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Each tender must be accompanied by a certified cheque or bid bond in the amount of $3,000.00. Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. B. M. ROSS AND ASSOCIATES LIMITED Engineers and Planners 62 North Street Goderich, ON N7A 2T4 Phone: (519) 524-2641 Fax: (519) 524-4403 www.bmross.net Municipality of Morris-Turnberry Vodden wants NH to push development Clark briefs congregation on youth conference he attended Continued from page 3 repeated responsively. The hymn “Seek Ye First the Kingdom” was sung. The interactive scripture was from Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23, the parable of the sowing of the seed. Rev. Clark invited the children to come to the front for their story time. He asked the children if the church pew would be a good place to plant a seed but they said it was too hard. The next place was maybe the steps with the carpet on them, being softer. The children suggested the flower pots, but no one brought any seed. Jesus talked about sowing the seed which meant sowing, love, joy and forgiveness. Jesus was talking about sowing love, joy and forgiveness in the hearts of everyone of us. The children said a prayer along with the congregation and went downstairs for their time of fellowship. Floyd Herman gave a short history of the anthem “Crown Him with Many Crowns” which the choir sang. Rev. Clark’s message to the adults was “Seeds and Sowers Along the Road.” There were three walking along the road to Emmaus talking about the past few days events when a stranger came along and asked what they were talking about. The stranger pointed out to them that the events of the past few days had been predicted in the Bible and things were to happen this way. As Jesus broke the bread and blessed it, they recognized Him. Rev. Clark had attended a Youth Forum this past week. He had taken three youths to London with him, two had been to the Youth Forum before and were telling the third of all the things that happen and were excited about what they would be doing. They would be hearing songs that were familiar to them and they were always eating. While doing the dishes, Rev. Clark met a man who had come from the Children’s Aid Society who said that Youth Forum had changed his life 20 years ago and he was there to give back. It is still happening that God is in the churches when there is so much excitement amongst the youth, like the Me to We program. We teach our children by the hard knocks that have occurred to us. If we speak what you seek until you see what you’ve said was a quote and if we can still speak about our faith it will come back to us. Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of we do not see. Heb. 11: 1. Faith is taking that first step even when we can’t see the whole staircase. We watched a video of a very assertive woman asking God to lead her in the direction He wanted her to go and she would follow. When we don’t know the way we need to let God lead us in the right direction. The hymn “O Mater Let Me Walk with Thee” was sung followed by the receiving of the offering, the offertory response, “For Food in a World,” the offertory prayer, the prayers for the people, silent prayer and the singing of the Lord’s Prayer. The last hymn “Sent Forth by God’s Blessing” was sung followed by the singing of the “Three Fold Amen.” Everyone was invited for coffee, treats and fellowship. Continued from page 7 procedural bylaw. Marin’s first recommendation states that “the Municipality of Central Huron should comply with its own procedure bylaw and immediately begin audio or video recording its closed meetings, while the second recommendation states that “all members of council... should be vigilant in adhering to their individual and collective obligation to ensure that council complies with its responsibilities under the Municipal Act, 2001 and its own procedure bylaw.” At council’s Feb. 2 meeting, just after the municipality received word that a complaint had been lodged, Mayor Jim Ginn said he was “certain” that council had operated within its rules, but was not confident that an Ombudsman investigation would come to the same conclusion. The full report is available on Central Huron’s website at www.centralhuron.com or on the website of the Ombudsman at www.ombudsman.on.ca CH wasn’t compliant with its own bylaw Councillor Brock Vodden feels that a servicing agreement with Morris-Turnberry is at least three and a half years and an election away, so he wants North Huron to focus on developing industrial land outside of Wingham. “My question is why are we waiting until we conclude an agreement with Morris-Turnberry before we get serious?” he said. “I think it’s important to note that North Huron is the only municipality in this part of Huron that has the ability to service industrial land. We should be out beating the bushes and not waiting.” Vodden’s comments came during North Huron’s April 7 meeting and he said that North Huron needs to move forward because it had become obvious to him that an agreement with Morris-Turnberry to service industrial land outside of North Huron is unlikely to be signed in the coming years. He said that a servicing agreement, which would be necessary to provide water and sewage services to Morris- Turnberry industrial land bordering on North Huron, wasn’t something he felt he would see on council. “Personally, I’m not very confident we are ever going to reach an agreement with Morris- Turnberry on the servicing,” he said. “If we’re waiting, I think we might end up waiting until the end of our term and making it something for the next council to consider.” Vodden said the signing of an agreement would be better for everyone involved, including the developers, but that North Huron Council and staff shouldn’t wait on it. “I think we need to take an alternative route in case the agreement never works,” he said. “We can develop any land in North Huron whether it’s ready for servicing or not.” Reeve Neil Vincent said he felt that council members weren’t waiting on an agreement with Morris-Turnberry, but rather the studies accompanying the Wingham Land Development strategy that will outline which lands are usable and which ones aren’t. “Before that is completed on properties that are being looked at, I don’t think we can move ahead there,” he said. “I’m not saying we shouldn’t pre-advertise, but that’s one of the things I think we’re looking at.” Vodden said those studies, which are focused on lands in Wingham and Morris-Turnberry, shouldn’t stop North Huron from developing land elsewhere. “Those studies and the land strategy shouldn’t prevent us from looking at properties in East Wawanosh or Blyth,” he said. “There may be business people out there who are willing to pay the cost to develop and that is so important to this community. We could be waiting a year for Morris-Turnberry to come to an agreement with us and I think taking that time would be very, very foolish. We need to get into our planning process immediately.” Councillor Bill Knott said he agreed with Vodden. “If we’re going to try to attract any kind of business of substantial size we can’t sit here and wait for Morris-Turnberry to make an agreement,” he said. “We’ll be coming out of the gate after everyone else has already left. We’ve already witnessed some businesses relocating to municipalities to the east that we may have had a shot at but it’s too late now.” While Councillor Trevor Seip didn’t disagree with Vodden and Knott, he said that maybe Morris- Turnberry wasn’t necessarily waiting, but the two municipalities were in a holding pattern. “We’re both sitting here and hoping the other will flinch,” he said. “We need to have viable, respectful conversations at a table negotiating the terms of an agreement that will be doing what is best for both municipalities. We need to leave the ego and everything else at the door.” Seip said the days of negotiating until everyone is happy are gone, but that they need to decide on an agreement through which both municipalities can thrive. “We need to set up a meeting and talk about that agreement,” he said. “We can’t wait for them to come.” Vodden said he felt that Morris-Turnberry has a lot more to lose by not working with North Huron. “The real problem here is that there is no common ground between our two positions,” he said. “They’re talking a completely different language. They are way off in one direction and we’re way off in the other. We can do this development within our own border so we should be in the development business. It takes time and funding and we have an edge in that we are the only municipality in the area who can develop anything because we have the sewer and water available.” Vincent stated that he felt this was the kind of discussion that could wait several weeks until the township’s new Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Sharon Chambers has officially started in her new position. “I think this is one of the things [Chambers] will tackle the first day she starts,” he said. “She will be on a steep learning curve that day to try and promote the municipality and get things moving.” Vincent said that the senior staff members had done an admirable job working without a CAO, but that they needed someone to pull them together. Vodden said that while North Huron doesn’t have a lot of land available for development, the township does have some. “That some is a lot better than none and we’re just sitting here waiting to take action,” he said. “It seems we’re sitting on our hands not doing anything.” By Denny Scott The Citizen