The Citizen, 1994-07-20, Page 1Education I Business | Entertainment
4 students from Wingham
and Listowel high schools
achieve Ont. Scholar status
Local cottage industry,
agriculture producers
show off at Food Fair
Familiar faces to Blyth
stage return to appear
in ‘Bouncing Back’
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Area youth 1 of 3
fatalities in crash
Kevin Rintoul
Tragedy has once again claimed
the life of an area youth.
Kevin Rintoul, 16 of RR2, Luc
know, was one of three people
killed in a head on collision on
Hwy 86, just west of Wingham last
Thursday at 10:15 p.m.
Also dead are Patrick Magee, 17
of Wingham and Mr. Otto Linde,
30 of Lucknow.
Wingham OPP say Mr. Linde
was driving his 1980 Olds Cutlass
west and attempted to pass another
vehicle. He collided head-on with
an eastbound 1981 Porsche, driven
by Dr. Stewart Anderson, 35 of
RR5, Lucknow.
Mr. Linde was pronounced dead
at the scene as was the Rintoul
youth, who was a passenger in the
Anderson car. Patrick Magee, also
a passenger with Dr. Anderson was
airlifted to Victoria Hospital, Lon
don, where he passed away on Sat
urday July 16.
Dr. Anderson is listed in critical
condition at Victoria Hospital's
Trauma Unit.
Vol. 10 No.29 Wednesday, July 20, 1994 6O0GSTinc,uded
E. Buchanan to
visit Food Fair
The Minister of Agriculture,
Food and Rural Affairs, Elmer
Buchanan, as part of the ministry's
new rural mandate, is travelling to
a number of communities in the
province this summer to hear the
views of local leaders on ways to
promote economic development
and job creation in these com
munities. v
The Minister will be in Huron
County on Friday, July 22.
The Minister will tour the
Huronview Redevelopment Project
at 1:30. The facility was awarded
$1 million from the jobsOntario
Community Action program earlier
this year so that an existing senior
citizens home can be expanded into
a health and social services
complex to serve a variety of com
munity needs.
Following the cheque
presentation the Minister will visit
the Clinton Community Credit
Union which is participating in the
successful FarmPLUS Program. At
the end of the day, the Minister will
participate in the opening
ceremonies of Zurich Fair. Mr.
Buchanan will also be in Blyth on
Saturday morning to visit the Taste
of Country Food Fair.
Liberal leader Tunnel of fun
comes to Blyth
The Huron County Liberal Asso
ciation is sponsoring a 'meet the
leader' gathering at Blyth Lions
Park on Thursday, July 21.
Provincial Leader of the Opposi
tion Lyn McLeod is coming to
Blyth on a pre-election campaign
tour of Huron County.
Association member Joe Hogan
says, "The evening will be a chance
for the community to meet with and
talk to the leader. Ms McLeod is
very good about getting out and
meeting the people and she wants
to listen to the concerns of the con
Offices shut down
for summer holiday
To accommodate summer vacations for its staff The North
Huron Citizen will be shutting down production for one week.
The Brussels and Blyth offices will be closed from Wednes
day, July 27 to Aug. 3.
As a result there will be no issue of The Citizen on Aug. 3
so anyone wishing to advertise an upcoming event may want
to do so in the July 27 issue.
stituents."
"This event is part of her sum
mer tour which helps the party
develop campaign policies," he
says.
This is Ms McLeod's first visit to
Blyth though she has visited other
communities in Huron County in
the past.
Thursday's event runs from 5 to 7
p.m. with Ms McLeod speaking to
the gathering at approximately 6
p.m. Beef on a bun will be served
and tickets are available through
municipal chairpersons al a cost of
$8. Pre-schoolers are free.
A young friend looks over the shoulder of Maurissa Hunter of Brussels as she takes a turn
down the tunnel slide at Ethel park. The children were part of the Fun in the Sun summer
program sponsored by Grey Township and offered each Tuesday afternoon for local
youngsters. The program is run by Sandy Earl and approximately 25 children participate.
Space is still available for those wishing an afternoon of fun.
Blyth passes’94 budget
By Bonnie Gropp
After some dissent Blyth council
passed a budget on July 13 show
ing an increase in the mill rate of
.89 per cent.
"Though council agreed a zero
per cent increase would be nice, I
can live with less than one per
cent," Reeve Dave Lee said.
Councillor Mason Bailey dis
agreed, however. "I want to get into
a position to say to other councils
and boards that it's possible to hold
the line."
Though councillors fell that
something below one per cent
should be an acceptable increase to
ratepayers, Councillor Bailey said a
zero increase has a psychological
message.
To bring the budget to a zero
increase would mean trimming
$1,800 from it. However, Clerk-
Treasurer Helen Grubb said that
while it didn’t sound like much, it
would be difficult to find a place
from which to take it. “There are no
frills. This is a bare bones budget,"
she said.
Councillor Steve Sparling
agreed. "Often zero today means
five per cent tomorrow. Aside from
the fact we could say a zero
increase the impact on the ratepay
er is negative. Last year was a
vanilla budget, there were no
extras. Other than the psychologi
cal plus of saying no increase this
is close enough for me. I'm always
uncomfortable with a freeze for the
sake of a freeze."
Reeve Lee pointed out that many
budget items are estimations so
room for error must be allowed. "A
lean budget has been done in years
past, but then when there were sur
prises the money had to be picked
up the next year."
The 1994 budget is going to
clean out the village's surplus from
1993. The village also has $67,000
in working reserves, which Ms
Grubb said would be of benefit to
the village to increase to $75,000 in
the near future.
Councillor Eugene Coburn felt
that Councillor Bailey's suggestion
was valid. "It's nice to build
reserves, but when you’re this
close..."
Councillor Bailey made a motion
that the budget be brought in with a
zero per cent increase, after which
Councillor Sparling said, "I'm hav
ing a difficult lime. I pride myself
on being tolerant. I'd like to say my
municipality had a zero increase,
but we've spent half an hour going
over semantics when it comes
down to instead of saying zero I
have to hang my head and say .89
per cent.”
Noling the services the village
has received over the past year,
Reeve Lee said, "We really haven't
done too bad with this budget."
Councillor Cobum, who had just
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