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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1988-08-10, Page 1Ames Serving South Huron, North Middlesex One Hundred -and Seventeenth Year dvocate & North Lambton Since 1873 EXETER, ONTARIO, August 10, 1988 Price Per 'Copy 60 Cents r r Team Turret took top honours once more:at the annual sandcastle contest Saturday on Grand•Bend's beach for Sandcastle Days. Last year' ;,3ntest was can- celled due to poor weather, but Cam An- derson, Ted Lawson, Tony Vermuelen, Pat Breen and Jim Jean proved they still had the talent to bring home the first prize of $100. Un- fortunately, n -fortunately, when you subtract the entry fee of • $25 it does not compare to the prizes offered the ice sculpture winners in the Grand Bend Winter Carnival. B.J. Rowcliffe is new on Usborne township council .USBORNE ' ` •'t tat ewest mcmbcr of Usborne township council.. Rowcliffe of Lot 35, Concession 1 replaces Ross Ballantyne who was forced to suhmit.his resignation when he moved to Exeter and was no longer a resident of the township. Provincial Bill 106 was passed recently making it mandatory for a council member to live in the municipality in which he or she serves. The new councillor was named to..rcprescnt the township On thc-Exet- . er and area tire board. ' . • Council acccptcd the tender of C.E. Reid and Sons of Hensall for snowplowing services for the 1988-89 season. it was the lowest of two bids received. The agreement with Rcid's will call for payment of S50 per hour for - actual -snowplowing work and S55 per day for standby time. Council voiced no objection to a proposed official plan amendemt for the town of Exctcr changing the designation of 150 Thames Road East to "industrial with special provisions" for the Sherwood Exctcr Limited Farm Machinery operation. Regarding correspondence from the county of l Iuron, council decided not to negotiate a new agreement for the Union Gas Franchise. The decision was based on the fact -the prescnt agrcemnt docs not ex- pire .until 1999 and it docs not require the municipality to contribute to- ward the relocation of pipes, lines or other works. Ausablc Bayfield Conservation Authority general -manager Tom Prout will be asked to attend an ,upcoming meeting of council to discuss changes in a review of the Conservation Authorities program. At the same time, the Class Environmental Assessment for Water Management will be up for -discussion. A meeting wilt also be arranged with Blansahrd township, the Kirk - ton -Woodham Community Centre board .and Melanie McLaughlin and Chuck Godkin of the Ministry of Tourism and Recreation to review the lease agreement concerning the community centre. Road superintendent Ken Parker was instructed to purchase a carbide blade, spare tire and rim for the John Deere grader. • E ... - Rai ekl•va r ven Remission Io_apptnh Mnrg p tl..u6ess, and Walter iCa c witft an offer that the township supply tilt up to 'six inches, and the. landowners pay for the cost of digging for repairs to a portion of the tile drain that runs within the township'foad allowance on Conces- sion 3 at Lot 23. The building inspector's report was acccptcd. it indicated three permits • were issued for a total value of S43,000 and 27 inspections made. • The purchase of a six-foot Bush Hog rotary mower from Becker Farm Equipment in the amount of S975 was approved. •A meeting will be held with fenceviewer Harold Kerslake to discuss new fence viewing legislation. Hibbert starts recycling STAFF/1 '- The Township of llibbert used their 59,000 recycling located at their landfill titq west of Staffa, for the first time of- 'ficially Saturday, August 6. . The bin, purchased from a compa- ny near Barrie and delivered last Monday. July 25, is. approximately nine feet high and can hold approxi- mately seven tonnes of newspaper; two tonnes of tin and one tonne of glassware. The Hibbert residents arc asked to sort their garbage' for this bin, al- though Ilibbcrt Reeve Roy Swart assured that that step wasn't man- datory. The bin cost the township ap- proximately S9,000, although the township is seeking grant money from both the Ministry of thc Envi- ronment and OMMRi (Ontario Multi Material Recycling *Incorpo- rated). Both grants, if they come through will each pay one-third of the total bin cost (a total of two- thirds, or an estimated $6,000). The recycling bin will save. the township further costs in the future, Swart said, indicating that it will prolong the Lifespan of the current landfill site. . The bin will- be in operation, with an attendant present to help sort the material, during regular landfill site hours. /New/New name in ventilation page 5 .Stephen taxes up, down, the same - CREDiTON - When taxpayers of the township of Stephen receive their 1988 tax hilts in September .•!;tett u.ill find— Hole chin o iron► last year, others wiIlf nd ncrcascs and a number will he happy to find. decrease,. The. new tax notices will reveal Targe increases in both the public and separate schcxol rcquistions. The switch to full market assessment based on 198.4 vaLttes is also _ rc- sponsiblc for changes.. - Section 70 of the Assessment Act now in place attempt,- .to -gain equality in .taxes -as far as county and school levies are concerned. - A mill rate of 14.95 for residen- tial public school supporters, 15.20 for residential separate school sup- porters and comparable commercial rates of 17.59 and 17.8g will raise a total of S2,605, 44 1. This figure includes police village rates and a number of special levies. The actual comparable figure in 1987 was S2,301,665.. The overall increase is S301,665. The budget for township of Ste- phen purposes only, remains the same as in 1987 and the county of I Iuron budget is down by S40,130 to S438,500. The elementary public school - levy is S730,328, up from- S587,411 romS587,411 and the secondary school budget of. S553,808. rises , from $4--5.989. . ... .� • + Separate school requisitions also show Iargc increases. The elemen- tary school budget is up from $102,500 to $139,065 and the sec- ondary figures rise from $80,519 to $101809. Under Section X10 of the Assess- ment Act., provisions arc made for special assistance grants for those facing large increases this year. These -grants will continue for two further years at reduced rates. Taking for example a public school supporting farm assessed at S134,000, thc taxes will rise from $1,742.81 to 52,004.10. With the assistance grant applied,thc actual hike is $100.29. On a separate school supporting farm assessed.at $146,000, taxes go up -to $2,219.78 from $2,031.26. With the grant the increase drops to $60.52. 'For an example in the police vil- lase of Crcditon, a house assessed at 544,000 will have taxes of 5630.56. That's an increase in taxes of $2.74. Another Crediton proper- ty assessed at 552,000 will pay an increase of 541.69 over last year's figure of 5703.52. .Clerk Wilmar Wein pointed out that taxes on vacant farm land will be up considerably. One such prop- HANDWRITING More than actual words page 8 erty assessed at S72,000 will pay taxes in 1988 of $1,094.69. The increase will be reduced to 5133.99 by thc provincial grant. • —Ort-the-othar-side_ofuliejedgm. the owncr of a house and small acreage assessed at S86,000 will pay taxes. of 51,307. That's a drop of 5155 from 1987. Building Permit Report Building official Milton Dic- trich's monthly report showed that 17 permits wcrc issued during July, for a toptal -value of 5330,020. Council gave permission to the -:Dashwood_athlctic.fielti,.commilte ,76 to construct a pavilion atthe ball park to be attached to the present building. At a recent meeting, council save their approval to applications for minor variances and zoning amend- ments. Thcy were for Tony Zwam- bag at parts of Lots 19 and 20, Concession 6 to construct a•silo; Wheeling By Stables to change t u r.a `smairfiofd-'— ing to allow construction of a resi- dence on North Boundary Conces- sion and Ron Watt at Lot 10; Concession 14 to change designa- tion to village residential. NO NOTES, NO MUSICIANS - Elgin Fisher of the.Goderich No Notes jug band attempts to piss on his musi- cal knowledge to Agriculture Minister Jack Riddell and Norfolk MPP Gordon Miller at Wednesday's Huron Libera' Association barbecue. More pictures of the event appear on page 12A. Council backsolice forcep dents, despite Thompson's com- plaint that several store owners wcrc unable to reach and open their businesses. Councillor Marsha Lemon argued that the store owners could have parked their cars and walked into the village and "there was parking available at all times." Lemon also observed the incon- - venience of the police actions wcrc more than offset by the importance of keeping lanes clear for emergen- cy scrviccs. "if that wasn't a grave emergency situation then I don't know what was," she said. • "People' arc impatient. That's the nature of -the beast," agreed Grdcn, who later said that a lcttcr , GRAND BEND - Village coun- cil have given their support to the actions of thc O.P.P. detachment, despite a formal lcttcr of complaint. from a residcpt accusing the police of abusing their authority. • A lcttcr to council from Frede- rick Thompson likened, thc road blocks established by the police on Sunday July 3 to actions taken by Eastern Bloc state police. The Grand Bend O.P.P. had denied ac- cess to the village in an effort to clear a traffic jam caused by outgo- ing traffic. "U was like a mass evacuation," said reeve Harold Green. "Everyone was heading out." Green suggested the road blocks wcrc necessary to prevent acci- THROW. DIRT C.over footings at new Lucan senior apartnients page 9' BIRDS, BIRDS Lawn show at Cliff Peppers farm page 4A of reply supporting the actions should be sent to Thomp- son, and to thc O.P.P. and the At- torney -General, who also received the lcttcr of complaint. Another lcttcr from Colonel T. F. G. Lawson suggested that boat- ers with loud speed boats should he fined 51,000 for evcry.decibcl they exceed above eotji,: "Unfortunately, l love the senti- ment," said Green, "but we can't Charge them• S 1,000." - Green noted that boats with loud exhausts arc not against the law and Owners buy them for speed and will naturally go fast. "I agree, they're noisy," he said, but could offer no solution to the problem. - SANDCASTLE DAYS Castles, queens featured at Grand E3end page 14A 1