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Huron Expositor, 2017-04-26, Page 22 Huron Expositor • Wednesday, April 26, 2017 Business is booming for Bistro 3, Nathan Smith is the owner of the Bistro restaurant in Seaforth, he sat down with reporter Shaun Gregory from the Huron Expositor for an exclusive interview to provide locals with an update on his new venture Shaun Gregory Seaforth? You live in Bayfield Huron Expositor right? The real estate agent Brenda You've recently opened up Campbell gave us the opportunity the Bistro in Seaforth, how are I looked in Seaforth and there things going? is nothing here, there is pizza So far, so good. Everyday it's shops, Chinese, nothing really packed. much else here. You guys need I remember when it was something different here. You Johnny's Sub and Sandwich need something a little bit Cafe, it would get slammed healthier, better food. So that's with customers from 11 a.m. what struck my attention, so we until 1 p.m., is that the busiest decided to go for it. time of the day for you as well? So where do you see this Yah its the same place in 10 years? So when you came here you Hopefully the same as it is knew you were coming into a now, just pretty much running business that didn't quite smooth is all we are hoping for. work, did you know the history I'm going to be doing dinners here before purchasing it? here soon, actually Friday we I talked to A.J., the previous are doing a dinner, so in ten owner and for some reason he years - five years - grow a lot big - couldn't make it go. We are ger, busier, open breakfast lunch doing something different than and dinner. he was doing, so we will see It seems the Community what happens and hopefully it response has been good? works. It's amazing. I've met so many What would you consider great people in Seaforth, every - this kind of atmosphere? It one says wonderful things, they seems relaxed and mellow. are amazing people. It's casual and a comfortable What did you do to this atmosphere place, it seems you've put a lot What made you land in of money behind your brand before opening up shop? Everything! When we carne in the only thing that's still here is the countertop and fridge. Eve- rything else we re -painted, walls, back room was an ice cream shop, it's now a cozy atmosphere in there. The kitchen is basically the same, and I thought let's tone down the lime green color, came in here and she was pretty bright. So we did literally did every- thing, gutted the whole place, new floors. You name it. You have numerous years of chef and cooking experience. So what kind of food do you offer? Is this considered Cana- dian food? A lady asked me the other day if I'm Italian because of the menu. I am not Italian at all. Umm what would I classify this? I don't know to be honest with you, because it's a little Italian, a little Canadian, a little Ameri- can, I draw from so many ave.- flues verHues in the food world. It's a lit- tle bit of everything Are you switching up the menu here and there? Every six to eight months I'm going to do a completely whole new menu. So in six months from now people are probably going to see a big change in what's up there, the coffee the breakfast the lunch. We want to keep everybody coming back for something new. HURON PERTH HEALTHCARE ALLIANCE Clinton Public Hospital St. Mans Memorial Hospital Scaforth Community HoF'ital Stratford General Hospital Thank You to Our Volunteers! You'll find dedicated volunteers of the Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance throughout our four hospital sites making a tremendous difference to the experience of our patients, staff and physicians. We offer our most sincere thanks to our amazing volunteers for their generous gifts of time, commitment and service. For information on volunteer opportunities visit www.hpha.ca Follow us on Twitter @hpha_news Shaun Gregory Huron East Mayor Bernie MacLellan talks to council April 18 about the potential enhancing of shared services of fire departments with Huron East and the municipality of Morris-Turnberry. Huron East and Morris-Turnberry in talks with enhancing shared services with their fire departments Shaun Gregory Huron Expositor The municipality of Morris -Turn - berry is looking to enhance its fire ser- vices; with Huron East being such close neighbours in distance and having an already existing agreement in place - both lower -tier governments are some- what in favour of the idea. Currently Morris-Turnberry operates out of the Brussels Fire Station and under the agreement it says they must pay 57 per cent of operating costs based on gross assessments for the area covered. This does not include fire calls or capital, said the CAO of Huron East Brad Knight. Huron East discussed the matter at a bi-weekly public meeting April 18 in Brussels. Morris-Turnberry's community fire safety officer has resigned from the position and this has left a void. They must meet requirements under Part II of the Fire Protection and Prevention Act. In the act, it states that public edu- cation and fire prevention must he provided. It's believed if this moves forward, Morris-Turnberry will appoint Huron East fire chief, Marty Bedard to conduct these duties as well as maintain the title of fire chief, but Morris-Turnberry shall continue to purchase fire suppression services from North Huron (Wingham and Blyth). Most of Grey and Brussels ward reps were intrigued by the plan of develop- ing the already shared service contract. A better part of council felt the same too, however some had questions relat- ing to the capital buy -in provisions, which are based on a formula of the percentage of weighted assessments between the municipalities. This will likely result in Morris-Tumberry having to purchase shares of about 40-45 per cent of the Brussels fire station. Ques- tions were also raised with respect to either party being able to void the agreement down the road and what the exit terms would entail. For damage control, if things went sour, there are a number of exit provi- sions that can be considered, said Huron East Mayor Bernie MacLellan. "I've been involved in breakups with other fire departments where in fact, the people that walked received noth- ing," said MacLellan, referring to when Huron East backed out of a shared ser- vices agreement with the Brucefield Fire Department. "We walked and got zero." Although being somewhat weary from past experiences, if the agreement moves forward, the Mayor of Huron East, Bernie MacLellan said it would be beneficial for council. Knight said this is in the beginning stages, but believes both sides will come to an agreement to develop a long-lasting bond of shared services. Council concurred and passed a reso- lution endorsing the concept and directed staff to prepare the necessary agreements and background informa- tion to seek approval from the Ontario Fire Marshall.