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last Light Photo Show
Valerie Gillies
Lucknow Sentinel
The Last Light Photo Show
opened on Saturday, May 2 at the
Goderich Library. Photos will be on
display until May 19. The show was
created in honour of Sarah Mann, a
former resident of Lucknow, to
raise awareness and funds for
Community Living Central Huron.
Mann's mother Lynn shares that
Sarah became involved with Com-
munity Living clients when she had a
summer job at the Wingham centre
before going off to Humber College
to study journalism. Sarah was a
photography enthusiast and was
hired within months of graduation to
work at the Signal Star in Goderich,
beginning in October 2005.
While working as a journalist,
Sarah covered events for Commu-
nity Living and had been asked to,
and was considering, joining their
Board at the time of her death at age
23 on July 4, 2006. The Last Light
Photo Show is a tribute to both of
Sarah Mann's passions, her wish to
raise awareness and help for those
who are clients of Commmunity
Living and her love of photography.
Denny Scott/The Citizen
The Last Light Photo Show results.
From left: Denny Scott, winner of the
"Working in Huron" category; Colleen
Maguire, winner of the "After Sunset"
category; Lynne Mann, Sarah's mother;
Tracy Meurs, winner of the "Colour
Blue" category; Steve Mann, Sarah's
father and Jessica Mann, Sarah's
sister. Absent was Robert Kelly, winner
of the 12 and under category.
ACW budget passed with lower tax rate, total levy up four per cent
Dave Flaherty Reeve Ben Van Diepenbeek said In all, wind farm projects
Goderich Signal Star he was satisfied with the budget, brought $450,000 to the township
explaining there had been "a fair in 2014, which was put into a
Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh amount of debate" to end up where reserve for use in this year's budget.
(ACW) has passed a 1.1 per cent they did. Overall, $700,000 was taken out
decrease to the township tax rate He said ACW faced a $220,000 of reserves.
for its 2015 budget. shortfall "right off the bat',' attrib- With about $3 million left in the
However, there will be a sixper cent uted to a $98,000 increase to police municipal coffers, Van Diepenbeek
increase to the township tax levy. costs and a $122,000 decrease in believes the township is in "pretty
It is estimated $3,207,708 will be Ontario Municipal Partnership good shape financially':
raised for township purposes only Fund (OMPF) allocations. Some highlights from the
in 2015, an increase of $181,568 Van Diepenbeek said budget budget include:
over 2014. deliberations were an eye opener • $25,000 each for bridge inspec-
The taxes paid on an average home for new members of council. tions and an environmental assess -
in ACW, assessed at $236,526 in 2015, " I t h i n k w e w o r k e d w e 11 ment for the Crawford Line Bridge.
will equal $2,526 ($1,197 to Huron together," he said. • $590,000 for the resurfacing of
County, $868 in ACW Township and A significant increase in assess- Zion Road.
$461 for education purposes), a $92 or ments and revenue broughtinbywind • $240,000 for a new snow plow -
3.8 per cent increase from 2014. turbine projects through heavy load ing truck.
The average assessment is up and building permits aided in achiev- • $130,000 for a new freight for
from $221,717 in 2014. ing a decreased township tax rate. the Lucknow fire department
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Huron -Kinloss Council
Valerie Gillies
Lucknow Sentinel
The General Committee Meeting
of the Township of Huron -Kinloss
was held May 4, 2015.
Bruce County Museum Strate-
gic Plan
Director of the Bruce County
Museum Cathy McGirr gave a pres-
entation to Council regarding the
Museum's Strategic Plan for the
next five years, which is being
planned in conjunction with the
planning for Bruce County.
The Museum conducted a Com-
munity Survey which received 187
responses. The general results indi-
cated that the general services pro-
vided are liked. There are approxi-
mately 550 memberships for the
Museum which represents approx-
imately 1,500 people served.
The Museum has identified five
action areas with planning in some
being extended from a one year
projections to three and five year
strategies. The areas identified are:
partnerships/relationships, pro-
vide compelling programs, opti-
mize use of space, County -wide
awareness and developing the
resources required.
Nuclear Waste Management
Organization
Jo -Ann Facella explained to
Council what will be involved in
Phase 2 of the process of determin-
ing sites for their project. This Pre-
liminary Assessment Studies phase
is to help NWMO understand the
geology of the area. Council was
asked permission to concentrate the
studies on municipally owned land
as a beginning point and were pro-
vided a map from the Council for
those purposes. Council indicated
that they were willing to give
NWMO access to whatever informa-
tion and resources Council has it in
their powers to do to help make an
informed decision. Facella agreed
that they will begin with the infor-
mation already given to them by
way of the map and information
already gathered in Phase 1 to begin
their studies and will come back to
Council in a couple of months to
report if these locations will be
enough to make a decision.
Ripley Agricultural Society
Shelter
Many presenters gave their views
on the proposed multi-purpose
building and its location to shelter the
livestock show during the annual Rip-
ley Fall Fair. A lengthy discussion fol-
lowed. There was frustration voiced
from all sides of the discussion as this
project had been proposed three
years earlier, yet nothing has hap-
pened, and the Municipality is bound
by the Source Water Protection Act,
causing a stalemate on how to pro-
ceed. A Source Water Protection
Committee member, Robert Emer-
son, who is the Agricultural Repre-
sentative, asked to speak to the parties
present. It was proposed that both
Council and the Ripley Agricultural
Society come up with some type of
Risk Management Plan to present to
the Source Water Protection Commit-
tee to find a compromise in this
instance. Mayor Twolan voiced the
concerns about who would ultimately
be responsible should a major prob-
lem occur under the Plan as there
would need to be a signature from the
Agricultural Society to ensure that the
Municipality is protected in case of
source water contamination due to
the proposed used of the facility. It
was agreed that the Source Water Pro-
tection Committee needs to be made
aware of how things have been done
in the past and of the special circum-
stances surrounding this proposal in
order to come up with a solution that
they will pass, as it is ultimately their
decision that will allow the structure
in the proposed location or not
Unemployment rate holds steady
Four County Labour
Market Planning
Board
Submitted
WALKERTON (May 8, 2015) -
For the third consecutive month,
unemployment rates held steady
for both Ontario at 6.8% and Strat-
ford -Bruce Peninsula economic
region (Bruce, Grey, Huron and
Perth counties) at 5.8%. While the
region has remained steady with its
unemployment rate of 5.8% over
the past year, the province's unem-
ployment rate has fallen by .5%.
The April labour force survey
shows the participation rate in the
economic region increased by 3.9%
and saw employment rise by
almost 10,000, with all of the
growth in full-time work. There was
a minimal loss in part-time
employment.
Employment in Construction for
our region has been declining
steadily since October, down
almost 5,000 jobs during that time.
However, there were estimated
9,700 more people working in
Trade as compared to a year ago.
This suggests Trade is a strong sec-
tor in our economic region.
The province saw increases in
both Construction and Trade, but
experienced a loss of approxi-
mately 20,000 jobs in Manufactur-
ing. The province's job loss in Man-
ufacturing is not reflected in our
region where the sector has fluctu-
ated marginally between 18,300
and 21,600 jobs over the past year,
representing an overall gain of
3,300 new jobs during the year.