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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-11-14, Page 1Candidates' forum on Channel 12 TV Candidates running for Goderich town council will have a chance to expre,,ss their views on television, Nov: 27 or 28; when a forum will be held on Channel ° 12. It has been organized by the Goderich Rotary Club in co-operation with Bluewater Cable Televasiom The candidates will be asked several, questions and then have the opportunity to express their plans, if elected. "I've talked to a few candidates and they think it's a good idea," said P. D. King, director of social events at the Rotary Club. All candidates will be informed of the forum. They are also planning to have television coverage on elec- tion night. -r Deb Shewfelt Harry Bosnell Mayor's chair sought by two Harry 'Bosnell, a retired executive, decided to stand in opposition to Deb Shewfelt for the mayoralty of Goderich just hours,: before nominations closed Tuesday evening at 5 p.m. The retired Dominion Road's purchasing director handed -in his nomination form this week and forced an election for the post vacated by retiring Mayor Harry Worsell. Mr. Bosnell cited the poor business practices of council for his decision to run. He feels council mus t improve its policies on. planning and budgeting, ,and said there is a definite need, for more careful spending of the•tax dollar to give ratepayers better service without higher taxes. A possible conflict of interest where Deb Shewfelt is concer- • ned, also encouraged ° Mr. ® mayor bark Bosnell to seek election. He feels that unlike Mr. Shewfelt; he is entirely disassociated f lir' ii'V� poS f from business, groups andser• - •vice clubs and indicates that Mayor Harry Worsell isn't this removal from outside in-' just ready' leave the terests should heli him to serve municipal scene yet. In fact, his without bias., `name will be back on the ballot "Complete removal from all this December 2. He is running conflicting interests is impossi- for the position of Public ole," added Mr. Bosnell,`' but Utilities Commissioner .in there is a strong possibility they Goderich. All four present com- (missioners have qualified as well. They ' are Bruce Ryan, George Filsinger, W.J.., Mills and Ben Sheardown: A sixth candidate will be Harry Grape. Tbe ,7M '0 crt- MM�N�ry ,!SNA S ASS©G� 127 YEAR -46 • 0 assn The winter racing program for Goderich Raceway was coming down to the wire at last Wednesday's town council meeting when council pulled up short of a final 'agreement. Ralph Jewell, president of the Trotting Association, presented council with an agreement between Loren J. Cassina's company and the Association along with a Xwo- day deadline -for council's ap- proval. The agreement between the London man's firm, Bluewater Racing Associates, and the Goderich Trotting Association was termed the final effort by Mr. Cassina to establish a working relationship to operate pari-mutuel racing in Goderich' with the town's approval. Council examined the agreement and told 'Mr. Jewell that it would be impossible to can be reduced iderably." accept without the approval"of cons Business practices are the town solicitor" and they nothing new to Mr. Bosnell. Retired only two • years, he worked for the. Dominion Road Machinery Company for 26 years,, rising to the position of purchasing director. He took' a 'course in business ad- ministration during the war years and has made use of the knowledge ever since. He served for 10 years on the hospital board, two of them as chairman. He also chaired the hoard of directors of the Huron -Perth School of Nursing, for two years. Mr'. Bosnell says there are no real issues in this election but points out a .number of areas he thinks need improvement. He noted an apparent lack of com- Cont.inued on page 16 Three shopping ceptrds? At presstime Wednesday, the Town of Goderich and its citizens can look forward to not one, not two but three shopping centres in Goderich, There's the Suncoast m.ali on Highway 21 south; there's the Rockledge mall on Highay 8 east; and there's ,Shoppers Square • already established downtown in the heart of Goderich. • Goderich merchants have named the downtown natural shopping area and have laun- ched a special promotion to draw attention to the county's opin�'unique Shoppers Square. In the meantime, both Sun - coast and Rockledge developers are busy preparing their sites for construction., " ° Suncoast spokesman Bert - Alexander told the Signal -Star Wednesday morning the preliminary work continues with a July 15 opening date in mind. He reported that 90i and P store plans are presently un- der final revision and will be ready in the near future. He ad- ded that : A and W will - definitely be locating on a cor- ner of the mall in time for an opepjng next summer. Gord` Smith, spokesman for ' Rockledge, said• Tuesday evening. the site of that mall is "staked out". He said he expec- ted the septic tank and weeping tile bedconstruction to begin Wednesday. No new tenants were named although it was announced two weeks ago that Dominion Stores would be the grocery store locating at the Rockledge mall. ,,,111..,.6, C ', THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1 4,J1 974 SINGLE COPT:25c 5c . . Mayor and council unimpressed by contract could not promise an answer by Friday. They advised"the Trot- ting -Association that the year round racing would benefit the town but there was too much at stake to rush into a contract. Mr. Jewell warned council that failure to meet the Friday deadline may puna, project in jeopardy. Reeve Deb Shewfelt echoed Mr. ,Jewell's comments saying a decision herebasically meant racing or no racing for Goderich. Councillor Leroy Harrison said he saw no reason for the emergency and had no -concern for mea ng the deadline. He felt thaif Mr. Cassina was that serious 'about the matter he would have attended . the council meeting. Mr. Harrison acknowledged the large profits that could be made , on the project but said that this did not swing his•thinking because most of the money would be going to London. Recommend pay hike for 1975•-76 The administrative commit- tee of Goderich town council, yesterday. recommende'd to council, salary increases for the mayor and councillors. Mayor. Harry Worsell, chairman David Gower and councillor Eileen Palmer,' proposed::an increase of. $1,000 per councillor to $2,500, and a $2,000 increase for the mayor to $5,000. Coun- • 'cillor Elsa Haydon disagreed. "I wouldn't want to contribute to the general trend. of :in- flation. In some . cases, coun- cillors don't do enough -work to justify $1,500." She said she would accept an increase of up .to 10 percent. The committee also recom- mended an increase for out -of-, town travelling allowances, for council. The reeve, deputy - reeve .and councillors would receive $15 for meals '$.35 for a hotel and $10 for expenses (tips, taxi, parking). The driver would be paid $5 plus 20 centh per mile. The mayor would receive the same as above, and. an additional $10, if council ac- cepts the recommendation. The committee is recommen- ding that the land between the . . Southridge Acres „development and the Suncoast development, between South and Comrix streets, not be, considered as a boundary . street. Therefore,', the developers would The asked to bear the. ,total cost of services for the laneway, presently known as Beilby Street. t -s Mayor Harry Worsell ap- peared ruffled at the deadline placed on council and pointed out that council members had' gone out of their way on more than one occasion to meek Mr. Cassina 'who•failed •to show up.' Deputy -Reeve StarmProfit ex- pressed concern ewer the possible monopolization of Agriculture Park. He said that racing prohibited use of the -ball diamonds and soccer fields and if there was racing .several nights a week, the playing areas would .not be available for public use. Mayor Worsell agreed with Mr. Profit and asked Ralph Jewell.if he knew what-onights earl Mr. Cassina was planning to use• He said that if the London promoter planned Thursday and Sunday nights for racing then there would be no place for local ball teams to play• He said 'that council could not ask them to leave. K Ralph Jewell indicated that Mr. Cassina would be taking all the Sunday.'race dates he could get until Clin on� Raceway opened and then ie would be trying for two nights per week Stan Profit pointed out that no clauses in the agreement of- fered the town any..voice in the. activities at the track. He said there was no liability for the derision town if Mr., Cassina failed to meet the contract demands and said there wa ' no 'option for the town to terminate the contract if circumstances prevailed. "The man doesn't show up and then gives us an ultimatum for three days.,I think that ,is a bit unreasonable," he said. The agreement presented to council covers a period of 30 months beginning April 1, 1975 and ending September 30, 1977. The London company received the option to include the Trot- ting Association's, regular race nights in their charter. They agreed' to pay the Association $1,000 a month for the duration of the contract. They Q agreed to assume all wino terizing expenses and will offer the town insurance for liability and fire and .a ,performance bond for construction, • The company also requested an option to renew the contract at 'the end of the 30 months by giving written notice of their in- tention 30 days before its ex- piry. If the Federal Department of Agriculture,. The Ontario Trot- ting Association and the e Canadian Trotting 'Association do not approve a certain num- ber of racing dates for 1975 to rriake the company's operation feasible the agreement will become null and void. Beilby Street would be con- lis Gaming down! The,demolition of the original section of sidered .part of the subdivision h and the developers are respon- sible for sanitary `sewers; stan- dards 'and • light fixtures, t.o the ,town engineers' specifications. Block A, as shown on the proposed plan, must be retained and developed as a park, and the developers must develop the land in an orderly fashion. - .There is a snag in the plan, though. Suncoast does not vet want to develop their half,(the south side)' of Beilby Street. :the committee has recornmen- ded that' Southridge pay the total cost now, and when Sun - coast begins their development, they would pay a surcharge on top: of their building permits to cover their share cif the costs to the town .of Goderich, which will then turn the money over to Southridge. ro • The committee recommended that a special bylaw he drafted to permit the iircharge, at • proven cost of services. The committee also recom- mended 'that council donate $.10f) - to the St. •IoFin Am- - bulance. Don McKee John Westbrook Says school board is public business None of the elected officers of the Colborne Township Council will have to .face a vote .this year, since only one candidate ran for each post. The only question nthe voters of the municipality will have to decide is whom, they will send. to the Huron County Board 'or Education as,school trustee for Goderich and Colbgrne Town- ships. Two men are challenging each other for the job. Incum- bent John Westbrook announ- ced to the Goderich Township Ratepayers' meeting on Mon- day night that he will run, again for trustee and received op- position from Don McKee, who h stated his cause,, at t e same meeting. Mr. McKee, a resident of Benmiller, told the meeting that -he felt that education is the business of the taxpayer, especially parents and ,their children, ..and • that there was nothing too technical or 'ob- scure about education that the average citizen cannot readily understand. He said that the Board is supposed to represent the people but if the people do not know what their hoard mem- , bers say, how they vote or whether they are even atten- ding the meeting, then Tis Continued tin page lti rVictGjia ..Publio ~School is underway. Unfortunately,_ for t e • 'Itt01'Iq Experimental "open -area" classes in the Victoria Public School gymnasium will end. in the next few' weeks due to poor lighting and acoustics: The 75 Grade 3 and special, education students will be shifted to three portable classrooms, now on or- der. The gym has been par- titioned to form three areas, two for the special education classes and one for a combined Grade 3 class. `=They've been getting along okay, said Principal Don O'Brien, "but we just couldn't get enough light into it. Also, it i.5n�t built acoustically." The students were forced into the gymnasium 'near the end of September' 'when demolition of the original sec- tion of the school began.. The library has also been shifted to the• stage of _ the auditorium. students, three portable classrooms have been ordered and .classes are .continuing. - - getting portable classes The demolition and reconstruc- tion project will he completed next summer, at a cost of $74.4,243• One of the portables is slated to arrive this week. Definitely . one, and possibly the other, will arrive .next week, according to or two 'complaints," said • Mr. O'Brien. They will be set Up south of the school. Renting the. portables will cost "-$195 each, a. mont'h. "The kids have adapted very well. We've received' only one Huron County education direc- tor U.J. Cochrane. • The 12 other rooms in the newer section of the school have not been disrupted by the project and are carrying on as . before. Profit, Johnston -`race for .reeve Stan Profit will not go unop- . posed in his hid to became reeve of Goderich: Harvey • M. .Johnston, 114 Nelson Street E., has filed nomination papers with the town administrator and will run against Mr. Profit in the December 2 election. • There will he a two-way race for deputy -reeve as well with awn of this year's council mem- hers, Bill Clifford and Eileen Palmer, seeking etec . . Twelve persons will vie for- six or•six council seats in _Goderich • for the,1975-76 term. They are 'John P. Doherty, Dr. Jim Peters, Joan Van. Den Broeck, Kathleen Leamen, Elsa • Haydon, Harold Leddy, Dave" Gower, Rick Robertson, Leroy Harrison, Frank Walkom, Bob Allen and Agnes Bedard. Mrs. Haydon, Dave .Gower. Leroy Harrison and Frank Walkom served on this year's count•ili • A`tl others are new faces on the municipal election ,scene. - , Paul Carroll, who •said last week he expected to he a can- didate fore council, did not file his 'nomination papers 'at 'the town office. this week. His decision was based on the - .needs of his family as well s ' responsibility. to his teaching career. deliver anywhere! This transport truck is making an unscheduled stop' on the Huron Road curve, near the corner of stain Avenue and Cambria Road. Wet road conditions caused the truck t� skid over,.the curb, and into the guardrail. There was $300 -1 damage to the truck; driven by Ray D. Gollnitz, Shakespeare, Ont., and $250 damage to the ,guardrail. There were no injuries.