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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-11-05, Page 1Candidates espouse same ideas; nursing home and careful spending ducted by the hospital ad- ministrators in Huron and Perth. A former member of Owl- Cil, the local florist said council had to show:some leadership in spending tax dollars wisely, noting that taxes were getting high for many people. He said he would be will- ing to look at proposals for the development of the ex- isting shopping centre at Highways 4 and 83 and suggested there was a need to look at new policies regar- ding the extension of water services to neighboring municipalities. A member of the Heritage Please turn to page 3 deputy-reeve's post, Alvin Epp and Ben Hoogenboom, mentioned the need for senior citizen facilities, the former saying that placing seniors in homes in Zurich, Clinton or Ailsa Craig was not fair as they are too far away from the place in which they lived and, loved, "We need a nursing home in town and we need it bad," he stated, saying the corn- - munity should fight for it and he was prepared to go to county council and tell them the home was needed in Ex- eter, Hoogenboom touched on the seniors when he said he was excited about the feasibility study being con- Centralia College„ who here three years ago and has suggested his administrative served as a governor of the and' budget duties in that Kinsmen district, director of capacity would serve him the Ontario Egg Producers well as a member of council, Marketing .Heard and sales Be is a former member of manager of the fresh fruit Exeter's RAP committee exchange.' and is involved in minor He suggested there was a sports. need for close scrutiny of the Josephson said tbe needs tax structure and any in- of seniors and the youth creases in taxes above infla- rrinSt be a concern, saying tion should be for the better- that the lack of responsibili- ment of all citizens. ty evident among some .Citing the need fora better young people could be im- tax mix through more .in- proved if they could get dtistrial assessment, Mickle more involved and take said the possible location of some pride In their corn- deHavilland at Huron Park munity activities, would place tremendous The final' council can- pressure and sizeable didate is Bill Mickle, a demands on Exeter. native of Hensallwhomoved Both candidates for advisory committee which she said 'has been needed for some time. SO the local seniors can. speak with one voice. The first of the new can- didates called on by Mayor Derry Boyle, who acted as chairman, was Morley 'Hall, who operated Exeter Frozen, Foods for lil.years and said. he could sympathize and em- pathize with the problems and aspirations of the town's business people, Noting that he would soon be going on the government "payroll" (as .a senior citizen)_ he said, 25 percent of the' local population is made up Of seniors and coun- cil must be vitally interested in their desires. Balt said he was still young enough: at .heart that he would like to see Exeter grow se young people don't have to go elsewhere to find employment. Tom a resi- ollrer3rYears. and past president of the local Kinsmen, said. he would follow the 'Kin motto of "ser- ving the community's. greatest need"; He has. also Served on the Kin district Council and has held most of- fices with, the local club. Be is a quality -control super- visor for Northern TelecoM, Following him on the plat- form was Gaylan Josephson, head of the diagnostic lab at ost go to polls IN BLACK AND WHITE -- Cheryl McIntyre masqueraded as a skunk Friday night as she waited on customers at the Grand Bend Cleaners store in Exeter. T-A photo Three plead guilty to school breakin ' Three youths pleaded guil- ty to charges arising from a breakin at South Huron District High school earlier this year. Six dispensing machines we're broken into and $21.00 in cash taken. Damage in the incident was listed at $600 although the figure is still under question. Appearing in Tuesday's court before Judge W.G. Cochrane were Daryl M. Raymond and Michael Sass, both of Exeter, and M'arty Traquair, R.R. 3, Exeter. The three were remanded out of custody for a pre- s'entence report and will be sentenced by Judge Cochrane on November 25. The court learned that the money taken has been recovered. Raymond also pleaded guilty to possession of stolen property on September 26 and to mischief to public property on October 7. He had several flags in his possession on September 26 that had been reported stolen. The flags were valued at $76. The public mischief 'charge arose out of an inci- dent at the Exeter ad- Hodgson, Jacob Lagerwerf, John McCann and James Thompson The only school trustee election in the area is for the McGillivray rep on the Middlesex Board of Education. Current trustee Ben Thompson is facing opposi- tion from David Hall, Carol 'Kowalchuk, Irene Lynn and Marilyn McGregor, in Lucan voters will be selecting three councillors and two members of the Hydro Commission. Facing opposition from newcomers Robert Brady and Russell Radcliffe will be incumbents Larry Hotson, Gary McFalls and Harry Wraith. The Hydro Commission candidates are incumbent Rudy Engel and first time candidates Richard Acres, Murray Hodgins and Martin Wraith. Hay township voters will be choosing from Tony Bedard, Chaire Deichert, Don Geiger, Dick Rau and Gerald Shantz. Tuckersmith ratepayers will be marking their ballots for deputy-reeve and council, Bill Brown Sr. and Robert Fotheringham are going for deputy-reeve while council candidates are Robert Broadfoot, John Brownridge, Lloyd Eisler Please turn to page 3 Reeve'Bob Sharen is being challenged by Dick Manor and incumbent councillor Harold Green is facing op- position for deputy-reeve from Ronald Landry and Ralph McKinnon. Keith Crawford is the only returning candidate for council. He is being opposed by Angelo Maruca, Mae Morenz, Dennis Snider and Bruce Woodley. In McGillivray township all elected positions are up for grabs. Incumbent reeve Gerald Wright is being challenged by Jack Dorman. Council candidates are Barry Heaman, Wesley Pepper and John Skea and former reeve Minnie Noakes. The three candidates for. two spots on the PUC are Charles Hay, former reeve Harold Knight and Gary Maxwell, In Stephen township, seven candidates are attempting to fill three council seats. They are incumbents Tom Tomes and Ralph Weber and newcomers Kenneth McCann,, Andy McIntyre; Jack O'Neill, Steve Pertschy and Andrew Robertson. At Grand Bend, 13 can- didates are in the running for seven positions. Ratepayers in all , area municipalities with the exception of Usborne and Biddulph townships will go the the polls on Monday, November 10. In Exeter the only positions filled by ac- clamation were by reeve Don MacGregor and Public Utilities Commissioners Murray Greene and Chan LiVingstone. Town voters will choose between mayorality can- didates Bruce Shaw and Don Cameron. Shaw is a former mayor and Cameron has completed a two year term on council. Councillor Al Epp is at- tempting to move up to deputy-reeve and is being opposed by former council member Ben floogenboom. • Battling for the six council spots will be incumbents Lossy Fuller and Jay Campbell and newcomers Morley Hall, Tom Hum- phreys, Gaylan Josephson and Bill Mickle and former councillor Barb Bell. In Hensall, councillors Harry Klungel and Paul Neilands will be attempting to replace retiring reeve Harold Knight. Seven are vying for four council positions. They are sitting members Dick Packham and Klaas Van Wieren, first timers Sadie Hoy, Gary Huston, Cecil Hoflowelen quiet ministration office when an antique outside light fixture was broken. The unit can not be replaced and this will necessitate buying two new fixtures at a cost of $150. Raymond, of Norwood Village, was remanded out of custody on those two charges as well and will appear for sentencing along with the other charge on November '25. Judge Cochrane imposed a fine of $300 or 30 days on Gerald Alvin Cottle, R.R. 1, Woodham, who pleaded guil- ty to driving with a blood alcohol content in excess of 80 mgs. on June 15. He was involved in an accident on that date. A breathalizer test gave a reading of 110 mgs. Cottle was given 60 days in which to pay the fine and had his licence suspended for three months. In the only• other case heard, Robert Neil Stirling, R.R. 2, Lucan, was fined $100 or 10 days after pleading guilty to a charge of possession of narcotics. He was found with a small quantity of narcotics on September 27. Stirling was given 15 days to pay the fine. A BIG DOI.L. — Michelle Desjardine found a doll at Thursday's South Huron Hospital Ladies Auxiliary rummage sale almost too big to handle. T-A photo Exeter OPP report that Hallowe';en waS, com- paratively quiet in the area, although there were the usual reports of egg tossing and damaged mail boxes, A window at Bonthron's in Hensall was damaged as ' well as the grille of A truck parked beside the store. Damage was set at $200. • A motorcycle owned by Jeff Johnson, Huron Park, was almost totally demolish- ed by vandals who attacked it while it was •parked beside a barn at R.R. 1, Woodham. Total damage to the machine was listed at $1,400. Accidents proclaim it's fall season Exeter's senior citizens were the chief targets for wooing when candidates for the upcoming election out- lined their campaigns at Thursday night's ratepayers' meeting at the.' rec centre. A nursing home for local seniors Was the most cons- tant plank in those plat- forms, while more careful spending of tax dollars followed closely behind. Barb Bell, the first of the council candidates to speak, said her chief interest was in securing a facility suitable for seniors so they would not .have to move to homes in. Clinton, Hensall or Zurich. The, former member of council, seeking re-election ;after a sojourn in ListoWel, said the homes in other com- munities 'were too far from Exeter and some of the residents become "forgotten members of society" as they do not receive the visits from friends and relatives for which they long. Seeking his second term on council, Jay Campbell cited the need for "signifi- cant diligence" in spending tax dollars and for cost sav- ing innovations, He said council would have to work smarter, not harder, to look at ways to cut costs in doing the jobs required. Campbell explained that council controls only 45 per- cent of the taxes collected with 50 percent going to education and five percent to the county. While he said they had no control over education costs, Campbell suggested council needed to ask the provincial govern- ment why there were such horrendous expenditures that were far above the in- flationary level. The local jeweller also suggested that the town's sewer lagoon system represented one of the main challenges as the time has come to look at what is need- ed. He said the answer could determine how big Exeter could become in the future. Lossy Fuller, the only other sitting member seek- ing re-election, also dwelled on the need for senior citizen accommodation and said Exeter had to be ready with facts and figures when the county decides to expand into the south or north rather than erect another addition at Huronview. She also mentioned the careful budgetting and plan- ning that would have to go into any decision on the lagoon. A member of council for the past six years, Mrs. Fuller termed the building of the police station the most controversial of the past term, but suggested it was an asset to the town and one of which everyone can be proud. She noted other town im- provements, such as the library renovations, the new bay at the fire hall and the formation of a senior citizen Three thefts were also reported during the past week. Two speakers were stolen from a vehicle owned by Charles Broadfoot, Brucefield, while it was parked at Hyde Bros. in Hen- sall, Thursday evening. On Friday, two batteries were stolen at the same location. The batteries were valued at $196. A vehicle owned by Louis Forrest, H.R. 2, Lucan, was stolen while parked at Huron Park, Saturday. It was later recovered and a tape deck had been damaged. Waterflows in McGillivray Parrot turns gold tap Congratulations and back patting were very much in evidence as the honourable Harry Parrot turned the gold tap and symbolically sent pure, clean water flowing throughout McGillivray township. The Minister of Environment and many other local dignitaries were on hand for the official ceremony at the Ausable Booster station in McGillivray Monday morning. Eight years work, and 122 miles of pipeline brought Lake Huron water to 95 percent of the township. McGillivray'clerk William Amos was master of ceremonies for the proud occasion. Amos said that the water line built on a user-pay The other deer involved was on Sunday when a vehi- cle driven by Randal Thiel, Zurich, struck one on Huron Road 2 north of Highway 83. Damage to the vehicle was set at $600 by Constable Bill Osterloo. The animal ran off into a bush and was being tracked by ministry per- sonnel. The first of the two farm vehicle accidents was reported on Friday on Highway 84 east of Hensall. A tractor hauling corn and being driven by Wesley Rader, R.R. 3, Zurich, was being followed by vehicles driven by Ellen Batstone, .Zurich, and Blondie Bell, Saginaw, Texas. The latter two vehicles pulled out to pass at the same time and side-swiped each other and one then careened into the farm vehicle. Damage in the collision was listed at $3,500 by Constable Osterloo. The other was reported, on Saturday and involved two tractors, one driven by Harold Dignan, Hsi 2, Hen- sall, and other by Donald VanHevel, R.R. 1, Bornholm. The latter ran into the rear of the wagon Please turn to page 3 Judging from this week's accident reports from the Exeter OPP, fall activities are in high gear. This week, there were three separate accidents in- volving deer and another two which involved farm vehicles hauling harvested crops along area roads. The first of the deer collisions was on Friday when a vehicle driven by Mary Dietrich, R.R. 1, Dashwood, struck an animal as it ran across Highway 4 south of Exeter. 'The injured animal was later shot and damage to the vehicle was set at $100 by Constable Wally Tomasik. On Saturday, a vehicle driven' by Thomas Cyr, Zurich, struck a deer on Highway 84 west of Huron Road 31 in Hay Township. That animal was killed in the collision which resulted in damage of $500. Constable Ed Wilcox investigated. using the water. Water is also provided to some adjoining municipalities through the McGillivray pipe system. Some residents in Stephen, Biddulph, East Williams and West Williams are now enjoying Lake Huron water. The water is cleaned and purified at the Grand Bend station. At the ceremony, congratulations came to the township from Middlesex warden Fred Lewis, Regional director for the Ministry of Environment Doug McTavish, Huron Middlesex member of provincial legislature Jack Riddell and retired Ministry of Environment director Alan Ladbrooke, Minister Harry Parrott brought greetings from the cabinet, and praised the residents for Please turn to page 3 Not news for some... It won't come as news to some area residents that the Exeter OPP now have a "moving" radar device which can be operated from a moving cruiser. The people to whom it won't be news are the 50 who were charged with speeding over the weekend through use of the new device. OPP Cp1s, Dave Woodward and Bill Freeth told the T-A that the radar has a good range to pick up oncoming traffic. The bigger the vehicle, the greater the distance from Which it can be clocked by the officer in the cruiser. Vans, for instance, can be clocked while they are up to a mile from the cruiser. system in a rural area was a first for. Middlesex and possibly for Ontario. Amos stressed how fortunate the residents of McGillivray were to have good water piped across the township. Amos said that there had always been a water shor- tage in the area. Available water was not pure and high in sulphur content. The problem came to a head eight years ago when there was no water available for the children at McGillivray Central School, located in the hamlet of West McGillivray. The township was planning to build a new garage, and a water supply was heeded for it,Manyof the wells on area farms were running dry. McGillivray'reeve Gerald Wright said that Amos, along with water superintendent Levi White investigated the possibility of obtaining water from the Lake Huron line, which ran through the township from Grand Bend to London. In 1973, the first four miles of pipeline was laid at a cost of $29,000. Sections of pipe ranging from 12 to 19 miles were laid each year over the next seven years. Those wanting water paid for the pipeline themselves. Ainos said that in the first few years it cost about $2,000 for a farmer to' bring in the water. This year costs went above the $5,000 mark. A $75,000 grant from the Ministry of Environment was required to finish the project this year, when the last 15 miles of pipe were installed at a cost of $309,000. At present, there are 370 customers in the township HATS FOR ALL — At Thursday's South Huron Hospital Ladies Auxiliary rummage sale Sam Bower helps Louise Giffin and Dorothy Chapman in selecting a hat. T-A photo • TURNING THE GOLDEN TAP —Minister of Environment Ha rry Parrott turns the tap which gives dean, pure water to 95 percent of McGillivray township, as reeve Gerald Wright looks on. A special ceremony was held at the Ausable Booster pumping station Monday to mark the end of eight years work and 122 miles of pipe. After Wright and Parrott turned the tap, each child from McGillivray Central School was given a chance. Staff photo & North Lambton Since 1873 Serving South Huron, North Middlesex One Hundred and Eighth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 5, 1980 Price Per Copy 35 Cents • a. Vote high some places Keen election interest is indicated by totals in ad- vance polls in some area municipalities. In Hay Township, for in- stance, there were 141 voters and 117 in Grand Bend who took advantage of Satur- day's advance poll to' cast their ballots. Exeter clerk Liz Bell reports 48 voters in Exeter, almost triple the number who went to the poll early two years ago. However, there were only seven votes cast in Lucan, 14 in Hensall, five in Zurich and seven in Stephen. The higher totals in Grand send and Hay reflect the fact they have a number of summer property owners who visited on Saturday to cast their ballots.