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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Citizens News, 1976-05-19, Page 1Let paving tender The tender of Lavis Contract- ing of Clinton to carry out paving of Zurich streets was accepted at Thursday's regular meeting of village council. The Lavis tender which was the lowest of three received was for $16.95 per ton and a total of $11,017.50. Chairman of the streets committee George Haggitt said the Lavis tender was well below the original estimates. Council turned down a request from the town of Exeter for Krazy Days, one of the most extensive promotions undertaken by the merchants of Zurich in the past few years, gets underway Friday afternoon. Krazy Days is a combination of bargains buys for the shopping public, free cash draws, a series of extra special "tine" values and other special attractions. Participating merchants ` in- clude Big Dip Drive -In, Yung- blut's Meat Market, Heimrich's Variety, Don's Best Valu, Zurich Pro Hardware, Herb Turkheim Furniture, Laporte Meat Market, Tasty -Nu Bakery, Zurich Super- ior, Shaw's Dairy Store, Cascho's Dry Goods and the Dominion Hotel. For more details on Krazy Days check the back page advertise- ment in this edition of the Citi- zens News. financial assistance in the con- struction of a new arena and hall. Councillor Ray McKinnon, a member of the Zurich recreation committee commented on the request, "It's some pipe dream if they think places like Zurich and Hensall should help them when we are strruggling to keep our buildings going. Due to our own comnittments we certainly can't participate." At a recent • special meeting permits were issued to Hay township, $3,000 renovations; Gordon Smith residing and re- novations $4,000 and Harry Bassow, $1,000 reroofing. Council voted in favour of supporting a move to reduce the number of seats on Huron County Council. Councillor Leroy Thiel opposed the motion saying, "This is another step in getting away from the people. I can't see where it will save any money, they will probably have to hire more help." Reeve Fred Haberer favours the suggestion. He commented, "1 don't think reducing council seats should increase the admi- nistrative staff and as for debates 1 think fewer people can handle situations quicker." MiXED LEAGUE CHAMPS—The Oddballs won. the season championship of the Zurich mixed bowling league. From the left are Shirley and Paul Bedard, Diane and Gerald Thiel and Marlene and Tony Bedard. • News Photo urIo NO. 20 -FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1976 20r PER COPY Zurich mill rate up Most property owners in the village of Zurich will be facing an increase of about 11 per cent in their 1976 tax rates. As the result of a budget presented by finance chairman Ray McKinnon the total tax rate- for residential public school supporters will be 151.37 mills. This is an increase of 15.86 mills from a year ago. The rate for supporters of the Huron -Perth Separate school system will be 156.14 mills, up 16.19 mills from the 1975 levy. Commercial public school pro- perties will pay a levy of 173.97 mills which is an increase of 17.9 mills and commercial separate school rates are up to 179.27 mills from 161.22 during last year. In explaining composition of the 1976 overall levy, McKinnon said increases appear in the elementary and secondary school rate as well as in the village's general rate. The only decrease appears in the County of Huron levy which drops 12.02 from 1975. The public school rate is up 4.98 mills, the separate school rise is 5.11 mills and the second- ary school levy is up by 9.89 mills. The increase for the village general rate is 13.21 mills. The increase in dollars for a property assessed at $2,000 will be about $32. The budget approved at Thurs- day's regular meeting of council calls for revenue during 1976 of $241,476. Of this amount $107,000 will come from realty and business taxes and $62,000 will be provided by the Province of Ontario to reduce the taxes imposed for municipal and school purposes. The contribution by the pro- vince amounts to 58 cents for every dollar of realty and busi- _pess taxes imposed by the village of Zurich. In compiling the 1976 budget council included $4,044 which is an accumulated deficit from pre- vious years and $9,000 for the new municipal offices. The 1975 financial statement which was also accepted by council Wednesday showed a surplus of $6,656 on the 1975 operation. This figure was used to bring down the accumulated deficit over the years to the pre- viously stated figure of $4,044. Tax notices are now being pre- , 1 % pared by the clerk's office and the first installment of 1976 taxes are due by payment by June 30, 1976. Payment of the second installment falls due on November 30, 1976. Penalties of one percent per month will be added if taxes are not paid by the due date. Council will be asking Godcrich engineer B. M. Ross to assist in straightening out some apparent variations in sewer frontage assessments. The situation was brought to council's attention by clerk Betty Oke. Mrs. Oke said, I have been going over the frontages and find a lot of' variations. Reeve Fred Haberer said, "We were responsible for setting assessments so we should correct any errors." The differences in assessments appear on corner lots. In most cases property owners were charged for frontage and the amount of side lot over 100 feet. If each side was less than 100 feet then only one side was charged. EATING CAN BE EDUCATiONAL—After discovering how the doughnuts were made, students from St. Boniface School, Zurich, enjoyed the finished product. Shown above, left to right, are front row, Scott Murray, Edward Meidinger, Mark LaPorte and Sherla Regier. Bask row, owner of the bakeshop Ulrich Duttmann, Diane Vanesta, Pauline Regier and Karmen Bedard. News Photo LIONS DONATION—Lee Regier, right, accepts a cheque for $1,000 from Zurich Lions member Claude Gelinas on behalf of the Zurich Recreation committee. News Photo Hensall taxes up Hensall's mill rate will jump 24.16 mills with a 12.86 mill increase in the county education levy and a 2.45 mill increase to the county. The remaining 9.85 mills is a general increase for municipal purposes only. This means a resident with a $2,000 assessment, which is average, will pay $48 more in taxes this year than last. In 1975 the total expenditure raised through taxation was $187,101. The new mill rate faced by a public school supporting resident is 103.93 mills compared to 79.77 mills in 1975. The levy for separate school supporters is 109.47 mills while the commercial public school supporter faces a levy of 118.92 mills. An overall view of the budget shows Hensall will spend $58,000 in the village, $90,000 on educa- tion and $37,000 to the county. St. Boniface students visit ensail The grades one, two and three students at St. Boniface school in Zurich had a first-hand view of how communities work together last Thursday with the help of their teachers Mrs. Zyluk and Sister Mary Winnifred. The 52 students were bused to Hensall and divided into six groups. Each group had a stu- dent leader as well as a mother to keep them together and on schedule. Each student was provided with a booklet containing a map of King St., the six businesses they were to visit and questions to consider while they were bakery shown around each business. The Bake Shop was perhaps the highlight of the six businesses as owner Ulrich Duttman pre- sented each student with a freshly baked doughnut. From there the students went on to the grocery store. Here each group was in charge of buy- ing one vegetable. Friday these vegetables were made into a salad and served as a basic introduction into some aspects of nutrition. The groups also visited a cloth- ing store, the library, a hardware store and the Bank.