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With Ontario planning to build new
Huron OPP detachment, Goderich
lobbies for it to stay close to town
Darryl Coote
Postmedia Network
Ontario is looking to build a new OPP
detachment in Huron County and
Goderich is worried the province will
relocate its Hwy 21 facility just outside of
town to a more central location within
the region.
Goderich council passed a three-page
motion Oct. 24 stating it approves of a
new facility and acknowledges that the
siting decision falls on Infrastructure
Ontario; however, it suggests that the new
facility should stay located near Huron's
largest urban centre, Goderich.
Though the motion does not name a
new location, it suggests that the land of
the former Bluewater Youth Centre,
which has water services and is on 277
acres of land already owned by Infra-
structure Ontario, as a possible site.
The motion from Goderich follows the
Oct. 12 announcement by the Ontario
Ministry of Community Safety and Cor-
rectional Services that states that the
province would be constructing nine
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OPP detachments to replace spent and
out-of-date buildings, naming Huron
County as one of the locations.
The move by the province is aimed at
improving community safety and to bet-
ter support modern policing operations,
it said in the media release.
However, the Goderich motion says
that choosing a location based on being
central to the county is overlooking sev-
eral advantages the detachment would
have from being located in the town such
as being in close proximity to the har-
bour, which would enhance cooperation
between the OPP Marine Unit and the
Canadian Coast Guard, and to the only
mental health facility in the county.
The motion also states that the town is
located at the junction of two of the prov-
ince's busiest highways, HWY 21 and
Hwy 8, which are major tourist and tran-
spiration routes.
It also argues that looking to a more
central location may be appropriate for
some counties, but doing so for Huron
may limit the facility's effectiveness and
accessibility.
Council also requests to have input
during the selection process and be
informed of any updates.
The other area areas pegged for new
OPP detachments are: Moosonee, Fort
Frances, Hawkesbury, West Parry Sound,
Manitoulin Island, Port Credit, Marathon
and Orillia.
This is the second phase of the OPP
modernization plan. Under its first phase,
Ontario replaced 18 detachments with 17
new facilities in 16 communities.
Justine Alkema Clinton News Record
From left to right is Vivienne Roy, Co-chair of Central Huron Communities in Bloom, and Clinton Horticultural
Society members Michael Falconer, Dianne Freeman, Jeannette Martin and Linda Dixon.
800 hyacinths for downtown garden
Justine Alkema
Clinton News Record
The Clinton Horticultural Society and Cen-
tral Huron Communities in Bloom planted
800 hyacinths last week in the garden in front
of the cenotaph.
The blubs were planted around the outer
edge of the garden. Last year, red and white
tulips were planted in that space to make the
70th Anniversary Dutch -Canadian Tulip
Friendship Garden.
The 800 hyacinths planted are blue. This is
so when all the flowers bloom, there will be a
red, blue and white combination to symbolize
the union jack flag which the First World War
soldiers fought under to commemorate Cana-
dians lost in the war.
The flowers should be in bloom by April or
May, and they are expecting to hold a small
ceremony to go along with the occasion, simi-
lar to the ceremony held when the red and
white tulips bloomed this past spring.
Justine Alkema Clinton News Record
The bulbs planted in a row clown the outer edge of the
garden in front of Clinton's cenotaph.
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