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North Middlesex
Inside
First dinner
Villa residents
welcome
relatives, friends
Page .4
Toyota arrives
Rick Frayne
opens new
dealership
Page •7
Have a heart
Jump Rope Skippers
visit. Crediton WI
rage 6A
Police seek
flasher at
variety_ store
EXETER - The Exeter Police
Force and the OPP are seeking a
suspect for a series of indecent
exposures they believe are
linked.
On Monday December 5 a
white male entered the Becker's
store in Exeter around 9 p.m. and
followed the female store clerk
into the back room whcrc he ex-
posed himself to her and left run-
ning from the store.
The suspect was chased by a
male customer but was lost in
the arca behind the Evcrthrift
store. He is described as being
about 6' tall, 160 lbs, about 30
years of age with dirty blonde
hair and a moustache with about
four or five days growth of beard.
He was wearing a 3/4 length
dark blue coat and a blue toque.
A composite drawing has been
issued and police believe he may
be linked to similar axcurcnces
in Hensall.
Should the suspect not be
found in the next week, the draw-
ing will be made public.
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& Lambton Since 1873 December 14, 1988
Price per copy 60 cents
Workshops rap
pornography
pires, but Kerr points out the group
had been operating before' funding
was available and will continue to
• do so afterwards. .
"We will continue if people can
pay for the workshops," said Kcrr.
The Goderich workshops were at-
tended by 20 women, comfortably.
,within RAP's guidelines of a 25
person maximum.
"We pay particular attention. to
women's responses to this materi-
al," continued Kerr, doting how
many of the workshop's participants
are shocked at the images pornogra-
phy depicts.
Of 56 adult videos Kerr screened;
she found an average of three scenes
in each where sex was linked to vio-
lence, a common bait in pornogra-
phy. But she points out sexual vio-
lence exists in everything from R
rated movies through PG, in rock
videos, song lyrics, and advertising.
. Binch explained the images of fe-
male submission depicted by -por-
nography have created an entire
"pornographic society" in which
sexual attitudes influence every -
Please turn to page 2
By Adrian Harte
GODERICH - The .Survival
Through Friendship House' is host-
ing a series of workshops dealing
with _problems .of pornography in
today's society.
The shelter for battered women's
staff, board members and women
from the community were invited to
participate in four three-hour work-
shops presented by the Toronto
based Resources Against Pornogra-
phy (RAP) •
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The first workshop deals with
how pornography -distorts the per-
ception of women's sexuality. The
second links pornography to rape,
incest, wife battering, sexual harass-
ment, prostitution and women's ec-
onomic inequality, while the third
and fourth workshops encourage
personal and community action
against pornography.
RAP co-ordinator Alison Kcrr and
co -facilitator Karen Binch spoke
with the press before Thursday's
session about their program.
RAP has been operating with
government funding for the past
three years, a grant which now ex=
County to survey salaries
GODERICH - Huror County
council has approved the hiring of
Personnel. Management Associates
to conduct an external salary sur-
-vey at a cost of $4,000. -
The decision was made after a 35
minute closed door. session after
Exeter Reeve Bill Mickle questioned
a recommendation of the executive
conimittce that the study be done
when at the last m: ---ting it was
recommended that t • be nom dy,
:veil an internal stun} that wouluu't
have cost the county a cent.
Mickle told council, "Why
change and spend so much money? I
have questions as to why we're
looking outside the county."
• Warden Bob Bell quickly spggest-
-oditin ;opt rikiSutd--want to con-
sider questions in committee of the
whole. When the meeting was
opened to the public again, the mat-
ter was passed with no debate.
Councillors also approved an in-
crease in committee and session pay
from $82 to $90 for a full day and
from $55 to S60 for a half day, Tess
than three hours.
The Warden will receive a S5,200
honorarium:per year based on S200
• every two. weeks and the cost of
funding hospitality suites at ap=
proved conventions will now be
picked up by the county and not the
warden. The old rate was S5,108.
The travelling allowance and
mileage rate will be S80 per month
plus 22 cents -per kilometre for 25
cents -per kilometre if no car allow-
ance. is paid. The conference ex-
pense allowance was upped from
$30 per day to $35 per day. •
Four founduilt
g y
EXETER - Doug Wedlake dealt cost Wayne A. Schilbe, RR2 Zu-
with three guilty pleas and an ex rich, $100.
parte case in JP court in Exctcr on Thc tavern owner had sent the ac -
December 6. cused a registered letter a few
Wayne. Denomme, Dashwood, months earlier informing him he
pleaded guilty to leaving -he road was prohibited from entering the
not in safety. The charge had been tavern. Schilbe refused to leave
laid after he made a left turn from when his identity was discovered.
Anne to Main St. in Dashwood on He was escorted out by police.
October 2, accelerated rapidly, lost Schilbe paid his fine before Ieav-
control on the wet road and struck a ing court. .
pole. He was- given 30 days to pay Patrick John Perrier, Kitchener, did
a fine of 553.75. not showup to defend his not
Grant S. Pearn; Mitchell, was.giv- guilty plea to driving while sus -
en three months to pay a S500 fine pended. He had been stopped by a
for having no insurance when. he police patrol on Highway 21 in
allowed another person to drive his Hay township on September 4. A
vehicle•and the other driver was check showed his licence had been
stopped for a HTA violation on suspended effective November 24,
concession 10-11 in Hay township 1987 for nonpayment of fines. Per-
on October 8. • rier had two previous convictions
Turning up costumed and masked on the same charge.
at a Itallowe'en party at the Domin- A fine of $653.75 was imposed,
ion Tavern in Zurich on October 30 with 30 days to pay.
Stephen reeve calls for
.CREDITON - Thc theme of co-
operation was evident at the first
meeting of,Stcphen township coun-
cil held December 6. • .
incumbent 'reeve Tom Tomes in
his inaugural address called for
between his own town-
ship, the county of Huron •and
neighbouring municipalities.
Tomes, told council he felt the
township with an excellent staff
was now a well-run. operation and
there was a good calibre of candi-
dates in the recent election:
Challenges ,ahead for the new
council according to the reeve arc
planning for • Sesquicentennial. cele-
brations •in 1992 and solving the
waste, management site problem.
• While the township has a good
road system, Tomes says council
needs to look at a new road depart-
ment building and expansion of the
present office facilities.
In her invocation and'praycr, Rev
Deborah Carter of Centralia United
Church also called for.co=operation
by councillors in making the town-
ship a better place in which to live.
In addition: to making appoint-
ments to a large number of hoards
and committees, council appointed
Tomes to the Exctcr and arca fire
hoard, Garry .Baker to the Grand
Bend and arca fire hoard, Pat
O'Rourke, Baker and Bill Weber to
the Stephen fire board and Gary Ea-
gleson, Wchcr and Baker to the
-Dashwood and area fire board.
• Approval was given to repairs to
co-operation
the Lewis -Regan and Colwell, Cro-
nyn and Isaac municipal drains in
McGillivray township.
Council supported a resolution
from the Rural Dignity grhip as
thcy.attcmpt to keep rural post of-
fices throughout the province open.
Due to requests from a number of
ratepayers, clerk Wilmar Wein was
instructed to investigate with Belt
Canada and the Hay Municipal Tele-
phone System for free telephone
dialing between Cirand Bend and
Crediton and Parkhill and Crediton.
Councillors P:at O'Rourke :md
Clary Eaglcp'on will he rcpresc ntnag
the "township al the 1989 convcn-
ti0n,of the Association of •Munici-
palities•of Ontario.
New Osborne council meets
LISBURNE - Stora- property at Pan Lot 8. Southeast
hers of Ushorne council -moved into- boundary concession was given
an in camera session soon after be- third and final reading. .
ing sworn into office to discuss a '
legal •matter with lawyer ,Randy ,
Evans of thc•Exctcr law firm of
Little and Evans. • ,
' • Next on the ,Agenda Were Ross and
Joyce Cartcr to present council with
the deposits required as pan of their
development agreement. Thc Car-
ters were advised that building plans
most meet with the approval of the
township's chief planning official.
A bylaw authorizing the execu- App revel was writing
tion of a development•agreeinent be -
off $541.63 in uncollcctable 1988
twecn Ronald Ross Cance and the
township was passed. taxes:
A` bylaw establishing site plan The agreement between the town
Control for rezoning Gerald Francis' ship and Lloyd Davis was cancelled
in her report on pay equity, clerk
Sandra Strang recommended that the
committee be reduced in size from
the entirc.councit plus department
heads to two members dimwit
plus the clerk and road superinten-
dent Ken Parker. To avoid the.high
cost or consultant fees, council sug-
gested that a suinnter student be
hired in 1989 to assist with prepara-
tion of a pay equity plan.
alter Davis advised council he could
no longer pick up scrap metal free
of charge. John Zuhic Limited of ,
LondorrI, tatcd his wlllin*1css to.
take the scrap at• no •cost' to has=
borne.
Acting on a complaint 'from Dor- .
othy Hem about the need for irn-
ptovem^nts to the y -intersection on
the Usbornc-Riddulph boundary
road, the road superintendent was
asked to contact the comity engineer
for recommendations.. • . •
,The municipality' will provide a
township flag for the •Kirkton-
Woodham community centre. •
Assignment. to the y0ridus.com-
mittces -will be made at the next
regular .teeing on pcccmbcr 20.
Spirit of Christmas
Ught Advent Candles I- Crystal Knee ` igh'ts`tate 'til
rteAtivents-onactle:..at„CPnt_6;,,i ,t )nited Church; Sunday1
Nativity scene - Rehearsing their parts for the Christmas presentation. at Exeter Pentecostal Tabernacle
are star Julie Mann. Joseph Don Purdham; Mary Kindi Tuck, three Oriental kings Danny Nagel (back- left):
Bryce Dayman and.Luke Stahl, and shepherds Mark Stahl and Tim Robinson
Animals hit in area accidents
• EXETER - Animals were in-
volved in two of the six motor vc-
hicic accidents investigated this
week by officers of the Exctcr de-
tachment of the Qntario Provincial
Police. . • .
Monday , December 4_ at 6.50
a.m. Robert Hawke of Dashwood
was southbottnd on Highway P
when a drag ran in from of him.
Damage to the vehicle was mcxicr-
ate. •
• Sunday evccning, December) I.
Allan Regicr'of RR 2,.Zurich was
northbound on Concession 12-13 of
Hay township when he came upon
some stray cattle on the roadway.
1-k was unable to stop and hit one
of the animals. Damage to the vchi-
cle was listed as severe.
The same day at 10.40 a.m.,
damage was listed as light in a mi-
• nor mishap at the intersection of
Victoria and King streets in Credi--
ton involving a vehicle driven by
John Pritchard, Creditor)/ and a
parked vehicle owned by John Hoxl-
. gins. Exctcr. Slippery road condi-
tions were responsible.
Saturday at• 11.45 a.m, vehicles
driven by.l redcrick VarrOsch. RR
.2, Crediton and John Harrigan, RR
3, I.ucan were involved.in a mishap
.on'Portland streetin('cntralia.
• A vehicle driven by Kimberley
Colwell, London ,was northbound.
:on Ifighway 4 at -4;40 p.m., Satur-
day when it slid off the highway
into the ditch. Damage was light;
Victor Boyko of Waterloo was
treated for minor injuries and re-
leased from South Huron Hospital
after his vchicic struck a patch of
icc on I lighway 4 at 6.30 a.m , Fri-
day and was involved in a collision
with a tractor- trailer unit operated
by David Soudant of Hensall.
. During the weck,officcrs investi-
gated 31 general occurrences. in-
•
chided in chargcsiaid were 38 under,
, the Highwa.x Traffic Act, six Liquor
Licence Act charges , one impaired
driving charge and 'rnc driving sus-
pension of 12 hours was issued. •
THE R.i.D.p:. program is flow
in effect by officers of. the Exeter
OPP detachment and the Exeter
town police department. _ -
,Kcmemher to reduce speed w hen
faced with poor road and. weather
conditions. Also fasten that seat-
belt.
Exeter OPP officers have lately
investigated a number of accidents
whcrc people have been needlessly
injured because they were not wear-
ing seatbelts:. - As a result -starting next week,
no seatbelt warnings.will he issued:
if yew are not wearing your seatbelt,
yon will he charged. Buckle up and
save the expense and possibly your
hfc. .
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