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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1977-06-23, Page 1A MACHINE PUSHER — Randy Parker provided the motivation for Tim Goudie during Tuesday's parade at the Hensall Spring Fair. Will set guidelines for sex education z A DIFFERENT WAY — The traditional ribbon lost out in Thursday's official opening of the newly renovated Darling's IGA Market in Lucan. Above CFPL celebrity Bill Brady cuts yards of sausages held by Fred and Marion Darling. Looking on is Joe Darling. T-A photo Interfered with firemen Area man fined $600 WHAT HAPPENED TO MY SADDLE? Grander Doug McArthur found a base hit more trouble than enough during the Buffalafest donkey baseball game Saturday. The Granders defeated the Benders five to four dur- ing an overtime donkey race. T-A photo Four area residents hurt in weekend auto collisions A MULE TEAM — Bev Kinsman participated in Tuesday's Henson Spr- ing Fair parade with a team of mules. T-A photo rah eniereiMmesatwocale One Hundred and Fourth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, JUNE 23, 1977 Price Per Copy 25 Cents SENIORS TOUR-- Exeter lions club sponsored a tour for Exeter area seniors June 15 Lind found the group hard to keep up with. Three buses were used to tronsport the seniors from Pert Franks, London and back to Exeter, t-A photo The subject of Family Life programs/sex education)in Huron County schools came full circle at Thursday's board of Educa- tion meeting when the board decided to develop guidelines for teachers of the health program. The guidelines are primarily for the board and its staff members to be assured that a curriculum has been developed across the county and that all schools are dealing with the same material. The decision ended several months of discussion on the matter, discussion that began (t) when elementary school teachers met with some board members to discuss methods of teaching the subject. The teachees eeele.encerned with what they should teach but how. They were questioning what type of display to use, what films and books could be used and what type of material was being used in the rest of the coun- ty. Colborne trustee Shirley Hazlitt noted that the recommendation before the board was to develop teacher guidelines at a secondary school level and added that while the first delegation was elementary school teachers and education committee, of which she is a member, had met with members of the Goderich and area Pro Life group who were concerned a bout secondary school material, She suggested that the board es- tablish guidelines for the whole system. John Cochrane, director of education, told the board that the recommendation was made to develop rationale behind the courses. He said that the idea was to give the teachers direc- tion but to also enable the board or the teacher to answer a parent when they ask why„something is being.taught. Goderich trustee Dorothy Wallace said she could recall the board going over this same sub- ject not too many years ago and it seemed to be the general con- sensus then that someone froin the outside teach the course, She said the concern was that the teacher felt uncomfortable deal- ing with sex education and then trying to teach the same group of children another course. Eugene Frayne, Ashfield trustee, asked if the course could be expanded to something a little more than just health. He suggested that the course be in- troduced in a manner enabling it to be taught with reasoning developed from Christian more Is, "Is it possible to have health taught with an option that the parent and student can decide on?" he asked. "One course could be just health and the other could be health backed up with good strong Christian morals. They have it in math and English, why not in health?" Cochrane said he could see no reason why the courses couldn't be taught in that manner adding that "off the top of my head I would say it is something that the education committee will have to sit down and come to grips with", WE'RE GROWING Official figures released this week from the 1976 census show that Exeter's population hes grown to just under the 3,500 Mark, The actual figure has been set at 3,494. The board accepted the recommendation to set up a course "which will encompass concerns expressed by some parents so that subjects con- . sidered to be of a delicate nature are dealt with in a tasteful and inoffensive manner, reflecting the moral standards of the com- munity," Renovations are "pretty well completed" at Exeter's new police office councillor Keel Ottewell advised council this week. He said the move to the new office beside Usborne & Hibbert would probably commence when Chief Ted Day returns from the annual conference of Police Chiefs. Ottewell reported that the town's police cruiser sustained some minor damage during a high speed chase this week when One of the front tires blew out. He said the officer in charge managed to keep control of the vehicle, although it would require two new tires and a realignment. Four people were injured — ndne seriously — in the two ac- cidents investigated by the Exeter OPP this week, On Saturday, a vehicle driven by Richard O'Brien, Goshen St., Zurich, left Highway 84 east Of the village and struck a brick pillar at the driveway of Bruce Robson. Damage was estitnated at $2,200 by Constable Wally Tomasik, The driver and his passenger, John Alister Nesbitt, London, sustained minor injuries, The other collision occurred on Sunday when a vehicle operated by Ortio Adair, Ftli 8 Parkhill, went out of control and rolled Police preparing for office move Postpone tender decision on town hall until finandal arrangements complete Exeter District Heritage Foundation postponed a decision on tenders for restoration of the town hall Monday until funding for the project can be arranged. The total amount to be raised by the Foundation is $43,471 after Wintario and Ontario Heritage grants are removed from the total cost'of restoration. Tenders received for the pro- ject ranged from $143,000 to $234,000 but the lowest tender Trustees of the Huron County Board of Education indicated at the board meeting Thursday that they all wanted to serve on the 1977-78 budget committee. Chair- man HerbTurkheimwent around the room asking if any trustees wanted to volunteer for the com- mittee and all but Charles Rau of Zurich and Robert Peck of Stanley said they would, like to serve. The board was attempting to appoint the committee after a recommendation from director John Cochrane suggested that a committee appointed now could begin to develop its objectives and procedures before actual preparation of the budget begins. Cochrane indicated in the report that the board was dis- satisfied with the "rush" that the 1977 budget was given by both trustees and administratort. He suggested that if the board wish- ed to give the budget some other type of treatment it could do so now. The director said that the com- mittee has been six strong in the past and the board should decide if it wants that to remain. It should decide on a method of ap- pointing members, should decide on a method of appointing a chairman and then proceed to do so, Wingham trustee Jack Alex- ander took exception to the chairman's suggestion that volunteers be asked for. He said that if the committee was to be six strong then the first six peo- ple asked would be on the com- mittee and the exercise might as well be stopped there. "I'd like to see the' names of anyone who wants to volunteer be put in a hat and six chosen by drawing names," he said. After polling the 16 trustees and discovering that 14 wished to serve on the budget committee, the chairman asked if the com- mittee could be appointed by the chairman's advisory committee. He suggested that the chair- man's group could look over the special interests and concerns of the trustees and try to appoint a committee that would be balanc- ed in its approach to the budget. He also suggested that the budget committee be left to over into a ditch in Stephen Township. Adair and his passenger, Glen BullOck, McGillivray Township, sustained minor injuries. Damage in the mishap was listed at $3,000 by Constable Tomesik. During the week, the local detachment officers laid a total of 43 charges: 30 under the Highway Traffic Act, four uhdet the Criminal Code and nine under the Liquor Licence Act. Two thefts were also in- vestigated, On Saturday night, a Act of golf clubs valued at $400 was taken from the back of a pickup truck parked at Club Albatross in Huron Park, The or the alternative of 60 days in jail. The story related to the court was that the accused felt he had been aggrieved by one of the members of the volunteer fire brigade who was answering a late night false fire alarm. As Fire Chief Jesse Reed was driving home after the fire call, Fields followed him at a close pace and shunted the back of Reed's car. The latter finally had to pull off into a friend's laneway. An hour later, the accused followed another member of the fire brigade, Michael Gibbs, and although no contact was made with his vehicle, Gibbs was con- cerned to the point where he was afraid to drive home and he too pulled into another driveway to avoid Fields and his companions. JAIL TERM In another court case on Tuesday's docket, His Honour Judge Glenn Hays imposed a four month jail term on Ross Beverley Hunter, RR 3, Exeter, who was appearing for sentence ,pn a charge of uttering a forged document. He will be given day leave from jail to enable him to main- tain his job. The amount of money involved in the incident was $20. The court was told that Hunter had a previous convinction for a similar offence. In other court cases, the following fines were levied: James W. Bridle, Zurich, was fined $153 or 15 days on a charge of careless driving arising out of an accident on April 1 when his vehicle crashed into the bridge on Exeter's Main St. His vehicle hit one side And then bounced off and hit the other, Damage to the bridge wag approximately $2,000. Lack of attention on the part of the accused was cited. Ross Kenneth Carson, 18, Lon- don, was fined $100 or 10 days after pleading guilty to a charge of possession of marijuana. He had been hitchhiking on May 13 and after getting a ride noted that the driver was impaired, He asked to be let out, but the driver sped away with Canon's peek sack after he was discharged from the vehicle. Police later located the pack sack and found it contained About five Ounces of Marijuana. Laurie W. Ward, 25, tendon, was fined $200 or 20 days on a charge of failing to remain at the scene of an accident and an ad- Please turn to page 3 "I wouldn't want to see a sign 'seniors only' on the 'door and all others keep out", said Hewitt. "Any additional benefit that is gained by usage (of the hall) by other groups in the community is well and good". Hewitt suggested the town hall basement could be used to es- tablish a seniors workshop and drop-in centre based on funds from seniors' craft skills. New Horizon funds would be availabiefor 18 months after the seniors program is created to get the program on the road, he said. After the 18-month funding period, profits from the seniors craft program should pay for their part of the town hall, said Hewitt. The total grant available from New Horizons is determined by the number of full senior members and the specific needs of the seniors program in Ex- eter. "I don't think you can swing it (restoration of the hall) as your individual group", said Hewitt. could be reduced to $108,781 after all of the trimmings have been removed, said Exeter Heritage president Doug Gould. "About the only way we are go- ing to raise this money ($43,471) is to go to our friendly bank manager with so many signatures" said Gould. The Heritage Foundation is seeking signatures for $2500 bank notes within the Heritage group and, if necessary, from other members of the community", he choose its own chairman. Vice chairman Marion Zinn said she was pleased at the con- cern of the board members and pointed out that the exercise proved that "a lot of people are interested in the budget". Setting off a false fire alarm resulted in a fine of $100 for a Huron Park man in Exeter court, Tuesday, while a Hensel] area resident was fined a total of $600 from an incident related to another false alarm in Huron Park. clubs were owned by Joe Regier, Creditod, Friday morning, Larry Snider Motors reported the theft of two mirrors from a new car parked on their lot, The mirrors were valued at $86. Constables Jim Rogers and Bob Whiteford are in charge of those two investigations. The OFF' are also investigating the circumstances surrounding the purchase of two new vehicles from Huron Motor Products in Zurich, In one instance, an NSF cheque was received and in the other, the purchase papers were signed but no Money was received before the vehicle was'taken, said. The Heritage group has already been guaranteed ten signatures. Heritage member Art Whilsmith said members of the community might think that all the money has been raised if they read that the bank notes have been signed. The actual raising of funds for the hall will begin after the notes have been signed, he said. Gould said the Foundation has a July 11 deadline on settlement of financing and tenders for the hall restoration. In other business, the Founda- tion created a committee to meet with the executives of local senior citizen groups and measure the seniors' interest in facilities available for the restored town hall. New Horizons representative, Richard Hewitt, said a grant was available towards restoration of the hall if the Heritage group has a written agreement with New Horizons to ensure the hall will remain a seniors centre. Timothy Ronald Lawrence, 16, Huron Park, was fined for set- ting off a false fire alarm on April 10 in Huron Park. The court learned that 10 men and two vehicles responded to the call at a cost of $400, Lawrence has paid $100 in restitution to Stephen Township for some of the costs involved. He was given five weeks in which to pay the fine or the alter- native of a 10 day jail term. Mervyn Orland Fields, RR 2, Hensall, age 23, ended up paying four fines as the result of his driving antics during another false fire alarm call in Huron Park on May 14. He was charged with two counts of wilfully interfering with the lawful use of another vehicle and two counts of careless driving. He was fined $200 on each of the mischief counts and $100 each on the careless driving charges. In ad- dition, he had his driver's licence suspended for three months. He was given 15 days to pay the fines Pea pack underway The 1977 pea pack was scheduled to get underway at Canadian Canners yesterday. • Exeter plant manager Jack Urquhart said the harvest would probably continue until around August 10. The last crops were planted on Friday. He said some of the first pea crops to be harvested will be slightly below average and he expected the entire crop to fall in that category due to the dry weather this spring. "We do have some heavy crops, but there are some light ones as well," he said, noting that the rain of last week helped tremendously, and this has pointed to improve yields," All of the firm's staff requirements have been met for the pea pack.Urquhart said many applications from students had to be turned down due to the numbers who were seeking elnnloyment. "They were good kids and we will use as many as we can," he said, However applications for employment during the corn harvest have not been as plentiful and Off-shore workers will again have to be brought in to meet the company's needs. "In terms of the tax dollar representation, you're a minori- ty group where the minor hockey It took Tuckersmith Township Council only seconds to decide to continue its "dump"agreement with the Town of Seaforth, but on the question of assuming its share of the operating costs of organized sports at the Seaforth Arena, members of council put off discussion to the end of the meeting Monday night. When the question came up at the end of the lengthy meeting, which was adjourned at 1:25 a.m. Tuesday morning, they decided it was too late, A delegation from Seaforth Council—Mayor Betty Cardno, Reeve. John Flannery, and Councillor Bill Bennett, chair- man of the Arena' Committee, and as well, Seaforth Recreation Director, Clive Buist, attended the council session at Brucefield, Mr. Bennett, as spokesman, presented a brief summary of what has taken place since the initial request for financial assistance for the Arena in 1974. Of the four townships assessed to share operating costs at that time, only Tuckersmith refused to share , while McKillop, Hibbert and Hullett Townships paid their costs based on registrated figures of children from their townships participating in hockey at the arena. At Monday's meeting, Seaforth requested financial assistance again based on attendance She won't take no for answer Members of Exeter council decided Monday night it was too late to plan any local activities to celebrate Canada Week or Canada Day in the community. However, that decision didn't sit well with Councillor Barb Bell and she decided Tuesday mor- ning to try and get some type of activity going to celebrate Canada's 110th anniversary. With the blessing of Mayor Bruce Shaw, she is planning a picnic at Riverview Park on July 1 during the supper hour when local citizens can bring their own picnic baskets and join in an informal party. She's also trying to line up some entertainment for the oc- casion and has invited any citizens with ideas to present them to her so the birthday can be suitably observed. Further details on the activities will be presented next week, Everyone anxious to help set budget association might be a lot more, representative of ,the tax com- munity structure", he said, figures from Tuckersmith amounting to $1,300 for 1977. No; capital costs are involved. Because Tuckersmith Council had not given the share assessed to it the Seaforth Recreation Committee had charged an extra $15 fee to township children participating at the arena. Mayor Betty Cardno said she did not like to see this done, "I'd rather see this settled in an agreeable manner rather than regionally. The latter when the question of a county recreation committee was mentioned. Reeve Ervin Sillery said, "We have other rinks involved (Hensall and Clinton) and we have to consider them." Councillor Frank Eeileterter said, "I don't like to see our ratepayers charged at the door." Mrs. Cardno said the Tuckersmith children involved were mainly from Harpurhey and Egmondville, both hamlets adjoining the town. Reeve of Seaforth, John Flannery was the spokesman on the charge of $1,400 asked by the town from the township for use of the "dump". He explained that the increase of $200 asked was due to the increased costs at the dump, such as bulldozing, having the gate manned Wednesdays and Saturdays and having had to put a new fence around the 14 - acre site on government orders. Flannery said the operaing costs of the dump last year was $4,667.35. Mrs. Cardno asked the town- ship council to consider sharing the cost of building inspector with the town. She also said the town was planning a community picnic and would like to see Tucker- smith participate in it. Building permit applications were approved as follows: Alden King, Vanastra, attached garage; G. Heyink, RR2 Hensall, garage and storage shed; Mr. and Mrs. Don Hunking Clinton, new house; Ivy Henderson, Egmondville, enlarging porch and verandah; James Cooper, RR3 .Kippen, implement shed; Tom Jorgensen, RR4 Seaforth, addition; Henry Binnendyk, RR2 Kippen Swimming pool; Don McLean, Vanastra, closed in porch; Alois Van Esbreeck, Hensall, implement shed; and John Watt, Egmondville, car- port The new Honna bridge is completed and will be officially opened on June 28 at 4 p.m. in a ribbon cutting ceremony with officials in attendance. Will pay for dump, recreation undecided