The Wingham Advance-Times, 1988-05-24, Page 1•••.'
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FIRST SWOON
Morris hires
• Student help
Jeff Pletch, a 17 -year-old F. E.
Madill Secondary School student,
has been hired to work with the
• Morris Township roads department
this summer.
The decision was made at, the
second monthly meeting of Morris
council.
Young Mr. Pletch, a Belgrave
resident, will start in June with his •
term of employment running for a 45
Minimum of eight weeks. Rewill be
paid $5.50 per hour.
Four other applications were
received.
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SOSIDE NURSING AWARII'at-'-'4,
rdtraltkithrgercises forth6erebiereredlt
• Norman fiayas, hospital executive dkectbr, Presl*,
Stevenson.
, Rit
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0 -winners Helen Rau and Alibe
oad renamed
apie Road '
Turnberry Township Council has
authorized a new name for the little
roadway_ in front of the Ken Sim-
mons' property on Highway 86. It
owrbe riown as
• Road"•
The Ontario Ministry of Tran-
sportation is placing road signs
throughout the arpa. this year And,
contacted township council recently
as no name had been assigned to the:y1
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-SrtrbiTtiftlia611
ROss Nickelson suggested the new
name.
The Wingham. Area Fire Board
has decided to follow the recom-
mendations of its ad hoc committee
and will hire a full-time chief for the
department which serves the Town
of Wingham, and Howick, Tur-
nberry, Morris and East Wawanosh
Townships.
At a special meeting last Wed-
nesday, the board made its decision
to go along with the committee's
recommendations, even though the
Town of Wingham had requested the
board not take action until after a
report from the Ontario Fire
Marshal's office has been released.
Wingham's request was presented
to the board by its representatives
Ron Beecroft and Dr. James
McGregor. Mr. •Beecroft, the
board's vice-chairman, presided at
the meeting in the absence of
Chairman John Jacques who was ill.
According to Mr. Beecroft, the
Fire Marshal's report could be
presented to a general meeting orall
councils at the fire hall on June L
Both he and Dr. McGregor repeated
the town's request and asked the
board to delay any action until after
that meeting is held.
Mr. Beecroft then conducted a:"
quick poll of board memberaftrithe;
reaction of their municiMities •
the ad hoc committee re ----
Turnberry ToWnship'
tative Doug Fortune saidtall
voted unanimously li favorbf hiri
a full-time chief.
Morris repr ntativ.
said his council, althOti
somewhat over, otaidi
44itile... fire chief
was "100 per cent for the repOrt".
Although his municipality held no
formal meeting, East Wawanosh
Township representative Fred
Meier said a poll of council members
showed all were in favor of the
report's recommendations.
Howick Township also accepted
the committee's report and agreed
with hiring a full-time chief,
representative Norman Fairles
reported.
•Dr. McGregor said he was "taken
aback" when he discovered the
board had released to councils only
one of two reports prepared by
members of the ad hoc committee.
He suggested that the second,
"minority" report should also be
circulated. -
"You can't always expect a -n
examining group to come down with
a unanimous report," he said.
(Cfntinuedon Page 2A)
VI/Ingham asks fire board
delay action .on:report •
Ate Town of Wingham wants the At a special meeting last week,
*bighorn Area Fire Board to put off council decided to ask the fire board
taking action on an ad hoc com- to wait at least until after a long-
mittee report which recommends awaited report from the Ontario
hiripg a full-time fire chief. Fire Marshal's office has been
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released.
Indications point to an early June
release of that report at a general
meeting to be attended by all
councils and the fire board.
As it turned out, however,
Wingham's request fell on deaf ears
as the board went ahead two days
later and approved the ad hoc
committee report, including the
hiring of a full-time chief.
Town council based its request on
information included in another
document, said to be a minority
report written by one or two
members of the ad hoc committee.
Generally, council was of the
opinion that by requesting approval
of the ad hoc committee's report, the
fire board was forcing the town to
decide without having all the in-
formation.
"We don't want to be stampeded
into taking any action," Mayor Jack
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