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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-06-15, Page 1Blyth Brunch LiLa'ary Box 2u2 Blyth, Int. NM 1140 Jan. 4 MYTH ---- COULDN'T WAIT TO_COOL OFF -Youngsters -linedup-pattenily _ ._the sweltering heat Monday afternoon. -However It wasn't too hot fora waiting their turn to get into the Wingham Centennial _Pool and out of little clowning around for the camera. GRADUATED Pamela A. Reid, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Reid of Wingham, graduated June 11 from Conestoga College ,f Applied Arts and Technol- ogy, Doon Campus, Kitch- ener, receiving her diploma in Early Childhood Educa- tion. Pamela attended the Wingham Public School and F. E. Madill Secondary School in Wingham. She has accepted a position at the Happy Face Children's Centre in Owen Sound, com- mencing her duties as a day care teacher on May 24. Average Huron PS teacher now earns $36,419 yearly Huron County elementary school teachers and the Board of Education have ratified the teachers' 1983-84 collective agreement. - Under the inflation re- straint legislation, salary in- creases are limited to five per cent and the only changes to the collective agreement are of a house= keeping nature.. Recognizing 'there was no choice on salary settlement, the president of the Huron Federated Women Teachers' Association of Ontario (FWTAO), Dixie -Lee Ar- buekle, said, "We appreciate the:fact that ewe :had the.,o . porunity to 'ally to" board." ..r... Both sides met several times and superintendent of Wenger publications win Canadian newspaper awards Four of the publications produced by Wenger Bros. Limited have been named as award winners by the Canadian Community Newspapers Association. The presentations will be made at the annual convention of the CCNA, to be held at Winnipeg the last week of July. The Mount Forest Confederate won third prize for general excellence in the Class 2 Broadsheet division, as well as second prize for best front page. Both The Confederate and The Wingham Advance -Times were given Blue Ribbon status, indicating they ranked in the top third of entries from across Canada. In the Class 4 Broadsheet division, The Listowel Banner was the third-place winner for best front page and second for best editorial page. The Banner also was named a Blue Ribbon publication. The Milverton Sun, another Wenger publication, placed third for best front page in the Class 2 Tabloid division, and third for best editorial page. The Sun also was a Blue Ribbon award winner. The Wingham Advance -Times was placed second in the best historical story category and Marion' Duke, editor of The Listowel Banner, received honorable mention for her entry in the Esso Journalism Award com- petition. Other award winners in this area were The Huron Expositor, Seaforth, with a second for best front page, and The Goderich Signal -Star, third in the best front page category, Class 3 Broadsheet. The Palmerston Observer took first place in the best front page category for a Class 1 Tabloid, as well as a Blue Ribbon award. SHOOTING AWARDS for Scouts were presented by Police Chief Robert Wittig to Paul Good, Ian MacKay and Mark Underwood last week. Paul won the Musketeer's Award, given in memory of Chief Jim Miller, with the top score in marksmanship, attitude and attendance, with lan second and Mark third. personnel Peter Gryseels praised teachers for taking a realistic approach,,WP the bargaining ludo std 'they,: realine liars were ffieStid dart request increased benefits.',- The enefits.'The ° new salary grid for teachers, effective Sept. 1, ranges from $16,230 per year Continued on Page 5 NURSING DEGREE Joanne Elizabeth Wood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Wood of Wingham, received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree at the convocation of the Uni- versity of Western Ontario on June 6. Joanne is a graduate of the F. E. Madill Secondary School and has accepted a Public Health Nursing position with the City of Scarborough. Legion branch honors chaplain Members of the Wingham Legion Branch 180 and the Ladies' Auxiliary honored their chaplain, Rev. John Swan, last Sunday by at- tending one of his final Sunday services. Members of the branch and auxiliary entered the church as a group to honor Rev. Swan's six years of service to the branch. Rev. Swan and his wife were further honored by the branch later in the afternoon with a pot luck supper and social at the Legion Hall on Victoria Street. Rev. Swan was presented with a desk set inscribed with the Legion crest as a memento; Mrs. Swan received a floral arrangement. Branch President David Hynes thanked Rev. Swan for his years of loyal service to the Legion, often under difficult circumstances and on short notice. Hutton Heights' zoning dominates plan meeting The zoning of the Hutton county planning department Heights subdivision and the assured her and the other proposed construction of a Christian high school there dominated discussion at a secondary plan meeting held Monday night at the East Wawanosh Public School. The purpose of the meeting was to go over certain changes in the land use plan due to typographic errors in the original draft plan or changes made since by the council or the provincial government. The plan is in the final stages of discussion before being passed by the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. If there are no further changes, it will be directed back to the province for final approval. One change recommended by the province was on a residents of Hutton Heights present that the change will not make any difference to the land use at the sub- division. He said it was merely a convenience thing the -government suggested to make the mapping easier in the draft plan by grouping all the hamlets together. The residents currently are fighting the construction of the school because they said they are afraid the increased traffic flow into the subdivision created by the school might pose a threat for local children and motorists. They also said they feel the institution should be built on land which is not classed as prime agricultural farm land. land use map which labeled East Wawanosh council _.__the.._Hutton -:Weights --sum=-agrees ave_ -the -reside-fits - vision urban, rather than its present residential zoning. Hutton Heights resident Virginia Newell said she feared that changing the designation to urban would allow for a wider variety of development at the site, in particular institutional, which perhaps would make it easier for the_ school to be built there. Gary Davidson of the • RECEIVES DOCTORATE Michael Charles Walden, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Walden of Wingham, receiv- ed his doctorate from the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto at Convocation Hall June 3. He formerly attended the F. E. Madill Secondary School and received his BSc from the University of Western On- tario, London. Dr. Walden is now practising at Kin- cardine. GRADUATED Linda Lou Taylor, daught- er of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Taylor of Wingham, gradu- ated from the Advanced Interior Design three-year program at the Niagara College of Applied Arts and Technology, Welland, during convocation ceremonies June 11. Linda plans to further attain her interior Designer of Ontario desig- nation. and turned down a severance application for the school last year. However, the county's land division committee granted the severance on the condition that council pass the necessary zoning bylaw to change the area from resi- dential to institutional. When East Wawanosh council refused to do so, the applicant: for the severance, Lloyd Hutton, petitioned the Ontario Municipal Board to dec,tfa 'the adatter it ..,''. hearing.'that hearing'is scheduled for Aug. 2. Ross Hamilton, another resident of Hutton Heights, asked Mr. Davidson why the land division committee would go against the wishes of the municipal council and grant the severance inthe first place. Mr. Davidson replied that . institutional uses are given priority because "they are thought to be in the public good, and therefore may be established on virtually any land use designation, be it agricultural or whatever. Another Hutton Heights resident, Ed Daer, said the new school will not benefit the residents of East Wawanosh Township since students are to be bused in from as far away as Owen Sound. The provincial govern- ment treats religious denominational schools the same as separate schools, said Mr. Davidson, and protects their right to exist. But new roads will have to be built into the school and serviced by the township, objected Mrs. Newell. If the school does not pay any land taxes, who will provide for the upkeep of those roads: East Wawanosh ratepayers? Religious schools do not pay taxes as such, said Mr. Davidson, but do pay a grant. in lieu of taxes. Finally Walter Elliott asked if council will have more or less say, with regard to severances, after the secondary plan is passed. East Wawanosh Reeve Neil Vincent said council will have more power after the plan is approved, as it can appoint its own land division committee to rule on town- ship severances. Therefore severances will not need to go to the county level, leaving more say in local hands. AMELIA BROWN, a resident at the Brookhaven Nursing home, was honored Tuesday on her 99th birthday. - Honor Amelia Brown on her 99th birthday A group of friends, family and well-wishers stopped by the Brookhaven Nursing Home Tuesday afternoon to wish Amelia Brown the best on her 99th birthday. Mrs. Brown, who has resided at the home for the past five years, enjoys good health, according to her daughter, Mrs. Ruth Johnston of Belgrave. Her Following her husband's mother's only real problem death, Mrs. Brown lived with is that her memory is rather her daughter for a while and sketchy, said her daughter, then moved to Brussels but other than that, her where she spent 10 years. physical Condition is good. One son, afford, died in Mrs. Brown was born June 1954, but she still has her 14, 1884, on a farm in Grey daughter, one grand - Township. Her maiden name daughter and two grandsons was Whitfield and she stayed Who honored her on her on her parents' farm until birthday. 1912 when she married Angus Brown of Listowel. They resided in Grey Town - hip where Mr. Brown farmed until his death in 1952. During her earlier years, Mrs. Brown was involved with the church and the Women's Institute as her outside interests. Town plans to voice concern over Christian high school The Wingham Town Council plans to go on record as having reservations about the interdenominational Christian high school being proposed for the Hutton Heights subdivision south of town. While council 'failed to reach agreement on actually opposing the school, it did agree to send a represen- tative or its solicitor to an Ontario Municipal Board hearing Aug. 2 at Goderich to voice concern about the potential effect on the town's sewage treatment lagoons. Council is concerned that if the school were to be built, its proximity to the lagoons might interfere with future plans for expansion. The matter was raised during last week's council meeting in response to a letter notifying the town of the OMB. hearing, in which Lloyd Hutton Real Estate L mited will be asking the board for an order directing the Township of East Wawanosh to pass a bylaw to permit construction of the school. East Wawanosh council opposes having the school there and had recommended against granting a severance for it. The county land division committee ap- proved the severance, but the property still requires rezoning before the building can go ahead. "We have a lagoon there and don't want the school complaining about the smell," Councillor Tom Miller commented last week. Councillor Jack Kopas, a teacher at the F. E. Madill Secondary School in Wingham, added that if the Christian school should succeed in attracting students from the public school system, grants to the school board would drop. "It has the potential to increase the levy for schools," he warned. Councillor Douglas Swit- zer took a different view, saying the school would be a good thing for Wingham by bringing in more teachers who would probably live and shop in town. "Do you have any con- nection with this school?" Councillor William Crump "demanded. Mr. Switzer said he does not, although he is connected with the Baptist Church School in town. Deputy Reeve Patricia Bailey said she also supports the Christian high ,school. "Every family should have the right to take their child to the school of their choice," she said, "and if I had a choice I'd send mine to a Christian high school." Councillor James A. Currie said his only concern is about the lagoon, saying the town should at least be on record with its concerns about the possible future expansion of the lagoon. Councillors were unsure just how close to the lagoon the school would be. Reeve Joe Kerr said it really is not all that close, estimating the distance at about 100 rods, which is between one- quarter and half a mile. Council recently received a letter from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment suggesting that the lagoon system may have to be expanded. When originally installed, it was claimed the lagoons had the capacity to treat the waste from a town twice the size of Wingham, however the ministry has since tightened its require- ments for waste and treat- ment.