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Times-Advocate, 1983-06-29, Page 25i Lucan News The June meeting of the Dorcas Unit of Lucan UCW took the form of an afternoon outing Monday, June 20. Twelve members enjoyed a delicious lunch together at the Bavarian Restaurant in Westown Plaza. Later they were joined by three others at the Museum of Indian Ar- cheology on Wonderland Road. A guide first showed slides and explained the techniques of archeologist who excavate and reconstruct sites of former Indian villages. After viewing the exhibits in the museum, the group went to the actual excavation site where the guide explained the work in progress. Couples' Ciu barbeque The annual Jtig_ barue of Lucan United`CLiurch Couples' Club was held at the home of Dennis and Mary Maguire. RR 1, Lucan. All present enjoyed barbequed hamburgers along with a Stephen okays tile drain loans At the latest meeting of Stephen township council, two tile drain loan applications were approved for a total of $15,300. An amending bylaw for the Faulder-Na gel -Muller municipal drain was passed along with a borrowing bylaw for the Pfaff municipal drain. Council decided not to make any donations to the Lambton county tornado relief fund. New Ag man in Lambton Bryan Boyle, former associate agricultural respresentative in Peter- borough; has been appointed agricultural representative for Lambton, effective July 15. Boyle has been with OMAF's Peterborough office August 1976 doing extension work with the agricultural community concentrating on farm business management and administrating youth programs. • He was also'instrumental in developing a weaning weight program for Peterborough County beef producers and for co-ordinating the Ontario }Farm Adjustment Assistance Program field services for the area. Boyle grew up on a family beef farm near Ripley and went to school in Ripley and at the University of Guelph where. in 1976, he received a BSc in agriculture with major emphasis on animal science. While a student,• he spent the summers of 1973 and 1974 with the ministry as a youth leadership conference co- ordinator, organizing and ad- ministering programs at 4-11 regional and provincial con- ferences and Junior Farmer Camp. delicious assortment of pot luck salads and desserts. Following the meal, David and Sue Latta and Evan Ibbit- son led m several hilarious ac- tive games. The latter part of the evening was spent singing various songs and hymns to the accompaniment of Ed Malanson's guitar. It was announced that Allen Malanson will be gues, speaker and soloist at the Couples' Club Church service on July 3. This service will be held at Clandeboye Church at 9:45 a.m. United Church Marc Bradley, son of Brian and Elaine Hodgins, and Stephen Michael, son of Mike and Donna Wraith were bap- tized during morning worship at Lucan United Church on Sunday. Sherry Lane and Ed Melan- son were in charge of greeting the congregation,' and Marguerite McRoberts told the story for the boys and girls. Barb Gibson took the children out for Junior Congregation. Mr. Brown spoke about "The Perils of Baptism". In I Corinthians 10, Paul com- pared the Israelites' crossing of the Red Sea to baptism. Though the Israelites had, in this special way, been receiv- ed hs God's special people, yet God was not pleased with their actions in the wilderness. Thursday at 9:45 the in- terdenominational Prayer and Share Fellowship meets in the C.E. Wing of the church. This group will con- tinue meeting throughout the summer every second Thurs- day morning. Next Sunday Lucan service will be held at Clandeboye Church at 9:45 a.m. The Couples' Club is in charge and Allen Melanspn will be guest speaker and soloist. All' ser- vices will be held at Clandeboye during the July repairs at Lucan Church. Boys and girls are remind- ed of Vacation Bible School to be held at Lucan Revival Cen- tre, July 11 to 22. The loan of three refrigerators is re- quired for the Fair Booth in August. If you could help, kindly contact Mabel Froats at 227-4879. One crash in town Exeter poli& invesifgdfed`• one collision during the past week, it occurring on Thursday. A car driven by Constance Birmingham, Exeter, collid- ed with a parked float owned by Brian Dignan, RR 2 Hen - salt. The float was parked on Alexander St. Constable Brad Sadler listed damage to the car at $600. There was none to the float. Give.. THE HEART FUND Open Weekends Only Sat. 10: • 5:30 Men's and Ladies - all sizes Sweaters net exac]ly as illustrated) Save & Borrow or Your CREDIT UNION Top Term Deposit Rates Daily interest Accounts - Interest Credited Monthly Personal Loans and Mortgages Safety Deposit Boxes $7.50 per year See your friendly Credit Union Today CLINTON COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION LTD. EXETER BRANCH 374 Main St. Exeter, Ont. 233-0640 LIONESS DONATE — The Exeter Lioness Club recently made a donation to Trivitt Anglican Church. Above, president Beth Jamieson makes the presentation to Kim Gentnner and Neil Straw. T -A photo. Effective July 5 To start water restrictions PUC manager Hugh Davis announced at the regular June meeting that water restrictions will come into ef- fect on July 5. A notice Will appear in the next issue of this paper infor- ming customers the use of hoses for watering lawns and gardens will be permitted residential customers nightly from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. and for commercial and business establishments the permissi- ble hours will be 9 a.m. until '11 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Bob Pooley and Dennis Hockey have completed a one -day course in Niagara Falls to learn more about the new dual energy program. The program is not being well received by electrical con- tractors; they do not like los- ing the democratic freedom of setting their own price for a job, and want to shift responsibility for the two-year guarantee onto the municipal utilities. Davis expects there Will be changes in the im- plementation of the program. Davis found out last week that the new building east of Exeter Produce is on a separate building lot, and becomes a separate customer. As the PUC pro- vides each customer with up to 300 KVA transformation, the onus is on the utility to supply three 100-KVA transformers. The PUC manager is scouting around for some good used equipment. "We seem -to -be -making a - number of large expen- ditures. In the long run, they will pay off, but initially they are expensive, Davis remarked. The three-phase transformer and six inch main for a sprinkler system are completed for the new Canadian Tire store. After Mike Williamson objected to the look of lines across the front of the store, Bell Canada put in higher poles, and the PUC changed to triplex con- ductorto improve appearances. The Sanders Street substa- Rowdies look out Rowdies can expect an even tougher time at Pinery Provincial Park than they got on the Victoria Day weekend if they try to cause trouble over the July 1. holiday weekend, Natural Resources Minister Alan Pope warned Wednesday. "We'll have additional peo- ple on, yes," Pope said in an interview. 'There'll be more people on in some parks, bas- ed on what's happened so far." The Pinery will definitely have more staff July 1, Pope said. The minister ordered a c. ackdown on rowdyism in provincial parks in May and he cautioned troublemakers then that his staff would take increasingly tough measures to make the provincial park system family-oriented. Campers will be expected to know the rules about noise, partying and drinking before they check in, Pope said. • Rowdies will be turfed out without a warning. tion overhaul has been completed. Work on the installation of a 12 -inch main on William Street will begin as soon as a crucial piece of material that took an unscheduled trip to Newfoundland is brought to Exeter. The job will take more than three weeks to complete. Ontario Hydro is arguing at rate hearings now in progress for an average increase when new rates are set of 9.7 per- cent to municipal utilities and direct customers, and a 9.8 in- crease for all other customers I had an interesting whirl- wind tour through the American Mid -West last week. 1 drove to Detroit Wednesday morning and flew to Chicago. From there I took a small commutor plane to the town of Champaign, Il- linois. A company represen- tative met me there and took me out to the Big Wheels plant in Paxton, Illinois. Where is Paxton, Illinois and what are "Big Wheels"? Well, until last week, I was wondering that myself. Unless you're in the agricultural industry, you won't know what Big Wheels are, and you could probably care less. Well, I have to fill up this column, so I'm going to tell you anyway. Big Wheels is a brand name for large flotation vehicles which are used in agriculture. for the application of chemicals and fertilizer. The word flotation means that t} ase big trucks run on gigan- tc, donut -like tires which don't compact the soil or damage the crops when they go over the field. Flotation vehicles are popular with fertilizer and chemical dealers who do custom application. Where a tractor can only run at about four or five miles per hour, these trucks can whip up and down a field at 15 or 20 mph. Some floaters are equipped with big spray booms for dispersing the chemicals, while others are fitted with a tool bar which has knives for cutting into the soil, so that the fertilizer or chemical can be "banded" right into the ground. This particular manufac- turer, Big Wheels, was having a field demonstration day to introduce a new line of floaters. They invited about 20 journalists from agriculture publications across North America. I was included - because 1 edit a magazine for fertilizer and chemical dealers. Fortunately there was a breeze blowing in Illinois that day. It was about 95 degrees F. We were standing out in the middle of a field and get- ting covered in dust we wat- ched these vehicles zoom back and forth. I spent the night in Paxton, including rural retail. Replying to a query by Mayor Bruce Shaw, Davis said 21 more light standards would be needed north of the bridge to complete lighting on the main street. Hydrant colour coding is well underway. The PUC has sent letters of explanation to town council, works superintendent GlennKens, and the fire department. The code tells how many gallons per minute can be pumped out of each hydrant. The next meeting is July 28 at 9 a.m.. - Mary's musings By Mary Alderson and the next morning, before dawn, I was back at the Champaign airport. I took another small plane to St. Louis, Missouri, changed planes, and flew to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. You may think of Laverne and Shirley, or the Milwaukee Brewers or the breweries when you think of Milwaukee, but when I think of Milwaukee, I think of Allis- Chalmers. Milwaukee is the home of the world head- quarters of Allis-Chalmers, and the place where all the A- C tractors in North America are manufactured. I write for a publication called Lan- dhandler for Allis-Chalmers, and I spend a lot of time on the phone talking to public relations people at Allis- Chalmers. This was an oppor- tunity to meet these people I have been working with. Knowing that I was going to get a tour of the tractor plant, and figuring that it was pro- bably a very large place, I wore comfortable walking shoes. I was right, it is a large place - so large in fact. that tours are taken in golf carts. The plant was in operation; they are making about 25 tractors a day. In good economic times, they can pro- duce about 80 tractors per day. Some observations about the US mid -west: the number of corn fields are way down, due to the PIK program (Pay- ment in Kind). This is a pro- gram whereby the US govern- ment is paying farmers not to grow corn because there is still a glut on the market from previous years. But instead of paying them money, the farmers are given corn out of the reserves equal to the amount they might have harvested if they had grown cor n. Farmers are growing alfalfa or clover - crops that can be plowed down to put nutrients into the soil. From u the air, you, can see that many, many fields are in fallow. And I heard from talk- ing to different people, that many farmers are growing unusual crops such as bird seed, which they plan to sell illegally. Watch out for hot bird seed! And another observation - Times -Advocate, June 29, 1983 NINNINNMNINNMNININNIINIIIIINMININIMIINIIIIIIIININ 69ncL e joEEinye Plant closing legislation According to draft legisla- tion tabled by the Minister of Labour Russell Ramsay, when an Ontario Plant is dos- ed down, the employer will be forced to offer any job open- ing he might have in the pro, vince to the laid -off workers ahead of anyone else. The Minister stated that the majority of companies con- sider it good corporate citizenship to offer to relocate the laid -off employees, but that there • have been a few "rather obstinate" employers who have refused to give such employees priority when it comes to hiring. The legislation is needed, he said, because of the pro- blems older workers have in finding a new job when a plant closes. Microcomputers Bernie Newman, .Liberal MPP for Windsor- Walkerville, has issued a statement calling upon the Minister of Education Bette Stephenson, to admit that she created the private company "consortium" – CEMPCorp – as her chosen instrument, and has effectively cut out any competition from any. other Canadianlhi-tech company. In 1981, the Minister of In- dustry and Trade, in. conjunc- tion with the Ministry of Education, first announced. the formation of a Canadian consortium to design and manufacture a microcom- puter for educational use. In addition to serving the educa- tional goals, the consortium was to serve the function of encouraging and developing+ the Canadian high technology industry. Despite the Minister's protestations, there is continuing eveidence that existing Canadian high technology companies are not being given a fair chance to demonstrate their capacity to produce an educational computer. Hardly any of the Canadian hi -tech companies who ex- pressed early interest remain In the consortium. Nor has the Canadian Advanced Technology Association (CATA) had much input since early 1982. The likely result of ,the Minister's actions may well be that the only com- panies who can afford to re- tool and meet the Ministry specs – in order to get a share of the educational computer market in this Province -- are large U.S. and offshore com- puter companies. Youth Ontario career program The Honourable Claude Bennett, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Hous- ing introduced the Young On- tario Career Program in the Legislature. This program is to complement the Ontario Youth Employment Pro- gram. The Young Ontario Career Program will create an additional 12,500 jobs dur- ing the next year for both post secondary school graduates and non -graduates to help launch them into their chosen careers. The purpose of the program is to help businesses, non- profit organizations and cer- tain public employers such as hospitals, create additional jobs and career opportunities for young persons between the ages of 20 and 29 who are presently unemployed and underemployed. Under this program eligible employers will be paid $2.50 per hour up to a maxium of $100 per week by the province in respect fo the wages paid to an eligible employee. Under this program each job must be for at least 25 hours per week for at least 20 con- secutive weeks. Funding will be for between 20 and 26 weeks. The job must be one which would not have existed without the program funding. and must provide substantial Sports registrations By Lynne Farquhar Registration for week one of our "Summer Sports" pro- gram and "Bert and Ernie Club" will be held tomorrow, Thursday, June 30 from 1:00 W 4:00 p,m. at the Rec Centre. Fee for "Summer Sports" is $2.00 for the week and "Bert and Ernie" costs $1.00 for the week. Please pre -register as it is important that we know the numbers we will have in order to roltnd up sufficient equipment. Anyone out there with any equipment at home that they'd be willing to hand out for our sports program would be appreciated. We're looking for tennis rackets, badminton rackets, birds, soccer balls, volleyballs, nets, hockey sticks, ringette sticks, foot- balls, old hockey nets, basket balls and lacrosse sticks. If anyone has some of these items and would be willing to lend them out, please mark them clearly with your full name and drop them off at the rec centre. The sports and play pro- -teams run Tuesday through Friday and begin on Tuesday, July 5. Huron Park playground also begins Tuesday July 5 at McCurdy school in Huron Park. Youngsters can sign up on the first morning and the fee is $1.00 per week per youngster. Exeter pool opened up Mon- day for public swimming The lesson program begins on Monday, July 4. Anyone wishing to register in Canada it is not unusual for females to be in agricultural writing, or in the agri- industry. But apparently, it is not well accepted in the US. I pity American women - there is still a lot of male chauvenism to fight there. The comments made to me were not rude by any means - just silly and teasing. LIFE MEMBERS — Honored for their work in the Ki pen Women's Institute recently were two members. From left are Helen MacLean (secretary), Marlene Bell life member), Grace Drummond (president), Hilda Payne (life member), Mona Alderdice (treasurer), and Reno Caldwell, (public relations). Mrs. Bell and Mrs. Payne are the new life members (Photo by Hook) youngsters can do so at Ulf pool. The phone number fo the pool this year is 235-0373. The Stephen township pool in Huron Park opens up on Monday, July 4 with lessons also beginning on that date. Exeter and Huron Park youngsters interested in join- ing our competitive swim pro- gram can sign, up for their respective swim teams. Ex- eter fee is $12 a youngster and Huron Park fee is $10 per youngster. This week Is your last chance to buy advance tickets for the Martins and Downs Circus coming to Exeter on Friday, July 1 at the rec cen- tre grounds. Advance tickets sell for $3 per person with rates increasing to $3.50 per child and $4.00 per adult at the door. Circus shows will be held at 6:00 and 8:15 p.m. Tickets on sale at the rec centre. work experience and con- tribute to the employee's vocational development. Employers who wish to ob- tain application forms or in- formation should write or telephone the Young Ontario Career Program in the Sub- sidies Branch of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Residential tenancies Eight members of the On- tario Liberal Caucus, in- cluding Leader David Peter- son, asked to appear before the Commission of Inquiry in- to Residential Tenancies. They are Don Boudria, Sean Conway, Sheila Copps, Herp Epp, Albert -Roy, . Tony Tkprecht and Bill Wrye. David Peterson stated last February, we , are- ex- tremely dissatisfied with the procedures that the Commiss- sion has adopted. By not ex- ercising his full authority under the Public Inquiries Act to conduct more informal Woodham. By MISS JEAN COPELAND \1 r. a nd Mrs. Cedric Wheeler of Brownsbt,rg. Quebec spent the weekend with Mrs. George Wheeler. Guests on Sunday with \1r. and Mrs. Gle'in Copeland, Cynthia, Ellen and Deanna were Mr. and Mrs. Murray May, Dr. and Mrs. John Trevithick, Scott and Colleen, Miss Terry Pringle and Dave. Powell all of London. Murray Copeland. Delaware, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Webley, Darrin and Dawn, Elora, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Pringle Toronto and Paul Brine and Jean Copeland. A number from the area at- tended the beef barbecue at Kirkton Saturday evening. Miss Cynthia Copeland en- joyed a trip to Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island. The sympathy of the com- munity is extended to the Wheeler families in the loss of a loving husband and father. Paste 25 By Jack Riddell MPP hearings and by instead adop- ting a narrow, intimidating courtroom style, Mr. Thom has discouraged countless tenants from attending. It has been seen in the past that procedure has a profound effect on outcome. In order to highlight these procedural concerns, as well as our ex- treme dissatisfaction that the Inquiry. has refused to visit such cities as Hamilton and Kitchener, we have .co- ordinated our efforts by dividing the following topics amongst the Liberal group; the practice of passing finan- cail costs through to tenants; losses created by resales an creative financing; rent review consultants; retroac- tivity of Bill 198; conflict of in- terest guidelines for Residen- tial Tenancy Commission; penalties and enforcement of the Residential Tenancies Act; time restrictions (ex- amination of cost -revenue statements) ; backlog of ap- plications and delays in con- ducting hearings; eviction timing of hearings; advisory .function of the Residential Tenancy Commission; Qualifications and training of rent review commissioners; mobile home parks; the need for a rent registry; and the need ' to limit all rent in- creases for one year to a total of 5 percent. Sports stadium Premier Davis announced in the legislature tha: the Government has appointed three men to recommend a site in the Metro Toronto area for a dome sports stadium and report on its cost and possible financing. The group is headed by Hugh Macaulay, former Hydro Chairman. r Super Special'i Date and Nut Loaf ea: 1.49 Mild Cheddar' -Cheese Ili. 2.69 Pineapple, orange, etc. Cream Cheeses Ib.3.29 We have shortcakes for strawberries Every Wednesday is Cookie Day doz.99$ Chocolate chip, oatmeal, ice box, etc. (Limit 3 doz. per customer) Every Friday evening 6 to 9 p.m., All Cheeses 1 0% Off / aI" 4'7 �rc eJe . JJonJe 443 Main St., Exeter 235-0332 Pc RMeraCollectionr Summer Special 20% Off ESTEREL SERIES One of many styles to choose from For more information or viewing contact: A. DENOMME CONSTRUCTION Box 97, Dashwood • 237-3516 - LTD. The "All Weather Vinyl'. " frame is crated from a modern engineered polymer designed anti tested for outdoor exposure. 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