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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1977-12-08, Page 14FAMOUS BRAND NAME STEREO SPEAKERS AND RECEIVERS CASSETTE PLAYERS 1 DAY ONLY FACTORY SURPLUS SALE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10 10 a.m. — 3 p.m. SPEAKER CABINET REG. LIST PRICE '30. to '299. EACH SALE PRICE FROM'S 1 0. TO $80. EACH SINGLE SPEAKER FROM$5. EACH . Some speakers with slightly imperfect finish or scratch on cabinet. 2 year warranty. Power handling 5 to 80 watts RMS. RECEIVERS 53 WATTS 1 HF — $1 60. CASSETTE PLAYBACK UNITS — 55 WATTS 1 HF — $40 Cash and Carry Held at the VANASTRA RECREATION CENTRE Highway 4, 2 miles south of Clinton WINTER MEMORIAL SALE SAVINGS UP TO $5000° Over 200 monuments in many sizes, colours and shapes. All available for delivery as soon as possible. All.priced below 1977 prices. Current sale prices in effect until January 15, 1978. Some are one of a kind. Visit our Jorge new ,heated showroom and inspect our craftsmanship. Serving Huron and Surrounding Area Since 1919. T. PRYDE &SON LTD., 293 Main St., Exeter 235-0620 - Open 9 5 Mon. Sat. CHRISTMAS GIFT TO YOU! Pays 14 December 0, 1977 •,.$ ADVERTISING The shortest route to , business profits TOP ATOMS — Exeter netminder Jim Lewis, right, receives his most colorful player award from Derry Boyle after the atom game in the Ex- eter minor hockey day. On the left is Parkhill's top player, Steve Griffeth. Clandeboye girls at 4-H achievement Clandeboye girls receiving special awards were Marilyn Groenewegen and Diane Lynn, provincial honours, which is completion of 12 projects. Kim and Tracey Cunningham received county honours, which is the completion of 6 projects. Congratulations girls and a special thank you to the leaders. Our Clandeboye 4H leaders are giving up the leadership and we are most anxious to see these projects continue, so anyone interested in doing a community service by becoming a 4H leader, please offer your services. The remuneration is very small but the reward is most gratifying. The spring project is "Focus on Living" which is taken from the 4H pledge. Personals Congratulations! to Lori and Jerry Morgan who are the proud parents of a baby boy, born December 4 in St. Joseph's Hospital, London. First grand- child for Mr. & Mrs. John Drury and third for Mr. & Mrs. Earl Morgan. Mrs. Arlene Parks and daughter Annb of near Capac, Michigan, spent the American thanksgiving with their cousin, Olive and George Simpson and family. David Hill, Clandeboye, Pete Butler, Lucan and Arden Schantz, London have returned from a week of sunshine and golf in sunny Florida. Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Henry en- tertained Jim and Louise Stanley of Listowel, to dinner, following the Friday morning coffee hour in Ailsa Craig, where Jim was the guest speaker. Due to the stormy weather the ladies bowling league cancelled their Monday night bowling at the • By JACK RIDDELL MPP Huron-Middlesex In recent years farmers have been exhibiting a growing con- cern for property rights for the owners of private land. This concern prompted a bill to be introduced in the Legislature by Robert Eaton (PC — Middlesex), to deal with petty trespassing. An Act to Amend the Petty Trespass Act was given approval in principal in the Legislature this week and will now go to Committee where any amend- ments to the Bill can be made. The purpose of the Bill is to remove requirements from the Act that land be enclosed or that land must )3e posted before one can be considered a trespasser, It places the onus on persons to ask permission to enter another person's land and increases the maximum fine to $1,000 from the present $100. It removes liability from a property owner for trespassers unless deliberate intent to do harm to the trespasser is involved. It is gratifying to know that some of our curiously archaic laws are being amended. As the situation is now, the provinces rural community is virtually powerless to stop trespassers. All farmers have horror stories of trespassers making free with their property. Domestic ducks and geese are shot. Cattle and other livestock are wounded or killed, fences are cut. Gates are left open and garbage is strewn around fields including bottles which play havoc with the tires of the farm vehicles passing over the land. When the Act was drafted, no doubt most of Ontario was unoccupied land and an im- portant source of food supply. Now virtually all the province is under ownership and the forest is no longer a source of food, yet this outdated law still dominates rural areas of Ontario. I'm a little surprised that a Private Member's Bill had to be introduced to amend the Act. As far back as December 1976, I wrote a letter and directed it to the Attorney General's office asking that the Act be brought Lucan Lanes. Several ladies froril this community bowl in that league. under review and amended. The letter and material for- warded eventually ended up 'in the hands of Counsel, Policy Development Division of the Ministry of the Attorney General, who advised that an intensive examination of the law and issues related to both the liability of occupiers of land to entrance onto their premises and the rights of occupiers against trespassers is underway in the Ministry. He was hoping that soiree relevant legal reform will result. I do not know Ivihy the Attorney General did not in- troduce any amendments to the Act and why he waited for a Private Member's bill to be in- troduced. Nevertheless, the amendments to the Petty Trespass Act are supportable, although some of the anglers and hunters feel that the clause which would require that every, person who unlawfully enters or in any other way trespassesupon another person's land must obtain written per- mission, is unduly harsh, par- ticularly, in the northern part of the Province where boundaries are obscure and where the owners of such property cannot be located. This concern will be examined at the Committee' stage. I have supported the bill and I feel the time is long since passed when rural Ontario should provide a playground for the Province. An independent commissioner and review board will be established toi hear citizen complaints against policemen. The new seven-member Citizens' Complaints and Police Discipline Review Board would be• ap- pointed for a three-year term, and would have power to dismiss, demote, fine or reprimand police. The commissioner would have over-all responsibility for han- dling complaints against local police forces arid the Ontario Provincial Police, although police forces would carry out initial investigations. If a citizen is not satisfied, or the charge is serious, the com- missioner would continue the investigation. His powers would be comparable to those of the Ombudsman, including the right to enter offices to examine documents. He would have his own research staff, and the right to order hearings by the review board if, there is evidence of misconduct or unsatisfactory performance by. police. The Provincial Ombudsman has expressed the view that his office's operations in Northern Ontario will have to be ter- minated because the Legislature's Board of Internal Trespassing Economy has slashed his request for $1.1 million in supplementary financing back to $600,000. "I really feel we have been emasculated by this", he said "We'll almost have to close up shop, except to carry on the office and do work around Toronto." The area from Parry Sound north produced just under 30 percent of 'the 4,989 cases brought to com- pletion by the Ombudsman's office in the period from July 1976 to March, 1977. Under amendments to the Highway Traffic Act, the Ontario Government. will give police the power to confiscate radar war- ning devices, called Fuzzbusters by one manufacturer. The bill will allow police to seize the devices from cars, although it will not make their possession illegal if they are not in a vehicle. The owner of the car with one of the warning devices would be subject to a fine of from $50 to $500. The Minis ter has acknowledged that enforcement of the ban might be difficult but said "most citizens are law- 4 abiding" and he hoped they would stop buying the .devices. Be Sure To Visit Our HOME MAKING CENTRE *Zippers *Thread *Buttons *Wool *Embroidery Cotton *Patterns. etc. BUTLER'S Dept. Store 397 Main St., Exeter Parkhill 4H Homemaking Club Achievement day was held Saturday, December 3, at the West Williams Central school. The project was "The Cereal Shelf". Clandeboye Club 1 under the leadership of Mrs. David Noonan had 10 members complete the project. They prepared an exhibit "Cereal Desserts" and it was presented by Elaine and Marie Cunningham during the af- ternoon program. Clandeboye Club No, 2 with leader, Mrs. Ralph Lynn had seven members complete the project and they presented a skit "The Staff of Life" in which all members of the club par- ticipated'. "OK, December 4 is the Tell me again how Unemployment Insurance qualifications are c 55 NIIIIIMPOrilliallairallitiMINININW4101111111111111111111011K NMI • ALL CLOTHING IN OUR STORE IS HOURS FOR THIS S?ECIAL SALE 9 TO 9 OFF REG. PRICE DATE: M. 9 "Has the amount of the benefits changed?" Absolutely not. The UI benefit rate stays at two-thirds of your average weekly insurable earnings. The maximum is $147, less tax. • YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS THIS SALE DEJONG'S "Anything else I should know?" The maximum time for which anydne may receive benefits has changed slightly. The old maximum was 51 weeks. Now it's 50 weeks. But since September 11, the total number of weeks for which a claimant qualifies has more closely reflected the unemployment rate in his or her region, New legislation has changed some of the ground rules of our UI program. Parliament has decided that people who live in areas of high unemployment will be given certain advantages over those who live where jobs are more plentiful. Which means that, as of December 4, you'll need more insurable work weeks to qualify for Unemployment Insurance benefits. "10 to 14 weeks, depending on where you live, right?" Right again. In regions of low unemployment, claimants will need up to 14 weeks of insurable employment to get UI benefits. This will only happen in places where it's easier to get and keep a job. In regions of high unemployment, claimants will need as little as 10 weeks to qualify. But until December 4, the entrance requirement remains at eight weeks wherever you live. "How about the two week waiting period?" No change. The basic two week waiting period remains the same everywhere. And so do the rules on the waiting period when a claimant has left his or her job for no good reason or been fired for misconduct. In such cases, a claimant may have to wait up to eight weeks from when employment ends until benefits start. Right now, we measure unemployment by dividing Canada into 16 economic regions. Later, in 1978, we will fine-tune the program to 54 regions so that UI will be even more closely related to the local labour market conditions. Also, there's maternity, sickness and age 65 benefits. Previously, sickness benefits were only payable during the first 39 weeks of the claim. Now they are payable at any time during the entire benefit period. Maternity benefits of 15 weeks and the special one-time benefit (equal to three weeks' benefits) at age 65 remains the same. The same people still pay for the program in the same proportions, and the types of employment insurable for UI remain the same, too. And, as explained in the box below, you still go to the familiar locations for both UI offices and Canada Manpower Centres. Watch for changes in your area. The Unemployment Insurance Commission and the Department of Manpower and Immigration have become the Canada Employment and Immigration Commission. Fora time, you'll still see our local offices idimtified as Unemployment Insurance offices or Canada Manpower Centres. When they're together in one location, they'll be called Canada Employment Centres. Working with' people who want to work. 11+ Employment and Immigration Canada Bud Cullen Bud Cullen Minister Ministre YES EVEN OUR LARGE SELECTION OF JEANS & CORDS, LEVI'S, SCRUBBIES, CARHART'S, ETC. (FIRST QUALITY). Emploi et Immigration Canada CHAFIGFA ORM GRAND BEND CLOTHING 47 Main St. 238-2358