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Clinton News-Record, 1984-10-24, Page 1L. J V /w CENTS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 24919 Gala celebrations set to re -open town hall CLINTON - After more than 30 years of debate, expense and question, restoration work at the Clinton Town Hall is complete. The occasion will be honored with a weeklong schedule of events, starting Saturday, October 27 and running until Saturday, November 3. Controversy surrounding the century old town hall began brewing before 1953. Bandage repairs were made to the muncipal offices for three decades, until 1982 when town council voted to proceed with a complete restoration of the town hall and library. The result is an impressive municipal centro, new police station and renovated library. Completion of the project will be celebrated on Saturday, October 27 when a 2 p.m. ribbon cutting ceremony will take place at the front doors of the town hall. The ceremony will be held outdoors, if weather permits. Hundreds of local citizens are expected to join in the ceogrnony. As well,. council has sent out more than 139 invitations to special guests and government officials. They estimate that over 120 will attend. Dignitaries expected to be at the ceremony will include John White, Chairman of the Ontario Heritage Foundation and former treasurer of Ontario. He will be involved in the ribbon cutting ceremony. Other special guests will include: Michael Shoreman, assistant deputy with the Ministry . of Tourism and Recreation; Melanie McLaughlin, area representative for the Ministry of Tourism and Recreation; Michael Cavanagh, area representative for • the Ministry of Citizenship and Culture; Huron -Bruce MP Murray Cardiff and Huron -Middlesex MPP Jack Riddell. Rev. Norman Pick from the Ontario Street United Church will represent area churches and Sharon Cox will represent the Huron County Library. Also attending.- will be • os Ventin from Simcoe, along wi architects Catherine Smale and Kevin Church. A Insurance raised ByWilma Oke DUBLIN - Concern about the costly awards made to persons injured in accidents, some well over a million dollars, prompted the Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board to increase its liability insurance policy at a board meeting in Dublin. In the event of a serious accident such as one involving either a board -owned automobile, or a non -board -owned automobile, or a bus accident or a critically injured student in a school gymnasium mishap, the board upped its liability policy from $5, million to $10 million at a total cost of $762.00 per year. The board renewed through Leeson -Killer Insurance of Stratford all its insurance policies for another year beginning October 2, 1984, at a renewal premium of $22,796, up from $20,350 last year. The Board.willrespond with a submission to a request from the Commission on the Financing of Elemen'iary and Secondary Education in Ontario. This brief, 10 copies of it, must be in the Commission's office by January " 31, 1985. The trustees gave no indication of what proposals may be made: At a special board meeting on October 29 representative from Gilvesy Construction will also be present. Former Clinton councillor, mayors and representatives from area councils are also expected to attend._ . Following the 2 p.m, ribbon cutting ceremonies, public tours of the town hall, 'library and police station will be available until 4 p.m. There will be balloons for the children, a public reception, and free cider. Grand > Re -opening Day will be further highlighted with a local entertainment Variety Night. The restored second floor auditorium will see its first audience in more than 30 years on Saturday, October 27, when a variety of local entertainers take part in a two hour performance. Break dancers, step dancers, pianists, vocalists, comedy mime, guitarists and a few surprise acts will highlight the concert. • The show begins at 7:30 p.m. and the doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are available from the town office, the News -Record, Commercial , Printers and the recreation office. Quantities are limited. For the remainder of the week, the Town Hall Steering Committee has organized an extensive line-up of events and displays, designed to appeal to all interests and ages. The remaining seven day program features a host of activities including: Sunday, October 28 - Community Church Service and Choral Collage. Monday, October 29 - Arts and Crafts Day. Tuesday, October 30 - Community Day. Wednesday, October 31- Children's Day. Thursday and Friday, November 1 and 2 - Heritage Days Show. Saturday, November 3 - community breakfast, film festival and CHSS Cabaret. A souvenir brochure gives all the details and times of these events. Be sure to get a copy. The brochure also obtains a two page evaluation form. The'steering committee • councils are fed up with sea gull.,s d drop it WEEKLY WEATHER 1984 1983 OCTOBER 16 20 12 14 3,.. 17 15 9 13 4 18 16 2 14 0 19 21 10 9 1 20 15 7 10 - 2 21 16 8 12 0 .a 12 7 9 2m i Rain 27mrn 14m MOIONam 119THYEAR . NO. 43 After a two year absence, a lot of money and a lot of headaches, Clinton Council retained to the Town Hall building on October 15. The restoration of the century old building nears completion and the municipal offices moved back to their permanent location last week. Mayor Chester Archibald opened the October 15 council meeting by saying it was an, "auspicious occasion to be back in the renewed town hall and its very fine facililities." Public tours of the hall, the library and police station will be available after the Grand Opening ceremony to be held at 2. p.m. on Saturday, October 27. (Shelley McPhee photo) hopes that people will complete it an off at,the town offices. Members stress tlult r,,,,,f 4,,s ,ray public co-operation is important and will be appreciated, to .$10 million the fate of Immaculate Conception School in Stratford may be made. That night at 8 p.m. at St. Michael's School in Stratford, the board will hear the report of the Board Accommodation Review Committee. This committee in early September was given a report by the Community Accommodation Review Committee which was formed in May to investigate the possible consolidation of Stratford's five separate schools. The enrolment statistics and projections were examined and parents and ratepayers interviewed through a survey and public meetings. The Community. committee recommended the closing of Immaculate Conception separate school, leaving four schools, St. Michael's, St. Aloysius, St. Joseph's and St. Ambrose in the four quadrants of the city. Now the whole board will hear the report from its Accommodation Review Committee on Monday night and briefs from ratepayers on the situation. Immaculate ConceptionSchool opened in 1923 and has an enrolment this year of 134 students. A professional development day will be held Friday at St. Michael's School on` Physical and Health Education. Downie Township, Council is fed up with sea gulls and they,are asking _other Ontario municipalities to join in the fight against the nuisance birds. Clinton and Bayfield Councils have supported a motion from the Perth County municipality which asks the the provincial government to remove Ring Billed Gulls from the protected species restrictions. The Downie motion stated, "these birds are increasing at an alarming rate and are a scavenger type of bird, they are decreasing the chance of survival of many other races of birds that are much more appreciated." It -continued, "These gulls are invading our lake fronts and beaches and polluting. our water sources and invading our farm. communities, destroying and feeding on farm produce and destroying the natural compost of -our agricultural land by feeding on countless numbers of worms, and polluting the streets and parks of many or our urband centres in search of food." The bird is a protected species, but the resolution requests that this protection be lifted. It asks Minister of Environment Andy Brandt, the Premier of Ontario and opposition parties to lift the protection limitations. Avid bird watcher, Clinton Mayor Chester. Archibald, said that the Ring Billed Gull should not be confused with the Herring Gull, found in this area. The Ring Billed Gull is a smaller bird, and can be distinguished from the Herring Gull by its black bill: Teresa Raithby appliesthe plaster to Luanne Erickson's face dur- over their eyes and insert straws in their mouths so they could ing Stephen Oliver's Theatre Arts class at CRSS. Before the plaster breathe. The plaster remained on their faces for 20-25 minutes. could be applied, students had to Vaseline their faces, put tin foil ( Anne Narejko photo) Common to the . ocean coastlines, the Ringed Bill Gull is moving inland, Mayor Archibald said. He called them a "vicious bird that could conceivably destroy Herring Gulls." Clinton Councillor Jim Hunter said that he favors wildlife protection and was originally Opposed to the Downie resolution. However he compared the gulls to Clinton's pigeon problem and - decided that other municipalities need protection from nuisance birds. Courlcillor John Deeves couldn't agreed entirely with the motion. He said that gulls take grubs out of farm fields and keep beaches clear of dead fish. Bayfield'Council was divided on the issue, but passed the motion by a three to two majority. Clerk Pat Graham informed council that the gulls were blamed for problems with skin ailments of beach goers this summer. Many people, complaining of itchiness, went to local hospital for treatment. It was suggested that lifting the protection ban on the birds would enable the ministry to take action. Councillor Reg Wilson commented, "I imagine it would leave the ministry open to do something." Reeve Dave Johnston reminded council that no statistips accompanied the Downie Township resolution. He noted, "It's easy to go to the end of the pier and say, `look, there are more gulls this year'." • Bayfield Council passed the motion, as did councils in Clinton and Tuckersmith Township. Natural Resources Minister Alan Pope reported last week to daily newspaper •media that he was unaware that southwestern Ontario municipalities were adopting the resolutions. - Hesaid the problem had not been drawn to his attention. He believed that removing any species from the. protected list would be a joint federal -provincial decision and promised to investigate it immediately. Rabies test harmless, ministry officials say 'HULLETT TOWNSHIP - A Londesboro tibiotic have been placed in the baits and area farmer has expressed his concern with that problems occur when over 3,.000 the rabies bait drop test recently performed milligrams are injected into a cow. Then a by the Ministry of Natural ' Resources withdrawal period of 60 Jiours isnecessary. (MNR). "Tetracycline is a very common an - Don Greidanus questioned the safety of tibiotic but we're using it as a marker, not the antiobiotic tetracycline used by the , an antibiotic," said Mr. Johnston. ministry as a marker to test the success of Bob Ferguson of the Walkerton office of the liquid rabies vaccine approach. Mr. the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Greidanus said the antibiotic is used by Food (OMAF) contacted a veterinarian farmers and has a warning on the label aware of the project and was assured the directing the user to keep the bottle out of levels were too low to cause problems. the reach of children and specifies a "They do not consider levels high enough withdrawal period must be observed after to be detected in the milk," said Mr. use on a lactating cow. If tetracycline is Ferguson. detected in the milk, it can't be shipped. Huron County medical officer Dr. Harry The farmer also said one of his children - Cieslar said he did not have any information had previously managed to drink a large that tetracycline would damage teeth in amount of the antibiotic used for his children. "As far as I know, it (tetracycline) livestock. A doctor warned Mr. Greidanus would not cause a problem to a child's, at that time the child may lose teeth and teeth." subsequently two front teeth had to be TI a teeth of a younger child could be removed. marked, said the doctor, but all children of "I can't see how the department of health school age have been well warned. - has not taken an analysis on the packages The antibiotic is "extremely unlikely to do before being passed to the public," he said anything. It is not as harmful as some on October 15. chemicals farmers use on a day to day "Too many packages have been dropped basis. on my farm (he was supposed to have 17 of "I think it's basically a good program." the bait packages but found 20), so how do I 'Mr. Johnston said bounties are effective know there isn't more of the drug in the to reduce over population of wildlife species packages than there's supposed to be?" " but not for rabies control. The virus affects Mr. Greidanus said the video tape shown too many species for a bounty to be effect to school children .says the packages have tive. been sweetened to encourage animals to "The bounty question has been around for bite into the package. He suggested that years but it doesn't answer the whole with a child's natural curiosity some of the thing," he noted. packages may be tested by youngsters. He added that MNR hopes to control the Health expenditures should not be used- rabies virus in foxes and skunks, the two against rabies, said Mr. Greidanus. He primary species carriers and noted that believes"hunters should clean up the wildlife rabies can't be completely eliminated with a population, just as livestock herds must be vaccine. destroyed to eliminate certain diseases. "You have to break the cycle of diseases." Mr. Johnston said the initial study of the Dave Johnston of (MNR) said that the rabies bait test seems to be positive but levels of tetracycline used are not high ther^ have been problems with crows. An enough to cause problems with lactating evaluation will take two to three months to cows. He said 100 milligrams of the an- complete.