HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1975-10-16, Page 1NO 41 - FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1975
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HARVEST QUEEN - Mrs. Marian Heil, of Hensall, was picked as "Harvest Queen" last
Saturday night when the Kinettes held their annual Harvest Ball. On the left is Mrs. Karen
Schurman, president of the Hensall Kinettes, while on the right is Mrs. Sue Corriveau, of
Goderich, last year.'s Queen. (Photo courtesy of Exeter T -A)
Decision soon on G
The stench has been so bad
merchants at times have had
to put covers over the entr-
ances to storm drains on
Grand $end's main street,
an Ontario Municipal Board
hearing was told Tuesday.
Grand Bend Reeve Bob
Sharen said human feces were
found in the catch basins of
the drains.
He made his observations
during testimony before a
hearing into the village's
request for construction
of a sanitary sewage system
which it hopes to see begun
by next year at an estimat-
ed cost of $3.1 million.
Mr. Sharen warned that the
village's main street could
become economically obsolete
unless action is taken and
nothing can_, -be done until
sewers have been installed.
He also told the hearing
the village is ineligible for
National Housing Act mort-
gage loans through Central
Mortgage and Housing Corp-
oration. Lots are considered
too small to use septic tanks.
If the sewer system is app-
roved by the OMB, NHA
mortgage money will be made
available to applicants even
before the sewer system is
completed, he said.
Criticism at the hedaring
seemed aimed more at the
fact the system proposed
won't be comprehensive
enough than whether it is
needed.
The proposed scheme,
according to officials who
outlined its size, would serve
four initial areas of Grand
Bend and is sized to meet
expanded needs for the next
Retarded facilities
in capital forecast
The Huron County Board
of Education will be submit-
ting a five year capital exp-
enditure forecast to the
Ontario Ministry of Educat-
ion for more than $825,000.
Most of the projects named
would be scheduled for the
year 1976. Included would
be provisions for three home
economics and industrial
arts facilities. One would be
at Hullett Central School,
another at Tu'rnberry Central
School and a third in the
southern portion of the coun-
ty.
Costs of each are estim-
ated at $195,680 and locat-
ion of the southern facility is
to be determined by the educ-
ation committee.
Renovations costing $63,000
are planned to provide an up-
dated chemistry laboratory
at South Huron District High
School in Exeter with a
scheduled date in 1976.
The top priority on the list
was renovations or addition
of facilities to the present
Huron Hope School for the
trainable retarded at J.A.D.
McCurdy School at Huron
Park.
On this subject, Director
of Education John Cochrane
said, "I hope we could conv-
ert two class rooms at Huron
Hope in a similar fashion
as we did in Wingham. In
Victoria school in Goderich
and Wingham we have two of
the best facilities for retard-
ed children in Western Ont-
ario and we should bring
the Huron Hope school up
to the same standard."
Two other projects are
planned for 1978. They
include providing an instrum-
ental music facility at Sea -
forth District High School
and a staff room at South
Huron High School.
The Seaforth project would
include instruments at a total
cost of $50,000. Estimated
cost of the South Huron staff
room is $35,000.
Earlier in the meeting,
acquisition of instructional
computers was tabled. This
item was then added to the
capital forecast in the amount
of $38,000.
sewers
20 years. 'It would not init-
ially serve the large Southcott
Pines development which en-
compasses areas both inside
and outside the village.
The hearing wastold the
Southcott area, built on sandy
soil, was not included in a
study of pollution problems
because officials had been told
there were none, said Ted
Constantine, chief environ-
mental engineer for M.M. Dil-
lon Ltd., of London, consult-
ing engineers retained by the
ministry of the environment
to complete a conceptual
study of the proposal.
Bill Lloyd, chief public
health inspector for the Lamb -
ton County Health Unit, said
problems with septic tanks in
Grand Bend date back to at
least 1968 when the unit
first became responsible
for the Grand Bend area.
Since then, the problems have
been increasing, he said.
Mr. Lloyd said most of the
lots in the village are too
small to support an adequate
septic tank system and this
includes both residential and
business properties. In some
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Z
rich council rd
contract for highway
At a meeting of thecouncil
of the Village of Zurich last
week, a contract was approved
for the re -construction of
highway 84 throughout the
municipality. C.A. McDowell
Construction Co. Limited of
Centralia have been awarded
the rebuilding job at a price
of $284,514.20. They were the
lowest tender received.
Present for the opening of
the tenders were L.E. Authier
and Russ Jackson of the
Ministry of Transportation
and Communications, along
with engineer B.M. Ross,
of Goderich, who has complet-
ed the design work in connect-
ion with the project.
Approval of the Ministry
is now necessary before the
project gets under way. It is
hoped to begin work on the
program this fall. The entire
costs involved with the re-
construction of the highway
are borne by the province
under the connecting link
agrement with the village.
Building permits in the
amount of almost $60,000
were approved by the council
at their meeting. The largest
was a permit in the amount
of $37,500 for H. Stumpf,
for a new home on East Street
adjacent to the medical clinic
of Dr. J. Wallace. Other
permits were as follows; Vict-
or Deichert, $425; Terry Rau,
$5,000; K.M. Breakey, $6,000
Ken McCarter, $3,000; Ray
Weido, $2,000; and Clarence
Gascho, $5,760.
In other business at their
meeting cuncil declined an
invitation from Pineridge
Chalet to participate in the
area municipal Christmas
party on November 28.
Mike Auger, from the oper-
ations management of the
Ministry of Environment,
met with council to discuss
and further familiarize them
with the operation and man-
agement of the provincially
owned sewage system in
Zurich. It is the plan of the
Ministry to review the oper-
ational costs of the system
with council again in 1976,
at which time service charges
might be adjusted to provide
for increased or decreased
costs of operation.
Accounts were approved
for payment in the amount
of $20,167.18..Council agreed
to petition the Ministry of
Transportation and Commun-
ications for an advance sub-
sidy on road expenditures of
$29,446, to September 30,
1975.
Suggest lakeside
area become
communityone
A suggestion by South-
cott Pines Limited that some-
day the lakeshore area from
Port Franks to Drysdale
should all be one community
was revealed to Grand Bend
village council at its meeting
last Monday night.
The suggestion, in a let-
ter to Lambton county regard-
ing planning, said that the
areas which run alongside
Lake Huron have many prob-
lems in common while areas
set back from the lake are
more agriculturally oriented.
The letter also suggested
that Lambton county look
closely at planning studies
being carried out in Grand
Bend, Hay Township, Steph-
en township and Bosanquet
township.
Reeve Sharon suggested
that the letter indicated that
the development firm was
approaching a position where
it would request the village to
take over some of the serv-
ices now being performed
on a private basis. The roads
in SOuthcott Pines are priv-
ately owned and are not
plowed by the village.
In other business, council
agreed that if there was
enough demand, a fall clean-
up garbage pickup could be
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MINOR SPORTS OFFICIALS - The annual meeting of the Zurich Minor Athletic Association
was held last Thursday night, when a new slate of officers for the coming year was picked.
Left to right are Ray McKinnon, past president; Irvin Martin, president; Mrs. Ruth Willert,
secretary -treasurer; Don Oke, first vice-president; and Eugene O'Brien, second vice-presid-
ent.