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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-12-05, Page 1Plaza goig up but tenants secret Construction of the two shop. ping plaza developments is progressing gradually without problems, according to Bert Alexander of Suncoast Estates, and Gord Smith, vice-president of Rockledge, Properties Ltd. The sej t~ic tank system has, been• -installed and approved at the' Rockledge site, , on Huron Road, east of the railroad.„ tracks, just outside the town limits. Mr. Smith said the weeping tile bed system was completed w Monday; and work is underway to pour 1,000 feet of cement for the plaza walls. He said that work is coming along smoothly, and will con- tinue through the winter. There is no deadline to meet,' but,he' expects construction to be com- pleted for next summer. Tenders are being accepted until December 10, for the next phase of _ construction, which will include the erection of steel beam's and the roof. Three tenants have been signed for the plaza, but Mr. 11 Smith said that the .names will not be released until. the new year. Suncoast had not picked up their ,building permit for the construction sf footings and ,s foundations at press time? '•Building .Inspector Roy Breckenridge said he expects that Suncoast will get the per- mit by the end of the week. Bert Alexander said that soil tests have been completed on the site, and res;alts were positive. "On the surface it, doesn't look like much, but it afl hakes a lot of time", Mr: Alexander said. •He said the building permit would be picked- up shortly. Construction up to ground level will then get underway, im- mediatetg. A section of the plaza, in -- eluding the A & P food store, is scheduled to be completed June 30, 1975. Mr. Alexander announced the signing of a new tenant, but refused to offer any details,. McKinley suggests sugar beet industry be revived Tb reduce the price of sugar, R.E. McKinley, MP for Huron - Middlesex, has suggested that the government change Canada's' sugar trading pat- • terns, „or revive the sugar beet industry in southwestern On- tario: In the- House of -Commons last Wednesday, Mr. McKinley, asked Alastair Gillespie, Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce if -•he forsees any. changes. "Canada's trading patterns with Cuba in particular have already changed very dramatically, I think last year, something, like 47,000 tons were imported by Canadian' com- panies from Cuba. This year I think the estimate, is very •close to 97,000 tons," Gillespie said. • { da fl - •b a to -1 27,.YEAR-49 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1974 SINGLE COPY 25c Municipality jays recount He' did not mention if these changes would reduce -the price. Mr. McKinley then asked. Minister of Agriculture, Eugene Whelan if he and his""cabinet ' colleagues" had' reached a decision regarding ' the re- establishment of the sugar beet industry in southwestern -Ons tario. "If the price of sugar remained at the present level, at least some of these funds could be left in .this country to 'help the., country in his and in my particular district. Could we have a report on _ the minis'ter's 'progress in this regard?" - McKinley asked. . Whelan . replied," We ,still have ongoing meetings, and a paper is being prepared for my colleagues in government. Library puppet show free. for little ones A Christmas program for. children three to six, featuring a puppet - show, games and stories will be held 'by - the Huron County Public Library, December 14.' ' The program will be; at the Goderich library at -11:00 a.m. Marg Bushell and Barb Graham will be the puppeteers, and Betty MacKenzie wil b the storyteller. ' . • It will, - also be held in Seaforth at 1:30 p.m. and Clin- ton at, 3:00 p.rn. Librarian Bill Partridge said,. "We're trying it,out to see how it goes. If there's an interest, we'll have more children's programs in the new year." Recorded vote sends county report back to committee - to A 29-22- recorded vote of Huron • County councillors " showed that members were not • in favor of hiring a planning trainee at a salary of $8,500 in place of a qualified planner as • previously 'agreed. That vote rejected the recom- • mendation of the planning board , submitted ''to county council ••by its chairman James A. Mair, and sent the matter back to committee for further deliberation. Present indications are, though, that many county coun- cillors :believe the county should engage another ° qualified planner at whatever cost is necessary to expedite the preparation of secondary plans for all municipalities. Estimated salary for such a person, is between $16,000 and $18,000 annually, In speaking to the recommen- dation of�� -his committee, Deputy -reeve Mair said that the planning board recognized it would take some time to turn a trainee into a qualified plan - her, but he said the board had found any qualified applicants' - expeced a much more substan- tial salary than the county was prepared 'to pay at this time., A salary range of ..$12,000 to $13,000 had been suggested. f "I the board were to adver- tise again the position of a qualified planner, salary ranges i would have to be increased and this in turn would mean shlary uspe-ct count error n deputy -reeve race It isn't all over. Not yet. The battle for the post of deputy - reeve was a hard fought battle, in Monday's municipal election. in Goderich, but it isn't over , yet. There 'is going to be a recount. According,- to Town Ad- • ministrator Harold Walls,. the returns of the Deputy - .Returning Officers in several. 'polls in the municipality just do not balance. There are discrepancies in each .of the top becoming. elected -'as Goderich's three council posts - mayor, foremost citizen. He defeated reeve and deputy -reeve but his only opponeht, newcomer due to the closeness of the con- Harry Bosnell by a vote of 1620 test between Bill Clifford and - to 1195. Eileen Palmer, the deputy• Early 'returns here showed reeve's votes are the only ones Bosnell '`in the lead or that will he recounted, challenging, but about halfway At tonight's towrr council through the evening, pit was . meeting, Mr. Walls will seek. a evident Shewfelt was stretching resolution of council requesting his lead and would be elected. a recount at the municipality's, , Some observers on_ expense. expense. This final cOunt is ex- `• Tuesday idicated that the race. pected to take place under the was 'much closer 'than was ,ex - supervision of .,Judge Francis pected between the experienced Carter. within 10 days •of the . Shewfelt, and the rookie resolution being passed. Bosnell. There was even, some It was a tight race right from feeling _ that the controversy - the start between Clifford and during 'the election campaign Mrs. Palmer, ` candidates., for concerning the conflict of issue deputy -reeve.: All Mduday, matter, . may have cut evening a's• the reports came. in, Shewfelt's lead, considerably.- first from the advance poll and Stan, Profit, the newly, elected then from the, various pos Reeve of Goderich, had little who tallied their results and difficulty on his first real elec.. went home, Mrs. Palmer main- .. tion, His opponent Harvey tained a slight edge over Clif- Johnston, defeated two ,years ford. ' ' agc,p .,his bid• to become a town Then in al evening, the councillor, received less than gap began to close and- when . , one-thirdthe amount. of votes the last 'vote was counted, the for Profit. The final tally was score -was 1368 forBill Clifford Johnston 627, Profit 2132. and 1352 for. Mrs. Palmer - a - spread of ' only 16 votes. One viVid indication of the clove decision was the fact that 145 voters just would not or could not. decide between the can- dilates. There were' 14,5 voters 011tnnarke4 ballots turned back lit three a ted Resid!,nts have' until Dec. 13 s todecide. Citizens of Goderich have un- - til December 13 to send in ob- jections to Bylaw 48, which zones the town's business area -as general commercial with residential uses permitted. It • replaces Bylaw 34 which .local . , bus.inessmen objected to because .it was too restrictive. The area' is bounded by Nelson Street. on the. north, Vic- toria' Street on the, east, Elgin - ` Avenue on the south, and the area to the back property lines on the west side of South ,and North: Streets. • Y,i:fi,k`r"-:T 6G' A kiss for the wiiiiier Mayor elect, Deb Shewfelt, received .a congratulatory kiss from his First Lady, 'Barb Shewfelt, after his 'victory Monday night. Mrs. Shewfelt watched the election'rest4lts closely, hoping for the victory that the voters gave „her husband.° (staff photo) - lie new bylaw which is similar to - the original Bylaw" 1.9 of 1958; also ,calls ' for :,the Colborne Street district to remain residential, - and :the Montreal Street block to be designated restricted commer- • cial. Market Street . will be zoned residential: -Bylaw 34 . carne under criticism at the recent OMB hearing into the ,plaza question when, local businessmen objec- ted. They said it would con- strain commercial activity in the town. Bylaw 34 was later revoked as part of ' an agreement between the town, the businessmen and the :Sun- coast'devetopers, to be replaced. by Bylaw 48. - irelramee, not planner ranges of our `present staff would have to' be reviewed again," Mair pointed out., Plannin•g director' Gary Davidson said the planning " department now has an assistant who does much of the - ground work toward the preparation of secondary plans, but he said only .a qualified. planner ,can compile this data and prepare proper plans for county municipalities. He poin ted out . that student help during the summer of 1974 had resulted in, the collection of research materials for seven municipalities and it is ° this material the planning depart mentis most anxious to convert" into secondary plans. • Reeve Everett Mcilwain of Goderich township told council it should not get the idea that a planning trainee would hasten the preparation or much- needed secondary plans. „ "Possible there is a place' for a trainee but just don't get: the, idea that we're going to get a planner with tllce qualifications of say, Nick Hill," pointed out reeve McI•Iwaih.. Mr.' Hill is a qualified planner already in the county planning department. Deputyrreeve of Goderich township, Gerry Ginn remind, l council that ground work such as a trainee would do, could he done by summer students. Last summer, the government sub- sidized •these students at the rate of 80 percent. He ad- vocated hiring a qualified plan- ner for the fulitime post', "It is foolish husiness'to hire someone you probably. don't need when you can, get work done .at • an 80 percept subsidy by hiring summer students." Ginn told council. '`Municipalities are waiting fpr. secondary plans. It is not good' business to •hire someone :we don't need' at $8,000 a year •if we can hire someone we do need a at $16,000." Stephen township deputy - reeve Cecil Desjarine of the planning hoard said that if council is prepared to readjust'. the salaries of all the present planning hoard staff, it could hire a qualified planner at "what the market demands" as -Ginn had suggested. He recom- mended, however, that the trainee he retained: "I -think you'll 'find a place for him," .said Desjardine. Reeve Deb Shewfelt of Goderich.poin.ted out that if the° - •17 municipalities still ���a{citing for se'c'ondary plans were each' to hire their own planning con- sultant at an average- cost of $6,000 each, it -would he expen- sive •as well. "It is a good business ap- proach t'o call for ,a qualified person who is .capable 'of han• dl•ing the full responsibility of planning,"' said- Shewfelt. Reeve Charlie Thomas of . Grey • • township warned that,, training someone in the depart- ment might "burden•' the present staff" and even slow down the planning process in Huron.. , • • "It is foolish to spend $8,500 (Continued on page 14 Country Playhouse gets 22,000 .federal LIP grant Robert McKinley, wt,..p. Huron has informed the Huron Country Playhouse that their application a $22,000 L.I.P. grant had been successful', Theproject will undertaketto create a permanent'' theatre facility at Grand Bend and will employ` eight workers for five ,,months. • ' , The 'first -phase of the project will he concerned with disman- tling several old Karns ih the area. for use in the permanent Playhouse building° A group of interested persons attended a special ,building meeting on Sunday, , December 1, hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ivey at The Mill, Benmiller. Present were Mr. .and Mrs• Roger Martin, Exeter; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Amos, Parkhill; Mr, and Mrs. Bill Schlegel, Grand Bend; Bill 'Cochrane, R.C. Goderich; Mr. and Mrs. Mel Geiser, Exeter; Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Waters, Parkhill; Mrs. Beecher .Menzies, Clinton; Bill Heinsohn, St. Thomas;' Mr, anti Mrs. .Benson Tuckey, Exeter; Mrs. Robert Wilkins; London.; Mr. and Mrs. Len t•::: (ns, Sar-, nia; Mr. and Mrs. Seri Wood, Clinton; Mr. and Mrs. Jim Gib- son, London; and Dr, and' Mrs. D.A Ecker, Exeter. • Building plans for the new Playhouue were presented by Managing Director, 'James Murphy, and were en- thusiastically endorsed by the large group of Playhouse sup- porters. Dayid Gower, a veteran of Goderich Town Council, headed' the polls'for councillors ' with 1991 votes. He was followed closely by• Dr. Jim Peters, a dentist who wits making his first run for inunicipa•1 eounetl The popular an as we ' , as rte reaecPeters °"ioltd a xepeetabler ballots' and two cancelled or 1936 on his first time out. declined ballots. • A In the -contest for mayor, 1 .e1 The only lady couaeillor` to'• Deb Shewfelt succeeded in be elected from a field of four women and eight men is incum- bent Mrs. Elsa Hayden' who collected 1731 votes from the 2882 voter's who went to' the - With thanks Special- . Christmas items throughout this . week's. Goderich Signal- • .,Star and .all December issues, appear 'through •the courtesy of the Conestoga College Jour- nalism program, in Kit- chener,,and Bob Trotter, program 'cd -ordinator. polls Monday. She polled well ahead of her associates,, from. last year's cOun:cil, Firank Walkom with 1338 and Leroy Harrison with '1316. The only other newcomer to he elected• to council is Robert Allen who -received 1115 votes t(•'outinued" an. page 14 The people's choices The two -overwhelming favourites at the polls in Goderich were Stan Profit, elected for reeve, and Harry Worsell, elected for Public Utilities commissioner. The two pofitidians,,received ,,more than 2600 vRbtes each with the former mayor taking a slight margin over the reeve. (staff - photo) , •1