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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1986-06-25, Page 11 INDEX Births /A9 Graduates /A13 Brussel$VAS • Classified /A10,.11,:12 Lt•eno Dublin /A8 -Oegln IA14 14 Entertainment /A14 Sports p Walton oits /A5 ies !A9 Family /A9, 13 Farm I Al2 Walttoo n 1I AA8 Serving the communities and areas of Sealorth, Brussels, Dublin, Hensall and Walton • ."iter. -Sts : Separate school board applauds passing of Bill 30. See page A3. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1986 — 14 PAGES 50 cents a copy Taxes to rise 7.1 per cent Seaforth residents will see their taxes rise 7.1 per cent as a result of a $1,398,385 budget set Thursday at a special meeting of council. But according to the town's Chief Admini- strator the townspeople will see more for the increase. "We've made a commitment to do the streets. We've done some resurfacing and some reconstruction, so teethe increase there will be a lot oflmighly visible, work done this year," said Jab Crocker. The budget calls for$490,311 or39 per cent of town revenue to be collected through taxation, while 37 per cent will come from provincial funds and 24 per cent from user "fees.. As set out the budget will see a projected deficit of $36,983. That will offset the $36;983 surplus from 1985. In 1986 the residential public school stipporterwith ahome assessed at $3,000 will pay,$976.97 in property. taxes, $64.87 more thanlast year. A separate school supporter with-Ihe same assessment will pay $981 in property taxes, $66 more than last year. As it stands the 1986 budget, in terms of expenditures, can be broken down into seven categories. Capital projects, as last year, will take the greatest•allotment of fundsat 22 per cent, `down one per cent from 1985. The Protection to Persons and Property (police I THINK I'M TURNING JAPANESE — Students at the Seaforth presented at their school. Family and friends of the students were Public School got Into the spirit of Expo last week, turning their Invited to the school to view the dlaplays•and each received a classrooms Into various countries, and themselves Into facslmitea of passport which was stamped at every country and province whose a number of different ethnic groups. Here, David Kennedy, Wendy "pavilion" they entered. Mcliwralth photo Boohert and Laurie Boven bid a welcome to Expo as It was and fire departments) are second in the list of town expenditures taking 20 per cent, while General Government, Transportation ser- vices and Environmental services will each take 15 per cent Culture and Recreation 12 per cent and Planning development and social services one per cent. In taxation the budget reflected an increase in the municipal mill rate of 8 per cent from 1985 with the setting of a:commercial and business mill rate of 187.826 mills and a residential mill rate of 159.652 mills: The county mill rate showed an 8 per cent increase with the commercial and business rate set at 44.748 mills and the residential rate at 38.034 mills. The public elementary school rates showed an increase of 8 per cent with the commercial and business mill rate set at 85.693 mills and the residential rate at 72.837 mills. The secondary school rate showed a one -per cent increase with the commercial and business mill rate' set at 64.828 mills and the residential rate at 55.102 mills and the separate elementary school rates showed a 7 per cent increase with the commercial and business rate set at 87.564 mills and the residential rate at 74.430 mills. These increases average out to the 7.1 per cent mentioned earlier. O.cigqualifies for Open §fdttikitritIiarea residents have riffled Satur a' and Senday. � � ,�,� Y, red-onto'attendtheae.kfkdiatiOVeri iiivnt is tan has 'spent the majority of the last or at leaSE keep track of how the event months in the United States playing on the fig' TPA tour. Heplans to spend the summer Tan Doig, son of Mary and Ken Doig, of P Seaforth gained an exemption into the event • playing on the CPA tour and just recently and will be in the fieldonThursday and oafeddata 14thplaceevent in finish at the Quebec then en F iday. If his playon those days allows him to O fn to the thepend. make the cut. he will continue to play P ud et delayed by council split on town expenditures i A council split on what capital expends- undertakerestoration worken the front porch lot of problemson MainStreet. Therearealot get us working together so we can attract itures the town should undertake for the year, of the historic town hall. The proposed of store fronts we'd like to see done. Unless outside people to the town," he said. and theongoing costs of the landfill site, were changes which included repairs to the front the town takes the initiative it doesn't matter Councillor Hak said he couldn't see why ;two reasons the town budget was released door and the addition of a wheelchair ramp, if the whole town is designated, no one is the town needs to spend a "whole lot of pater than usual this year. would have cost the town S11,000 over a going ptomake improvenients.It's the outside money" to get a consultant who would 19 ornudget in late or early u Mlir until three-year period, g grants. furthor rom,000 of the building the the population don't 'seertwopa cent ofes a tyof the public sees. achieve that end. 980 budget was not made public until beta aid for through Town council You ro inside the town hall." ulsday of last week. Prior to that meeting vol to delete this said as council had met three times to discuss the budget and to reconsider it again in 1987. Councillor Garry Osborn hi udget.iiiCouncillor Harry Hak was one of those was concerned the town hall was already "The landfill caused uncertainty since we opposed to the restoration. sufficiently looked after on the outside. !lad no idea what the costs would be and "That's a lot of money for just the looks of "it's true It's the outside the public sees trhere they wereoingtoend. That definitely the building. That money could be better the most, but Ithinkthey're keeping the town paused us some problems," said the town's spent inside," he argued. building up just fine. I don't see why we need thief administrator Jim Crocker. Mr. Crocker pointed out the restoration a porch," he said. 8 "There was no question we had to delay would not be entirelydecorative. He also said Council also had some difficulty reaching a Os me eexxppenditures, such as the paving of there was no guarantee the project would go decision concerning the Main Street Canada est Wiilien) Street and the purchase of a . next yearsincethe grant the town would have program, ew police cruiser. But those are the received this year to fund the project ends in Earlier this year exiundl had decided to fragwiles. Our cost in operating the existing December. forego the Main Street Canada project, but Bite went from $16,000 to $66,000 in 1985. "We have to do something with the front hoe SinceheenAdvised there isapossible one ghat was all for preparation for closing it and door anyway, and there would be the added time grant available to assist with the rover material. But most people would agree benefit of the wheelchair ramp, so there program. 'That grant would provide $12,000. the present sitebeing operated in a much would be a functional purpose as well," he. Based on that information council agreed to more santiary manner than in the past," he said. ap love the Main Street Canada programa aidCouncillor Bob Dinsmore reiterated the subject to receiving the $12,000 grant. Mr. r. Crocker added council also found it belief of Focal Advisory Committee on Councillor Bill McLaughlin was one of difficult to "come to grips with escalating Architectural Conservation (L.ACAC) that those in favor of the program. landfill costs and still vote in favor of doing unless the town takes the Initiative and "I think the Business Improvement Asso- :tiorthwhile projects in town." improves the appearances of its buildings no dation (IIA) in the town of Seaforih needs One of the bones of contention with some one else is going to bother to improve theirs. some newitleas. Seaforth is really dying, and Members of council was a proposal the town "As fares L ACAC is concerned there area we need someone to eonle into S "afbrth and McLlwain chosen by Pittsburgh P Seaforth-bom hockey star Dave Mc Uwain, ion of John and Audrey Mcilwain, of t5eaforth has advanced a step closer to his goal of playing professional hockey in the National Hockey League He was chosen by the Pittsbux h penguins In the ninth round of the MIL draft Flidee, ksicked 172nd of 252 players taken in thedraft. t McElwain 19, who played last season in e Ontario Hockey League (Junior A) fust the Kitchener Rangers, then the North Centennials, was in his secnnsi year of f ligibrhty for the draft. It was a Teaming year the fust year (of 'Junior A bockey), E didal geta whole lot bf lice tune,' he said, when asked ;Why he felthe Wasn't chosen at 18. McUwain (earned of his selection from his agent, RowlandTthonip.sort, of Guelph, whb bandies Jun Sandlack of the Vancouver f. anucks and other top players' E White p p 10 hear either thathe�h'ad,. or had not,'beerier" drafted, Md lwwain said he vas excited about being chosen. "It was a surprise," he said. Mctlwain will attend"the Penguins training camp this fall, but he does not hold high hopes of c along the big team's line-up this gear and said he expects to return to North' Day for anotheryearofjuniorhockey. Being a Park horse is nothing new for this versatile forward, who scored 36 goals and 32 assists while playing centre add Ieft wing for North Say Last ;season. He made the Kitchener ;- Rangers while attending' carrmp on an• Invitation, after being passed over in the Midget-agedraft. w DAVEMCILWAiN "Hopefully ru learn a at' the camp..r give 100 per cent„" he said. "rm sure pst "If people don't get together in the first place, why should we pay a consultant to tell them to get off their butts and work together,`' he said. "It's like us on council," countered ' (Continued on page A4) going to Plash Will be an experience. Playing with the 6bIg guns lauds as all-star' • centre Marion lenhfeurt) will certainly he good for my game."" While heil'opedtil le diosen lit the draft, Mellwam hadn't expected to be selected by Penguins. guins. Re had thou t Vancouver or Detroit might be interested in hint "ft tPittsburgh)`never even crossed my mind," he)idmitted. "/ guess they're a contender. They're a young team, improving every year,' said ly he is not onn leftw drances of cradangthe lineup, 'We' for a tbp hockey}� prospect is always a little Out of the 0- '"11ry N1cliwain for instance attended three different high schools last year,. and so they have to work hard at keeping the right attitude `Some people change a lot,(after they'ppee been drafted),Idoni'twanttodhange You've got to carne back to. junior planning to improve your garne, You can't go In 'over confident," he said. " Dave is planning to work out toward increasing hes strength this year. •At about six • feet tall, and 180:" pounds, he will not be amiiongthelaigest players at next fall's cariip. Asidefromfthat, he keeping busy working in his• father's construction business this' summer. Ile has already made, plans to attend Canadore College in North Bay, for some business courses next whiter. However; if he had to alter those_plans in order to be in Ihttsburgfis he•wouutidf t mind abit ONE CENTURY OLD—Bll1 Miner, a resident of the Seaforth Health Gare raclfity Since 1981, celebrated his 100th birthday at the nursing honie'en June 22, A native of London, Mr. Mner IS A retired y teiegfapfi operator, lie worked fertfhe fanadfan f=acif is Railway for rill l"Cif is working life Mr. Miner Was married, had a'sott, now decaas6d and a daughter who lives in California Raftis photo Doctors. CiORn office agar on passage of Bill 94. It's tWo days of socialied a medicine out of a government building." Monday and Tuesday were greeted with recorded ineasage4 informing them that the office would be closed for two days in protest of Dill' 94, Sdle phonal government's antiextra billing legislation. Previously, Seaforth doctors had declined to take part in an open-ended service • withdrawal whndt has closed offices and shut down hospital emergency wards in many parts of the ppronhn0e. The recorderg informs call. ert that ""urgent problems" will be attended by the doctors on dirty; at the• Seaforth Community Hospital. "This is not a strike," said Dr. Ken Seat' rth "Th's 's to rotest the 1111141 was passed on Friday, but although botSr sides in ,the dispute have offered to talk, manYoithedoctor§ are eonturuingthe Strike, Witch is now in it's third week. The Seaforth Medical C1mte Is_.regulat'I closed' on Wednesdays, so it will reopen Tiidrsday Thelluron County chapter of the. Ontario Medical Association met lastnight to ditelhss the situation; but Dr Rodney expects no further action to be taken in Seaterth. "Our .action ,is 'the two-day dant* of offices. 'W a consider we have made the point we wanted to make," he said.