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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1994-07-27, Page 1PUBLISHED IN LUCKNOW, ONTARIO Wednesday, July 27, 1994 550 G.S.T. Included 41. '1 k The Zawisza Czarny was one of the tall ships that docked at Goderich over the weekend. The schooner from Poland Is named after a Polish knight and her name means Black Knight. She features 11 sails, including staysails (hoisted by ropes), foresail and rafee (triangular topsail fastened to a cross beam. The ships was reconstructed In 1960 from the old wooden Swedish trading schooner, Petrea, which was built in 1902. The schooner 1s 141 feet in length, 90 feet high, and weighs 340 tons. Total sail area Is 5,920 square feet. (Pat Livingston photo) Council holds the line on taxes Lucknow °ratepayers will see no increase in their taxes this year. Council passed a bylaw at the July 12 meeting setting the mill rate for residential public school supporters at 51.933, with separate school supporters' at 53.881. The respec- tive commercial rates are 61.097 and 63.389: In other village business, Reeve Stuart Reavie says several ap- plicationsfor infrastructure funds have been made. One is for funds to, do repair work on Victoria street, including a new water main, storm sewer, curb, gutter and repaving. Other applications have been made for $40,000 for restoration work at the town hall, $7,000 for fencing at the hydro substation, and one for sidewalks. The village received around $48,000 in supplementary funding for bridge work. The village must contribute $12,000 out of its coffers towards the work. Reavie says the first bridge to be L______ worked on will be on Willoughby Street (near fire hall), with the Wheeler Street bridge deck next, and paving from Inglis to County Road 1. Depending on how the costs of the first two bridges come in, Reavie says it may be possible to do some work on the Gough Street bridge as well. $80,000 of the village's $100,000 commitment to Phase II of the arena complex has already, been set aside as reserve funds. Comparing last year's snow removal costs on the connecting link to 1992, Reavie said the ad- ditional $2436 was "not too bad considering the winter we had." In 1992, the cost was $7114. Two students, Jay Riegling and Judy Lane, 'have been hired by the village for nine weeks, through the Summer Employment Experience Development (SEED) program. They have been busy painting hydrants, cutting grass and perfor- ming various other duties. The students are also conducting a mini -survey of area businesses regarding the village's recycling program, to determine if everyone is aware of the various methods in place. Sidewalks, repaving Claude Guay had the successful tender for sidewalk removal and replacement on Willoughby Street, from Inglis to Bob. The tender price of $5300 was for removal and replacement of ap- proximately 1200 feet of sidewalk. Town foreman Gary Austin will negotiate a standard of concrete that may better withstand the forces of nature. •see Symes, page 2 Early deadlines at Sentinel Due to the Civic holiday falling on Monday, Aug. 1, deadlines at the Sentinel are advanced. News and correspondent's sub- missions must be in the office by 2 p.m. July 29. Classified advertising will be received until 2 p.m. as well and display advertising until 3 p.m. July 29. Two plead guilty; sentenced to two years less a day • by Mona Irwin Two of the three men charged in connection with a Wingham area robbery that included a brutal beating are going to jail. A third man charged in connec- tion with the incident, Michael J. Beldman, of Lucknow, will be tried in General Division Cpurt. His preliminary hearing is set for Nov. 14. Michael G. Campbell, 23, and William B. Sanderson, 22, both Lucknow area residents, were each sentenced Monday to two years less a day after pleading guilty to rob- bery, using a firearm while commit- ting a crime, conspiracy to commit a crime and disguising themselves with the intention of committing a crime. The three were charged after Bob Kats, a gas bar on Hwy. 4 owned by Robert Crumb and his wife, was robbed Jan. 21, 1994. Acting Crown Attorney Don Vale, of Sarnia, told the court Campbell, Sanderson and a third party had planned to rob a liquor store in Milverton that day. They took ski masks, a pellet gun, a baseball bat wrapped in electrical tape and a butcher knife. When they arrived, however, they decided there were too many people around. Instead, they drove to Wingham, arriving at about 7:30 p.m., and walked into the Bob Kats gas station, with Campbell carrying the butcher knife, Sanderson the pellet gun and Beldman the baseball bat. All three were wearing ski masks. They put a bag on the counter and Ordered Crumb to fill it with money. Crumb began to do so, but was struck several times with the bat. The three fled, and Crumb crawled from the counter to the living room area. Police and .an'. ambulance were called, and Crumb was taken to Wingham and District Hospital. He was later transferred to Victoria Hospital, in London, suf- fering from a broken nose,. dislocated jaw, fractured cheekbone and shattered eye socket. Crumb's injuries required dental •see Victim, page 2 Ashfield man dies in 'bike accident Another accident has claimed the life of a young area man. Goderich OPP report that William H. Curran, 20, of R.R. 1, Dungan- non, died in a motorcycle accident on July 23, around 11: 15 p.m. Mr. Curran was westbound on a motorcycle and failed to negotiate the curve, went westbound into the guardrail and over the embankment. He was pronounced dead at the scene by coroner, Dr. Jan Raczycki, of Clinton.' Mr. Curran is the son of Donald and Lynda Curran, of R.R., 1, Dun- gannon. A full obituary appears elsewhere in this paper. Delete Wawanosh site from landfill selection by Pat Livingston One of the West Wawanosh Township candidate sites for a 60 acre landfill project could be eliminated from further con- sideration by Sept. 1. Gore & Storrie Limited, consul- ting engineers, have informed the Huron County Department of Plan- ning and Development that "There has been significant upgrades and additions to the infrastructure on site W5(1) that were not apparent during air photo interpretation and/or roadside visual inspections. As a result ... Site W5(1) can be considered 'High Agricultural Capital Investment' (Group 4 of the Secondary Constraints) and therefore eliminated from the landfill site selection process." The letter goes on to say that "...the site contains a significant component of Class 1 farmland that is located central to the site boun- daries and which constitutes ap- proximately 45 per cent of the site area. As a result, the remaining Class 3 component of site W5(1) is not large enough to accommodate the 25 hectares that is required for landfill site selection." The site encompassed part of Lots 20; 21, Conc. VII, owned by Joe Boyle, Ethel McAllister and Ralph Petersen. Although the engineers are recommending elimination of the site, it will not become formal until county council says so. The recom- mendation will be made to the Planning and Development Com- mittee on Aug. 15, and the commit- tee will in turn make the recom- mendation to county council on Sept. 1. Another of the 11 potential sites is also recommended for elimination. The engineers found that site M1 (McKillop Township) was composed of a large com- ponent of Class 1 farmland. As a result, the remaining Class 3 com- ponent of the site is not large enough to accommodate the 25 hectares required for the landfill selection. Craig Metzger, project coor- dinator, says there is no information available on the other sites