The Citizen, 1996-06-12, Page 1Vol. 12 No. 24 Wednesday, June 12, 1996
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Decoration service
Pipers Rick Elliott and Geoff Peach led the procession as Blyth Legion and Auxiliary
representatives began the ceremonies for the decoration service at Blyth Union Cemetery,
June 9.
New doc gives Wingham a boost
Government
Ashfield landfill
may be history
come September
See page 6
Sports
Blyth Tykes on 3-
game winning
streak
See page 10
Review
Stratford brings
`Music Man' magic
to town
See page 23
News
Wingham approves
construction of
new medical clinic
See page 24
C • • orth Huron County could foot bill N The The
for Ontario highways
Wingham's medical community
received a shot in the arm early last
week with the news that Dr. Greg
Antoniadis has confirmed that he is
coming to Wingham Aug. 1 to take
over the medical practice of Dr.
Peter Long.
Dr. Long announced last month
that he is leaving Wingham after 11
years in a practice with Dr. John
Ping. Dr. Antoniadis is a general
practitioner-anaesthetist currently
working in Cochrane.
At last week's June meeting of
the hospital board of governors, the
news that a new doctor is coming
to Wingham was welcome indeed.
Lloyd Koch and Dr. Brain Hanlon,
both members of the hospital's
recruiting committee, were thanked
warmly for their role in bringing
Dr. Antoniadis to Wingham.
However, Koch called the
recruitment of Dr. Antoniadis "a
group effort" which involved
management and staff of Wingham
and District Hospital. He provided
a brief summary of the steps taken
in recruiting the new physician to
Wingham.
A number of months ago, the
hospital hired Health Search
Canada to do a search for
physicians. The consultants sent
letters to 3,000 doctors in Ontario
and beyond. Dr. Antoniadis saw a
copy of the letter sent to a friend in
Cochrane and sent in a reply card.
Koch called him and advised him
of the opportunity to join Dr. Ping
in his practice this summer and
invited him to visit Wingham.
Dr. Antoniadis spent a day here
late last month at which time he
met the other doctors and toured
the countryside. He is reported to
have been "blown away" by the
Way his visit was organized and
soon confirmed in writing that he
would be locating here this
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Huron County taxpayers could be
stuck with the bill for operating all
provincial highways except Hwy.
21, county councillors were told at
their June 6 me,;ting.
Sandra Lawson, acting county
engineer, reported on a speech by
Minister of Transportation Al Pal-
ladini at the county road superin-
tendent's trade show in Meaford, at
which the minister said there would
be no additional funding for munic-
ipalities for highways turned over
to them by the province. The
province, he said, does not have the
money to maintain the highways
and the municipalities would have
to do it.
The minister also said that only
highways "provincially significant"
would remain part of the provincial
system. In answer to a question,
Lawson said in a report from the
MOT which she had read the only
"provincially significant" highway
in Huron is Hwy. 21. The provin-
cial handover could include all
other highways in the county, she
said.
To date the province has only
announced it will transfer Hwys.
83, 84 and 87 to the county.
Bob Hallam, reeve of West
Just when the summer season
begins and the grain crops should
be greening the landscape, farMers
with winter wheat are facing diffi-
culties.
A drive through some areas of
the county will display sporadic
wheat fields with large patches of
yellow crops.
It is a combination of factors
which have created the problem,
says Brian Hall, business manage-
ment advisor with the Ontario Min-
Hamm's Auto Sales in Blyth was
hit by thieves sometime during the
night of June 4-5.
According to the Wingham OPP,
who are investigating the theft,
thieves entered the building by pry-
ing open a window on the garage
What caused a barn fire that kept
volunteers from the Blyth Fire
Department busy for close to two
hours early Tuesday morning is as
yet undetermined.
The barn, located on the South
Half of Lot 17, Conc. 7 in Morris
Wawanosh, said the county should
let the province know it wasn't
pleased with the situation. "I think
it is very important that the
province doesn't just drop these
roads on us," he said.
Lawson agreed, and said she had
heard the MOT had been allocated
$60 million to improve highways
that were to be turned over to
municipalities. "The advice I'm get-
ting is that the squeaky wheel will
get the grease," she said in support-
ing Hallam's proposal to protest to
the province. Council passed a
motion to ask the province for
funding to improve the highways
before they were taken over by the
county.
On the subject of funding, Tom
Cunningham, reeve of Hullett, said
he had heard at a meeting of the
Association of Municipalities of
Ontario that the province was
proposing to cut funding for
bridges. That has the potential for
major costs depending on whether
you're at the head of a watershed
where you only need culverts or at
the bottom where major bridges are
needed," he said. Some roads might
have to be closed if $500,000
bridges had to be built with only
municipal financing, he said.
istry of Agriculture, Food and
Rural Affairs office in Clinton.
Factors such as the backward
spring weather conditions, fall
planting procedures and even tiling
could affect the crop.
"Anything that puts the crop
under stress" (can cause the prob-
lem), says Hall. "In a good spring,
crops can grow through stresses."
"It has not been a great year for
winter wheat so far and there have
been a lot of questions asked by
farmers."
door. Once inside they searched the
desks and stole approximately $50.
A shed at the rear of the main
building was also entered. From
here they stole, eight tires, a chain-
saw, two gas cans with gas, a
Honda ATV and a Honda dirt bike.
Twp, on property owned by Don
Hall, was a complete loss. Though
Fire Chief Paul Josling did not
have an estimate to this point, there
was also a quantity of lumber,
wood working equipment and farm
machinery lost in the blaze, which
was called in at 3:05 a.m.
Backwards spring
hurts winter wheat
Thieves hit Hamm's
Barn blaze in Morris