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The ordinance will change to $6 the fee charged for each dog age six months and up. Fees presently range between $3 and $10. The ordinance also will revise fees charged to kennel owners: Zero to 20 dogs, $15; 21 to GO does, $25; 61 dogs or more, $40.
If passed, the proposed fees will go into effect November 1. During the public hearing, no one spoke for or against the proposed dog-tax ordinance.
Supervisors also are scheduled to discuss renovation of the courthouse during the meeting. The renovation is necessary, supervisors say, to reduce noise levels by soundproofing and modern air conditioning and to create better security for officers of the court. The celing of the courtroom also is sagging and is slated for replacement.
The work could take up to three months to complete; alternate plans while the courtroom is out of service also need to be discussed. No date has been scheduled to begin renovation; supervisors gave the go-ahead October 1 to complete an engineering study of the project.
• Monahan Recommended For BZA
Gregory Monahan of Black Water Creek near Boston was recommended October 1 to replace George Muth on the Board of Zoning Appeals. Muth left the post September 26 after 14 years with the BZA.
Nelson Lane recommended Monahan during the Board of Supervi* sots’ regular monthly meeting. Hie recommendation was approved oaanimpae^r by the board. Monahan is employed by Wakefield SchooL V
Monahan wfil join ethers interested in the BZA post October 4 at , ' the courthouse at 1 p.m., where Judge Shore Robertson will receive public comment and interview candidates for the position.
• Expert On Soviets Speaks At Wakefield
While President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko were meeting at the White House last Friday, Wakefield School students were being addressed by Colonel William Baxter (USA-Ret.), director of Soviet studies at the Library of Congress and a leading authority on the Soviet military.
Mr. Baxter predicted that little would come from the Reagan-Gromyko meeting. “Gromyko is a bitter old man and he’s going to repeat the party line,” Mr. Baxter said.
The guest speaker traced the development of the Soviet state from its philosophical foundations in Marx through Lenin, Stalin and the modern Soviet state. Under Stalin, “the Soviet government was at war with its own people,” Mr. Baxter said. He said Stalin deliberately starved millions of peasants and conducted political purges.
Mr. Baxter said Stalin and the Soviet system gained legitimacy during World War II, when the Soviets were victorious despite more than 20 million deaths. “In Leningrad alone...the Soviets lost two-and-a-half million people, 10 times the total U.S. loses in all the war.”
Wakefield’s speaker program will continue October 12, when the Honorable Paul Findley, chairman of the World Hunger Council, is scheduled to appear. The public is invited to these events; for more information, call Wakefield at 635-8111.
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