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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-11-05, Page 27AND THE WINNER IS — Playhouse manager Marc Quinn closes his eyes and reaches for the winning ticket in the draw for a weekend at Ben Miller. New playhouse, guild president Al Coo, (left) looks on as outgoing president Nancy Read, Kristie Mclndoe and Elia Douglas of Christmas Place hold the basket. The guild sponsored the draw as a fund raising event. The winner was Jayne Huntley of Napean, Staff photo 'Lay it over' Busineis left for new council SUR WE HAVE 1981 MODELS I / STAN HAYES Located at Thompson-Warner Plymouth-Chrysler Open 7 Days Resort • REAL-A-Car Ut For P.U.C. Grand Bend Re Elect Roy Johnson Nov. 10, 1980 4 yrs. Grand Bend P.U.C. 13 yrs. Embro Hydro For Experience And Integrity Your Support Would Be Appreciated GRAND BEND Needs ...Continued Progressive Leadership ...Continued sound Financial Policies ...Continued Open Approach to Government GRAND BEND needs YOU to VOTE Robert M. Sharen 'For Reeve Elect John R. MANORE Candidate for Reeve Village of Grand Bend For A Strong Voice on Grand 'Bend Council Vote ANGELO MARUCA Angelo's Longtime Business Experience Makes Him Fully Qualified To Do The Best Job For You On Grand Bend Council. es 4 HARWOOD DRUGS Ltd. 238-8540 Beside Post Office 22, 81 CRESCENT GRAND BEND, ONT. weme",11MIMMIDIEDIM Mary's musings BY MARY ALDERSON For PUC Grand Bend Keep Prosper Vanbruaene working for your best interests On Nov. 10 Re-elect Vanbruaene - has been active and successful in this position since January 1, 1971 For dedication and understanding VOTE PROSPER VANBRUAENE Remembrance Day 1980 Grand Bend Legion Branch 498 Will hold a church service on November 9, 1980 at the United Church, Grand Bend 11:00 a.m. Cenotaph service at 10:45 November 11. All Legion members please attend. Deputy reeve attacks candidate Tirnes-Advocate, Novsmhe 1940 P 3A OR • Candidate night ,popular ...... .. .. . ..... .. . .. . ... . Despite the fact that he is not running for re-election Bosanquet deputy reeve Jack McDonald. did moat. of the talking at an all can- didates night last week, North tarobton chamber of. Commerce sponsored the evening which was. held at the ThedfOrd-Bosanquet arena. Tuesday. McDonald led an attack on Gerald Edwards who is running for the position of deputy reeve. After Edwards said that he wanted to make Bosanquet a, better place to live, *Donald told him that he had ample opportunity to do that while he was on school board for over 20 years. 114CDOnald said that he sat on the board of governors of LaMbtOn College and found that students corning into the college had an "atrocious" .education. He said the students were reading at a grade six level. He also criticized Edwards for not having information about how education tax dollars were spent.. McDonald came to the defence of councillor Bill Kingdon when he wad replying to a question front the audience on tourism, He explained what Kingdon meant when he said that tourism doesn't pay for it- self. McDonald explained Please turn to page 22A Grand Bend council was reluctant to take much ac- tion at Monday night's meeting because of the changes which might take place in next week's election. Many items were left for the new council. Dale Hayter attended the meeting con- cerning his parking com- pound, and his job towing away vehicles blocking traffic. Hayter said that he found his work very con- Friday night at the Lions club Halloween party, I remarked about the imagination parents must have to come up with costumes. I was quickly told that it was the kids who have the wild imaginations, and the parents jug help build the outfits. There weresome really great ideas walking on two legs at the Halloween party, and I'm sure the judges' jobs were very tough. I mean, really, who would have thoughtofdressing up as a television? Or putting a broom stick across your back, and sticking it out your sleeves for a scarecrow costume? Another imaginative outfit was on a Miss Piggy:--mile long false eyelashes and styroforam cup for a pig nose. It was great fun seeing some of the Moms and Dads dressed up, too! Even if some of the costumes scared the wee tots to death. The Lions are to be commended on the en- tertaining evening. Those of you withoutkids shouldlhave come along, just for the fun of it. 4;4 After we left the Lions Halloween party, my husband, Victor, and I went trick or treating, too. We went as cowboys--the worst of it was that some people didn't even realize we were dressed up. If we lived in Alberta we wouldn't have been. The fact that we were wearing Lone Ranger style masks, and bandit type scarves over our faces should'have told people that it was a Halloween costume. The rest of our outfits can be seen on the streets anytime. I remember when I was in high school, anybody that wore cowboy boots was called a "hick" and made • fun of. Now that "Wester- -ness" is in, you have to dress cowboy style. Anyway we went calling on friends wearing our cowboy clothes 'and hiding our faces behind scarves and masks. fusing this summer, and was assured that things will get better if a by-law en- forcement officer is hired. Hayter said that when he towed a car at council's direction, the "provincial police didn't know where it " was, when the owner reported it missing, Hayter also said that there were sometimes problems when people didn't have $20 cash to pay the fine. He was On our way out, we were stopped by a friendly policeman who wanted to know where our horse was. Victor told him we were driving a Bronco. At our first stop, we carefully drove our truck around to the ,back of ,the house where it? couldn't be seen and quietly went to the front door, stifling our giggles. We knocked at the door and waited. Pretty soon our friend came to the door. We didn't say a word. She looked back over her shoulder and called to her husband, "Oh, it's Victor and Mary," and in- vited us in--just as if we went to their house every night wearing masks and scarves. What a let down. We made up for that disappointment at the next stop. We walked into our friends' house and sat for 15 minutes before they guessed who we were. -tK It was good to see so many interested voters out at the candidates night Thursday. I was glad that so many of the candidates stressed openness in government. However, I don't think that the present council can be criticized for not being open, I certainly haven't had too many problems with secretiveness. This was brought home to me when I attended the weekely newspapers association convention in Toronto last March. The main complaint of most of the reporters was the number of "in camera" and closed door sessions held by the municipal councils. By comparison Grand Bend council seemed very straightforward. Which reminds me-- all their meetings are open to the public. I expected to see interested candidates and voters in the visitors gallery at Monday's meeting--but again, not a soul came out. It will be very interesting to see if the newly elected members take the time to attend the next meeting before they take over. For Councillor Grand Bend Elect MAE MORENZ honest representation for all citizens I would appreciate your support date of the school study committee meeting and also helped get school buses to detour around sewer con- struction work. • Council members also praised the work of the sewer construction crew. They said they were pleased that the road was only closed one day and said that the crew worked very quickly to reopen the road. Rented truck crashes Damage was estimated at $1500 when an International Transtar was involved in a single vehicle crash Wed- nesday. The truck was driven by Robert J. 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Chamber president Gene Grenier was chairman, Erosion control, im- provements to the docking, and better facilities for boaters were brought up by ratepayers in their questioning of the can- didates. Present council members told the audience that washrooms with showers are being built this winter in the Wards Court Parkette near the public docks. Candidate Dennis Snider said that he had made some inquiries into the establishment of a habour committee. Of interest to the ratepayers was the need for visible parking lots. Mem- bers of the audience stressed parking rules should be enforced, and the need for a bylaw enforcement officer was discussed. Council members were taken by surprise when residents of Southcott Pines asked the village to snowplow certain streets. Councillor Keith Crawford said that council was under the impression that South- cott Pines wanted to be private. He was told that some residents are not members of the Southcott Pines association, and would like the village to look after their roads. When asked about the ownership of the beach property, council said they would not comment on the situation, because it was courts. "We own Reeve Robert Hot Turkey Supper at GRAND BEND UNITED CHURCH Nov. 5th Adults $5.00 Children $2.50 Pre-schoolers free Time 5 to 8 p.m. Take outs available. Delivery for shut-ins. Phone .238-8732, by noon, Nov. 5th at latest. Sharon's only comment. In answer to a question about the building of a new fire hall, Sharen said that council was still waiting for COITru REFIEJ SERVICES INC. Management Assistance Mailings & Promotional Record Keeping & Reports Personal Tax Forms & Systems Design. Payroll Preparation Farm Records-Cash or Ac- crual Projections & Cash Flows Mortgage schedules & Analysis Real Estate Profit Analysis Investments - Trust Com- panies First call - No Obligation Grand Bend 238-2388 the firemen to Coyne up with a drawing. He added that Please turn to page 22A Low ratios by that day, weak, month "We've got your wheels" forced to accept credit cards, he said. Council members said that his questions would be dealt with next spring by the new council, and they would be recommending that an of- ficer to enforce parking laws be hired. They said that a representative from the. Ministry of Transportation and Communication will be helping them draft parking, bylaws: .• Questions over the pur- chase of Lee Jennison's property for• a cemetery for Bosanquet, Stephen and Grand Bend were left for the new council to look after. Clerk Louise Clipperton was instructed to write to the townships to find out whether they wanted the cemetery board to be autonomous. A letter from the Ministry of the Solicitor General concerning recommenda- tions made by coronor Dr. William .O'Connor after a drowning at Grand Bend last summer, was read. The ministry wanted to kn,ow if council had followed Dr. O'Connor's • suggestions. It was.decided to lay the letter over to the next council. A petition signed by several residents calling for standards in rental cottages was left for the next council. The petition said that families were returning to Grand Bend, and the ac- commodations should be improved. Noise and overcrowding should be stopped, and adverse con- ditions eliminated, the letter said. A letter from Ivan Grigg on behalf of his mother asked council to look into the question of senior citizen housing. Reeve Robert' Sharen said that they would, ask the Ministry of Housing to do another survey in the village on senior citizens homes and apartments. Council was able to give a decision to the Ontario Humane Society. They voted to donate one cent for each resident of Grand Bend to the society, as requested in a letter from the organization. In his report, village foreman Garry Desjardine told council that a new Dodge truck has been or- dered. Desjardine also told council that they need a temporary permit to remove sand and gravel from their land fill site. Council voted to rebate the tax on garbage collection and pinball machines to the Legion. Councillor Keith Crawford noted that the Legion performed many services for the village, and that they shouldnot be taxed for having a shuffleboard and juke box. Reeve Robert Sharen praised area board of education member Gerry Edwards for "going to bat for us" last week. Sharen said that Edwards had helped the village change the before the curred on highway 21 near it" was the Greenway Road. There ' were no injuries. Constable D.J. Cardwell investigated the. crash. 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