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The Huron Expositor, 1987-11-04, Page 1ri Sports — A14, A15 Walton — A5 ' Dublin — A5 Obituaries —..A11 Graduations — A11 INDEX. Weddings — All Births — All Hensall — A7 People — A11 Remembrance Day - A8, A9 Pay tribute November 11. See pages A8, A9. Serving the corimmunities and areas of .Seaforth, Brussels, Dublin, Hensall and Walton oionsimorrimommowli HURON EXPOSITOR, WEDNESDAY; NOVEMBER. 4,1987 50 cents "a copy SERVED WITH A SNARL - Marilyn Dalrymple and the rest of the staff at Pinellas restaurant in Seaforth caught the halloween bug this year. Council seeks delegation In a recorded vote of 27-4 at its regular October session, Huron County Council decided to go ahead with pians to ask the provincial government to delegate ap- proval authority for certain planning and development functions to the county. The issue was first proposed to council in September, but was deferred until this month to allow member municipalities time to get more .information before their representatives were asked to vote on the planning and development committee recommendation to seek delegation of authority. In approving the recommendation, coun- cil also adopted a resolution requesting the Ontario Minister of Municipal Affairs to for- mally delegate to Huron County: '--approval authority for plans of subdivi- sion and plans of condominium. —approval authority for part lot control bylaws. —approval authority for road closings. —The review of zoning bylaws, including official plan conformity, minister's zoning orders and provincial policy. " At the October session, Exeter Reeve Bill • Mickle again asked council to consider • allowingmore time to pass before it made any decision on the recoinmendation. He referred to a letter which Exeter had sent to all members of council which lists a number : of concerns the town has with the proposal. In addition to the question of neutrali'ty, concern was also expressed by Reeve Mickle that county council may, as the town's fetter states, not be sufficiently com- petent or interested enough in the planning Mechanism to give reasoned and thoughtful consideration to planning matters' in any one municipality. Instead, county council may decide to further delegate authority in the future to the planning and development department or even to the county planning director.. - "This is a very dangerous situation which could be developing here," Reeve Mickle said. "It could possibly mean establishing the county planning department as the total .authority." Wayne ,Oaldweil, senior planner with,the ,planning and development committee, agreed With Reeve Mickle"'s suggestion that the Planning Act leaves room for further !delegation of authority by; county council, but the "real questipn" is whether or not the department wants that authority. "VVithin the department, there has been no discus- sion on further delegation nor, in my opi- nion, is there any desire for it,' Mr, Caldwell said: Exeter Deputy Reeve Lossy Fuller again suggested that council defer any actien until ail municipalities have been briefed on the proposal by planning department representatives. i guess we could defer it until it goes away, but we are going to have to make a decision on it sooner or later," Warden Brian McBurney said in reply to • the suggestion. Hullett Township Reeve Tom Cunia- ingham said to continue deferring the recommendation could be considered as an admission by council to the provincial government that it is not capable of handl- ing more responsibility. He reminded coun- cil, "We keep Asking the province to give us more responsibility. Let's get on with it. I feel we should take that responsibility and do it." In the recorded vote, those in favor of the recommendation were: Grey Township Reeve Leona Armstrong, Tuokersmithh Township Reeve Bob Bell, Seaforth Reeve Bill Bennett, Clinton Reeve Bee Cooke, Goderich Township Deputy Reeve Laurie Cox, West Wawanosh Township Reeve Cecil Cranston, Mr. Cunningham, Howick Township Reeve Gerald D'Arcey, Hay Township Deputy Reeve Claire Deichert, Zurich Reeve Bob Fisher, Morris Township Reeve Doug Fraser, Ashfield Township Reeve A. J. Gibson, McKillop Township Reeve Marie IHieknell, Bayfield Reeve Dave Johnston, Colborne Township Reeve Russ Kernighan, Wingham Reeve Bruce Meehan, Turnberry Township Reeve Brian McBurney, Stephen Township Deputy Reeve K. J. McCann, Usborne Township Reeve Gerry Prout, Stanley Township Reeve Clarence Rau, Hensall Reeve Jim Robinson,East Wawanosh Township Reeve Ernie Snell; Goderich• Township Reeve Grant„ Stirling, Stephen Township Reeve Tom Tomes, Blyth Reeve Albert Wasson, flay Township Reeve Lionel Wilder, Brussels Reeve Gordon Workman. In addition to Mrs. Fuller and Mr. ' Turn to page 4 • Apyors con.tinue_ strategy meetings BY ANDY BADER • this project, not only because of the chance • . A committee of concerned mayors of the to expand industrially, but tp upgrade their towns along Highway 8 in Southwestern On- ” existing highway. tario„have Continued to meet sinoe.. last Ortelli said Goderich Mayor Eileen ' February as they continue to 'plan their Palmer, Seaforth Mayor Alf Ross, Stratford strategy on expanding the highway from the Mayor Ted Blowes and economic develop- - present • two lanes to four from Kitchener ment representatives from both Seaforth clear on through to. Goderich. and Goderich attended the meeting last This past February, the mayors :of the Thursday. Mitchell Mayor Harold Jordan towns situated along tire. highway, met with and •Clinton .Mayor• John Balfour. were Ontario Minister of Transportation and unable to attend. . Communications Ed Fulton to express their Ortelli said the committee of mayors plan need for a four -lane highway.. Fulton was to meet on a three or six-month basis, quite receptive to the visit; and told the. ' depending on whatever's necessary, to keep on top of the issue. ”"The committee feels very strongly right now that very little has been done in getting traffic in our part of the province," Ortelli said. "In order to promote industry, you need a better traffic flow. We feel it's warranted." • • Ortelli said during last week's meeting that Stratford Mayor Ted Blowes would be "quite receptive" to a truck bypass through group that a plan for future development would be drawn up, Last .Thursday, the mayors again met, this time in .Mitchell, to discuss their next step in staying on top of the issue. Mitchell representative Lloyd Ortelli said a meeting with the MTC engineers who are planning the development project has been tenatively set for Thursday, December 10th.at 10 a.m. at the Mitchell Town Hall. "We'd like for them (engineers) to visit the Festival City.Ori mall Stratford plan - and explain what their future plans are,". Originally:, ned Ortelli said last.week in an interview, on confronting the ministry themselves "There is a need for it, everyone agrees on and having the MTC construct four lanes that, and we'd like to continue to display our just to the limits of the city. Ortelli said this interests and show that .we're keenly in- agreement to back the affected towns is an terested in this developrrient," important step in receiving the eventual go The' project, known henceforth as ahead.• Highway 408, involves all the towns and the "They've jumped on the bandwagon, City of Stratford westward from Kitchener. Ortelli said, "They've given us 100 per cent great that we're getting this co - Ne* Hamburg, 'Mitchell, Seaforth, Clinton support. It's and"Goderich have all showed an interest in operation." TrianglelDiscount burglarized Nothing is sacred, least of all during Crime Prevention Week,, as the Triangle Discount Store owners .in Seaforth 'found out. They were burglarized Monday night, The thief or thieves gained entry via a 'side door which they pried open. There is no alarm in the building to alert police of such an intrusion: Once inside the thieves grabbed 306 cartons of • cigarettes, a camera, five rolls of film, and a container of Bic lighters. The value of the goods was roughly. $6,000. Chief of Police Hal Claus says the thieves did little damage to the building and once inside they were very selective of what they took. Chief Claus.' says the police suspect everybody, but believe thethief had to have a market to sell off the large quantity of cigarettes that were stolen. Construction tender for health care centre awarded Construction of a Seaforth .Community Health Care Centre to complement the ser- vice of Seaforth Community Hospital will be underway by mid November as a result of the awarding of a tender at a meeting of the hospital building committee on Friday. The successful bid was that of Wayne and Harold Smith Construction Ltd., Seaforth who tendered $767,400, the lowest of six bids received. Tenders ranged from the low Smith bid to a high bid of $811,925. The low bid is subject to a reduction of $28,000.sinoe the committee decided to postpone asphalt paving at this time and have the work done at the same time as paving involved with the addition to the main hospital building is car- ried out, Architectural and engineering costs are additional. The 8,200 square foot one storey building was designed by Kyles, Garratt and Marklevit2 of Stratford. It will be located north of the present hospital. A sod turning ceremony is tentatively planned for Friday afternoon, November 13 and completion is scheduled for mid May. The Health Care Centre is the second ohse:o'f a four.ohase two million dollar.plus'. project that is underway. An updated fire ;alarm system for the hospital is in the final stages of completion and approval for the updating of the electrical and mechanical services at a cost of $700,000 was received last week. Engineers now are at work on details. Final drawings for a major addition of10;900 feet toihe 'Mehl hospital are advan- cing and this phase is expected to be ready for tender call early in the new year. The Health Care~centre is being financed on a full recovery basis, building committee chairman James Etue emphasized. All the facilities and accommodation which the building will provide are being rented to the users. The Health Care Centre is being built by and will be owned by the hospital. Recital proceeds are at a level that Meets operating costs as well as the retirement of capital construction costs over a period of 20 years. The Centre will provide facilities for six doctors as well as accommodation for the Heron Health Unit and a psychiatric are department. Four of the six offices have been rented to doctors of the Seaforth. Medical ica Clinic. 1 ST. JAMES SEPARATE SCHOOL had MI afternoon Halloween party this year which included a costume contest" jello eating,. apple btfbbing and other events, This apple bobbing competition was between Tom Hunt and Andy Parker who came up with the 16 Last month, a letter addressed to the members of . the delegation who visited Fulton at Queen's Park in February receiv- ed an updated letter from the minister. Phase one of the project is Set for the spring of '88, that is, four -laving the highway from Regional Road 1 (County Road 22) of Perth. County easterly to just east of Regional Road 6 (Old Highway? and 8, New Hamburg to the New' Dundee Road). A new bridge over the Nith River -in New • Hamburg has' to be completed, and it is an- ticipated, Fulton said, that construction will be completed by the fall of 1989. - Ideally,• the local committee would like the second phase of the project moved up, Se that steady progress is being made on a four -lane highway from New Hamburg to .Stratford and ah eventual bypass of Strat- ford. Eventually, the project will continue westward through to Goderich. Fulton wrote in his 'letter that a review and a complete update of information per- taining to a four -lane high'Way from the Stratford bypass through to Goderich would be completed by the end of the year. Ortelli said the next meeting date of December 10th gives the engineers involved 'time to undergo their review and explain their future steps to the committee. "I trust that the actions mentioned are ' considered as a major step towards ad- dressing the traffic problems in the Highway 7/8 corridor westerly from Kit- chener," Fulton concluded. LUANNE PHAIR Deputy Clerk Hensall bound Seaforth will be minus its Deputy Clerk after Friday of this week:. Luanne Phair, who has held the position since Aprilof 1982, has accepted the posi- tion of Clerk Treasurer, Tax Collector for the Village of Hensall. It is a step hp from the position she holds in Seaforth, Although Miss Phair's resignation is not effective until November 13, unofficially she will be finished on Friday, as she takes a weeks holiday still owing to her for this year. "I'm looking forward to it very much," she said about the new job. . "It'll be a great challenge, and I'm very excited about it." Santa Claus parade to light up the town The Seaforth Lions Club is hoping to "Lite up the Town"with its 1987 Santa Claus Parade, scheduled to take place Fri- day night, December 4. It will begin at 6:30 p.m. from the Seaforth Arena. "With the assistance of the local BIA, we are looking forward to officially ushering the Christmas Season full of its music, bright lights, excitement and fun, into Seaforth with the parade," said the Lions Club: Organizations, clubs, businesses and in- dividuals ate being challenged to enter floats in the parade, and the Lions Club has suggested Christmas songs be used as float themes. Those people not interested in working on a float are being Asked to consider securing a costume of a favorite T.V. character and walking the route, or perhaps financially sponsoring a band in the parade. Plans are also in the making for a full commentary of the parade as it proceeds down the main street,,With recognition of each organization's contribution. Portable stands are being secured from the Fair Board in order to provide seating on the main Street, Santa Claus will be available to the children after the parade at a Santa Centre located in the former Country Girl Waterb- ed store. grade should co An one planning on being a part of this year's p ntact the Lions y g Clnb'(Roas Riney) as seen as possible.