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A LUCAN FAIR PARADE WINNER — The float entered by the Lucan branch of the Toronto-Dominion Bank won third
prize in the commercial division of the Lucan Fair parade. Posed on the top of the vehicle is Emma Fleming. Others from the
left are manager Erle Andersen, Linda Roberts, Joan Broderick, Jackie Martens and Carlene Goos. T-A photo
When and where?
A DOUBLE BITE — Teresa McCarthy and Donna Clark
waste little time in tackling the candy floss at the Lucan Fair
Friday night. T-A photo
Exeter will have itself a representatives of the town's $25,000 for the gutted police Fire Insurance Company
new police station but when insurance companies and a station. building could be con-
and at what location has not closed door session of She said council was strutted for roughly the
been decided. council, hoping for an offer of around same amount of money.
That decision was made Clerk-treasurer Liz Bell $30,000 and authorized Bell told the T-A that little
Monday following meetings said council did accept a deputy-reeve Si Simmons to will be done until a written
between the town's finance verbal offer from Lyle Wells talk to Mel Gaiser of Gaiser- offer from the insurance
committee a representative of the Frank Cowan Kneale Tait Insurance company is received by the
of the engineering firm of Insurance Company for a yesterday who represents town.
B.M Ross and Associates cash settlement of at least Cowan, tosee if a better offer Still up in the air are
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LUtiAN The building excluding rebuild on the present
contents was insured for location or if the police
might not be in the offing, whether the police will 'or 1111111111
$37,800, station could be moved to
Bell said the engineers' another site in the town.
report which was presented In terms of financing, Bell
to a special meeting of said the most experient
council Thursday recom- move would be to rebuild on
mended that the present the existing location as the
police station not be rebuilt. expenditure of funds would
Bruce Potter of B.M, Ross be of a size which could be
and town building inspector accomodated from this
Doug Triebner said it would year's general revenues.
cost between $10,000-15,000 If the decision was made to
above the insurance set- build on another site, the
tlement to bring the building amount of funds needed
up to standards while a new would be debentured and as
structure similar to the such, would require ap-
Usborne and Hibbert Mutual proval from the Ontario
Municipal Board, Bell
stated.
If a decision to move the
To get new police station
dvocate
& North Lambton Since 1873
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• Four accidents were in-
vestigated this week by
officers of the Exeter
detachment of 'the Ontario
Provincial Police.
Tuesday a vehicle driven
by John Stilson, R.R. 2,
Lucan left County road 4 in
Stephen township after a tire
blew. Damage was
estimated at $1500 by Con-
stable Bob Whiteford.
Vehicles driven by Carol
Mills, Centralia and Paul
Hein, R.R. 1, Granton
collided on Saskatchewan
Street Huron Park, Monday.
Damage was estimated at
$1,700 by Constable Al Quinn,
Mills sustained minor in-
Grid practice starts
Practices for the two
football teams at South
Huron District High School
get underway, Monday at the
school grounds.
Junior coach Doug Ellison
has called his first practice
for 7 p.m. and all senior team
prospects are asked to report
to coach Ron Bogart at 7:15
p.m.
Ellison is putting out a call
for all players under the age
of 16 as of August 31 of this
Plans are underway for
the publication of a cookbook
which will be included with
your newspaper the end of
September. Prizes are being
offered to those who send in
recipes to have printed in the
new cookbook. A draw will
be made from all the recipes
Cooks confess! Bakers tell
your secrets! The Times-
Advocate wants you to step
forward with your recipes
for success.
Four area crashes
Tell your secrets
year. He will be assisted in
the coaching department by
Casey Cook and Colin
Lowndes.
Senior coach Bogart has
called a meeting of all
returnees from last year at 2
p.m. Monday. He expects 22
from that group along with
22 up from last year's junior
team.
Practices for both clubs
will be held Monday through
Thursday.
juries,
Sunday, a vehicle driven
by Henry Drouillard, R.R. 3
'rhedford struck a hydro pole
on Concession 4-5 in Stephen
township north of Huron
road 4. Damages estimated
at $2,700 by Constable Wally
Tomasik.
Saturday a vehicle driven
by Keith Case, R.R. 2 Grand
Bend left Concession Road 2
north of County road 4 and
rolled over. Damage was
estimated at $1,500 by
Constable Larry Christiaen,
Case and a passenger,
Samuels Hilvert, R.R. 1
Exeter sustained minor
injuries.
submitted. First prize is $25,
second prize is $15 and third
prize is $10.
There is no limit to the
number of times you can
enter. The cookbook will go
to all Times-Advocate
readers, as well as readers
of the St. Marys Journal
Argus and the Zurich
Citizen's News.
Send your favorite recipes
to the T-A and watch for the
special "Cooking Can Be
Fun" edition.
A LOCAL CHUCKWAGON — Larry Baynham and Carl Tyler are at the controls of the
Mobile Express during the Lucan Fair parade Friday night. Robbie Haines is in front and Ken
Masse is standing. The ponies are named Scout and Bill. T-A photo
Marijuana charges laid
against area residents
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Vandalism
• expensive
Acts of vandalism against
Huron County's 28 schools
cost the county board of
education just under $10,000
in the first six months of
1979.
That startling figure was
given to the board Monday
night along with another
surprising statistic, Just
under one third of the van-
dalism occurred in Clinton
where Central Huron
Secondary School was the
vandals' main target.
In an effort to determine
the severity of vandalism in
the county board
administrators began
charting incidents in
January of 1979. The total
cost and the school affected
by each act of vandalism
was recorded and the results
of the reporting given to the
board Monday night.
Central Huron suffered the
most damage by far. In the
first three months of 1979
vandals caused $1,726.58
worth of damages through
vandalism while in the last
three months $1,275.75 worth
of damage was done. The six
month total of $3,001.83 in
damages by far tops any
other school.
South Huron District High
School was another favorite
target for vandals, Damages
to that facility totalled
$1,386.82. Seaforth District
High School suffered $787.96
while secondary schools in
Goderich and Wingham
suffered $450.20 and $411.34
respectively.
Grey Central Public
School in Grey township was
hardest hit amongst
elementary schools.
Damages to that school
totalled $1,075.08 in three
incidents.
The other 23 elementary
schools had damages
ranging from none to $750
with the average around
$300.
The board seemed un-
concerned about either the
cost of the vandalism or the
number of incidents, Most
trustees indicated vandalism
is something that just has to
be lived with and nothing can
be done about. Board
chairman JohnElliott went so
far as to indicate the less
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A preliminary report of
summer senior program
indicates that there is a need
for a nursing home in
Exeter.
This was one of the fin-
dings of the interim report
which was presented at the
community conference
Tuesday at the South Huron
Rec. Centre.
Over 200 people attended
the half day affair which
featured displays from 11
agencies and nine guest
While municipal councils
are used to taking criticism
from the press, Exeter
council turned the tables
Monday with two councillors
venting their ire.
First to blast the press was
Ted Wright who criticized T-
A editor Bill Batten's column
in last week's paper.
Batten who was not in
attendance made several
comments about the con-
dition of sidewalks in the
town and the paving of lots
behind the downtown
businesses.
The editor said it seemed
that the priority of looking
after the cars before the
pedestrians was not right.
Referring to the column
Wright said Batten "should
print facts and not fiction."
After the meeting Wright
said that the allocations for
the paving of the backlots
and for the sidewalks are two
separate allocations and that
paving behind the municipal
offices was being funded
from funds which had been
set aside for the paving of the
lots on the west side of the
town. A decision had been
made not to go ahead with
the paving on the west side
this year, he said.
Wright said the column
made it appear that the
roads and drains and
committee which Wright
chairs had transferred the
funds from sidewalks to the
paving,
Wright said he had
received a lot of flak as a
result of Batten's column.
Local fund
for disaster
Through the co-operation
of the Exeter Lions club, all
financial institutions in
Exeter will be accepting
donations to the Oxford,
Brant and Haldimand-
Norfolk Disaster Relief
Fund,
Donations may be left at
the Bank of Montreal, Bank
of Nova Scotia, Royal Bank
of Canada, Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce
and Victoria and Grey Trust.
Receipts for tax purposes
will eventually be issued to
contributors of $10 or More,
police station was made, a
site between the library and
post office has been men-
tioned in the past as a
possible location.
One decision which has
been made is that the police
will move from their trailer
to another location sometime
before the onset of colder
weather.
The police station was
extensivley damaged by fire
on July 13 with $50,000
being placed on the loss.
The building which had
been a pizzeria was pur-
chased by the town in 1977
for $24,000.
Recently, there has been
considerable controversy
qver the fact that the present
location has only one exit
and entrance. The board of
directors of South Huron
Hospital have turned thumbs
down to a request from the
town for a new entrance and
exit to be located adjacent to
the former nurses residence
and present location of the
Huron Dental Centre.
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speakers.
In the report 43 percent of
the 71 persons surveyed
indicated that there was
need for a nursing home
within Exeter.
The reported stated "A
total of 43 percent of the
people interviewed brought
up the need for a nursing
home without a direct
question pertaining to it.
Reasons for this seem to be
that most of „alio, people we
talked to had: ived in Exeter,
Campbell said he was "very
impressed" with Batten's
article on a night on the beat
with Constable Kevin Short.
"That sort of investigative
reporting does a lot of good
for the community,"
Campbell remarked.
Coming in for criticism
from councillor Don
Cameron was an article in
Monday's London Free
Press,
Cameron said the article
which was headlined
"Exeter seeks approval for
sports field plan" contained
a number of errors and may
have hindered the progress
which had been made in
the acquistion of new
facilities at the community
park.
Cameron said he "had no
idea" where the $10,000
figure mentioned as cost for
the sports field came from
and that no fund raising
committee had been
established.
Cameron said a meeting
between the various groups
is set for Thursday.
In the new year the
community and social
services will review its
policy of denying requests
from groups who have been a
victim of a disaster.
Cameron said the town
would be setting itself up for
some embarassment if a
disaster struck a local
community.
Mayor Derry Boyle said in
such case the towns' "Good
Neighbour Policy" would
apply.
Continuing the discussion,
Campbell said a distinction
of what constitutes near and
far communities should be
made.
Following some discussion
Wright seconded Cameron's
motion that the community
and social services com-
mittee look into the matter.
According to South Huron
Rec Centre Ian Smith the
local sporting complex is in
good shape financially,
Smith said while spending
is up $1,500 over the same
period in 1978 reVeribes ate
up $3,600.
Accounting for the
majority of the increased
expenditures are energy
requirements while the pool
and roller skating have the
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or the area for most of their
lives, They don't want to
leave the town or their
friends. Transportation for
visiters then becomes a
problem, and isolation from
friends and relatives oc-
curs"
The report Which was
prepared by Darlene Davis,
Mary Easton and Margaret
Parkinson said the some of
the people surveyed said
there *Quid be more of an
emphisis on keeping the
seniors in their own homes.
In conjunction with the
emphasis on hornecare, only
29 percent indicated that
there should be some form of
a drop-in centre while 54
percent said a definite no to
the proposal.
The report qualified the
lack of support for a drop-in
centre by saying the
majority of the people who
were against the centre were
"in good health, active,
living in their own homes
and a large percentage were
still married."
There seems to exist a
need for home care and
transportation services for
the seniors in the com-
munity, the report said.
According to Easton, a
more detailed report on the
senior service program and
activities will be presented
to Exeter council at a later
date.
Others taking part in the
conference were lawyer
Peter Raymond, Exeter
Police Constable Kevin
Short, Audrey Pooley, head
nurse of South Huron
Hospital, Dee Beuerman of
the Huron county homecare
program, Jean Young of
Towne and Country
homemakers, Anne St. John
of Huron county day care,
and local Bank of Montreal
manager Allan Johnston,
Master of ceremonies was
CFPL radio personality and
member of the board of
directors of University
Hospital, London, Bill
Brady.
In a series of police raids
this week, six area men have
been charged with
possession and trafficking of
marijuana and four others
face charges of cultivation of
marijuana.
Thursday at 6 a.m. in
simultaneous raids at six
different locations,
Lawrence James Gloor 24
and Wallace Knee 19, both of
Centralia; Raymond
Thomas Whittington, 30 of
Russeldale; David Stilson,
20, RR 2 Lucan and Douglas
Warren Mason, 19 and
Edward Harold House 20,
both of Huron Park were
arrested and a quantity of
marijuana seized.
At about noon the same
day, 61 plants of marijuana
were seized from the
property of John William
Fahner, Crediton.
Brian Mark Hemming and
Matthew Epp Postill were
jointly charged with
possession and cultivation as
the result of a raid at Lot 13,
Concession 14 in Hay
township.
Also, Thursday, officers
searched a downtown Exeter
apartment and as a result
Stellman George Harris, 21
has been charged with
possession.
Another raid at Lot 6,
Concession 22 of Stephen
township Monday night
produced another lot of
marijuana plants. Arrested
was 35-year old William
Mark Irvin of London. Street
value of the 200 plants seized
was estimated at $18,000.
All persons arrested were
released and will appear in
Provincial Court in Exeter
on September 11.
The raids were carried out
by members of the Exeter
OPP and town police forces
with assistance from un-
dercover agents and officers
from detachments in Kit-
chener, Listowel and
Goderich,
BEST HUMOROUS FLOAT The Clandeboye Hillbillies won first prize in the comic divi-
sion of Friday's Lunn Pair parade. From the left are Joanne, Barb, Kevin and Clarence
Carter. T-A photo
One hundred and Seventh Year
Councillors blast,
applaud editor
es
Serving South Huron, North Middlesex
Seniors survey shows need
for nursing home in Exeter
EXETER, ONTARIO, AUGUST 22, 1979
MARIJUANA SEIZURES — Officers of the two Exeter police departments with help from outside forces made arrests and
seized marijuana plants from locations in Stephen and Hay township arid Crediton during the past week. Shown with sortie
of the plants are Exeter police chief Ted bay and OPP corporal Bill Freeth. T-A photo