Huron Expositor, 2002-06-12, Page 18News
Optimistic ball game
Brett Jewitt photos
Umpire Rick Dale helps Luke Wolper at bat while teaming up
with Allen Heide (right photo). They were participants in a
baseball game played between Optimist Club and Community
living members giving people with special needs a chance to
play the game for the first time Saturday afternoon.
Paving of temporary ambulance site
concerns council as it approves new site
By Scott Hilgendorff
Expositor Editor
Huron East council
approved a rezoning that
would allow Huron County
to build a permanent
ambulance station at
Highway 8 and the Kinburn
corner.
But council had some
concerns first regarding costs
of road maintenance if the
county was unable to get
proper approval from the
Ministry of Transportation to
access the site from Highway
8.
If it is not granted access,
the county plans to build up
and use a barely maintained
road in McKillop Township
to access the site.
Mayor Lin Steffler, an
opponent of the county's
approaches to operating the
ambulance system, said, "If
indeed it is the county's wish
to build up, maintain and
service the road, I would
suggest it be done at its own
expense and at no expense to
Huron East."
She addressed her
comments to county planner
Gary Davidson who was at
council's June 19 meeting to
address a special rezoning
meeting held to hear any
concerns about the proposed
rezoning.
The rezoning request came
to council just a day after the
temporary site on Highway 8
was paved despite debate
around the council table and
protests in Huron East.
A sign was posted at the
site questioning who was
running Huron County
council: the councillors or
administration.
The sign teferences a
confusing process that took
place in making a decision to
pave the site which Deputy
Mayor Bernie MacLellan, a
county councillor, tried to
explain to council when
Davidson was unable to
answer questions from
McKillop Coun. Sharon
McClure.
"I blame a little bit of
county staff and a little bit of
the previous council on how
we got here," said
MacLellan.
He said county council
was under time pressures last
November to have temporary
sites picked out for
ambulance locations to be
ready to assume control of
the provincially -downloaded
system for January 1.
The issue of moving the
station out of Seaforth when
Seaforth Community
Hospital offered to build a
new facility and give it to the
county, had been debated
prior to the decision to move
the ambulance to a location
between Clinton and
Seaforth, closing both the
Seaforth and Clinton
stations.
Once county was faced
with making a quick decision
in November, MacLellan
said staff negotiated
agreements for the temporary
site, but said they should not
have promised anything.
However, administration
agreed to pave the site and,
while county council had at
first opposed the paving,
reversed its decision this
month after the site owner
came to a county council
meeting proving he agreed to
house the ambulance station
with the understandiltg the
property would be paved.
"But the decision was
Breakfast for learning program
to continue in St. Columban
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Staff
A wicker basket filled
with muffins and fruit is
passed around the
classroom every morning
as part of a new snack
program at St. Columban
and St. Patrick's schools
that will continue when
students return to school in
September.
"Most of our students
report they've had breakfast
but they can really use a
snack by the time they get
to school. And, by 9:15
a.m., the basket's usually
empty," says principal
Marilyn Barsanti-Innes.
Both schools started the
snack program in January
after Barsanti-Innes heard
about the Breakfast for
Learning Program offered
in Huron and Perth
Counties at a principal's
meeting.
"The school council
decided to give it a try and
so far it's been really
successful," she says.
She says that while the
snacks are not intended as a
replacement for breakfast,
students are up so early to
catch buses for school that
they're hungry by the time
they get to school.
Parents have been baking
most of the cookies and
muffins offered in the
baskets and the students'
council fills the baskets
with food every morning.
The program is funded 25
per cent by the Canadian
Living Foundation, which
Susan Hundertmark photo
Sharon O'Grady passes snacks to students in her Grade 4
class. Zachary Becker takes his pkk.
began the Breakfast for
Learning program.
Canadian Living also
provided a fridge for each
school. The rest of the costs
are funded through families
and service groups.
In St. Columban, two
service groups have been
approached to contribute
during the program's
second year and in Dublin,
one service club seems
receptive, says Laurel
McIntosh, coordinator of
the local Breakfast for
Learning program.
While McIntosh says St.
James School in Seaforth is
also looking into the
program, principal Larry
Murray says the idea is still
being considered by the
school council.
"There's not really a need
here and I don't see
anything happening for the
next year but it will be
discussed further," he says.
made without the approval of
county council. We didn't
know we had approved the
paving," he said.
While the exact cost of the
paving was not known,
MacLellan said it was not to
exceed $10,000.
Coun. Ferg Kelly said the
amount of paving looked
excessive to what the
ambulance would need and
McClure was concerned no
one knew exactly how much
was going to he paid for the
paving.
MacLellan said because of
meeting schedules, he won't
see an invoice for the cost of
the paving until August.
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