The Citizen, 1990-01-10, Page 12PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1990.
County Council briefs
Employees continue to fight plan for 2-site Huronview
While Huron County Councillors
continue to struggle with the
problem of whether they will be
allowed to, and can afford to build a
new Huronview in two sites,
Huronview employees continue to
fight the move.
A letter from Local 210, Service
Employees’ Union was considered
by the Committee of Management
of Huronview at its Dec. 20
meeting. The letter is a copy of one
sent to Charles Beer, Social Ser
vices and Francophone Affairs
Minister and it disagrees with the
proposal for a two-site Huronview.
The committee noted the letter
and filed it.
*****
A Brussels resident has been
appointed Community Informa
tion/Placement Co-ordination
Supervisor for the Huron County
Board of Health. Dr. Maarten
Bokhout explained to council that
Bev Brown had been the choice
from among 40 applicants for the
position.
The county has received a grant
of $121,700 from the Ministry of
Community and Social Services to
inaugurate the program.
*****
It may be one of the world’s most
expensive beans. The village of
Hensail recently designed and
purchased a promotional mascot in
the shape of a huge bean, repre
senting Hensall as the bean capital
of Ontario. The Ontario Bean
Producers Association contributed
$1000 toward the cost of the
costume, leaving $2888 to be raised
by the village. The county’s Plann
ing and Development Committee
voted a grant of $500 to Hensall
based on the county policy of
paying 50 per cent, up to $500 of
the cost of promotional materials
for municipalities.
*****
A Tourism Promotional Advisory
Committee (TourPAC) has been
established in the county to bring
people involved in various tourism
operations together to discuss mar
keting strategies. Dr. Gary David
son, head of the Planning and
Development department explain
ed his department is facilitating the
formation of this ad hoc committee
which will act as an independent
group. The first meeting of the
group is January 17.
*****
A Grey township girl was the
page at the January meeting of
Council. Erin Mitchell, daughter of
Ross and Julie Mitchell and a grade
7 student at Grey Central was
introduced at council by her grand
father, Reeve Norm Fairies of
Howick.
*****
Two local subdivisions were
among those that beat the county’s
new subdivision application fee and
thus will not have to pay the fee of
$1,000 plus $50 per lot. The
subdivision proposed by John and
Joan VanDenAssem at the north
end of Blyth and the subdivision of
Clare VanCamp at the south edge
of Belgrave in Morris beat the
deadline along with three other
subdivision applications.
*****
The corner of County Roads 25
and 8 in Auburn will get a new
street light to help illuminate the
corner and the county will get a
new policy to help decide where
such lights should be located in the
future.
The Road Committee received a
Cook family home for Christmas
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Cook had
the family all home for Christmas.
Those present were: Doug Cook
and friend Grethe of Airdrie,
Alberta; Mr. and Mrs. Bradley
Cook of Calgary, Alberta; Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin Cook, Kanice and
Alaina, Beloraine, Manitoba;
Wayne Cook of Victoria, B.C.; Mr.
and Mrs. Cameron Cook, Jennifer
and Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Black, Dianne and Darlene, Mr.
and Mrs. Ron Cook, Erin, Shannon
and Chad, Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Cook, Amy and Levi, all of Bel
grave, and Mrs. Joe Dunbar,
mother of Mrs. Norman Cook.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Logan,
Kevin and Trevor of Wyoming, Mr.
and Mrs. Barry Logan, Shawn,
Becky of Belgrave spent Christmas
with their mother Mrs. Dorothy
Logan.
Mr. Harold Keating of Dryden
Manor Home of Lucknow spent a
few days at Christmas with his
sister Mrs. Stanley Snell of Lon
don. On Christmas Day nieces of
Harold visited at the same home.
Mrs. Jean Pattison, Miss Mar
garet Higgins of Belgrave, Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Pattison, Tabatha,
Donna and Kevin of RR 3, Wing
ham were New Year’s visitors of
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Marks, Steven,
Darryl, Karen and- Michael.
On Thursday, January 4 visiting
at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth
Procter, Belgrave were Rev. and
Mrs. Aubray Bell of Bayfield. On
Friday, Mrs. Howard Zettler, Sher
ri, Amanda and Alicia of RR 4,
Walkerton visited with her mother
Mrs. Procter. Mrs. Procter return
ed home with her daughter on
Friday and was an overnight guest
at the Zettler home.
Barbara Coultes of Toronto spent
Christmas weekend with her moth
er Mrs. Janisa Coultes.
Mrs. Janisa Coultes and her
daughter Barbara Coultes attended
the funeral of their brother-in-law
and uncle Allan Armes at the
Whitney-Ribey Funeral Home in
Seaforth, Wednesday, January 3.
Belgrave friends and neighbours
extend their sympathy.
Sympathy is extended to Mrs.
Olive Bolt and Mr. Clarence Yuill
in the loss of their brother-in-law
Mr. Fraser Haugh, Bluevale, who
passed away at his home Sunday,
January 7.
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Makas and
Alicia of London spent the weekend
with Mrs. Mabel Wheeler.
request from West Wawanosh
Township council for the light. The
arguments in favour of such lights
are that they help drivers see
intersections, that they can empha
size stop signs. However argu
ments against such lights are that
too much illumination can be a
driving hazard, that the money
spent on the lights will have to
come out of the budget for other
services to roads and that unneces
sary illumination is a waste of
energy.
To meet the expected requests
for such lights, especially in the
light of the approval of the West
Wawanosh request, the county
accepted a new policy that says
large turning movements and high
volumes are expected and electrical
service is available within 100
metres and that the Committee sees
that there is a problem at the
corner.
*****
As of January 1, all clients of
Huron County Social Services Com
mittee received a six per cent boost
in their basic allowance. In addition
monthly foster parent rates in
creased from $181 to $192 for one
child and $148 to $157 for each
additional child.
The winter clothing allowance is
increased from $89 to $95 per child
and the back to school benfit
increase to $61 for each dependent
child aged 4-12 and $115 for each
dependent child over 13.
*****
The Medical Officer of Health,
Dr. Maarten Bokhout received
plaudits from Warden Lionel Wild
er on behalf of people in the Zurich
area for the fast action in connec
tion with a meningitis scare in the
Zurich area in the Christmas
holidays. Warden Wilder said he
had had Several phone calls compli
menting the MOH on the quick
action.
A 21-year-old Zurich woman died
of the disease only a day after
getting sick. Dr. Bokhout said there
is some contagious aspect to the
disease but the potential problem
seemed to be under control.
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Huron-Perth separate school board
seeking funds for new school
The Huron-Perth separate school
board is seeking funds from the
Ministry of Education for new
facilities for technical studies at St.
Michael Secondary School, which is
to be built in Stratford and is set to
open in 1992.
The $2.1 million proposal re
sponds to the Ministry’s new
document on technical education,
released last spring, called The
Way Ahead, which offers $60
million to beef up technical studies
in Ontario high schools.
The proposal for St. Michaels is
xo add 13,605 square feet to the
existing plan to accommodate a
communications lab, a horticultural
lab and greenhouse, a cosmetology
lab and a food services lab.
The $350,000 communications
lab will house an audio-visual
laboratory, “state of the art’’
Cablevision capabilities, a televi
sion studio, desktop publishing lab
' ith computers and at least one
laser printer, a graphic arts area, a
CA kroom and photographic equip-
tne.";,
lo^icultural studies include
$6,955 agri-services lab and a
$32,100 greenhouse.
A $30,000 lab for cosmetology
vill be added to the family studies
classroom. The course will be
offered to Grade 9 and 10 to give
students at risk of dropping out of
school a reason to stay and receive
job training.
Food services will emphasize
large-scale preparations and cater
ing and include instruction on
tourism. One and a half classrooms
will be attached to the school
cafetorium at a cost of $80,000 to
accommodate this course.
While all four courses are offered
at a community college level, John
McCauley, a superintendent with
the Huron-Perth board, says that it
is felt these courses will provide a
“transition step’’ that could guar
antee a student a spot in a
community college or provide those
not going onto college with a
chance for an apprenticeship.
Mr. McCauley said that he is
hoping to hear from the Ministry of
Education by April about whether
the proposal will be funded so that
the technical facilities can be built
at the same time as the rest of the
new $8.2 million Catholic high
school.
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