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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1990-04-18, Page 1Cow cll ..Briefs. - A5 , Obituaries - AT 13144 A7 Bp9 ; Ala A1. Letters A2, Ago av Servingthe communities and areas of Seaforth, Brussels, Dublin, Hensall and Walton . - • . .. . Seaforth, Ontario APRIL 18, 1990 Seaforth to remain BY HEATHER ROBINET An attempt by a Seaforth councillor to have a motion passed in March which declares Seaforth as engiish only, recind- ed, failed last Tuesday night. Despite Councillor Teall, council tvotedosix by votes to three, to keep Seaforth english only. In addition to Councillor Teall, Deputy -reeve Peg Camp- bell and Councillor Irwin Johnston were the only ones to vote in favor of recinding the March motion. Mayor Hazel Hildebrand, Reeve Bill Bennett, and Coun- cillors, Pat Malone, Marjorie Claus, Bill Pinder and Garry Osborn, all voted to leave it intact. "I have always, in the past, spoken out against that (declaring Seaforth as english, or french, only)," said Councillor Teall, who was absent from the March council meeting "I ask that we recind the motion pass Town sets $2M budget BY HEATHER. ROBINET The Town of Seaforth passed its 1990 budget last week, and in doing so approv- ed an average tax increase of 5.3 per cent. Ratepayers however, must wait until Huron County Council, the Huron County Board of Education, and the Huron -Perth Separate School Board pass their bu„ : ets, to know what percentage increase they can expect on their 1990 tax hill. In town, however, council has budgeted for a total expenditure of $2,102,291 this year, up from the $1,878,783 spent in 1989 ($2,028,248 was budgeted). Of that amount only $716,460 will be collected through tax- ation, using mill rates of 14.6 for residen- tial and 17.2 for commercial. The re- mainder of the money will be raised through user fees and grants. The expenditures themselves can be broken down into several categories. General Government is expected to spend $512,766 over the year, with one of the ma- jor costs as replacement of town hall win- dows (approxin telt' ; )� Othergeneral government expenses include roof repairs to the town hall, and minor renovations to a second floor office. The Police budget is set at $295,043, with the major expenditure the purchase of a new cruiser. Transportation and environmental ser- vices are expected to cost the own $455,415 this year, with approximately $170,000 of thLandfillt scostts�aarretem expectfor ed to repairs. $85,000, and will include use of and proper- ty purchase required for, the Midhuron Lan ! Site. Other major expenses will in- clude replacement of six flourescent street lights on South Main Street, with i;gh pressure sodium lights, and installation of three street lights on West William Street, across from Wallbank Springs. Public Works will purchase a chipper as well as other miscellaneous equipment. A further 1133,000 is planned for streetscaping this year, with half that amount' funded by the province. In the plans for this year are the four entrance features to town, as well as some n' ''es around the town's main intersection. Recreation and cultural services should cosh -the town $103,811 this year;'''irh'ctea- tional facilities 127,216; economic develop- ment 149,020; LACAC $21,650; and the library $10,560. Council expenditures have been budgeted at $43,790. ,l RC education director resig Bill Eckert, director of education for the Huron -Perth County separate school board for the past 13 years, announced his resignation during the board's April 9th meeting. Eckert, who was emotional at times dur- ing his remarks, was honored with a stan- ding ovation from the rest of the trustees. During his remarks, he said he's pleas- ed to have served the children, parents, trustees and teachers in the Catholic com- munity in both Huron and Perth counties. He was superintendent of programs for a year before his appointment to director. Along the way, he paid tribute to the s Huron -Perth board's three superintendents—Jack Lane, John McCauley and Gaeten Blanchette -calling their team effort and wise counsel a great help. His resignation is effective June 30th, and he listed no specific reasons for his desire to retire, only noting that he felt it was time and by doing so could involve himself in some new endeavours in the near future. A committee was named, which includ- ed chairman Vince Mclrmes, vice-chairman Bernard Murray and trustees "n Marcy, Louise Martin and Ernie Vanderschot, in an effort to find a replacement. Eng ed previously, ',the=niotion that declares Seaforth as enguish-oily." Councillor Teall said he felt council had gone a step beyond what was required of it when it passed the motion, especially since no request hadbeen made for coun- cil to declare itself One way or another. Council had sirrlply been asked to endorse a resolution from the City of Sault Ste. Marie, which declares that city's intention o preserve the ase of :english as its official only , 50 cents a copy despite protests language. Sault Ste. Marie is currently one of 22 government designated areas that may be forced to provide French language services. Seaforth isn't. "The petition and subsequent resolution was not to create an English/French situa- tion," commented Richard Pearman, President of the Sault Ste. Marie. Associa- tion for the Preservation of English Languacouncil.ge "It�was intended to prhts in a eserver the use of English as the official language for the Corporation of the City of Sault Ste. Marie. It was also intended to get the at- tention of the provincial politicians since they were only giving "lip service" to previous letters, petitions and resolutions sent to them." Councillor Teall commented that Seaforth was itself englen ishonly, itselfting and no noted that Turn to page 22 WHAT A COUP! - Robin Hood (Casey Boven) and Little John their Impersonation of a tree. Seaforth Public School presented (Chad Lamont) foil the evil Prince John (Sarah Johnston) with 'Robin Hood to the community and students fast week. Elliott photo. Right lots, wrong a ,_ a on Egmond Familiarity may not always breed con- tempt, but it sometimes brews more trou- ble than its worth, Bill Brown Sr. of Egmondville has been discovering lately. The property which was referred to as Mr. Brown's 'wrecking yard' in recent coverage of Tuckersmith Council does not, in fact, belong to him at all. Although he operated a wrecking yard on the site for a number of years, Mr. Brown sold the property to Clem Schoonderwoerd and Larry Coyne in November 1989. The name stuck, however, and this has created a fair amount of confusion in recent severance applications on the property. Tuckersmith Council recently passed a motion to stand behind severance applica- tions for eight lots on the property, located on Front St. in Egmondville. The Huron County Planning Committee and the Ministry of the Environment' turned down the most recent severance application, citing that further tests were needed on the land and reccomending a Plan of Subdivi- sion. Clara Brown, Bill Sr.'s wife, express- ed disbelief at this turn of events. "We had the Ministry of .the Environ- ment up there four times, and we have two certificates from them," she explains, adding that when the wrecking yard was set established there in the early 1970's, the Planning Committee headed by Gary Davidson was against it. Now, with the property cleaned and cleaned and the pre- sent owners pushing for development, yet another roadblock has been thrown up. The M.O.E. feels that the land has been 'abus- ed' and would be unfit for development. "It was used as a wrecking yard, not as a dumpsite," Mrs. Brown points out. "What do they want? There's no reason why they (Schoonderwoerds and Coynes) should have to wait eight or ten months for approval...they could have sold (the vW e property lots) by now," she adds. The reference to the property as "Bill Brown's wrecking yard" seems to be caus- ing grief for, all parties involved. Apparent- ly, when severance was applied for on the lots by the present owners, the Brown's received correspondence and site plans from the Huron County Planning Commit- tee, the same site plans, in fact, that had been drawn up by the Township for the Browns in the early 1970's. There seem to be a few paper tigers roaming around the offices, Mrs. Brown figures. "WE didn't o why are they sendingpforiall back to us?" Nor is the situation fair for the proper. ty` I feel resent they're really being awful to them," she said, noting that Deputy -Reeve Bill Carnochan and Councillor Larry McGrath hit the nail on the head at the latest Tuckersmith Council meeting. "Justice has not been done." armers xerhpt froth the farmers (@ g. ±s oblei'r s Dyke. lif eitempt because e"tractors. An ex- ptiokvas the decl- � 1bi it led tothe e" groceries". ►std be defined t' SO $600 :but olid be to tax t`t a Meech SOGGY BUT SUCCESSFUL - Friends April Milne (left) and Mandy Brugger were wet, cold and perfectly happy with their haul at the Seaforth B.I.A. Great Easter Egg Hunt in Lion's Park on Saturday morning. Over 6,000 chocolate eggs made 0 home with Seaforth and area youngsters. Elliott photo. tluble X43 and the Ce •!%l Of -