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The Citizen, 1989-10-04, Page 1Huronview North site decision set for Thursday Thursday will be decision day when Brussels will find out if it, or Wingham will be the winners of the competition for the new northern unit of the Huronview home for the aged. VOL. 5 NO. 40 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1989.50 CENTS It’s the great pumpkin Melissa and Ashley Rammeloo are going to have a difficult time getting these pumpkins home alone. The great gourds were grownat Don Buchanan’sof RR1, Londesboro. This isthethird year they have harvested pumpkins and Mr. Buchanan says that the dry weather has yielded only 500 this year in comparison to the normal number of approximately 1,000. One pumpkin, the Atlantic Giant, was an experiment this year and weighs about 200 pounds. Lawyer’s plea saves man from longer sentence An eloquent plea from his lawyer saved a Bluevale man a longer jail term after attacking his pregnant commonlaw wife, Judge R. G. E. Subscription rate increases The board of directors of North Huron Publishing Company Inc., publishers of The Citizen voted at its September meeting to increase the subscription rate to $19 a year. The increase is effective immedi­ ately. “Costs of producing The Citizen continue to increase,” said pub­ lisher Keith Roulston. He noted Huron County council will decide Thursday morning to either sup­ port or overturn the recommenda­ tion of the Committee of Manage­ ment of Huronview that would see the new home located on property Hunter told the man in provincial court in Wingham Sept-. 27. Paul Gerald Martin had pleaded guilty a month earlier to a vicious that since the last increase in 1987, there have been two increases in the cost of newsprint and printing. The newsstand price will also increase to 50 cents per copy. The Citizen is a community- owned newspaper with nearly 50 shareholders in the Blyth and Brussels area. It was founded four years ago in October 1985. belonging to William and Marie Turnbull in Morris township just south of Brussels. That decision was made Sept. 26 following a tour of the various sites that the county Wingham areas. After that tour assault on Kim Tout while she was staying at a friend’s home on Aug. 17. The court had been told police had been called to the home of Ms. Tout’s friend Wendy Adams in East Wawanosh township. Mr. Martin, apparently drunk, had come to the home looking for his wife, got into an argument with her and hit her. He was on top of her hitting her when Ms. Adams intervened and he hit her as well. Ms. Tout escaped the house and Mr. Martin ran after her. When he couldn’t find her, he took out his frustration by driving his truck into her car. He then took a shovel and continued to hit a dog tied up Tom Tomes, Reeve of Stephen township and Tom Cunningham, reeve of Hullett had initially moved that a site in Wingham at the end of a site in Wingham at the end of Cornyn Street be selected for the nearby until the shovel broke. Ms. Tout went to hospital for treatment of a black eye and a cut mouth. After reading the pre-sentence report and listening to arguments of the crown and defence attorneys, Judge Hunter sentenced Mr. Mar­ tin to a total of 90 days in jail on top of the more than a month he had already been in custody including two months for the assault, a further month for the assault on Ms. Adams (to be served concur­ rently), and 15 days each for causing pain to the dog and driving while his licence was under suspen- Continued on page 13 northern home. That motion, how­ ever, was defeated in committee and a new motion to select the Brussels site was made by Reeve Howard Armstrong of Stanley with Warden Dave Johnston seconding the motion. This carried. But Reeve Gordon Workman told Brussels councillors Monday night there is a lot of opposition to be overcome among county councillors before Brussels can win the site in Thursday’s vote. “Wingham is working hard, hard, hard,” he said. “We’re doing what we can.” He said there is the feeling on the part of some councillors that “big is big and Wingham should have it because it’s big.” The whole issue is in danger of becoming a political football, he said. Hugh Hanly, clerk-treasurer, said the Brussels site has many advantages since it has a higher profile, along side County Road 12 at the south end of the village while the Wingham site is located off main roads near F. E. Madill Secondary School in Wingham. Reeve Workman said the Brus­ sels site has been favoured by the representative of the Ministry of Community and Social Services and by the architect for the project but he worried that the merits of one site against another may not play as big a part as the politics within county council. The Wingham site is less expen­ sive than the Brussels site, mainly because the highway location in Morris township would use up two lots with commercial potential as well as the site of the home itself. The Brussels location would cost the county $80,000 compared to $50,000 for the Wingham location. However, Reeve Workman said, the Brussels location is worth the extra money. “If they are going to spend several million dollars 1 would hope everybody would see the sites and anybody can tell you the (Brussels) site is best,” he said. For Brussels, the urgency of getting the Huronview unit is increased by worries it may lose the privately-owned extended care fa­ cility it already has. Reeve Work­ man along with Councillor Mary Stretton and Mac MacGowan of the Callander Nursing Home visited Toronto last week to talk to Health Minister Eleanor Caplin about the possibility of getting more beds for the Callander home to make it economical to renovate to govern­ ment standards. They got a plea­ sant reception but little more, Councillor Stretton said. Councillos expressed concern Mr. MacGowan will close the Brussels home and move its beds to enlarge his Wingham home unless the govern­ ment allows him to have more beds for Callander. “If we don’t get it (Huronview) and those (Callander) beds are moved, we might as well get a bulldozer in and start rolling up the street,” Reeve Workman said. There are about 45 jobs at Callander in danger. There would be no immediate gain in jobs if Brussels wins the new Huronview since all the current Huronview staff will be offered the new jobs, Reeve Workman, who is also chairman of the Huronview Com- mitte of Management, said. How­ ever, he said, in the long run as Continued on page 2