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Generous gift
Ray Hanna Jr.'s gift to Blyth Memorial Hall will be felt in two ways. Mr. Hanna turned the wood
from the old memorial oak tree on Memorial Hall lawn into a beautiful frame for a quilt in the
Hall. Instead of accepting payment, he asked that any money be donated to the Blyth Figure
Skating Club. Last week Hall Board Chairman Shirley Fyfe passed along a cheque for $1000
which was then turned over to the Figure Skating Club treasurer Diane Ferguson.
E. Wawanosh meeting Oct. 15
Blyth council on target
for balanced budget
East Wawanosh council, at the
September 3 meeting, set the date
of Tuesday, October 15 for a
ratepayers’ meeting, to be held at
East Wawanosh Central Public
School at 8 p.m.
A motion was made that $100
per year be charged to any pool
owners in the Humphrey Subdivi
sion to offset the extra cost of fill
ing a pool. Clerk Winona
Thompson said the reason was that
when one person in the subdivision
had filled his pool this year the
metre reading doubled. "It took as
much to fill the pool as is used by
the entire subdivision for a month,"
she said.
Council voted that a preliminary
report be prepared by Tom Prid-
ham, R J. Bumside & Associates,
the engineer appointed for the peti
tion for the drainage works for
Auburn.
Regarding the Gulutzen-Scott
drainage problem it was decided
that Andy McBride of Maitland
Engineering Services be contacted
to discuss costs involved in the
drain.
Reeve Ernie Snell and Mrs.
Thompson were given authoriza
tion to sign terms of agreement
Blyth in no hurry to adopt bylaw
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he had been talking with George
Hubbard who was concerned what
he was to do with all the cardboard
that comes from his suppliers. The
amount of cardboard used in pack
aging seems to be increasing every
year, he said, and if Mr. Hubbard
couldn't bum it he'd have trouble
getting rid of it. He said Mr. Hub
bard told him he tries to only bum
when the wind would blow smoke
to the south, away from nearby
homes.
Councillor Sparling, reading over
the Clinton bylaw, said he would
have trouble agreeing to such a
bylaw because of the latitude it left
to the bylaw officer to determine
what was a permissible fire (barbe
cues, campfires for cooking, etc.)
and what wasn’t allowed. Mrs.
McClinchey said Clinton seems to
be getting along quite well with the
bylaw. Mr. McClinchey said the
burning permits under the Clinton
with the Ministry of Housing. This
pertains to the building action pro
gram which covers 50 percent of
the expenditures for the building
inspector's office in the new munic
ipal office. The township was given
grant approval for $1,604 towards
expenses such as office furniture,
supplies, etc.
Building permits were issued to
Howard Bros. Ltd., Part Lot 34,
Cone. 5 for a machinery shed
extension and to Simon Bleeker,
Part Lot 29, Cone. 11, for a
machinery shed extension, also.
Building permit fees were set for
the Wingham lagoon. These are set
at a commercial rate of $86 per
square foot and four concrete tanks
at $150 each.
Reeve Snell was authorized to
attend a land use planning seminar
in Coldstream on September 25.
Council supported a resolution
from Euphrasia Township urging
the Ministry of Municipal Affairs
to amend the Development Charges
Act, by allowing small municipali
ties to charge a lot levy up to
$1,000 per lot, without a study or
Ministry approval.
A grant of $100 was given to the
Huron Plowmen's Association.
bylaw would at least allow village
officials the power to persuade peo
ple where and when they could
bum to least effect others.
"I really work against trying to
come up with any more rules and
regulations than we have to have,"
Reeve Wasson said. He pointed out
that some people might be against
having animals in the village limits
(the McClincheys have horses).
Mrs. McClinchey argued that with
out rules and regulations "people
can do whatever they want".
The Reeve said he would prefer
to try to bring common sense to
bear on the problem, to try to seek
co-operation. If that didn't work,
"I'd spend some time looking at the
other alternatives. My last alterna
tive would be a bylaw."
"I don't believe that anybody
should have to breathe in some-
bodyelse's garbage," Mrs.
McClinchey said. "The citizens of
Blyth deserve greater protection."
Reeve Wasson assured Mrs.
McClinchey that council did hear
Mrs. Thompson was authorized
to attend the Wheels Away meeting
at Wingham United Church on
September 18.
Council applied for an interim
payment of subsidy under the Pub
lic Transportation and Highway
Improvement Act on expenditures
made in 1991 of $514,679.76.
Road Superintendent Ralph
Campbell was instructed to pur
chase a 1210 David Brown used
tractor.
The road accounts totalling
$187,206.18, the general accounts
in the amount of $134,208.48 and
the Belgrave Kinsmen accounts for
August expenses on the new Bel
grave arena front in the amount of
$83,976.49 were authorized for
payment.
Community Living
prize drawn
The Wingham & District Com
munity Living Association held the
early bird draw September 20, for
the Annual Lottery, Dinner and
Dance. Winners of the two $500
early bird prizes were: Loma Cook
and Anna Marie Kieffer.
her concerns and would try to find
a solution to the problem.
At the end of the meeting, after
the McClincheys left, council
returned to the subject. There was
some concern about just how bad
the smoke problem was. John Rinn,
the town works foreman who lives
behind the Rutabaga plant, said he
hardly ever saw smoke from the
fire and felt it was only a small fire.
Reeve Wasson said he had heard
conflicting stories about the burn
ing. %
Helen Grubb, clerk-treasurer,
said that when viilage officials
have responded to various com
plaints from Mrs. McClinchey, by
the time they arrived, the village
crew had a hard time finding any
fire.
"I really think we need to keep
the thing in perspective," Council
lor Sparling said. "It's a legitimate
concern but not a huge crisis."
Councillors agreed to continue to
seek a solution through co-opera
tion between the neighbours.
Blyth appears to be on target for
a balanced budget for 1991, figures
released at the Sept. 24 meeting of
village council showed.
The figures showed revenues and
expenditures to the end of August
and projected those figures ahead
to the end of the year. They showed
an anticipated surplus of $3500.
The figures showed projected
revenues at $637,828 compared to
a budgeted figure of $596,766
mostly due to a capital conserva
tion grant for the arena of $8584
and an energy conservation grant of
$2,043 for the upper story of the
municipal building, neither of
which was in the original building.
Donations from groups of $17,168
to provide the two-third local fund
ing for the arena improvements for
the capital conservation program
also weren't included in the original
budget. There was also an addition
al $9000 in donations from the
Huron Pioneer Thresher and Hobby
Association to pay its share of
improvements to the fairgrounds
under the Pride grant program.
Some of the expenditures under
the Pride program had been
switched around since the budget
was set meaning more money was
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spent at the fair grounds ($40,304
compared to $22,000) and less on
street lighting ($24,000 compared
to $50,000).
Library renovations came in
about $1500 under budget ($30,510
compared to $33,000) and the
entrance signs and planters came in
at $23,326 compared to the
$30,000 in the budget.
Main over budget item was oper
ational costs at memorial Hall
which were at $33,799 compared to
$14,000 but a significant portion of
this is to be recovered from Blyth
Festival once a joint operating
agreement is signed.
Overall, expenses are projected at
$680,167 compared to the budget
of $642,603.e
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