Times-Advocate, 1988-09-14, Page 1Bailoor release celebrates new Sunday School year
UP AND AWAY - Hundreds of balloons were released by persons of all ages at the Exeter Pentecostal Tabernacle Sunday morning to launch the
new season of Sunday School.
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EXETER, ONTARIO,_ September 14, 1988
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New colours for rec centre
EXETER The South 1lurori
Recreation Centre Will be sporting
.a new colour scheme once the
building .is re -.clad in new= metal
sheeting. . -
Ken Oke presented the facilities-=
committee's report at Thursday's rcc
board meeting. B.M. Ross ctm tilt-
ing engineers h:id-rccomrnendcd to
the committee a colour scheme be
adopted to irnprin:e clic appearance
of the centre.
-With one colour, he thought• it
would Zook like a fox or a tarsi -
buililing;" said Okc, Who added he
couldn't:see w hat was wrong w ith•
tarn' birildings any ay..
Oke said he was preparing to have
tles(insdra++n up to he approved by
the reg. ioard.
Kathy-\Vhiteto ,l: ++ho chaired the
meeting, su..gested the hoard look
for sithrlti\,i,,us Iamb local talented
pet (le he l rr., s. ttl;r
on a
>tgtr• - to complete the doors.
Blueprints of the finished project Oke said -two doors will he or-
have been recei%ed from 13.M. -Ross tiered on a trial basis, and if all goes
beforedesign of the colour scheme -wc11, the remaining doors can be re-
call he cir1. la: ed.ncxt year. •
i:he doors to the arena's ice sur- . Some board members expressed
face are ileo !;rt:d for replacement, surpi ise at how.: the recreation cen-
saul Oke, l 1; ha found a local tri budget _appears to be on track
company. \la. Gregor Welding, :rt this time tit +car-.
whir can make the door frames at 1 l suafly were behind the eight
fes, ;!,(n t+tr,.:r.sttppliera. bell. by ntw,"acrd Oke.
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The best and worst of school's first week.
Jodi Rowe gr.8, Exeter
Best: Seeing friends she hasn't .seen since
school broke up in June.
Worst: "Having to do work," she says. but
hates getting up early in the mornings. That's
thc worst." •
Valerie Gingerich gr.5, Zurich
Best: "1 like being in grade live," says \ale-
ric, who hits a new teacher �1rs. Bfintncll.
"We get to go to dances now."
Worst: "Science." . She hates having to
measure her ags,for the .exact s ion tt) w bite her
Greg O'Connor gr.2, ZPS
Best: "I h.ivc my friends, math, anti recesscss,
Worst: i.gct upset h}'-rr roe--w.bu__ • at on
taking their turns on the tire swing..
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Ben Rader gr.1, ZPS
Best: "Meeting; new friends."
"You don't have to do very much work.'
.Worst: "Just about everything."
- --Too-many peoplc_g �n trouhlc."
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Kara Farwell gr.4, Exeter
Best:. "You don't have to sit around and wait
'til your friends come home, because they're gone
all strmmcr."
Worst: Shc doesn't like having to switch to
the junior side of the p1ayt,,round from the p ri-
►nary. "'Trs"t no sa rags on it or nomung. '
Sara Empringham gr.6, EPS
(lest: "It's better than sitting around all sum-
mer. it got dull at thc end."
Worst: "Math," she says without hesitation. •
They arc making her learn "everything."
Battle for reeve
in Stephen council
CREDITON - Stephen township
voters will go to the polls on
Monday, November .14 to at least
select a rccvc according to state-
ments made at the September 6 .
meeting •of council.
Reeve Tom Tomes is expected •to
be challenged by Deputy rccvc Ken
McCann for the top position in the
township.
Tomes in -indicating he was
ready to try for another term said,-
• I have my running shoes ready to
go in the campaign" and McCann
said,."It's time for up or out".
Councillors I3i11 Weber -and Pat
O'Rourke "have said they will file.-
nomination
ile.nomination papers for the same
positions and councillor Gary Bak-
er said he would be ready for anoth-
er terns, but didn't indicate which
office he would contest.
In preparation for the 150th anni-
versary celebration of the town-
ship, residents arc being asked for
their- input of ideas for this event -
scheduled for 1992.-
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992:A meeting is.being held in the
township community centre in
Crediton 'on October 17 at 8 p.nt.
to get plans underway. Representa-
tives of all churches, clubs, organi-
zations and groups along with the
general public are asked to partici-
pate.
Zoning amendment bylaws wcrc
passcd concerning property owned
by Ron Watt at Lot 10, Conccs-
sion 16 at Shipka arid one at Grand
• • Cove .Estates.
Minor varian;`e applications were
granted to Donald .l Iezunan in the
police village: of Centralia and Eliz-
- abeth Jones at Kingsmcre subdivi-
sion near Grand Rend.
-- The report of the I laist•municipal
drain was provisionally adopted—and -
-court of revision will he held on
. October ,5. -
Township fire- chief Norm I•lvde
and assistants 1)on Clarke and Jim•
-Finkbcincr will attend an Ontario
Fire Nlarshal's seminar on October
17 and IS in Clinton.
Road superintendent Eric Fink,
hciner and roads (h pzinnrcnt employ -
cc Peter Wti: rth will attend' the
American Waterworks Association
seminar in Burlington on October
5.
Attending the Southwestern Onta-
rio planning conference in London
on October 12 and 13 will be coun-
cillor Bill Weber and building offi-
cial Milton Dietrich. .
Clerk V'iln►ar ‘\'e in has been
• named returning oft user for the N'i•
vember 14: election and
Linda Oliver ut tlw oilice staff will
be the assistant. -
Wein will attend the Zone 2 meet-
ing of the Association of M•lu-
nicipalClerks and Treasurers in
Orange_ IIIc Octolker (i.
Two tile drain loan apirlications
for a total of S23.700 were ap-
provctl. . .
JP convicts
EXETER - Five persons wcrc
convicted of offences involving ve-
hicles whcn they appeared before JP
Doug Wcdlakc in Exeter court on
September 6:
Sharon L. Carter, RR3 Exciter,
was given five months to pay a
5500 fine after pleading guilty to
driving without insurance when
stopped for a highway traffic viola-
tion -on Highway 4 in' Exeter on_
August26. Shc had been convicted
and fined for the same offence on
July 19.•-
A S500 finc was also • levied
against John David McNair. 1=1g;in-
ficld, who pleaded guilty to driving
while suspended. Ile was followed
when he turned off concession 'i
.#%II�'.�4�n'1),jn info :► ori
tlrtvcway. A check showed two vab
id driving suspensions dating hack
to 1985 were in effect, and thc ac-
cused had a previous conviction in .
October 1985 for driving while sus -
five
Smith was found guilty and
fined S128.75.
Julie Masser. I.t►ndon was found
guilty of. exceeding the speed limit
on July 19 in "lay township and
fined 541.25, which she paid that
day.. She 'has two previous con-
victions for speeding. -
Andrew 11. Wcrle, !Linos cr ++;ts
found guilty of careless -driving on
June 22. A vehicle on patrol in
Ilensall stopped a vehicle because
the headlights were not aligned,
the roof was crushed and the driver
was looking out the driver's win-
dow as. the windshield was shat-
tered but in'ac1. 'kW of the vehi-
cle's four occupants had minor
-- in oris_
vehicle had rolled over in a catch
off county road 22 ret Stephen
township a few hours pre' musty.
The driver said he had been travell•
-
ing; along County Road 5. turned
onto thcr'concessron road. hit grav-
el. fishtailed, and lost control of
the car.
No drinking; was involved. •
•The officer said he w•as being
lenient in only laying ire charge
of careless driving instead of two.
'11'crle was gi+en 1.5 (lays to pay,
a S128.75 fine.
Wcdlakc accepted the police testi=
mony despite the not guilty plea of
Joseph G. Smith, Huron Park, to a
charge of operating a motorcycle in
a carcicss manner. An olf-duty po-
liceman had seen Snaith doing a
"wheelie" for 10 feet along slain
St. before turning left onto Sand-
ers.
OPP seize
172 firearms
WEST NISSOt;RI - On Septem-
ber 6, 1988 officers from Lucan De-
tachment assisted Schringvillc
O.P.P. in the execution of a search
warrant in West Nissouri Town-
ship. As a result of this investiga-
tion 172 handguns and long guns
were seized along with almost 7(XX)
rounds of ammunition.
in addition several prohibited
weapons were ,,,;/e,l.
Charged with. unsafe storave of
l iream, s and p(,, s; ssion of prohibit -
cd w cap ins Is Sidney Prude. age 35
of R.R. Thorndale.
The investigation is continuing -
as several weapons seize(' were d,s
covered to he stolen and police ex-
pect 1 adId,ltonal charges to he lai(1.
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