The Times Advocate, 2004-04-14, Page 22 Exeter Times -Advocate Wednesday,April 7, 2004
Regional
wrap up
Hospital
board fuming
GODERICH
Alexandra Marine and
General Hospital board
members are taking a
stand against the
provincial government's
new health care bill,
calling it a "back -door to
regionalization."
The Goderich Signal -
Star reported Mary
Lapaine, a former
Ontario Hospital
Association chair and
incoming Canadian
Healthcare Association
chair, warned board
members Bill 8 could be
the first step in the elim-
ination of Ontario's vol-
unteer hospital boards.
Seaforth loses
doctor
SEAFORTH
Seaforth is back down
to six doctors after Dr.
Vince Tong left the
Seaforth Medical Clinic
for Vancouver recently.
The Huron Expositor
reported Seaforth
Medical Clinic manager
Mary Fisher said Dr.
Tong and his wife have
left for Vancouver after
close to two years
practising in Seaforth.
Fisher said Tong's
patients will not be
taken on as patients by
the other doctors at the
clinic but will be seen
on a walk-in basis both
during clinic hours and
during the Tuesday
night walk-in clinic
from 6 to 8 p.m.
County tax
increase
CLINTON — It may
have been approved on
April Fool's Day, but
Huron County's 2004
budget isn't a joke.
The Clinton News -
Record reported coun-
ty councillors approved
the 2004 budget with a
taxation increase of 9.3
per cent.
Through numerous
deliberations in March,
councillors cut more
than $4.5 million from
the initial budget,
which showed an
increase if 54.3 per
cent in spending.
Surprise bill
BL H — Just as
Huron County council-
lors struggled to
reduce their budget,
they received a sur-
prise $355,000 bill
from the Ministry of
Community, Family
and Children's
Services.
The Citizen reported
the bill covers costs for
the Ontario Drug
Benefit retroactive to
January 2002. The
ministry billed the
county monthly based
on its estimated costs,
but actual costs
showed they badly
underestimated.
South Huron to vote on budget Monday
Continued from front page
The budget report
includes municipal
expenses, tax dollars
needed and proposed
2004 projects for each
department.
By ward, $1.65 million
in municipal taxes will be
collected from Exeter,
$1.36 million from
Stephen and $539,000
from Usborne. Exeter pays
55 per cent of the policing
contract, with Stephen
and Usborne kicking in 45
per cent.
Other South Huron
council notes:
Signs, signs ...
Council made an amend-
ment to its new sign
bylaw, allowing business-
es to place sandwich
boards on municipal prop-
erty in front of their busi-
ness. The signs must be
placed "as close to the
building as practicable,"
according to the bylaw.
The municipality had
received a petition includ-
ing 25 signatures request-
ing the amendment to the
bylaw, which stated signs
could not be placed on
municipal property. The
amendment helps busi-
nesses whose property
line ends at the front of
their building. Signs can't
be more than .75 metres
wide and can't exceed
0.56 square metres.
In other news involving
the South Huron sign
bylaw, council will give
notice to the owners of
Lifetime Home Products
and Glenn Haven
Apartments to remove
their permanent signs
from municipal property
at the corner of Main and
Victoria streets. The issue
had been left unresolved
since discussions in the
spring of 2002.
Mayor Rob Morley then
wondered if the munici-
pality would have to
remove its sign for the
South Huron Rec Centre
on the east corner of Main
and Victoria, but building
and development manager
Wayne Dale said the
municipality has the right
to post signs on its own
property.
Coun. George Robertson
suggested having munici-
pal staff remove the Glenn
Haven and Lifetime signs
the next morning, but
council eventually decided
to give the owners of the
businesses until April 20
to remove them. If the
signs are not removed by
the owners, the municipal-
ity will remove them.
CBO quits
Dale was named the
municipality's interim
chief building official
(CBO) after the resignation
of Jeff Jilek, who held the
position since last August.
The municipality is now
accepting applications for
a new CBO.
Planning fees up
Council passed a bylaw
to increase several plan-
ning fees 15 per cent. As
Dale explained, the 15 per
cent is an interim increase
and there may be addi-
tional increases.
New fees are: official
plan amendments, $2,760;
secondary plan amend-
ments, $2,760; zoning
bylaw amendments,
$1,065; combined official
plan and zoning amend-
ments, $3,295; combined
secondary plan and zoning
Students participate in fundraising project
Above: Grade 1 1 student Tracy Henry works on her
collage which takes on the theme of
opposites.Below: Hendrikus Bervoets helps out
Grade 9 art student Jerry Rundle with his collage
during a session April 8. (photo/Mary Simmons)
By Mary Simmons
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
EXETER — Students at
South Huron District
High
School
(SHDHS)
are partici-
pating in
an art pro-
ject to
raise
money to
help chil-
dren in
Africa
affected by
HIV and
AIDS.
Students from Grades
9-12 are making col-
lages under the instruc-
tion of artist Hendrikus
Bervoets, who is the co -
Artists
Direct
America are aware of
the pandemic most of
the southern hemi-
sphere is dominated by."
Each student in the
project has to
come up with
title and state-
ment for their
collage.
Bervoets
said students
involved in the
project in the
past have
done some
good pieces,
which are
available to
view at
www.artistsandkids-
foraids.com.
Students from
Grades 9-12 are
making collages
under the
instruction of artist
Hendrikus Bervoets,
who is the co-
founder of Artists
International Direct
Support.
founder of
International
Support.
SHDHS is one of 10
schools in the Avon
Maitland District School
Board taking part in the
project. Three are com-
pleting the art projects
in the spring while the
rest will begin in the fall.
Fifty pieces will be dis-
played at Gallery
Stratford, included in a
portfolio and sold for
$25 a piece.
Bervoets was at
SHDHS for a second
workshop session April
8 where he worked with
the students on their
pieces.
"Play with the pieces of
paper," he told them.
"Move them around and
if they aren't working,
put them aside and
come back to them later.
"You can do whatever
you want with them."
Bervoets said he and
co-founder Rudolf
Bikkers got involved in
the project because they
felt as artists they need-
ed to help raise money
and awareness.
"Every day 8,000 peo-
ple die of AIDS and they
leave children behind,"
he said. "It is so impor-
tant that people in North
amendments, $3,295;
minor variances, $750;
consents, $695; and plan
of subdivisions/condomini-
ums, $4,025.
Building report
Dale presented his build-
ing permit report for
March, which included
seven building permits
and one demolition per-
mit.
Building permit values
were $360,000, with per-
mit fees totalling
$2,714.50. The municipal-
ity collected $25 for the
demolition permit.
To date, the municipality
has issued 20 building
permits in 2004 for a total
value of $890,059. Permit
fees totalled $6,905. Two
demolition permits have
been issued in 2004.
POLICE BRIEFS
SOUTH HURON — On
April 7 an OPP officer
was stopped as they
were pulling into the
Exeter OPP office at 7:30
p.m. over an impaired
driver. The citizen told
the officer a white 1998
Chev pickup truck was
being driven all over the
roadway and the driver
was suspected to be
impaired. The officer
came across the vehicle
on Highway 4 and
stopped the truck finding
the driver showing signs
of impairment. The per-
son was arrested and
taken for breath tests
that indicated the person
to be three times over
the legal limit.
Benjamin Bjerg, 33, of
Central Huron has been
charged with impaired
driving and driving a
motor vehicle with over
80 mgs. He will attend
court in Exeter June 24.
Zurich Lions Club
Sports & Leisure Show
Free Admission
April 23, 24, 25, 2004
Friday 4-9 p.m. • Saturday 12 noon - 6 p.m.
Sunday 1-4 p.m.
FISH FRY
Friday Night - April 23 - 5-8 p.m.
Fish Fry Tickets $10.00 each
New Bluewater Community Centre
in Zurich
Come out and support the Lions and the show
For more information call:
John Becker - 237-3628