https://www.fepl.ca/localhistory/files/original/23d9e8068c6d3a39833ec9126b07d2d5.pdf 7cd52c68a41d90c68e6a090acb6564cf PDF Text Text ·-- - ,.;:::::±'~ .< .i 4rJ l ' ;·','." ?., . 70.•··~ .:;.-. •- ·--· .; ' ·. j -~ .. • ' l ,. · ~C •';' l ' ' .. • ~·~--~ •'f·· ·~~~?' ''&'."·· ·,~:·~\ ··.' , ., '' A - •-'- l ~ ~., ~\·,\:: . .... . ·' .., t' •\"' • LADIES AM> GENTLEMEN: I WOUID LIKE, AS 1".AYOR ClF FORT ERIE, TO WELCCME YOU TO THESE INAUGURAL CEREMONIES AND TO T'rlANK YOU FOR COMING. SOME OF YOU MAY FEEL THIS A S'IRANGE PIA.CE TO HOID SUCH A CEREMONY. OUT REASONING WAS QUITE SIMPLE - HERE, WAS WHERE UNOFFICIALLX OUR MUNICIPALITY BEGAN IN 1810 1 ' BUILT BY THOSE lniO HAD CONFIDENCE IU THIS COUN'.J.RY AND vffiO FELT IT WAS WORTH DEFENDING WITHOUT CONFIDENCE IN ITSELF, NO NATION CAN SURVIVE, NO MUNICIPALITY CAN SURVIVE, NO I INDIVIDUAL CAN SURVIVE - CONFIDENCE CAN' ONLY BE BUILT ON .KNOWLEDGE CF THE PAST, WITHOUT WHICH THERE CAN BE NO BEGINNING. UNFORTUNATELY, I BELIEVE WE ARE LIVING IN .AM AGE WHEU THE TE:ARING DOWU OF RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL TBADITION IS THE FASHION ClF THE DAY. THESE MERCHANTS ClF DES'.IROOTION COUID NEVER HAVE STUDIED HISTORY SERIOUSLY OR THEY WOUID REALIZE THE GREATEST EMPIRE THAT EVER EIISSTED,-THE ROMAN EMPIRE,, FELL FROM WITHIN - A VICTIM OF ITSELF. NOT OiilLY LETS us LOOK INTO THE PAST BUT REFLECTS THE FUTURE. ~s ~~ AREA - ~ BECAUSE r HAVE DEVOTION ~.... . .. - ' ro OUR coUNmY, ,. .tOO SP~TED CO-~PERA_rr;.~~~'- LOYALTY AND ENERGY AS THIS-, BECAUSE WnITION ClF PAST MIRRORED . THAT CAUSED HISTORY WHY DO I FEEL .so smONGLY IN om PEOPLE, TOWN. · .· LAS'Jl.,Y, THE •l ' '· . ' . ' .. ,,. . ' MEM ·'.ID BUIID AND .DlflND ~ORTS SOOH '1'0-'.PAY ·~ '.lHE FUTORE THAT EXISTS HERE THE . ~. ~~ ,-J· ' :,., 1, • • SUCCESS CF OUR TOWN WILL · NOT BE DETERMINED BY ITS PHYSIC.AL ASSE1S BUT RATHER BY 'IHE AMBITION .-: ' -. . ~ .~ - ' . FOR IT IN mE MINDS ClF--THOSE WHO WILL GUIDE ITS DF.STINY. ',•' -· . .~· filsTORICALLY -TONIGHT, 'WE A..-cm PLACED IN AN ENVIABLE POSITION, FOR THE NEW TOWN ClF FORT ER! . ~ -- - ,f ' ~ ... - ,! RECAus ~ VISION '~" ~ P.AST WHEN . WE .ALL ' IS~ ~ ~~~E RE/ll.TZFJJ OUR DF.sTimy, THAT ClF . " ' CRYSTAL BEACH, BERTIE, -FORT ERIE AND WHAT WAS PART ClF WILLOUGHBY, WERE TIED .TOGETHER BY BmID~ ·, CF'. ·~ESSITY ,i:F ~ I · I TO SURVIVE IN .THIS WORID ClF COMPETITimr AND ' TO' -.· · ' ' ·~EVELoP: IN AN .-·. ERA WHEJt"'UNITY WOUID BE THE CATALYST TO SUCCESS. I FEEL I WOUID BE REMISS IF I DID NOT AT THIS TIME CLARIFY A SOMEWHA.T CONFUSED SITUATION, A SITUA.TIOM WHICH WAS NOT ClF OUR DOING. . ' BY BILL NO. 1741 PASSED BY THE HOUSE IN TORONTO, THE REGION OF NIAGARA WAS CREATED WHEREBY '.fHE 'COUNTIES CF U?l:OLN AND WELLAND AS WE KNEW THEM WERE DIVIDED INTO TWELVE . ---::-.u.NICIPALITIES CIF EQUAL D1PORTANCE AS STATED BY THE HONOURABLE DARCY MCKEOUGH, MINISTER OF - MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS. THESE WERE .EACH TO BE REPRESEJ.'lTED BY ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES VARYING IN NUMBERS ACCORDING TO THE POPULATION - ONE OF WHOM WOUID AU'IOMATICALLY BE THE MAYOR OF THE MUNICIPALITY CONCERNED IN ~T IS KNOWN AS THE REGIONft.L CO~IL NUMBERING A TOTP..L OF 29 -MEMBERSOI~LUDING THE CHAIRMAN WHO WAS APPOINTED BY THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT. Jl'HIS SYSTEM, THE REGIONAL SYSTEM, WAS DETERMINED SOLELY BY THE PRoVI:tl:IAL GOVERNMENT THE DULY ELECTED REPR"SSENTATIVES OF' THE PEOPLE, WHO IN THEIR WISDOM FEEL IT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST ClF THE PROVINCE AS A WHOLE. I AM OUTLINING THESE FACTS NOT AS A CRITICISM BUT RATHER TO ALERT YOU 'l'O FACTS AS THEY ARE AlID MORE PARTICULARLY, TO EMPHASIZE THE FACT THAT WHAT IS DONE'"'IS DONE AND OUR DU'.I"i - XOU Ali[) I, THE COUNCIL Ari[) THE PEOPLE, INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY, MUST WORK TOGETHER FOR I'I.S SUCC:ESS BECAUSE FAILUilli CAN ONLY WORK A CATAS'lROPHE, ECONOMIC AND SOOIAL1 ON T"HE PEOPLE WE LOVE. . ·. ~-:- - ...-;;: · ..- -:...: ..:::: ;:.,.;..._~, ,.;:.~;"- ,.,..... ~...~.:-_ . .,. ,..:.·-:,.,_ -..-:;F."- ~~· ;:._ -=-~'i. _<:~4 �. ··1,··. ,:·,·l1 ~ . t· ' -2- • M!NY ID1F.S I HAVE BEEN ASKED WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO US AS A RESULT OF THIS ACTION. MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, TAXES WILL, IN MY OPINION, RISE DRA..l.fA.TICALLY AS A RESULT OF THIS REASONS FOR THIS WILL BECOME APPARENT IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTORE. CHANGE. HOWE.VER, IN FAIRNESS, '• A REASONABLE FORCAST CF TAXES WITHOUT REGIONAL GOVERNMENT wofo:n BE INCREASED BY A MINIMUM 111 Ca~'4st:; OF 10% DUE TO -~ I.N COSTS OF LABOUR AND MATERIALS. GLOOM FROM THE FOREGOING REMARKS. IMMIIDIATE RESULT. IS WHERE I IT WOUID APPEAR I AM A PREA.CHER OF: I HOPE NOT BJOOAUSE THE FOREGOING IS WHAT I BELIEVE IS THE IT SHOUID BE THE LONGRUN RESULT IN \-flIICH WE MUST BE INTERESTED. HO~lES'.l'.LY THIS BELIEVE WE IN FORT ERIE HA.VE THE MOST TO GUN FROM SOOCESS BmAUSE WE HAVE THE MOST VACANT LA.ND TO DEVELOP. UIDE.Vli'...LOPID IAND IS ANOmER MATTER. IAND IS THE MOST mE$rous CCM1CDITY WE HAVE - HOWEVER, HERE, IN MY OPINION, LIES OUR PARTICULAR PROBLEM, and -- HERE LIF.S PRIMARILY OUR GREATEST NIDESSITI, THE SERVICING OF ·WHA.T WAS FORMERLY BERTIE TOWNSHIP WITH SEWERJ AND WATER• . THIS IS mE KEY TO OUR INDUS'lRIAL ' ;'.;, - ·-_: .. ~: ; ". . : : : . :{ , , -. ( . .. :. ·,: :; • ' - ' I ' FU~ FOR YITHO'(JT . ' TAx .PAYING .A.ND EMPLOYING ABILITIF.S, INDUSmY AND THEIR • ~,-• • WE HAVE NO FUTURE. YO~ .comi::::II:··:·(H.ls WORKED EARNFSTLY AND CONSCIENTIOUSLY IN YOUR BEH.U.F, ·' ''. - , MEEl'ING ,• , "-• , '· ' I AS A. WHOLE .A.ND SEVERAL .TIME'S A WEEK INDIVIDUALLY ON ONE CCMITTTEE OR ANOTHER.: .. I . - : . :. -: ":,, .- . '- < ·::-:.': ·I _ · ._,':;,:. -·'. o ,. .. , THE TOWN OF FORT ERIE HAS GONE ~·- .-~ FROM NINE SQUARE-MILES TO OVER A. HUNDRED SQUARE MILF.S. '· FEW' REALIZE - THE ml!!MfilIDOUS -AMoONT .~ WORK IllVOLVID IN THE TRANSITION. .~. II WEEKLY ~:,. , THE TRANSFER OF POLICE TO FORT ERIE, I . • _,: ; , ' < ·1 , • . ' , THE INTEGRATION . C!F THE Cu:RK'S DEPARTMENT, _THE mF.ASURER'S DEPAR1MENT, AND OTHERS TOO ' ·.. ·. '. !; ·: ; ?'.: . ~~·~~?'.:~~?~~-~~·~ ~ :;.··-~~ .,· ' . .:- -· ~. . . .. . . . '., .·-·. . NUMEROUS TO MENTION Ilf A ¥.A.TT.ER CF A FEW DAYS, RECORDS BY THE 'lHOUSANDS TO BE RF.ARR.A~'.ED, · I i . .-_, -. -,:; _ - - . PAYROLLS TO BE INTEGRATED. l : ' . MORE WORK HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEES IN ONE WEEK . ' THAyl THE WORK THA.T WOUID BE INVOLVED IN THE UNITING IN ONE DAY CF TEREE OF. THE IARGEST INDUSOO:ES nr OUR AREA.. THE COLLmTIVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SAFETY EICESS OF 20,000 PEOPLE HAS BECOME THE DUTY OF YOUR .A.~ECURITY FOR IM CO~IL. IN THE ENSUING THREE YEARS, DECISIONS OF GREAT IMPORTAi~E AND M!GNI'ID)E WILL TAKE . PLACE. ·. .1\T CERTAINLY IN A COUN'lRY SOCH AS OURS NO ONE COUID EXPECT IN A SHORT SPAN OF THREE YEARS ALL IS DESIRED COUID BE ACHIEVED, BUT RATHER '.ffiE FOUNDATIONS FOR THESE DESIRES CAN AND WILL BE LAID BY '.lm:S "COUNCIL M!KING POSSIBLE THEIR FUTORE COMPLETION BY OTHER COUNCILS. - - I FEEL AS I BRING THIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS TO A CLOSE, I WOUID LIKE TO LFAVE THESE THOUGHTS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION - THE '!RUE WEALTH OF A NATIOU LIF.S NOT IN ITS GOID OR SILVER , :::~'T ::J :r-s LE!"i.RNIIiG, I1S w"ISDOM, rxs m.ADITION WITHOUT EITHER ClF WHICH-".EXISTA~E IS POIN'ILESS AI1ID USELESS. LADIES AND GENTLI!MEN, I CLOSE AS I DID EIGHT YEARS ·AGO BY SAYING TO THESE MEMBERS OF com~::!:L, ·~ THIS HOPE, THAT WHEN THIS TENURE OF OFFICE IS FINISHED IT WILL BE SAID OF us WEP..E HONOURABLE PEOPLE, WE WERE JUST PEOPLE, WE WERE GCXD PEOPLE ---FORT ERIE -IS A BETTER TOWN FOR OUR HAVING ADNINISTERED ITS AFFAIRS. ::...:..j ,:;_,"J � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stevensville Description An account of the resource Images, documents, and other items of historical significance to the town of Stevensville. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Fort Erie Public Library Language A language of the resource English Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Inaugural Address: Stevensville Memorial Hall Description An account of the resource Listed here is the Inaugural Address of Heinz Hummel after his election in 1982. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Louis McDermott Collection 1980s Louis Mcdermott Collection politics and government stevensville