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The Huron Expositor, 1978-05-11, Page 1• Whole No. #574 119th Year • ).- •. $12.00 a Year in Advance Single copy 25 cents SEAFORTH.L.Q.NTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 11 , 1978 - 24 PAGES This year Seaforth town council will be settipg. up a $25,000 reserve 'fund when' they approve' the 1978 budget on Wednesday night. Taxes will be slig.htlylower this year • Council's budget meeting 'was too late for press time. -1e-reserve find, established to ease maior capital ex- penditures, will a•established with no extra burden on local taxpayers, according, to clerk Jim Crocker. Last year, on an average assessment of $2,500 on a home, a Seaforth taxpayer would have paid $448.05 imtaxes, this year-he will pay $445.75 if he is a public school supporter. • ! The total residential mill rate is doWn .92 mills from' 179.22 mills in 1977 to 178.30 millsin 1978 due to the 'drop in the public school mill rate. , The county mill rate is 21.59 for commercial taxpayers this year, Compared to 26:30 mills in 1977. The residential county rate is 18,35 mills in 1978, compared 'to 22.35 in 1977. The public' school rate for commercial taxpayers is. 37,43 mills down from 38.17 mills in 1977. -Luis. public. sago! support rate -McKillop.taxet up '1.3 percent Bricks loose Main Street Seaforth has a few loose bricks. That's what the town's building inspector, Herman Van Wieren told touncil's public • works committee, recently. He has issued work orders to have the second story problems on some buildings cleaned lip, council . learned Monday night. The inspector felt future, frosts, could heave some of the loose brick and cause a danger like that last year when a large portion of the town hall's upper story had to be rebricked, clerk Jim Crocker said. o N locations of the problem areas were given. • mercial taxpayers is 205.66, com- pared to 206,19 in .1977. As stated before, the total residential rate is 178.30 mills, a decrease from last year's 179.22 - mill rate., Separate school supporters face a slight overall increase in the mill rate in the coming year. • Last Year,. commercial assessments for separate school supporters totalled 206.23 mills and this year, they total 207.60 mills. The residential mill rate in 1977 was 179.26 mills, thiS year it is 180.05 mills. The commercial rates paid by separate school supporters for county, municipal and secondary school support are the same as those paid by public school supporters. Commercial mill rates for the 'separate elementary school 39,37 this year, compared to 38.21 in' 1977. The residential mill rate for separate elementary schools As 35.43 this year, 'compared to the 1977 rate of 314.39. More details will be available next week after the budget .is, finalized by council. transferred, are: June Holmes from St. Columban to Kindergar- ten at Exeter -- half days only; Patrick Shaughnessy from St. Columban to principal's relief and music at Seaforth and St. Columbap; Helen Ryan to half daysKindergarten.at Our Lady of Mount Carmel; Barry Linden from -Ecole Ste Marie, R.R.2, D a shwood to Precious Blood School, Exeter; Doreen Nogalo ,now. full time Kindergarten at St. Patrick's, Dublin to Kindergarten half days at St. JOseph's School, Clinton, and at Dublin; Ralph Weishar from Immaculate Conception School, Stratford to St.Patrick's School, Kinkora; A. Gaffney from St. Toseph'S', Clinton, to principal's relief (40 per cent) at St Columban; Martin S.killen from St. Mary's, Goderich, to Sacred Heart, Wingham; Gary Prince 'from St. Boniface, Zurich, to a school y et to be named;, Brian Morrissey from St, Michael's, Stratfcird, to Immacuilate Conception, Stratford; and James (Sandy) McQuillan, from St. Joseph's, Stratford to St.' Aloysius, Stratford. Because of Victoria Day holiday tfte„next meeting of the board will be held on May 29. The meeting was adjourned at 10:45 p.m. when the board returned again to' meet i committee of the whole. In other business at ,the meeting which got underway at quarter to ten following a committee-of-the whole in camera session which began at 8 p.m: the board heard a presentation from seven members of the Parent- Teacher. Association at,Precious Blood School, Exeter, in changes that would improve the school. No details of the brief are known because , of. the in camera Due to, declilning enrolment there will be a classroom reduction • at Kingsbridge, resulting in the lack of need for `the portable. The' board approved nine professional activities days for the system in 1978-79 which are as follows: five county-wide days --October 16, Npvember 13, April - 2, May 7 and either June 28 or _29; and four set b Y schools. Inside this week won epositor Pet Peeves P. 9 Auction Mania P.13 Winning Bowlers P.14 HAVE HO, 'ONE MORE SHOVELFUL - Tammy Taylor, of the Seaforth Brownie Pack; heaves one more shovelfull of earth as she takes part in tree planting ceremonies at Seaforth Public School. The, Brownies decided to plant trees at the school as a thank you- for using the school for their meetings:- HurOn • -Perth t others, princ-ipals- shifted- aro un 'MY CHOICE-Bradley' C. Ribey,. 21/2 years old, obviously had only one prize he wanted to win in last week's penny sale, sponsored • by the Women's Auxiliary 'to Seaforth' Community Hospital. It was this trike which Bradley tried out before Friday night's draw. i (Expositor. Photo) xes reduced, Seaforth council sets up $25,000 reserve fund [By Wilma 1;)ke] • McKillop Township ratepayers will be paying,taxes 1.3 per cent higher than in 1977, as revealed at' a special council meeting Monday when the 1978 budget was approved and the mill rates set for the year. A public school supporter with an assessment of $5,000 will .be paying taxes ,amounting to $587.85 oo $6.35_more than last year. A separate school supperter with the 'same 'assessment will pay $592.85 an increase of $ 5.35 from 1977. The township's total budget is $368,522 -compared to $363,790 last year . The county levy of 18 mills is a Council agrees Ito .Count wide [lousing . Seaforth reluctantly , agreed to residents. They were concerned building, he said. support county wide OHC. that OHC could use county wide Clerk. Hanly' told , councillors housing' after a request from residendy as a lever saying for that the county could ask its rep Huron's warden Gerry ginn, clerk example: --`Lno_ more apartments on the-housing authority for the Bill Hanly and executive will be built in Seaforth till those number of applicants on file for committee chairman Ed. Oddljef- in Goderich are filled". various buildings, and circulate son Monday • night. Mayor Betty Cardno pointed that to the municipalities. It would be'. simpler, Wardell' out that $13,000 in Seaforth After 35 minutes of discussion, Ginn told council, if anyone in money has been spent on prime council approVed the-county wide Huron could live in. OHC housing lotationi for Seaforth's senior housing in principle. , anywhere in Huron; rather than apartments. Could that be • There's probably, no more the present elaborate agreements recovered if the buildings went chance of a local person getting between municipalities. under county wide control, "bumped" than if Seaforth had Several councillors ' told the - wondered councillor Gerald an agreement' with Hibbert, warden that. Seaforth has not Groothuis. Tuckersmith and McKillop to 'agreed to die scheme because it' Clerk Crocker pointed out that share accommodations and -had- berg -unable-- -unable-- --tee-74-get----rhe-granr-in-fietre3f-eaxes-eenethe---deficits, said-elerlee-Grocke building was double Seaforth's just don't think older 'people will deficit share. That grant would come from Goderich._" stay with the town under' the county, system. Councillor Bill Bennett questioned the county men on the length of time it seems to take the Huron Housing authority to fill vacancies in the apartments, despite thelong waiting list here. It would ;till be up to Seaforth to initiate studies for new OHC units, the warden said. The county could make an agreement with a township in another county to participate in a particular information 'from the Huron Housing authority, which runs the housing. • Seaforth now pays 71/2 per cent of the defibit en the local senior apartments, or. $2.274.16 in 1976. If the county wide scheme were in force all Huron municipalities would share county wide costs according , to population. Seaforth's estimated cost for 1977 would be $1,043.80. Coencillers asked the delegation for assurance that, Seaforth seniors wouldn't be "bumped" by other empty • ... • Y • • • Town holds off on grant Concerned that a grant to Maitland Bank C•emeted, might result in requests 'for help from other local cemeteries, Seaforth council decided to ask a cemetery board spokesman 'to its June meeting. Citing increased operating expenses and a deficit of $3,000., the board wrote the town asking for a donation of $500. Of 44 burials in 1977, 25 were of Seaforth residents. Northside United, which owns the cemetery although it's,open to anyone at no higher cost, has agreed to assist the board, as , has McKillop township where the cemetery if • (Continued on Page 3) NOW WHO'S THIS? -- That's what anybody attending the family talent show in Brucefield Friday night might wonder. it's the Brucefield Young Peoples and behind 'the disguises are Lyle Hill, Jane Allan, Bob Wilson, Joyce Broadfoot, Dianne Wilson, Kathy Martens, John Stephens, Sandy Broadfoot and Jeff Allan. (Seeger & White Ph6to) Hensall dqvelopment approved Gerrie Glenn; a LUcknow developer, received approval from Hensall council to proceed with plans to build a three store development on the town's main street. Mr. Glenn plans to erect a yellow brick building, with' 68.5 feet of frontage, between the Hensall Pest Office and the Hensall' Hotel. The developer, ','who was waiting for council's approval before ' approaching , businesSes, .about leasing space, said he hopes to rent one of the"spaces for a Becker's Milk Store. The developer, said he will start construction of the building when he has two stores committed to __rent ing;..space. the-building, Mr. Glenn is also planning to build an apartment building in HenSall, on Queen Street, but • construction on the building hasn't started. After hearing plans for the store development, council members . expressed some concern over lack of parking facilities in front of the store. The only parking .included in the development proposal is a small lot behind the stores for employee parking. Reeve Harold Knight said the only drawback he could see to the proposal "is a fantastic parking problem" since residents would be pulling In -to-hoth-the -office and the stores, .Chris Borgal, representing, the. architect's firm of Hill and Botgal, Goderich, said- allowing, for parking in. front df the stores would.. destroy the Hensall streetscape, ' • He said the decision not to proVide for 'a parking lot in front of the store was, made purely- en the fact of visual impact. The architect said the develop- ment proposal ,submilted,,. to council would maintain the ,quality of the village while trying to improve the commercial area. One council member suggested the peak hours for post office traffic 'were between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m., which likely wouldn't be the hours people would be shopping in the stores. The architect pointed out the size of the stores means...at -least one will be a convenience store and none of, the three stores would be the kind where 'customers spend a great length of time shopping. Reeve Knight said, "Well, I'm not one 'for. stopping develop- ment, but I think there will be a bit-of-a--par-k-iaL:--problom." Council members unanimously approved the development. Mr. Glenn informed council he would lean 4up the site of his propoSed apartment building within the next 30 days. Council i ad received a letter re.),a private citizen expressing concern over children playing near the apartment excavation site. In other business".' council , members took --no - request from the . Township of Turnberry asking Hensall council (Continued on Page 10) decrease of 1:8 mills trom tae. 1977 levy. Clerk Marion McClure said this is due to a surplus last year. The general municipal rate is 34.8 for farm and residential the same as last year. Residential rates for public school supporters (with last years in brackets) are 117.5 mills (116.3) and '118.5 (117.5) for .separate school. supporters. The commercial and Wed-fess rates are 134.05 (132.7) for public school supporters and 135.1 (134.0) for separate school supporters. • Levies to be raised for the county amount to $74,611, down from $76,333 laste''year, for' general municipal purposes $108;869 compared to' $108.593 last year, for elementary public heel $75,818, for secondary. schtiol. $94.116 'and separate (Continued on Page 10) Town 'hires new dump supervisor Council approved the hiring of Bill Chesney at $200 to super vise and maintain the dump en a trial basis until an agreement and a bylaw between him and the town can be worked out, Monday night. For.the price Mr. Chesney will supply his own backhoe. Council acted on the recommendation of its environ- ment committee and clerk Jim Crocker who said a by-law could be drawn up within a_ peenth to -make , the arrangethetit permanent. The $200 a week arrangement will cost about $6000 a year more than present dump caretaking but there members said they felt there would:1)e an improvement 'of service, more regular covering , of garbage and more control.. Tuckersmith and Hibbert township residents use the dump and pay 30 and 10 •per cent respectively of costs there. Seaforth pays 60%, The clerk said he had informed the townships that costs might be going up. Low cost housing $38,000 Because of 'mistaken press reports, many Seaforth people don't know that houses in the town's proposed low cost housing development will be priced at about $38,000 including land, councillors said Monday night. Reeve John Flannery said people had been asking him: "who are we dealing with?" Councillor Jim Silts explained that someone who wants a house t ere- could have the developer build it or a local builder. Clerk Jim Crocker said that the council committee hopes to start ,negotiations with Arris Land Development this week to .work out a draft agreement of suudwision. Arris is responsible for all services, several councillors explained, just as Silver Creek del/elope-lent provides all services in "freest end of 'town develop- ment. The town would like to get an agreement finalized so .that blanket building permits could be issued by December 31 this year to get at municipal incentive grant, clerk Crocker said. Subdi- vision approval and sale of -the- land is necessary first. for residential assessments is 33.68 mill rates, down from, 34.35 last year. The secondary school support rate for commercial taxpayers is 32.44 mills, down from 32.92 mills last year. The same rate for residential taxpayers is 29.20 Mills, down 'hem 29.63 mills. The municipal mill rate for commercial assessments . is 114.20, up from 108.20 in 1977. The municipal residential rate' is 97.07 mills, up from 92.89 mills in 1977, The total mill rate for corn- ..Columban are still open. The eleven teachers bring Seven principals and 11 teachers in Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School system will be. transferred from their present schools to other schools in the system in the next, school 'term• starting in September, 1978. Board chairman Donald Crowley of R.R.2, Gadshill, said' of the wholesale moving of ,principals and teachers, "It's a strengthening move for the system." Superintendent Joseph Mills explained: "It is the first time it has been done in the system. It Was done to fill vacancies, to .strengthen the system and to make the best use of personnel." Mr. Mills said all the principals and teacherS to be moved have been told. The seven principals to be transferred are: Gary Birming- ham to OUr Lady of Mount Carmel, R.R.3, Dashwood from St. Aloysius School, Stratford; Larry Cook to St. Patrick's, Dublin, from St. Mary's School, •Goderich; -Don FaTvvell --to --St, Joseph's, Clinton, from St. Columban; Michael Dowan to -Trine-aeel ate- ' 0:inception , Stratford, from St. Joseph's School, Stratford; Sister Audrey Dumouchelle to St., Michael's, Stratford, from Immaculate Conception; Adrian Pentsioen to St. Joseph's School, Stratford, from St. Joseph's at Clinton; Sam Alberico to St. Aloysius, Stratford, from St. Michael's School, Stratford. The vacancies for principals have resulted with the resignation of Sister Florence Kelly at St. Patrick's , Dulbin, and Sister Viola Feeney at Our Lady of Mount Carew!, R.R.3, Dashwood. Principal's positions- 'at "-Sf.- Mary's, Goderich, and St.