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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1975-10-16, Page 1NO 41 - FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1975 2.(X Per Copy 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 (continued on page 13) 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 (continued on page 16) 3.,�� x y r w 3sJ- rr xas� t`w .ry .t'�t£4So o?f4.'�Aa�'F31`,e,,',ayrha',i 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.