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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-11-12, Page 1RALPH WEBER ' LOSSY FULLER BHA MICKLE 1 • . • RETIRING REEVES— Two area reeves who are retiring from municipal politics represented their municipalities at Sunday's Remembrance Day service, Shown above are. Ken Campbell of Stephen and Bill Morley of Usborne who was also Warden of` Huron County for 1980. T A photo Sitting rnerribers TOM TOMES . • . , . • • . 'MO Price Per Copy 35 Cents One Kindred and Eighth. Year 41: VrAgaVit EXETER, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 12, 1980 Ve e1F,e, ketee, ',eeeeet eeee, ejkri ... S dvoc Serving South Huron North Middlesex & North Lambton Since 1873 RIBBON IS CUT — The Hart. Reuben 8cretz end Doug Gould, post president- of the Exeter and District Heritage Foundation, cut the ribbon to officially open the renovated town hail, Wednesday, Holding the ribbon are Heritage foundation historians. Marion Fletcher anti Muriel Dunlop. Faces in the background include MPPJaek Riddell,. the Hon. Claudeste penhonettc: te and 81A president Bole Swertma Shaw, Epp win, Fuller tops leave lastenittute reminders en doors, that welcomed peopleito. election. day. He Aid be found out that Exeter has grown since he. won his last election against 404 peibridge six years ago. HO was about 300 door tags short in .his: requirement. The eleption races for the other seats -on council held few surprises. Epp, who joined council to m a vacancy created by the. resignation of Si Simmons after losing in the election. race two years ago, was never threatened by Hoogenboom. He won the advance poll by a margin of almost three to. one and increased that throughout tee night. - The seven candidates for cOuncii ran closet.), in the. early going before Mrs. Puller And Micide started to pull ahead and left Josephson trailing, The only interest Was to see in whieh order the winning -candidates would finish. EXPRESSIONS CHANGE — Mayoralty winner Bruce Shaw, right, and loser Don, Cameron both managed smiles as the latter conceded the election at Shaw's house, Monday night. The close race through most of the night Irv° 'bath men cause fora mixture of smiles and frowns ps the results were tabulated. Staff photo Steckle new reeve after Stanley test ib Hruce Shaw Was returned as mayor of Exeter after e: two. )tear absence,. MondaYt but the narrow victory be, gained over Councillor Don Cameron kept supporters. of both uteri on the edge of their nerves throughout the night, Cameron finally conceded. with. one poll tally still .outstanding end the final result gave Shaw a *in by 157 votes.. The former mayor who bad served two previoes terms garnered 643 votes to the • 691 reeorded by Cameron, ' Alvin Epp won the deputy- reeve's position with an easy victory over three-time election loser Ben Hoogenboom, Epp's 977 was second in the balloting with 486 votes while another first time candidate Jacob Lagerwerf picked up 472 votes to take the last position., votes gave him a margin of 451 over lioegenbooth's, votes. The lone candidate to - be dropped from the list of seven people seeking council seats.Was-0-aylan Josephson. He trailed' throughout the, poll by poll counting, with: the exception of the advance poll. Veteran council' member • Lossy Feller, completing her sixth year, topped the polls with 1,226 votes. Newcomer Bill Mickle showed: strung support to follow closely in second place with 1,163, Barbara Bell,. returned to council after a sojourn in, Listowel, placed third with 1,006 ballots to nip newcomer Tom Humphreys who was. only four below that count, The voters left newcomer Morley Hall and sitting member Jay Campbell tied for the last two-positions with Identical tallies. of 978- e Josephson picked up $20 votes In his, losing effort. 'Shia*, who Set 'a -medern- day record for Exeter by winning two elections for the mayor's post, admitted after tlle. count that the outcome was eloser. than. he expected. He ga:v a some indication that'tbe night was going to be. longer than he, expected. when he out-scored-Cameron by only 10 votes in the ad- vance poll. • Counting on solid support front the student vote, which. normally' Makes up a large part or the advance pelt, Shaw was surprised at his slim lead when those ballot were counted.. The two men then split the win- in the next, two polls from which returns were received but Shaw moved into A 15-vote lead • as Cameron arrived at the Municipal office to watch the proceedings, At that point, Cameron indicated he was not pp- tiniistic- about .the outcome and was prepared to accept defeat. However, the next poll gave him another win slowly started to open up resulted in his Margin being cut. He had been counting on the senior citizen support and only three of the 50 who went on the bus trip had voted in the advance poll and the unfavorable weather had discouraged others from getting to the polls. Cameron conceded that he may have been hurt by not being as well known as the former mayor and 'was disappointed in some of the polls as he said he had received a very favorable reaction from the voters in his door-to-door canvass but some of that favorable reaction had not turned into every home in his three- week campaign. "I was the one who was running. And felt it should be me who went to the door to ask. for the votes," he ex- plained. Shaw also personally reathedniany voturs and his sepparters scurri.O.jarotind. the town 'Sun y night to ALVIN EPP - .,.New deputy-reeve said he must give credit for initiative to Exeter's local business improvement area organization, which in just three years has ac- complished a great deal "and to the citizens of Ex- eter who supported and con- tributed to the downtown im- ample of the kind of com- Most had expected to see Mrs. Fuller top the polls when perennnial winner -Ted Wright dropped front the race. The only surprises may have been in the strong showing. of Mickle and the last place tie recorded by Campbell,' who Was the only other incumbent in the race In addition to Mrs. Fuller, Cainebnell trailed in the sixth place before' pulling into a tie with Hall on the strength of the last, tvvopolls. 1Vlickle said he was "very pleased" with his support. There were few local issues, although most candidates had listed the need for a local senior citizen nursing home in their platforms. Cameron said he decided to stay clear of .that topic because he couldn't make any promises in that regard, The voter turnout from the 2,822 eligible. was 54,5 per- cent according to returning officer Liz Bell. She noted the final results have yet to be certified, were:ie.:tee those funds will be used for paving the town hall parking lot and developing a let behind the stores on the west side of Main St. between Ann and John. ' The $100,000 to be repaid by the BIA was used to create the parkettes at the PUC office, town office and the town hall and library area. In noting that a gold ribbon had been used in the ceremony to open the parkettes, Bennett said it reflected the prosperity of Exeter. Bennett asked Mayor Derry Boyle to assist him with cutting the ribbon. "The Mayor and I did a good officially open Exeter's new chairman of the revitalization r Derry Boyle, did the cutting. Staff photo Residents of 'Stanley township went to the polls Monday and they gave the candidates for political of- fice a few euprises. In the battle for reeve, current deputy-reeve Paul Steckle defeated incumbent Tom Consitt 469 votes to 395. In the race for deputy- reeve Don McGregor, an eight year veteran of council topped fellow council Don Brodie by 70 votes in taking the second most important township position 460 votes to 390, Topping the polls for the three member Stanley council was political newcomer Howard Arm- strong as he captured 614 voters. In the runner-up spot was the only returning councillor Clarence Rau with 588 votes. • Picking up the final seat on council was Jack Coleman with 454 votes. Finishing fourth, in the race was Bill Chipchase with 358 votes: In neighboring Hay township Bluewater plumber Dick Rau seeking a second term on council topped the polls as he picked up 621 votes. Gerald Shantz making his second bid for council finished second to Rau with 522 votes, In third spot was in- cumbent Tony Bedard who polled 483 votes. Former members of council Claire Deichert and Don Geiger did not fair well in their bid for a council seat as they finished in a tie for fourth spot with 422 votes. Official results of the Hay election were delayed for well over an hour due to a delay in receiving the official vote count from the Dash- wood poll, Acclaimed as reeve was current deputy-reeve Lloyd Mousseau while councillor Lionel Wilder 'moved up to the deputy-reeve's job. Voters of Zurich elected their youngest member of council ever when they gave a resounding vote of con- fidence to 21 year -old Dan Turkheim who finished third in the four man race. Turkheim collected 248 votes compared to Bob Fisher who topped the polls in the village with an even 300 votes, In second spbt was in- cumbent Isidore Laporte with 285 votes while Leroy Thiel, the most senior of Zurich's elected officials received a major scare from newcomer. Don Van Patter who came within 15 votes of gaining a seat on council Thiel received 191 votes PAUL STECKLE compared to Van Patter's 177. Zurich Reeve Fred Baberer went in by ac- clamation, Tuckersmith council will have some old faces in new positions with Bill Brown Senior defeating fellow councillor Bob Fotheringharn 639 to 505 in the election for deputy- reeve. In the six-way race for council Jim Papple collected 695 votes to take the top spot with Robert 13roadfoot collecting 639 votes for second spot. In a close race for the third and final spot on council, John Brownridge polled 451 votes to Lloyd Eissler Sr.'s 440. Jan Ferguson took 309 votes while Betty Mae MacLean gained the support of 213 people. Acclaimed as reeve WaS current councillor Robert Bell who replaces Ervin Sillery. Sillery did not seek re-election, Just slightly over 10 percent of • voters in Tuckersmith cast ballots, up some eight percent com- pared to the 1978 election. McGillivray post . Marilyn,McGregor 61 and James Thompson; a incumbnt Ben Thompson present member of council 38, Returning officer Bill Amos said the voting.turnout was about 70 percent. Dianne Mollard was ac- claimed as deputy-reeve at the recent nominations. ...finish on top, of council election race if .and he whittled Shaw's lead to only eight votes. Dorman captures . From that point on, Shaw • • some daylight between the two, although the situation was so tense that Shaw Jack Dorman is the new Defeated were another decided to head for his home reeve of McGillivray town.- first time candidate Wesley and get the final few polling ship. Hodgson with 462 votes and station results there. At Monday's election, incumbent John A, McCann With one poll still out- Dorman gained 496 votes to who drew 390 votes. standing, Cameron decided 449 for incumbent reeve In a five way fight for one to concede and drove to Gerald Wight • seat on the Middlesex County Shaw's home where he • Board of Education Irene congratulated the winner. A newcomer tomunicipal politics Barry Heaman drew votes was the winner with 422 The atmosphere was very votes anti a clear majority, subdued, with some of the 515 votes • to lead the five Next came David Hall 185, Shaw supporters having to candidates for three. council Carol , Kowlachuk 104, delay their • victory seats. celebration for longer than they had expected. "That was too darn close," Shaw told Cameron as the two men 'exchanged congratulations for a hard- fought campaign. The mayor-elect said that a bus trip taken by about 50 Exeter senior citizens on election day, as well as the brisk 'weath'er, May have next couple of years. The Centralia College teacher said he would hope to stay on to see the com- munity park project corn- , pleted, He has been chair- man of the development The two incumbent office in Monday's election committee. councillors in Stephen with ease. Cameron said that he and township were returned to 'They were veteran Dash- his wife knocked on 90 wood area politician Ralph percent of the deers in Weber and Tom Tomes of the Exeter and he didn't call in Centralia area. They are some of his supporters who joined by newcomer Ken had volunteered until he McCann, a lifelong resident realized he couldn't get to of the township and now residing on Concession 8, just west of Crediton. Weber led the polls with 538 votes followed by McCann With 523 and Tomes at 431. Defeated were Steve Pertschy 318, Jack O'Neill 231, Andrew Robertson 231 and Andy McIntyre 118. . O'Neill and McIntyre, residents of Huron Park failed in a bid to have representation on council from, that area. Only 107 Huron Park voters exercised their franchise. v t o es. He said he would consider seeking_ election in the future, but would be keeping a low profile in the cern- mnit activities o er th u y "It's the sign of a healthy community to have a good .family argument," Culture and Recreation Minister Reuben Baeti commented at the opening of two local pro- jects that had been com- pleted under some con- troversy. Claude Bennett to officiate closed, although et least one shop keeper had remained open during the afternoon in anticipation of the visitots. A few more onlookers gathered at the town hall parkette for the official rib- bon cutting of the BIA pro- ject, but cool winds quickly forced the dignitaries and guests onside after en ab- breviated program. About 75 people greeted them in the town hail and they were too noisy, accor- ding to chairman Bruce Shaw, to hear the town ball liens signal the start of proceedings. Bennett, whose ministry provided a low-cost $159,000 `loan for the BIA project, Baetz was in town along provement". Some people with Housihg Minister "This is an excellent ex- lust don't heed at Wednesday's opening of muhity spirit that makes our the restored town hall and smaller towns a valued part A large number of area the Exeter BIA downtown -of the Ontario scene", he drivers failed to heed the revitalization project added. warning issued last Week The two provincial cabinet " The ministry's loan of that the Exeter OPP have a ministers may have $150,000 will be shared by the new "moving" radar device wondered if the downtown BIA and the town. Council which can be operated from project had helped to will repay $50,000 of the loan a moving cruiser, revitalize the core as a shop- over the next 10 years and In the first weekend Of 'ping area as they were join- operation, the police charged ed by only five members of IN C! shwood 50 drivers with speeding, the BIA in a walk around the id most of them being timed as business community. Few and sorne of the stores were rate tight they approached the on- shoppers were in evidence coming cruiser. This week, the Exeter OPP laid 65 speeding charges while utilizing the new device, which can clock oncoming vehicles from as far away as One mile. One theft and a damage incident are under in- vestigation by the Exeter OPP this week, Alt AM FM stereo radio and cassette player unit valued at $210 was stolen from a parked vehicle at Baker Motors in Grand Bend, On Thursday, a portable steel display sign in front of the Tenderspot in Zurich was damaged when plastie letters were stolen, The closest battle in Monday's muniO.pal elec- tions in the area occurred in the police village of Dash- wood. In the race for a third member of the board of trustees Nancy Rader edged Robert Hoogemuns by a single vote 57 to 56. The other bashwood trustees ere Kenneth Rader and George Tiernan who were acclaimed at the first nomination-. They were the only nominations the first time around, A second nomination for the remaining position produced the eandieacy of Boogemens and Mrs. Rader, PARKETTES OFFICIALLY OPENED — Five men braved the cold weather Wednesday to parkettes between the library and the old town hall. Holding the ribbon were Mike Williamson program, BIA presiderit Bob Swartman, while Minister of Housing Claude Bennett and Mayo Gerry Gray of the 81A holds the other end. Two projects opened impress cabinet duo job of cutting each other up all day, we might as welt cut the ribbon together," Bennett said. In brief remarks inside the hall, Boyle said welcoming the ministers to Exeter would be one of his last privileges as Mayor. He then said he should bow his head in shame because he was "not a leading light" in the restoration of the town hall. He admitted it was a project of which the com- mtmity could be proud. "I apologize for my past performance (in opposing the restoration) and promise to change niy delinquent ways in the future," he said. Please turn to page 3