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Home My WebLink AboutThe Times Advocate, 2006-12-27, Page 11n o 0 0 z W o l i > m o • 9 m W III z Q .4 1 2 9 mi • W m a 0 a 1- • 0W z .1 o ws W m z o i u (Across from G.G. Goettler Fine Furniture) 9 PEACE • JOY • HAPPINESS • LOVE • FRIENDSHIP • HEALTH BOXING WEEK EVENT! at Dublin Mercantile Starts Wed., Dec. 27th and ends Sun., Dec. 31st/06 ALL CHRISTMAS STOCK 40% OFF (Already Reduced Prices) EVERYTHING IN STORE 25°'° OFF (Including Sale Merchandise) Bedding, Prints, Lamps, Vintage Furniture, Country Home Candles and Lang, Pine Ridge Art and Amcal Calendars all included! DUBLIN MERCANTILE 59 Mill Street, Dublin (519) 345-9922 Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Times—Advocate 11 !!1E1==) JUNE 7 • The Exeter Fall Fair has been cancelled. The Exeter Agricultural Society officially made the announcement last week, citing a shortage of volun- teers. Agricultural Society secretary/treasurer Norma Cockwill said there is no possible way the fair can go ahead for 2006, as there simply isn't enough time to prepare. A plea by the Agricultural Society in an April letter to the editor asking for volunteers was met with no response from the public. • Frustrated with the province making it "impossi- ble or extremely difficult" for him to buy his building and expand, the owner of Exi-Plast has admitted he's looking to leave Huron Park. "We're running out of alternatives," Frank Zawalsky told the Times -Advocate last week. As has been reported, the province announced in August 2004 it would begin selling the government- owned industrial side of the former air force base to its industrial tenants. What followed, though, were numerous delays in the process that led to the indus- tries complaining to South Huron council about the lack of success they were having with the Ontario Realty Corporation (ORC). When negotiations began in earnest, the ORC forced the Huron Park businesses to sign a gag order, preventing them from speaking publicly about the subject. JUNE 14 • Huron -Bruce MPP Carol Mitchell admitted last week the privatization of the industrial side of Huron Park "has been a struggle." Despite this, Mitchell told the Times -Advocate she is hopeful there will be announcements soon that sever- al industries hi the park have bought their properties. • Huron -Bruce MPP Carol Mitchell announced addi- tional funding to hospitals in her riding last Friday and, for only the second time in the province's histo- ry, hospitals will know what funding they will receive in future years. Mitchell visited South Huron Hospital, the last stop in her day -long visit to the seven hospitals in Huron - Bruce. Exeter's hospital will receive an additional $239,700 for 2006/07, and total funding of $6,144,800 for 2007/08 and $6,295,800 for 2008/09. JUNE 21 • The municipality's efforts to go ahead with a stormwater management project to prevent the east- ern portion of Exeter from flooding hit "a serious set- back" recently when the three involved property owners didn't sign a proposed deal by the June 13 deadline. Coun. Pete Armstrong, a member of South Huron's stormwater management committee, along with councillors George Robertson, Ken Oke and Harvey Ratz, made the announcement at Monday night's council meeting. • Hensall is about to see a major investment with the announcement last week that Commercial Alcohols Inc will be constructing a new $150 million ethanol plant in the community. The announcement was made by Huron -Bruce MPP Carol Mitchell June 15, who said the provincial Liberal government will be investing $12.5 million in the plant. The plant is expected to employ around 50 people when it becomes operational in 2008, according to Bliss Baker, a vice-president of Commercial Alcohols. JUNE 28 • "This will have a significant boost to local corn producers," says Huron County Corn Producers' Association president and corn, wheat and soybean farmer Bob Hallam of the Auburn area, speaking of the $150 million ethanol plant. The plant is "planned to be on the west side of the Goderich/Exeter Railroad on about 38 acres of land" in Hensall being built by Commercial Alcohols Inc., according to Hensall District Co-op CEO Earl Wagner. Access FREE Professional Resume Development Interview Preparation & Job Seekers & Coaching Club If you're unemployed... Call your local HERC office 519-235-0471 . m..,„�.,.. Canada GIMEEIAMM JULY 5 • The hospital is the soul of a community,” was the message expressed June 29 by Exeter resident and former South Huron Hospital Board Association (SHHA) laboratory technologist Denise Halpenny, who was guest speaker at the 2006 meeting of the SHHA in Exeter. It was the 53rd annual meeting of the board with board chairperson Glenn Bartlett saying a year ago the hospital chief executive officer Deb Hunt had just arrived at the hospital and is now a veteran. • Although reserve funds were drawn down in both cases to fund expenditures, both the Huron -Perth Catholic and Avon Maitland school boards approved balanced 2006-07 budgets June 27. "The Working Fund reserve was used up, and that's a concern for the board long-term," noted Huron -Perth management superintendent Gerry Thuss in an interview. "It's something that, over the next year as we talk together about the future of the board, we'll be looking at building up again if possi- ble." JULY 12 • After 18 years in municipal politics, including the last six as South Huron mayor, Rob Morley is calling it a day. Morley announced at the council meeting he will not seek re-election in this November's municipal election. "I want to walk away with a smile on my face and my head up," he told the Times -Advocate after the meeting. • You can't just tell people what they want to hear," said provincial Progressive Conservative party leader John Tory last week during a stop in Exeter, part of his tour through the western part of the province. After stopping hi Glencoe and visiting an automo- tive plant, Tory was in Exeter July 5 on his way to Lucknow and also stopped in Huron Park to meet with business owners and tour Goderich Aircraft. JULY 19 • About 1,000 fish are dead after a manure spill last week in St. Joesph. The Ontario Ministry of the Environment was noti- fied by residents July 13 as well as representatives of the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority who were coincidently sampling water that day. The smell of manure and the sight of many dead fish drove cottage goers indoors. The spill, which happened July 10, originating from what is believed to be a hog farm five kilometres inland did not reach St. Joesph beach until the after- noon of July 13, according the regional communica- tions advisor for the southwest region of the Ministry of Environment. • Health Minister George Smitherman was in Exeter July 12, visiting South Huron Hospital during one of his Huron County stops. Smitherman was taken on a tour of South Huron Hospital and the South Huron Medical Centre across the street. He was impressed with both locations. JULY 26 • Water and sewage remain the two biggest hurdles in making the $150 million Hensall ethanol plant a reality. That was the message July 19 at a public meeting at the Hensall Community Centre, hosted by the com- pany bringing the plant to Hensall, GreenField Ethanol (formerly Commercial Alcohols Inc.). The plant will produce 200 million litres of ethanol per year, consuming 20 million bushels of corn per year, primarily from local growers, although as GreenField vice-president of corporate affairs Bliss Baker said, Ontario doesn't produce enough corn for the province's needs, so some U.S. corn will be used. 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