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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-12-19, Page 3-Pecernbsr 19,. 1974 .POISS 3. Suggest priorities End year with surplus GB endorses County cut-back Increase salaries At a special Meeting hOdd—in camera Wednesday the Huron-Perth Count)t "fietni)11 Catholic Separate School soiro. Increased the salaries of the board office administrative staff all effective the first of 41107 1975. Jack Lane, Business. Administrator, had his salary increased to $20,000 from WA*, .4d Rowland, RR 1 Dublin, co- ordinator of plant and Main- tenanee, had his salary increased to $12,500 from, $10,500. In the board office the secretarial and clerical salaries were increased as follows; ac- counting clerk to S134. per week. from $112; payroll clerk to .$130. from S110; secretary to business administrator to $137 from $123, secretary to assistant superin- tendent to $130 (position vacant at present time); and executive secretary to $136 from $110. need are two new bays for fire trucks and equipment." In other business council: Heard a very extensive report on activities of the Lambton County Historical Society from the village's representative Mrs. Clara Hamilton. Learned that hydro rates in the village would be up about 9.7 per- cent on April 1, 1975. Were informed that an application from the Missing Piece Coffee House for a LIP grant was turned down, Granted a licence to the Grand Bend Lions club to hold monthly bingos with a maximum of $300 on prizes. Endorsed a resolution from the township of March asking for greater use of returnable glass containers and bottles. Reeve Bob Sharen said he has been told by the auditor that the surplus for the year just ending could be as high as $10,000, Sharen continued, "the auditor said very cheerfully it was .the best report he ever had for Grand Bend." Priorities for next year In his closing remarks, councillor Tom Webster who was defeated December 2 in a bid for the deputy-reeve post listed several priorities for the incoming council, Webster said a new contract with MaeDpnald's Sanitation of Crediton for village garbage collection would be the first piece of business on the 1975 agenda. He also suggested a good hard look should be taken at parking on narrow side streets in the village. Webster continued "the next council should take an early look at another building or extra bay for town equipment. To this councillor John Teevins added "what we really A GOOD COMBINATION — One of the numbers being presented by youngsters at the Usborne Central School Christmas concert tonight, Thursday is Mother Goose and Santa Claus. The two main characters are leading a long line of youngsters eager to make the stage. T-A photo cillor Murray Pes Jardins said "this is the best piece of business our reeve ever did in backing the change," In defending his action Sharen said"this brings into A fairerline for dollars and cents and better in actual representation between rural and urban areas." Clearing harbour boundaries Council has been informed by Environment Canada that moves are underway to allow the village to lease all properties in the harbour areas, Surveys are now underway to establish harbour property boun- daries. When this is completed the Province of Ontario will hand all responsibility over to federal authorities and they in turn will provide a lease to the village who in turn will be able to issue individual leases, The survey will determine which lands will be available for lease by the village. Deferr Gibbs Park action Council decided to hold action on a request by property owners in Gibbs Park to have the village take over maintenance of roads in the subdivision. The problem will be handed over to the 1975-76 council which includes four new faces. According to present informa- tion approval from the Ministry of Housing would be necessary to have control of the roads turned over to the municipality, On the subject Reeve Bob Sharen said, "Hopefully if this is approved, the Ministry of Transportation and Com- munications would pay 50 per- cent of bringing the roads up to a proper condition and the balance would be paid by the Gibbs Park property owners under local im- provements. Should start with surplus Although the 1974 audit has not been completed indications are the village will be in a surplus situation for the first time since 1969. cccticriyiwirct.ctow.ccovw,:cowrvcwc.:.ir:R. Grand Bend council Monday' night failed to endorse a resolu-, tion from the town of Forest ask- ing for the reinstatement of deputy-reeve of Lambton county council. In fact, the resort council pass- ed a resolution to be forwarded to Lambton approving the move of cutting the number of seats on county council to 26, The move deprives Grand Bend's newly elected deputy- reeve Rollie Grenier, a place on county council. A month ago, Lambton agreed to cut the number of people on county council to reeves of all municipalities and deputy- reeves of those areas having 2,- 500 or more eligible voters, Reasons given at the time were lack of seating space for new councillors including deputy-reeves in several towns and the extra costs involved. In the munieipalities where a deputy-reeve does not attend county council, the reeve will have two votes. The only opposition to the resolution approving the county action came from councillor Tom Webster. Webster commented "We are supposed to have a deputy- reeve and he should be representing us down there, There is restricting an independent vote. The excuse of not having enough seats is not valid." In supporting the action coun- Retaining wall repair contract awarded Repairs will be made to the north retaining wall in the har- bour at Hayfield, under a $46,308 contract awarded to C. A. McDowell Ltd„ Centralia, it was announced today by the Minister of Public Works Canada, the Honourable Charles M. Drury. The successful firm submitted the lowest of four bids received inresponse to a public call for tenders. The highest bid was $127,286. The concrete-capped retaining wall, 670 feet long with a timber crib substructure will be strengthened with the addition of a stone berm against the vertical outer face. The repairs will reduce wave and surge action in the harbour as well as correcting wave damage to the wall. The work, which should be finished in mid-January 1975 will require 1,300 tons of six inch core stone and 1,500 tons of large armour stone. We Wish YOU A 141 Merry Christmas . . ctiz oriz Deck the halls with boughs of holly . hang mistletoe from doorways . . . dress up a table with a poinsettia centrepiece. ctiz RAP in red Make yours a flowerful Christmas from Continued from front page into next year's budget to be repaid, but there was no way RAP could have the next $5,000 considered as a loan, and that it would have to be a grant. Looking at the town's budget details to date, Councillor Ted Wright noted that if all 14 departments were $10,000 over budget, "we'd be, down $140,000". Boyle again entered the debate to note that the citizens of Exeter were- getting good service from RAP and their budget was still some $25,000 over that of small communities not providing as good programs as here in Exeter. "They're in financial trouble and we can't expect them to pay out of their pockets," Wright finally concluded in supporting the motion to provide a $5,000 grant. qti Country nowePs Flowers give your house the finishing touch for the festive season. Usborne plan - Continued from front page project has already been done and findings of that report show that Usborne township has a fairly uniform physiology. It was found that only 4.8 percent of the township remains in forested woodlots, as compared to the county average of nine percent and Hill expressed some concern about the future of the land if clearing of woodlots is allowed to continue. It was interesting that the study showed that 95 percent of the farm land in the township was class one land, the best in the country and that agricultural production is out-performing the county average. Hill said that they would try and give the plan some balance. That while agriculture is cer- tainly the most important land use they were interested in maintaining some of the natural environment, especially along the river corridors. He also commented that the hamlets in Usborne seem to be at a stand still and the plan would have to take into consideration what the future of these hamlets would be and perhaps encourage more development in these areas. Hill outlined the workshop program which he hoped would be underway by mid summer.The first will be an introductory workshop to review the research done in the summer and view some slides of the township. The second workshop will be on the agriculture, the needs of the farm community with respect to land use planning. The third workshop will deal with the future of the hamlets and the third with recreation and the natural en- vironmnet. The fourth workshop will be a time to identify the natural resources of the township and protect them for the future and the final session will be to bring all the elements together. "That's when the fireworks begin," Hill said, "There are bound to be conflicts of interests, goals values and objectives". Hill stressed that the residents would have plenty of opportunity for input and the plan only works if it has the support of the com- munity it is designed for. He pointed out to those present to "bear in mind that the am- bition of this plan was to realize the future now instead of just letting it happen." Smoke causes minor damages Exeter Fire Department was called in Friday evening when the motor on the oil furnance at the home of Fred Steele RR 1, Kirkton burned out causing the house to fill with smoke. Only minor smoke damages were reported. Both Mr. and Mrs. Steele were not home at the time. Name winners in Kinette draw There are two winners in the Exeter Kinette ChristmaS draw, Mrs, Jean Neil of RR 1, Exeter was the winner of the "Smash-up Derby" and the doll was won by Tara Larmer of Parkhill, The prizes were displayed at Len McKnight's Men's Wear and the draw was made Tuesday night. NIL , PUC agreement endorsed by town Exeter council this week en- dorsed a decision by the Exeter PUC to provide water for residents of Huron St. East in Usborne Township as well as any rural residents along a pipeline that may be constructed if a new well is opened in the township by the Exeter PUC. Council and PUC had a policy that no rural customers could hook into the local water system, but all that was changed when they asked Usborne for permis- sion to test drill for new wells in that municipality. In return for that permission, Usborne asked that their residents along existing or new pipelines into Exeter be allowed to tap into the water system. Reeve Derry Boyle termed that trade-off "blackmail", but Councillor Bruce Shaw said it was good business sense on the part of Usborne. "It didn't help those who just spent $1,000 to get wells," Coun- cillor Ben Hoogenboom stated in reference to some of the Usborne residents on Huron St. East. "If that's the deal the PUC had to make, we'll have to go along with it," Boyle commented. Mayor Jack Delbridge a member of the PUC, said it was clearly a case of "provide water (to Usborne residents) or no test drilling". RETIRES AFTER LENGTHY SERVICE — Howard Scene recently retired after serving Thompson and Sons mills in Hensell and kidgetOwe for 26 years. He was honoured Saturday night. From the left are Hensall 'assistant manager Doug Mann, Howard president Wes Thompson. 70 qii: Pit oii.;: See Our large assortment of 11 t ca 4i.,A., * Poinsettias Wreaths Mums 2 in * Christmas Mixed Pans Li) ori: in Gi * Azaleas n 0,i * Cyclamens It in og: %lb ci lb cteiz oi: YOURS A . . 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