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Christmas Parade
Santa Claus
arrives in Zurich
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Christmas
in Lucan
Santa Claus
busy on weekend
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Community
investment
Foundation announces
2006 grants
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Council
starts to
work
By Pat Bolen
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
ETER HAWKS
vs LAMBETH
FRI., DEC. 8 8:30 P.M. SH REC CENTRE
EXETER — The new South Huron council
started its work Monday night with the
swearing in of Mayor Ken Oke, Deputy
Mayor George Robertson and councillors Jim
Dietrich, David Frayne, Cathy Seip and Tom
Tomes.
Following the swearing in ceremony, Oke
gave his inaugural speech, saying he is
proud to have the honour of serving South
Huron as Mayor.
Oke said the council has a lot of hard work
and tough decisions ahead of it, with issues
such as finishing the flood control project on
the east side of Exeter as well as sewers in
Crediton and Centralia.
Other projects mentioned by Oke included
the Lake Huron water pipeline that will be
starting in the summer as well as working
on a new community centre in Crediton in
the near future.
Oke added that raising taxes was an easy
solution to problems and challenged the
council to come up with new ideas to
address issues.
Following the address, a recommendation
was brought to council proposing that the
times for council meetings be changed to a
start time of 5:30 p.m.
The recommendation would see staff
reports to the council start at 5:30 p.m. with
delegations starting at 7 p.m.
Chief administrative officer Larry Brown
told council the earlier start time will allow
fewer meetings to extend past 10 p.m.
Coun. Dietrich said of the motion that if the
meetings were going to start at 5 p.m., they
may as well start at 1 p.m.
Coun.Frayne replied that if the meetings
were to start at 1 p.m., he would lose a day's
pay in order to attend.
Robertson said the changed start time had
been looked at in order to make days shorter
for municipal staff.
Dietrich asked if the new time could be
tried for the winter and looked at again in
the spring.
The motion was then passed to change
meetings to the 5:30 p.m. start time effective
Dec. 18.
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Christmas lighting — Christmas came to Hensall Dec. 1 with the lighting of the village
ChristmasTree,with Bluewater Mayor Bill Dowson and Hensall councillor KayWise lighting up
the tree. Santa paid a visit to the Hensall fire hall afterwards, with Erika Graham getting the chance
to speak to him and helpers Mckenna Clendenning (left) and Nicole Millar. (photos/Pat Bolen)
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