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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-01-23, Page 17. - Items already sale reduced not included. `ALL TIED UP — For most of the grudge broomball game between the teachers and grade 13 students of South Huron District High School the score was tied up. That's the position teacher Wally Webster finds himself in as he is dragged onto the, ice surface by Elaine Pym, Tim Farr and lorrie Ma.thers. o T-A photo Exeter deficit cleared, tax cuts said dangerous • OFFER EXPIRES JAN. 31. 1980 i IF YOU'RE ALREADY SUBSCRIBING BUT WANT TO EXTEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION PLEASE USE THIS COUPON. Please extend my subscription for — year(s). 1 have enclosed a cheque or money order for 311.00 per year. Name-- Address Telephone_ Mail coupon to Times-Advocate, P.O. Box 850, Exeter. NOM 150 in mg it sis toil rots . Please attach mailing label from the front of your newspaper in this space. IlmosAcIvocato, Janvory 23, 1980 EVERY THURSDAY 10% OFF EVERY THURSDAY 10% OFF The Town of Exeter ended, 1979 in good financial shape according to a report presented to council by clerk Liz Bell this week. Not only did the $78,453 deficit of the previous year get wiped out, but &surplus appears evident, although the report is still subject to audit. The surplus Was listed at $6,300. Mrs. Bell reported that all budgets were keptwithin allot- ment with the exception of the police budget, which was over-spent by $9,000. The town also started the new year in a good cash position as all loans have been repaid at the bank and $100,000 has been invested in a term deposit and still left funds on hand to meet current expenses until in- terim taxes start coming in. In the past year, 97 percent of all property taxes were paid, with theuripaid balance of three percent represen- ting $38,429. The clerk advised council .;that some of the reasons for the fact revenues exceeded expenditures were sup- plementary taxes, additional grants "and higher interest income due to a good Councillors Jay Campbell and Alvin Epp have been named by Exeter council to prepare a written brief to present to Judge Lucien Beaulieu who has been appointed by, Attorney Two face theft counts One adult and a juvenile have been charged by Exeter police following investigations into breakins and thefts at three locations a week ago. The two have been charged with the breakin at SHDHS where over $700 damage was done and three fire extinguishers stolen. They also face charges for the breakin and theft of a small amount of cash from the office of N.L. Martin, Optometrist, and the theft of a two-way radio from a bus which brought the Tavistock junior hockey team to the South Huron Rec centre on January 11. During this past week, the local officers also charged eight people with offences under the Liquor Control Act. The Editor I am writing to you to request your assistance in recruiting a group to sponsor the Canadian Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic in Exeter. The clinic is to be held on Thursday, May 29th, but I'd really like to meet with prospective sponsors before too long. The three local chapters of Beta Sigma Phi in Exeter have looked after the clinics for some time now. I wish to thank them all for the time and effort spent in organizing the clinics in Exeter. It has been a job very well done, and I do wish financial management." The budget had called for $9,000 revenue from interest and the actual figure ended up being $30,442. This was due in part to the town receiving higher interest on the current account and also getting discounts based. on the high interest rates through the early payment of levies to the county and the county school board. The bright financial , pic- ture prompted Councillor Don Cameron to suggest ' council may be able to lower taxes this year. "That's a dangerous thing to do," Councillor, Ted Wright replied and Mayor Derry Boyle agreed, noting that it had been done eight years ago "and we've been kicking ourselves ever since." Mayor Boyle commended council members for the good job they had done and said he hoped they would carry on with that tradition this year. financial statement for the Exeter- cemetery board was also presented, showing a surplus of $505.69 for the past year. Mrs. Bell said the board General Roy McMurtry to head up a provincial municipal, study of van- dalism. In a letter to council, McMurtry said that it has been apparent to him that one of the foremost present- day concerns of municipal councils is the problem of vandalism. "We are not talking here about incidents of childish mischief or youthful pranks. We are talking about the Wanton destruction of property that costs us all as taxpayers millions of dollars a year'," he said. He noted that his correspondence indicates both anger and frustration among members of the public at the enormous cost of deliberate damage to public and private property. Judge Beaulieu's study will determine the extent of vandalism and assess the various efforts to deal with it. In offering his services, Campbell said vandalism was certainly an issue he finds important and of concern to this municipality. He suggested he and Epp would prepare the sub- mission in cooperation with the police committee and the police department. the chapters well in their future work, The Blood Donor Clinic in May is, therefore, up for grabs. If your group or organization would be in- terested tin sponsoring the clinic, and working at it, then I'd really like to hear from you. We look forward to another successful year, and do hope that Exeter's citizens will continue to participate as they have in the past. Yours very truly, John C. Jury, Area Directory' Southwestern -Ontario. had been able to get along with the $13,000 grant received from the town. It had been anticipated that the grant may have to be sup- "plemented during the year. Interest on, investments by the board raised $16,020, while the sale of lots netted ' $5,732.50. Bayfield wins appeal Bayfield has won its battle to have $9,323 shaved off its $102,636 Huron County board, of education levy for 1979. An Ontario Municipal Boardruling has upheld the village's claim that an equalization factor used to calculate the levy should be 17.6, not 16 as had been applied. The factor is used in -setting the ratio between real property values and their value on municipal assessment rolls. The"*(Mrk..14 '1:1•alYsis rejected several 'property sales, some because of assessment errors, others because they were "outside the appropriate time frame." It also said the rejection of an earlier appeal by Bayfield against the levy by an ar- bitration group of county municipal treasurers was based on improper evidence. The roots of the treasurers' rejection goes back to the 1978 levy, which Bayfield also appealed. The treasurers allowed the ap- peal, believing the province would pick up the bulk of the levy reduction, leaving only a small amount to be shared by other county munic- palities. When Bayfield appealed again in 1979, the treasurers turned it down, saying they had learned the province had not subsidized the financial impact on other municipalities caused by Bayfield's amended 1978 levy. The OMB said no other Huron County municipality has appealed its 1979 school board levy. 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The erection of a plastic storage bubble is one of the initial stages of re- organization at DIL which will see the plant hopefully move away from its cyclical nature of business, Rankin said. He stated it would not be possible to move entirely away from the cycle which has seen workers laid off in early winter and then recalled a few months later but the reorganization would lead to a smoothing out of their business With the plastic bubble doubling their storage space for finished goods. The caddie rushed up to the first golfer and shouted. "I've got good news and bad news! First the goods news — you got Whole in one on the sixth hole! Now the bad news we're playing the fifth," • IN °NEW SUBSCRIBERS USE THIS COUPON OFFER EXPIRES JAN,31, 1980. Name Address Telephone Postal Code Pledse start my subscription to the Times-Advocate as soon as possible for the next year(s,). I have enclosed my cheque or money order for $11.00 per year. Mail Coupon To: Times-Advocate, P.O. Box 850, Exeter. 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