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The 16th annual Wingham Midget Hockey
Tournament .kicks off this weekend, with
opening ceremonies set for 8:30 p.m. Friday
in the Lockridge Memorial Arena.
The first hockey game goes at 5 p.m. Fri-
day, with-Teeswater taking on Brussels in the
D division. Howick faces Blyth in another D
game at 6:45, and action opens in the C
division at 8:45 p.m., following the
ceremonies, With a same between Wingham
and Durham. -
Saturday and Sunday are devoted mainly
to AAA hockey, climaxing with the cham-
pionship game at 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Two
second round D games will also be played on
Sunday. (For a complete tournament
schedule, see the sports section.)
Introduction of the D division is a new
development in the Wingham tournament this
year, and should add greatly to the local fan
interest by bringing in teams from many of
the Surrounding communities. To keep the
tournament to 32• teams, which organizers
feel is a manageable size, the A division has
been eliminated this year.
Tournament action will resume next
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Ti,�uruday, March 20, with games in the C and
D divisions, continuing on Friday, Saturday
and Sunday with B, C and D playoffs. The
championship garnes in those three' divisions
all will be played on Sunday, with the D
finalists squaring off at 1 p.m. The B cham-
pionship game will be played at 6:45 p.m. and
the C finalists will meet at 8:30 to determine a
champion.
There will be a number of new teams in the •
PUC will spend on safety devices
The Wingham Public Utili-
ties Commission will have to
spend some money on new
safety equipment this year. It
was . reported during the
PUC's short meeting on
Thursday that due to Bill 70,
additional equipment will be
needed for employees.
Manager Ken Saxton out-
lined a few necessities such as
a safety belt, ice guard and
slide -rail trolley for tower
ladders. One .company has
already forwarded
correspondence to the com-
mission stating' that the
devices, could be purchased
through them for a total of
$1,460.
The recently passed:Bill 70
deals with occupational and
health safety.
Regarding the collection of
sewage bills, the. PUC has
signed its agreemenit with the
town of Wingham It states
that tiie9 comirri0ti 'will
coiiltin (e 'ectii's tote' bills;"
but a fee of 70 cents per bill
will bei charged to the town
and that money will be
Morris Twp.
hires road
superintendent
Morris Township Council
hired a new road superin-
tendent Monday afternoon.
Lloyd Michie of RR 4,
Brussels, was engaged . flair
$5.00 per hour plus mileagd
and- $25 per month for
bookkeeping. Mr. Michie has
agreed to supply his own truck
for transportation and a
township radio will be in-
stalled.
His employment will start
immediately, subject to the
approval of the Ministry of
Transportation and Com-
munications.
There were nine ap-
plications for road superin- •
tendent in Morris and eight
applicants showed' up for
preliminary interviews on
Monday.
deposited in . a separate ac-
count.
Chairman Roy Bennett and
( om•missioner Rod Wraith
were among, the 1,400
delegates, representing
electric utility commissions
from across the province,
attending the 71st annual
meeting of the Ontario
Municipal Electric
Association (OMEA) on
March 3-4.
The association is the
spokesman for more than 320
municipal utilities throughout
Ontario, the commissioners
and councillors of which are
elected to operate a
specialized municipal service.
They represent more than two
million residential, com-
mercial and industrial
customers served by the
municipal distribution
systems, who consume two-
,1th the
e many
ns.
teams
tournament this year, particu1arJY:
addition of a D•divjlSio10,
familiar sweaters in the Other= #
The AAA division will feat
from Toronto and three. from i.,.igan, in
addition to Collingwood, Waterloo.and' Owen
Sound. ,, �, -
, Playing in the B division willbertleams from
Listowel, New Hamburg, Walkertf$'Exeter,
Goderich, Borden, BearrlsvllilCOnd. Kin -
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cardine.Y�,
The C division will feature, ; ��addition to
the Wingham Lions, teams. from Durham,
Saforth, Burford, Shelburne,.,, Mitchell,
Stayner and Port Perry
The D division will -brim toget
from Teeswater, Brussel , Fii1
Mildmay, Tiverton Zurich +afnd
thirds off the electric power in
Ontario.
Delegates to the two-day
annual meeting, held at the
Royal York Hotel, were in:
volved in discussions on a
number of issues that have or
will affect their consumers.
Topics ranged from the "cost
of power" to the use of "off
peak" power and the effect of
Daylight Saving Time on
energy conservation.
Choi
er teams
11t, Blyth,
.. more.
made
to lin' .ups
in tourney
A few 'changes have been
announced in' i1ie. schedule for
the Wingham .Midget Hockey
Tournament, which starts this
Fr
Iniday. Game. 5 Saturday mor-
ning, an ;'AAA team from
Windsor. *swill replace the
Michigan) ` ` Bulls against
Waterloo'_:and in Game 6 the
Royal Oak, Michigan, team
will ' replace the team from
Fraser.
Tournament passes are now
avaiilable'at:the arena office at
a cost of $8:00 for an, adult,
$4.00 for a'$tudent or $2.00 for
a child. Daily tickets are $2:00
per adult, x'$1.00 per student
and 50 cents: per child.
ACCEPTS AWARD—Julaine Adams,.. captain of the Wingham Junior Girls' Ringefte
Team, accepts the championship trophy from Dr. Bray after her team was victorious
in the Junior Girls' Ringette Tournament, held in Winghaip last Saturday.
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Spring , courses at . Madill
Three spring courses will be
made available at F. E. Madill
Secondary School, Wingham,
starting Monday, April 7, and
Thursday, April 10, both at, 8
p.m.
Basic knit fabrics and ad-
vanced knits will be taught by
Mrs. M. Divok of Clinton and
beginner's golf will again be
offered Mondays. John More=
land of Wingham will be the
instructor. Further details on
the courses are available from
the school at 357-1800.
Nearly 300 area residents
'participated in the just
completed program of
evening courses held at the
Brussels Public School and the
Wingham high school this
winter. A total of 19 courses
were well attended.
Named vice president
of Ontario association
rk: Dave Wenger, managing
editor of The Mount Forest
Confederate, was named vice
president of Ontario Weekly
Newspaper Association when
that group met in Toronto on
the weekend. The association
represents over 200
newspapers . in the province
which serve communities
from several "hundred to
thousands.
The first woman to be a
director and president of the
organization, Jean Baker;
Pearce, who publishes The
Alliston Herald, turned the
gavel over to Bill Poirier of
the Grimsby Independent for
the coming year.
OWNA not only acts as a
common voice for community
weeklies across the province,
but is also a group kauying and
warehousing operation and
provides ongoing education
for those in the weekly pub-
lishing business, recognizing
their achievements in annual
awards.
David has been involved in
seminar planning, in
developing a provincial ad
vertising sales arm for the
association and in the overall
business of OWNA as a
member of its executive
committee.
Single Copy. Not Over Ole
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HEIR=ITAdE WINNERS—These fur students at East
Wawanosh Public School had their projects judged best
in a Heritage Day contest sponsored by -the. Belgrave and
District Kinsmen Club. Graham Taylor was second to
Sharon Swartzentruber in the Grades 4-6 competition,
while Andrew Walsh was first and Karen Dunbar second
in the Grades 7-8 contest. The Grades 4-6 students made
posters on the heritage theme while the senior students''
wrote essays. Dave Medd was the teacheqr in charge of
the project. The Kinsmen presented bookslto the winners
and all participants got Heritage Day badges to wear.
n agrees to procee+
reassessment under Section 86
In a move which w, uld
• eventually bring lower tIxes
for some, with correspon-
dingly higher taxes for others,
the town of Wingham is look-
ing at updating its assessment
rolls.
Atits meeting Monday night
council agreed to ask for a tax
study of the town, the first step
toward reassessment under
Section 86 of the Assessment
Act.
The reassessment is in-
tended to iron out the
inequities which have crept
into the property taxes and to
make sure each landowner
pays his fair share. However it
stops short of a complete,
market value, tax reform. It
reapportions the tax load
within a property' class, but
does not allow a shift in the
balance of property taxes
from One class to another.
Not all homes have in-
creased in value by the same
percentage over the years,
.Floyd Jenkins of the Huron-'
Perth assessment office ex-
plained to council, and this,
coupled with a provincial
freeze on assessments, has led
to the inequities in sharing the
tax burden.
Now it has. been left up to
municipal councils to decide
whether to proceed with a
limited tax reform. "You opt
for Section 861and the freeze
is off," Mr. Jenkins told
council. "You don't opt for this
and•the freeze is on." '
He said there are about 1,200
properties in town, divided in-
to residential. commercial
and industrial classes, with
some' vacant land and other
special classifications.
The bulk of this, some 900
properties, is residential, and
the assessment office has
calculated that of these 216 (25
per cent are over -assessed
and pay'ing more than their
fair share of taxes. On the
other hand 250 (29 per cent
are' under -assessed and
paying less than their share
Of. 94 commercial proper-
ties, 41 per cent are currently
over -assessed and 18 per cent
are under -assessed.
As a consequence the people
paying more than their share
have been subsidizing the
people . paying less, Mr,
Jenkins explained. •,
He' said that for residential
properties the median assess-
ment is about nine per cent of
a property's market value in
1975. Propertiescurrently
assessed below this rate would
be brought up, ^ while those
assessed above it would drop
back.
"Taxes may change from
very little to a hell of. a lot," he
told council, but he added that
in general the reassessment
program has gone over quite
well. Eighteen of the 26
municipalities in Huron
County had opted for a Section
86 reassessment by the end of
last year, he reported, and the
.increase in assessment ap-
peals has been "hot at all
astronomical".
He said his office deter-
mines what the correct
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assessment should be by using
1975 market values and the
condition of the property in
1978. His staff has been
making periodic inspections
throughout the cotinty and
erery property in Huron \has
been assessed at least three
times since 1990, he reported.
Once the assessments are
brought to market value they
would be adjusted at intervals
of no more than three years
and no less than two, to keep
the inequities from creeping
back, he added.
He noted that -while coun-
cil's request for a tax study
sets the town on the road
toward reassessment, it still
has the chance to change its
mind. The next step will be for
the assessment office to come
back with a chart showing
what the effects of reassess-
ment would be within the
various property classes,
although individual properties
would not be specifically
identified.
At that time council could
Hearing adjournment postpones final
ecision on fate of Cruickshank Park
Although the town pf Wingham is back
virtually to square one in its attempt to
rezone a portion of Cruickshank Park for
seniors' housing, it is in no immediate
danger of losing the promised apartments.
.Following the adjournment of the Ontario
.Municipal Board hearing last Thursday.
Daryl Kreuzer of the Ontario t-inttcieg Cor-
poration promised the project "won't be
compromised at all" by the delay.
The postponement isn't a good thing, from
the ministry point of view• he said, because
construction costs will continue to rise
However the OHC is still committed to the
project and will continue to renew its offer do
purchase the land as long as, the town is
willing to sell.
We're still completely ,for it "
Mr Kreuter did hint though, that an un-
favorable ruling • el the hid to place the
apartments m the park could jeopardize the
project
The housing ratirporatrun »would rev sew
the feasibility of the prole, r in its entirely"
starting with,r reassessteeie H .he need for
the apartments if the i '•11 ere to turn
dee() thy• 1 teoneee ! r -;, .
Asked whether the OH(' had even con-
sidered any other sites for the apartments,
Mr. Kreuzer said its agent),had looked at
the park and the old Lloyd factory lot, which
he said was too expensive Ile indicated the
ministry is still pinning its hopes on getting
the park site, which the t a k n has agreed to
se!! for ,,;,
,us, .,.ter a<,. r
The OMB hearing. which uas to have
considered objections to 'he town bylaw
rezoning the park site. as adjourned
Thursday morning at the request of the town
and with the consent of the lawyer repre-
senting a number of the nhlectors.
Chairman Edward Seahorn told the group, -.-
of people gathered for tho M,»armg that.there
was no point in going ahead with it. since the
hylaw' in question amends the town's
comprehensive zoning bylaw which itself
hasn't yet received OMB apprma•1.
He explained the town now intends to
proceed via a free-standing hylaw (not
dependent on the zoning hrlaa' and an
amendment to the town official plan.
Noone nhlect and "it
doesn't inwill anylose wayany takeright stoway from your
positron of objection", he promised. Onee
the proper steps hay cr Hen taken the matter
will come hack 1,• !lie i il\1}1 and the hearing
will be held at that
He promised the h ;ircl \kill do all it can to
expedite the heorm
Gary f)av'risnl head „I 'he county
planning department -.Aid i' should he
poetbl.. ,.; • ithin six
weeks Before !ha •+ , ,t c of 'he amend
ment to the official p,•a,, u� he circulated
in the newspaper ,Inti a puhlii meeting must
be held
Pat Barley inquired kkhether, if half the
people in i„°ti li signed d per it ion opposing rile
development In the» park the Apartments
could still he allowed Ihnrr
Mr. Seaborn tn,lci her a petition is fine to
choy.• the attitudes ,if pati'lllle r low n hut it is
more important to hake the people them
selves come to the hearing as V,1tnesses,
Mrs. Bailey explained she doesn 1 Oppose
the apartments, but dnesn t eeinl them hulls
in the park
James A Currie -told the hearing officer
he has reason to belie%n that both the official
plan and -Zoning bylaw for Wingham have
been compromised by the a !inns nf council
since tneir passage. However Mr. Seaborn
said he wasn't in a position to hear evidence
On anything not specifically related to the
park
"1 don't particularly want to get into
that•" he said Such evidence should have
been brought forward .at the hearing on the
comprehensive zoning bylaw last fall, or
Mr Currie could pursue the matter with the
OMB through his solicitor
Wingham council had hoped to avoid the
adjournment of the hearing by giving two
readings to a new, free-standing bylaw
,rezoning the site during a special meeting
Wednesday night, which was also attended
bs. members nf the planning board.
However an agreement to ask for the
adjournment apparently had already been
reached hetweeethe solicitor for the town
and the solicitor hired by a group of ob-
jectors Consequently the solicitor for the
objectors was not present at the hearing.
Mr Seaborn noted the delay will allow the
town to finish passing the bylaw as well as
make anx necessary amendments to its
official plan ,and the OMB can then hear
hoth ,at. the same time
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decide not to proceed, or it
could carry on, at which point
the assessment officewould
notify individual landowners
of the proposed changes to .
their taxes. A series of open -
house meetings would follow,
giving ratepayers a chance to
discuss or appeal 'their re-
assessments.
Pub. meeting •
is set for
Turnberry plan
A public meeting will be
held March 20 to discuss the
second draft of the. Turnberry
Township secondary plan. The
meeting is set for 8 p.m. at the
Turnberry Central School.
A previous meeting held last
fall to go: over the first draft of
the plan produced a number of
suggestions and requests for
changes. Since then the town-
ship council has been working
with -its planner to incorporate
these and other changes into a
new draft.
Councillors are hoping for a .
good turnout at this ,meeting to
help them decide whether the
second draft is better suited to
the desires of township
residents. Copies of the draft
are being distributed to rate-
payers prior to the meeting.
MARILYN MacINTYRE
Marilyn, , daughter of
Grant and Marie Mac-
Intyre of Wingham, grad-
uated in December from
the Marvel School of Hair-
dressing, London, She
wrote her provincial ex-
aminations in February
and paced with !---tors.
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