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Drop into Branch or mail to Box 128, Brussels, ON N0G 1H0 Att.: House Chairman Please Recycle This Newspaper Continued from page 1 our people before,” Councillor Brock Vodden said. “I would object to any solution involving a joint fire board.” Councillor Bernie Bailey took issue with all three option, stating that they weren’t options at all. “They may call them options, but they’re demands,” he said. “They’re just demands.” Councillor Alma Conn agreed with Bailey and said she didn’t appreciate the fact that Morris- Turnberry, in the letter, requested a response by a certain date and that Morris-Turnberry called this their “final negotiation”. “That simply isn’t true,” she said. “We have a contract with Morris- Turnberry and we haven’t received any negotiation attempts since it was made. This is their first negotiation attempt.” She said that the three options, or demands as her and Bailey had dubbed them, weren’t acceptable. “Option one has failed,” she said. “Option two would have the Blyth hall covering Morris-Turnberry and a Morris-Turnberry hall covering Wingham Ward. Option three doesn’t make sense. We can’t charge by a number of people or cost per head. They agreed to the first contract three years ago and they agreed with a renewal that only included a CPI increase.” Reeve Neil Vincent stated that North Huron Township has attempted to remedy this issue before but that Morris-Turnberry hasn’t taken them up on their offers. “On numerous occasions I have requested that Morris-Turnberry Council give me some idea of what part of our budget they would like to discuss,” he said. “I’ve asked them to show me what line of their operating budget they have a problem with and there are only two lines that they have responded with: the operating capital in the operating budget that needs to be there to replace anything that may break down and the bottom line.” Vincent stated that North Huron has more than $2.1 million invested in the fire service above the capital cost and he feels that they are already subsidizing their neighbours when they only ask them to help with capital and supply costs. Council decided to respond to Morris-Turnberry with a request for a meeting to discuss the issues revolving around the fire protection issue. While the motion requested one public meeting to be as transparent as possible, it was eventually changed to two meetings, one for closed session and one for public viewing. The addendum was made as Conn believed that having the issues discussed between council in front of the public would just lead to “a room full of angry people” and was later justified as being an in-camera meeting to discuss issues regarding identifiable individuals and the security of the property of the township. Continued from page 19 of primarily in relation to God. “The Lord our God is holy”. From the beginning, Adam and Eve were required to distance themselves from the forbidden fruit. That was the elementary example of holiness. Abstaining from things that God forbids us to do is an act of holiness. Holiness is God’s permanent crown. It is the “shining of all His perfections,” as the Puritans used to say. Holiness is the backdrop for all else the Bible declares about God. Muslims bear witness, that “there is no God besides Allah. He alone is the Allah and has no partners, and that Muhammad is his messenger. The other pillars of Islam are to establish the ritual prayers; give charity to the needy, perform the pilgrimage to Mecca and to fast during the month of Ramadan. In Islam Holiness is made reference to submission to Allah. In Biblical context Holiness is a way of participation in God’s holy nature. The concept of submission emphasized God’s identification with his creatures. You shall be holy, for I YAHWEH your God, am holy” Lev. 19:2 a call renewed in Peter 1:13-16. Holiness in the Early Church Fathers, David Rainey writes, Holiness begins in the doctrine of God and it is through scripture that God has communicated to humanity the objective knowledge of the Divine. Of primary importance was John 1:14, “The Word became flesh and lived among us.” This was the transcendent God now entering into human life in order to restore fallen and corrupt humanity. The Early Church Fathers understood that they had separated themselves from Greek culture and philosophy by asserting this truth and in doing so had established the doctrine of holiness in a God of love who condescended into human life. Adewuya, J. Ayodeji, Church of God Theological Seminary, writes from an African perspective argues that Paul’s view of holiness in Romans 6-8 is grounded in relationship with God, involving separation, commitment, and ethical purity. Paul’s view on holiness has to do with communal holiness within the people of God, the goal of which is to make God known to the wider society. It is a call to the Roman Christians, and by implication, believers in our present day, to live an alternative lifestyle, to be a model of God’s holiness, in order to make him known to the wider society. In Christianity, Holiness is grounded in Christ, who became like us in order to sanctify us. Our holiness is discovered in Christ, the starting point for theology and the starting point for holy living. According to the orthodox theologians of this era, it was only in realizing the starting point, that is, Christ that we can begin to comprehend participation in the life of holiness. Christian holiness is born of a relationship with Jesus that is nurtured and grows as we become seekers after the mind of Christ. Holiness is Christ-likeness” (Holiness Today, August 2001.). John Wesley used the term “Perfect Love Holiness” What that means is that when we love God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, then our love for our neighbour, our words, our actions, and our thoughts, will be governed by pure love. God chose us out of love and for us to be holy, we have to adopt an approach where we can love God and one another. To be holy is to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly before all. Essentially, we are to live in a way where the world around us gets a glimpse of God. During the Holy Week we draw close to God and to one another in the ministry of Jesus Christ. Many congregations like Walton and Bluevale collect lose change to complete the Methodist primary school in Sierra Leone as well as bring food to support our local food banks in the community. Wingham Police Chief Tim Poole had one thing to say regarding North Huron Township Council’s efforts to create a no-smoking area around local schools; less is better. The no smoking bylaw was considered by council in hopes of limiting the exposure of new Maitland River Elementary School students to smoking on their way to and from school. Poole, who was responding to discussions council had regarding a no smoking area one block out from all Wingham-area schools, said that there were just too many questions regarding a smoking ban on an area that big. “A one block radius from the schools will create a rather large area,” he said. “With the schools in Wingham, a one block radius would create a large amount of no smoking areas south of the river. We have F.E. Madill Secondary School, Sacred Heart Catholic School, Wingham Public School and the Baptist School on Edwards Street.” Poole said a one-block radius could affect private property, including backyards. “There would be all sorts of questions,” he said. “Could people not go for an evening walk and have a cigarette? It would be a little too much for enforcement.” Poole stated that other municipalities have no smoking bylaws and most state a 10-metre no smoking area is observed around schools, playgrounds, parks and splashpads, but not a block. “The most comprehensive model I found was Woodstock,” he said. “They don’t allow smoking within 30 metres of a playground, 15 metres of a sports or playing field and nine metres from municipal buildings. “I contacted Woodstock Police Chief Rod Freedman to see how the bylaws are enforced and he said that all the bylaws are enforced by bylaw enforcement officers and health inspectors,” he said. “Since we don’t have bylaw enforcement officers, it would fall to the police.” The Avon Maitland District School Board and the Huron County Health Unit currently monitor smoking on school properties according to Poole. An enforcer comes from the Health Unit and hands out tickets for those found smoking. “The fine is $310 and those tickets are given out,” he said. When discussing the issue with individuals from the school, Poole found that moving the smokers would probably not stop people from smoking and would, instead, cause disruptions at the school. “I have met with some of the students and teachers at [F.E. Madill Secondary School] and some of the teachers are addicted to tobacco,” he said. “They would not be allowed to smoke during their small breaks and would not be able to feed their addiction. “They wouldn’t be able to function properly as a teacher is what they told me,” Poole said. The students said that if the bylaw was enforced they would simply move to where they could smoke and risk being late and disrupting classes. Poole said that the main problem is that the students smoke on private property where a bylaw would be harder to enforce. He said that most students smoke on CKNX property, a radio station adjacent to the high school. Poole’s final concern was the cost of enforcing the bylaw. He said that while it could initially provide some income for the township, it could Fire meeting to be held No smoking bylaw could be tricky: Poole Churches helping Sierra Leone schools By Denny Scott The Citizen Continued on page 24