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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-08-03, Page 1•R visibility pro Seating problems on the new grandstand forceda work stoppage last week when it was discovered the track was not visible from all seats in the grandstand. These pictures show an eye level view of the track from points in the front and rear seating areas. From the middle to the rear of the seating area, less of the track is visible. The Goderich Sports Committee held a meeting Wed- nesday with contractors to propose a solution to the problem. (photos by Dave Sykes) _ Opposition stilltrying BY JIM HAG4RTY If word-for-word excerpt from three books in use in J-Iuron County high schools` are "too vulgar" to be printed in public newspapers, then. those • books .-shaulzin'-t be -taught to young people. That view was expressed last Tuesday night in Bayfield ata meeting of a group of Huron County residents who have taken the name "Concerned Citizens" and who have dedicated themselves to the task of cleaning up the literature being taught in the county's schools. A report on the meeting by Teresa :Courtney states that every weekly newspaper in Huron County was contacted and asked to print various word-for-word excerpts from the books being objected to by the group. Each of the newspapers, according to report, refused toprint the excerpts. The. "Concerned Citizens" also discussed what it considers to have been the- biased repui ting of the weekly newspapers which arose out of a meeting held at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton on June 13. The public meeting, at which members of the `Writers' Guild defended those books that have come under attack, was unfairly reported by the newspapers, according to the report. "Not counting the members of the Writer's Turn to page 14 • thederich 131 YEAR -31 THURSDAY, AUGUST 3,1978 30 CENTS PER COPY eed ,belt; ;tightening to payfor widening BY.JIM HAGARTY Goderich town • council fates some • belt - tightening in 1979, following its decision last week to go ahead with an $800,000 road im- provement project. Twenty-four young people from Neustadt,. Germany are currently on a 21 -day tour of Ontario. The bus>ioad"of German youth stopped off at the Huron Pioneer Museum oil Tuesday.. where Eva -Marie 'Wagner and Carsten Boeck - mann posed in front of the log cabin for a shot in a ".Canadian newspaper. (Photo by Jim Hagerty) At a special meeting • last Thursday af- ternoon, council gave final approval tO a'by-law" setting the wheels of the 1' cfield Road widening in motion. Ontario government grants will cover about $600,000 of the project's costs, but council learned on Thursday that Goderich will have to _ come up with $200,243. Clerk Larry McCabe told council that $45,000 had been set aside in this year's budget to cover the cost of work done -in 1978 and that the bulk of the expense, or about $157,000, will have to be raised in 1979. - But according to Clerk McCabe, -over -$100,000 . _was spent this year on special..purchases..which-- council will not have to make next year. He was hopeful that the saving of that money, along with restraint on other road projects, would see council clear to meet the Bayfield Road ex- pense. Involved in the total project, only part of which willnbe done, this year, is the streamlining of the intersection at Britannia Road and Bayfield Road, the widening of a section of Bayfield Road from two to four highway lanes, and the repaving of a two -block section of'' Victoria Street from Britannia to Elgin Avenue. A new sidewalk will also be built from Britannia Road up to the Suncoast Mall on the east side of Bayfield Road, and approximately 30 street lights will be erected on the west side. Council's by-law is- headed now for the ministry of transportation and 'communication (MTC) for approval, after which a call for for tenders will be made. ABOUT THREE MONTHS Works Commissioner Ken Hunter estimated that it would take at least'two to three weeks to get the MTC approval and about two more months before construction would begin. Councillor Bob Allen told council that it is likely only the sewer construction that would be accomplished this year. ' Hunter told council that the cost of the project will be reduced substantially because of a plan to remove about IS light standards from Huron Road and transfer them to Bayfield Road. Another 12 or 13 lights would have. to be bought, he added, to bring the number of street lights y up to requirements. Councillor Allen . expressed some concern that to move ahead on the project in an election year could „tie the hands of this fall's incoming council, but after checking with town solicitor Dan Murphy, Clerk McCabe told council tha�t, the project approval would createno legall problems for a future council. He likened it to any standard bridge contract, agreed to by a council in an election,year. Councillor Elsa Haydon repeated her disapproval of the entire project and called for .a recorded vote on the motion to approve the by-law, because, as she said, "I haven't. found any reason in the interim to charf`ge my mind, and for the consistency of my belief, 1 have to vote against it (the by-law)." ODD VOTE However, in the vote -that followed, Councillor Haydon approved of the motion, explaining that with two councillors missing from the meeting Turn to poke 14 • Goderich, Lions President Roger Turcotte formally welcomed a group of young people from all around the world last Friday as part of the Lions International Youth Exchange in- cluded a tour of Goderich and area. Mr. Tur- cotte met with the group on the steps of the Huron County Court House and is pictured above, extending greetings to, Nikki Smith and Terry Collins, both from Texas. (Photo by Jim Hagerty)