The Times Advocate, 2005-09-14, Page 3Wednesday,September 14, 2005
Exeter Times–Advocate
Morleyrunning for warden
By Scott Nixon The county warden sits as head of county council and
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF represents the county at a variety of functions, including
union negotiations with county staff and representing
Huron County at Queen's Park.
"It's all part of the job," Morley says.
"We really need to be voicing our needs in Toronto.
I've been on council for 18 years ... and I've made a lot
of connections in the provincial system and I don't think
that will hurt me. I think that's a real bonus."
Asked what the main county issues are, Morley says
controlling tax increases are at the top of the list.
"We've got to get that slowed down," he says, pointing
out that counties are still dealing with provincial down-
loading.
Morley has spent the last two terms as South Huron's
mayor, before which he spent 12 years on the former
Usborne Township council, including three years as
reeve and three as deputy reeve.
He also chaired the transition board that oversaw the
amalgamation of Exeter, Usborne and Stephen.
SOUTH HURON — Rob Morley wants to be county
warden.
The South Huron mayor has thrown his hat into the
ring, seeking a one-year term as Huron County warden.
He'll find out Dec. 6 if he's successful. So far, Morley is
the lone candidate for the job, which will be voted on by
Huron County councillors.
There are a couple of reasons Morley decided to go
for the job. First, the upcoming warden term will coin-
cide with Morley's last year as mayor for the current
term.
"If I'm going to do it, I've got to do it now," Morley
says, "in case I'm not on county council next round."
Morley has been on county council for eight years and
he says "the ambition is to move up the ladder."
Also, by becoming warden, he would be following in
his father Bill Morley's footsteps — Morley's dad was
county warden in 1980.
Morley has been on county council for eight years,
making himself and Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh's
Ben Van Diepenbeek the only two councillors who have
been on county council since before amalgamation,
when Morley represented the former Usborne
Township as reeve.
Van Diepenbeek has already served a term as war-
den.
Morley, who runs his own trucking business, says the
new position will make his schedule busier, but he'll
have to make time for it.
Walking for victims of
Hurricane Katrina
Hensall meeting
By Pat Bolen
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
HENSALL — The
meeting to present the
Hensall business plan
for a proposed deamal-
gamation from the
Municipality of
Bluewater will be held
Sept. 19 at the Hensall
Community Centre.
Deamalgamation com-
mittee president Kay
Wise said, "We've got
the business plan ready
and we're going to meet
with the people of the
village. They will take a
vote as to whether they
want to go farther after
they've seen the fig-
ures."
The meeting starts at
7:30 p.m. and Wise
urged everyone to come
out.
"We really need their
support on this, whether
it is yes or no, it doesn't
matter. We'd just like a
lot of people there so we
know that we've looked
after a majority of the
folks here."
After the business plan
is presented, a question
and answer plan will fol-
low.
"From there, we'll see
where we're going with
it," said Wise.
SAAN
Grand Bend Public School students Mallory
Overholt (left) and Ashlyn Brown have organized a
walk and bakesale fund-raiser Sept. 24 to raise
money for the victims of hurricane Katrina.
(photo/Pat Bolen)
By Pat Bolen
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
GRAND BEND — The
victims of hurricane
Katrina in the United
States will be receiving a
little more help thanks to
two residents of Grand
Bend.
Grand Bend Public
School students Mallory
Overholt, 11, and Ashlyn
Brown, 13, said after
reading about the hurri-
cane and watching CNN,
they decided to hold a
fund-raising walk and
bakesale Sept. 24.
In the event of rain, the
event will be held Sept. 25.
The walk will begin at
10:30 a.m. and go from
the Blue Water Motel to
Dale's Countryside
Antique Market and back.
Pledge forms need to be
handed in the day of the
event in order to walk.
A bakesale will be held
at the Blue Water Motel
from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Baked goods are wel-
come to be donated and
need to be dropped off at
the motel between 9 a.m.
and 10.
Prizes will be awarded
to the top two adults and
top two children with a
minimum of $100 raised.
Funds raised by the
events will be donated
through the Canadian Red
Cross.
Donations are welcome
and are to be dropped off
at the motel Sept. 24
between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Pledge forms are avail-
able at Blue Water Motel,
Aunt Gussies, Peckitts
Mens wear and Sobeys
and also at www.grand-
bend.com/katrina.
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