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Times-Advocate, 1979-07-04, Page 1John Kester Paul McAuley ... best in grade 12 ... tops in grade 11 Robin Little Marion Martens Brenda Fletcher *6, . Anne Dearing Doug Scott Steve Paton Lucy Van Esbroeck Sarah McClure ... best in grade 9 • BACK IN SCHOOL AREA — On one of the first days of school holidays these local youngsters found their way back to the EPS grounds, From the left areCrysfal and Scott Siert- ing and Richard and Greg Haggitt. T-A photo WHICH WAY IS UP? — Randy Mathers likes his exercise up- side down as he uses some of the playground equipment at Exeter Public School, T-A photo Tax rate rises by 15 mills One Hundred and Fifth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, JULY 4, 1979 Price Per Copy 25 Cents Will study seniors PUC gets land Council defers insurance review Name 10 Ontario scholars at South Huron Kevin Glasgow ... grade 10 best After well over a year of apparent inactivity there's a possibility that some progress on revamping Exeter's community park may be made. At Tuesday's council meeting a letter from former mayor Bruce Shaw asked that the town take the iniative in starting work on park renovations. In his letter Shaw said "At the moment the community Park does not flatter the Town. Smaller municipalities all over the area boast of better outdoor • facilities.; visiters are im- pressed with the Centre but are often amused when they -Permits decrease Compared to the same period last year Exeter has seen its rate of growth slowed if the number of building permits issued are any indication. In his report to council building inspector and zoning administrator Doug Triebner said a total of 101 permits totalling $554,909 had been issued in May and June compared to 106 per- mits totalling $1,292,004 in the same period last year. Experiencing the biggest drop was the category in- stitutional renovations and additions with only three renovations totalling $12,800 being issued. For 1978 the same figures were four and $489,550 respectively. Permits totalling $229,936 for four houses were issued compared to 13 permits with a value of $575,000 in 1978. The one area which did see an increase was in com- mercial additions and renovations with 12 permits totalling $146,000 issued. In May and June of 78 ten permits with a value of a little over $100,000 were issued. look to the east of the building. Because the problem primarily concerns just the residents of Exeter, I am of the opinion that Exeter Council should bear the responsibility of bringing the local resources together to get the job done." Shaw termed the $50,000 figure which the grounds subcommittee had set as the amount to provide for new diamonds and a soccer as a "paltry amount" compared to the services which will be provided. Mayor Derry Boyle said the community park proposal has come up for discussion on many an oc- casion at both the South Huron Board of Management and at the Exeter recreation sub- committee. levels. Boyle said he and coun- cillor Don Cameron have proposed that a fund raising effort should begin with the Lions, Kinsman and the two ball groups in Exeter working together. The mayor said the four groups could work individually but that there should be a common goal. "The money has to come first," he said. It was important that groups such as the Lions and Kinsman become involved since there were conflicts between the two ball groups in what should be built Boyle stated. Councillor Jay Campbell said it was his opinion that the recreation sub- committee should make the final decision on what happens to the park. Councillor Lossy Fuller said there has been a renewed interest in ball in recent years and one person usually acts as the catalyst in a fund raising effory, Fuller cited Ron Bogart in the fund raising scheme for the rec centre fund and noted Shaw had offered his ser- vices for the community park effort. South Huron District High School can boast of 10 Ontario Scholars for the 1978- 79 school term as the result of an announcement made Friday by principal J.L. Wooden, The 10 grade 13 students attained marks of 80 percent or more. Last year the school had nine Ontario Scholars. Heading the Ontario Scholars was Robin Little, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Little, Main street, Exeter. The top grade 13 student a year ago was his sister Heather, The top female student in grade 13 was Marion Mar- tens, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Tony Martens, Sanders street, Exeter. Along with Robin Little, Marion will be eligible to receive the Moncur Scholarship as the top female and male students in the graduating class. The other Ontario Scholars are Brenda Fletcher, Steve Paton, Brad Taylor, Lucy Van Esbroeck, Anne Dearing, Sandra McLeod, Catherine Abbott and Doug Scott. Brenda Fletcher is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fletcher, Pryde Boulevard, Exeter and Steve Paton's parents are Mr, and Mrs, Wilfred Paton, R.R. 1, Kirkton. Brad Taylor is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor, Mill street, Exeter; Lucy Van Esbroeck is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alois Van Esbroeck, R.R, Hensall and Ann Dearing is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Dearing, R.R. 1 Exeter, Sandra McLeod is the granddaughter of Mr, and Mrs. Ron Iles, Sanders street, Exeter; Catherine Abbott is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Abbott, R.R. 1 Centralia and Doug Scott is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Scott, R.R. 1 Centralia. Grade 12 students were led by John Kester, son of Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Kester, R.R. 2 Dashwood. The top student in grade 11 was Paul McAuley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald McAuley, Anne street, Exeter. Taking top honours in grade 10 was Kevin Glasgovi, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Glasgow, Huron street east, Exeter and the best grade nine student was Sarah McClure, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David McClure, R.R. 1 Crediton. Secondary School Honour Graduation Diplomas Catherine Abbott, Cathy Unbuckled pay fines Two area drivers were fined $28 each in Justice of the Peace court Tuesday morning for failing to wear seat belts. Fined by Justice of the Peace DV. Wedlake were Yvonne Dietrich, Centralia and Charlotte M. Fleming, Crediton, Ricky W. Wein, Crediton was assessed total fines of $182 on charges of creating unnecessary noise and careless driving. A fine of $54 was levied against James Pelley, Thedford for driving a vehicle with liquor available, John Bentley Stephens, Exeter was fined $182 for a 'speed of 140 kilometres in an 80 kilometre per hour zone. Two other speeding fines were levied. They were against Danny P. Paton, London, $18 for a speed of 95 kilometres in an 85 zone and Leslie Peterson, also of London, $33 for a speed of 100 k.m• in an 80 it.m. zone. Becker, Cindy Becker, Betty Beer, Lillian Bowerman, Susan Chapman, Jennifer Cook, Kathy Cooper, Anne Dearing, Pat DeJonge, Angela Dekort, Barb Dietrich, Chris Ducharme, Mary Easton, Brenda Fletcher, Cheryl Fuss, Richard Govers, Laurie Heimrich, Terry Heywood, Brenda Hodgert, Dave Holtzman, Deb Horner, Mary Beth Jantzi, Karen Kneale, Robin Little, John Love, Marian Martens, Dwayne Mathers, Richard May, Karen McAllister, Nancy McCurdy, Sandra McLeod, Saskia Merkies, Mike Ondrejicka, Randy Parsons, Steven Paton, Nancy Perry, Carol Rader, Sandra Schroeder, Doug Scott, Donna Stewart, Susan Stretton, Brad Taylor, Jill Tuckey, Lucy Van Esbroeck, Paul VanGerwen, Lisa Westcott, Kathy Willard, Cindy Willert, Vince Winters. Secondary School Graduation Diploma Carol Abbott, Dale Alexander, Barb Armstrong, Dale Armstrong, David Atthill, Bryan Baker, Vicki Baker, Jim Ballantyne, Joe Barrett, Cindy Beaver, Sue Ann Becker, Pat Berendsen, Paul Bies, Robert Bies, Please turn to page 2 Exeter council will review a report of the town's in- surance needs it was decided at the month's first meeting Tuesday. • Appearing before council were Dave Reed of the Frank Cowan Company Limited of Princeton and Mel Gaiser of Gaiser- Kneale-Tait Insurance Agency. Upon receipt of the risk management report prepared by the two com- panies Mayor Derry Boyle said council would review the report for two weeks and come up with a firm decision on what changes they deemed necessary for the next council meeting. In a brief review of the town's coverage, need said the insurance policy was up to date compared with the 800 municipalities which the company services. Reed did not recommend that the town begin having deductables on their in- surance policies as the cost saving would only amount to somewhere between $1,200 and $1,500 per year. Asked to lock cars As the result of a rash of recent thefts, Exeter police chief Ted Day this week asks that residents and visitors to town make sure they lock their cars at night, Day continued, "Do no leave stereo tapes or any articles of value in sight. Lock them in your trunk." Sunday, Mrs. Shirley Pratt reported to police that contents from the glove compartment of her parked vehicle were missing. The same day, Steve Cann, 306 Carling street discovered a box of stereo tapes was taken from his motor vehicle while parked overnight. Similar reports were made by Mrs. Herman Dettmer, 303 Carling and Ralph Batten, 306 Carling con- cerning the theft of glove compartment articles and a small amount of change from their vehicles. Constables Jim Barnes and Brad Sadler are in- vestigatingthese complaints. Any persons that have found articles missing from their ears and not notified police are asked to do so. Sometime Monday, a bathing suit and towel owned by Suanne Adkins, 68 San- ders street was taken from the swimming pool area while the 12 year-old owner was playing in the park. Among the recom- mendations which Reed presented to council was the option of having coverage for firemen whOsuffered a heart attack while attending any non-practice fire alarm. Reed also recommended that the town increase its third party liability on its three automobile policies to $5,000,000 each. The ad- ditional coverage would cost the town $1,112. Among the other recommendations presented were increasing the fidelity bond which covers the town in case of theft by town employees, adding valuable papers insurance and coverage in case the municipal offices might have to be moved because of fire and increasing the loss of income insurance for the arena from $200 per day to $400. Total incurred losses for' the municiaplity in for the past four years totalled $22,618 which Reed called "relatively good" compared to other municipalities. Thanks to a grant from the Young Canada Works program a study of the needs of seniors will be conducted over the next six weeks by three area young ladies. Heading the project which will operate out of South Huron Hospital will be Darlene Davis. Assisting Ms. Davis will be Mary Easton and Marg Parkinson. South Huron Rec ad- ministrator Ian Smith said the three young ladies will present a report based on their findings in August. Later in the meeting, council gave their blessing to a motion from councillor Lossy Fuller asking that the town as'sume the cost of the project's salaries until the funds from the grant came through. Both Fuller and Smith assured council that the grant had been approved but that the initial cheque had not been received. The town will not be receiving a supplementary subsidy allocation from the ministry of transportation and communications council learned Tuesday. Council expressed little surprise over the decision with the only remark coming from Boyle who said "It's a sad tale." Works superintendent Glen Kells said his depart- ment's budget would not change since they had not budgeted for the extra funds. Kells did say funds for the renovations to the bridge spanning Highway 4 would be forthcoming before the end of the year but that work on the sidewalk for the east side of the bridge would not be done in 1979. After some debate, council agreed to allow free use of the land on which the San- ders street hydro substation is located, to the Public Utilities Commission. Earlier, it had been an- nounced that the PUC could purchase the sub-station for $25,000 from Ontario Hydro. This compares with the The 1979 tax rate for the town of Exeter was set by council Tuesday night and ratepayers face increases of from 8.3 percent to just under 10 percent. The mill rate for farm and residential properties paying public school support has risen 15.2 mills from 180.02 mills to 195.23 mills. The increase for separate school supporters in the same category will be 18.3 mills to a total of 199.27 mills. Commercial and industrial property owners with public school support will find a rise of 18.64 mills to 224.29 mills, and separate school sup- porters will be charged 228.79 mills, an increase of 22.34 mills. The increase of 15.21 mills $12,000 yearly rent which the PUC presently pays to Hydro for the use of the station. When councillor Harold Patterson made a motion to allow the PUC free use of the transformer land for the next ten years councillor Jay Campbell said "I'm hesitant to commit the town for that period of time. These are the same people who charge us $25,000 for the use is made up of 13.17 mills for the general town rate, .62 mills for secondary school, 1.68 mills for public school while the county of Huron rate dropped .26 mills. The separate school levy is up five mills from a year ago. In addition, a mill rate of 42.09 mills will be levied on the commercial assessment which will be used as a basis for business assessment on all business within the downtown business im- provement area to levy $13,800 for that purpose. The taxes less the interim levies of March 15 and June 15 shall be paid in two equal installments due and payable September 15 and November 15. of the fire hydrants." Campbell recommended that the standing committee of council look after the matter. Pfrially, Deputy-reeve Don MacGregor seconded Pat- terson's motion. Before a vote could be taken Reeve Si Simmons You can add one more item to the list of activities which Mayor Derry Boyle is proficient at. Boyle who has been known for his skills on the area's golf courses and ball diamonds told a somewhat bemused council Tuesday that in his earlier days he was a pretty fair actor. In his usual modest style the mayor said "I was tremendous". Boyle's exposition came as a result of a statement by councillor Marilyn William- son who expressed pleasure over a statement earlier in the evening by South Huron 'rec administrator Ian Smith who said he would be stress- ing the cultural aspects of recreation in the upcoming months. Boyle said he would like to see an amateur theatre group in the community. In his report to council, Smith said he informed the other municipalities which make up the rec board of his duties and the services which he can provide, Smith said he was pleased with the recreation budget saying "We're in good shape". On the cultural side of things, Smith said the Lamb- ton Youth Theatre would be appearing at the rec centre later this summer. When Smith said he welcomed the input of the public into programs offered by the board, Reeve Si Sim- mons asked with tongue in cheek if there are any programs for either water skiers or fishermen. Piping in was councillor Jay Campbell who told Sim- mons "I didn't know there were any cultural fishermen." Turning to theatre, Campbell said it was his un- derstanding there were several local citizens in- terested in forming a theatre group in the town. In other business, council: Filed a resolution from the town of Hawksbury which called for the province to switch to daylight saving time one asked for an amendment to original motion that would call for free use of land for five years with a review before another five year period- was granted. Upon this, Campbell stated "I'll go along with that." In the revised form the motion was passed. month , earlier in the in- terests of energy conserva- tion. Filed a letter from the ministry of government ser- vices notifying the town of the availability of the ministry of transportation and communications patrol yard located just to the north of town in Hay township. Will send a letter to the Exeter Kinettes Club thank- ing them for the creative playground which they have erected in Victoria Park. Many thefts in Zurich A series of break-ins and thefts culminated June 25 when about 20 gallons of gas was taken from a tank at the Zurich Public School. The episode started at the school when the culprits broke a window to enter the property. Nothing was taken initially. Next a storage shed on the property of Maxim Jeffrey, R.R. 2, Zurich was entered and a hack saw taken. Police believe the thieves returned to the Zurich school where they used the hacksaw to cut the lock on the gas tank and take the gas. Constable Bob Whiteford is investigating. A 10 speed bike owned by Edward Neeb, 19 Goshen street south in Zurich was stolen Saturday. The bike valued at $135 was recovered later the same day by Constable Wally Tomaski, It was damaged somewhat, Casette tapes valued at $120 were taken over the week end from a ear owned by Robert Soderman, London while it was parked at the home of John Douglas at Oakwood, near Grand Bend. Constable AI Quinn is investigating. Constable Whiteford is investigating the theft of a 16 foot canoe from the Exe- Fibrecraft plant in Exeter sometime during the week, It is valued at $720, Former mayor asks for park renovations Brad Taylor Mayor tells council: 'I was tremendous'