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June
There were immediate signs of universal support from all parties, although the governing Conservatives were taking a few shots at the Liberals. York - Simcoe's Peter Van Loan pointed out it had been the previous Liberal government that decided to include all rural route carriers as Canada post employees, rather than having them in outside contract positions. That meant they were covered under the Canada Labour Code. + + + + + + + King Township was pressing on with its peer review of Hydro One's proposal to put a transformer station in the Holland Marsh, without funding from the utility. In a letter to the Township, Enza Cancilla, manager of public affairs for Hydro One, stated the utility was directed by the Ontario Energy Board to put a transformer station in the area, on the recommendation of the Ontario Power Authority. Since it's carrying out the mandate of its regulator, Cancilla stated the request for that type of funding was not appropriate. + + + + + + + Mechanical issues in local wells prompted York region to issue a Stage 1 Outdoor Water Use Advisory for King City. Cloudy water was apparently found in King City's backup well, about 50 metres below the ground. "It's mechanical issues in the well," reported Township Director of Operations Jody LaPlante. Things got more involved, as the Region issued a Stage 2 Mandatory Outdoor Water Use Ban for the village. This meant residents are not to use municipal water from a hose, pipe, sprinkler or permanent irrigation system to water lawns or gardens; wash vehicles, sidewalks or driveways; or fill or top up swimming pools. Those who violated the ban in King could have been fined up to $1,000. + + + + + + + St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Schomberg celebrated its 130th anniversary. + + + + + + + Nobleton area resident Grant Kimber came home with the championship Ironman trophy for his class in the Independent Hot Rod Association (IHRA) seventh annual Mopar Canadian Nationals drag racing event, which took place at Grand Bend. + + + + + + + St. Patrick's Catholic School in Schomberg placed 30th out of 2,818 elementary schools in Ontario, according to the Fraser Institute. The Vancouver-based independent research and educational organization released its annual ranking of Ontario's elementary schools for 2005 in June. "That's something to celebrate," declared Principal Richard Amos. + + + + + + + The Ontario Heritage Foundation presented about 350 awards as part of its 2005 heritage community recognition program, and two of these recipients were from King. A Heritage Garden Conservation Award went to Snowball area resident Carl Finkle and a Cultural Heritage Award was presented to Bert Duclos of Kettleby. + + + + + + + Clayton De Vries had been active in issues of hydro installations in the Holland Marsh area, but he decided in June to get more politically active, putting his name forward as a candidate for the Ward 6 council seat in King. Meanwhile, King City resident Stephen Kornblum said he had heard some part-time jobs were opening up, so he decided to apply for one, namely the Ward 1 seat on Township council. He reasoned the annual salary would cover his share of the installation costs of the new sewers. + + + + + + + Council held another meeting to deal with assessing costs to residents for the installation of the sewers in King City, and they reached the same conclusion as before. Council approved the necessary bylaw to set a base rate of $12,541 per dwelling and voted to charge benefitting property owners on a residential equivalent basis. There were more honours for Nobleton brew master Phil DiFonzo. His King Dark Lager won a Trillium Award as best in its category. + + + + + + + To the anger and frustration of a number of people, councillors narrowly approved, with many conditions, a rezoning for the property slated to accommodate the relocated Holland Marsh District Christian School. "You people make irresponsible decisions!" one man angrily shouted as he walked from the room after the motion passed by a four-three vote. There were a number of objections to the fact that the rezoning was being approved before the site plan. The rezoning was in danger of being refused when Councillor Pabst added a stipulation that the actual building envelope for the school structure and the septic system will have to be determined before the project proceeds much farther. Even that didn't satisfy some of the opponents in the room. "Why don't you come and move there," shouted one woman from the public gallery. "We're just being treated like trash," one man said. "No one is paying any attention to us." But the proposal also had some supporters in the audience. "We're just moving down the street and around the corner," one parent remarked. "And into my backyard," a man fired back from the gallery. The following week, the Township's adjustment committee approved a severance that would facilitate the relocation, but that move was greeted with hostility by some of the potential neighbours of the new facility. + + + + + + + Council held another meeting to deal with assessing costs to residents for the installation of the sewers in King City, and they reached the same conclusion as before. Council approved the necessary bylaw to set a base rate of $12,541 per dwelling and voted to charge benefitting property owners on a residential equivalent basis. + + + + + + + There's an enormous amount of history and heritage in King Township, and Heritage King put out a new map and photo gallery to help people find many of the sites of interest. Eleven locations in King are designated heritage sites, and they were all marked on the map, complete with photographs in the gallery section. In all, there are more than 50 photographs, including vintage scenes of villages and buildings scattered throughout King. As well, there is brief information on the history of the township, as well as the role of Heritage King, which is the successor organization to the King Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee (LACAC). + + + + + + + Planners for the proposed Baldesarra development in Nobleton made some changes to their concepts, and possibly a few friends in the process. Their consultants held an open house sessions in June, and showed that the number of proposed units had been scaled back from 342 to 245. It also called for a parcel of about 10.6 acres in the middle of the property that was slated to accommodate a school and park. There were also provisions for commercial land, open space and preserving a woodlot in the northwest corner of the property. There was a lot of positive reaction to the woodlot. The previous plan called for a connection with Wilkie Avenue to the north through that area, but that part of the proposal has been scrapped. The proposed densities in the subdivision had been reduced from almost four units per acres to three. + + + + + + + The community was behind it, and a peer review said go for it, so King Township elected to ask the Ministry of the Environment to order an individual environmental assessment for the transformer station proposed by Hydro One in the Holland Marsh. Hydro One had selected a property on the north side of Millers Sideroad, east of Dufferin Street, as the preferred site for the for the Transformer station. The plan was to have the facility in operation by the fall of 2007. The peer review came up with four points of concern with Hydro One's environmental study report. They cited a "limited level of detail . . . which leaves a number of questions unanswered." Other concerns dealt with evaluation of alternatives, the fact the proposed site plan was land intensive, with no clear word that there is a designated buffer from the adjacent Ansnorveldt wetland complex, and that the report was weak when it came to details about mitigation measures that would be used to address negative environmental and socio-economic impacts. + + + + + + + King City Secondary School announced that Michael Swift was the top scholar in the graduating class, with an average of 91.5 per cent. His sister Anne had headed the KCSS Class of 200. |
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