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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-05-21, Page 1that will be recouped through debenture proceeds. Garbage collection costs show an increase of $45,5000, most of that being for the new packer put into service this year. The South Huron rec cen- tre operating budget grant has been approved at $48,- 943, an increase of almost $4,000 and an additional '$7,- 100 has been added to the „.capital grant for a total there of $12,500. Debenture payments this year will increase to $330,- 280, an increase •of about $34,000 'over 1979 and the property budget jumps to $25,505, an increase of almost $18,000. Also included in the budget is a reserve for capital pur- poses of $100,000. details of which have not been fully provided, although some of A LONG-TIME DONOR -- Jim Robertson Was one of the many Ligon and area residents participating in Wednesday's very successful blood donor clinic, Robertson who gave for the 60th time is shown with volunteers Jean Hodgins and NancySt. Pierre, T-A photo Usborne kids there for vote Find Quebec peaceful MARY WARBURTON Student on T-A staff I SUNSHINE KIDS OPEN HOUSE — Open house was held Thursday and Friday at the Sunshine Kids Nursery School at Ex- eter United Church. Above, teacher Ruth Mercer is shown with students Mark Slemin and Jenny McLean and mothers Rena McLean and Louise Slemin. T-A photo , , k 41 t4:14 iit CREDITON SKYROCKETS — Monday's annual fireworks display sponsored by attended and very successful. Shown preparing some of the displays are firemen John Pritchard and Robert Pertschy. the Crediton fire department was well Doug Lightfoot, chief Charlie Browning, T-A photo Serving South Huron, North Middlesex & North Lambton Since 1873 One Hundred and Seventh Year EXETER, ONTARIO, MAY 21, 1980 Price Per Copy 35 Cents CCAT GRADUATION -- Ontario's Minister of Agriculture Lorne Henderson was the guest speaker at Friday's graduation at Centralia College of Agricultural Technology. Above, Henderson talks with CCAT principal Doug Jamieson, head of the animal health branch Dr. Ralph Topp, assistant Deputy Minister Dr. J.C. Rennie and CCAT's associate principal Dr. V.E. Currie. T-A photo Hold rate at 140 mills Usborne taxes unchanged +er rates up 24 to 35 mills n ecord tax UM Tuesday's referendum in Quebec had little effect on a , four-day trip to that province by students of Usborne Central School, The Usborne contingent of 31 grade eight students and three chaperones arrived in Quebec City at 8:45 pan,, Tuesday, well affer the polls were closed. The Times-Advocate assistant editor, Ross Haugh, said by phone froth Quebec City Wednesday morning "We encountered no problems at all and one would hardly know the referendum was on." He continued, "We took the group on a half-hour walking tour of the board- walk in the old part of Quebec City near the ChateauFrontenac along the St. Lawrence and there were hundreds of -peaceful tourists and natives," While staying in a La Pension (tourist home) without TV or radio, the only ,news, of-the Vote 'came-from,. the owners who indicated it was 60 percent-40 percent in A cyclist, pedestrian, two drivers and a cattle beast were among those injured in the seven accidents in- vestigated this week by the Exeter OPP. • Only two of those collisions occurred over the holiday weekend period, despite heavy traffic 'conditions in the area. The most seriously injured was Michael Klaver, 11, of RR 2 Centralia, who suffered a concussion, cuts and bruises after his bicycle was in a collision on Thursday. A vehicle driven by Larry Lippert, Crediton, collided with the bicycle when it turned into its path on the Crediton Road, just west of concession 4-5 of Stephen. The youngster was taken to South Huron Hospital and was released on Saturday morning. Several injured in area crashes The landlady said "No matter what happens, we will .all win as there will be some changes made." The tour bus travelled past ,the Quebec Parliament Buildings on the way in to the city and only people visible were several security guards and one police car. The tour bus was two hours late arriving in Quebec City due to rush hour traffic encountered in Montreal. The students move on to Montreal today (Thursday) and should be back at the school at 6:00 p.m., Friday. Accompanying the students in addition to Haugh are teachers Lowell Mount and Irene Haugh and guide Mireille Francesconi of Keating Tours. Haugh, who called the of- fice before heading out to breakfast around 7:30 alit, Wednesday, indicated he couldn't even find 'a newspaper to see what the final-counta.WasMielditt ruti into a former Exeter resi- dent, Judy Ross, who was on a similar school trip with students from Elora. , However, he called• back an hour later to say that he had located copies to two Montreal dailies. La Presse carried a huge headline "Non" across the' ,top and LeDevoir had a headline which Haugh had someone translate and found it said "It is a clear no". A cartoon also appeared on the front page of La Presse in which a dog under a tree is saying "The sun came up this morning and the world is still going around", The Times-Advocate has hired some help for the summer. Mary Warburton of Huron Park started work last week and is assisting with advertising and reporting. Mary has recently finished her second year at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto. She is studying journalism and has one more year of school left before she gets her Bachelor of Applied Arts. Mary is a graduate of South Huron District High School in Exeter. She is looking forward to gaining further experience in the journalism field. BXeter taxpayers face what could be an all-time record for a tax increase in 1980; despite a surplus of $120,000 from last year. Monday night, council provisionally adopted the budget calling for an in- crease of 24.35 mills for public school supporters and 23.88 for separate school purposes. Commercial property owners will get hit even harder as their rate will in- crease by 34,04 mills and $3.75 respectively. The total expenditures for the town will increase almost $160,000 to a new high of $1,803,626, with the new police ' building and the police budget adding some $1.50,000 over the 1979 figures; However, the major' in- crease is for education costs.• The levy from the Huron board of education will jump by 14.74 mills or app'roximately $107,000, That is for public and high school support, The separate school increase for elemen- tary school purposes is up five mills or $5,300. The general municipal rate, which won't be official- ly adopted until the next meeting, shows an increase of 7,69 mills 'for residential and 9.05 mills for comn, cial property owners, The entire budget was reviewed in committee-of- the,whole by council: last week and will be presented• for formal passing on June 2. There was no discussion whatever on the budget at Monday's regular meeting as the cOrnrnittee-of-the- whole report was accepted, Almost all town budgets show increases with the ex- ception of local sewer and road projects. Contracts this year are expected to be $274,400 compared to the $455,300 in last year's budget, Council stipends will in- crease a total of $4,400, general administration is up almost $15,000, bank charges and write-offs show a giant jump of $14,100 and there's an extra $5,000 this year for the municipal election ex- penses, Building and ' zoning in- spection costs are expected to rise by over $20,000, the fire department costs will be up by $8,000 and public works adminiStration costs show one Of the few decreases, that being over $21,000. The police budget hits an all-time high of $207,750, compared to last year's ex- penditure of $158,281, The new police building represents an expenditure of $100,000 although $70,000 of tivelYt • The results 'of "$he area canvass are as follows: Usborne ' $1465.50 .Ski event 50.00 Stephen 1375.95 Hay 1677.90 Dashwood 181.00 Zurich 987.50 Hensall 525.55 Huron Park 407,53 Centralia 170.20 Crediton 158.25 Huron Park 31.00 Exeter 2616.75 Commercial 532,00 Daffodils 1587.36 Daffodil Boxes 203.06 Industrial 1115.00 Ski-a-Thon 73.00 Special name 25,00 Total $13,182.55 Norm Whiting has been re- elected president of the Exeter branch with Mrs, Wellington Brock as vice- president. Secretary is Mrs. Elaine Bogart and treasurer, Mrs. Joyce Black. Other officers are as follows: delegate to district council, Norm Whiting; campaign chairman, Carf Cann; vice-chairman, Bill Mickle; commemoration funds, Mrs. John Glenn; education, Miss Lauretta Siegner; assistant, Mrs. Fred Simmons; medical advisor, Dr. D.A. Ecker planning development and nomination, Mrs. Laurie Shapton; publicity, Bill Batten; service to patients, Mrs, Marjorie Deibridge; assistant, Mrs. Melva Ecker; transportation, Mrs. Velma Huff; assistant, Mrs. Olive Harvey. Search on for canine Eight-year-old Jamie Bedard will have to start a series of anti-rabies in- jections today (Thursday) unless police can find the dog that bit him last Wednesday while he was playing in the yard at Precious Blood Separate 'School, Constable Kevin Short Said the police have been looking for the dog since the in- cident, and while they have reports that the animal is still around, they haven't been able to find it. The dog is a dark brown mongrel that resembles a full-size collie with a long coat and a• collar. Anyone With information about the dog is asked to call the Exeter police. Taxpayers •in Usborne township are in for a pleasant surprise when their 1980 tax notice arrives. In contrast to many municipalities where the tax rate has increased sub- stantially, Usborne council has set the new tax rate at 140 mills, the same as last year. Clerk-treasurer Harry Strang said revenues were buoyant in 1975 creating a surplus of about $40,000. Strang said half of this amount will wipe out a deficit from 1978 and the other $20,000 will be carried over to this year's budget allowing council to hold the tax rate down. The 1980 levy will be split in half with the interim payment of 70 mills due and payable by June 30 with the final payment of the same amount due by November 30. Auditor E. Bender presented the new budget which calls for expenditures in the amount of $866,643. Three land division ap- plications received ap- proval. They were for V. Knip, part Lot 13, Concession 2; L. Oke, Lots 23, 24, Con- cession 2 and T. Hero, Lot 1, Concession 9, A bylaw approving spot zoning from agriculture to agriculture commercial at part of Lot 9, S.E.B. Con- cesSion was given the necessary readings and passed. Township dog control officer Judy Finch was also appointed dog licencing officer at $1.50 per dog and mileage allowance at the township rate. The dog licencing and "Ontario takes second place to no province in agriculture and the production of food." Those were the comments of Ontario's Agriculture Minister Lorne Henderson speaking to the 12th graduating class at Cen- tralia College of Agricultural Technology, Friday af- ternoon. Henderson continued, "Ontario produces 65 per- cent of this country's vegetables and 40 percent of Canada's fruit. Some 33 percent of all livestock sales in Canada take place right here in Ontario. Our total farm cash sales of more than $4 billion a year are better than 28 percent of the total for the entire country." He told the students, "The business you have chosen is an important and prosperous one. Of even greater interest to you it is one that should show strong growth in the years ahead and growth spells opportunity 'for each and everyone of you." The Agriculture Minister added, "Despite the fact only about four percent of control bylaw was revised to provide for dog tax fees of $10 for male and female dogs and $5 for a neuter or spayed Ontario's population are actually farmers today, a full 20 percent of our population works at a job connected with agriculture and food industries." "This underlines the tremendous importance of agriculture and food to our economy. Only if we have prosperous agriculture and food industries can our society as a whole enjoy prosperity," concluded Henderson. Ontario's assistant deputy minister Dr. J,C. Rennie said the 610 graduates from Ontario's five agricultural colleges this year was an all- time high. He added, "This September I expect another increase in enrollment. This speaks well for the in- dustry." Doug Jamiesom who is completing his first year as CCAT principal praised his predecessor Jim MacDonald for "Putting the College on a strong foundation and pointing us in the right direction." Jamieson said the 115 graduates Friday would bring the Centralia 12 year total to 1,172. that is for a new fire truck and addition at the fire ball, The total mill rate for residential property owners had zoomed past the .200 mark for the first time, this year's. projected rate being 219.58, compared to 1979 Please turn to page 3 dog and $15 for each ad- ditional dog. The contract on the Harris municipal drain was awarded to Hodgins and Hayter of Parkhill at the tender price of $2,633. Petitions were accepted for further repair of the Hairis drain and repair of the Jacques and Squire drains area of the Brock Creek drain were accepted. Tile drain debentures in the amount of $37,800 were approved for sale and new applications totalling $53,500 ,.were tentatively accepted, Council set a rate of $3 per cubic yard for gravel pur- chased by ratepayers in 1980. A grant of $50 was made to the Huron Plowman's Association. MAY EXPROPRIATE Exeter council will at- tempt to secure easements from property owners along the proposed extension of Alexander St. East and will go to expropriation if necessary to permit storm sewer construction. The roads and drains committee recommended that the town secure ownership of the street allowance in front of the Blommaert lot where the storm drain now ends and to secure easements from property owners easterly to Kingskilde Ltd. The recommendation said that if property owners were not readily agreeable, ex- propriation proceedings are to be commenced. Constable Don Mason listed damage at $350 in the mishap. In another Thursday ac- cident, a vehicle driven by Douglas Clark, RR 5 Goderich, struck a cattle beast on Highway 4 just north of Exeter. The animal was one of seven .which wandered onto the highway. The accident was in- vestigated by Constable Al Quinn, who set damage at $550. The animal survived. In the third crash on Thursday, damage was set at $2,400 when vehicles driven by Larry Dobson, RR 1 Exeter, and David John- ston, Stratford, collided on concession 4-5 of Usborne 3.4 km south of Highway 83. Constable Ed Wilcox in, vestigated. There was one accident on Please turn to page 3 Canadian Cancerlgclety,has again topped it's objective. Campaign chairman Carf Cann announced this week that total receipts to date from the area canvass and special events have reached $13,182.55, The objective was $12,500. Not included in that total is the net profit from the fashion show which is ex- pected to be around $5,000. Over 1,300 people attended the event. Still to come is the Tee-Off for Cancer golf tournament which is scheduled for the two area golf courses on June 28. Cann also announced this week that Don Kells, Exeter, won the Jerry MacLean and Son challenge trophy in the skiathon staged this past winter, While weather conditions plagued the event, Kells had $41.50 in pledges, He also won two dinners from the Twins Kentucky Fried Chicken for his efforts. Paul Leitch, Exeter, was second and Sandra deBoer was third, Hensall skier Rene Boogemans won the timed event to cop a gold medal, while Kells and Leitch were Cancer campaign • over the top again .The:Exeter, ,branchs of the second: and trd respec- Henderson speaks at graduation •