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The Times Advocate, 2005-07-11, Page 22 Exeter Times–Advocate Wednesday, July 13, 2005 Regional wrap up Boy drowns at beach GODERICH — During an outing with friends on the Canada Day week- end a 6 -year-old Bayfield boy drowned at Rotary Cove Beach. The Goderich Signal -Star reports Tyler Reid could not swim and was found submerged in waste - high water. A family friend was supervising six kids between the ages of six and 11 when the incident happened. A private family service was held for Tyler July 5 in Clinton. Priests leave parishes SEAFORTH — Two local communities are losing their spir- itual leaders. According to the Huron Expositor Rev. Michael Atkins is leaving Seaforth's St. Thomas Anglican, Clinton's St. Paul's Anglican and Mitchell's Trinity Anglican churches. Atkins will be liv- ing in Kitchener and working on his doc- torate in theology. Meanwhile Father Lance Magdziak is leaving several Catholic churches including: Seaforth's St. James, Clinton's St. Joesph's and the now closed St. Columban. Magdziak is await- ing a call from the military and hopes to be sent to Europe. School trustee questions summer renovation projects By Stew Slater SPECIAL TO THE T -A SEAFORTH — Perth East trustee Tina Traschel continues her close scruti- ny of what she sees as an unnecessarily rapid-fire construction and renova- tion schedule at the Avon Maitland District School Board. At the board's final regu- lar meeting of the school calendar June 28, Traschel registered the lone opposing vote in what is often a routine decision to grant administration the power to approve ten- dered contracts over the summer. "I guess I was under the impression that what we started for the summer was already enough," she told business superinten- dent Janet Baird -Jackson. This came after Baird - Jackson had informed the board the possibility exist- ed that the approval of tenders might be neces- sary over the summer months for the following projects: re -roofing at Goderich District Collegiate Institute and Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton, boiler replacements at Upper Thames Elementary School in Mitchell and both of the board's Stratford high schools, Nine lifeguards are working at the community pool in Lucan Biddulph this sum- mer to make everyone's swimming experience safe and fun. Top (left to right): Roowan Fox, Hayley Rushton, Lindsay Medd (head lifeguard) and Brandan Lindenfield (head lifeguard). Bottom (left to right): Matt Steeper, Ashlynn Read, Meredith Field, Kyle McKinlay and Finlay McKinlay (not shown). Public swimming, Monday to Friday runs from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. The cost is $2. Public swim- ming on the weekend runs from 1:30-4:30 p.m. and admission is $3. For more information call 227-1278 or 227-4442. (photo/Stephanie Mandziuk) Bayfield subdivision meets resistance Continued from front page Bayfield. "There are a lot of people who can't afford $400,000 or $500,000 homes," said Durand. "If only wealthy are welcome in Bayfield, it won't grow." Huron County Planner Sandra Weber said she recommended deferring the decision until Durand could talk to the neighbours. Asked which neighbours Durand should have to talk to, Bluewater Mayor Dowson said there are no guidelines on what constitutes neighbours. "The developer knows what he is up against. We can't tell him who to talk to," said Dowson. A motion was then passed deferring the decision until Durand is able to con- fer with residents, as well as another stating a decision would not be made on the subdivision until the Bayfield byelec- tion is held in October. In other business, council passed a res- olution officially declaring the office of Councillor of Ward of Bayfield vacant. It also passed a by-law stating the byelection will be held Oct. 13 and a sec- ond bylaw that it will done in a 'vote by mail.' and lighting upgrades at various elementary facili- ties. Ever since the board learned in February about its $15 million share of the provincial government's Good Places to Learn ini- tiative, Traschel has been quick to question Baird - Jackson about tendered contracts. Primarily, she has won- dered whether those not covered under Good Places to Learn — because they're not deemed "high and urgent" priority according to Education Ministry calculations — should be done at all. In some cases, portions of particular projects qual- ify as "high and urgent," while other portions of the same projects must be funded through the board's existing Facilities Renewal grant. An exam- ple is the $748,761 con- tract with Tonda Construction, approved by trustees June 28, for ren- ovations to the Technology wing of St. Marys DCVI. Upgrades in heating, ventilation, air condition- ing (HVAC), electrical dis- tribution and fire separa- tions will be funded through Good Places to Learn. Facilities Renewal money, meanwhile, will be used to pay for re -roofing — the last of three phases to completed at DCVI over the past three years — as well as substantial changes to the teaching spaces. "There will be a consoli- dation of the former machine shop and sheet metal welding (space) to create a metal manufac- turing learning area and welding stations, as well as creating a computer- ized drafting area," stated a report for trustees. Baird -Jackson described it as the second tender — after one already approved for South Huron District High School in Exeter — brought forward in response to the "five- year plan" drawn up by the board's Technical Education steering com- mittee. North Huron trustee Colleen Schenk comment- ed "it's good to see Good Places to Learn money used for tech projects." And Traschel voted in favour of the Tonda Construction tender with- out registering any opposi- tion. Her concern about ten- ders, however, shifted at the June 28 meeting to include what she sees as a potentially high-cost sum- mer renovation schedule being placed outside trustee control. She wondered why the tendering processes weren't either put in place in time for trustees to vote this spring, or delayed so they could be introduced next fall. Baird -Jackson respond- ed that the sudden influx of Good Places to Learn money across the province created the potential for a great many school -related projects being sent to ten- der at the same time. The fear is this will drive prices up — a fear the business superintendent says is now becoming reality. The Avon Maitland board's goal was to quick- ly get as many projects to tender as possible, thereby securing prices before the competition for contrac- tors pushes costs higher throughout the system. 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