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HURON EXPOSITOR, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1989
LONE RESCUER - Seaforth Firefighter Ralph Wood stands guard over an injured
Sandra Mclnally, while she awaits transportation by ambulance to the Seaforth Com-
munity Hospital. Miss Mclnally was one of 15 people who feigned injuries for a
mock disaster created at the Seaforth and District Community Centres. Robinet
photo,
50 cents a copy.
D.D. Wilson statue on hold
Seaforth Town Council overturned a re-
quest from its Streetscape Committee, to
take additional funding needed for a
bronze statue of D.D. Wilson, from the
1990 PRIDE allocation.
The idea of "The Seated Mayor", cast
in iron and located on a bench in the
recently completed civic court in front of
the town hall, has already been approv-
ed by council at a cost of $15,000. A
bronze statue would cost an additional
$5,000, meaning more money would have
to be made available this year,
In requesting the change, the
streetscape committee noted there were
more advantages to a bronze sculpture as
opposed to an iron one, and agreed that
bronze, although more expensive, would
be the best choice' for its appearance and
maintenance factors. Cast iron needs to
be sandblasted and repainted every few
years, while cast bronze doesn't. Con-
tinued sandblasting would dull the
features of the statue.
However, council members weren't as
easily convinced,
"I think the town could spend our
money better than this," commented
• Councillor Garry Osborn. "If you want to
put it into the streetscape, let's put it into
the entrance to town so people will know
where Seaforth is." Councillor Osborn in-
dicated he thought the whole idea of a
statue preposterous.
"I agree," added Councillor Marjorie
Claus. "$20,000 is getting a little out of
hand."
Deputy -reeve Peg Campbell, who is
also chairman of the Streetscape commit-
tee noted that council had already ap-
proved the sculpture for $15,000 and that
it was just a matter of allocating an ad-
ditional $5,000 for abetter product.
"We have done long range plans and I
agree that the entrance and four corners
are a priority. But, we can't do the en-
trance to town, or the four corners, un-
til we get the property, or permission to
do things with the property - and we
can't get the property. There are steps
that have to be taken, and the entrance
and four corners are our jobs for next
year," she said, adding the streetscape
committee will be undertaking $70,000 in
expenditures in 1990.
"There's no problem funding the four
corners next year. The idea of the statue
was to make Seaforth's a unique civic
court, and hopefully bring people to town
to see it. Nobody else has one."
"Probably because they can't afford it,
and I don't think we can either,"
countered Councillor Osborn.
"Let's buy the property we need to pro-
mote the town with the $20,000."
Councillor Bill Teall asked whether
anything would have to be dropped from
oxecl trees ill received by town
The recently completed Town Hall Civic
Court was the topic of some discussion at
the September meeting.of Seaforth Town
Council. _.
Reeve Bill Bennet:d he personally
finds the court too:nl ..and the trees
too large for the area.
"When you look at plans.,everything is
tidy and round, and I ,pictured trees like
the global maples down at the area. I'm
not an architect, and the tree is leafy and
you can see through it. But when you look-
ed at ,the pictures everything looked like
full green trees, so it was kind of a shock
to see something that's just a stick."
Councillor Garry Osborn said he -found
the trees too tall, and asked why they
were placed in planters rather than in the
pavement. A number of other councillors
expressed a similar dislike of the planters.
Streetscape Committee Chairperson Peg
Campbell agreed that the trees look sick-
ly now, but added they are not going to
stay that way.
"They're dormant trees that have been
transplanted, and they will be pruned," she
said.
_Those planter poxes will hide„the whole
civic court, commented Mayor Hazel
Hildebrand.
"I agree it looks a bit cluttered - right.
now,” said Deputyreeve Campbell, "but it
has to. grow on you. It's a major change
to our street." Deputy -reeve Campbell add-
ed that because of the presence of utilities
under the concrete the trees could not be•
the 1990 plan if the $5,000 was taken from
that account, then questionned whether
any money could be saved this year. He
was told that the civic court had come in
under budget to date, and that the com-
mittee was hoping that .with interest on
the $15,000 already set aside for the
statue, that only a couple thousand addi-
tional dollars would be needed„ by the
time the payment date for the statue
arrived.
Councillor Bill Pinder said he too was
concerned about the cost of the statue,
but added that he would rather see a
bronze statue in place of a silver one -
for the money. He suggested the statue
be placed on hold until council was. able
to get more feedback from the public on
what's been done already. He was told
there'd already been all kinds of public
meetings, and that the public had been
more. concerned at that time that the
town not put in interlocking brick in the
civic court, than with the statues.
"In. the sense of the two materials,
would it help if we had actual
maintenance costs involved?” asked town
administrator Jim Crocker. " I'm not
satisfied we really had a handle on the
actual maintenance costs of the two
statues." •
More discussion on this issue will take
place at the October meeting of town
council.
nd council
placed directly into the ground. She noted
the trees will be moved beside the band -
shell for the winter.
If comments are strong enough, we
may not -bring' iac''k all the trees. There is
still a lot of work to be done and the trees
can be., incorporated into other.projects if
that's what the public wants," she said.
"The general concensus from the public
is that we tried to put too much there.
Two might look better if placed properly,"
added town administrator Jim Crocker,
FAIR QUEEN CROWNED - Leanne Whitmore, bottom centre, was crowned the
1989 Seaforth Fall Fair Queen Saturday night at a dinner and dance sponsored
by the Seaforth Agricultural Society. She takes over Queen duties from Andrea
Muir, centre back. First runner up in the contest was Mary Lou Stewart of RR
1 Dublin, and second runner up was Tracy Bosman of RR 1 Seaforth. The Queen
received a dozen red roses from Hildebrand Flowers and a $100 prize from Hart
Ford. The first runner-up received $75 from Whitney-Ribey Funeral Home, and the
second runner up received $$0 from McLaughlin Chev-Olds. Miss Congeniality was
won by Marueen Murray of RR 5 Mitchell. Robinet photo.
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