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Home My WebLink About2012-03-20 Minutes CLARINGTON HERITAGE COMMITTEE Minutes of Meeting March 20th, 2012 MEMBERS PRESENT: David Reesor Karin Murphy Angela Tibbles Councillor Hooper Tracey Ali Bonnie Seto Karina Isert Tenzin Gyaltsan REGRETS: Allan Kirby, Andrew Kozak STAFF: Faye Langmaid ADOPTION OF MINUTES 12.13 Moved by Karina Isert, seconded by Bonnie Seto THAT the minutes of February 21St, 2012 be accepted "CARRIED" BUSINESS ARISING 156 Church Street —Faye has a meeting scheduled for April. The facilities people have concerns about being able to maintain the building as a Day Care Facility should it be designated. 5290 Main Street — the house is adjacent to the CIBC property, the property owner has received a CIP grant for facade restoration improvements. Karina Isert offered to follow up with the property owner. Faye will make first contact so that owners know Karina will be contacting them. 106 and 107 Beaver Street — Tenzin provided an update on how the renovations to these homes are coming along. The cement blocks the homes are constructed of is called Artstone and was made on site when the homes were built. 106 has been totally stripped back to the stud walls and will be a new home on the inside. 107 has survived the move much better as it has not previously been renovated. Tenzin has offered to provide a tour later in the process. 1 20 Horsey Street — Plaque has arrived and will be presented at Council on Monday March 26th. Presentation will be by Angela and the Mayor to Bill Paterson. 30 Silver Street, Bowmanville — Work is proceeding on this building, Faye has been offered a tour and will be taking the owner up on it. 608 & 612 Mill Street, Bondhead — Owner inquiring about why the home is listed as primary resource, Allan is going to look into possible connections with Carveth family, Bondhead Harbour Company and Massey Manufacturing. Kemp family, 3187 Middle Road —Angela will proceed with research. Knox family, 6325 Enfield Road — Faye will follow-up to determine if CHC should proceed with research. Heritage Week Event — Event on Feb 25th had 35-40 attendees including two Councillors and Mayor, some attendees from as far away as Brighton. Passion of Peter Stokes for his work was very obvious and the devotion he has had to heritage. This was the only event in Clarington to commemorate Heritage Week and was really due to partnership with ACO branch. The committee members were canvassed for their interest in holding educational events during heritage week, consensus agreed it was beneficial. Karin recalled that the committee has held events, speakers, discussions at Beech Centre (e.g. about 7-8 years ago). For next meeting members are to bring with them ideas for a cheap, volunteer driven, easy to accomplish event that would involve other partners like ACO, Museum, NVDHS. Plaques — the search for plaques of alternate materials is ongoing. Faye has sent the design to David, Ron and Andrew. The most recent version just received is thinner and the detail is much sharper, the mounting mechanism has changed so it would be harder to pry them off a wall (making them more vandal resistant). There are a number that say "Town of Newcastle" and some of the owners of designated properties would prefer "Clarington". The committee members feel strongly that the plaque is a benefit of designation and should reflect the investment by the owner in maintaining the building. In addition, a different material may provide the opportunity to have more information on the plaque to explain why the building is designated and also include a historical sketch of the building. 2 OHT nominations for 2012 — Motion passed at last meeting, Faye will work on write-ups. Committee members are requested to think of others worthy of nomination. REPORTS FROM OTHER COMMITTEES Bowmanville CIP, next meeting is April 111h Orono CIP, next meeting is being rescheduled to April 24th for the Refresh presentation. The Orono CIP liaison group will be inviting other groups to attend; heritage committee members are encouraged to take advantage of this invitation. Newcastle CIP, next meeting is April 26th will be the Refresh presentation. Other community and committee members will get an invitation to this event as well. ACO — Clarington Branch, Working on Doors Open for 2012, there are about 15 sites. The routes include Courtice (OPG), Mitchell's Corners, Enfield, Solina and Hampton — volunteers will be needed if any of the members are interested. The Doors Open website has been improved, it is more user friendly, additional photos can be added from what could have been previously and you can volunteer on the site. Volunteers to assist on June 9th in Clarington can contact Marilyn Morawetz m. m @team evergreen.com. The ACO branch has launched a Camp 30 website with accurate information from the museum. NVDHS, no report. Museum - The Museum would like to partner with other like organizations to broaden its approach and reach more people. Staff have been working on Local Look Back project. Next Board meeting is April 7th. Compliments to Charles Taws on the write-ups he has been including in the real estate flyer. FINANCIAL REPORT Opening balance open $4,601.38 Jan 25 interest 0.04 Jan 31 cheque#10 100.00 gift certificate to J. Knox close $4,501.42 Feb 24 12.14 Moved by Karina Isert, seconded by Ron Hooper THAT the financial report be received. "CARRIED" 3 CORRESPONDENCE and COUNCIL REFERRAL CHO newsletter (distributed at meeting). PROJECT REPORT Heritage Inventory The photography is ongoing. David and Karin have been working in Clarke, have met a couple of owners interested in designation that they will follow-up. There are a couple of properties very far in from the road; permission from owner to enter property is required (will talk to Faye). Website There are updates, maps and more information being added. The issues about locating properties has been addressed, maps added so that they can be easily found, some photos have yet to be uploaded and links to designation by-laws will be added later. Suggestions and typo corrections welcome. The intention is to link to other portions of the Municipal website for items such as heritage conservation district study, community improvement plans, CHC minutes, sign by-law, etc. Letter to designated property owners is ready to go as a "soft launch" for website. Karin and David were asked for locations of the pictures that are the header and footer (e.g. tobacco kilns and railway bridge). Faye will add a disclaimer that this is not an exhaustive inventory and listing of Clarington's heritage resources, there are archeological sites and other heritage resources that are not on inventory. Discussion on how the website is very basic and that it could be improved and designed to represent the character of heritage in Clarington, as an example the Oshawa site has an art deco look as many of its heritage resources are from that era. Members agreed that it is a work in progress and will continue to be added to and improved over time. Tracey offered assistance in helping to update the look of the site. NEW BUSINESS CHO Conference in Kingston May 31 to June 3, 2012 information distributed, members to review and determine at next meeting, who if any attending. It may be possible to have different members share a registration for attendance on different days. Tyrone Store — owners have indicated some interest in being designated. 4 25 Bennett Road — Municipality recently purchased, eventually site will become a park. Building was a short wave radio station in the 1920's has been converted to a residence. The history of the radio station could be part of an interpretive sign in the park when developed. Archeological studies along route of 407 are being carried out. Tensin Gyaltsan moved the meeting be adjourned. Next meeting April 17th at 6:30 p.m., Room 1C Municipal Administrative Centre 5