Times-Advocate, 1979-02-14, Page 2Page 2 Times-Advocate, February 14, 1979 Animal control officer resigns Township garage broken into
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Tuckersmith Township
Council set sqlary rates for
its employees at a meeting
Wednesday.
The salary for clerk
treasurer John McLachlan
was raised to $19,000 from
last year’s salary of $18,810,
plus a car allowance of $1,-
500. His assistant will con
tinue to be paid at the rate of
$3.50 per hour, but this is un
der review.
Road Superintendent
Allan Nicholson will receive
$15,000, up from $13,405.
Road grader operators will
get $6.00 per hour, up from
$5.48; mower employees
will be paid $5.00, and
labourers, $4.00.
Female employees of the
township were awarded in
creases amounting to eight
per cent — Vanastra Day
Care Centre director Karen
McEvying $11,051 up from
$10,233; her assistants, Deb
bie Denomme, $8,640 up
from $8,000 and Beatrice
Thomson, $7,674 up from $7,-
106.
Vanastra Recreation
manager, Diane Durnin, will
be paid $12,960 up from $12,-
000 paid last year. Her part-
time assistant manager,
June Tomkins will receive
$4,680 up from $3,760, an in
crease of 24 per cent
because of more hours put in
at the recreation centre.
While the three coun
cillors held their allowances
to $40 per council meeting
the same as last year, Reeve
Ervin Sillery got $55 up from
the $50 per council meeting
last year; and Deputy Reeve
Robert Bell will get $45 a
meeting, up from $42.50. The
rate for non-council
meetings has not been set.
These include Fire Board,
hospital board and com
mittee meetings.
Council turned down a re
quest from the Vanastra
recreation centre for
authority to add $200 to the
annual rent which the
Vanastra day care centre
pays for use of rooms in the
recreation building,
In other business, council
hired W.D. Wilson,
Brucefield, over eight other
applicants for the job of sell
ing dog tags in the township
for $2.00 per tag. The Clerk
reported he was receiving
manycomplaintsabout dogs.
“It’s terrible,” he said as he
reported at Vanastra there
were people who were
afraid to go out walking on
the streets at night. Other
complaints came from the
Egmondville and Brucefield
areas.
Council accepted the
resignation of Phillip
Bradley as animal control
officer, effective February 1
as he has a position out of
town. Because of illness
previously he had not been
able to work as control of
ficer. Council will send him
a letter of appreciation for
the work he has done. The
clerk was authorized to
advertise for someone to
replace Mr. Bradley.
Requests for building per
mits were approved for
Calvin Bisback of Walton
building a barn on part of a
lot on concession 1, Huron
Road Survey; and for altera
tion to the historic Van Eg-
mond house involving
alterations to the house in a
restoration project.
A number of council will
attend an Economic
Development seminar at the
Goderich Legion hall on
March 28.
A report from the water
resources assessment unit
of ministry of environment
stated that tests made of the
well water supply shortage
of Howard Shanks of Kippen
does not demonstrate any
damage to the well caused
by the installation of the
Kippen drainage system
recently constructed.
Council turned down a re
quest by the Vanastra Lions
Club for discounts on the
rental of the Vanastra
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By MRS. HUGH MORENZ
The se cond progressive
euchre party of this season
was held Wednesday evening
at Shipka Community Centre
with ten tables in play.
Winners were Ladies high,
Mrs. Angeline Scott; ladies
low, Mrs. Fern Desjardine,
Zurich; mens high,
Lawrence Obermeyer; mens
low, Fred Gibson; most lone
hands, Norman Breen.
The south group were in
charge of lunch refresh
ments and it was announced
another card party would be
held in two weeks.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Robert Paling
Lawrence Beane of Tri
Town Bookkeeping is
pleased to announce
that Robert Paling has
joined the Firm in par
tnership. Robert has
taken Tax Accounting
courses, and will be in
charge of our new com
puter operations and
personal tax returns,
working from our new
office at S2 Huron
Street,
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Recreation Centre for
dances.
Several objections were
made by neighbouring
residents of a proposed
motel unit to be built in Har-
purhey. A hearing will be
held.
Council will assist a lan
downer with 25 per cent of
the cost of any reforestation
program done through the
ministry of forestry.
Council received notifica
tion of Tuckersmith’s share
of costs at the Seaforth land
fill site amounting to $2,184,
up from $1,600 in 1978 due to
cost of a man and tractor
hired to cover over garbage
on a regular basis.
Road superintendent Allan
Nicholson reported the
township garage had been
broken into again recently
but he estimated that the
loss was small. He reported
too that three road signs had
been stolen.
The clerk was authorized
to open a separate account
for the Canada Works grant
of approximately $19,000 to
the Vanastra Recreation
centre. The grant is for the
hiring of three staff
members for a nine-month
period to set up recreation
for people with special
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