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Clinton News-Record, 1980-04-24, Page 1er 1979_ H1. 1«0' -15 6 1 16 0 7 1.7 $.6 *6 18 13 2 19 '21 ,0: 20 16 1 21 " 10.5 -2 HI 10 1 13 «-:3 17 .1 19. 4 Snow 1.0 crit: Hain gain 7.5m.m 2.0 3 ram oderi.ch towx sP r Harry Cudmore of Holmesville, who- is fortunate to live on Bight' sandy land, took advantage of the spring weather the last few days to put in his vegetable garden and here is pictured sprucing up one of his flower beds. (News -Record photo) _\. _ New superintendent Board warts new bloo BY DAVE SYKES The' Huron County board of ' Education decided to advertise province -wide in seeking ' a replacement for retiring superin- tendent, Jim Coulter. Coulter made a surprise an- nouncement of his retirement at the last board meeting and the board° decided to review, the administrative structure before . recommending a replacement behired. The board was split in attempting to decide whether or not a candidate should" be selected from within the County or outside. They agreed on a motion to advertise . the position provincially with the- executive committee to screen the. applications. The committee will then present a short list of candidates to the board for final interviews. -: John Elliott suggested -there was no need to go outside the County adding that there are enough good people within the Huron system to fill the vacancy. Trustee Bert Morin disagreed claiming the system needed,, some } first column ne'W blood. "It's like marrying your cousin because you don't get any new blood," he said. "It is a good idea to get new blood into the position." Trustee Shirley Hazlitt echoed Morin's position adding that such a move would narrow the field even before they started seeking a replacement. Herb Turkheim said there likely were good candidates within the . Huron system but suggested that for a few hundred dollars of advertising money they. should look around. The first time the board had any input in hiring was when Peter Gryseels appeared -before trustees at a meeting. The board agreed they should continue that practice. Coulter, a superintendent with the board for 20 years, will retire June 30. He -is -5 . In--060--he--was a government school inspector for Goderich and Colborne, Hullett and McKillop Townships. When County school bo.ards were formed in 1969 he became the first superintendent of the Huron board. by jim fitzgerald Ncwp By ShelleY McPhee,_. Work is underway in . Goderich. Township to dr "aw up new plans for community hall and the toWsnhip council hopesto have the project he year Reeve Grant Stirling explained that Con Dign Construction, one of the contractors who bid on the original hall plans, are preparing a neva'' modified set of drawings for a township hall. Con Dign was the seventh highest of 11 bidders to tender for the first hall plans, which wer scraped by council when they were studying the first proposal. However, Reeve Stirling said that council liked Con Dign's plans for a smaller building and decided to have him draw up plans. The architect firm of Kyl'es,. Kyles and Garratt had -drawn the plans for the first hall, but council felt their fees were too expensive and decided to have Con Dign prepare the next plan. The original plans were rejected by council after it was decided that the construction of a hall costing over $500,000. was more than the township ns needed. The township also couldn't come to a satisfactory agreement with the Huron, County board of education on whose, property the hall was to have heenJ rated The new plans will .be for a modified version of the first hall and according to Reeve Stirling, will cost well under $400,000. The new plans will include council chambers and a clerk's office, storage space for old records, an. auditorium and an adjoining all purpose meeting room. The new hall will be built on township owned land behind the present township shed, instead of behind Holmesville Public School. Reeve Stirling explained that the New agreement signed for small hall, offices Board of Education wanted to use the auditorium of the township building is a school gymnasium and offered to clean the area as payment for using it: 'We figured the auditorium would be worth more than just cleaning up and.. we didn't think it was a fair shake," Reeve Stirling said. He also noted that council agreed that a smaller building could be adequately situated on the township's own land and won't be any burden to taxpayers for construction costs. Reeve Stirling felt that most people in the township are satisfied with the new proposal and the building will be large enough to use for municipal purposes as well as bring in some extra revenue through rentals. "Three years ago it looked feasible to build .a large complex," he said, "but energy and money have changed since then," • R ee-ve---girli ng—said--tlxat plans- for- the new hall will be completed within a few weeks and he hopes that the building will be finished by the end of the year. The final date for con- struction is March 1, 19.81 if the township is to receive any financial assistance from Wintario. The township's file is being kept open until that date and Reeve Stirling doesn't think there will be much problem getting grants since the original hall costs were accepted by W intario. Garbage dump to cost $100,000 By Shelley McPhee Clinton along with Goderich, Lucknow, Bayfield, Colborne and Goderich Township will be paying a Hard as it is to believe, summer officially gets underway this Saturday night. What, you say, summer doesn't begin until June 21. T Well, it. may at your house, but at our house, when the clock switches to daylight saving time every April, suddenly it's summer. The kids are up at the crack of dawn, and putting them to bed much before 8:30 with the sun up is enough to.... well, I know now why parents have grey hair. But seriously, the arrival of that extra hour this Saturday night (turn clocks ahead one hour) does mean a lot to the back yard gar- deners and doddlers, like yours truly, and it means the start of about five months of sane weather and the temporary reduction of those ever growing heating and hydro bills until October. And the last week in April also spells the end to another period of dread - the filing of income tax forms and writing of said cheque which is split by two governments who seem to waste more and more of it every year. Just think, now, if you ran a farm like they do the governments in Ottawa and Toronto, you'd do your spring seeding in December, and then hire a Royal Commission a year later to find out why it didn't come up! The Main Street Wit wonders what you thought of that mini - Conservative budget introduced by the federal Liberals the other night. 14e wonders, too, why we bothered to get everyone all steamed up and waste millions of taxpayers' dollars to. prove ab- solutely nothing. The Wit also wonders what good jacking up the tax ort"liquor, will do. He says that the local car lots may be devoid of customers, and you couldn't sell a house in town, even on a $1.44 sale, but the line-up doesn't get any shorter at the local liquor store! +++ This Sunday will see hundreds of avid canoeists flailing water up on the Maitland as the Clinton Kin- smen hold their annual canoe race. However, the Kinsmen are much smarter this year and moved the date back a couple of weeks, after last year's race, which proved to be a training ground . for "Arctic canoing" complete with blizzards and icebergs. Clinton's Monster Bingos will be back again tis year, according to Percy'Brown, after a meeting last week. The bingos will be held every Monday night, starting on June 9, and will continue until September 8. As • in past years, all the profits will go into the swimming pool fund which will be depleted sometime early this sumnmner when the new facility is completed, Congratulations to Bob Wilson of Brucefield who was nominated for best supporting actor at a Junior Farmer's Drama Festival at Waterloo University last weekend. Bob and his peers from the Huron Junior Farmers put on the play "The Dear Departed" at the Festival, but lost out to the group from Bruce County. In last week's column, I may have left the impression that the Optimists raised $2,000 from their recent pancake breakfast for the pool fund. Such was not the case. The club - raised several hundred dollars towards their pledge of $2,000. 1 was being a little "op- tirnistic." No, there wasn't a surprise wedding at Central Huron Secondary School last Wednesday, it was just Betty Konarski and Steve Colclough modelling clothes made by Mary's Sewing Centre for a fashion show. The show attracted several hundred people for two performances. (photo by Verne Sawyer) Council will consider street paving program Clinton council is taking some action in attempts to pave streets ir the northwest section of town. After receiving a petition signed by 62 residents of nthe area and hearing a delegation of over 25 council at their April 7th meeting,coupcil agreed last Monday night to have engineering done on North Street, . up to Cowper Street and have recommended that reconstruction be there done ir another year. -` Council had been concerned that they would not receive any financia subsidy from the ministry ..of tran sportation and communicatior (MTC) since North Street is only 3: 'feet wide for much of its length. At an earlier meeting, Reeve Royce Macaulay challenged the resident: along the street to seriously consider allowing the town the extra footage tc make this street the normal 66 foot width. Although council is hoping that they can obtain the extra road allowance they have been informed that the MTC will pay a subsidy on a narrower street, but they recommend that the required length be acquired: Council intends to carry out the engineering for the street this sum mer, but say it is financially im• possible to reconstruct itthis year. More for gasolinie Although no final decision wa5 made, some councillors are con. cerned over L... pi ,L.s of gasoline it Clinton. Clinton councillor Rosemary Armstrong ' asked council Monday night why Clinton drivers must pay, more for their gas than, other area towns. She noted that in Stratford, ga: is selling for 24.1 cents a litre; ir Goderich it sells for 24.7 cents a litre; and the least expensive gas in Clintor sells for 25.5 cents, while most if priced at 26 cents a litre. Councillor Robb Parr pointed out that Clinton gas prices are the same as those changed at service station! alpng Highway 401. Councillor Armstrong asked if council could bring pressure. on suppliers to lower they prices here and noted her concern over the business Clinton is losing customers, since people are going out of town to buy their gas. Councillor Chester Archibald suggested that gas is sold for less in some areas because the stations have a higher purchase volumn. However Councillor Armstrong replied, "We're a main artery for Highways 4 and 8 and traffic has always been heavy through Clinton and we get as many vehicles through here as there are in Goderich. 4. Council plans to consider the issue in more detail and Clerk Cam Proctor said council could make a resolution on the subject and send it to other municipalities. total of $100,000 to use the landfill site in Holmesville this year. Theoriginally agreed on price between the municipalities and site owner George Lavis was set at $123,000. However, Clinton councillor Rosemary Armstrong explained to council at their April 21 -meeting that therice has not actually been lowered, but $23,000 of the 1979. con- tract will be added to payments over the next two years. Councillor Rosemary Armstrong, Clinton's representative on the lan- dfill site committee, reported that the price for the1981 contract has already been set at $135,000 to use the site. She said along with increases, the $23,000 is split between these two years. Mr. Lavis originally asked for $170,000 to -use the site this year, but negotiations between he and the committee brought the price down. Along with the drop in the proposed contract price, Clinton will • be receiving a break this year in their share of the payments. The corn- mittee has agreed to a six per cent decrease for Clinton's share of the bill. Of the $123,000 contract the town will pay $25,000 and in 1979 they paid $17,000. In other business, council endorsed a resolution from Grand Bend -and another from Wingham which asking Ontario Attorney General, Roy McMurtry to increase -,_the level of provincial fines pertaining to - liquor and unnecessary noise offences. The fines for these charges took a con- siderable drop when new province - wide standards were recently ,in- troduced. In Huron County, . which includes Wingham, Judge- William Cochrane raised them back to their original levels, but council agreed with resolutions asking that they should raised higher throughout the province. Council also concurred with a motion from Dunnville which is asking the federal and provincial governments to establish a reserve fund to be used as financial aid for • disaster victims. Councillor Rob Parr . commented, "It will spread the burden across the province-as---u-niformly as possible. One way- or another the funds- will come from tax dollars. Councillor lion McKay opposed the idea and said, "I don't like these reserve funds ovr-which we have no control. The money could be used to other government purposes." - . In amending their zoing bylaw, council` agreed to in use the term retail food outlet, in Zone 6, -as op- posed to the word supermarket. Council is in the midst of altering the the Zone 6 regulations to allow food stores and felt°that the wording retail food outlet would be a more flexible term to use.. . A donation. of $200 was given to the Port Hope disaster fund. The area. 'received over $10 million in damages from flooding and are .requesting other municipalities to help raise fun.cls. A request for a donation from the Field -Springer disaster fund wa5. tabled by council. Clinton contributec $100 to them last year. ' At last the Clinton Public Library has a hot water tank. Council gavE approval to install the first hot water tank in the building at the cost of $200. Final approval was given on the completion of the first phase of renovations on the, town hall. a motion was passed giving Mayor Harold Lobb and Clerk Cam Proctor authority to sign the contract witl Cobrell Company Ltd. to make strutural repairs on the town hall at 2 cost of $-20,597.85. Mayor Lobb reminded council that the Shriners will be visiting Clintor and the Spring Fair will be held soor and hopes that many residents wil Turn to page 3 4.6 • 41 A traditional dance from the Netherlands is only one of the many per- formances put on by the Huron' Centennial School students in their special spring concert. The show which is on tonight (Thursday) celebrates. the International Year of the Child and shows the cultures and traditions of Canada and Other countries. (Newer4tecord photo) .