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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-01-09, Page 14 (2)4 Pogo 14 Times -Advocate, January 9, 1975 Council concerned over vandalism in the village The problem of extremely malicious damage to property in the village was one of the main topics of discussion at the inaugural meeting of Lucan Council Monday night. Councillors expressed concern that youths of the village had done so much damage in recent weeks to personal and town property. The village will un-. dertake a program of informing parents of teenagers of the willful and malicious damage that is being done by vandals and have taken steps to make sure that offenders are prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Council resolved to send a letter to Lucan OPP Chief. •Sargeant Sid Daley asking that police keep an even closer watch and that all efforts be con- centrated -to apprehend the vandals. It also was decided at the inaugural meeting that Frank Street be given first priority under the program of street 'repair for the coning year. Council decided to engage an engineer to do a feasibility •and cost study for Frank Street. Council hoped that Frank Street, including' replacing of existing water mains, leveling, paving, curbs and sidewalks could be completed within the year if an early start is made. It was also agreed that Market Street would be given second priority with a possibility of starting the digging in 1975 if sufficient funds . are available from government subsidies. Garry McFalls and Harry Wraith were appointed to the drain and sewer committee and Norm Steeper and Larry Hotson to the streets and roads com- mittee. Parks will be under the supervision of Steeper and Peda.cal4 Mrs. Catherine Fischer spent New Years with Mr. & Mrs. Bill Varga and Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Stanlake at the Family Paradise Trailer Camp, north of Mitchell. New Year's guests with Mrs. Percy Wells included, Mr. & Mrs. Roderick McFee of Kitchener and Mr. & Mrs. Albert Trow•hill and their grandson Larry Beenstra. of Tillsonburg. Mrs. Mable Capes and Mr. & Mrs, Bob Kernohan of Forest were Sunday guests with Mrs. Eldon Hodgson. Mr. if Mrr Harry Zinn. RR 1 Bright. and Mr. & Mrs. Brian Zutzi of Stratford were- Sunday • - guests with Mrs. Frank Stanley. Mrs. H. B. Langford called on Lucanites at the McCormick Home on Monday. leaving a box of homemade candy for each of them. Mr. & Mrs. Norman Steeper and David. and Mr & Mrs. Paul Dykeman, Marjorie and Dalton have returned from a two week holiday in Florida. When Mrs. Frank Stanley sold her farm on Con. 16 of London Twp. to her son-in-law, Wm. Bond, she reserved a plot of land at the back of the farm. facing on Highway 7 for a house and gar- den. as did her two neighbours. Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Stanley and Mr. & Mrs. Jack Ryan. Mrs. Stanley moved into her new home before Christmas. Mrs. Frank Hardy, Sr., has visited with the members of her family over the holiday season. Rev. & Mrs. Ray Brewster and Stephen, have returned from spending Christmas with his parents in St. John's, N.B., and s%ter in Halifax, N.S. and New., Year's with her father in Clevelan8, U.S.A Mrs. Frank • hardy Sr.. Mrs. Clarence Hardy and Cherie were Thursday guests with Mrs. Ted Beadle, Llderton (nee Julie Hardy) . Bruce Currie is returning this week to Vancouver where he is the owner -manager -instructor of the Currie Karate Institute. Bruce has been spending the past three weeks with his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Howard Currie. • Hotson and McFalls and Wraitt will act as Industrial Spokesmen Norm Steeper was reappointed as an elected member •to the Planning Board for a term of one year.. Harry Wraith, chairman of the arena .board for the past three years and a member of the board for seven years, indicated that he would not stand for the board this year. Regret was expressed by Reeve Ivan Hern and councillor Larry Hotson. Appointments to the arena board were tabled until next meeting, in hopes that Harry Wraith would change his mind. Reeve Ivan Hearn was ap- pointed as representative to the Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority and indicated that he would be running for vice- chairman of that body in the up- coming election of officials. Norm Steeper and Harry Wraith were appointed ' as a committee to study employees -and council members salaries and to negotiate raises with them. They are to make a report at the February meeting. There will be a joint special meeting of the council and the planning Board next Monday, January 13 to discuss subdivision( plans brought before the board. P second special meeting will he held on Monday, January 23 for those two bodies to meet with interested parties and with the engineer and planning con- sultant. Fruit farmer heads board Patrick Crunican, 44, aLondon Township fruit farmer., was elected chairman of the 1975 London & Middlesex Separate School Board. on Thursday. the tirst county representative to hold that position since the Board's inception in 1969. Ile was a former chairman of !he St. Patrick's School Board. Lucan. and was vice-chairman of the present board in 1974. The C'runicans have two children at St. Patrick's with another starting in September' and two.at Medway. Mr. Crunican wishes to thank everyone who has supported him during his years on both boards. Pat Crunican Lions host area farmers Farmers' Night was observed at the Lucan & District Lions Club supper meeting on Monday evening in the lower hall at Holy Trinity Anglican - Church, Twenty-four members• of the farming community, plus the male members of the Junior Farmers listened with interest as Glen McCann, Farm Representative for C.I.L. Ipoke on "The Food Crisis". • He challenged the farmers to find better production methods and warned • of political in• terference'in giving foreign aid. Bill Haskett, President of the Jr. Farmers spoke briefly outlining their current project. 'the paving of the tennis courts at the Arena. Luccin and district news Phone 227.4714 �. Correspondent: Mrs. M.H. Hodgins NEW COUNCIL — The 1975-76 council was inaugurated at the January meeting pn Monday night. From left they are, Harry Wraith, Norm Steeper,"clerk Mrs. Gibson, Larry Hotson, Gary McFaIIs and Reeve`Ivan Hearn. T -A photo. Irish end year with win, start over on sour note By MIKE WRAITH The Lucan Ho-Jo's split a pair of Intermediate 'C' games over the past week losing 7-3 to Point Edward and then defeated Watford. the league leaders, 7-5. Against Point Edward the' Lucan power play resulted in four Point Edward shorthanded goals as the visiting team was never really threatened. Bob Evans led the.. Ho-Jo's offensively with a pair of goals while defenceman, Don Hen- derson, added the single marker. Monday. Watford. who has now lost only three games, two of them at the hands of the Ho-Jo's were defeated 7-5. In the first period it looked like Lucan would run away with the game as Ton. Hodgins scored three consective goals for a 3-0 first- period fed. Bob Evans then'scored the ft st of his three goals early in the second before Watford struck back with five quick goals for a 5- 4 lead. However, Lucan fought back in the third and went ahead 6-5 on goals by Jim Hearn and Evans. Evaps' then scored an in- surance goal late in the game with the Watford goaltender 'pulled in favour of an extra at- tacker. Lucan goaltender. Don Stewart, played well in the Lucan net as Watford outshot Lucan, especially by a wide margin in the second period. Junior 'D'• The Lucan Irish ended the 1974 schedule on a happy note but started 1975 on a sour one. December29,thelrish travelled to Strathroy for the last• meeting during the regular season and the Irish came home with a 5-3 victory over the home team. Strathroy opened the scoring only to have the Irish tie the score near the end of the first period with Ron Funston scoring after taking a pass from Brian McNeil. Mike Wraith scored the lone goal of the second period with Craig Corman assisting. Early in the third Lucan took a 3-1 lead on a three way, effort with Randy Kraut scoring while Jfm Maguire and Brad Taylor picked up assists. Strathroy then scored to pull within one goal of Lucan but with four minutes left in the game Wraith scored his second, goal of the game with Ed Robb and Funston assisting. With 1:37 remaining in the game Strathroy again pulled within one but six seconds later Ed Robb scored the final goal with Wraith assisting. Kevin Lightfoot played well fn the Lucan net especially when Strathroy had a man advantage as Lucan took 16 of 27 penalties assessed. Ask for this booklet from our representative HUGH SHELDON and B. BARON Who will be al LES PINES, MOTEL (Room No. 3), 58 Mein St. N. EXETER 235-0151 On Jan." 13 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. If you require financing to start, modernize, or expand your business, and are unable to obtain it elsewhere on reasonable terms and conditions, perhaps IDB can help you. IIEVEIIIPMINTDAWK .1032 Ontario Street, Stratford NSA 6Z3 27"1-5650 Friday night Lucan travelled to Seaforth for their first start in 1975 and were trounced 14-5 as the Irish found themselves short of players. Lucan opened the scoring just 30 seconds after the opening period when Mike Wraith scored from Ron Funston and Ed Robb. however, Seaforth came roaring back with six goals before the first period ended and then added four more in the second while Lucan could only manage one goal with Robb scoring from Wraith. In the third Ron Funston scored all three goals for Lucan while Wraith added three more assists and Robb and Brad England also /gettipg assists. Lucan netminder, Ron Steeper, had a busy night as Ill' faced 57 shots while Lucan managed 37 shots against Seaforth. Both teams were assessed 11 penalties. Juvenile The Lucan Juveniles lost a pair of games to Dorchester over the holidays In the first,game played in Lucan, Dorchester won by a 7-3 score. Brian Noyes led the Lucan attack with a pair of goals while Cecil Nickles added the other Lucan marker' - Last Sunday in a game played again in Lucan. Dorchester edged the locals by a 4-3 score. Gerald Spruyt was Lucan's top scorer with two goals while defenceman, Gord Moon, com- pleted the scoring for Lucan. Midget The Lucan Midgets were defeated 4-3 by Dorchester Friday night in a game played in Lucan. Rick Freeman -led the Lucan attack with a pair of goals while the other goal_ went to Russel Dann. Over' the holidays the midgets were involved in the Annual Silverstick Tournament in Petrolia where they played four games before they bowed out in the double knockout tournament. Lucan won their first two games against Sarnia Township and Dorchester but then lost to Ilderton and Sarnia Township, the eventual winner of the tournament. Bantam In league action the Lucan Bantams trounced the Exeter B team Friday night by a 16.0 score. Ron Glenn led Lucan with five goals while Martin Clarke scored four and Kyle Pederson added three. Single goals went to Jim Hayter, Calvin McCallum, Kevin Gilmour and Tony Clarke. Monday night Lucan travelled to'St. Thomas and battled to a 2-2 tie. Martin Clarke and Dean Densmore accounted for the Lucan scoring. The Bantams were also entered in the Silverstick Tournament held in Watford and were defeated 5-3 in the first round by Alvinston. Calvin McCallum led Lucan with a two goal per- formance while Dean Densmore scored the single goal. Pee -wee F'ritjay night in a game played in Lucan the.Pee-Wee's defeated the Exeter B Team 2-0 with Jamie Shipley and Paul Wraith accounting for the scoring.. Seniors club to meet today All the seniors in the com- munity are reminded thdt both the Sunshine and the "lfu y - Buddies" groups will recom- mence activities this afternoon, ' • Thursday, 'at 1:30. Everyone is invited to share in the fellow/NO- of the,se groups. -. Saturday Huron Park doubled the score on Lucan, defeating the -visitors 4-2. Jamie Shipley ac- counted for both Lucan goals. Monday night Lucan was defeated 5:1 by St. Thomas in a game played in St. Thomas. Bob Green scored the lone Lucan goal. The Pee-wees travelled to Watford last Thursday to par- ticipate in the Silverstick Tourney and were defeated 6-3 by the home team, Watford. Dean Scott, Doug Latta and Jamie Shipley scored for Lucan. Atom The Lucan Atoms participated in the Port Stanley Tournament and came home with one win, a 4-3 decision over Kettle Point, and two losses. In the victory over Kettle Point, Robbie Black led the locals with a two goal performance while Ed Hayter and Steven Glenn added the single .goals. No accidents yet in 1975 Up to Monday morning, of- ficers of the Lucan detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police had not been called to any highway accidents in the year 1975. Five mishaps did occur in the last three days of 1974 including one near Arva in which Lloyd Jones, RR 1 Centralia, and John Freele, RR 1 Arva, were killed. Information on the Jones- Freele accident appears on the front page of this issue. Sunday, December 29 at 1.40 a.m. a vehicle driven by Jesse `Postill, 243 Huron Street, EXeter, left Highbury Avenue, just south of Concession 16 in London township and struck a fence. Postill suffered cuts and bruises but did not --require hospitalization. Constable Jim Craig estimated damages at $1,230. At. 5 p.m. the same day, vehicles driven by Donald Collyer and Peter Macrichan, both of 'London collided on High- bury Avenue, south of Highway 7. The Collyer vehicle rolled over after the impact but no one was injured. Constable N. A. Camp- bell set damages at $575. Tuesday afternoon, December 31, vehicles driven by George Ewer, Lucan and George Ferguson, Granton were in collision on Lucan's Main Street. Constable W. R. Disher was the investigating officer and listed damages at $400. Three hours later on Highway 7 at the intersection of Highway 23, three cars were involved in a collision. The drivers were John Ervine, Goderich; Mary Hoyland, London and John Lamont, Mit- chell. Constable N. A. Campbell estimated damages at $1,175. No injuries were reported. During the week, detachment officers were called to in- vestigate 35 general occurrences. Nine charges were laid under the Highway Traffic Act and 39 Correction in Christmas visitors ' Mr. dr Mrs. John Park en- tertained the ' family for Christmas, rather than Mrs. David Park, including Betty Park and Mr. & Mrs. Dan Mayo of Ottawa, Mr. & Mrs. William Park and family of :Oil Springs, Mr. John Park, Jr., Arva, Mrs. H. B. Langford, Mr. & Mrs. Stewart park, Mrs. David Park and Jeff and Mr. & Mrs. Don Coughlin of Lucan. warnings were issued to drivers. 'Two liquor seizures were made resulting in three charges. One motorist ' was charged with driving while his licence was under suspension. NEW HOURS AT LUCAN LIBRARY -' Tues.3-5 7--9 Complete Hours: Mon. Tues. Thurs. Fri. 3 - 5 7 - 9 Sat. 1 - 5 1111((11111111(((111111((((((111111(1111((((11(11(((1111(1((((II((1111((((r111((1n1(111111((I 1111 III W(I((11I I(II: Grand Re -Opening FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 LUCAN Main St. Lucan RESTAURANT George Tsaousis, invites you new ow ner of Lucan Restaurant to drop in and say hello during his grand re -opening SPECIAL FRIDAY FEATURES FOR OUR GRAND RE -OPENING • Roast Beef • Roast Turkey • Fried Chicken • Fish 'n Chips FREE COFFEE WITH FRIDAY DINNER OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. �uuuun11nnn(mnn(uu11(111111(((11(u((11(Hann(umrunuiunlum(unr11m(nuumm�nu FANSHAWE COLLEGE Community Liaison Services LUCAN AND DISTRICT ADVISORY COMMIT offers YOU COURSES FOR FUN ASND RELAXATION REGISTRATION: Monday, January 20 from 7:30 10.9:00 p.m. at Biddulph Central- School CLASSES BEGIN: Wednesday, January 29 at Biddulph School or as indicated CREATIVE DECORATING A) CAKE DECORATING - starts January 22 B) FLOWER ARRANGING - starts February 19 C) COMBINATION CLASS 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. - Marchi 9 only CRAFTS WITH MRS. GRIMMINCK 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. - starts January 21 at St. Patricks Separate School LADIES' SPORTS NIGHT 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. 4 sessions 7:30to9:30p.m. OIL PAINTING SQUARE DANCING - classes at Lucan Arena UPHOLSTERY 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. 10 sessions $8 4 sessions $8 + $10 material fee 1 session 10 sessions 8 sessions 8 sessions 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. 1Q sessions prerequisite of A & B $18 + materials $16 $16 + materials $18/couple $18 + $10 material fee FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Alf Williams 227-4132 Norm Steeper 227-4864 Rick Mateer 453-7230 • • 411