taken on and of that nine that Huron has one of the better percent or $225,000, is the figure road systems in western Ontario used to calculate the subsidy. If but added that council 'would the county limited its con - have to dig deeper in its own struction to the $225,000 it would pocket to keep the system up. be doing slightly more than two The province set up criteria miles work per year. used' to 'determine road con- The engineer said in his report ditions as part of a restraint that while some county roads are program aimed at keeping costs below standards acceptable to down and roads in good shape. him and council no work will be Britnell said however that in done unless money permits. He Huron the restraint program said the long range forecast will limits the amount of work that be followed as possible and any can be taken on if the county does deviation from the plan will be not spend any money above what with council's approval, they subseed to match the ministry Please turn to Page 2 subsidy. Goshen resurfacing off Hay council has had to change their plans to resurface the four miles of the Goshen from Zurich to the township boundary. The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC) in- formed council they felt the base of the road is not good enough for resurfacing at the present time. In order to get MTC approval, the township will have to raise the road surface approximately 13 inches, and there is no money in the present budget to tackle such a job. As a result, council has in- structed the Road Superintendent to call tenders for the supply and application of sand cushion on the 12th and 13th concessions of Hay township as an alternative to resurfacing the Goshen. Council accepted the tender of Ray Ireland, London for the supply and hauling of crushed gravel onto Township roads at a price of $2.74 per cubic yard. The Road Superintendent has been instructed to obtain specifications for a motor grader and call tenders for a motor grader. A request for severance from Donnelly and Murphy on behalf of Gerald and Allan Reid to sever Lot 19 Concession 1 was received and council recommended it be granted. Council also recommended a request from Mrs. Doris Gore to sever part Lots 2-7, part lots 35-40 Plan No. 28 be granted and the roadway be made 66 feet from 20 feet. A third severance application was received from Anthony and Patricia Rau to sever part of Lot 5, Concession Lake Road East and council again recommended it be granted. Four applications for tile drain loans were received by council in the total amount of $35,000 and all applications were accepted as signed. Ten people injured in accidents Ten people were injured in two of the three accidents in- vestigated by the Exeter OPP this week. The first of the serious ac- cidents occurred on Wednesday when vehicles driven by Karolyn Gielnik, Huron Park, and Derek Regier, RR 3 Dashwood, collided at the intersection of the Crediton Road and County Road 2. Both vehicles had been south- bound and Regier was stopped to make a turn at the Crediton Road when his vehicle was hit from the rear by the Gielnik vehicle. Minor injuries were sustained by both drivers, as well as their passengers, Mary 'Regier, RR 3 Dashwood; Kevin Gielnik, Huron Park; and James Divers, Huron Park. Cvnstable Dale Lamont in- vestigated and set total damage at $4,000. On Friday at 6:25 p.m., five people were taken to South Huron Hospital following a crash at the intersection of Highway 83 and concession 6-7 of Usborne Township. The drivers involved were _uuuunuunuuuunumuuw,uuuunmmom1ommm1nnunnunennunnnaunnnuunuE Hensall Arena fund Hurondale Dairy Ltd. $ 500500.00 Hensall Curling Club .00 O'Brien's Upholstery 100.00 Hensall Motors Limited 1000.00 H. W. Horton 100.00 Proceeds Tent Camper Sale 402.06 Hielke Berends 100.00 Marilyn Thiel 10.00 The'Hensall Tykes 23.00 Ross Sararas 100.00 Garnet Allan 150.00 Cecil Maxwell 200.00 Jack Reid 50.00 Jim Bozatto 200.00 Howard Adkins 25.00 Keith Love 25.00 Jack Soldan 50.00 Ian McAllister 50.00 Glenn Weido 35.00 Lionel Wilder 20.00 Total to date $51,400.00 Kathleen Grant, Carling St., Exeter, who had been eastbound on Highway 83, and Wayne Temple, Goderich, who had been southbound on the concession road. The two drivers and the three passengers in the Temple vehicle all required medical treatment. They included Audrey Temple and the couple's children, Bar- bara, 2, and Wayne, 4. Constable Wally Tomasik in- vestigated and set damage at $3,500. The other accident was reported on Friday just before midnight, when a vehicle driven by John Hamilton, RR 3 Ailsa Craig, was struck by.an unknown vehicle which left the scene without stopping. Hamilton had been westbound on concession 14-15 of Stephen and was turning south onto County Road 5 when the collision occurred. During the week, the local detachment officers laid a total of 38 charges: 33 under the Highway Traffic Act, two under the Liquor Licence Act and two under the Criminal Code. Two thefts were also reported during the week, both occurring on Saturday in Dashwood. An 8' by 10' tent was stolen from a field at RR 2 Dashwood. It was the property of Donald Keller, A 1968 Volkswagen owned by Katherine Bullock was stolen from the Dashwood Hotel parking lot. 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