The Citizen, 1991-01-16, Page 1History puzzle
Brussels firm tries
to restore ancient car
See page 10
GST headache
Local businesses
deal with tax
See page 12
Bulls win
Swamp Grand Valley
See page 13
Serving Brussels, Blyth, Auburn, Belgrave, Ethel,
Londesborough, Walton and surrounding townships.
VOL. 7 NO. 02 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1991.60 CENTS [56c + 4c G.S.T.]
E. Wawanosh
won't build
new office
East Wawanosh Council has
decided not to go ahead with their
plan to build a new office contin
gent in conjunction with the Bel
grave Kinsmen’s proposal to re
build the front of the new' Commun
ity Centre.
After reconsidering and re-eval-
uating its position. Council, in
agreement with the Kinsmen, de
cided at its meeting on January 8 to
withdraw from the former plan and
renovate the house recently pur
chased by the township at Part Lot
42. Cone. 8 in Belgrave for the new
municipal office.
Clerk Winona Thompson said
after Council had a chance to see
the house they reconsidered the
idea of tearing down a perfectly
good building. Also, this alterna
tive will save the township money,
though how much it will save, isn’t
known yet.
Council has agreed to donate
$10,000 tow ards the cost of the new
arena front.
A by-law was passed authorizing
the township to borrow up to
$350,000 from the bank until taxes
are collected.
A second by-law was passed
appointing Joe Gibson, the County
Weed Inspector, as East Wawa
nosh Weed Inspector. The by-law'
also gave Mr. Gibson the authority
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Brussels
couple has
New Year's
first baby
A Brussels area couple are the
proud parents of the first baby born
in the new year at Listowel Memor
ial Hospital.
Benjamin Alexander Gowing ar
rived at 10:23 a.m. on January 1.
The infant son of Paul and Jacquie
Gowing of RR 2. Bluevale weighed
a healthy seven pounds, eight
ounces. Both mother and son are
doing well.
Benjamin is the Gowing’s second
child; big sister Alyssa turned two
last Saturday. His grandparents
are Betty Gowing and Gord and
Isabel Workman, all of Brussels.
As the New Year’s baby little
Benjamin received many gifts and
vouchers from various merchants,
organizations and the hospital.
Snow at last
The B and W Trailblazers held their poker rally in the Brussels and Walton areas Sunday drawing
over 100 snowmobilers from around the area. It was the first time the club has managed to have a
rally in its three-year existence because other years mild weather made snowmobiling
impossible.
Reeves worry
about costs
of new
facility
Municipalities with life left in
their landfill sites are still concern
ed they may be stuck with too large
a share of a new county-owned
facility, it became clear at the Jan.
10 session of Huron County Coun
cil.
The debate arose from a letter
sent to the county Waste Manage
ment Steering Committee from the
town of Exeter that asked for
answers to various concerns, one
being the use of present sites by
municipalities after the new county
site is developed. Exeter Reeve Bill
Mickle worried his town could be
caught in a double taxation situa
tion. helping build and run a new
site while still running its old site.
“We’re looking for a system that
won’t double tax municipalities
that are lucky enough, or far-sight
ed enough to have a site with
capacity left,” he said.
Norm Fairless, reeve of Howick
said his township had many of the
same concerns of who pays what
and w'hen.
Nigel Bellchamber, county clerk
administrator said that common
sense said that if the county
developed a site that allows Howick
and other municipalities to come in
later, there had to be some service
to that municipality. “Should the
rest of the municipalities pay for
the county site by themselves?” he
wondered.
McKillop Reeve Marie Hicknell
said she understood that the new
site would be operated through
tipping fees for users and so there
would be no operating costs to
municipalities that continued to use
their own sites.
County Engineer Denis Merrall
said the consistent direction of
public meetings held last year was
that tipping fees should be used to
pay operating costs but “we don’t
want to write the conclusions of
Stage 3A (of the Waste Manage
ment Master Plan report).”
But Reeve Mickle wasn’t satis
fied with the thought that his town
wouldn’t have to worry about
operating costs if it didn’t use the
site. If a municipality helped build
the.site but didn’t use it for years,
it was going to get a site that
wouldn’t be as much use when it
finally wanted to use it, even
though it payed the same as
everybody else, he said. “This is
going to be a very difficult area of
discussion for all councils,” he
said.
Vote for Warden
to remain open
Huron County’s Warden will
continue to be elected by an open
verbal voting of member of county
council.
County Council rejected a pro
posal from the Warden’s ad hoc
committee on election procedures
that would have made the election
of Warden by secret ballot. The ad
hoc committee was set up to study
the method of electing the warden
and the working of the striking
committee that sets up county
council’s various committees.
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