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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-03-15, Page 1120th yeah Whole No, $792' SEAFQRTH,,'Qi<t1TAR.iO,, `k1URS ►`,MAR It 15, 1979 ! $13 Yolic ono ropy sa e • A good , look at Seaforth"s: sewer system, and pumpcapacity by the ministry of the environment couldsave the town thousands in pumping charges for water that shouldn't be going to the sewa8e treatment plant, clerk Jim Crocker told council Monday night.. The PUC pumped 102 million gallons of water in Seaforth iast year white 125 million gallons of sanitary sewage were pumped. at. the lagoon, Clerk Crockert estimated perhaps.40 to SS million gallons are getting into the system.,.:a .. at a pumping test of perhaps $34,000, The pimps were designed for an estimated, 62 • million gallons a year and can not keep up with flooding during Spring run offs, "If they find where, the water's getting in and•. we plug the holes we won't have to pay to pump all those extra gallons," Commented councillor 'Jim Sills, chairman of the public :works contmittee. A council resolution asking the ministry to do a study should get action this mo nth the clerk said.. of C helps pay For flowers Seaforth Chamber , of Commerce will donate $300; to the Seaforth i-Iortieulteral Society to provide'planting boxes for Main St:, conditional • upon the approval of the P town council. The decision was made last Tuesday et the March C of C meeting. The formation of a government funded Business' Improvement Arca was;' discussed. P Merchants are considering the 'program in Exeter and Goderich. The Chamber of some cost'o over-' Commerce: will underwrites ev . runs of the summer band concerts for July and; Auguste 1979. Volunteers to help with this project are needed and anyone inter - ested is asked to contact Dr. E.C. Toll. • Paul Carroll, assisted by Robt. Newnham showed slides of the,Van Egmond restor- ation and 'ex explained the goals of the ai p Foundation.' The next meeting of the Seaforth Chamber C erce-wilr`bh 'held -Tires. April 3 at •; 'of omm . P in the Council Chambers, second 7:3Qp,m ou floor, of. the Town Hall: r. Salary increases for town employees 'were approved: et council Monday night on the .:.'tnecornmendation of its negotiating committee after what Mayor John Sinnarr,,en; called "some pretty tough negotiating" with employees. • Police chief 3ohn Cairns will receive $20,000,. tip Brom 519,235 last ye r, Alb foytt constables receives raises of S13 '6, making. first class, constable Dave Dale's salary '' Huron Perth; scheoi budget up 2.9% $1.7,500; third class constables John Burgess: and Charles .Akey $15,018 and fourth class, constable Peter Van Meekeran, :5.13,777„ Working conditions :k and, fringe benefits Out lined in the, police agreement. stay the same, as last year; deputy reeve Bill Dale, who headed the negotiating eortnitee, said, Town clerk Jim Crocker, who made $17,520 last year after the AIB: rolled back a $19,000 amount and. his salary raised to $19,000. He'll be paid $20 each for all .meetings except regi, lar coUncil and four standing committees. that he attends officially, newthis year. Rcc director Clive Buist will receive• • -$15,000 in 1979 up from S13,500 lastyear. Public works employees, got an across the board.$0•cents an hour raise, giving, forrnan Harvey Dohnage 56,10,. • assistant Ron Johnston $530, Leon Bannon $S,10 and Doug Anstett $4.75. Town office employees Dairothy 'Bassett will make S5 per hour, up from. 54.50 and! Helen Kilbourne $3,60 (53.75 March 12) tip. from $3,2$, Council members decided not to raise their own salaries, which are based on attendance at council and commtet< .meetings. BY WILMAOKE The. Huron --Perth County Roman our case threatenq Catholic Separate School board set is 1979 budget. at $4,683,415,. • an, increase of 5132,000 over last year at a special meeting in Dublin Thursday night:. Jack Lane, Superintendent of Business' and Finance, said in presenting the budget, "To meet this increase the board will require only 2,9 per cent more than last year from municipalities in, the two counties, He said salaries and fringe benefits account for 70.6 'per centtof budget Provincial grants and other retiienue will provide 82.6 per cent of the 1979. • budget, compared. with 83.4 per cent in 1978. Local taxpayers will be required to Contribute • $798,700 which is 17.4•per.cent of this year's budget, up' from 16.6'per cent in 1978, To•allow for the collection of the necessary taxes, the board has set a mill rate of 5 mills Or its equivalent for ratepayers in all 51 supporting municipalities over that paid in or FAB After nearly an hour in closed session FAB that if the town has to go to court. it will Monday night.Seaforth council decided to, petition for rental payment from 1970 until ask its lawyer, a Stratford firm to demand 1978 inclusive. • payment of , outstanding hydrant' rental The fire area board includes' two charges from the Seaforth Fire Area Board:,. ,' representatives from Seaforth, two from from 1976 to 1978 inclusive. McKillop Township and: one each from $13,200 or $4400 a year is in arrers by Tuckersmith,Hullett and Hibbert townships, council's reckoning, while the FAB says the and is financed by grants from each,. $1000 a year in hydrant rentals it's been McKillop covers about 37 per cent of the paying. should be sufficient.; costs, Seaforth about 32 per cent and the Seaforth lawyer w•as instructed. to tell the other three municipalities split the rest. . 1978.. This will mean $5 'per $1,000' of . . . --GREEN FOR. •SATURDAY ,: Y- Sherry Miller and Poe . Afkemade, P assessment o n an . m re th last year. As. Is t .Seaforth ,P lie School,.. is a their shamrocka . y ra F � � A � o S, t � � n has .h a .e ktndergartea punt a .S t ubDisplay Y .r h pp average, this will cost the taxpayers $17.50 greetings made in honor of March 17th the day when everyone feels a more 7 o d o boar d e in 19 9, arc t tng t little "Irish". Because exams and tests are onthisweekand Education do n calculations, .... Week events are planned for April, St; Patr. ick's- School in' Dublin didn't Mr. Lane said, -Positive. results from •board decisions made. in 1978' to cope with have a specialprogrami°for St, Patrick s Da this year ,incl al Larryp p y y , p P d in this Cook told the Expositor. (Expositor Photo) declining enrolments are reflected Pbudget. pci rti$ Huron -Middlesex MP Robert' McKinley told a partisan crowd Friday in Exeter that. he would seek re-election in the new federal riding of Huron -Bruce. McKinley told the annaul \meetiagof the Huron -Middlesex .Progressive Conservative 'Association thatthe idea of not running had crossed his mind, but that he had quickly discounted the ntoion. : • The Zurich area resident said he had given. himself completely .to :the 'people of the poi ice :wa rn riding for the past 13, years andd that this totaltal the Seaforth 'Constable Charles Ake . of t r 5 police detachment warned motorist this week to lock their cars when parking them anywhere ,in Seaforth. The'palice, have' been investigating a number of thefts of stere o ;- equipment from equipmentfrom cars in the past few. months' Consteble.AkeY reported there eereorilJ • two •minor car accidents in Seaforth in the past week: both resulting in Tess than $50 in damages: ` ;.., • committment would continue.; McKinley lashed out at the_ resentprime. y P P. minister saying "My total committment•wiil continue until we get rid of a man who has done mare damage in the history of Canada than•anyiothet man. Pierre Elliott Trudeau. In' recog gn ti ion" of the riding's cheesed', . _ h g boundaries; which willsce the two Middlesex county townships 'drop out and four townships from Bruce :count'' added, • McKinley tells pry crowd I :McKinley announced the , opening .ot a constituency nffive in Winoham Anson McKinley, a former warden ofHuron County.. echoed . his brother's'- sentiments about theP. , resent status of the country by. saying Trudeau has sent more Canadians out of the country, than any . other Prime Minister.. He cited the example of Florida where French-Canadians' are purchasing large amounts of property. ''It's a sad statement' on the state of our country," the.: Stanley township farmers said. Addinghis- criticisms. to the the present p federal', government was former provincial minister of agriculture Bill Stewart who said if Trudeau delays the election for an extended' period of time it would mean certain defeat for the Liberals. He added he would effect such a i Trudeau did not th nk THE ihiese two old tyme fiddlers provided some Of the music at the Seaforth Lagldn gathering for senior cititerts on Monday night. Story and more photos on page 8, '(Eitpositor Photo) • tal The country badly needs leadership according to Stewart and the present state of the countty can he directly attributed to "The unlcadership which the present prime. Minister has given." In thenext federal election, Stewart said many people will be charting their vote if not. necessarily their party. -i At the meeting' former Exeter? ;mayor I::xete Bruce Shaw was elected president of the riding association replacing Bill Amos of, Parkhill: ' n t Serving ,as.vice-president for the ex two • years will be ex --warden of Huron"Cdunty Gerry n Ger i• n..while Chris. Little of itican''takes over from' Lorne Kleinstiver of Dashwood as chief financial' officer. Assuming. the secretary's ,position is Doreen Strong; of Seaforth replacing Ruth Hill of Lucan • Acting; as vice-president will be Dr. Bill • Butler;' Strathroy, Dr. Thbmas :Jasper, • Goderich; Keys, s, "Hensel!: •Brenda y Coates; Centralia,` Fred •Dobbs, Centralia. and Mts. Hill. Sitting' on the advisory committee are .Charles. C.o bett Parkhill• Bev Westmatt; rb , Cardna Seaforth', Vraiiton;` Betty. , ' Anson a Goderich lvlcKinleY ,Zurich; Jird Hayter, ter , , Fred Bos, .ltePatkhil• Cale } , : Hill,` Dr. y . Y Goderich; Lloyd.Mardlin, Granton;- Glen Webb - Dashwood Merton Culbert, Lucan; Don Shipway, Ailsa Craig; Elmer. Hayter, Varna; Donna Wood, Clinton and Coates, Centralia. Honourary members are . Charles MacN:.ughton, Exeter; Bill Stewart,;. London. and Robert McKinley, Zurich. • get dam restudied- Christie Perth County Federation of Agriculture members an be satisfied that its part in opposing the proposed Glengowan Dam project has led to a comprehensive terms of reference for an '• : environntental impact pact study, says Federation Director Ron Christie. ' The Staffa area • farmer brought the federation members up to date on the, Glengowan • Dam issue :at:' the March meeting held in Mitchell' • The darn was to have been built along _ the Upper ThamesRiver in'Fulla .on Township pp Fullerton h P for the purpose of low -flow augmentation fora, pr up the Cit, af' London downstream. The Y preliminary engineering: study was completed in 75 ,howev r t wa delayed after. Fullerton Township . Council spearheaded public oppositiox to the Project. The Federation of Agriculture got involved when the Organization for the. Protection of the Upper Thames was formed in' 1977. The organization lobbied for an environmental "assessment on thero•ect P ! . and that' has finally lead to a terms of reference for that study said Christie. The terms.' of reference have beenn in . _ circulation couple c ulation ; for .a coup of months now and they -: seemquite comprehensive", he said. P "If the study: follows: all those alternatives presented in the terms of reference and does Keith James st, reconstruction ok'd' a; detailed assessment, then it will be quite goo . Christie expressed concern that the Upper. Thames :Conservation Authority will be conducting the, stud9.. "It's part of the., Ontario Environmental As§essment law, that he proponent of the project conducts the. ' study of it -one can't help but question this part of• it." Christie said its only,, understandable that the authority has its own vested interests, ."You can't get around that; its human nature". The study will be of .interest to farmers in; a couple of ways he said, `'Specifically from,. y the farm P point of view, the study should reveal the alternatives for reducing flooding, and improvingthere water control" and a re defimtly n ajot moves to be, made in farm. land management This land management . would • entail: erosion control, the spreading of manure; and land drainage. • The , City of Landon had expected the project to be completed by 1981 but now that the study is to be conducted the earliest it; could be finished.is 1985;.:Christie said, "If theg gproject even goes through we're already. P � .. looking at a 4 year'delay". London is study pushing very hard to have the . , , up he said.: r.�� Christie -Concluded that he hoped the study isn't conducted too hastily because the. city' is in such a hurry. • ana'.the trarveller Stanley t t r wp •do Jf u nsu p • weeks later i n McKi I {o p It's not a shaggy dog story'becatise Dana's a short haired dog, black and brown, about mcdiunt size mixed breed. • Scared by a gun shot from hunters looking for pigeons back in January, Dana bolted froni the fatm of Gordon and Ruby Hill, two miles west of Varna. She had been Mrs, Hill's dog for about four years. Dana had headed south and ads in Zurich and Exeter papers brought no results. ,The Hills decided their dog was dead. Tuesday night, six or seyen weeks after Dana disappeared the Hills' son Bev stttetded a meeting more than 20 miles away ,at the Metuuiop township home of Ken and Joan Campbell. Upon walking in the door he saw Dana the dog. She'd artived starving about a month before, the Campbell's:explained and since they, didn't have a dogthey'd decided to keep her. • Gordon and Ituby Hill are in Florida now and the Campbells are keeping: Dana until their return, ' What everybody Whorl heard the story Wishes thottgh is that Dana the deg eoutd talk and tell how she 'got from Stanley to :Mcl:tillop, false alarms caused by Bellprob(ems A malfunction itt .Bell Telephone lines to the Seitforth fire hall resulted iii ttvo false alarms on Thursday afterttoott Fire Clicl Harry Hak said' the firemen who answered • the two calls, which e curred si itltin 20 minutes of titch other, will have to be paid ft r responding to the alarms. Mr, Hak fitemetr den' have any idea, whether the alarm is faire or not Until' they reach the fore station, Thc;prubient with the Bell 'Cnitphultc Linda Was 't'epaird i by l~riday morning; Mt. 'Hak Said ii Boll' Canada official was dere Mdttday and is looking for a solutioti. The hone eompany says it can't be bilked for the odats the FAB "incurs evet'1' tithe there is a false alarttt. Despite . objections by, c'buncillor -Gerald Groothuis that road .work. on Brantford or Railway St . had. been planned for this year., council approved a recommendation from `engineer Burns Ross and the public works committee that work be done to complete James St. After storm sewer° construction along Huron from 'Louisa to Sperling. provides an outlet .for'.the new West. Branch. subdivision (estimated at $23,.100) there isn't enought money • to do the work Brantford St. requires but there 'is enough to finish James, clerk Jim Crocker said'. Street construction •is estimated at $36 a foot. Cotttteiilor Greothuis said he felt council had a Commit. Orient to improve a street south of the tracks, other but other councillors said road improvement, should be delpayed bcause there will be heavy construction traffic as the : new subdivision is built. The engineer and the public works committee will drive Seaforth streets during frost break up time and Housing mane schedule construction. "Burns Ross said. priorities in street building should start with the worst. . 'It's' mucor better to have a bunch of mediocre roads rather than dirt roads and super highways:," said councillor Jim Sills. Rialway St. Was discussed And will be looked at next year, Mayor Sinnamon said. ger quits John Lyndon, manager of the Huron County Housing Authority, has submitted his resignation' to the county housing authority. Mr. Lyndon said he was "fed up'" with everything in> the job end did not want to Comment on his reasons for resigning. He said; he had been considering the move for quite a while and decided to leave after returning from a holiday. Mr. Lyndon said he was tired of the bureaucracy of the job, The . housing authority board plans td adv'erti'se for a replacement for,xyndon. 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