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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1976-12-09, Page 11Borg Warner - ma Despite Mayor Deb Shewfelt's an- nouncement last Wednesday that there would be no Borg-Warner plant in Goderich it,now appears that all hope of the industrial firm locating here may not be dead. After Town Council declined to accept the .latest Borg-Warner offer to nor-. chase, and the time limit on that offer expiring at midnight on November 30; the mayor said that it appeared "Goderich's loss would be some other community's gain." • Then Borg-Warner Vice-president D. M. Donaldson was quoted as saying that t he was still waiting to hearif Goderich- • • was interested in pursuing discussions further: Donaldson explained that ` Borg- Warner had indeed looked at many sites in Southern Ontario but said the, com- pany. was . particularly interested in Goderich and that the latest breakdown in negotiations did not necessarily mean the company would locate elsewhere. Borg-Warner official Dori Ainslie, who has been involved in ,the Goderich negotiations, refused to go on record en Monday with regard to the company's present attitude or position toward further negotiations. After a numberof telephone calls from the Signal-Ctnr, he fi-inlly admit*e l flint erich face y Blackout Hydro customers ' in residential areas of Goderich may face a 1.5 minute blackout sometimethis month if Ontario Hydro at- tempts to limit hydro con- sumption in the province .by ordering a :10 percent reduction in power use. ' Ontario Hydro announced a. he had received a letter front the Town of Goderich inviting..company representatives to meet with the town and officials of the Ministry of the Environment. He also admitted that Borg-Warner had replied to that letter but refused to disclose just what that reply contained. • Sources close to,.the parties concerned, indicate that such a meeting has been Called for"early. January, after the new council takes office, but no final date has been. announced. • There is also no. in- dication as to whether or not representatives from Borg-Warner Will • attend. It seems likely though that the yes and mayb Ministry of the Environment have agreedto send representatives. In an interview on Monday, Mayor Deb Shewfelt agreed that it might still be possible to attract the •company to Goderich after all and said that he was calling a meeting of the • Industrial Commission this week. The. primary objection when council turned down the latest offer to purchase involved the possible sewage output,just how it would be -treated and who would pay for that treatment, • If porg-Warner agrees to met with the council and representatives of the Ministry of the Environment, discussion is likely to center on the possible in-, elusion of a clause to the agreement under which Borg-Warner would agree to treat all sewage so that the effluent . meets Ministry standards for final discharge. Some councillors are concerned that the town might find itself paying for an expansion to the town sewage treatment plant if such -a clause is not attached to any agreement. There have also been expressions of concern from councillors over what. the .town would have to spend to service the. plant site in terms of water mains, power, sewers"and roads. Mayor Shewfelt has said _that the company had indicated a meeting such as the one now being organized would be pointless because the plant's sewage output in future was not known. • Borg-Warner vice-president Donaldson was quoted in the London Free Press • a •few days later as saying that the company would be interested in ' a meeting if it would settle something. •According to other sources close to the negotiations, the Borg-Warner attitude" has been somewhat beligerent since.the latest council motion not to sign the. offer to purchase and it remains to be seen whether representative of the company • will in fact attend any further meetings. the constructionof the .line . delayed, that project until September of 1979. Goderich Public Utilities Commission has been warned by Hydro that they it may be ordered to cut power back by 10 percent.. PUC manager Dave Ralston said Monday he • had been told by. Hydro that recently. teat a combination.` the utility may be phoned •and, of technical' problems, ' told to' cut • the power which unusually high - demand would mean that. the town caused by cold temperatures may face partial blackout. and continuing .low water. Mr. Ralston said the only levels brought on a tight way the 10 percent reduction' electrical energy, supply could be achieved is to turn situation. , • • the power off inone section of H y•d r o' s Nanticoke town for 15 minutes then turn generating station on the it on and black out another north shore of Lake Erie was portion. He said the town knocked out of commission would be divided into 10 •'recently greatly reducing' the areas, all predominantly generating capacity of the residential, and each area utility: Four, 5.00,000 kilowatt would be without power for a generating units at the site 15 minute period. are shut' down and aren't The • manager explained expected to be back m service - •that the. reason the residential • until January of 1977. •customers 'are 'being shut off is because' the blackouts will One .of the units is off line. because of a rotor problem .be between four o'clock -and and three are down due to *brittle conditionsin'steel used • to Supp rt the boilers. The brittleness is due to long term exposure to high tem- peratures required for unit to res •' operation. the ho __--•----•T'he---suppi-y problem._ _i S- compounded by the fact that water nt. one million kilowatts of water pum electricity are locked in at other.essenti ' t be affect seven o'clock in the afternoon and evening. The three hour period is the peak power consumption period of .the day. By limiting the blackout ential areas, industry, ;tali, the sewage plant, and the ng station and. 1 services will Lennox generating station cut' by the power west of Kingston because of insufficient transmission Mr. Ralston said the PUC capacity. The mainline from had reduced power flow in the station was originally Goderich before, but only by scheduled to be in service by five percent. He said the November of 1975 but ell-` utitlity had cutthe powtr flow tensive public participation in (continued on page 22). THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1976 Only 44.43% of eligible Goderich voters out SINGLE COPY 25e Bien Palmer elected deputy Eileen Palmer ITTIMOrthe deputy -reeve's seat when Goderich voters went to the polls on Monday, defeating Leroy Harrison by a small but confortable margin. The final count showed. Mrs. Palmer with 1,337 votes to Mr. Harrisen's 1,038: Forrfler reeve Stan Profit led the polls as he was. returned to office as a councillor with 1,777 votes. Mr. Profit was followed by Dave Gower with 1,711 votes, Elsa.Haydon with 1,659, Bob Allen with 1,640 Don Wheeler, a newcomer, with 1,426 and another newcomer John -'Doherty with 1,044. Joan Van Den Broeck with 947 votes and Ben Graham with 691 failed to gainelection to a council seat. Former Goderich mayor Harry Worsell had no problem- at .ail—t-eppin-g -the- pol1s for Public• Utilities Commissioners. He led the way with 1,941 votes. Ben Sheardown . was. number two in the . PUC polling With 1,496; Herb Murphy,a new contender; drew 1,184 votes and Jim Peters, a councillor during the last municipal term, Supporters trustee contest for Huron County Board of Education in Colborne, Frayne swamped Keiffer 23 votes to one. Robert Jewell led the way with'''3'99 votes as Colborne residents • votedfor a new council. Also :elected were William K. Bogie with 334 votes and Russell Kernighan with 320. Grant McPhee was defeated, only polling 154.- Meanwhile 54.Meanwhile in Clinton Don .Kay was rolling to an easy victory in a three way contest for Mayor gathering 889 votes to Harold Lobb's 493 and Terry 1VLcGuire's 131. Royce Macaulay was elected Reeve by a con- fortable margin as he drew $31 votes. Contender Jim Hunter *as favored by 534 reeve voters while Bud Kuehl received the support of 133. Mrs. Dorothy. Williams upset incumbent KJ. Cooke for a seat ,as trustee on the -.Huron County Board of Education. She polled 984 to. Mr. Cooke's 853. Robin Gates, running.for the same position, was supported by 428.. The Huron Perth Separate School Board race 'in Clinton 1' showed Vince Young well out ahead of Gordon Crabb 63 votes to 28.: - Ernie Brown led a long list - of council hopefuls wit/1.1,067 votes. Ray Garon drew 938, Roy Wheeler 812, Ron McKay• 784, Mrs. R. Armstrong 580, Wayne Holtzhauer 578, Frank Van. Altena 569,„ Murray: Holmes- 520, Helen Tench 399 and John Bean 148: EILEEN PALMER grabbed the final. seat with 1,146. A 1975-76 .commissioner, Bruce Ryan, was *defeated -- With 1,106 and newcomer Bob Cornish came in at the bottom of the poll -with 855 votes. In a contest to represent an area encompassing Goderich, •Goderich Township and the Town of Clinton on the Huron Perth Roman Catholic. Separate School Board, in- cumbent Vince Young barely held on to.'AiS .seat as he defeated contender Gordon Crabb by only 33 votes. Young tallied 236 votes and Crabb 203. Young actually won the contest in Clinton as Crabb. had •totalled a small lead by the time all votes were counted in Goderich. ' Goderich Separate Scholl- supp, rters gave Eugene. Frayne a clear majority over Oscar Kieffer in -the run for trustee on the Huron County Board of Education in Huron North. Frayne. tallied 257 votes in Goderich,to Kieffer's• 45•with much the same spread in voting carrying across t•ie remainder of the 'electorai`. `-- Best estimates show ,that 44.43 per cent of the registered voters in Goderich. turned out to cast their ballot on Monday. - In Goderich Township, only candidates for school trustee positions,. both Public and Separate, were on .the ballot. There Separate, : School supporters split their vote almost equally between Crabb and Young, giving Young 20 and Crabb 19. Those figures were included in the final count of that contest shown above in the Goderich .returns. Incumbent trustee on the Huron County Board of Education John Westbrook managed to edge' his con- tender Shirley Hazlitt 174 votes to . 106 - in Goderich Township but<When returns from neighboring Colborne Township were in he had been. defeated. Final count in that contes ,showed Hazlitt with 374 votes. and Westbrook with - 358. Only 319 out of 'a possible ' 2,200 voters in Goderich Township went to the polls bait Colborne it is estimated 1 hope •`u On Is looking. This young hent could not resist the temptation to sample some of that 55 per cent of the resident tM e g the strings of popcorn adorning the Christmas tree 'tithe 1Viunicipal Day Nursery. The tree, electors cast their vote. was donated to the nursery byi the Maple Leaf Chapter ICIY'IYJ. (staff photo) • In the Separate School Goderich's new town flag .was officiallydedicated in a ceremony in front 'of Town Hall last Wednesday.- Despite cold weather and snow a number of local residents joined delegations from the elementary schools to take part in the dedication. The flag was presented to Mayor Deb Shewfelt, by Judge Frank Carter and then hoisted atop the recently. installed pole by W.E:'Elliott. (staff photo.) Musical- support for last Wednesday's flag dedication in front of Town Hall was provided by the Goderich and District Collegiate Institute Ba d.•In addition to presenting the flag to the town, through Mayor Deb Shewfelt, flags were also presented to . the local branch of the Royal Canadian Legion and to representatives of each of the. elementary schools in Goderich. (staffphoto) • y uy Hl1Yc�l1_3i':! • h l 9LY1Y�!