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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News Record, 2016-07-06, Page 88 News Record • Wednesday, July 6, 2016 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 p�] POSTMEDIA MAIL DISRUPTION NOTICE To our readers: In the event of a Canada Post labour disruption, our newspapers and inserts will still be available for pick up at any of our local offices or drop box locations. In the towns where we offer distribution by carriers, or where drop boxes area already provided, your service will remain unchanged. If you receive your paper by direct mail or subscription, we apologize for any disruption to your service. You may still read an e -edition of any of our papers or other publications online by visiting our website. eedition.clintonnewsrecord.com For further information feel free to call or stop in at our office: 53 ALBERT, Clinton, ON (519) 482-3443 CTrrn lbws Heeord 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. PARD THEATRE 'GODERICI Sr) 524 7.811 it • • Al wwu . novielinks.ca i db l-8CMCF=2 5-3438