The Goderich Signal-Star, 1972-10-26, Page 1}
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THURSDAY,
TIBER 26, '1 972
• Marti COPY .
Council as
r.
Local Town Council decided
last Thursday evening• to begin
negotiations toward possible'
acquisition of Huron County
Jail. The motion, put forward by
Councillors Deb Shewfelt and
Stan Profit, was••heartily endor-
sed by their associates.
From a prepared statement by
„Councillor Shewfelt, it was lear-
ned that while the Museum of
Penology aspect would be ex-
plored•, plans would include
using a portion of the landmark
Minister of National Health and Welfare John Munro was
mainstreeting at Goderich on Friday in support of Huron
O Liberal candidate Charlie Thomas. Mr. Munro right, and Mr.
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Counci1 miffed??
I.�min�
A letter from the Goderich
Area Planning Board has,
questioned the 'action of
Goderich Town Council -, and
was greeted by some unpleasant
comments at the council table:
The letter was signed by Fred
Salter, secretary -treasurer of the
planning board and was as
follows:
"On June 14, 1972, a letter
containing a list of businesses
currently operating in violation
of the zoning bylaw was forwar-
ded to councll, At that time, the
planning board recommended
that letters be forwarded to the
respective businesses advising
them of their position.
"It was brought to the atten-
tion of the Planning Board that
these letters had not been for-
warded. In view of this the
secretary was instructed to write
council again -requesting these
letters be forwarded."
Councillor Stan Profit said 1,
that in his opinion, the planning
board shoilld be' informed that
council would handle its own
business in its own way'and in
its own time. He was assured by
Councillor Ed Giesbrecht that
any direction council wished to
give the planning board would
be appreciated bcx its members.
'Councillor Mrs,_.1•s.a Haydon
urged a less terse reply from
Goderich Town, Council. She
New manager
Pickett and Campbell Ltd.
announced this week the ap-
pointment of Al Scharlock as
the new manager of the
Goderich men's wear outlet.
Mr. Scharlock comes to
Goderich from Woodstock
where he has been manager of a
men's clothing' store for the past
four- and -one- half -years: He is a
native of Kitchener where he'
worked in the: men's wear
business for six years before
moving to Stratford where he
continued'his trade two years.
° The new manager is no
r stranger to this part of Western
.Ontario since, as an avid
boating enthusiast, he has sailed
out of -Bayfield for the past 10 '
years.
He is recently married and
has ,Ito family.
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Thomas, centre, chat with two Goderich residents outside the
Liberal Committee Rooms on the Goderich Square. (staff
photo)
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gained little support for her
opinion.
Council is already in-
vestigating one case complicated
by the fact that certain business
operators in the municipality
were not officially advised of
Rules for: t
Following the controversy
which carie after the issuance of
a building permit in a "D" zone
,by. Rey ::recke stridge; the town's
new building inspector, council
has . laid ' down some hard and
fast rules.
Members of council' agreed
Ed Bain
in
hospital
Ed Bain, a candidate in Mon-
day's federal election, suffered a
painful injury at work Tuesday
morning and may be
hospitalized until after the
voting is over.
Bain, an employee of
Dominion Rdads Machinery
Company Ltd., sustained burns
to his back and legs in an in-
dustrial accident at the plant
about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. He
was given first aid at the plant
and removed to Alexandra
Marine and General Hospital
where he was attended by Dr.
John Wallace. '
Just. before presstirne, it was
learned from hospital
spokesmen that Bain is "doing
as -well as can be expected".
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Huron County may ; get a
sports complex worth more than
a million dollars at Vanastra,
°the'formre GP... -Clinton; itwa
r' Bs
learned Wednesday.
The promise came Tuesday ,
night' after Rene Brunelle, On-
tario's minister of community
and social, services toured the
base facilities with Vanastra
developers Fred Ginn and' John
Van Gastel.
During the summer; the sports
facilities of theformer base have
been the interest, of numerous
groups from the local, provincial
and federal level The facilities
include a hockey arena, two
swimming pops, a curling rink,
a_ huge...gym,-.an_outdoor....track,.
football fields, baseball
diamonds arid an outdoor
shooting range.
Mr, Brunelle was accom-
panied by his deputy minister
Dorthea• Crittenden; Peter
Szego, assistant to the deputy
minister; Don Martin Executive
Director of the Community Ser-
vices division; Robert Sec
director of the Youth
Recreation branch of the 1 n-
tario government; Jack Long,/
possible zoning bylaw infra(;- :derstanding that his property on
tions. Cambria Road was zoned com-
mercial as outlined in an
Ben Graham of Graham Elec-
tric told the municipality's
building inspector • Roy '
Breckenridge, that it was his un -
he future
that Breckenridge be advised, in
writing, that all applications
for building permits which may
create problems with regard to
conflicts between the 1958
zoning bylaw, the .1970 official
plan and the proposed restricted•
area bylaw be referred to coun-
cil for consideration by the ap-
propriate planning -authorities.
authorities.
As well, a procedural manual
will be prepared outlining the
necessary steps that must be
followed before a permit can be
issued.
At a Goderich Planning
Board meeting . October 17,
Breckenridge had told members
he had issued the building pet: -
mit for Standrad Auto Glass
Ltd. "unknowing". He said he
had not been advised by council
that further development in the
"D"zones was "frozen".
Council has also agreed to ask
the Huron . County Planning.
Board to assist • with the
preparation of a 'secondary plan
for the general area south of
Bennett St. as well as the
preparation of -specific zoning
requirements of the Industrial
Park.
Further, a "deeming bylaw"
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:=>=iC g==tI - }tiC ti
Huron sports
complex pending
Program Consultant to the
ministry of Education; Don
Southcott, executive assistant of
Ontario. Ttea °
sttrer� ,,, a'titl'- ,H�ii'tsrt '
MPP Charles MacNaughton;
and Huron -Perth Separate
School Board phis. ed. con-
sultant, John McCarroll.
The owners. of. Vanastra have
been negotiating for some time
with the provincial government
to turn the sports facilities at
the former base into a sports
training complex for the youth
of Ontario.
Brunelle said that he was
very impressed with the number
of facilities and the good con-
ditions in which they had been
kept since the base closing last
January and promised an early
answer.
Vanastra currently has a
population of nearly 1,000
people and a bank, grocery
store, service—Mm and a
branch of Conestoga Com-
munity College.
There are presently two In-
dus ies operating at the
Vanastra and many' more are
promised for the near future,
Fred Ginn said.
agreement of purchase of sale.
He said he had not been infor-
med otherwise by the Town. He
has been operating his business
in the building since March 1,
1972.,
As well, it was learned that
Graham built an addition to his
business premises' without a
building permit. Breckenridge
stated ' in his presentation to
• council that Graham had made
an "effort to clean yard for
apartment tenants and neigh-
borhood.'' .
"I feel he ` is making every ef-
fort to clean the corner property
and give it a - pleasant ap-
pearance," Breckenridge repos
ted. "My personal view is that it
is six months late to try and en-
force Mr. Graham's moving."
The matter is still under
study by council.
Outline
"sale"
ierms
Although the_members of
Goderich. Town Council are still
' of the opinion that the Infor-
mation Booth located at the
' five -points : intersection was a
gift of ,Goderich Building Centre
to the municipality, a letter was
read in council last 'Thursday
evening signed. by E. Elliott of
Goderich Manufacturing (Sales)
Ltd., advising the terms under
which the company would sell
the building to the Town.
The. letter suggested that the
price of the building would be
$3000 plus sales tax, if ap-
plicable. The terms of the sale
Would be five payments of $600
plus carrying. charges with the
first payment made by June 1,
1973, and following payments
by June 1 of each year -.>hereaf-
t_ to_ J i 7
.un. 7 t
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the rate of eight percent would
apply from January 1, 1973. The
Townwould be fully responsible
for the building and to-ihsure it
for fire and liability. -
Councillors Frank Walkom
and Reg. Jewell both claimed
their belief that the building
was donated to the
municipality. -
Council will wait'for a recom-
mendation from the Tourist
Committee on the matter before
taking further action.
Wants volunteers
The local St. John Am-
bulance Corps is recruiting new
members from the community.
A meeting of the group is to
be held, Sunday, 'November 5 at
McKay- Hall. Member's must be
16 years of age or over. Persons
who have no experience will be
trained by St. John Ambulance.
Interested persons ,ares cor-
dially invited to join the group
next Sunday. '
for cultural and artistic pur-
suits,.
The. text ' of Councillor
Shewfelt's presentation follows:
"The jail is an historic land-
mark of unique construction, the
stone walls and building being
structurally sound.
"The Town of Goderich
would benefit , greatly from uses
of the jail, particularly from
tourism. Development of the jail
as a tourist attraction are many
and varied.
The ayes have 't
Well the, voting is finally over. Oh -no we r:'. ize • e'have that
Federal election still to come but vot ' • ' is comp, to on the
Sigrid!' Star Museum of Penology Survey and the Ay -,. have it
over the Nays 89 to 48"
The ballots were published in the Signal for three successive
weeks and voting rerr bined relatively strong throughout the 21
.day period. -
Readers were asked to indicate, by marking the. Yes or No
blank,, whether they were "In favor of a Museum of Penology
in Huron." The trend in favor of the project was -sot early,and
continued at about a two to one ratio until voting closed.
In addition to the actual markin; of the ballot many readers
noted additional 'corn men t on -the ballot or by attaching a letter.
If you do that next Monday rt's considered a spoiled ballot but
at the Signal Star the comment, of readers js 'always ap-
preciated.
p-preciated.
On the Yes side common notation was that the jail s.hould"lie'
sauved in any way possible. If the Museum of Penology -was the
answer then that was best. Others felt the museum idea should
be,,comhined with other projects at tho,,site to make a multi pur-
pose centre for the community.
•A number of yes voters indicated they .thought the ide- a ,
would he great for tourism. Still others suggested this was a
valuable way to preserve our past.
On the No side of the fence there were just as many com-
ments. if,not more, ,
"Why encourage morbidly sadistic minds?" one voter noted.
"i suggest a Retarded Childrens ands adults centre far work,"
another said. instead of 'just marking•the blank another voter
,scrawled "No Way" on the ballot.
Another no voter wantedto know why the "beautiful court.
.house " was not preserved.
Many voters on both sides of the 'question, though they were
poi requested to,.signed their names. •
The quesiicrn lir turning the former Huron County Jail into a
Museum of Penology still lies with County Council of course
but'apparentry if Coderich residents had their way the majority
would endorse the project.•
Floodplain mapping
to cost town little
Floodplain mapping in and
around Goderich is commencing
this fall under the direction of
the Maitland Valley Conser-
vation Authority. It is' going to
cost the town some mbney, .
although costs are not expected
to be excessive.
Total cost of the project in
this part of Huron''and parts of
Bruce will be $37,600 including.
$1,500 for aerial photography,
$12,300'for mapping, $20,000 for
engineering- and -$.3,800' .for con-
tingency.
A• letter from MVCA ex-
plained, the project as follows:
The Province of Ontario tias
approved this project and
authorized 'a grant of 75 per cent
of the estimated costs. The. Full
Authority will be levied 5 per
cent of the total costs, leaving
the levy to the benefiting
municipalities as 20 per cent.
The levy to your municipality
for any portion of the project
rill be based on the length and -
width of floodplain covered, the
number of obstructions (such as
bridges, dams) in the floodplain
and the definition or height of
the valley in your municipality.
"As can be seen, with only fif-
teen .miles of river valley being
covered and with twelve
municipalities participating as
well as the full Authority and
the Province, the cost to any one
municipality will not be ex-
cessive. "The special levy for the
work in your municipality in
1972 will be issued within the
next two months."
• "The
set up
theatre
exercise yards could - be
'to allow Tor outdoor
presentations, as in the
Fund begun
A preservation fund
has been started through
the contribution of a Lon-
don England Architect
toward saving the Huron
County Jail from destruc-
tion. The Architect, Ian
M. Leslie, sent the Signal
Star a cheque for 20
pounds this . week -in-
structing it be used to
`inaugurate apreser-
. "vation .fund": -the Signal
Star is holding the money
In trust and will do the
same with other con
,tributions until such time
as it is deemed
necessary to use them in
an attempt to save the
former jail:
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'past summer, and 11o04111y
visiting theatre grants would
use these facilities. The area is
large enough that more than
one 'activity could take place at,
any one time.
A portion of the building
could be made available as a
cultural centre t� display the
works of the many talented
local people. This has . been.
proven in Stratford where hun-
dreds of thousands of visitors
have been attracted each year to
the cultural activities in that.
community.
"Hopefully this would be
rounded out by the interest of
private enterprise establishing a
cafe -style restaurant suitable to •
the atmosphere.
"A Penology museum • with
assistance in the form of
displays from the province: • I
feel, should be in one portion of
the building,. The number of
visitors to the Pioneer Museum
has proved that people are
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Girls burn toilets
at town's arena
Boys are still bays, but accor-
ding to Bill Lumby, manager of
Goderich Memorial Arena, girls
are no longer girls. In fact, some
of the young ladies who frequen-
ted the arena last Sunday after-
noon behaved more like young
hoodlums.
Lumby told the Signal -Star
this -week that sometime during
Sunday's public skating time,
two toilet seats were burned in
the girls' washroom at: ,the
arena. One was reduced to a pile
of ashes; the , other was :twisted
- beyond repair.
As a result of this vandalism,
there wiil be no public skating
at the arena until the matter is
cleared up. Lumby wants to
know who is responsible for the
damages.:
"It shouldn't have to. b'e
necessary Co hire somebody to
stay in the washrooms' all year
round to keep order," stated
Lumby., "If we can't control this
willful destruction, then we' -ll
just wash out the public skating
all together."
The Sunday afternoon crowds
usually include people of all
. ages, Lumby said, He noted,
however, that the bulk of the
youngsters ' who • come td the -
'arena alone are between the
ages of 12 and 15.
"It is time the' people of this
town knew exactly what's going
on at the arena," said Lumby.
"This incident is just an exam-
ple."
Lumby suggested that many
„problems could beavoided as
well . if the Minor 'Hockey
coaches and managers exercised
more discipline over their teams
with regard to arena conduct:
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The new home of Standard
Auto Glass Ltd. in Goderich is
-rising—on °Highway 21 South,
The 3000 square foot outlet, in-
corporating five bays, is being
constricted by Ken Hutchins
° Construction Ltd..
Raymond .Webber,. _ .regional
manager of Standard Auto
Glass Ltd. founded in 1959, said
the new business will employ
four meta who will be coming to
'Goderich' with their 'fsnilies
from London, The company also
erects to train, four to six ad-
He also pointed out that
parents should insist that their
children go home after .the hour-
long hockey 'sessions are ended.
"If they hang around the
arena they are : just looking, for
trouble," co)nmented Lumby:
Once more, Lumby en-
courage i more parents to drop
into the arena from time to time
while ,their children arethere;
just 'to check on the whole
situation.
"It doesn't hurt," advised
Lumby.
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Advance poll
turnout
termed light
If the turnout at the five ad-
vance polis in the Huron riding
is any indication,• voter par-
ticipation in. Monday's Federal
election will be light.
Only 331 people cast ballots
at the advance polls' last Satur-
day and Monday compared to
474 _in the 1968 election, reports
Mrs. William J. Johnson, Elec-
.
tion Clerk for the Huron riding:
"Two-thirds of those who cast
ballots were students," she said
Tuesday. ,
The Huron riding has nearly
6,000 more voters than in the
'68 election. The breakdown of
the advance polls is as follows
with the 1968 figures in
brackets; Clinton, 68, (117);
•Goderich, 61, (117); Exeter, 69,
(76); Seaforth, 4'3 ' (65);
Wirigham, 90 (99).
ditional staff members during
their 'first year of operation.
The' brancit'in Goderich is 'to
be opened January 1, 1973. It
vi11. be managed by Allan John
son.
.In Ontario, the firm has a4
branches plus 140 mobile repair
vans. In addition to the
replacement of the glass por-
tions of automobiles, the court
pany does auto upholstery from •
the floor to the roof and can
completely replace the interior
of a burned out car. --
Standard also does interior
customizing and cleaning, puts
on' vinyl tops and convertible
tops- for cars and -boats,
At last Thursday evening's
'meeting of Goderich flown
Council, council agreed to
"receive and file" the correspon-
dence of the Planning Board
which had requested council .to
support motion that "the in-
terior side yard should be 20
feet and not gilt feet as shown on
the survey":
"1 think . G'oderich .is lucky to
have the firm locating 'here,"
stated Councillor Reg Jewell