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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1977-01-06, Page 1ROSE BOWL WINNER — The winner of $1,000 in Saturday's lottery on the outcome of the Rose Bowl was won by Clair Brandt of Kirkton. Above, Harvey Pfaff, representing the Exeter Legion and the Huron- Middlesex Cadet Corps presents the cheque to Mary and Clair Brandt while Chris attempts to hide. The win- ning ticket was sold by Art Bell of Haskett Motors in Lucan where Mr. Brandt is employed. T-A photo WINNER OF $250 — Norm Wolper of Exeter was the winner of $250 in Saturday's Rose Bowl draw sponsored by the Huron-Middlesex Cadet Corps. At the left Lee Webber who sold the lucky ticket makes the presentation, Webber said he will contribute his seller's prize of $20 to aid crippled children, T-A photo White° causes six v hicie crash A WALL OF RADIO EQUIPMENT — Harold Sissons of Huron Park during the past year has built a panel of instruments to compliment his radio equipment, Above, his engineering helper Bill Warburton assists Sissons on checking equipment. T-A photo Replarment under deliberation RAP IS DISSOLVED Exeter council came up with their first major decision of the new term when they dissolved the Recreation-Arena-Parks (RAP) committee, Tuesday, thereby eliminating one of the biggest headaches which had plagued their predecessors in the past two years. However, it took them over an hour to establish plans for the management of the new South Huron Recreation Centre and recreation in the community and there was every indication that there will be many hours of deliberation' with the three neighboring communities before the matter is resolved. Mayor Bruce Shaw said at the outset of the discussion that RAP is no longer rl viable entity con- sidering the cooperation that has been indicated from Usborne, Stephen and Hay for the opera- tion of the new rec centre and recreation programs. Included in the motion to dis- solve RAP was a clause calling for the operation of the local parks to be turned over to coun- cil's property committee. Plans call for the establish- ment of a South Huron Recrea- tion Centre board, comprised of four Exeter representatives and one each from Usborne, Stephen and Hay. Mayor Shaw said the three other municipalities have agreed to this type of an arrangement, although he told the T-A follow- ing the meeting that no definite commitments had been made by the other three councils to help pay for the operating costs of the new facility, He saidl it would be up to the new board to make recommen- dations in this regard. The terms of reference for the new board were outlined as follows: 1. to manage and promote the South Huron Recreation Centre. 2. to act as the body responsi- ble for recreation in the Town of Exeter. 3. to prepare a yearly budget by the end of February and to submit that budget to council for approval. 4, to hire the necessary per- sonnel to implement its programs. Shaw said that hopefully, the• board would see fit that the four Exeter representatives would be empowered to deal with recrea- tion in Exeter, but he added that hopefully the recreation com- mittees in the townships would also see fit •to come under the umbrella of the new board and in fact establish a South Huron recreation committee. He said the recreation com- mittee would be responsible to the new board, and not council. Councillor Ted Wright in- dicated he was not in favor of los- ing direct control over recrea- tion. He said that council had erred in the past by not keeping control of the recreation purse strings and said the new scheme would provide even less control than in the past. Please turn to page 3 RIDE ENDS UPSIDE DOWN — Slides down the hills at Morrison Dam Sunday ended in various positions. Above, David Bierling heads down the hill and in the bottom picture he heads over the front of his machine while coming to a stop. T-A photo One Hundred and Fourth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, JANUARY 6, 1977 Price Per Copy 25 Cents IF in our schools." • Exeter public school addition one of boar's '77 priorities Hensall council will ask the Huron County Health Unit to insist that plumbers notify the Health unit when they do sewer hook-ups in the village. The new council's first meeting heard that only about 48 residents are paying sewer charges while quite a few more than that are in fact hooked up. Councillors estimates that 30 to 40 residents are hooked up but not paying. There will be about 360 connections in the village when hookups are finished. The Huron County Health Unit is inspecting all the hook-ups, but if plumbers don't notify them, they can't do their job, councillors heard. Legally, Hensall residents have nine months to hook up to the sewers, and an extension of up to two years can be granted if there's a good reason not to hook up. The new council, Reeve Harold Knight and councillors, Paul Neilands, Bevan Bonthron Homer Campbell and Harry Klungel set the sewer rate at 134 per cent of each residence's or commercial establishment's monthly water charge. In other business council standing committees were named. Councillors Campbell and Klungel were named to the property committee, which is preparing a list of the buildings Hensall owns to review fire in- surance and Councillors Camp- bell and Bonthron were appointed to the fire board and Councillor Neilands to the waste disposal committee. 'Councillor Bonthron is on the streets committee, and Coun- cillor Klungel was appointed to the drain committee and as Hensall's rep to the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority. Council accepted the resignation of Councillor Camp- bell from the fire brigade. A building permit was issued to Bendix Home Systems for a 64 foot by 56 foot office addition for . their head office operations which are moving to Hensall from London. Sewage run ins are adequate there, councillors were told. The clerk's office will be bonded to the amount of $10,000, council decided, and a contract to instal a new thermostat and two heating ducts at the town hall was awarded to the Hensall Co-op. Council changed their meeting date from the first to the second Mr. Turkheim added that grant regulations for 1977 have , not been studied closely yet, but since there will not be any large jumps in teachers salaries he hopes the budget (fan stay at $18 million. Second is first in baby contest The last shall be first, That was the situation of two would-be mothers entering South Huron Hospital early Monday morning. Mrs. Ken Ducharme, RR 2, Zurich arrived at the hospital at 3 a.m. and her daughter Christy Lee Anne was born at 4:30 a.m. and was the first baby born at the local hospital in 1977, The first to actually arrive at the hospital was Mrs. Ron Amerongen of Exeter at 1:00 a.m, but her baby waited until 6:45 to make an appearance. The Ducharme's have one other child. She is Carrie Lynn who will be three years old on Sunday, Last year the teachers were given almost 30 percent pay increases to allow them to catch up with other boards. Recent announcements from the education ministry which will lead to a, tightening of curriculum in the province, will improve education in Huron County according to Mr. Turk- helm, "Mr, Wells, (Minister of :t.incation) is not in full-scale retreat from education reform, he is simply recognizing that the experiment in totally per- missive education did not work. There has been no suggestion of a return to former iron- bound, unimaginative teaching and grinding province-wide exams." Mr. Turkheim added the ministry is not only interested in restoring a core of required subjects, but is looking for ways to improve measurement and testing of student achieve- ment and it's reporting to parents as well. The Huron County Board has been criticized for not pro- , viding enough assistance for children with learning prob- lems. Mr. Turkheim says the board has possibly fallen behind slightly in this regard, but says financial restraints have cer- tainly hampered the overall programs during the past year. He added "possibly this year we can allow for an expansion Permit value $3,800,849 The value of building permits issued in 1976 reached $3,800,- 849.59 it was reported to Exeter council this week. There were 321 permits issued and building inspector Doug Triebner made 530 inspections. New residential dwellings ac- counted for $1,447,878 of that total, Residential renovations and additions totalled $353,263 and new commercial buildings and additions reached $392,878. New industrial buildings, in- stitutions and additions and renovations were valued at $544,- 025 and new recreation buildings at $958,000. Included in permits approved during December were a new house to be built by Brad Gregus at 220 Eastern Ave., office renovations at Kongskilde Ltd. and two storage sheds at Cana- dian Canners. Stratford man heads board A 50-year old Stratford man, F. J. (Mickey) Vere of 803 O'Loane Avenue was elected chairman of Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board at a meeting in Dublin Monday night. Mr, Vere, a member of the board for the past six years was nominated by Gregory Fleming of Crediton and his motion was seconded by Donald Crowley of RR 2, Gadshill, Ted Geoffrey of Zurich (last Please turn to page 3 in our budget for special ed- ucation. Mr. Turkheim also emphasiz- ed unity on the board. "As a public body 'we are responsible to all the rate- payers throughout Huron Coun- ty, and individually to the rate- paers in the area we repres- ent. But one thing we must keep in mind at all times is that we are a Count) board and we cannot allow' per:serial • wishes for our own area to come ahead of what is good for the over- all education system in Huron. The big tasks facing the board this year will be spending $217,000 on renovations to the Exeter public school approved by the province last year, and the opening of a new school in the old public school build- ing in Vanastra. . Marian Zinn, an eight-year trustee, was picked as board vice-chairman over John Elliott who is serving his second term as representative of the Blyth area. E.C. Hill of Goderich was acclaimed chairman of the edu- cation committee, John Hender- Six vehicles were involved in son is vice-chairmtn. one of the four accidents in- vestigated by the Exeter OPP J.P. Alexander was' unop- this week. po,sed as chairman of the man- aAment committee and Alec The crash occurred just south of Kippen during a "whiteout " on Corrigan is vice-chairman. Friday. Involved were vehicles Clarence McDonald was driven by Hubert Eiselmeier, named to the chairman's ad- visory committee, the board's London; Gary Browne, executive committee made up Burlington, Richard Hughes, St. of committee chairmen and a Marys; Stillman Harrington, member-at-large. Wingham; Marianne McCaffrey, tm A!::,,,--,AMMIOSOMMEINSIMIRVit?:Mtaner-TMINVRM:v. Pleasant surprise Imperial Oil this week provided a donation of $1,500 to the South Huron Recreation Centre. "It was a very pleasant sur- prise," commented finance chairman Ron Bogart. - A He said the firm was one of about 300 to whom letters had been 4 sent early in the campaign and there had been no indication that the contribution was coming until the committee received a che- que in the mail, The finance chairman said he hoped the campaign would get e; back into high gear now that the holiday season had passed so the target can be quickly reached. All canvassers have been urged to t• complete their calls as soon as possible. South 1-luron Recreation Centre - Donations this week 4411416 . • ... 4 ...... 44,4114,4“64•04 4444 Maurice and Jean Love and Family ...... ••••• 0 ... • . Anonymous UB 70 Anonymous UB 71 N Anonymous UB 72 Anonymous UB 73 Anonymous UB 74 Anonymous UB 75 Arfonyrnous UB 76 ...... ............ .................. Jim, Wendy, Sherry, Jeffery arid Joanne Anonymous UB 77 Jack Doerr Total to date ' walrfaNCM27442P1Pff,';',CI:Aisk Monday of each month. The next council meeting will be held January 17 at 8 p.m. A contract f or landfilling at the Hensall dump site was awarded to Garth Postill, RR 3 Clinton, at $300 per week, payable monthly. Council okayed a new $160 bar for the town tractor and decided to remove snow from around the Thompson Mills so that kids can walk on the sidewalks. The reeve and councillors Klungel, Neilands and Campbell will attend the Rural Ontario Municipalities Association convention at the Royal York, in GREENE CHAIRMAN Murray Greene was elected chairman of the Exeter Public Utilities Commission at a brief meeting of the commission, Tuesday. Chan Livingstone, newly elected to the commission, was named vice-chairman. Toronto from February 6-9. Council was notified that a seminar on the Agricultural Code of Practice will be held at the Hensall Legion January 20. A report fron the Ministry of Labour indicated that the report on the arena by B. M. Ross and Associates was approved and that arena renovations were fine. A donation of $15 was approved to the Canadian Mental Health Association. Council will accept sealed bids on a used adding• machine from the municipal office, An offer of $35 was considered too low. Appointments were made to Hensall's recreation and arena committee at the first 1977 meeting of the new Hensall council Tuesday night, Council reps will be councillors Paul Neilands and Homer Campbell. Citizen members are Wayne Reid, Bill Soldan, Leonard Hoffman, George Parker and Bob Caldwell, ' Herb Turkheim has been chosen as Chairman of the Huron County Board of Educa- tion for a second term. Mr. Turkheim was unopposed at the inauguaral meeting Mon- day. At the meeting Mr. Turkheim st, icl the board weathered one of its toughest years in 1976 due to new grant regulations and pre-arranged salary con- tracts, but he feels prospects for the coining y.ear are improved. "We termed 1976 as a 'year of restraint', but we managed to get through the year-thanks to Hensail grants Bendix permit tee with the assistance of the a conscientious budget commit- / administration and the people move head office from Londo Usborne Resident UB 69 Mr. & Mrs. Jim Guenther, Dashwood Bob Baynham, London Imperial Oil Ltd. Anonymous IJB 59 Anonymous UB 60 Anonymous UB 61 Anonymous UB 62 Don and Lenore Parsons and Family Anonymous UB 63 Anonymous UB 64 Anonymous UB 65 Harry and Margaret,Strang Anonymous UB 66 Anonymous UB 67 Anonymous UB 68 200 100 1500 50 20 25 10 100 2 10 150 150 250 20 100 200 150 50 30 100 25 25 25 20 /Ix) 250 200 $214,245 Exeter; and Alan Palmer, Sarnia. Constable Al Quinn in- vestigated and listed total damage at $4,250. There were no injuries. Also on Friday vehicles driven by Larry Ratz, RR 2 Crediton, and Allan Bailey, Huron Park, collided on Stephen Township concession 10-11. Bailey was injured in the collision. Damage was estimated at $4,500 by Constable Bill Lewis. There was one accident on Saturday involving three vehicles, two of which were snow vehicles driven by Roy Ferguson and Leva Marie Ferguson, William St.,Exeter. One of the machines struck an unattended parked vehicle on Highway 83 east of Exeter and the two snow vehicles then collided with each other. There were no injuries and damage was estimated at $340 by constable Lewis, The other accident occurred on Wednesday on Highway4 north of Hensall. Involved were Richard Keavin, Kirkland, and John O'Hagan, Wingham. Damage was set at $2,000 by Constable Bill McIntyre. During the week, the OPP report three Liquor Licence Act violations, two wilful damage complaints, one impaired driver, one stolen vehicle recovered, two reports of abandoned vehicles, two suspicious vehicles, one firearms registration. OPP Sgt. Ray Glover reported that during Friday's snow storm, there were numerous phone requests to the OPP for the road and weather conditions. The police have asked that all calls of this nature should be made to the Ministry of Tran- sportation and Communications. The police explain that they do not have complete road in- formation and also that the calls tie up their telephone lines and they are then not available for m,1 emergency calls. 1 be ikulobers to call for road information in this area are: London 681-2047, Stratford 271- 3550, Chatham M4.7504, Owen Sound 376-7350.