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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1982-09-15, Page 1Incorporating Brussels PostIJitron fxposifrnr FORST SECTOON PAGES Al A16 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1982 — 32 PAGES ' 50c per copy yor Si Y SUSAN WHITE After two terms as mayor, John Sinnamon announced at council Monday night that he won't be seeking re-election. "Definitely not..,four years is enough," mayor Sinnamon answered when he and other councillors were polled by the Exposi- tor. After serving four years on council earlier, the present mayor re-entered town politics in the 1978 municipal election when he defeated incumbent mayor Betty Cardno. In the last election, in Nov, 1980, he defeated challenger Henry Mero. 'Mc mayor was soundly critical of the Expositor. and a recent editorial in this paper, in a printed statement he circulated to council members and the press and then read, during the new business portion of Monday night's agenda. The editorial he refers to applauded the decision of the five municipalities involved in the new Seaforth and District Community Centres to keep citizen representatives on the new arena's board of management. The text of the mayor's statement follows: "With reference to the editorial in the Huron Expositor August 25, 1982. Quote "Common Sense Wins" End Quote., A motion was put forward at the meeting of the five municipalities to have only elected representatives sit on the Management Board of the new arena. This motion was defeated." However, 1 must ,say that the person who proposed this motion certainly had his own reasons for this motion,.possibly LONG, SLOW RIDE—The 13 truss rafters of the old Seaforth arena are presently being moved to the Ken Campbell farm by Fred Sole of 011 Sprigs. It's a move of about five miles, and Mr. Campbell said the rafters will be moved in groups of four and five. It takes approximately one day and a half per load, with actual travelling time of four hours. He said builders will commence re -construction of a major portion of the former arena on Monday. Mr. Campbell is hopeful the building will be completed in four weeks, in time for this season's corn harvest. ,(Svela photo) Ice by December, arena prices set BY SUSAN WHITE If all goes well Seaforth teams will be skating early in December at the new community centre complex. That means about eight weeks of ice time out of town for the Junior D Centennaires and six for other local teams, but rec director Bryan Peter says area arenas have been booked temporarily for all the regular Seaforth and District arena users. Thc management committee for the new complex has set rates for the facility and a member. Scaforth councillor Alf Ross, says at least 30 bookings have been confirmed. It will cost you S225 to rent the main hall to be licenced for about 400. on a Saturday night, S200 for Friday night and S20 an hour for a minimum of three hours any other night. If your party is licenced you'll pay S40 for the bar, including the services of one bartender. To serve a hot meal and use -the kitchen, the charge is S50 while use of the kitchen for a cold plate luncheon will set you back S15. There's an additional charge of 10 cents a place setting for the use of plates. cutlery etc. Ice time for minor hockey will cost S25 per hour or S36 per hour for local adult teams and a rate for school or off hours rental has yet to be set. At its meeting Monday night Seaforth council approved an amended arena building fund budget. Expenditures in the original budget which didn't qualify for grants have been removed and combined with other capitol costs, such as an ice resurfacing machine, kitchen equipment and paving of the parking lot for a total of $262,544. The community centres fund raising commitee has pledged to raise 5100.000 more than its original 5516,000 goal and those funds, plus additional grants, will pay for the items not in the original proposal. Fund raising chairman Marlen Vincent says money is still being received at Box 1180 Seaforth and pledges have come in this fall before reminders were mailed out. "We appreciate the groups who are still out there planning events for the arena fund. We're going to be proud of this place." He says a local business, Image Cleaners, which operates from Graves Wallpaper and Paint, is donating "every cent" they make on dry'cteaning delivered to Graves on Oct. 1 and 2 to the arena fund, Councillor Ross said it's hoped the fund raising committee can turn into an arena booster club, once the building is operating. 11 would help with management, plan fund raising events and perhaps offer a catering service at the new complex. After a committee of the whole session Monday night, council voted to terminate. "with regret", the position of Jack Price as manager of the Seaforth arena. The resolution said the job is redundant since the ownership of the arena has changed (from the town to the five municipalities). Mr. Price. who served as manager of the A building boom? Town may get new apartments Scaforth may get two new apartment buildings. Onc is proposed for the town -owned Int at the corner of Market and High Sts. and the other may depend nn the outcome of an Ontario Municipal Board hearing in October M council Monday night the sale of the High St. Int to Harold Smith for 515.000 w as approved. If a minor variance in lot sue is granted by the town's committee of adjust. ment. Mr. Smith plans to build a int r it apartment huiiding. Each unit will hay tun bedrooms and 884 square feet of sp cc' There'll he parking for four cars and he building will face south. It's expected construction will start in the '.irtng said reeve Bill Dale. who said the building should he an asset to the neighbour hood Thc other apartment building is a possrhtl ilc on Sid- St.. north of Goderich St. F... near n,s apartments hutlt hs des eloper Herman l anstnk sexcral years ago. Clerk .lire Crocker explained the new owner of that building and ad)rnntng land would like to build more apartments He has agreed to sign a deseloper's agreement with thc town and there were objections from neighbours when a hs lass a as circulate$ That means the OMB hearing is required and ti's set for Wed.. Oct. 20 at the town hall at 10.30 a.m. In other construction news. council heard that the owners of thc former Hessen Haus restaurant. which was partially destroyed by fire this summer have hecn given until Sept. 30 to make the building safe, It has been hnardr•-1 up since the fire and is considered an eyesore by many nn Main St. "Not habitable. just safe?". asked councillor Paul Ross Clerk Crocker replied that unless the hui(dtng Is made fit or safe the owners can he charged under the building code. old arena in 1977 for about a year and then Game back as manager in 1980, has been on public works staff since the town's rental arrangement with the Vanastra arena ended in the spring. Council's statement, read by mayor John Sinnamon, said Mr, Price can't be continued on public works staff because of budget restric-tions. The other full-time arena employee, Don Dupee, transferred permanently to public works staff earlier this summer. The new arena complex board of management is advertising for an arena manager and one full-time employee. Rec director Bryan Peter will manage the facility until Nov. 1. Huron board talks salaries BY STEPHANIE LEVESQUE Trustees allowance may remain at 5400 per month for the next three years. If suggestions made at the September meeting of the Huron County Board of Education in Clinton arc acted on. Recent changes in the Education Act allow present school boards to set the allowance for the incoming school board. The Huron hoard has referred the matter to its ezecutns committee which will bring recommenda tions forward at the October meeting. To guide thc executive committee, truster s were asked to give their thoughts on tin question. Trustee Bert Morin suggested the hoard follow the guidelines determined hs the federal government. that is, six and fisc per cent limits for salary increases. Trustee John Elliott disagreed. noting that from 19"S to 1982, trustees' allow ant c remained at 5300 a month. "If we could stand no increase from 1982, they (incoming trustees) can stand h, the present rate for the next three scars said Mr. Elliott. "I agree with Mr. Elliott." sail Trustc, Joan Van den Broeck. "leave it thc ss as 11 is Defening board action in February of this scar. when allowances were increased fna' 5300 to 5400 a month, chairman Dorothy Wallace said if the allowance had been increased by six per cent each year, it would amount to over 5400. "The 5300 voted on in 19^S is now worth 5185." commented Mrs. Wallace. She also added that if the 5300 increased at a 10 per cent inflation rate annually. trustees would now he earning 55"5 a month. Trustee Marton Zinn said she has taken more "flack" over the allowance increase made in February . "than anything else in my 13 years nn the hoard." Shc did not vote for the increase, Mrs. Zinn added. One hoard member. also a former township rocs c. told Mrs. Zinn. that as a trustee he had half the work and tw ice the pay as compared to his position as reeve. Admitting he was the former reeve who had made the comment to Mrs. Zinn. Trustee John ,Jewitt said he is receiving sufficient renumeration as a trustee. "I wouldn't say. it's the hoard of education that is so terribly overpaid as a reeve is underpaid." Mr. Jessitt told the board. Mrs. Van den Broeck stated that an escalator clause. which .would increase the allowance es cry year. would he unreasonable to give the incoming trustees. Trustee Clarence McDonald agreed Museum to Vanastra BY STEPHANIE LEVESQUE if two studies on the former radar soh,»' .i1 Vanastra arc acceptable to Huron (our Council it may purchase the building f,•r S'75.000. At a special meeting nn Sept. 8. coon., went into committee -of -the -whole Inc ,,,Cr an hour to discuss what Warden Harold Robinson called a "controversial matter in the open session following the in -committee meeting. council approcet' having both a structural engineering siuds and an operational cost study completed The property and development committees uniting on the susbject of the building. wr' have the studies done. Warden Robi on said the topic 0- controversial cause some committee Scouts sign up / 10A members want a study done on the feasibility of operating the count museum out of the building. The Iwo committees ss ill be reporting hack to council at its regular meeting on Sept. 30. The building has been owned by Tucker - smith Township Inc two years. The township bought the property at a tax sale, and as of Dec. 31 of this year the amount of taxes and interest outstanding to the township wtl) he 5186, 810.,24. A preliminary study by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing Indicates it could cost 5912.000 to restore the budding to its original condition. in a breakdown of the study, roofing at 5200.000 and flooring at 5236,000 are the most expensive repairs required. Irish visitors bowl / B 13 ru ag it was a request by his Council. but as an elected representative of a municipality, he certainly had' the right to introduce that motion. A while back, you paper accused this Council of trying to pass "Gag Laws". Well, 1 must say you, as a newspaper, are sure trying to put a gag on any elected officials because every time it seems one makes any statement, you write an editorial on it and apparently most of the time you do not understand the intent of the 'statement. Also. with regards to the statement that, had it not been for the private citizens taking charge, we would still have a boarded up building. May 1 say this. that if the five Councils had not stood behind the Building Committee and Fund-raising Committee and done a lot of preparation for grants and other backgroundwork, then we would still have a boarded up condemned arena. Municipal Councils are not permitted to pledge fund-raising dollars and therefore a private group, not elected Councils had to organize to guarantee the money would be raised. My point is that, a great effort was required from the entire community, citizens and Councils working together. and in fact. if any segment of the community had' not made a 100% effort. then the project might have been doomed. 1 feel that. if you are going to print editorials. please get all the details first and then print them. Also. try to have' a full understanding of all the problems involved. .1 take nothing away from the Building Committee or the Fundraising Committee; they deserve a pat on the back and a ,"thanks" from everyone. However, as a person who has made a capital donation to the new arena. I am sick and tired of being kicked in in the teeth by the local press and 1 am quite sure that all Councillors in the municipalities feel the same." Mayor Sinnamon's decision not to run leaves the field wide open and while one councillor "put an end to the rumour" that he's going to run for mayor, others left the possibility open. "I'll be getting involved somewhere." said first term councillor Alf Ross. He also told the Expositor his decision on running for mayor depends on what othersare going to do. Councillor Irwin Johnston said he wants . to squelch a rumour that he running for mayor, but the veteran council member may stand for re-election to his present post. "i'm probably going to run away," quipped councillor Gerald Groothuls, who's completing his third term on town council. "I'm still thinking," he summed up. "I'll run for something, but 1 don't know what yet," said councillor Bob Dinsmore, who has served two consecutive terms and was on earlier town councils, from 1964 to 1970. Reeve Bill Dale, a longtime council member and chairman of the finance committee says he's "considering" running for re-election. Deputy reeve., Bill Bennett. also a council veteran, says he'll "Probably" run again. Councillor Hazel Hildebrand. completing her first term of office will run again "as far as I know." Another newcomer to town politics, Paul Ross, who won election in 1980. joked that he wanted to "put to bed -any rumoprs_ that I'm running for mayor or reeve either." As for trying again for a council seat, he jokes "my committee is meeting to discuss it." Those elected to council on Nov. 8 will serve a three year term, as required by new provincial legislation. Town to meet Tuesday Scaforth councillors will have their monthly meetings a day later than usual. They'll also be allowed to spend up to 535 a day when they're out of town on council business, Those are just two of the items in a new 40 page policy hook presented and passed with little discussion at council Monday night. Councillor Paul Ross. chairman of the cornnnttee charged with collecting. form ulat• ing and getting town policies for council and employees (low n on paper, said the work took four or fise committee meetings and a number of sussurns between hint and clerk Jim ('rocker Praising "first class work by council members" who included reeve Bill Dale, and councillors Bob Dinsmore and Alf Ross. and by the clerk. councillor Ross emphasized that the policy book is for convenience only and because constant updating will be needed "for accurate reference. recourse should he had to the Seaforth municipal office." Council meetings were moved from the second Monday to the second, Tuesday of each month mainly because Monday holiday s meant they had to be changed often as it was. councillor. Ross told the Expositor. The change is effective in October. when Thanksgiving would have moved the meeting to Tuesday anyway. JOIN STAFF—Four new faces on the teaching staff at Seaforth district high school include. from left. Jim Howard. Peter Latronico, Ben,' Wilson and Laurie Chateris Miss Chateris will be teaching commerc a subjects for one semester and Mr Latronico, an exchange teacher from England. joins the history and geography departments for the sCh001 (Wassink year. Brussels crowns fair queen / B 1 rndex area wedd'^qs F'S B'ussers ^ews 0' B4 B5 Crass.r,eds n e •e Dubbn rests .tr Ed,lor.a,s Q: Fare Fa,. F P. ea Fam,'y a ' F' •` Far' 85 0'4 NP^sa ^cos . 0-,S'C' a Sm,rpt .rat •t .+ Son'rs 8'; F'.? F: Fi 4 •: 8'0 o 8'3