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The Citizen, 1990-02-21, Page 1Heritage Quiz Special Heritage Week quiz tests your knowledge See page 12 & 13 Scoring star Marty Rutledge collects records and medals See page 10 Blgth champs Atoms win WOAA crown See page 15 VOL. 6 NO. 8 Serving Brussels, Blyth, Auburn, Belgrave, Ethel, Londesborough, Walton and surrounding townships. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1990.50 CENTS Well done Blyth firefighters struggled to put out the persistent flames RR1, Waltonwhohadparkedthecaronthesideoftheroad when it burning acar that fogged County Road 25 with smoke just outside quit Thursday afternoon. of Walton. Thecar was totalled and is owned by Paul McCallum of Blyth to hold 2 monthly meetings Beginning next month Blyth village council will hold two meet­ ings a month after a motion moved by Councillor Dave Lee to add a second regular meeting passed Wednesday night. Councillor Lee had given notice in January that he was planning to introduce the motion for a second regular meeting a month. He felt that in the past year too many things had been decided at special meetings when the public wasn’t notified the meeting was being held. When the motion was first introduced Wednesday night it appeared it might not have a seconder for a short time before councillors said they wanted to have clarification of what would be involved. Councillor Steven Spar­ ling said that looking back over the past year there certainly seemed to be some unusual situations and that to alleviate concerns of the public he would be willing to support the idea of a second regular meeting. He was, however, opposed to a recommendation Councillor Lee had made a month earlier that all council meetings be videotaped and shown on the local cable television channel. Experi­ ence in other areas of televising political proceedings showed that people often play to the cameras, he said. Much of the discussion as to whether or not to support a second meeting revolved around how councillors would be paid. The procedural bylaw in place saw councillors paid $1,400 a year for regular meetings plus $50 for each special meeting ($80 for day-long meetings). Councillor Shirley Fyfe said she understood the $1,400 a year covered all regular meetings. But Councillor Lee, pointing out council has regularly been having two, three and even four meetings a month (many connected with the five-year review of the village’s zoning by-law) and said that coun­ cillors should be paid for the extra monthly meeting as if it was a special meeting. He argued that by paying councillors an extra $600 a year in their basic stipend, it might be cheaper than the special meet­ ings being held now. The motion finally was seconded by councillor Fyfe and was carried. The new policy will see councillors receive a basic pay of $2,000 a year while Reeve Albert Wasson goes from $2,200 to $2,800 a year. The current date of the second Wednes­ day of each month will remain with the second meeting to be in the fourth week of each month beginn­ ing in March. Car cooked near Walton Firefighters battled to extinguish a car engulfed in flames on Thursday a few miles east of Walton on County Road 25 but they were unable to salvage the car owned by Paul McCallum of RR 1, Walton. Mr. McCallum had been driving his 1982 Oldsmobile 88 when the car kept flooding itself and quit on the side of the road. He left the car and walked to his dad’s place down the road and once he was there, a man pulled into the laneway and informed the family that there was a car on fire down the highway. Armed with a fire extinguisher, the family tried to put out the flames that were noticeable under the hood. “It would look like it was out and then it would flare up again,’’ said Mr. McCallum. Realizing the situation was getting out of control, the family called the Blyth Fire Department but by the time they arrived, the entire car was burning. The car “is baked’’ said Mr. McCallum who added that the fire must have started from a short in the motor because when he return­ ed to the car, it was trying to start itself. “I know I left the key off and the car was trying to start with nobody around.’’ Blyth fire chief, Paul Josling agreed that the fire started in the motor compartment and that the fire must have reached gas for the car to be so badly burned. East Wawanosh sees building boom With the expansion and develop­ ment occuring in Belgrave, the township of East Wawanosh is in the middle of a building boom that generated a total revenue of $7,118 in permit fees last year from the 41 buildings permits that were issued. For residential permits valued at $1,393,906 there were 14 new homes and seven additions. Three hundred and thirty thousand, one hundred and twenty dollars was the value for the building of 12 barns or additions, while the school addition was valued at $97,393. There were also permits issued for one manure tank, two swimm­ ing pools and four demolition permits. OPP investigates school break-ins Goderich OPP are investigating two early morning break-ins last Sunday at area schools. According to a spokesperson from OPP, vandals broke into Colborne Central Public School near Benmiller and Brookside Pub­ lic School near Dungannon, then smashed windows and sprayed fire extinguishers throughout the build­ ings. Police estimate the amount of damage at Brookside to be $2,500, while Colborne received about $3,500 to $4,000 worth of damage. To their knowledge nothing was stolen in the incident. Police state they have suspects and believe that they are respon­ sible for both break-ins.