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Huron County Newsletter
Week of January 5th to 11th, 2025
Good day,
Welcome back to another weekly round-up from the Huron County News team.
I hope everyone had a good week, and hasn’t given up on those New Year’s resolutions just yet.
Thank you for checking out the Huron County Newsletter and have a great week.
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Huron County Council Approves The Purchase Of Two Ambulances For 2025
by Bob Montgomery
Huron County's Director of Emergency Services says the county will be purchasing two new ambulances this year.
Jeff Horseman says the total cost for both ambulances will be a little over 647-thousand dollars. He says they'll be purchased from Demers Ambulances of Quebec. The vehicles they're replacing are about six years old and have between three and four-thousand kilometres on them, so they're ready to be replaced.
Horseman says it's critical for them to make sure the vehicles they have are operational and well maintained so they don't break down on the road. He adds, they've being purchasing ambulances from Demers for the last fifteen years and they've had very good success with them so council recommends they continue to buy their vehicles from them.
About Forty People Attended A Memorial Arena Task Force Meeting In Goderich On Monday
by Bob Montgomery
Goderich Mayor Trevor Bazinet chaired a Task Force Meeting in Goderich on Monday morning to determine the future of the Memorial Arena.
Bazinet says the arena, that hasn’t had ice since it was taken out in 2017, is more then seventy years old. A motion passed by Goderich council pointed to aging infrastructure, lack of long term investment and financial constraints, and the need to address some safety and accessibility concerns, and resulted in the arena being closed until further notice. Bazinet says the terms of reference for the Memorial Arena Task Force is to come up with…
Exercise Your Body And Mind This Winter At The Huron County Museum
by Bob Montgomery
The Huron County Museum is inviting anyone who enjoys a good walk to step in out of the cold for their walk this winter.
Huron County Museum Curator of Engagement & Dialogue Sinead Cox says a lot of people like to walk on a regular basis but during the winter the sidewalks can be slippery or slushy or it can just be cold and windy. That doesn't have to prevent people from going for a walk. They can walk indoors at the Huron County Museum and play…
Huron County Council Was Presented With A Refreshed Master Plan For County Paramedic Services At Their Last Meeting
by Bob Montgomery
Huron County's Director of Emergency Services says consultant Operational Research in Health produced a ten-year master plan in 2019. That plan looked at where their ambulance bases were located, call volume increases and trends and where they might have to look at up-staffing or changing staffing patterns. They also considered, potentially, where they might have to build new ambulance bases or relocate ambulance bases. Unfortunately, COVID arrived shortly after that presentation was made to council and…
Fatal Snowmobile Collision In Bluewater
A collision involving a snowmobile in the Municipality of Bluewater has claimed the life of a Bluewater resident.
Just before 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 08, 2025, members of the Huron County Ontario Provincial Police, Huron County Paramedic Services, and Bluewater Fire Department responded to a collision near Mill Road just west of Brucefield.
Upon arrival, emergency services located the involved snowmobile and lone operator in a farm field just south of Mill Road. The snowmobile operator was transported by Paramedics to a local hospital where they were later pronounced deceased.
The deceased is a 58-year-old resident of Bluewater.
The cause of the collision is being investigated. Members from the West Region OPP Traffic Incident Management & Enforcement Team are at the scene to assist with the collision investigation. Mill Road is currently closed between London Road and Airport Line for the investigation and will remain closed for several hours.
Any person with information regarding this collision should contact Huron County OPP at 1-888-310-1122.
The Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority Is Now Accepting Nominations For This Year’s Conservation Award
by Bob Montgomery
The Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority is now accepting nominations for this year's Conservation Award.
Each year the ABCA recognizes outstanding achievements in conservation and stewardship with a conservation award. The conservation authority has presented the Conservationist of the Year Award for more than four decades. Award winners have included rural landowners and residents, agricultural producers and farms, service clubs, community organizations, companies, nature groups, and municipalities.
The Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority invites the public to nominate a…
Huron County Council Approves A Motion On Provincial Funding For Public Health
by Bob Montgomery
Huron East Mayor Bernie LacLellan had asked staff to come up with a follow-up report on the current Provincial Funding for Public Health.
MacLellen asked that the motion approving that report be sent out to Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson and to all of the municipalities across the province for support because they're all dealing with the same problem. And that problem is that municipalities are being asked to pay more than their share of the cost for health care.
MacLellan says he understands that every…
Singer-Songwriter Duo, Evoke, Will Be Performing At St. Andrews United Church In Bayfield This Sunday
by Bob Montgomery
Jack Clarke and Deb Shelley make up the duo and the event is a fundraiser for the Huron Hospice. ‘Well-Seasoned’ is the theme for the benefit concert and Hospice volunteer Helen Varekanp says the two artists, known as Evoke, write their own music and lyrics and their performance is meant to take the audience through the seasons of life through their music.
The concert is at two o'clock on Sunday afternoon and admittance is by donation and the first five-thousand dollars in donations will be matched by an anonymous donor.
More information about the event and background about the artists can be found on the Huron Hospice website under events.
Huron County Council Directs Planning Department To Implement Huron County Aggregate Strategy - Scoped Update Into The Local Official Plans Through Future Five Year Reviews
by Bob Montgomery
Huron County council has directed the Planning Department to implement the Huron County Aggregate Strategy – Scoped Update into the local official plans through the future five year reviews.
The project was prompted by a 2022 resolution from the Township of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh, requesting that Huron County Council direct Planning & Development staff to undertake a review and update of the Huron County Aggregate Strategy. In undertaking the Five Year Review of the ACW Official Plan, there was significant dialogue between staff, council, and the public regarding aggregate approvals process. Planning & Development staff identified updating the Huron County Aggregate Strategy as an opportunity to revisit the County’s approach and to promote better understanding of the process.
Planning Manager Denise Van Amersfoort says in most areas where two land uses bump into each other there is the potential for…
Community Safety And Well-Being For Huron Launched Their 2025 Campaign On Friday
by Bob Montgomery
Members of Community Safety And Well-Being For Huron held a meeting last Friday to review last year's inaugural year and to launch this year's campaign.
Manager Michaela Johnston explains, they introduced four specific campaigns last year. The Mental Health and Addiction campaign ran from January to March, the Domestic and Family Violence campaign ran from April until June, the Community Security campaign from July until September, and the Housing Stability and Homelessness campaign October until December.
At Friday's meeting they launched the first campaign of their second year and…
Weekly Trivia Questions
Around 1861, twenty years after the first Common School Act was introduced and put into effect in Huron County, what was the registered school population (excluding Goderich and Clinton)?
a) 9,087
b) 753
c) 34,651
d) 13,621
How many schoolhouses were in Huron County in 1861?
a) 141
b) 204
c) 94
d) 13
Answers to last week’s questions:
Timothy Eaton had his first store in what Huron County community?
a) Rodgervillle
b) Kirkton*
c) Goderich
d) Harpurhay
Which book did the Trustees of the Huron Board of Education Threaten to Ban in 1978?
a) Catcher In The Rye*
b) Of Human Bondage
c) The French Lieutenant's Woma
d) Tess of the D'Ubervilles