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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-04-08, Page 1SEATS DAMAGED — Firemen Harold Brintnell and Roy Hunter are shrouded in smoke as they rip off seats to get at a blaze that broke out at the Exeter arena, Sunday. Damage was not extensive. Ninety-sixth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, APRIL 8, 1971 Price Per Copy 15 Cents PLAN FIDDLERS CONTEST — The Hensall Kinsmen club is finalizing plans for a monster fiddlers contest to be held at the Hensall arena, June 18 and 19. Above, Huron MPP C. 8, MacNaughton views the provincial charter with Kinsmen contest chairman Wayne Reid and advertising chairman Doug McArthur who is holding the Ward Allen Memorial trophy that goes to the winner of the -open fiddling contest. T-A photo A W!IRI,Wi,1014,-,:fr-4,,,Ag0014.01,401,04T#A GYMNASTIC WINNERS — Three girls from South Huron District High School fared well at the recent Huron-Perth meet and will compete at the WOSSA championships in two weeks. From the left they are, Kathy Boltzmann, Kathy Wells and Laura Johns. T-A photo Crashes injure two; impaired total jumps READY FOR ALL SEASONS — "Odd Day" at Usborne Central school Friday brought forth a variety of odd costumes. From the left some of the oddballs are David Prout, Donna Stewart, Judy Van Wyck, Lisa Westcott, Kathy Lovell and Joyce Webber. T-A photo BALLET DANCERS OA ADUATE -- Friday was graduation night for 25 district girls that attended ballet classes at South Huron District High School throughout the winter months, Back, left, Debbie Galloway, Kim Gaiser, Tracy Luther, Barbara Down, Patti Lou Down, Brenda Wilson, Patty Lou Shapton, Faye Gaiser, Susan Zachar and teacher Debi Wooden. Centre, Laurie Willett, Wendy Hillman, Laurie Prout, Marjorie Ritchie, Kathy Giffin„ Bobbie Glover, Brenda Pincombe and Jane Sims, Front, Kim Galloway, Cindy Down, Tracey Coward, Lynn GaiSer, Catherine Patterson, Penny Pincl, Janet Pfaff and Cheryl Cann. T-A photo Two plan mobile home parks; council approve 'in principle' :14 Exeter council Monday night unanimously approved a mobile home park "in principle", but indications were clear that it will be some time before such a development takes place in the community. While members were com- paratively quick to voice their approval for the mobile home park, each quickly added the provision that it would have to be Grand Bend council Monday night decided to call a meeting with neighbouring municipalities regarding the dumping of refuse at the Grand Bend dump located in Bosanquet township. The meeting is tentatively set for Monday night, April 12. At the present time in addition to the village, garbage from the summer subdivisions in Stephen, Hay and Bosanquet is being taken to the Grand Bend dump. While Grand Bend officials had attended earlier meetings held by the Ontario Waste Management branch concerning community dumps, they have learned since that they are under the jurisdiction of the London office while other local areas are handled by Mr. Childs out of Hamilton. GB council has been told by Mr. SHDHS student wins pilgrimage Richard Ottewell, 16, South Huron District High School Grade XI student, won Huron County's ninth annual Pilgrimage for Youth public speaking contest at Clinton last week. Speaking on Canadian Nationalism, he competed against five other students from the county. Judges scored the contestants on their prepared speeches and on impromtu speeches of one minute. Runner- up was Kathy Simmons also of Exeter. The contest is sponsored each year by the IOOF and Rebekah lodges of Huron. The pilgrimage will take Richard and other winners from the province to Ottawa, Mon- treal, Philadelphia, Gettysburg, Washington D.C., and to New York where they will attend The United Nations for five days. D.D.P. Mrs, Gerald McFalls assisted by D.D. Robert Fraser chaired the program. Judges were Tom Fox, head of history department at Central Huron Secondary School; Don Dunbar, principal of Elma Township Public School, and Miss Jan Westcott BA, a Kit- chener elementary school teacher. a properly organized and well run project. That's easier said than.dene In Stratford, for instance, city council had a 15-page agreement with rules and rep:flattops fora mobile home site and it was. turned down by the Ontario. Municipal Board because it didn't have enough teeth in it. Members of council, who discussed the matter with Kennedy of the London office of Water Management that they are to operate their own dump and should be able to get along for many years, The meeting with the three townships is being called in an effort to get financial help in operating the dump. At the present time, the only remuneration received by Grand Bend is from two garbage collectors that pick up refuse from the village and the outlying areas. Each pays a yearly licence fee of $100. The clerk's office started Tuesday preparing letters that will be going out to all Grand Bend ratepayers that have tax arrears. This' letter will state that 10 days will be given to make payment or satisfactory arrangements for clearing up the arrears. Failing this, legal action will be taken. The total of all tax arrears as of December 31, 1970 was slightly over $78,000. Councillor Shirley Sylvester was asked to get more in- formation on the requirements necessary to have owners of summer resort businesses qualify for loans under a newly instituted tourist loan fund sponsored by the Ontario Development Corporation. According to preliminary in- formation tourist resort owners would be allowed loans of up to $50,000 at interest of 9 percent with maximum repayment time of 15 years. Approval was given to the sale of tickets on the Parkhill lottery in the village of Grand Bend. It is expected all sales will be handled — Please turn to page 3 Town hall set for '73 Minutes approved at Exeter council's meeting this week showed that four special meetings had been held since the last regular meeting. The press was not notified of the meetings, despite the fact some major decisions were made at the meetings. Of particular interest to the ratepayers is the fact council approved a capital expenditure of about $250,000 for the erection of a new town hall and fire station. It was put into the capital budget forecast for the year 1973. Also approved was the pur- chase of new equipment valued at $6,000. This includes a new backhoe in addition to the tractor and mower previously approved by council. A new truck has also been purchased this year and at one of the special meetings, council agreed to have it un- dercoated. Dennis Dates of the depart- ment of municipal affairs at- tended one meeting and discussed various financial matters with council, mainly tax collection methods and capital expenditures, Kent Murray of the planning Please turn to page 3 members of the planning board at Monday's meeting, learned that coming up with acceptable rules and regulations is difficult because no one can offer any guidelines. "The key point is to have control ,., notwithstanding what the operator says he may do," commented Jim Finnen, a member of the planning board. He suggested there would be plenty of work before any mobile home housing development could be started. Another factor making the situation more difficult for council is the fact two parties have indicated a desire to establish mobile home parks in Exeter. Local businessman Len Yeri has proposed a 19-acre development in the area north of Riverside Drive in the vicinity of the local curling rink. A Kitchener firm has ap- parently optioned land east of the local fairgrounds for a proposed The Exeter OPP report this week an increase in the number of impaired driVers has been noted. Six drivers have been charged with impaired driving during the past couple of weeks and will be appearing in court in the near future. There has also been a similar increase in the number of charges involving breaches of the Liquor Control Act, especially underage drinkers. Four accidents were in- vestigated during the past Week, with two minor injuries being reported. The injuries occurred in a crash on Friday on Highway 4 mobile home park, It was the general feeling of the municipal officials that only so much land should be designated for mobile homes but several opined that deciding which proposal would receive approval would stir charges of discrimination. However, Reeve Boyle and Councillor Taylor suggested that in fact council had to make the choice as to which area could be used for this type of development. "We can certainly limit mobile homes to one area," Taylor contended. "It's our duty not to allow a large amount of vacant land to be tied up for this purpose alone." Boyle agreed, noting that council may decide that neither of the two proposed areas would be suitable. It was suggested by Boyle that the planning board would have to determine the amount of residential land still available in Exeter, and then determine how south of Hensall, involving vehicles driven by Lewis Clarke, Hensall, and Norman Elliot, RR 2 Ilderton. Damage was listed at $2,000 by Constable Ed Wilcox, Both drivers sustained minor injuries in the collision, On Saturday at 1:30 p.m,, Constable Bill Glassford in- vestigated an accident at Huron Park, involving vehicles owned by David Boyd and Anthony Shepherd, both of Huron Park. Damage was estimated at $600, A hit and run was reported early Saturday evening when a car owned by Mike Hoy, Hensall, sustained damage while parked in Zurich. Damage was set at $75 by Constable Don Mason. The other crash of the week involved two Exeter ladies, Merdina Glover and Mae Wolfe, They collided south of Exeter on Tuesday at 4:00 p,m. and damage was estimated at $500 by Constable Bill Glassford. During the week the local detachment officers charged nine persons under the Highway Traffic Act and issued warnings to another 13. In his weekly press release, Cpl. Ray Brooks advises area motorists that new hazards will appear as the warm weather approaches, Farm vehicles and pedestrians will be on the highways as local schools hold walkathons and — Please turn to page 3 Author omitted on Rome story The name of Kathryn Hall was inadvertently omitted as being the author of the account of the Rome trip taken by several students and adults during the winter break holidays. The Times-Advocate apologizes for the omission, Much of that should be used for mobile homes. Will get say Members also noted that all Exeter ratepayers, and par- ticularly those in the neighboring areas to the proposed develop- ments, would be given an op- portunity to express their views on the project before council made a final decision. Councillors Ottewell and Jermyn particularly presented the opinion that ratepayers should have an opportunity to express their views. During the lengthy discussion, one point became evident. It will be some time before council and the planning board have reached the point of establishing rules for the mobile home park and where it — or they — will be located. It was decided to advise the two developers that it will take "considerable time" before any development of mobile home parks would take place. Despite a complaint from 45 ratepayers, Exeter council decided Monday to stick to an earlier decision to increase the fee for sanitary sewer con- nections from $70 to $135. Council approved the increase at a meeting one month ago, basing the hike on the fact that the cost involved for digging cOnnections was approximately $150. Old barracks for residence The old sergeants' barracks at Huron Park have been leased from the Ontario Development Corporation for possible use as a residence for students of the University of Western Ontario. Jack Rice, owner of the Club Albatross, which is situated adjacent to the barrack block said this week he plans ac- commodation for about 80 students this fall. Rice who has spent between $10,000 and $15,000 in refurnishing the building said if enough students showed interest, Charterways bus lines would attempt to provide tran- sportation. Failing this, students would have to depend on car pools for commuting. For $400 the student would share a double room and get breakfast for eight months. The fee for "room only" residence on campus at Western is $600. While there have been no ap- plications from students as yet, Mr. Rice will advertise at the university during the summer months. Bruce Amsom, manager of the Albatross said this week several flying clubs in Western Ontario have shown interest in using the Huron Park airstrip and the barrack accommodation for weekend fly-ins. Award gravel tender to Jones Gravel tenders were opened at Exeter council's meeting this week. Norval Jones submitted the low bid and was awarded the con- tract. His price was $1.65 for "A" gravel, $1.10 for "B" and 95 cents for sand. Council learned at the meeting that their annual street coating program may not be approved by the department of highways this year. The department has initiated a better type of coating program that is supposed to provide a coating for three to seven years, whereas the previous method lasted generally for One year. The new process is considerably More expensive. However, Council members indicated the new program wouldn't be of Much value to txeter in view of the fact most of the streets will be dug Up next year to complete the major portion of the sanitary sewer project, They will attempt to have the department allow them to follow the old procedure this year, but failing that it was indicated they Would probably put calcrum chloride On the streets to keep the dust down. Kids blamed in arena Tire The Exeter fire department Answered two calls this week but one was a false alarm. The other .broke out at the Exeter arena early Sunday evening while .Shiplca. and ..bieury were engaged in an Ausable rec league playoff game, The fire was in the .seating section at the north end of the arena, Spectators indicated they .had seen youngsters smoking in the area and it is believed .a cigarette butt may have been shoved down into -a crack bet- ween the chimney and the seats, The fire raced across the seats and the arena quickly filled with smoke before the blaze was quelled, Fire chief Gary Middleton, assistant rec director was working at the arena at the time, and used an extinguisher and hose to contain the fire until assistance arrived. The hockey players fled to their dressing room under the seats to retrieve their clothes and the equipment of the Exeter Hawks was also removed. The other call came Saturday afternoon to the home of Clarence. Fairbairn, Sanders St. West. He had been burning material in the fireplace and the call was turned in by a neighbor who saw sparks coming from the chimney and didn't realize anyone was at home. Arthur Idle, who was spokesman for a three-man delegation representing the 45 ratepayers who had signed a petition, said the hefty increase was unfair and asked council to seriously reconsider their action. He noted that over the past eight years, the difference bet- ween the actual cost and the $70 fee had been subsidized by the tax dollars of those without sewer facilities and he suggested that those with sewer facilities should now help make up the difference on new connections. "It's not the money, it's the fairness of the thing," the Exeter PS principal said. He said residents in his area had begged for a sewer two years ago and it wasn't their fault they didn't have the facility. He added that if the connection fee had been raised $10 per year it wouldn't have been such a great jar, "but it's quite a jar when it's almost doubled". Mayor Jack Delbridge agreed, admitting previous councils had made a mistake in not increasing the fee each year in line with rising construction costs. One of the few members of council without a sewer as yet, Mayor Delbridge told the delegation he probably would have signed their petition had they come to him, —Please turn to page 3 Ratepayers complain about hike Won't reduce hookup fee GB asks area councils to join in dump talks Will plant trees to create work Exeter council will apply for the $1.00 per capita employment incentive program being spon- sored by the provincial govern- ment. While many municipalities are using the grant to cut down dead elm trees, council will use a portion of theirs for more positive work. They plan to plant trees at their dump in Hay Township, if they can get the trees from the department of lands and forests. , The suggestion for the tree planting program was made by Councillor Mery Cudmore, who indicated it would bring financial returns in a few years. Extra staff will also be hired to clean up the local parks, cemetery and other public areas in the municipality. Students and persons on welfare or unemployed are being asked to register at the clerk's office for the work, which must be completed by the end of June. It is expected five or more persons may be hired for the program.