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Rise2Fame Competition exclusively
at Bayfield Community Fair
If you sing, dance, play and
instrument or perform in
other ways, and are between
the ages of 6 and 21, then the
Rise2Fame Youth Talent
Search is looking for you.
The only Huron County
preliminary competition to
the Western Fair Talent Search
takes place on Friday, August
19 at the Bayfield Community
Fair upstairs in the Bayfield
Community Centre. Junior
competitions begin first at
7:00 p.m. with youth competi-
tions to follow.
Check-in is at 6:00 p.m. This
ensures that all registration
documents are complete and
that music can be lined up for
the show. Be sure to read the
rules very carefully online by
visiting the website at west-
ernfairdistrict.com/Music/
Rise2Fame/rules. Registration
must be completed online on
the Western Fair site before
August 7 or you can contact
Charlie Kalbfleisch at 519-
565-2244 to ensure you are a
contestant on his list.
Winners go on to perform
at the Western Fair - a
35 -year tradition which has
touched the lives of thou-
sands of talented youngsters
from across the province.
The Western Fair Rise2Fame
Youth Talent Search, along
with the preliminaries, has
been the start to many
careers in the arts and con-
tinues to encourage young
people to pursue their tal-
ents by giving them a chance
to perform in front of a live
audience.
Bayfield's preliminary
contest is the only one in
Huron County before this
year's Western Fair. Catego-
ries of competition are (1)
Vocal Solo; (2) Instrumental
Solo; (3) Dance Solo; (4)
Dance Group; (5) Vocal and/
or Instrumental Group
including bands; (6) Variety
Solo and (7) Variety Group.
Winners of the Bayfield
preliminary Rise2Fame con-
test will perform again at the
Western Fair on the Anne
Eadie Stage during the first
two weeks of September. At
the Western Fair competi-
tion, there are big cash
prizes and trophies for final
winners. The top prize
includes a trophy and $1,500
in cash! Last year's Junior
Winner at the Western Fair
was a Huron County dancer,
and that was not the first
time that Huron County kids
have made it to the finals!
But you can't win if you
don't enter the preliminary
in Bayfield. And Rise2Fame
contestants, along with one
adult get free admission to
the fair. So get registered,
bring your dancing shoes,
instrument or vocals and
come showcase your talent
at the Fair!
Entries for all preliminar-
ies can be made on-line at
westernfairdistrict.com/
Music/Rise2Fame Contact
Charles Kalbfleisch at 519-
565-2244 or wlaurie@tcc.
on.ca for more information.
Amalgamation of municipalities a possibility
Shaun Gregory
Postmedia Network
Local municipalities in the
region have put together a
presentation regarding
shared services. It's believed
this was the first time all of
the councils have united
together to discuss such
matters. However, no matter
what the conversation
entailed, here and there
amalgamation is the direc-
tion some felt this project
might possibly advance to,
perhaps in the far or the near
future.
Established on January 1,
2001, Huron East became
one municipality, a restruc-
turing arranged by the Min-
istry of Municipal Affairs. A
provincial government
department that "helps
ensure the land use planning
system protects what is valu-
able while enabling and
managing growth," accord-
ing to their website. A
request the town of Seaforth
had been brainstorming well
before the initial merging.
Seaforth Coun. Bob Fisher
expressed to the group of
about fifty people in the Libro
Hall at the Central Huron
Community Complex June 28
that government officials are
playing substantial influences
when it comes to decision
making, the same happened
in the early 2000's. He consid-
ers the shared services to be
running on the same path as
the integration some 15 years
ago.
(Shaun Gregory/Postmedia Network)
Tyler Hessel, the Mayor of Bluewater spoke to local municipalities June 28 in Clinton during a Shared
Services meeting. Like other politicians in Huron County, Hessel believes amalgamation will possibly
happen in the future.
"It always seems that things
start out smoothly, but then
bureaucracy creeps in and
staff increases. I look at the
county, it seems the nine
years I've been Councillor, the
bureaucracy has grown and
grown," said Fisher.
'And they have 9 communi-
ties to look after, instead of 26:'
The meeting discussed by
the municipality of North
Huron and Morris-Turnberry
representatives was not some-
thing Huron East's Brad
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Knight admitted to being keen
on.
"We did go through a fairly
major restructuring in 2001. I
don't think some of the things
being proposed are really all
that unique to us:'
The OPP admitted that their
costs would most likely con-
sistently climb annually last
April at a Huron East meet-
ing. The former OPP charge of
$1,314,510 has spiked to
$1,505,862 this year, which
works out to be a 14.5 per cent
modification. Along with that,
the Mayor of Huron East,
Bernie MacLellan, is sure the
shortage of funding by the
provincial government will
also continue.
"I was talking to our treas-
urer and even made the com-
ment to our CAO, I believe he
was already aware of it. We are
now told that transitional
funding is going to start being
removed. So we are anticipat-
ing another $300,000 hit from
the province for the next three
years," explained MacLellan
after the Shared Services
meeting.
"We are going to have one
or two choices here, we either
are going to go to single tier
just to pay the bills or we are
going to soon be putting peo-
ple out of their properties
because they can't afford the
increase:'
According to Tyler Hessel,
the Mayor of Bluewater,
there is a "huge opportu-
nity," for all the municipali-
ties in Huron County to con-
sider in conjugation.
"I think amalgamation is
definitely in the future and
likely in the near future. I'm
not sure how it will work. That
is going to take a lot of plan-
ning because at the end of the
day, my personal opinion is
lines have to be redrawn,"
stated Hessel. "We made a lot
of mistakes, and they were
costly. What we are doing
today is completely different
from what we did in 2000 and
2001.
"Whether it's single tier or
a couple (of) different tiers,
who knows. But I think what
it really does do is it gives us
the opportunity to say hey
look, we can't do it on our
own anymore. It's getting too
expensive:"
North Huron's Reeve Neil
Vincent told the Huron
Expositor it's possible amalga-
mation may happen in the
next four to eight years.
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