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-- SS . sr a IE En iE Hamilton is back on local cable television After five years, Hamilton television station CHCH is back on the television screens of - Maclean Hunter Cable TV Ltd. subscribers. The independent Cana- dian television station's signal appeared on local cable subscribers' screens on Channel 14 one week ago. Particularly pleased are Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team fans. They have missed CHCH's regular broadcasting of Leafs games. Maclean Hunter recent- ly obtained permission from the Canadian Radio Fire dep and Telecommunications Commission to take the CHCH signal from a satellite. When CHCH was of- ~fered here up to five years ago, the signal was receiv- ed by means of an antenna. The distance between Midland and Hamilton meant that the reception was often poor. At times the signal vanished from viewers' screens. Five years ago the American Public Broad- casting System channel replaced CHCH here. The Hamilton station signal was dropped because of a large number of unsatisfied artment opposes council Members of the Victoria Harbour Volunteer Fire Department are petitioning the Village's council oppos- ing the recent proposal by Reeve Bill Varney to abolish the existing com- mittee structure and establish an executive com- mittee made up of the five members of council. Last Tuesday evening, a delegation from the volunteer fire department, headed by member Robert Larmand, attended the regular council session to voice their dissatisfaction with Reeve Varney's sug- gestion that would have the department dealing with a five-member executive committee rather than just one councillor. Larmand, who attended the meeting along with 14 other firefighters, presented a petition con- taining the names of all of the members of the brigade to the council. In his deputation, Lar- mand said since the forma- tion of the volunteer fire department in 1956, it has operated under the present system where all ad- ministrative decision- making and planning are dealt with solely by the council representative. Reading from the peti- tion, Larmand stated, "This system has given us a good working relation- ship and a positive attitude with council through this chairperson." "We feel this system has worked for 30 years and can work for another 30 years with few problems occurring,' Larmand went on. Following Tuesday's meeting, Fire Chief Jack LaChappelle said the reasoning behind the peti- tion is because the volunteer fire fighters feel it is much easier for the department to deal with just one councillor rather than five. Presently Councillor Paul Charlebois is the council's representative for the fire brigade. "When the department needs something I deal with Charlebois and then he gets what is needed," said LaChappelle. 'He deals with the rest of coun- cil. It is much easier that " way. customers, and associated service calls, program manager Frank Myers dropped to make room for CHCH. As well, soon an Ontario Legislature chan- nel, and a French TV On- tario channel will be add-: ed to the service available to basic fee customers. The cable TV premium service offers Much Music, says. No channels have been First Choice, Nashville, The Sports Network, Super Ecran (French First Choice), and Arts and Entertainment. Next month a seventh channel, the Life Channel, will be added. Myers says that basic fee service recipients who have a converter, or a cable-ready television with more than 12 channels, or a video cassette recorder which can be programmed to act as a converter, can receive CHCH. A majority of local subscribers fit a part of that description, he says. The addition of CHCH will mean a 66 cent a month extra charge to basic fee subscribers. The CHCH signal is one of eight signals, four Cana- dian and four American, available by satellite to communities in northern Canada. Only recently were cable companies not in the North permitted to take a particular signal from the satellite. : see Expansion unveiled Building of Bayweb Limited's new printing plant in Elmvale got underway last Friday. The plant should be completed by next May >ayweb Limited || \$8.3 MILLION WANTSET PRESS & General Contractor: INTERNORTH CONSTRU WS Architects: ~ ALLEN AND SHER?" &@» slichmond Hill & a v ngineereg R MANUS B Ontari and will mean 75 new jobs in the Village. Shown in front of the plant's newly unveil- ed sign are, left to right, Chuck Wadge, Bayweb General Manager, Ruth Markle and Andy Markle, Bayweb President. Tiny expansion given final go ahead "Tm not here to play King Solomon," A.J.L. Chapman of the Ontario Muncipal Board (OMB) told the audience at the hearing regarding Tiny Township's proposed municipal office expan- sions, yesterday. "Tf you don't like what your elected represen- tatives are doing," he told objectors Anthony Lancia, president of the Tiny Township Ratepayer's Y campaign kick-off Canvassers for the Midland YMCA met at Boatworks on Thursday afternoon to receive a pep talk from Chairman of fun- draising, Jim Worts. The two week blitz kicked off with 55 canvassers being given pledge cards before heading out into the com- munity to collect funds from industry, business, professionals and residents. The theme for this year's campaign is "Catch the Spirit", and according to barometer at the town dock, the goal is $65,000. According to the YMCA Director Austin Mathews, the Midland Y has a year- ly budget of $700,000. Mathews also stated the $65,000 for this year represents an 11 per cent increase over last year. Several industries from the area have already been contacted by the commit- tee responsible, led by Hudson Leavens and Kirk Weldon. Bill Norman and Kevin Pursell are heading up the business campaign while John Gibson, Richard Thomas, Fred Hacker and Jim Cready will be calling on the pro- fessionals for contribu- tions. Special contributors will be contacted by Bill Hartman, Clay Young and Andy Markle. Heading up the special events fundraising projects are Bryson McQuirter, John Saunders and John Brown. The local Y's Men Club raised slightly over $16,000 for the operation of the Midland YMCA last year and according to Chair- man Tony Osler, the Y has asked for $20,000 from the 38 member group this year. RC board election Two of the _ three members of the French Language Education Coun- cil (FLEC) of. the Simcoe County Roman Catholic Separate School Board (SCRCSSB) are to be elected. The third FLECimember will be Gabriel Marchand, an elected separate school board trustee who has ex- ercised his option to be a trustee who is a FLEC member. School board trustees, who have French language education rights, had the choice of being a FLEC member. Revision of the Educa- tion Act provides for the election, for the first time, of three trustees to provin- cial school boards, trustees who shall be responsible for operation of minority language education. Approximately 1,000 of the county sepafate school board's 9,200 students at- tend schools in which French is the language of instruction. Oct. 23 is the date for the election of the three FLEC members of the Simcoe County Board of Education. The Separate School Board FLEC election will be held on Oct. 26 at 2 p.m. in the hall of St. Ann's Church, Penetanguishene. Marchand is a former chairman of the Separate School Board. He has represented the Tiny Township-Pene- tanguishene area since the formation of the board in 1969. He has been a part of many major developments in French language ser- vices of the board. Association, and Eleanor Palmer, president of the Deanlea Beach Ratepayer's Association, "then use the rule of representative democracy, and throw them out at the next elec- tion." The OMB representative approved the Township's plans to build a $650,000 addition to the municipal building on Balm Beach Road, but on the condition that council specify the cost ceiling in _ its iegislation. ee iio ' The proposed bylaw cur- rently does not mention cost, and the OMB hearing chairman says it should. "Tt is loose, in that it has no reference to the max- imum amount of money to be borrowed," he told the Township Administrator Guy Maurice. "No where does there appear to be a: cap on this." The OMB interprets pro- vincial laws that specify an elected body must seek provincial approval if it wants to borrow money that could not be paid back before its term of office ends. OMB hearing Chairman Chapman told the Township that construc- tion can begin once the Township council ap- proves the revised bylaw. Another change Chap- man stipulated was the quote on square footage of the addition. Since the first draft of the bylaw, the tle all thera im ome Pt vez Winning entry Huronia District Hospital (HDH) Administrator Gord Kee (left) is seen here with the winner of the HDH Logo Contest. The competition is part of the hospital's 10th anniversary celebration. HDH employee Sue Township's architects, W.M. Salter and Associates, have reduced the square footage from 3,102 square feet per floor to 2,977. Chapman agreed with the Township's expressed need for more office space, and he even joked about the lack of toilet facilities in the building. "I happened to be in there (the men's room) when someone came in, and I couldn't get out," he said. Hurley won the overall grand prize as well as the top spot in the staff category. Hurley is $250 richer for her efforts. Second place went to hospital's Director of Respiratory Therapy, Rod Ashworth. Tuesday, October 21, 1986, Page 3