Bullet News CLINTON – New commerce maps that direct visitors to places to shop and eat in Clinton will soon pop up around town.
The Municipality of Central Huron is taking advantage of $2,400 in matching funding offered by Huron County’s economic development department as part of an initiative to keep visitors in villages and towns across the county.
The county’s GIS department will prepare maps of downtown cores and provide them to BIA managers for distributing, including laminating, posting in existing display cases or installing new display cases, whether they’re publicly or privately owned.
“New businesses can be added on the fly. It can be done lickety-split,” said Douglas Barill, who is the county’s business development co-ordinator.
The estimated one-time cost of free-standing display cases is $1,600 and wall-mounted cases is $800.
Municipal staff will decide where the signs should be installed.
BLYTH-HULLET LANDFILL
The Blyth-Hullett Landfill Site remains officially open, the manager of public works assured councillors in the Municipality of Central Huron recently.
Tom Sinclair said topsoil headed to the landfill to help absorb leachate could be stripped back if a decision were made to begin using the landfill site again. Although the site is temporarily closed to residents, it’s official status is open. It has not gone through the rigorous process mandated by the Ministry of the Environment for closure.
Coun. Marg Anderson had received comments from ratepayers who were concerned the trucks of topsoil going to the landfill site meant it was closing.
For five years, the Municipality of North Huron used the landfill in a shared operations agreement with Central Huron. But in 2010, it pulled out of the agreement and waste from Blyth was redirected to the Wingham landfill site.
