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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-05-21, Page 40Page 10A Times -Advocate, May 27, 1981 Weather co-operates as Nomads celebrate By Norma Meikle The weatherman certainly co-operated for 18 camping units of the Ausable River Nomads, of N.C.H.A. to attend the Spring Ontario Provincial Association Campout at the Paris fairgrounds May 15, 16, 17, and 18. Upon arrival, hospitality of cookies, coffee and juice was served and we were greeted by our hosts, the Ontario Field Directors. During the week end, the adults enjoyed various en- tertainments, a dance, projects, various hospitalities hosted by other Ontario clubs as well as the usual nightly hospitalities sponsored by the hosts. For the teens, there was a teen Queen tea, dances, sports, and the usual teen meetings. As it was the Ausable River Nomads 10th birthday party, and the weather was perfect, the club paraded through the campgrounds NOMADS CUT CAKE — NCHA field directors Pete and Pat Kenneth help Ausable Nomads presidents Ruthanne and Maurice Haist cut the 10th birthday coke. Plan organization for handicapped During this International Year of the Physically Disabelled Persons, a group of concerned citizens have come together, with the hopes of establishing some type of transportation for such people who may be unable to board buses, etc., or have no access to a vehicle or transportation service. They have met only once, but have formed a questionnaire for groups involved with transporting the physically disabled, as well as individuals who may be bothered with this problem in the area of Huron County. If you are interested in becoming involved with this; through participating by filling out a questionnaire or attending meetings, call, Sandi Fremlin, or Bob Marshall at the Vanastra Recreation Centre, 482-3544, to learn more. MICHAEL P. O'CONNOR FUNERAL HOMES BONTHRON CHAPEL 118 KING STREET HENSALL, ONTARIO NOM 1X0 TELEPHONE 262-2211 WESTLAKE CHAPEL 49 GOSHEN STREET, N. ZURICH, ONTARIO NOM 2T0 TELEPHONE 236-4365 Pre arrangement Inquiries Invited Wanted - Junior Talent For Talent Show Hensall Spring Fair June 9th All Young People 20 years old and under welcome Ph. Dianne Verlinde 262-5608 Prize Money For All Opening new doors to small business See Uur Stratford Office Representatives BILL SCHUIL AND/OR BOB PEARCE Al: 1 he Devon Building, Main Street, Exeter ON: The 1st & 3rd Tuesday of each Month Next Visit Date: June 2nd 11 you require financing to start, modernize or expand your business and are unable to obtain it elsewhere on reasonable terms and conditions or if you are interested in the FBOB management services of counselling and training or wish information on government programs available for your business, talk to our representative. FEDERAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT BANK For an appointment or further information on the Bank's services call 271-5650 (collect) or write 1036 Ontario Street, Stratford, Ontario. with a decorated float letting all the campers know of our birthday party. The club served birthday cake and juice to more than 500 campers. At Sunday evening's dance, our field director presented a 10th year cer- tificate to the current Presidents, Maurice and Ruth Ann Haist. All past Presidents were presented for the presentation. Also, during the dance, Mrs. Spring Camper, 1980, Heather (Meikle) Lovie presented the 1981 trophy to Mrs. Pat Kennett, of the Festival City Travellairs, Stratford. As there were no specific activities planned for Monday and as it was so warm and sunny, not too many campers were anxious to move out. Those who attended from the Nomads were the: Haists; Caldwells; Battens; Armstrongs; Pfaffs; Meikles (with daughter and son-in-law); Perrys; Brunzlows; Gib - sons'; McMurtries; Orville Webbers; Lee Webbers; Brooms (with daughter and son-in-law) Morgans; Alexanders; Deitz'; Moores; Johns'; and the Ersmans, who joined in with the club on Sunday for the birthday party. Herman A very pleasant evening was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Sangster, Sunday when the immediate relatives of the latter's family gathered in honour of their twenty-fifth wedding, anniversary. A beautiful table was arranged by their daughter, Mrs. Ralph Holland, Clinton centered with an an- niversary cake, silver candles and a gift of tulips. A social hour was enjoyed and a gift was presented from the family. A sincere thanks was extended from the recipients. Visiting from Florida Mr. Scott Avery of Boynton Beach Florida visited this week with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Flynn and uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Flynn and daughters, Lori and Susan. Scott has com- pleted a scholarship he won in hotel and restaurant management, in Chicago. 11110, NOMADS CELEBRATE — The Ausable Nomads recently celebrated their 10th birthday. Sh,wn cutting the cake are NCHA field directors of 10 years ago Lou and Dorothy Schoffer and Nomads Charter presidents Lois and Iry Armstrong. Large crowd at wedding reception CLANDEBOYE Guests at the Neil - Gauthier wedding at Fair- mont United Church, Lon- don, Saturday included Mr. and Mrs. Rea Neil, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie' Rollings, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Rollings, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Rollings and Mr. and Mrs. Rick Rollings from this area. Reception was held at the Leprechaun Room in Lucan Community Centre. The flowers on the altar of the United Church on Sunday were in loving memory of the late Miss Agnes Northgraves a lifetime member of Clandeboye United Church. Mary and Wilmer 'Scott returned last week from a visit with their daughter Nancy and Sam Taylor and family, Swift Current Saskatchewan. Donna Hindmarsh, ac- companied by her mother, Mrs. Rheola Hotson of Ailsa Craig spent a few days recently with Donna's sister, Marlene and Roy Meggett and family of Longloc, north of Thunder Bay. Marlene was just home from hospital following surgery. Velma Hardy, Hazel and Gladys Cunningham, Jean Hodgins and Ruth Hill at- tended the Women's Institute District Annual Tuesday at Poplar Hill. Hazel Williams returned Sunday from spending a few days in Windsor with her sister, Dorothy Joyce, who was just released from ,,hospital, following surgery. Jean Hodgins ac- companied by her sisters and their husbands, Mary and Ray Ruston, St. Marys and Ruth and Russell Brock, Goderich spent the holiday weekend in Hazel Park Michigan, with their brother Howard, and Gwen Morley. Lisa Carter, Shannon Feke, Karen Leger, and Laurie St. Pierre, ac- companied by friends from Lucan walked the nine kilometres in the Bible Society walk-a-thon Saturday. Joanne Carter Walked the 20 kilometre in the Medway High School walk-a-thon for Bunny Bundle, Friday. Eleanor and Dave Kestle visited a friend, Mrs. Lily Wood, London who was celebrating her 90th birthday Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cun- ningham and Mr. and Mrs. Alan Hill attended opening services for the 126th session of the Synod of the Diocese of Huron, held at St. Pauls Anglican Church, London on Sunday evening. Guest speaker was the Rev Michael Peers, Bishop of Qu'Appelle. On behalf of St. James Anglican Church, Clandeboye, Alan presented a contribution to the Development Fund in aid of relief in Third world coun- tries. BARGAIN HUNTING — Thursday's rummage sale sponsored by the South Huron Hospital Auxiliary was again a huge success. Some of the customers are shown checking the clothing rocks for bargains. T -A photo McGillivray school news By JANET EAGLESON Thursday, May 14, the grades kindergarten to six went to see "Jacob Two -two meets the Hooded Fang" at the London Little Theatre. Chris Hodgins, grade one, said the show was excellent, but he especially liked the Hooded Fang, The Intrepid, Shapiro and the Fearless O'Toole. Overall, everyone liked it. The following students had their History Fair projects selected and sent on to the London and Middlesex competition. Lisa Ryerson and Carol Gilmour with a quilt block collection; Tammy Noyes with a game on Clint Hodgins' Life; Bonnie Lewis, Bonnie Lynn and Christine Sutherland with a slide tape presen- tation on the history of McGillivray Township; Janet Eagleson with an essay on the history of Parkhill. Honourable mention should go to David Hodgins, Mark Isaac and Nancy Hamilton who all created interesting booklets on local history. In the Colborne cross country meeting in Strathroy, Darcy McLean came third in junior boys, Jeff Amos came seventh in junior boys, Kim Amos was fourth in senior girls and Sylvia DeWeerd came twelfth. These are only a few of the girls and boys who ran in the meet. They all deserve a round of applause. On May 2 we had our spring paper drive in which many parents and students assisted. Once collected we had great difficulty selling it to our usual buyer in Aylmer. Our thanks go to Rob Fitzgerald and Mrs. Karen Horner'of Lucan who run Roka Recycling for coming to the school and helping us bundle the papers and sell them in London. In all, we reclaimed just over sixteen tons which added *400 to the field trip expenses incurred this year. Recycling newspapers involves far more than we first thought and we have decided to leave the project to people who know the business better than we do. May 20, the weather man co-operated with us in a most successful field day. Students entered many of the events and many students went home with lots of,, winning ribbons especially the following who are age group champs: Shawn Wright, Natalie Austin, Darcy McLean, Valerie Parkinson, Patti Dixon, Sylvia DeWeerrd, Jim Bullock, Laurie Rowe, Paul Scott and Tammy Mathers. Thanks to the teachers who made the day run more smoothly and to the coaches Mrs. Freer and Mr. Brown. Jack's Jottings Budget is big news Of course, the Treasurer's new budget was the big news at Queen's Park this week. Prior to presentation of his budget, the Treasurer, Mr. Frank Miller, who a year ago gave us a no -tax in- crease pre-election economic blueprint, had promised that this would not be "a sunshine budget" - an understatement! As Liberal finance critic David Peterson Pointed out, "If they (the Tories) had presented this budget to the voters of Ontario.(they) would have been roundly defeated." With 'some ¢itterness, Michael Cassidy, the NDP Leader commented: "It's clear that the people who voted Conservative on March 19 got what they deserved...We've had an in- crease in taxes of $300 on the average family....while cor- porations didn't get a nickel of increased taxes." Calling it the "fairest....but not necessari- ly most popular" tax, Provincial Treasurer, Frank Miller, raised Ontario's per- sonal income tax rates for the first time in Ontario's history. The increase, effec- tive July 1, amounts to about 5% more this year and 9% next year, raising the provincial rate from 44% of the basic federal tax to 48% in 1982. He didn't increase corporate taxes, arguing that these have already been raised twice in the past four years. Since the personal tax hikes apply for only the last half of this year, the effec- tive increase in the rate for 1981 taxpayers is from 44% to 46%of the federal rate. The Treasurer maintained that the increase still leaves Ontario taxpayers third over-all behind first place Alberta and then British Columbia in provincial tax rates. The Treasurer will realize $232 million this year and $450 million in 1982 from the increase. There is to be a gasoline tax hike of about four cents a gallon (almost one cent a litre), effective May 19, and this tax is now based on price rather than on volume. The new ad valorem tax base means that taxes rise every time the price goes up. This is a tax raising device well known in Britian and elsewhere as "value added tax", which is applied as a percentage of the retail price of an item, rather than a fixed amount. David Peterson criticized the change to ad valorem calling "a very sneaky manoeuvre" profiteering on the fact that the majority of consumers don't know who's getting what out of the oil dollar, and saying that Ontario may make more than Alberta on gasoline. Under the National Energy Program (NEP) prices of crude oil will in- crease by at least $4.50 per barrel in 1981, 1982 and 1983. Of the $4.50. increase each year, the federal govern- ment will receive $2.50 off the top in the form of a refinery tax to stover the costs of subsidizing Eastern Canadian consumers. The remaining $2.00 per barrel will be reflected in in- creased well -head prices. The government of Alberta will receive about 80t per barrel out of the $2.00. With the new tax structure for gasoline, the Ontario Government will receive 20% or $1.12 per barrel per year (or 4.54 per gallon, It per litre) as a result of the NEP price increaes. In effect, Ontario will do better than Alberta. As for gasoline consumers in Ontario, they will now pay an additional 184 per gallon more each year instead of the 13.54 un- der the NEP. Premier Davis will profit almost as much as Premier Lougheed from any further oil price in- crease. An average motorist using 600 gallons a year will have to pay an additional $24. due to the highter tax. Diesel fuel tax goes up 1.1 cent per litre. The same ad valorem method will apply to tobacco and alcohol. Tobacco taxes were effec- tive budget day, and a package of 20 cigarettes will cost a nickel more, a 50 gram pouch of pipe tobacco a dime more. Starting June 1st, beer will cost 45 cents more for a case of 24. A 25 -oz bottle of hard liquor will cost about a uarter more as of July 20. READY FOR A SHOWER — Jean Simpson and Fran Mickle were prepared for rain at Thursday's rummage sale spon- sored by the Auxiliary to South Huron Hospital. T -A photo 1144111 .sle By JACK RIDDELL Huron -Middlesex MPP OHIP premiums are up 15% starting in July, although subsidies are ex- tended a little to help cushion the effect on low in- come earners. The fee for a three -year's driver's licence will go from - $9. to $15. While government spen- ding is to increase about 12.2%, there are few new programs. Health spending will in- crease 13.4% to $5.6 billion. Aid to local governments in- creases 10.6% to $4.7 billion. The OPP will get bullet- proof vests, at a cost of $3.3 million. There is to be about $20 million more for day care. Another $20 million will go toward a shared cost program to expand and renovate homes for the ag- ed. $150 million is ear- marked for BILD projects with another $100 million to come from other governments and industry. $20 million is allocated for chronic care at home. A further $20 million will go to extended care beds. The Treasurer Frank Miller, repeated his commit- ment to find a means of sub- sidizing the increasing cost of home heating for poor people, although he offered no details. There is also to be some property tax reform for farmers. The construc- tion this year of 15,000 rental units is to be subsidized. There are two small tax breaks in the budget. Kits for converting gasoline bur- ning vehicles to alternate fuel consumption will_be ex- empt from the province's 7% sales tax, and the no -tax status of furniture purchases, brought in last fall, will be extended to September 30th. _, ..,,.._ j - R NG OUT ,. .,-, :,sAL E. .,.-r---- . •,... 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