by David MeyerMAPLETON TWP. – The

Mapleton Arena eXpansion (MAX) committee said thank-you on Saturday to a large number of donors who made major renovations possible at the PMD Arena.

The committee unveiled its wall of donors, which includes five categories:

- platinum for those who donated and purchased nam-ing rights to rooms, foyers and even the ice-making machine;

- diamond for donors of over $1,000;

- gold for $500;- silver for $250; and- bronze for $100.Committee member and

emcee Dan McIntyre said the committee appreciates all the work and donations that went into the project.

Mapleton Mayor Bruce Whale said all of council and

staff appreciate the work of the committee.

He added it is easy for a council to decide to support such a project when it knows the community will rally behind the fundraising com-mittee and get the job done.

“A lot of us remember when the original arena was built,” Whale said, adding, “This is going a bit farther again.”

He thanked the commit-tee and said, “May we enjoy these facilities for many years

to come.”MAX committee chairman

Dale Franklin remembered why the group was formed. She said she was appalled at the lack of facilities for girls who wanted to play hockey and were forced to dress in dank, dark small rooms.

She talked with council-lor Jim Curry and they agreed there was “a much-needed upgrade to our facility.”

The committee’s pledge was to raise $250,000 over five years to pay its share of the work.

To date, after only 3.5 years, the committee has raised $200,000 and has only $50,000 to go.

Franklin noted there is a fundraising effort that will start in December and, with the local Kinsmen Club, there will be another major fundraiser starting in the spring.

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Council affirms policy for bills, letters

to upset landlordby David Meyer

MAPLETON TWP. - Council here has agreed to explain its water and sewer billing policy to an unhappy landlord - through township staff.

Cathy Culp, of Kitchener, wrote to council on Oct. 25 after reading in the Wellington Advertiser that water meters would be installed in Drayton, and also that there would be a sewage rate increase.

“I am a landlord that rents out two houses in Drayton,” Culp said in her letter.

“Right now I am the one who pays the water and sewer bill that is included in the rent. If you meter the water in the houses are you prepared to bill the tenants for the water usage and me separately for the sew-ers and collect the money from the tenants for the water?”

She explained, “For us to include this in the rent would be too hard to calculate, since we do not know how much they are going to use. If we increase the rent to accommo-date for this, we would have to raise the rent too high and would have trouble renting them out.”

She added, “We also need at least a year’s notice because we have [a] yearly tenancy agreement before they are hooked up.”

Culp said, “I know I am not the only landlord in Drayton that is probably wondering the same thing. Why should we as a landlord be responsible for this extra expense?”

Culp said the newspaper article also pointed out there was going to be an increase in sewer rates.

“I feel that as [a] taxpayer in the township, I should not have to subscribe to the paper to hear about this. I have never received any notice of increas-es in taxes or water and sewer in writing. These should be

sent out with your bills for people who do not live in the community but own property. In fact, I was never on the vot-ing list until the last two elec-tions, and have owned property there for the last 15 years.”

Culp concluded by stating she did not want to be foisted off on the township bureaucra-cy, but wanted an explanation directly from councillors.

“I would like this letter to be answered in writing and read at the next council meet-ing. I want a letter from the council, not from your clerk, with all signatures from each council member. I have sent a letter to each council member to their house, in hopes it gets looked after.”

When council reached her letter on the agenda (it was not read aloud but everyone had a copy), Mayor Bruce Whale stated immediately staff would be writing the response.

Clerk Patty Sinnamon said the township does inform prop-erty owners of sewer and water increases in their bills when they send them out.

She added council has indi-cated no interest in changing its billing system to bill directly to tenants rather than the property owners.

Sinnamon explained, “That was changed a few yeas ago because [the township] can’t collect from a tenant.”

If somebody paying rent moves away suddenly and leaves unpaid bills behind, the township cannot chase them and collect without losing time and money. Billing the land-lord means the township gets its full payment. If a landlord balks, the bill is added to the township property tax bill.

That prevents other Drayton water and sewer users from being stuck with the unpaid costs.

Sinnamon said the clerk’s

Couple gets council support to sever farmland and keep large parcelby David Meyer

MAPLETON TWP. - Council here has supported an application to sever a large farm parcel and retain a larger-than-usual parcel for a resi-dence.

Lorrie and Charles Spaling live on County Road 11 in old Maryborough township and have applied to divide their land located at Part Lots 18 and 19 on Concession 9 in old Maryborough township.

They propose to sell an irregular shaped parcel of 51.6

acres with 1,437 feet of front-age that has three steel clad buildings on it.

They would like to retain an irregular shaped 9.3 acre parcel with 514 feet of frontage that contains an existing home and playhouse.

Mayor Bruce Whale noted county planner Sarah Wilhelm had commented the retained parcel is much larger than the county usually likes to see for such sales and she had sug-gested it could be reduced to one to two acres.

However, Whale said the terrain at the rear of the retained parcel is quite steep and would be “hard to farm.”

Lorrie Spaling was at coun-cil and agreed the terrain is too steep to farm, and added that dividing the lands where they are proposed provides “cleaner lines” for the two properties.

She explained the kennel use on the parcel to be sold would cease, and said she is already in the process of selling the dogs.

Whale wondered if the

retained parcel is treed.Spaling said there are “a lot

of trees in our back yard.”The two properties would

share a well, but she added her family would eventually drill its own well - “within a year or so.”

Clerk Patty Sinnamon told council the province permits up to five separate users on a well under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Whale added, dryly, “As long as the users get along.”

Councillor Neil Driscoll

asked if there is a house on the parcel to be sold.

Whale said there is not, and there is a clause in the agree-ment that there cannot be a house built on that land with-out a zone change. The county planning policies discourage building of homes on severed agricultural plots.

Councillor Andy Knetsh wondered if the new owner could apply for a house.

Whale said that could hap-pen, but it would likely take a change in the planning rules for

the owner to get permission.“The planner would be

likely to oppose it unless that section is removed,” he said, adding, “Council makes the final restrictions.”

Council then voted unan-imously to support the pro-posal at the county land divi-sion committee under the usual township conditions of paid taxes, zoning compliance and a water connection or well use agreement to be confirmed in writing by the purchaser of the severed parcel.

Changes may make phoning township office a little easier

by David MeyerMAPLETON TWP. - Like

many municipalities, when people call the township office here, they connect with an automated machine that helps direct calls.

Most people hate it - even though many have become used to it over the past 10 years.

Councillors heard a report from staff on Nov. 8 that changes have been made to the automated system to make it a little easier for people to reach a specific department.

Staff have also been mon-itoring calls and a report is coming about the possibility of a real human being answer-ing municipal phone calls. Automated systems are cheaper than hiring a receptionist.

Councillor Mike Downey emphasized how automated answering machines can annoy people. He said it recently took him almost four minutes to obtain the hours of operation at the Rothsay landfill site when calling Wellington County. He was not pleased with that wait.

Mayor Bruce Whale told him he would contact solid waste services committee chairman Don McKay and ask him to look into the problem.

Councillor Neil Driscoll asked how many calls the township is receiving.

Clerk Patty Sinnamon said staff have been tracking that, and they have now changed the message system at the Mapleton office so people can reach the various departments more quickly.

“Staff has not had com-plaints,” she said.

But, Sinnamon added, she is looking into the cost to obtain upgrades to the current system, which is now 25 years old. She added there are no more Bell

MAX committee unveils donor wall

Ribbon cutting – Mayor Bruce Whale, middle, is flanked by platinum sponsor Steve Culp, left, a mem-ber of the MAX committee who represented Avon Lee Homes, and another platinum sponsor, Alan Simpson, of Peel Maryborough Insurance, to cut the ribbon to celebrate the donor wall at the refur-bished PMD Arena. photo by David Meyer

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Held Over

Continued on page 8Continued on page 8

“May we enjoy these facilities for many years to come.”

- Mayor Bruce Whale on the PMD Arena expansion

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What’s happening @ the arena

Thursday, November 24Parent and Tot Skating, 11:00am-11:50am

Adult Skating, 12:00pm-1:00pmBadminton, 7:00pm-9:00pmFriday, November 25

Parent and Tot Skating, 11:00am-11:50amJuveniles vs. Arthur, 9:00pm

saTurday, November 26Novice R vs. Zurich, 11:45am

Public Skating, 1:00pm-1:50pmAtom LL vs. Minto 2, 3:00pm

Bantam R vs. Durham, 4:15pmsuNday, November 27

Novice LL vs. Listowel, 2:00pmAtom R vs. Wingham, 3:15pm

Pee Wee LL vs. Walkerton 1, 4:30pmTuesday, November 29

Midget R vs. Seaforth, 8:30pmWedNesday, November 30

Parent and Tot Skating, 11:00am-11:50amAdult Skating, 12:00pm-1:20pmPee Wee R vs. Minto, 7:30pmThursday, december 1

Parent and Tot Skating, 11:00am-11:50amAdult Skating, 12:00pm-1:00pm

Badminton, 7:00pm-9:00pmFriday, december 2

Sorry, No Parent and Tot Skating Today

Harriston ArenaSat, December 3rd, 8:30pm

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Sun, December 4th, 2:00pmvs. Durham

Mapleton Minto eighty ones home game schedule

December 7 - “The Great Christmas Giveaway, The Gift Goes On” Christmas Pageant performed by students of Community Christian School. 8pm at The Drayton Reformed Church, 74 Wellington St Drayton. Everyone is welcome.

December 9 - Beef Dinner at Conestogo Masonic Hall, 61 Wellington St. Drayton. 5:30-7:00pm. Tickets $12. Call 519-638-2123 or 519-638-2047.

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Drayton 7 Community 2 Drayton scored four unan-

swered goals in the first period to take a commanding lead. Scott VanOostveen had two goals and an assist, Dave Mulder had one goal and one assist and Pat Landman scored the final goal, assisted by Mark Timmerman. Rick Robous assisted on the first three goals.

Two more Drayton goals in the third period put the game away. Mulder and Landman scored the goals, with assists from Hans Robous, Rick Robous, Eric Dekker and Jerry

Robous.Community finally scored

later in the third. Kevin Gingrich scored the goal and Jamie Martin and Ryan Freeman earned assists.

Drayton’s Eric Dekker responded with a goal minutes later, assisted by Rob Stevens and Mike DeWeerd.

Community’s final goal came from Gingrich, assisted by Jerry Martin.

Missionary 4 Listowel 0Missionary’s Tom

Chambers scored the only goal in the first period.

Both teams remained scoreless in the second but Missionary added two goals to open the third. Paul Vandenberg and Shane Stege scored the goals, with assists from Mike Orth, Tom Chambers and Dave Scholten.

Orth added another late in the game to make it 4-0, assist-ed by Vandenberg.

Grant Brubacher turned away 14 shots for his shutout.

Floradale 2 Bethel 0Floradale’s Dan Martin beat

Derek Wideman with a low shot along the ice for the only

goal of the first period. Javon Martin and Brendan Jefferson earned assists on the play.

Another scoreless second kept the game close.

But Floradale added the insurance goal early in the third. Ryan Martin set up Brendan Jefferson, who cut in front of the net and rang a shot underneath the crossbar for the goal.

Jason Newton faced 19 shots in net for the Floradale shutout. Derek Wideman was kept busy with 34 shots at the Bethel net.

Drayton humbles Community in church league hockey

The library is in the Christmas spirit.

Decorations are up and Christmas items are on display. The library has Christmas dec-orating books and magazines, as well as cook books with great seasonal recipes.

To set the “ambiance,” the library has Christmas CDs and DVDs, novels, stories, poems and more.

For children there are many Christmas-themed picture books and much more. Come in and visit, sit by the fireplace and Christmas tree, and enjoy some quiet time during this

busy season.There will be two special

Story Times for children aged 3 to 5 to celebrate Christmas - on Nov. 29 and Dec. 6.

On Dec. 3 from 2 to 4pm there will be a Christmas card workshop to make that card for someone special. On Dec. 7 from 6:30 to 8pm, Glynis Belec and her author friends will read their stories from a Second Cup of Hot Apple Cider, with music and refreshments.

A Family Christmas Craft, Snack and Story Time (all ages) will be held on Dec. 20 from 6:30 to 7:30pm.

To find out more about these activities and to register, please drop by the library.

Apple cider and seasonal refreshments will be served during the week of Christmas and New Year’s to celebrate the season.

And just before school starts the library will have one more event for children in grades 2 to 6: “Let it Snow,” which includes a variety of activities.

A short re-cap of Ontario Library Week: congratula-tions to draw winners Nicole Hessels, Sarah McIntyre and Carlin Scheerer. Almost 300

food items were collected dur-ing that week for the Drayton Food Bank. Thanks to every-one who helped make it pos-sible.

Besides the Christmas items on display, many new books have arrived. The library also received new DVDs, CDs, books on disc and many new juvenile titles.

Be sure to register in December and the beginning of January for the library’s winter programs.

Information can be found at www.wclib.ca or in person at the library branch.

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Township supports 4-H by waiving hall feesby David Meyer

MAPLETON TWP. - Council here has supported the Mapleton 4-H Lifeskills club by waiving the fee for the Moorefield hall.

Leader Lynne Flewwelling wrote council to ask that the club be allowed to hold its achievement program and pot luck supper at the Moorefield hall without charge.

She said the club was look-

ing for a date for the event around Nov. 30.

“For the past number of years, our membership has been small enough to fit in the Optimist Hall, but this year now our membership has increased to over 20 members,” she wrote. “So, with parents and siblings, we are looking at 60-plus attending.”

She explained the club is a non-profit organization and

clubs are run without any fund-raising, so it does not have any funds for renting halls.

Flewwelling also noted that in the past council has waived fees for other groups and she hoped it would be willing to do the same for her club.

She added that 4-H appears to be growing.

“I know 4-H is not one of the prominent youth groups in the township these days, but

looking at the growth this past year, there is potential rebirth of the organization in the area as it nears its 100th anniversary (2013) in Canada. All we need are more leaders.”

Councillor Andy Knetsch moved that the hall be provided for free under the “usual terms and conditions.” That was seconded by councillor Mike Downey and carried unani-mously.

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We worked in Drayton on the weekend doing two assignments, and have two comments.

First, congratulations to the MAX committee on its, so far, successful fundraising effort to refurbish the arena. As Mayor Bruce Whale noted when the donor wall was officially unveiled, it is easy for council to support a large project when it has faith the community will support it - and Mapleton obviously has.

Maybe it is something about arenas that brings out good spirit in Canadians. We remember our mother, our aunt and a woman across the street sitting on a similar fundraising committee to build an arena in our home town about 30 years ago. How a com-munity smaller than Drayton planned to accomplish that seemed ridiculous to these then-much-younger eyes. How could bake sales and raffle tickets ever manage to pay off hundreds of thousands of dollars?

But the community’s arena had been demolished for years. In fact, it did not so much have an arena as it had a horse stable shed near the church, with a dirt floor and two dressing rooms heated by small wood stoves. In its last years, the tin structure that was more shed than arena, had tinny music playing for skaters. When it was demolished the community went years with no skating or hockey.

So we understand the pride and effort that goes into build-ing and maintaining arenas like the one in Drayton, and we say well done to everyone involved, from the council that had faith in the community, to the hard-working committee that believed the community would support it, and finally, to the community itself for stepping up and providing a nice and modern building in which the next generation of hockey players and figure skaters will participate.

On the second side of this week’s editorial, we have to wish Mapleton council and the Grand River Conservation Authority all the best in their efforts to drag CN Rail kicking and screaming to the table to take a hard look at the abutments council fears are a safety issue.

With councillor Jim Curry as a guide, we wandered through a bush to the site and were shocked. Who knew that Drayton had cliffs?

But, as a former charter member of Ontario Streams, it was easy to see the degradation of the cliffs on the southern abutment on the Conestogo River that runs through Drayton.

Councillor Andy Knetsch brought the issue to council this term, but staff has been having the devil’s own time reaching anyone at CN for a response. We watched on Saturday morning as stones slipped from the mainly gravel cliffs that fall as much as 60 feet into the Conestogo River. It is easy to see entire sections of the cliff collapsing after a heavy rain or a spring melt.

With gravel on the cliff side, it is highly unlikely planting grass will halt the erosion, and councillors are quite right to be con-cerned the entire abutment might someday wash away. They are also quite right to be concerned about the steep cliff and the safety factor. Anyone standing below, say, fishing or hiking, would be in peril if the cliff gives way. A fall would mean death

We talked with Pat Salter on Saturday about the situation. She is the Mapleton representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority, and she told us the GRCA has been trying for years to get a response from anybody at CN.

To date, we have managed to reach a public relations man at the company, but he was going on holidays and had designated someone else to call. One call to the township did take place, but that was nearly a month ago.

It is time for council to get serious. Perhaps its newly hired bylaw enforcement officer will have to get involved. Chief admin-istrative officer Patty Sinnamon was bringing a report to council on the matter on Nov. 22, after our deadline.

We hope the result is council gets tough with CN.David Meyer

Funds and hazards

PAGE FOUR The Community News, Friday, November 25, 2011

COUNCIL DATESTuesday, December 13, 2011 7:00 p.m. - Regular Meeting of Council

Tuesday, December 27, 2011 Office Closed – No Council Meeting

TOWNSHIP OF MAPLETONCommunity Information Page7275 Sideroad 16, P.O. Box 160, Drayton, ON N0G 1P0

Phone: 519-638-3313, Fax: 519-638-5113, Toll Free: 1-800-385-7248

www.mapleton.ca

ATTENTION ALL MAPLETON TOWNSHIP

SERVICE CLUBS AND NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

We are in the process of redesigning our Township Website which is being created with a community focus. We welcome the opportunity

to include your events on our new site. This will be a great way for you to advertise

events such as registration nights, fundraising events and other special events. CommunityEvents will be on the homepage of the site, making it easy for you to spread the word!

For more info please contact

Christine Hickey at the

Township Office 519-638-3313

FREE ADULT SKATINGWEDNESDAyS 11:30 -1:30 P.M.

FAMILY PUBLIC SKATINGSATURDAyS 1:00 – 2:30 P.M.

$2.00 per person / $6.00 per family / pre-school children FREE

HISTORY BOOKS AS A CHRISTMAS GIFTHistorical Books as follows are available at the Township Office during regular office hours.

Drayton’s Historic Album (1875 – 1975) $10.00 Remembering Drayton in 2000 $10.00History of Maryborough Township (1851 – 1976) $ 4.00 Thru the Years Maryborough TownshipTownship Portrait of Peel Attiwandaronk to Mapleton $50.00 (Volume 11 - 1851 – 1998) $55.00

NOTICE TO RATEPAYERSThe second installment of the 2011 Final Taxes for all property classes are due November 25, 2011

Taxes may be paid at the following locations: · Township of Mapleton Municipal Office, 7275 Sideroad 16 by cash, cheque or debit/interac · at most Financial Institutions or · by Telebanking with most financial institutions.

There is a mail slot available at the office for payments being made after hours.Postdated cheques for the due date are accepted.

Taxes may also be paid by mail addressed to: Township of Mapleton, PO Box 160, Drayton, ON N0G 1P0

Thank you Cemetery Caretakers!On behalf of Mayor Whale and Councillors Curry, Driscoll, Downey and Knetsch, the Township of Mapleton would like to express sincere appreciation for your hard work and efforts maintaining the aban-doned cemeteries in and around the township. Thank you for taking your time to preserve and respect our heritage burial properties.

It is greatly appreciated.

FOOD BANKThe Township of Mapleton office will be

accepting Items for the Drayton Food Bank. Until Christmas we will receive non-perishable items.

The following would be greatly appreciated: •Cannedfruit •Cannedvegetables •Diapers •Babyfood

(NC) - It seems like the holidays sneak up on people every year.

Before they know it, their schedules are packed with busy shopping malls, social engage-ments, decorating duties and perhaps scariest of all - plan-ning that holiday feast.

It’s a joyous time of year, but all the preparation can be a bit stressful.

Getting organized and plan-ning ahead is the best way to check off all the annual holiday “to-do” lists. Here is a holiday countdown checklist to help people eliminate stress and

enjoy the season.New-age advent. Create

a holiday activity calendar to map out all social outings and school events. Organize shop-ping days and set deadlines to buy gifts, wrapping paper and cards.

Make a list, check it twice. Make a master gift list, set a budget and start shopping. To help save time, try wrapping gifts as they are purchased.

Eggnog anyone? Buy all beverages and other non-per-ishable items two weeks before the big day to avoid long lines and empty shelves.

Don’t forget the batteries. With so much going on, the smaller details can easily get overlooked. A week before make sure you have a supply of batteries on hand so kids (and mom or dad) can play with their new toys and gadgets right away.

Hands off the cookie jar. Two days before the big feast, start cooking and prepping dishes that can sit for a couple of days without spoiling (or

being eaten early). Buy all last minute decorations and flow-ers.

One more sleep. Make sure to recharge or change the bat-teries in the camera, video recorder, mp3 player and other electronic devices.

And just in case that low battery light starts flashing, keep a portable instant char-ger on hand to avoid missing any precious moments. Finish any last minute wrapping, and

make a timeline to follow for the big day.

Finally, sit back and relax. The greatest and most impor-

tant task on the to-do list should be to enjoy time with family and friends.

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Drayton’s 22nd Annual Santa Claus Parade

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Visit Santa after the parade at the Drayton Fire Hall.FREE Hot chocolate, Coffee and Cookies.

PaRaDE linE uP: 7pm at the Drayton Fairgrounds.

Moorefield Optimists Santa Claus Parade

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even graduating norwell District secondary school, 16-year-old ashley Hedge can add published author to her credentials.

“I had the inspiration for the story from a dream [three years ago],” Hedge said.

six months following the dream she completed a rough draft and this october she self-published her novella Siren.

Inspired by her interest in mythology, Hedge created a main character who becomes a siren, a beautiful female myth-ical creature that seduces sail-ors with her song, encouraging ships to crash into the rocks so that she can prey on the sailor’s lives.

“the story is about a girl in grade 8 who is very average.

she ends up in the hospital and is supposed to be dead but learns that she has become a siren,” Hedge explains.

“my story is all about how she tries to control her powers and not hurt the people around her. meanwhile there are dark forces trying to get her to use her powers for evil.”

the response from her peers has been enthusiastic.

“I am so happy that every-body loves it and that they are getting involved with the story,” she said.

Hedge credits a former grief councillor for encouraging her to write following the loss of Hedge’s aunt and two cousins in a car accident. the book is dedicated to that councillor, who is now also deceased.

Hedge notes the support of norwell english teacher mr. Bloch has been valuable to her work too.

“I love writing, it is my passion,” Hedge said. “I really hope that my book encourages people and inspires them to write too.” Hedge earned the money to publish the book by babysitting.

Siren is available online through Chapters Indigo and Coles or through the Bookery in listowel.

Hedge hopes to have the books distributed to other local retailers soon. she also plans speaking engagements at regional schools to encourage other students to write.

Early Drayton newspapera copy of the thursday,

march 17, 1887 issue of the Drayton Vidette was found among some papers recent-ly donated to the mapleton Historical society.

this paper was published by

J. lown. the paper was first published in 1886. mr. lown commented that this issue is the 52nd of first year of the Drayton Vidette.

It was printed on newsprint 26 inches by 40 inches. It is folded in fourths with local

advertisements and news items on the four outer pages.

the inner pages have articles about many subjects, such as health, farming issues, chapter 32 of Rift and Spray or Love and Vengeance among the Smugglers, quite a few jokes and advertisements for some toronto businesses. one would have to turn the paper complete-

ly inside out to read the inner pages as it is not cut into pages as our papers are today.

the paper reports on the latest division court held here the previous week, in which the plaintiffs and defendants as well as their lawyers are named and the amount of the fines are listed.

the report of the latest meet-

ing of council notes a deputation of Charles Clark and thomas skelton were successful in per-suading council to grant the sum of $50 to the mechanics Institute for the year 1887 (this was the local library which became the Drayton public library and later a branch of the Wellington County library).

Council accepted the tender of t.C. Dean for printing for the year 1887, and paid the account of J. lown of $6.75 for print-ing. Council also appointed a new constable for the village and passed a bylaw regulating billiard tables.

the monthly cattle fairs are listed. It seems everyone knew where in each community it would be held, as there are no locations other than the commu-nity listed. Guelph cattle fair was the first monday of the month. Fairs were held at Bosworth (saturday before Guelph), Drayton (first tuesday each month), moorefield (monday before Guelph) and teviotdale (Friday before Guelph). In all there are 30 locations.

the market prices for farm products for both Drayton and Guelph are quoted, with the note

that they are corrected every Wednesday.

prices paid in Guelph appear to be somewhat higher than those paid in Drayton. maybe when the cost of transportation was considered there was not much difference. Certainly a trip of a few miles to Drayton would be more convenient than the all-day trek to Guelph.

the goods and services offered in the advertisements show most needs of the citizens could be meet locally, including solicitors, auctioneers, hotels, money to loan (at 6 percent), dry goods, millinery, groceries, baked goods, a butcher shop, a livery stable, a cooper’s shop (to repair barrels and wooden buck-ets), clocks and jewellery, farm tools, implements and seeds, eye glasses and medicinal rem-edies.

there are no church ads, although it is reported that at the annual missionary meeting of the Drayton methodist Church collections and subscriptions totaled over $111.

It is rather sobering to real-ize 124 years, while we humans can not.

submitted by Jean Campbell

PAGE SIX The Community News, Friday, November 25, 2011

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lines available for the office.She is obtaining costs from

Bell and Wightman Telecom.Driscoll said he was glad

to get some action, since he had asked about the issue the previous year.

Finance director Mike Givens said staff has made changes and if there are com-plaints “We’d love to hear

them.”But Driscoll said people

appreciate “getting a person” when they call the township.

Councillor Jim Curry won-dered if the township should look into systems such as Skype, a free internet phone service.

He said he uses it and for $2.95 a month, can call any-where in North America. He said that system “saves a lot of money.”

Givens said he is not sure the township has the internet capacity to take advantage of that system.

Curry said, “Look into it.”Givens replied the township

deals with a satellite system rather than a phone line.

Downey then complained that he cannot reach the town-ship’s 1-800 line with his cell phone, and wondered why the township has such a line.

Sinnamon said because oth-erwise people in Alma would have to call long distance.

Mayor Bruce Whale noted that would also be the case for Wallenstein.

Staff is expecting to bring a report to council soon.

PAGE EIGHT The Community News, Friday, November 25, 2011

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department “looks after cor-respondence; not councillors.”

Whale asked about meters for older buildings, and coun-cillor Mike Downey wondered “who pays?”

Sinnamon said some older apartment buildings have just one water connection.

Downey suggested the landlord could simply divide the water bill between the ten-ants.

Public works director Larry

Lynch said the problem with that is some might complain there are six apartments but only four are being rented.

Finance director Mike Givens said for landlords sim-ply dividing the bill or having the township bill tenants “will only increase the problems.”

He said Lynch wants the township to decide about how it wants to bill for water and sewer, but, “Our issues is prop-erty and property taxes.”

Lynch said it is the property owner who decides to become a landlord. “It’s their choice to have tenants, and it’s their responsibility how to bill.”

Downey wondered if it would be feasible to allow landlords to pay for extra water meters for specific apartments.

But Givens said the town-

ship would install only one and, “They can put in others. It won’t have anything to do with us. Bills were always sent to the owners. The owner and tenant can come in and sign a declaration.”

But, he pointed out, the township has the ability to force a collection only from the landlord, and not a tenant.

Whale said township staff will draft a response to Culp’s letter. Sinnamon said she could send the draft letter to council-lors for their approval before sending it. Givens added the meters, which are new and are now expected to be installed next spring, “will be a learning experience for everyone.”

Council agreed that was the best way to answer Culp’s let-ter.

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Council affirms bills, letters policy

Changes may make phoning township office a little easier

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by David MeyerMAPLETON TWP. - The

township has a new bylaw enforcement officer.

Council passed a bylaw on Nov. 8 appointing Maurita Boyle as bylaw enforcement officer and property standards officer for the township.

Boyle is on a one year contract. She replaces Bruce Brocklebank, whose one-year

contract ran out in July. He had proposed several

changes to the township’s cur-rent bylaw, but council was uncomfortable with some of them.

Township clerk Patty Sinnamon said in an interview that many of those proposals dealt with interior issues.

Since property standards is usually driven by complaints,

the only reason for including such issues in the bylaw is ten-ant protection.

Sinnamon said many com-plaints the bylaw enforcement officer will face deal with zon-ing compliance, where people are operating businesses out of their homes.

Boyle’s appointment was effective upon the passing of the bylaw.

Township hires new bylaw enforcement officer