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Times -Advocate, Moy 18, 1983
FASHIONS GALORE —Nightwear was modelled by Judy Bowman of Grand Bend
at the second annual Grand Bend Cruising Club show, held Sunday at Oakwood Inn.
May use a vacuum
to keep harbour clean
Lambton-Middlesex MP
Ralph Ferguson, along with
Mort Moffat, Department of
Oceans and Fisheries, Small
Craft Harbours .branch of-
ficial and Erle Douglas of
Public Works Canada met
with Grand Bend represen-
tatives of the harbour com-
BOX OFFICE OPEN
The Huron Country
Playhouse box office has been
open to subscribers only since
April 18. On Monday, May 16,
tickets go on,sale for those
who wish to attend selected
individual performances
rather than the entire season.
Tickets will also be on sale
for the three musicals on
Playhouse II — "18 Wheels",
"The Return of the Curse of
the,Mummy's ReVenge" and
"Eight to the Bar" — and for
the three Sunday concerts —
The Family Brown on June
26, Moe Koffman on, July 24
and The Nylons on August 7.
mittee Monday morning to
review questions about the
harbour
They gathered at the new
harbour building briefly and
then met at the village coun-
cil chambers for discussion.
Consultant Bill Baird ex-
plained the use of a sand
vacuum,which could be sta-
tioned on a mobile unit in the
harbour and which might be
used to clear accumulation of
sand at the conyenience of the
village.
Other suggestions were the
extension of both piers, the
south pier, on an angle to the
south and the north pier with
pilings to allow the flow of
water without a build-up of
silt.
Moffatt told the group that
the size of the harbour and the
number of fishing tugs
operafing-from Grand Bend
did not warraltt "millions of
dollars" being spent by the
federal government in per-
manent structures such as ex-
pensive extensions to the
Attention
Grand Bend
and area residents
This is your invitation to enjoy the ex
cellent shopping in Exeter
Thursday, May 19 is Exeter
Excursion Day
and the Exeter Mainway merchants
are offering free bus transporation
fromGrand Bend to Exeter and back.
Be sure you take part in the free draw
for passengers.
Grand Bend Pickup points are at the
main intersection and at the entrance
to Grand Cove Estates.
TWO CONVENI ENT TIMES
leave Grand Bend at 1 p.m. return at 5 p.m.
leave Grand Bend at•5:45 p.m. return at 9:30 p.m.
piers or a breakwall.
There was some suggestion
that an hydrolic study might
still be undertaken by SCH at
Burlington and the govern-
ment delegation showed ongo-
ing interest in the problems of
the three Lake Huron har-
bours, Grand Bend, Bayfield
and Port Franks.
The government group felt
that the harbour machine
might be used on a research
basis at Grand Bend and
would prove a quick solution
to the silting problems of the
past without proving to be
'expensive.
Harbour committee will
meet Wednesday night to con-
sider the next move.
MEN'S FASHIONS -
Oakwood inn owner,
David Scotcherd, is shown
modelling men's fashions
at the Grand Bend Cruis-
ing Club's second annual
fashion show, held at the'
Inn. Scatcherd returned to
the Bend from Hawaii for
the event
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Local rate shows decline
bounty; education push GB taxes up
Grand Bend ratepayers will
face a mill rate increase of 6.8
percent this year, despite a
drop in the budget for
municipal purposes. •
The village share of the rate
is down about four percent,
but increases in the county,
school and fire protection
levies push the total to 241.9
mills, compared to -226.5 last
year.
The county rate has jumped
about 20 percent to 27.5 mills,
while the elementary school
rate is up 12 percent to 72.2
and the secondary panel has
increased by eight percent to
62.2 mills..
The special levy for fire
protection has been increased
from 4.4 mills in 1982 to 6.7
mills this year, while the
sewer rate remains at last
year's figure of four mills.
Council granted payment to
the PUC to help cover the cost
of servicing 49 fire hydrants.
The PUC had asked for $75
per hydrant. In order to keep
the tax rate down, council cut
into the budget to eliminate a
new truck for the village.
A letter from Stephen Coun-
cil cutting payment to the
Pinery Cemetery Board in
half was endorsed by Grand
Bend. Stephen asked that.
operating and capital expen-
ditures
xpenditures be financed by the
sale of plots since the
township did not budget for
cemetery expenses. Grand
'Bend suggested that the
board advertise'the fact that
plots were now on the market.
Council decided to place
curbs at the turn in the road
beside the Pier booth and
calcium on the road to solve
the dust problem. This was in
response to a letter from Vi-
vian Betker, owner of the Pier
Booth.
In response to a letter form
the Pinery Lovers' Organiza-
tion, council decided the only
way to change a site plan
agreement was for the group
to take it to the courts. The
group had objected to the mo-
tion passing the site plan
agreement for the Fraleigh
food franchise on the north
beach.
Colonials
win again
The Grand Bend Colonials
scored their second straight
victory in the London and
district second division soccer
league as they bombed the
Delhi Royals 6-1 at Huron
Park Sunday.
The only goal of the first
half was scored by Nick.
Vandenberk of the Colonials
as he headed in a perfect
cross from Kevin Simmons.
Early in the second half
Tony Mennen scored on a, cor-
ner shot moments before
Delhi came back to hit on a
penalty shot. From this point
on the Colonials broke the
game wide open as Pete
Backx, Nick Vandenberk,
Dave Nolan and Kevin Sim-
mons hit the Delhi net. .
The next opposition for the
Colonials will be Sunday at 7
p.m. when they travel to Cove
Road filed in London to tangle
with London Coringa.
The Grand Ben Ausable
league team was not so for-
tunate as they dropped a 2-1
decision to Nairn.
Despite gaining a good ter-
ritorial edge, the Grand Bend
team could only get one suc-
cessful shot away and that
was notched by Guy Wilde.
The team is now idle until
May 29 when they meet the
Exeter II club.
Practices for Grand Bend
minor soccer teams are ex-
pected to start this week and
the coaches will be letting the
youngsters know of exact
details of workouts.
•
Councillor Bruce Woodley
commented that the
Fraleighs had responded to
the request to fix and paint
the parking lot fence and had
begun to renovate the two
lakefront cottages about
which residents in the area
had complained.
A special meeting will be
held May 30 to deal with ob-
jections to changes in zoning
because of changes in the
flood line as a result of recon-
sideration by engineers in a
second survey of flood areas.
Reeve Bob Sharen explain -
Seek girls
for audition
As in the past, Huron Coun-
try Playhouse will be holding
special children's auditions
for one of the plays in the 1983
season.
This year, several girls, ag-
ed 7 to 14 years, will be need-
ed to perform in the inspiring
drama "The Miracle
Worker" by William Gibson.
"The Miracle Worker" is the
story of the first meeting and
the close friendship between
the young Helen Keller and
her teacher Annie Sullivan. •
The girls needed for the
show will be playing the
young companions and first
pupils of Annie Sullivan
before she meets Helen.
Also needed for •the
Playhouse roster is a non -
singing man in his fifties for
a role in the Rodg rs and
Hammerstein music South
Pacific.
All these auditions willbe
held at the Playhouse in
Grand 'Bend on Saturday,
May 21.
ed that most of the problem
has come from confusion in
why the zoning was changed
back from environmental
protection to open space. He
said if the concerns could not
be satisfied by council, a
Municipal Board hearing
would be called by the village.
•
There were two requests for
permission to rent canoes,
wind surfers and inner tubes
from the Fraleigh property on
the north beach. Council ask-
ed for the regular transient
trader's fee 1 150) as well as
assurance of liability in-
surance in the amount of one
million dollars each.
Another request from a
photographer to.gperate do-
ing free-lance portraits was
referred to the in -camera ses-
sion. The photographer asked
council to waive the transient
fee.
Wenday Larmon, Holbrook
volt
& Co, presented the 1982 audit
and reported a surplus at a lit-
tle over $35,000. It was ex-
plained by the fact that the
village budgeted for projects
which wire not completed in
1982. It was that surplus
which helped keep the tax in-
crease at 6.8 percent.
•
SAIL PAST - Grand Bend yachters celebrated the first of the soiling season Saturday when the 14 big -keel
boots sailed by in tribute to their commodore Len Hume. The federal government brought a barge to Grand
Bend from Goderich to assist in dredging the harbour Friday. Depth was increased from four to six feet.
Dredge helps out in time
Sailpast goes
Grand Bend sailors were
able to execute their annuaP
season-openingsail past
Saturday morning. After
weekend gales from the lake
and unusual silting in the
river, the federal government
got a barge and dredge into
the harbour in time for the
event.
Commodore Len Hume
reported Saturday morning
that they had a clear six feet,
of depth to allow the big keel
boats out into the lake.
Fishermen reported mid -
week that they were again
scraping on sand bars. They
draw 4 to 41.2 feet. Unusually
heavy winds and currents had
created a third sand bar
about ten feet east of the south
pier. .Fishermen have been
as scheduled
keeping the harbour open
with the big propeller blades
of their boats.
The sail -past included 14
boats from the Grand Bend
club. Their routine was to dip
sails for Red Cloud, Hume's
boat. Past commodore, John
Warren, carried a full set of
signal flags on ' his boat.
Straight Arrow. Warren has
volunteered his vessel as a
flag ship to signal races dur-
ing the coming season.
BEACH WEAR — Sandy Balmer is shown modelling one
of'the many bathing suits featured from the Sun Shop,
Grand Bend, at the second annual fashion show spon-
sored by the Grand Bend Cruising Club, held at
Oakwood Inn, Sunday.
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