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Community News Volume 45 Issue 40
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Friday, October 5, 2012
Mapleton councillors unaware new zoning bylaw affected MDS
Royal digs - The Maryborough Horticultural Society (MHS) marked the Queen’s 2012 Jubilee by planting a caliper bur oak at Maryborough Terrace in Moorefield last week. The tree was awarded to District 7 by the Ontario Horticultural Association. One of 17 districts, District 7 has 14 societies under it’s banner, including the Maryborough society, which ultimately won a draw to receive the tree. Organizers decided the Terrace was a well-suited location for the tree since many of the residents there are lifelong Moorefield residents and former MHS members. From left: Clara Bauman, Leonard Bauman, Dorelene Anderson (District 7 director), Linda Timmerman (MHS secretary), Mapleton Mayor Bruce Whale, Ginny Franklin, Jim Curry (Maryborough Terrace board president and Mapleton councillor) and Jo Houston (MHS president). photo by Wilma Mol
Council agrees to defibrillator purchase for community hall building in Alma by Patrick Raftis ALMA – Mapleton council has agreed to purchase a defibrillator for the Alma Community Centre. CAO Patty Sinnamon reported at the Sept. 25 council meeting that the municipality was unsuccessful in a recent application for funding through the Heart and Stroke Foundation for a defibrillator for the facility. Since then, the Alma
Optimist Club asked if the township would consider purchasing the equipment. “I have no concerns with this request and would propose that funding be allocated to emergency measures,� Sinnamon stated in the report. Councillor Neil Driscoll asked if there are any other locations in Mapleton at which the municipality should consider placing a defibrillator. Mapleton Fire Chief Rick
Richardson noted the units are already in place in most publicuse buildings in the township. The cost of purchasing the defibrillator from St. John Ambulance is $1,895 plus HST and includes set up and training. Council approved the purchase, including a recommendation the Alma Optimists be authorized to select two members to receive training on the automated unit.
by Patrick Raftis MAPLETON - Mapleton council has called a special meeting on Oct. 5 as a result of concerns about an MDS exemption in the township’s new comprehensive zoning bylaw. Local residents Alwyn and Lori Woodham attended the Sept. 25 council meeting to raise concerns about a section of the bylaw that waives Minimum Separation Distance (MDS) requirements for lots that are less than 9.9 acres. MDS requirements are dictated by provincial legislation. Mapleton passed the revised comprehensive zoning bylaw in 2010, however it did not come into effect until June 2012, due to an OMB appeal of the bylaw on an un-related matter. Council passed a motion waiving its procedural bylaw to allow the Woodhams to address council, even though they were not on the agenda as a delegation. The couple, who run a cash crop operation in the Moorefield area, asked each council member, as well as CAO Patty Sinnamon, if they were aware MDS requirements were being changed when passing the zoning bylaw. Mayor Bruce Whale pointed out that councillors Andy Knetsch and Neil Driscoll were not on council at the time the zoning bylaw was passed. “I don’t recall this being brought to our attention about MDS being changed on residential lots,� said Whale. “I didn’t pick it out as being an exemption that was being added and I don’t recall it being brought to our attention by our planner.�
“This is a bit of a tough one,� said councillor Mike Downey. “I think the Woodhams are deserving of an apology that this even has to be brought up. The matter was dealt with and put into the history books.� Downey said he has spoken to members of Wellington County’s planning department about the issue and he’s hoping it’s a matter of a “cut and paste error.� “Copy and paste errors do happen,� said Downey, noting there is a copy of a Mapleton bylaw on the township’s website that contains a reference to Centre Wellington instead of Mapleton. “However that doesn’t minimize the problem here,� Downey stated. Councillor Jim Currry said he was definitely not aware of the change in MDS regulations. “At no time do I recall the change being made. I was completely taken by surprise,� said Curry. Knetch asked if any attempt was made to have the county planner at the meeting. Whale said the planner was not available for the Sept. 25 meeting, but council could set up a meeting involving the planner and possibly the township’s solicitor. Driscoll said while not a member of council, he sat in on discussions surrounding the zoning bylaw as a member of the audience and told the Woodhams, “I can feel your pain.� Driscoll said council needs to take immediate action. “There are people putting real money down. There are building permits being applied for on the properties we are talking about. Next meeting might be too late,� said
Driscoll. In an interview after the meeting, Sinnamon said no building permits have yet been filed that are affected by the change to the comprehensive zoning bylaw. During the meeting, in response to the Woodham’s question, Sinnamon indicated there was no specific discussion of MDS during deliberations on the comprehensive zoning bylaw. “We didn’t discuss MDS specifically,� she said. “Agriculture is still our primary industry in Mapleton and we try to do what we can to protect that industry and their rights,� said Whale. “If this one slipped through the cracks somehow we have to apologize for that and see what can be done to correct it.� Downey pointed out, “this bylaw is in contradiction to a number of different laws and acts,� and wondered, “When does our bylaw get superseded by provincial law?� Alwyn Woodham told council, “if this process is wrong, then events proceeding this or following it are wrong as well,� and suggested council shouldn’t approve any building permits “until the issue is settled. “We want it stopped now,� said Woodham. Whale said council would have to discuss the issue in closed session and future meetings involving the planning department and the town’s legal counsel might be needed to sort the issue out. “When you’re sitting here as a council and when you’re passing a bylaw that you didn’t know (anything) about, it doesn’t sit well with me and Continued on page 2
Radstake up for Women of the Year awards for work in cardiovascular surgery by Mike Robinson MAPLETON Former Mapleton resident Tanya Radstake is in the running in the professional category of this year’s K-W Octoberfest Rogers Women of the Year awards. Radstake is the daughter of Paul and Paulette Wilson, of Mapleton, RR1 Arthur. Paulette Wilson explained that Radstake, a perfusionist in the cardiovascular surgery program at St. Mary’s General Hospital in Kitchener, was nominated for the award.
Wilson said the nomination had happened a few weeks prior. Wilson, a nurse herself, explained that as a perfusionist, her daughter operates the heart -lung machine that takes care of a person’s blood while undergoing cardiac surgery. “... and it’s a scary looking machine,� Wilson quipped. Radstake is a graduate of Arthur District High School, later getting her RN qualifications at Conestoga College in 1994. She worked in the United
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States for five years doing work in intensive care before coming back to Canada. Radstake has now been with St. Mary’s for 15 years, and has been the only female cardiovascular perfusionist for 10 years since the program’s inception. Wilson said her daughter was asked to take the perfusionist three-year course at the Michener Institute because the cardiac unit was being set up at St. Mary’s. “She just loves it,� Wilson added. “It is not for me, and I
am a nurse myself.� For two years, Radstake led the St. Mary’s United Way Campaign. She was also on the hospital’s board of trustees as staff representative for two years. “We’re pretty proud of her,� Wilson said. She added her daughter is married to Paul Norman Radstake (also an Arthur high school graduate) and the couple lives in Kitchener. The Women of the Year winners will be announced Oct. 9 at the Waterloo Inn.
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Professional perfusionist - Tanya Radstake poses alongside the heart-lung machine operated by perfusionists at St. Mary’s General Hospital in Kitchener. submitted photo
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