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The Huron Expositor, 1976-02-19, Page 3PUBLIC SPEAKING CONTESTANTS — The top speakers at St. James' .Separate School said their speeches Friday for the judges. Winners will go on to the Legion Public Speaking Contest and to one sponsored by the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association. Contestants, who spoke to the whole school and some interested 'parents were, front, left, Iirrimy Wilson, Margaret Ann Devaeeaux, Sharon" '°" Wilson, Doug Huard, Ann ,Wilson ,`'Tracey Wright, Lisa Barry,DaVIdVantyghem. Middle - John Klaver, Wilma Van Dyk, Melissa Segeren, Jamie Groothuls; Back - Jacqueline Matthews, Tanya DeGroot, Norine Primeau and Joan Janmaat. McKillop to keep twp. in fire area Have YOU Got WATER IN YOUR BASEMENT? 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DAVE HEIMPEL DECORATI G Painting, Ij apering, Light Carpentr Floor Sanding and Refinishing (:();Hinercial and Residential STRATFORD D. HEIMPEL 393-5590 (We accept collect calls) WM. MOSES 271-6305 '0 THE SEPARATE SHOPPE MAIN CORNER, CLINTON• PHONE 482.7778 (NEXT TO CAMPBELL'S MEN'S WEAR) 20% Oft BLOUSES OPEN 1:6 OPEN 1-6 = • V.45;NIN. • ire .1, THE HURON EXPOSITOR, FgEfRVARY. 1970ir," Something to ,,,cty by Susan White Charlie's still our cultural repor '17 A longstanding dispute within the Seaforth FIre Area Board (FAB) was settled Thursday night when member municipalities voted that McKillop township must keep, all its territory within the area covered by the bOard until the agreement setting up the fire area ends in 1980. • Reeve Allan Campbell of McKillop, newly elected FAB chairman said his township was allowed by a motion of the bbard in October, 1973 to' take the northern part of the township out of the Seaforth area and negotiate coverage with Blyth. Last ypar Seaforth, members members of the FAR drew a section of the agreement .which said coverages, areas conld not be changed until 1980 to MeKillop .'s attention. Each of the municipalities in the,- fire area, had • several councillors at the meeting. Aft er a great deal of .discussion about how McKillop received approval. in the first place and whether or not the • area 'section . of the agreement could be . changed, Se a fort h „ Hibbert and Tuckersmith voted that the whole of McKillop remain in the fire area until the end of 1980. Hullett voted against the motion and ,McKillop abstained. • Hibbert' councillor • Henry Harburn insisted that Hibbert had never been . notified about 'al or part of d said a FAB ive should come back Reeve Campbell said the Seaforth board has been sending minutes of their meetings to participating municipalities since last March. All, participating municipalities are supposed to go . over the FAB agreement every year and note any changes. Hibbert Reeve Ross McPhail asked Reeve Campbell if McKillop, by removing eight per cent of its. area' was just relin- quishing eight per cent of its ownership of the, FAB. "Were expecting the other municipalities to buy you out or just giving it to Us?"' . Reeves John Flannery of Seaforth and Elginlhompson of Tuckersmith both suggestvd that \Alien the subject of .McKillop opting out was raised in 1973 with their councils everyone said it was impossible to change that part of the agreement and id the words of Reeve. Th onipson, "we dropped . it there and paid no more attention to it." . , Reeve Campbell said he would like to have known this at the, beginning of' the, discussions in 1973. "1 thought the fire area reps were representatives and had the final say." ...Reeve McPhail said there' was no doubt that the reps had to „Make decisions bits they couldn't make changes in the original area covered by the agreement. "Round two as Reeve • Campbell called it, came after the vote when he cifiestioned assessments, on which contribu- tions to the FAB are based. The FAB agreement reads that contributions wilrbe based on the ' total assessment in each muniei- - pality. FAB members have been making contributions based on their'taxable assessment only and excluding churches, schools and all ,untaxed properties. . . McKillop and, Reeve Campbell argued that all assessment, including .the non taxable should have' been used to figure out contributions. Reeve Campbell. said 1975 assessment figures, for t Seaforth, and McKi were $38,000 apart but( . ti 1974 McKillop was assess ( $756,000 or 10% higher than Seaforth. He wanted to know why McKillop paid so. much more before 1975. Former Seaforth clerk and new FAB secretary-treasurer Ernie Williams said that when the agreement was signed' he • understood ' that • taxable assessment was to be used, The agreement • says all property, the MeKillop reeve said,"andthat's just as important as paragraph 10" (the section of the . agreement which says coverage areas can't be changed). Reeve McPhail said he agreed that churches and. non taxable buildings need fire' protection but that he 'didn't think' including them in the assessmetit',"ever crossed our minds, even if the clause reads that way." He said he- :didn't want •to. argue, but "niaybe.this points Up the fact that churches 'should he paying taxes." •MeKillop. pays $1,000 a year to the board for fire hydrants that arc "no use to us", Reeve 'C'ampbell said. Seaforth's deputy reeve Bill Dale said he didn't want .to split hairs but kids from surrounding municipalities attend schools in Seaforth and rural people attend church here. Reeve Ervin Sillery of Tucker- smith said perhaps at the time the agreement was set up it had been thought that the non taxable assessment in each municipality would balance each other but that, skyrocketing prices had upset this 'balance.. Mayor Betty Camino of Seaforth said she couldn't remember' the issue .'being mentioned 'at' all. McKillop councillor Bill Leeming disagreed, The agreement was meant to include total assessment when it was drawn up because of the possibility of bushlires, he said. Bush lots are' not 'flexable. • "Do you think its fair for Scaforth to pay all the fire costs for schoOls used by .the. whole. community?" Mayor Cardno • asked.Councillor Leeming replied. that fie was ' going' by the agreement's, Wording. "But is it fair?" Mayor Cardno - ' asked 1 he meeting, agreed to get a legal opinion on what the phrase "all the assessment" mean's,, to ' send a copy of the interpretation td each council and then have the FAB take it from there. Our treasured association with Expositor cultural reporter Charlie Farquharson has surfaced again. We hear that Charlie has been representing, us at a recrea- tional vehicle show in., Toronto. Mary Little at the Toronto Dominion Bank tells us that her brother in law and sister in law, Ran. and—ElaineLittle of George- town, got- to talking to Chailie at the show a couplOof weeks ago. Charlie was a special attraction there and he asked Ron, and Elaine about their home town, When our cultural reporter learn- ed that they came from Seaforth., he pulled off his sweater, then his shirt and showed them what he had on underneath. You guessed it. Charlie was wearing his treasured Uron Ek- positon I. shirt, a full eight months after he last worked for us. covering Centennial as our cultural reporter. The story- brought a few tears to eyes around here. Now we're all wondering what Don Harron Will be wearing when he plays Rev. Russell Horsburgh in the play at Blyth' Memorial Hall next week. This Charlie gets around, thought •and your couldn't pick a better fella to cover culture, ***** Stories are still coming about- the SDI-lS band's trip to Florida. A good time, but very little sleep, was reported by 'most Of the travellers we talked to. Chaperone and board of educa- tion d trustee Molly Kunder told us the security for President Gerald Ford's visit to Fort Myers was really tight. The Seaforth hand was the second one asked to play for,the US president and second last• on his routeNbefore he stopped to make ,his speech. Mrs. Kunder said there were Secret Service men with binocu- lars and it was ranioured, mach- ine "guns on the roof of- every SEAFORTH JEWELLERS for 4.44 DIAMONDS WATCHES JEWELLERY, FINEtHINA GIFTS FAt. EVERY eASION • All Types of Repairs Phone 527-0270 , building along the route. .Everyone. asked to' keep second floor windows locked and apparently there was a real flap before the motorcade arrived when one woman peered through her curtains, then opened her window wide to have a look out. She caused such havoc that she quickly slammed down the win-. dow and closed her curtains tight, Mrs. Kunder said. Band leader George Hilde- brand couldn't believe it at first when he was asked to have the band play for the president. ' A man introducing himself as the president's "first aide" asked him and George thought he was joking. He found out otherwise and the SUFIS girls were drawn up in formation along the parade route as the president passed. Mrs. Kunder said the apPrecia- lion shown by crowds at Fort Myers was fantastic. There were a lot of comments about the hand's plaid uniforms and about .the fact that it's an. all girl hand. ;','Are you sure there's no boys in there?" a man from Minnesota asked Molly as the girls marched by. Instead of using live flowers on the floats as they do in the Rose Bovvl, Fort Myers floats each have their own generators and are decorated with hundred of light bulbs, George Hildebrand says. The ban'd won an award for being an "outstanding unit", which their leader said is "not one of the bia prizes but still good." Their trophy is on display its the window of Hildebrand P.41114:14 Paper, McK Mop's pit her area represent' to his council before okaying a move of that .sort, Hibbert gets a written report from every meeting of the' Mitchell FAB and that's • "the only way you can rub a fire area board," he said. Huron Perth board does restructuring • (By Wilma Oke) ttee of the whole and said the • A study ,of the structuring of whole meeting shouldliave been the schools in the Huron-Perth held in con tee of the whole. County Roman Catholic Separate Whil -'.ome trustees expressed School Board jutisclit.r.tion 'was surpt• se the represetitatiVe teas discussed at a special meeting of asked to leave at Ilp..m. and not the board Monday 'night. report the discussion. She was • The.-5ttidy was prepared by the informed that when the board administrative staff at the dime- came to a. decision she vuld he ton of the hoard at a meeting on given thc'information. The 'study October 14. • of the structuring program will •A three hour discussion on the continue next week behind closed structuring of curriculum in ,the doors. 19 schools was led by Joseph Tokat' and Alexander Easton, sOperruteridents of special ser- vices and program. 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