The Citizen, 2019-06-13, Page 14PAGE 14. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2019.
Seven endeavours
receive boost from
Heritage Fund
Seven projects will be receiving
support from the Huron Heritage
Fund after Huron County Council
approved the intake at its June 5
meeting.
The total funds approved equal
$21,900, with three projects
receiving the maximum amount of
funding, $5,000 each.
The Municipality of Central Huron,
St. Joseph’s Kingsbridge Community
and Bonnie Sitter all received $5,000
each, while the Blyth Centre for the
Arts received $3,000, Jim Mulhern
received $1,925, the Bayfield
Historical Society received $1,035
and the Love family received $940.
The Central Huron project will
restore the pillars of the entrance to
the community park in Clinton.
Sitter plans on producing a book
telling the story of the Farmerettes,
those who replaced men in
agricultural labour during and after
World War II.
The St. Joseph’s Kingsbridge
Community project will aim to
repair the stained glass windows on
the west side of the building, while
Mulhern’s project will reprint and
sell two local historical books,
Everything for the Roadmaker:
Illustrated History 1875 to 1945 and
Goderich Link to the Past: An
Illustrated Local History.
The $3,000 granted to the Blyth
Centre for the Arts will go towards
the development of the Blyth
Festival heritage wall, a permanent
display to showcase the Blyth
Festival’s longstanding relationship
with Memorial Hall and the Huron
County community. According to
the application, the wall will include
45 seasons’ worth of posters and
photographs from past productions
to give theatre-goers a sense of the
Festival’s history.
The Bayfield Historical Society
plans on using the funds to catalogue
and inventory some of its artifacts.
The application states that 40 per
cent of the society’s inventory will
be catalogued through the funding.
As a result, the archives records will
be updated from indexes to full
descriptive catalogue records.
This same project was granted
$2,000 from the Huron Heritage
Fund in the fall, but it is
experiencing a cost increase due to a
change in the software provider.
The Love family project will be
the production of Love on the Farm,
a book on the history of the Love
family as it marks its 100th
anniversary.
Council approved all of the
applications in the report, which was
produced by Director of Cultural
Services and Huron County
Librarian Beth Rumble for a total of
$21,900 for this intake. The second
intake of the year is set for
November, though just $3,100 of the
$25,000 budget remains.
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
After an impassioned plea from
Councillor Chris Palmer to continue
working with the same farmer,
North Huron Township Council has
decided to allow the landowner
renting property around the Richard
W. LeVan Airport instead of
requesting tenders for the land.
As part of a report on six different
pieces of land the municipality
leases, the airport agricultural
property, at 230 acres, being by far
the biggest, staff had recommended
tendering out the leases of the
properties, however Palmer felt that
wasn’t in the municipality’s best
interest.
“The farmer is a good farmer,”
he said. “He’s a young man
who has made improvements to the
soil.”
He said that keeping a farmer the
municipality has a history with is
worth more than “a few dollars”.
He said that the farmer is taking
care of the municipality’s asset, and
has always been willing to do
whatever was asked of him,
including following rules about what
can be planted where on the
property.
After some questions about the
legality of not tendering the
property, which staff assured council
was not an issue, Palmer, with
support from Councillor Anita van
Hittersum, admitted that the
municipality was getting a good deal
with the current farmer.
“Anita and I considered what he’s
paying to be on the high end of rent,”
he said.
Palmer also said that, having the
details of the rental appearing in
local media when it was last
tendered “didn’t sit well” with the
landowner.
“If he was paying low rent, or
lowballing, I’d say we deserve
more,” Palmer said. “However,
we’re being paid a really fair dollar.”
Deputy-Reeve Trevor Seip said he
was fine with the situation as it was
presented, provided the current lease
allowed for an extension and didn’t
require tendering.
Reeve Bernie Bailey, however,
said he was concerned with the
image that may be projected
by negotiating a lease with one
person.
Councillor Kevin Falconer wanted
to make sure that whatever council
decided didn’t interfere with future
plans at the airport. The site has been
the focus of discussion at North
Huron Council as of late, with
Reeve Bernie Bailey insisting that
such a regional asset be funded
regionally, not through North Huron
taxpayers. Falconer wanted
assurances that whatever contract
was decided on didn’t interfere with
those plans.
Seip said if there is a termination
clause, that would allow the
municipality to end the agreement
when necessary.
As a result of the conversation,
council directed staff to bring back a
report on renewing the lease with the
current tenant, as well as inserting a
termination clause option to end the
agreement on Aug. 1, 2020, if it was
necessary for the plans for the
Richard W. LeVan Airport.
North Huron to negotiate with renter
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
On the grill
The Blyth Brussels and Seafoth Stars minor hockey associations held a joint fundraiser at the
Clinton Raceway on Sunday with a barbecue and bake sale. Manning the grill were, from left:
Mark Wilson, Joe Nesbitt and Curtis Murray. (Denny Scott photo)
Racing the throw
The Kaos baseball tournament that took over the Blyth baseball diamonds this past weekend
was filled with action and fun for participants. The tournament and accompanying home run
derby served as fundraisers for local charities. (Denny Scott photo)
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