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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-09-13, Page 1120th Year Whole No. 5818 FIRST SECTIONS PAGES; 1 SEAFORTH, ONTARIQ.4 TMI�gSL1AY. SEP�'EMBER 13,_1979'." .� 47. FO SLS a year to adVaneat Single Copy 3Q Cent* eet Seaforth: council .and the four, rural municipalities involvedin the Fire. Area. Board (FAB) have agreed to meet end discuss both drawing up a new firearea: agreement, the route the townships favour; and .Sedforth's pet proposal -selling fire protection to the rural areas. The decision to invite the township s to a meeting to discuss both proposals came after a two hour session in private at Seaforth council Monday night. Seaforth wanted the _meeting on or before next Tuesday, Sept. 18, Meeting Tuesday night at Huron Cen- tennial School in Brucefield,; the townships accepted Seaforth's invitation, Seaforth's mayor, the four township reeves and the seven present members of the Seaforth FAB were named to do the negotiating. Fire chief Harry Hak reported to Seaforth; council during its ' private , sessionand afterwards council said information on fire equipment purchases was passed to the police committee. Later in, the meeting, back in public . session, council. agreed on a,, four to three vote to still ask representatives of the firemen and the chief to meet with them and; discuss Seaforth forming; its own department. "If that's in the paper they won't know which way we went," said councillor Bruce Hoelscher. "Seaforth can't sit here on itt. hands and,end up without fire protection," '. cautioned Mayor Sinnamon, "'the town is, willing to meet with the townships." Before council went into the in camera session, Reeve John Flannery condemed AB ass Seaforth's decision to have its, own , department. "We budge ted for streets andsidewalks, which you wanted when you ran for mayor," he said, "but we didn't budget for a fire truck or aparatus,'° • Reminded that the decision had been; unanimous to leave the FAB, Reeve Flannery replied. "yes, but if the ice gets, thin, I .igo. back: Once you gain more information, it's common sense to go back." The reeve added that council should have listened to: its FAB. members rather than the ute Fire M'arshall's Office. Deputy reeve Bill Dale calledfor some perspective. "Sidewalks andstreets don't. meat) a thing without fire protection. We've got a 27•year-old (fire) truck left it town. $100,000 in the bank isno good unless we use it and buy protection." The town -township meeting to discuss the fire protection alternatives will be held as soon as all parties can attend. Councillors Bob Dinsmore and Gerald Groothuis, were not at Monday nights marathon meeting, which adjourned at 1:15' To cut through Perth • Hibbert says no topipeline Hibbert township .council• has vetoed a proposed. 12 -inch propane pipeline from Sarnia to. Montreal which might cut through beside this week Still time to enter Cam Doig wins . . -Ren vating your house?` , .. o ,. Corn marketing board . .. in: crashes Three local; teenagers were inured: Mon- day afternoon when the van they were riding in went out of control on Huron County Rd. 12, east of Kippen. ' Wendy Kloss, 17, of R.R. 1, Brucefield, was deriving; the van, which was eastbound on the road, approaching the Kippen curve. She lost control of,the v ehide due tot the slippery conditions caused by a recent rainfall- The 'van turned over, slid across the road on its roof, and eventually rested on its side across the roadway. The driver recieved minimalinjuriesinthe 'accident. Passengers Patricia Scott,. 17, of George Street;. Seaforth and Kimberley Ann: Argyle,le, 16 'of R.R. 1, Bnuc eft eld were both taken to Seaforth Community Hospital by the Seaforth. 'ambulance.. They are in, satisfactorycondition. , . T ,he accident resulted in 52,000 damage to the Kloss van. .On Friday afternoon, two other Seaforth. area residents also were, injured in a two car collision north of E mondville A car driven by Wanda Dietz of R.R. 4, Seaforth was in collision with a second vehicle driven by Gary 'Garniss', also of R.R. 4, Seaforth at the Hannah School inter- section. This is the intersection of Con:'2 and, Sdrd:16; Tuckersmith Township, Both drivers were injured:in the accident and taken to Seaforth Community Hospital Mr. Garniss was treated and 'released and Mrs. Dietz remained in hospital overnight. The Dietz vehicle received $3,000 worth of damage and there was approximately $2,000. damage to the Garniss vehicle. Mrs.` Dietz was northbound at the time of the accident and Mr. Garnisswas; westbound. On Saturday afternoon t • y here was a two car accident involving a. Seaforth woman on Huron County Rd. 12, Nancy Anstett of Seaforth was eastbound on the road and a vehicle driven by Lloyd. Allan of Hensen was westbound on the same road. The. Allan vehicle swerved, ry , colliding with the Anstett car. There were no injuries in the accident: Damage to the Anstett car was estimated at. $2,000 and there was. a roxima pp tel y 5600 damage • o ;the Allan vehicle. The Goderich OPP investigated the acci- dent. their township, Council members asked the clerk to notify the consultants that they weren't in favour of the pipeline, since the township is already Criss-crossed with municipal tile and field tile installation. A copy of council's decision will be forwarded to the Ontario Energy Co-ordina- tion Committee of the Ontario Energy Board. The pipeline is..being built to service energy needs east. of • Quebec City; •A number of area farm organizations have already expressed concern over the pro posed pipeline whichfarmers feel would cut.. 'through some of, the most productive farmland in southern Ontario:' The Food: Land. Steering Committee is presently arranging a meeting with the Ontario Energy Board to discuss their. concerns. Members of the .committee met with, a representative of the consulting firm in- vovled in the pipeline study on Aug: 22. The proposed route of the pipeline would- not only cut through - the - "heart of Perth County'',according: to Elbert Yah bonkers - geed of the Food Land Steering. Committee; but also. through prime -agricultural land in Lambton, Middlesex and Wellington. counties. • The consulting, firm staff have been meeting • with councils and other concerned groups to get information on how to avoid. such landmarks as historical sites and. cemeteries, water lines and areas of future urban expansion. Members of Hibbert council also studied a letter from JamesCrocker, clerk : Seaforth, , of Se orth; Who o. ' wrote w ore to the. Seaforth Fire Board Area'. at. a -private citizen. The letter was -endorsed b. ; the e council'of the town of Seaforth, but Hibbert council decided they still didn't wish to purchase fire protection from the town of Seaforth, should the town form its' own fire department, Hibbert council members decided not to. attend a proposedmeeting with Seaforth representatives to. discuss Mr. Crocker's ,suggestions, scheduled for Sept. 12. Council members didindicate they were. still open for discussion on the continuation of the Fire Area Board' under at new agreement, with Seaforth remaining a mender. DRAIN CONSTRUCTION Council accepted a petition• for the construction of a municipal drain on Con. 13. The clerk was asked to notify the Conservation Authority. and' place.the appointment of an engineer on the agenda: for the October council meeting. Thereading of the, Linton. Drainage Report was scheduled for Monday,, Sept. 24 at 8:40 p. rn; Council will convene a meeting on October 3 with the councils of the township of Foliation, 'Logan, the county. planner, Mitchell and District Planning Board and the building inspector for the consideration of amendments to zoning bylaws The road superintendent reported con - u •iu:tion on; Con. 213` Lots 1/5 was complete' ri,. . xcept for some. shouldering Black to in has: been comm leted in the. pP g .P, village of Cromarty and gravel will be applied to township roads beginning in the middle of ,September,. RoadaccountstheS 55 u t in sum of28,4 and a general account to of 569,827 were paid. The general account figures included ('con struction costs of • the Millerdrainage" works. The council meeting d' a Journed at 11:10 Saturday proved a`°TuckY night ht for two ... area men who split the prize in the annual car club draw sponsored by the Seaforth Lion's Club, Tom Haley of Seaforth and: Ross Smale of RR2, Staffa, decided to split the value of the car when their tickets were the last two left in the hat This means, both men will receive 52,200. Neither of the men attended the dinner and dance where the draw was held. Tom Haley, said he was phoned by a Lions Club :member at 12:45 a.m. . to ask if he wanted the last ticket to be drawn or if he'd lub win rather split the money: Since Mr. Smale was out at the time; Mrs. Smale agreed to the split whenshe was con tacted and by 1.:30 a.m.it was official. Mrs. Smale said her husband has bought tickets on the•draw since it was started, but the most. he had.won was ms on o of the $25 monthly prizes. Mr. Smote farms in the Staffa, area: Tom Haley, who is the commercial printing foreman at the Huron Expositor, said one thing he knows after winning the draw is that he's not going to bein any hurry to spend his ;windfall. Teens pack organizing meeting 53enthusiastic teenagers packed a room. in the town hall at the organizational meeting for a Seaforth and area teen town group,' held Monday night. ' • The meeting was organized by Charles Akey and other adults who were concerned • at the lack of activities for teens in the community, "1 expected perhaps 25 to turn out'' said. Cons. Akey who was really pleased by the FLYING LEAP —.'Kirk Bigelow pf Rochester, Michlgan' was one of the \ lour Bigelow' com'pil'ing a highly ranked .motocro ss team to ride In the Molson Ontario Championships round 3 racing held in Walton Satia' and Sunday. Bigelow 18 ranked /th In the series. (More photos On the sports page.), BY ALICE GIBS Father W.C. Cooney, the new St.James parish priest, has a special interest in the future of developin countries- an interest which stems from firsthand experience. In the early 1.96,0'', Pope Paul asked'. dioceses in North America to send men to Peru - a request that Was somewhat out of the ordinary, since most priests serving in overseas mission fields are members of the religious orders such as the Jesuits., One of the volunteers from the London diocese who was sent to Peru was Father Cooney, and he served there for five years. Today, five priests from the diocese are continuing the work started in Peru over a decade ago. Father Cooney admits the old idea of . missionaries"The idea of the white sahib going in to save them" ne longer holds true: Instead, the priests who went to Fern went to work Ott cotnntunity detreloptlse'ttt projects as much as they did to do the normal work of the church. The projects included improving health care facilities in the area, and developing credit unions and co-ops to improve the 'standard of living, attendance, Another, meeting for teenagers and. interested adults will be held next Tuesday night inthe town hall at 7:30 p.m. At that time, someone from the local Lions organization will be in attendance to discuss a sponsorship arrangement for the teen' organization. Leo Club members from the town of Brussels are . also expected to attend. .served in Father Cooney said while the idea. behind the project was to bring some North American expertise to Peru, the project really became a two-way street. The priests. were able to show the Peruvian people that life could be better, but the people also taught the priests .some important lessons about life. The 'mission, which eventually grew to five men, was' centered in a hacienda = and' any romantic` allusions about that are "bull", said Father Cooney. The 'hacienda was a ranch, housing 14,000 people, many of them employed in: harvesting sugar cane. The people lived in an area' which was less than half the size of Seaforth, The overwhelming fact of life oh the hacienda, and in Peru itself, was poverty. Father Cooney said the country didn't have enough doctors, lawyers or priests. or any of the 'Other support systems you need to have a decent kited of life," WAGES AND HOUSING The housing on the hacienda was poor and the wages tow, averaging about 52 a day tot n man working on the ranch. In the UPHEAVAL A workman with Levis Construction of Holmesville tears up old -pavement on Adams Street: The road reconstruction project is expected to be completed by Sept 28. Residents in a two or three block area havebeen detouring to get to their homes for several weeks. (Expositor Photo) Could re sunt in OMB bearing Four families object tc BY Hensall.:annexatian ALICE GIBB Wintario requesting, further information. on Hensall council learned their bid to annex the arena fundraising project The fundrai- a portion rHay _- south of sing committee. still must raise another the village, couldresult in ;an Ontario S20 00000 from the o u i Municipal board hearing,. fi . c.. nim n ty Councillor Harry Klungall suggested jokingly that the Four of approximately 17 families in the village needed ;to hire telethon organizer area proposed for;annexaton'are: objecting: Jerry Lewisfor.an hour to raise the needed to `the. annexation :bid. funds: The objections include the fear their taxes would increase when they becomeP art of the village of. Hensall, loss of rural mail' delivery and concern that their children would no longer to be bused to. school. The four families sent letters to Hensall council outlining: their objection: the same objections raised at a publicMeeting held in August to debate the annexation issue... Reeve Harold Knight reported Huron County' Roman Dzus said unless the differences ibetween the village and the four families could be resolved, the situation could result in an OMB hearing. Mr. Dzus suggested that representatives froth Hensall and: Hay Township councils meeting, with the objecting parties and try to resblve the situation. One fear of the residents objecting to annexation was that they would immediately have to hook into the Hensall sewer and water systems. Clerk Betty Oke said this wouldn't• be the case, 'unless' something happened to their own systems and they requested a hook•up. Reeve Knight said the families who objected to' the annexation proposal "are, trying to preserve a certain lifestyle and you can't blame them for that." Council also received -a, letter from Peru 1960*s however, the buying power of that S2 was more, and people could obtain relatively cheap food at the company store. Today, the wages in Peru have actually decreased, and now nice on the hacienda :make about 545. -a month, but that doesn't. buy the same amount it did a decade ago. When Father. Cooney lived in Peru, the government was civilian -Controlled, but . since then it has ' become a military dictatorship. Although the communists were trying, to infiltrate, both the labour movement Indians, t. and to Organize the Peruvian • ether Cooney said he doubts very much if there will be a Communist takeover in the country, He said White there was a lot of Communist propaganda about the united States circulated in the country, and a good deal of anti -Yankee feeling, the people were still very proud when they could buy American-prutl"iced items. Like many developing countries, one of Peru's major problems was the high incidence of disease.p was the lie antis number .one tttedieat; problem in the (Contiifudd on Page 3) CluvE to roasted Clive Suitt, Seaforth's recreation direc- tor for the past six years will be honoured Tuesday night, September 18, at the arena at an appreciation night and roast, Clive leaves his job' here September 28 for a new post in Fergus:: The evening, gets underway at 8 p.m. with the former councillor Bill Bennett as' M.C. Representatives from the many local groups that Clive has worked . with will "roast" the recreation director and several presentations will ,be made. Coffee and donuts will be served and the whole community is invited to attend and. express its appreciation to Clive. Fi 'HER GOONILy.::.