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PAGE 20. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 2018.
Several file papers for election
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
With nominations now ongoing
for the municipal election this fall,
several locals are planning their
campaigns to run for local council
positions.
In Central Huron, Mayor Jim Ginn
is running for the mayor's position
once again. Councillor Dan
Colquhoun has also filed nomination
papers to serve as an East Ward
councillor for another term, while
West Ward Councillor Alison Lobb
has filed her papers for another term
in her current position.
In North Huron, former
Councillor Bernie Bailey is the first
to run for a council position, filing
papers to run for reeve after a failed
bid in the 2014 election. Agost
Vaday has also filed papers to be a
councillor in the Wingham ward.
On the school board front, Colleen
Schenk is running again to be the
area's Avon Maitland District
School Board trustee, while Denis
Trudel has filed to become the
French Separate School board
trustee.
In Huron East, Bernie MacLellan
has filed to become the
municipality's mayor once again.
Police exit costs a
moving target: Seip
Continued from page 1
pointed out that, if the commission
ruled that the Wingham Police
Service should stay, not proceeding
with hiring now would make it very
difficult for the board to meet its
commitment to the association to
have two officers on every shift by
April of next year.
Throughout the discussion, Poole
said that he was told by North Huron
administration that the OPP
wouldn't be taking over until
February at the earliest, whereas the
first batch of new hires would be
graduating from the police college
and on active duty in Wingham in
January.
The board wondered about the
financial implications of continuing
hiring, with member Kathy Adams
pointing out that taxpayers would
essentially be paying officers to go
to school.
Board member Bill Gregoriadis
said that he believed people would
still consider a job with North Huron
because any experience is good
experience and getting through the
college would give the hires "a foot
in the door".
Seip pointed out that anyone hired
would be entitled to a severance
package, minimal though it might
be.
After debating the issue, the board
decided to have Seip and Vice -Chair
Joan van der Meer talk to the
association and ask if delaying
the hiring and training was a
possibility, though van der Meer
aired some frustrations about the
process.
"I think we have a duty to talk to
[the association]," she said. "We've
been forced [between] a rock and a
hard place by council flip-flopping.
We negotiated in good faith based on
a decision that was made and it got
changed."
The board passed a motion to have
Seip and van der Meer meet with the
president and vice-president of the
association regarding the hiring
process and asking to delay hiring
until the commission made its
decision.
The motion didn't include
wording to either delay or encourage
Poole from going ahead with hiring
because the board hoped to meet
with the association before Poole
was set to hire new officers.
If the association wasn't amicable
to the request, Seip said he would
call a meeting of the board in early
July to further discuss the issue. The
board doesn't typically meet in July
or August, however Seip said that a
meeting in August was likely
unavoidable.
EXIT COSTS
Seip went on to explain that North
Huron's request for exit costs was
something that, following the
council meeting at which it was
requested, wasn't feasible.
"I had a discussion with [Chief
Administrative Officer Dwayne
Evans] about the exit costs," he said.
"I told him it's premature for us to
calculate what some of those costs
may be."
Seip said that, while base salary is
easy to determine, overtime and
banked time would be difficult to
forecast.
Poole pointed out that the
severance would be different for
officers hired by the OPP.
The board passed a motion to
defer the request until more
information regarding the future of
the department was made available.
`Curling Club' opens
Continued from page 19
a fallacy and certainly one that's
becoming less and less relevant by
the day.
What plays out on stage is
expertly directed by long-time
Festival collaborator Miles Potter,
who worked with both Crawford and
visionary production designer Steve
Lucas to make audiences feel like
they're standing right there on the
ice with the curlers.
Speaking with The Citizen for its
"Salute to the Blyth Festival", Potter
said he was pleased Lucas was
taking on the challenge of producing
curling on stage, because he had no
idea where to start. In the weeks that
followed, they certainly figured it
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Current Deputy -Mayor Joe
Steffler is running to be a Seaforth
councillor. Huron East Council
recently eliminated the at -large
deputy -mayor position and decided,
after the election, to promote one of
the councillors to the position.
Current Brussels Councillor John
Lowe has opted to run for his
position once again, as have current
Tuckersmith Councillor Ray
Chartrand and McKillop Councillor
Brenda Dalton. This is in addition to
newcomer Curtis McKinnon, who
has filed to run as a councillor in the
Grey Ward.
David Blaney is looking to serve
as a Brussels councillor again, while
incumbent Seaforth Councillor Bob
Fisher is also looking to fill his
position once again.
In Morris-Turnberry, current
Councillor Jamie Heifer has put his
name forward in hopes of becoming
the municipality's next mayor.
Incumbent Councillor Sharen Zinn
and newcomer Andrew Somers have
both filed to run for councillor
positions.
At council's June 5 meeting,
Mayor Paul Gowing announced that
he would not be running for re-
election, after two terms as mayor
and several years as a councillor
before that.
Nominations for the election close
on July 27 at 2 p.m. and the election
is set for Monday, Oct. 22.
Get off the tracks
When the squeeze is on, you run the catcher, just ask
Hullett Central Public School student Ryan Cowan, right,
who scored a run in soccer baseball by rushing through
Axeton Wright, left. (Denny Scott photo)
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