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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1988-09-06, Page 171 gai ik FS 7 The Town of Goderich has requested broadening the in- vtigation into a proposal which *mid see the county administration Officesmoved out. of that town. However, Huron County Warden Robert Bell Called the request "premature" at the September meeting of county council held last week. Earlier this year the county's executive committee hired an ar- chitect to determine if the Huron - view home at Clinton could be R;ef- 'f rdablY renovated to house the county administration offices, now located at Goderich. T:eport, says Mr. 'Bell, is "as 'far as it's gone". He later added that-. renovating Huronview after residents, are moved to a -proposed new facility may be too expensive. "lf that happens, the whole thing is dead," Mr. Bell said. Goderich Mayor Eileen Palmer argued that moving the county of- fices to .Clinton could have drastic 'econl ie#_.implicationse-Sheeuur'geed county council to look at alter- natives, including persuading an Ontario government ministry to decentralize to Huron County and set up offices at the Huronview site. "The current feasibility study is a . lite bit slipshod, sin there are no terms-. of reference for the architect and, only one alternative is being looked at," Mrs,Palmer:saad. Her comrefts . echo those ex- pressed' at - a meeting last m i_th between the county executive co rimitee and Goderich's ad; ministration eo,Mraittee. "if and when a `decision is made.,; it willbe in the bestinterest of the county," said Mr. Bell. t"f' feel that concerns and 'presentations such as this (by the Town of Goderich) :are very premature at this time," Mr. Bell was the only one to speak at county council after Mrs. Pokier and Goderich Councillor Bill Clif- -ford,. _ chairrnan of the town's ad- ministration committee. He asked that the county+ hire a consultant to look at all alternatives.. "Every resident of ituron.conntY would be affented by such•a=Mee, " be -noted. race! MC ttit Cat* ,ss ern Ont�t its ..'war ` ee e en ttawy joined in Wingham by Members of area pro -lice - groups, as part of :a relay which then moved east toward. •istowe ands tchener where , they>;: expects to arrive somet tc (Tuesday). z The Life Line's .. - nd con- suu. Also,..4,11mineeting4furon-AWIL----wanct, Jack Riddell told council that ti nuedsr t despite space `shortages for court Re proceedings at the . Goderich an Courthouse, it s unlikelythe Ontario ru' attorney general would be wiles to SOLI pure hale the building; for at least SQMoi!ipr!.tifere t e*On w *Os� n fi F stan+G' Each •"l al received p% which"will organization tme s r each -he r,- �tia`teil to e� . mai c.0n�dlt e deadline for the Blyth Festivalto have its private, federal- and ederaland provincial funding in•`;place ':for -. the proposed $1:8 million .expansion has been extended by two days, to this Friday, Sept. 9. Lynda 'Lentz, festival capital project co-ordinator, has been notified that the federal grant pr'►posal is on the desk Of ?Jima MacDonald, • federal' ': com* inun`icat ons ministers: Her; reser. ,ea d. to lie'dolayed. beyoad'the y�� a,��y�� d1eii .. n-. Provincial jiff iccials-pave agreed to. extend their deadline to Sept. 9, to amt tlio federal reply. Local funddraising' hag been going exceedingly well, according to Mit. Lents Who says the fegilval should :have .OtielEdf of the total funding fromr.private sources in• place by.the leadliStiliis Friday. -. 'evenin 1� wqa m .Kiteheiier ' ere treat 4:mr�frii i mbelrn hospital and. ?a� epial, -released. 'Fmotorc we orti €pnrdii g to a spokesman for the Kincardine detachment of the On- Provincial Police, 16 -year-old Jason Hollta was the driver of a 1981 Yamaha Motorcycle which collided head-on with 4979 Chevroletiziriven by Marian Warren, 56, of Wate oo. tlie later Mr. Matta was eastbound on• the highway at 9.10 p.m. on Sept 6, say thh police And the Warren vehichz • le Was.westbdund when they collided: The youth was 1 taken by rrre to 11m and list _ifa1, where: he was -.stabilised, ised, ore ,g ng tra (erred t frLoniiolr." ;Mrs Warfeland a PanSetigei in her car, 82 -year-old Anne dCa'ii*:. r r Once 'a year, the Huron,,Soil and Water Conservation District of the Hdron Soil and Crop Imprsvemen Association honor's a faller for -efforts : in soil and water con.- servation. �hrs award is intended to recog- viae -practices ` which can be per formed onlocal farms and protect ;sodan water resources. Ali farmers in Huron County are eligible to be nominated for the Nor - Man Alexander Conservation Award. Nominations can be made by any Huron County resident and will be received at the Ontario Mini - Ken Saxton, manager Of the • Wingham Fublte lJtiUties Com.- I ` epterYi r color of Agriculture and Food office atCiittton until Sept. 30. A committee composed of winners from the, }th�ree previous years will do the judg^'ig•. The winner will be announced at the annual awards banquet in mission told t S he. January. mission :"meting that he has ved 10—applications for' a recently -advertised lineman's job *Oh die nth. • . A good deal of interest wag shown .in the i tion,, Mr. Saxton said, t t he hopes to &threw' down canbi and start interviews tom. He said he hopes energy :r can -be on the job by oath. WAAM(lf he Is nosi national the mad:. Ga Sharedsorisk mortgage rate is increased The Parin Credit Corporation recently announced that its interest rate on shared -risk mortgages awed atter Aug. has been i y y�eydw� to MTh :75�gnepr cent from the prrevious 'I .25 percent. hared -risk mortgages are funded b acombination of long and short. os. ay ii;