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Zurich Citizens News, 1975-11-26, Page 1Discuss drainage prqblems About 15 interested persons attended a drain information meeting at the Zurich village office Tuesday night. Engineer C.P. . Corbett of Lucan presented the informat- ion on a proposed John Street drain. Thedrain if constructed would provide drainage in the areas of John, Centre and Walnut streets in the south-westerly section of the village. A number of owners in the area having drainage problems pres• ented a petition to council a few months ago asking for help for drainage problems. Clerk Mrs. Betty Oke told the News Wednesday that several more names may be needed on the petition before further plan- ning can be carried out. SENIOR APARTMENTS PROGRESSING - Construction of the Blue Water Rest Home senior citizens apartments is progressing well. The above picture shows work completed to date. _ - (News Phot©) NO 47 - FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1975 1111110.410.6,91606616111 20(P PER COPY To educate the members of the Huron -Perth Presbytery of the United Church on wise land use, a two-day seminar at the Bruce - field church was initiated by Rev. Bert Daynard of Staffs. On the first day, Thursday, Mr. Daynard and Dr. Allan Churchill, Chatham, past pres- ident of the London Conference, established the theological foundations of the issue. Both quoted from the old and new testaments to show the, inter- dependency of people and the land,. Dr. Churchill said more wars have been fought over land than any other commodity as he warned against worshipping the land as a distinct entity. He said it was a gigantic problem to use the land properly with the least harm and the greatest good for both people and the land itself. "We are so tempted to use land for our won purposes so as to abuse it and so we need a strong theological basis for an adequate land use ethic," he said. "We can't get this ethic by romanticising nature or by developing our materialistic philosophy to which we seem to be enslaved. We ned to get back to the Biblical roots of a sound ethic, that recognizes God, the Creator, as still sovereign and still the ultimate owner of his creations." "We need to see man, made in the image of God, as having some freedom but also considerable responsibility to act as trustees, of the land and al natural re- sources which God has put into his temporary care, but man has fallen and he continues to drag creation into his fallenness with him." SEWERS UNDER CONSTRUCTION - Employees of C.A. McDowell Ltd. of Centralia are currently installing storm sewers at the easterly end of Zurich. This work is expected to be completed by early spring when reconstruction of Main street will begin. (News Photo) Continuing Dr. Churchill said, "The `Bible seems to be saying that man will not be redeemed without the land being redeemed as well, This is a revolutionary idea and would be really revo- lutionary if we treated all natural resources on the basis of this principle." In the afternoon session Thursday, William Heine, editor of the London Free Press, told of land -use attitudes in a number of countries he 'had visited around the world. Nobody is more efficient than the farmer who is left alone to plant the crop he decides is best for his own farm," he stated. "Nototaltarion land has • ever been able to compare to our system in NOrth America where six percent of the population feeds the other 96 percent and have a surplus of millions of tons of foodstuff to send overseas." "You have to accept the fact of foodstuff to send overseas." The' Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board members meeting in Dublin Monday heard reports from . representatives on 'the Stratford Library Board, Fred Bergsma and Dan Devlin, both of Stratford. Mr. Bergsma said the re- novations to the library were completed in July and that both he and Mr. Deveilin had been members of the planning board. He reported a marked increase in the number of books carried by the library with a 60 percent increase in the juvenile section. Mr. Bergsma Said a popular feature with the public was having the children's section of the library open every evening along with the adult section. There are 700 country families belonging to the library now, almost a 75 percent increase, he said, To date since the re -opening some 26 groups have toured the building, Mr. Bergsma reported, with more tours planned. Twelve organizations are using the library facilities for their pro- grams and the library staff presents another eight programs. Mr. Devlin stressed the impor- tance of elementary school children visiting libraries when young and using library faci- lities so that the students would find it easy when the time comes to write essays. "Get as many children through there (the library) as you can," he urged the trustees as he asked them to pass on an invitation to principals and teachers to Turn to page four Iibr r arrange tours of the library fa- ilities. Bruce Heath, Goderich, director of Huron County Child- ren's Aid Society and Howard Galloway of the Mirror Press, Stratford, were appointed to the Early School Leaving Committee. Trusteee John O'Drowsky, St. Marys, was appointed as the board representative on the Perth County Advisory Commi- ttee for Family Planning Service. Ed Rowland, coordinator of maintenance and building, reported that maintenance costs from January 1 to November 24 amounted to $42,638, including fencing, painting, paving, seeding lawns, recharging and replacing fire extinguishers, sidewalks and roofs. Mr. Rowland reported he had supervised other capital and maintenance - projects such as the library addition at St. Pat- rick's School, Kinkora, $69,794; board office renovations $34,745; routine maintenance of schools, $15,350; electrical - services (schools), $3,200; and plumbing services (schools), $7,600; for a total of $130,689. Mr. Rowland received high praise from the board for bis work during the past year. Trustee Donald Crowley of Gadshill reported the renovation work at St. Patrick's Scholl, Kinkora, would start this week. The work includes an addition for a gymnasium, change rooms and a 'health room by Pounder Brothers of Stratford, whose tender amounted to 8210,590.