By Chris Fell - Express Staff St. Vincent township will have a council representative on a committee that is pursuing a locomotive for the Meaford Harbour. Councillor Harley Greenfield asked council at Thursday night's regular meeting if they would consider appointing him to the committee. Council had decided at its last meeting to support the locomotive idea, but not appoint a member because Reeve Gerald Shortt didn't support the idea. The committee had asked for Shortt to be the representative. Greenfield, who was absent at the previous meeting, asked to be apppointed to the committee because he felt it was an interesting and important venture that was being undertaken.
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Greenfield said he realized that the committee had asked specifically for Shortt to be appointed, but said he had talked to a member of the train task force, who told him it didn't matter if another member of council was appointed in Shortt's place. He said the committee was concerned about there being no St. Vincent representative at any official unveilings, should a train be secured in the future. I didn't see this as a strictly Meaford thing. Both councillor Al Craig and Deputy-Reeve Wayne Fligg said they would support Harley sitting on the committee. Councillor Diane Hurlburt was absent and Shortt said he still didn't support the idea saying it would be a costly venture that at some point would likely require taxpayer support.