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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
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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.
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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
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