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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1986-12-17, Page 1INDEX Births iA17 Classified 1A14, 15 Dublin IA5 Entertainment /A17 Family /A16, 17 Farm /A5, 11 Graduates /A17 Hensall /A6 Legion IA16 Obituaries 1A16 Sports /A7, 8, 9, 10 Walton /A7 50 cents a Copy Low prices at Stockyards See page 411 Huron xposit SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1986 BRIEFS Town to update staff bonus policy Serving the communities and areas of Seaforth, Brussels, Dublin, Hensall and Walton, — 18 PAGES Tragedy strikes area family Residents in the area are still in shock following the shotgun deaths of a 63 -year-old retired farmer and his 62 -year-old wife. Kenneth and Eileen McLean were found dead in their farmhouse in Tuckersmith Township Thursday, by a neighbor, Police said both died from single shotgun wounds to the head. OPP Detective -Sergeant Robert Middle- brook. in charge of crime supervision for the Listowel District. said it appears Mr. McLean shot his wife. then turned a shotgun on himself. Police believe the two died sometime after daybreak Thursday. The bodies of the couple, who lived alone at the farm at RR 2. Hensall, about 40 kilometres southeast of Goderich, were taken to Stratford General Hospital were autopsies were performed. Coroner is Dr. RW Flowers of Clinton. 4111Ch:4 1 .a 4 BRIAN McBURNEY McBurney named Huron's warden Humn ('runty council acclaimed Brian McBurney. reeve of Turnberry• Township. warden for 1987 al its inaugural session last week Robert Bell of Klppen. reeve of nicker. smith Township, declined a nomination. telling his fellow councillors. "keep it in mind for next year " Mr McBurney, 35. has been a member of county council six years He said the county should follow the example of some of its municipalities and aggressively seek new industries Looking ahead to 1087. Mr McBurney noted the county will undertake two major projects -- extensive renovations at Huron - view home for the aged in Clinton and a new bridge in Colborne Township to divert heavy traffic from the historic Ball's iron bridge near Benmiller The iron bridge will stay open to light traffic and the new one will span the Maitland River downstream ANNUAL PRESENTATION — The Seaforth Brownlee and GIrI last week. Amidst the children and accepting the toys on behalf of Guides made a presentation of stuffed toys to the Chrletmae Bureau the Bureau was Leona Scott, of the Seaforth Optl-Mrs. (Mcllwralth photo) Landfill site an expensive venture The search for a landfill site continues to be a headache for the town of Seaforth and Tuckersmith township officials. Although the Kootstra site has passed strict requirements set down by the Ministry of the Elavironment, members of the Seaforth-Tuckersmilh landfill committee are coming to the realization that any landfill site which confornm to the rules of operation as sel down by the ministry, may be too expensive to maintain Seaforth Mayor Alf Ross said it frightens him to think about the costs That could be involved "The people of the ministry refuse to talk about economics They don't realize the impact of economics in a small town." he said. adding the ministry's altitude has been simply to lay down the c plena for the landfill site e ghoul a thought to how much 11 is going In coal In meet that cnlena "Money was never important to the ministry." added councillor Camlanne Doig "Nnhndy ever discussed 11 with us Cost was not to be considered And that's fine if you have unlimited funds or a benefactor we dnn'1." she added Tn date the search for the landfill site has cost 5237.990 A further S 100,000 is expected In he needed to complete the Environmental Assessment report and Fhvironmental as- sessment. and if the committee decides to go ahead with the Kontstra site as the landfill. another S331.000 must he spent to purchase the land Thal brings the capital cost of the landfill site to Sfi48.990. (ince the capital enais are finished with there are still development casts. both initial and mid-life to be considered. Those costs are expected to total another 5829,000 and would include such expenditures as; the creation of an access road to the site; fencing of the site; stripping and stockpiling topsoil from the herrn location and from the disposal site: adding day material to raise the base grade in the easterly cells; placing clay till in the berm Board reaches agreement The Humn ('aunty Board of Education and will be $21.740. and 848.300 respectively. its 265 Secondary School Teachers represent- The total oust increase for the 1986.87 school iii by District 45 of the Ontario Secondary year is approximatelyt4 per cent a pini Seitnnl Teachers' Federation have reached an The agree agreement for the 1986.117 school year. investigation into the posstbilityof establish - The agreement !alis for a 3.4 per cent ing an Employee Assistance Plan for all increase in grid salaries retroactive to employees of the Huron County Board of September 1, 1986. followed by a 1.1 per event Education There were no changes to the increase effecti'.e February 1. 1987, All other employee benefit package salaries and allowances were increased by This is the first time in almost 10 years the four per erne As of 'February 1, 1987. the parties have concluded negotiations before minimum and maximum teachers' salaries Christmas in the year in which they started Seaforth will join computer age core, placing topsoil on the berms, seeding and tree planting; construction of a leachate collection system to completely surround the disposal area, including the wet well; a building to house the landfillingg equipment, aeration blowers and a small office; construc- tion of a power Zine„additional monitoring wells, and leachate putt in , treatment and disposal system • including forcemains. aerated lagoon, polishing lagoon and spray irrigation Tile landfill itself. when in operation. is expected to cost an additional 6100.000 each near to operate Thal figure was reached hosed on the average annual cost of earthwork to obtain the base grades and provide materials for daily cover, final cover and site closure. equipment for handling eaisle and cover. plant operator's wages. site mnndonng, average operating cost of leach - at r treal ment and disposal and miscellaneous costs such as power. building maintenance. survey layout. snowplowing and etcetera. W ilh the total capital coasts at 5668,990 and Intal development cost at 8829.000 that means Seaforth-Tuckersmith will have out• toyed nearly SI 5 million before the site is es -en 10 use ttased on a 61.500,000 debenture of 20 years al 12 per cent inteiest. an annual payment of 8200.520 would be required in additional to the yearty operational cost of 5100.000 Seatorih's share of that coat would he 813a.377 20 146 per cent 1 while Tuckersmith Township wnukl absorb 8162,442 80 (54 per cents Based on the Seaforth figure the commer• cial assessment for the town would be 5907.948 Exghly-five per cent of the residential assessment would be 81,702.499 for a total of 82.610,447 The commercial mill rate increase for garbage disposal would be 53.008 and the residential mill rate increase for garbage disposal 45.057 Rased on an average residential assess- ! a is ment of :i,00t1 there would be an increase in taxes 01 8135.17. The cost of garbage disposal per residence would be 5157.96 total annual estimated cost for Seaforth divided by number of residences 1 "If we do i1. we won't he able to do anything else,” said Miss Doig, "our roads Mould go to hell." "The bottom line is of we go ahead with the landfill site we're going to have to stop everything else we have been doing." added Mr floss. "and we can't do that The figures only show an increase in taxes to cover the landfill site. there is not allowance for other general. county or school board increases So. taxes will end up becoming unbearable. -. "it's ruinous We'd just go broke This landfill site will end up bankrupting us." he added Mr Ross pointed out that in addition to the costs of the new landfill site. the town of Seaforth. and Tuckersmith Township would still have the costs of the old landfill site to (near ns they try to comply with the closure requirements of the Ministry of the 1 iviron- menl "Reganlless of whether we can or cannot afford this kind of expenditure we stili have to supply a landfill site - somehow, somewhere and sometime." said Mr Reiss .'The guidelines are not Seaforth's idea.. they re the atm istry's W e' ve.a treacly spent 8300,000 trying In comply with their regula• tions and we are coming to realize we can't afford 11 •. Mr Reiss added it is lime the ministry he made aware of the fact that a town the sine of Seaforth cannot afford what it is they are pmpnsing For it in teens of landfilling "We don't really have any choice, but we're had enough of this We're going to put a Int of pressure on the ministry from here on in We've done our part, and we want to know what They can do to help us. We've got a lot of eoneerns ' • The town of Seaforth will soon have a unogs as mventones or ourcumgs. owners. computer businesses. consumer surveys, events and Main Street Coordinator Tom Lemon has activities, suggestions from the public, beenauthorized by Seaforth Town Council to pm}}eed management and budget items. proceed with the purchase of a computer and The big advantages of the atm -puler as he software system at a cost not to exceed sees them are. the fact it would make 84.500 handling the information during the project much easier. would pmvtde more meaningful summaries. reports and recommendations and. at the end of the three year period this information would still be immediately accessible. rather than being stored away m a filing cabinet. Also. town staff would be trained in how to use the computer and access the information during the next three years. In addition to storing and manipulating. information, the computer would provide for word processing, maintaining mailing lists and sending form letters. Town clerk Jim Crocker summed up the feelings of council when he suggested council would have had to look at the possibility of acquiring a computer for Seaforth sometime soon anyway. ,"11 Tom hadn't been here, we would've been looking at a computer in the next two to three years anyway. Every other municipality our size has one," he said. The Mainstreet Committee recommended ' the computer be acquired by the town and that the Mainstreet office cover the costs for using it at a rate of 81.500 per year. The advantage of this approach rather than leasing from someone else is that at the end of the three year period. the town would own the computer. • The computer is being acquired to provide the opportunity lit develop a data base during the next three year period - one that would be useable by the Town, Council, Committees of ('ouncil and the STA after the Mainstreet Canada pmiect is completed. Mr. Lemon pointed out a lot of information will be collected over the next three years. By storing it in a computer, it will be immediately accessible both during and after the project. The type of information Mr. Lemon expects to sure in the computer would include sueh NEVER TOO OW FOR SANTA — When the Seaforth Lions Club vlatted Huronvlew lately they took Santa Ciaus with them. There he visited with Clarence Walden, a former Seaforth Lions Club member and his wife Marguerite, who live In their own apartment at Hurons/few. (Oke photo) 'Poen council adopted a reconunendat ion from its linenre and general government committee that staff Christmas bonuses be updated. The committee said it felt the past policy. of giving out staff bonuses of $50, which has been in place for 15 years, is out of date. Instead a merit pay polios will now he in effect. fedi time nue police association employ cies will hs paid al the following rate : 1 to 9 year:, employment with Seaforth - $60, 10 to 14 years • $120, 15 to 19 years - $180, 2010 24 years - $241) and 25 to 29 years - $300. The regular part-time employees will be paid the same bonus as received in the past. STAFF ('li %NGEN Town ('Ierk Jim Crocker has been authorized by council to advertise, inter- view and hire a temporary typist at a rate of $7 per hour to fill in during a staff maternity leave expected to begin in February. In addition council gave approval to a reconunendation that town secretary -recep- tionist Lorraine Betties be hired on a full lime basis for three years. effect ive January 1, 1987. The decision was made to facilitate the operation of the town and to help the Main Street Canada program, who will in turn pay $2,912 annually for secretarial services, or one days salary a week. LIQUOR PERMIT Seaforth Town Council gave its permis- sion last week for the Optimist Club to sell liquor at its annual W inter Carnival, set to be held at the Community Centres January 17, 18 and 25. The Liquor Control Board of ()ntario requires municipal approval before it will issue a liquor licence E;.NI)11I4SK RISSOI.t'TION Seaforth town council agreed to endorse a resolution of the City of St. Catharines. concerning the Municipal Conflict of. Interest Ad The resolution requests the Minister of Municipal Affairs undertake a complete review of the Art DATA BASE Seaforth town council passed a resolution to authorize the Planning and Development department of Ilumn County to apply for a grant enlargement to cover 50 per cent of the c•nsls of a data base development and analysis 'this work will provide for more meaningful data analysis. statistical intoe matinn and report sumrnancs 11 will also provide a data base that will continue to be of use after the study is cornpteM a"brthe town. the RtA cod possibly the province II is expected the cost for a data base development and analysis will he approxi- mately $1.060 W it the grant enlargement the cosi '111 be Mtn I•:X1.5TIaso LANDFILL Rased on the 1986 Annual Monitonng Report for Ihr existing landfill site the fnllnwmg recommendations were made that f hr as sea (1)111lour to be handled as it is omelets as conditions permit. regrading be done to the west and north slopes and That final cover snits be applied. that the sciulI1V('5I cornu of fill he repaired to prrnnt resampling in 1987 and that application he merle to the Ministry of Ihr Fnoimnnlrnt far an "I)isergeney Aprons- al" ppmval" In permit landfilling above the eleva 1111ns proposed in the original plan 144 •t.l',k v I'SssEa) Seaforth Town Council has amended a by lava to inulols Ilse northerly side of Jahn Street. from Main Street south to High Street. as a no parking 10111' during the uintrr months The amendment was mswie following a request fmm.lohn S,reet senior citizens, for snow removal nt the sidewalk in that area Public Works Superintendent John Eno rest said to accommodate this request. parking would have to be resricled to the south side of John Street only. because the snow from the sidewalk would have to he Mown onto the shoulder The by-law will make it an offence to park in that arra at any time between the dates of December 1 and April 1 Seafot'th Tovn ('ouncil has passed a by-law to authorize the purchase of land from Ams land tyevetnpmeht Corporation ('nuncil will pmceed to purchase lits 1 to 49. inclusive, Block A and Block 8 nn the Seaforth town plan. for a price of S14.334 35 Seafnrih Town ('ntmcif has passed a by-law In authorize an agreement between the town and Bernard Douglas Mikity and Harry Nicholas Tient-Nan The agreement concerts restoration work dime to Mr F2liotl's and Mrs. DenHaan's place of business. Seaforth F'inanrial Services The two orcin undertook certain conserva- tion work to the property earlier in the year Cnunril has appmved an application to its reserve fund known as, the "Seaforth Community Heritage Flrnd.'• and will pay 85nn to Mr Elliott and Mr DenHaan as a grant to assist in the restoration project The fund was established for the purpose of investing in archi'lectural conservation within the municipality Ambeiente Staticin will now be fisted as nne of the permitted uses in. a highway commercial (C3 i zone. Seaforth Town ('oundt passed a by-law last week In amend a previous by-law which neglects to list such a facility under the permitted uses The addition of "an amhulance station" to the beast of permitted arses would permit an ambulance station to he located on a property zoned ('3. Seaforth Town ('ouncil also passed a by-law In amend the town's official plan. The amended official plan will now identify Seafortli as a community improve- ment area and will contain a new section entitled "community irnpmvement policies" ft makes the town more eligible for provincial fundings The official plan now also integrates the Main Street Canada Program with com- numity improvement, as well as outlining specific target areas which should be most eligible tor funding. Lions make 60th trip to Hur°omvi®w The Seaforth Lions Club members made their6Oth trip to Humnview with Santa Claus nn Sunday afternoon. Accompanying them was the Rev. James Vanslyke of Northside United Church who told the Christmas story to the residents who filled the auditorium to overflowing. Madonna and Carol Ann McQuaid of Seaforth charmed the audience with their violin music and led them in song. Margaret Whitmore. Northaidc Church organist ac- companied them on the piano. The Horizons. a Seaforth area singing quartette, Margaret Whitmore, Katie Teall, Debbie Campbell and Carol Ellis. treated the pal lents with their lively songs and even had the residents singing along with thein. Santa visited and livened up his appear- ance in the hall with some stepdancing He handed out oranges and greeted each patient. many by name to their delight.