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The Citizen, 1989-10-11, Page 1Huronview decision delayed A decision on the location of the north unit of Huronview will be delayed until the November meet­ ing of Huron County Council while a tour of the competing sites in Brussels and Wingham is arranged for county councillors. Thursday’s meeting of County Council at which the site selection was scheduled to be made began with tension in the council cham­ bers but it was quickly diffused when Warden Dave Johnston an­ nounced to council that a meeting of the Huronview- Committee of Management had been made the day before and the committee would be bringing a recommenda­ tion to the full council later in the meeting to defer the decision. In an earlier meeting Sept. 26. the committee had voted by a 3-2 margin to recommend the Brussels site. Presentations w'ere made by the Wingham-Turnberry group in fa­ vour of the Wingham site and by the Brussels. Morris and Grey group in favour of a site in Morris Township just outside the southern border of Brussels. The 11-page Wingham-Turn­ berry presentation, prepared by Murphy Enterprises of Wingham stressed the advantages of the Wingham site, including the “three-to-five minute” trip to the Wingham and District Hospital and the 30 physicians who have admitt­ ing privileges at the hospital. The presentation expressed concern over winter driving conditions that might make it difficult to get an ambulance from Brussels to a hospital. At the same time the Wingham presentation read by Nelson Underwood, Deputy Reeve of Turnberry, tried to play down concerns expressed over elevations of the proposed sites in the east end of Wingham (one near the CN Rail line off Boland St. and the other behind the F. E. Madill Secondary School off Cornyn St.) When Keith Mulvey of Brussels, Morris and Grey Industrial Com­ mittee and Hugh Hanly, Brussels clerk-treasurer presented the case for the Brussels’ site, they stressed the benefits of the location with the two streets to give access, one from County Rd. 12 and one along a quiet extension of Elizabeth Street. Calling the Morris location ‘‘the perfect site” they talked of the view from the hillside location complete with the scenic pond on the property of Bill and Marie Turnbull. After the presentation Reeve Bill Mickle of Exeter said both centres had made excellent presentations but he wanted to see a firm set of criteria set down for the choosing of a site. He said he was not going to get involved in a popularity con­ test. He proposed submitting a set of criteria he and Exeter’s deputy­ reeve Lossie Fuller had worked out. Later in the morning he made a motion that a set of criteria be established but the motion was defeated in a vote that saw only a small number of hands raised either way. He passed around the set of criteria anyway headed by Continued on page 5 VOL. 5 NO. 41 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1989. 50 CENTS Nature’s best Students from Mrs. Lynne Henry’s kindergarten class and Mrs. Joan Clarke s Grade 1-2 class visited Mait-Side Orchard last Thursday. Each child had the opportunity to pick an apple from a tree. They learned about the different varieties, and the different uses for apples during their tour. Citizen gives birth to new magazine North Huron Publishing Com­ pany Inc., the community-owned company that publishes The Citi­ zen has begun publication of a new magazine. Called Townsman, the new magazine is aimed at promoting the unique lifestyle of western Ontario where people can enjoy the best of a relaxed small-town at­ mosphere yet also enjoy a huge range of services ranging from professional theatre and art galler­ ies through shopping in small owner-run shops to the natural beauty of local beaches and back­ roads. The magazine will be published once every two months and will try to keep residents in an area from Kincardine and Hanover in the north to Stratford, St. Marys and Grand Bend in the south, informed of the many activities in the region. A copy of Townsman is included in this week’s issue of The Citizen and a special introductory offer, available only to readers of The Citizen, is included in an advertise­ ment in The Citizen. ‘‘After the way people of the north Huron community have supported us in $1.1 million Hall expansion contract let The contract for the expansion of Blyth Memorial Hall has been let to a Lambeth company for $1,143,300, Blyth Festival officials announced last week. The work, expected to commence in the next few weeks, will connect the current Memorial Hall with the Festival’s administration building (the former Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) to the south. Included in the link will be a new art gallery and box office, new washrooms, wheel chair access to the basement of Memorial Hall and a handicapped lift as well as improvements to the southern side of the Memorial Hall stage. ‘‘We received seven tenders from contractors throughout the area,” Don McCaffery, Building Committee Chairman said. The firm of D. Grant and Sons Limited of Lambeth had the lowest tender submitted. Grants from the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Communications and the Federal Department of Communciations -- Cultural Initia­ tives Program as well as local fundraising has made the expan­ sion possible but, Lynda Lentz, Festival Development Co-ordinator said, the Festival still must raise $300,000 before next summer to reach its fundraising goals. Operations at Memorial Hall will continue uninterrupted for the time being except that a new location must be found for the Ontario Provincial Police office currently located in the old library which will be demolished to make way for the addition. Events will continue on the Memorial Hall stage until December while events in the lower hall of Memorial Hall will be as undisturbed as possible, Festival officials promise. the past tour years, we felt they should be rewarded with a special offer,” publisher Keith Roulston said. The Citizen was initiated nearly four years ago when a large number of residents of the Blyth and Brussels area bought shares to fund the new publication. Today there are 48 shareholders of North Huron Publishing Company Inc.