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Varney to continue as Harbour reeve "T am not going to resign. I am going to stay on and see if things are going to work out around here." That is what the Village of Victoria Harbour Reeve Bill Varney, told the small group of people on hand last Thursday evening in the council chambers of the village's municipal of- fice, in response to a peti- tion calling for his resigna- tion from office. Thursday's session was the first meeting attended by the Reeve who has been on vacation under his doc- tor's orders, since Sept. 25. During his absence, a petition containing over 300 names was submitted to the council calling for Varney's resignation for not living up to campaign promises made to the tax- payers of the village. The petition was submit- ted on Nov. 10 by Victoria Harbour resident Maxine Dennis. Although Varney was not prepared to make a public statement at the regular meeting, the Har- bour residents had been told by Deputy-reeve Catherine Mackenzie, who was acting for the Reeve, that they would receive some kind of response to their petition on Thursday. Reeve Varney told Den- nis that he was drafting a letter stating his. position and that the _ cor- respondence would be sent to everyone whose name was on the petition, but Dennis said she was not satisfied with his response. 'I think you owe the peo- ple a public statement of why you didn't live up to your campaign promises," said Dennis. The bearer of the petition told Varney he had cam- Watling's students tested On Saturday, the Tina Watling Dance Centre medal tests in jazz, modern, and tap were held at the Tina Watling Dance Centre. Aida Sutton of the British Association of Teachers of Dancing, the official examiner, stated at the end of the day that the students displayed "an ex- tremely high standard". The following are the results of 34 medal tests with marks possible of fail, pass, pass plus, commend- ed, highly commended. Chantall Asselin, Pre- Bronze Modern, Commended. Sherri Bain, Silver Jazz, Highly Commended; Bronze Tap, Highly Com- mended; Silver Tap, Highly Commended. Michelle Caughey, Bronze Jazz, Pass. Renee Cingolani, Pre- Bronze Tap, Highly Commended. Kara Fildey, Infant Modern, Commended. Erin Flaherty, Bronze Pre- Jass, Highly Commended; Bronze Modern, Highly Commended; Bronze Tap, Highly Commended. Joanne Gallant, Pre- Bronze Jazz, Highly Com- mended; Bronze Jazz, Highly Commended. Sherri Golisky, Infant Tap, Highly Commended. Brenda Key, Infant Tap, Commended. Leandra Lackie, Pre- Bronze Jazz, Commended; Bronze Jazz, Highly Commended. Michelle Ladouceur, Pre- Bronze Tap, Pass Plus. Cheryl Marchand, Bronze Jazz, Highly Com- mended; Bronze Modern, Highly Commended. Melissa Menaul, Infant Modern, Commended. Sandra Niblock, Bronze Modern, Highly Com- mended; Bronze Tap, Highly Commended; Silver Jazz, Highly Commended; Silver Tap, Highly Commended. Kim Paddy, Pre-Bronze Jazz, Commended; Bronze Jazz, Highly Commended. Lisa Player, Pre-Bronze Jazz, Highly Commended; Pre-Bronze Modern, Highly Commended; Bronze Jazz, Highly Com- mended; Bronze Modern, Highly Commended. Infant Highly Antonia Poullis, Modern, Commended. Soulla Poullis, Modern, Commended. Infant Highly Richelle Tavernier, In- fanct Modern, Highly Commended. Monique Vallee, Pre- Bronze Tap, Commended. Auxiliary The Penetanguishene General Hospital Auxiliar- ly is sponsoring a Craft and Home Baking Sale in the Lower Hall and Board Room of the Hospital, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thurs- day, December 11th. Telephone directory funding Contact Information Centre of Midland has received funding to pro- duce a Community Ser- vices Telephone Directory. This funding will allow the centre imple- ment, produce and distribute a relevant and professional-looking com- munity services directory based on its recently automated database. The directory will be annotated to devise, and will include all com- munity services relevant to the geographic area of Midland and its surroundings. The directory will not duplicate existing materials and will provide access to social and com- munity services for the residents of, and visitors to, this area. The directory will be in a format that can be updated' and easily reproduced, The directory will be sold for a nominal fee, since the funding received will offset much of the cost. Contact director Sandra Saddy hopes to have the directory complete and. ready for distributionn ear- ly in the new year. She is hoping to hire a resear- cher/writer to work on the project as soon as possible. * HEY! LO < ----?" | Fe > i > > b> PD Pm br Pe FROM & A 526-8404 - 526-6011 TO US FOR CHRISTMAS IDEAS paigned on the platform that he would abolish the position of administrator and since his election last year had done nothing about it. Unfamiliar site Varney disputed the statement by saying he ran his campaign on a number of platforms, adding "nobody really lives up to all their campaign 2 & Victoria Harbour Bill Varney (centre) was back at the helm at last Thursday evening's session of village council. The Nov. 27 appearance was Varney's first council since Sept. 25. The reeve has been on a leave Harbour plan under review The Village of Victoria Harbour is due for their five year review of their Of- ficial Plan. At Thursday's meeting, the councillors gave their seal of approval to a recom- mendation of the village's Planning Advisory Com- mittee calling for a review and revision of the Official Plan (OP) to be undertaken by village officials. "We will be reviewing our general policies and defining where the village will be headed for the next five years, with five years already under our belts,"' said village Administrator Doug Jackson following the regular meeting. Amendments to the village's OP are crutial to GIVE A GIFT CERTIFICATE , GREAT LOOKING GLASSES Choose Prescription or Sunglasses HURONIA OPTICAL 522 Elizabeth St., MIDLAND, Ontario the municipality at this time, in the terms of grant money available. According to Jackson, the revised plan will in- clude policies on com- munity improvement pro- jects for the village. Without this the municipality would not be entitled to any funding under the PRIDE program. Along with general house keeping matters of rephrasing a number of promises'. The petition also called for the resignation of Councillor Mary Lou Mount, who resigned in September, even prior to the petition being submitted. A by-election in the village to fill the vacancy left by Mount is slated for Jan. 12. of absence under his doctor's orders. Councillor Bob Moreau, Deputy-reeve Catherine Mackenzie and Councillor Paul Charlebois were also on hand. areas and clarifying any areas of question, Jackson said, the village officials will also be reviewing the existing land use policies. Any recommendations in the present policies will have to be incorporated in- to the plan. Jackson also stressed the fact that the update is very important at this time for the village with work already begun on a water- front master plan and pressure from the local residents for the building of a community centre. Until the amendments to the OP have been official- ly adopted by council, these projects will be put on the back burner. Jackson anticipates it will be quite some time before village officials with the help of PAC get the revisions completed and ready to be put before council for approval. 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