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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-12-14, Page 1 (2)OOP • ARC HAS OPEN HOUSE — This past Thursday and`Friday sow ARC Industries in Dashwood throw their doors open to the public. While GloriaChambers looks on, Pearl Miller of Dashwood fills out a ticket on one of the draws at the open house. Staff photo attirr- • SEVERAL SIGNS — One of the many products which ARC Industries in Doshwood manufac- tures is custom designed signs. Showing Mr. and Mrs. George Cro3'6ie of Grand Bend the several types of signs available during last week's open'house is Com Deline. Staff photo Many building inspections Village gets breakon rate "Good pews" was the way Hensall Reeve Harold Knight described the letter from the ministry of the environment which stated the rates for the sanitary .sewers would remain con- stant for the next three years. The village will continue to be charged 61.8c per 1,000 gallon flow. Knight attribdted the lack of an increase to the number of people who have hooked up to the village sanitary sewer system. - The discussion then turned to the low rates which the village charges for services with Hensall having the lowest hydro rate in Ontario. Hensall's broad industrial base is the main factor in the low hydro rates, Knight stated. - Referring to the storm sewers which are being installed, Knight said tax- payers could expect an in- crease of around $35 to pay for the sewers, In other business, council: Will arrange a meeting between Willard Buchanan, Hensall Motors, the Ontario Provincial - Police 'anti council 'to resolve th"e parking and snow removal problem in front of Buchanan's property. Authorized arena manager Roily Vanstone; clerk- tr't'asurer- Betty. Oke and Reeve Harold Knight to attend-a—meeting with of- ficials of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario with regards to advertisements for functions with special occasion -permits. ( I Will allow Russell Gold- stein to remove a tree -ad- jacent to right- of way of his business. Council will ask Goldstein to replace the tree with a barrier to prevent traffic from traversing on the lawn on property owned by Mrs. Sharon Fink. Commission relents, will follow orders Members of the Exeter Public Utilities Commission appeared to be still con- vinced that Ontario- Hydro wields too much control over the operation of Utilities. but agreed at a pecial meeting Thursday to follow Hydro's suggestion regarding the accounting procedure to be followed in the recent $18,000 renovation to the local office. Following the advice of a now, retired Hydro accoun- tant. the PUC had taken the funds for the renovations out of the water department. although the building is own- ed by the hydro department. George Brunet, manager of marketing for Hydro's western region, said in 'a lettet to the Commission on November 14 that the finan- cing had been done im- properly and made a recommendation that the 118,000 be considered as an advance payment of rent from the water department to the hydro department. Following the use of some descriptive words such as "assinine, absurd and hogwash". Commissioners Bruce Shaw and Chan Livingstone presented a. tion that the letter be filed with no action. although offering Hydro an opportuni- ty to discuss the matter with them more " fully ifs they wished. • • • Hydro accepted that offer on Thursday when Brunet accompanied Hydro of- ficials 'Tom Moran and Bob Sunley to the special meeting with Com- missioners Livingstone. Murray Greene and Shaw's replacement. Mayor Derry Boyle. PGC chairman Livingstone.said they found it difficult to understand the policies and said the matter seemed like a rather minor problem. , Brunel agrecld. suggesting "it couldn't rightly be called a , problem" but rather Hydro officials were only anxious that the proper ac= counting be undertaken regarding the project. He emphasized that he Please turn to page 3 ' Passed a bylaw to allow for the erection of a stop sign atthe corner of Richmond and Brock streets. Learned that- building inspector Herman Van Wieren had issued building permits totalling $13,100 and had made 15 inspections for the month of November. • Stolen car is damaged Three accidents were investigated by the Exeter OPP this week, the driver's - identity being known in only one of them. On Saturday, a vehicle driven by Terry Luther, fiuron Park, went out of control on . Huron Road 21 south of the Crediton Road and struck a hydro pole. Damage was estimated at $700 and Luther sustained minor injiries. Over the weekend, a vehicle.. owned by David Piercey, Huron Park, was struck by an unknown vehicle while parked in his laneway. Damage was estimated at $275 by Con- stable Al Quinn. A vehicle owned by Kenneth Smith, St. Lawrence Ave:, Huron Park, was stolen from his laneway and recovered on sideroad 20 east of - concession 6-7 of Stephen Township. Damage to the stolen vehicle was estimated at $1.000 by Constable Don - Mason, The front end had struck' a ditch bank and the vehicle rolled onto its right side. Santa will get enthusiastic welcome, Saturday While absence may make the heart grow fonder. 'a near absence can almost ac- complish the same feat. At least that's the way things look for Saturday's Sap\,. taus parade, llE'paradg was- cancelled in November due to a lack of interest. but the Exeter Lions and ,a groupof con- cerned citizens dcided it should be held and apparent- ly their enthusiasm has generated a similar attitude on the part of area' organizations and firms. Mike Williamson said this week there. were already 40 floats entered and more are expected before the event heads off from Snell Bros. Ltd. parking lot at 1:00 p.m. The parade will make its way to Huron St. and then back up Main to the South Huron sec centre, where • Tuckey Beverages Ltd. will be providing free skating and treats for the children. Williamson said the response has been "fan- tastic" and cited the entry by the local. senior citizen group as one example of how people in the community •have rallied to make certain the event is a success. Most local. organizations , are • entetinq floats, along gimes Serving South Huron, North Middlesex One Hundred and Fifth Year with businesses in Exeter. • There are several coming from Hensall and the Lon- don Shriners will be on hatid with their dune buggies. -CFPL has promised,a float along with some .per- sonalities and Union ,as will have their arwa�ys- popular entry in the lineuo. The highly acclaimed girls" band from Seaforth District High School will participate. aa will the s.Seaforjh-Dashwood band. Williamson noted that pea' ple who have not submitted their entries al • yet can - merely show up ptior to the parade time to be included. dvocate & North Lambton Since 1873 EXETER, ONTARIO, DECEMBER 14, 1978 Price Per Copy 25 Cents Competitor decides to withdraw • Tinney acclaimed warden Hay township Reeve Jack Tinney was acclaimed warden of Huron county at council's inaugural meeting, Tuesday. Tinney's opposition, Reeve Ifarold Robinson of Howlck township withdrew just prior to Tinney's acclamation* - The Howick reeve said in his tours throughout the county it was obvious Tit}ney had strong' support. -The Hay farmer arid father of_eight becomes the first reeve from the township to assume the warden's position since 1955 when Earl Cmpbell held the post. his was Tinney's second try at the highest position in the county losing to Goderich- Jack Tinney township reeve Gerry. Ginn last year. The declared "swamp boy" expressed concern earlier in the month that his . fight with Claire Diechert for the reeve's. job . may have hurt his chances at the county job. Tinney said the warden's position would in all likelihood be his last stop in politics. . Tinney, a 16 -year veteran of township council four as reeve, said: '"I don'Uhave too much knowledge or loo much ability but I'll do my best." Tinney said in his ac: ceptance speech that county council makes decisions, not the warden.. "1 do not plan any major changes as chairman of county coun- cil." . Retiring warden Ginn urged new councillors to become involved In debates because it , promotes good government. "If you've got something oh your mind, for goodness sake say it." Ginn'also urged council to seek -ways- of correcting inequities in the county property tax. assessment system. He repeated his stand that . the 45 -member council is foo large and needs to be streamlined. - Tinney said later he isn't planning to steer council in any direction on property tax reform. "It's something we are going to have to study because it's a very deep and complex subject." Student is charged after dorm flooded A student at Centralia - College of Agricultural Technology has been charged with mischief as the result of $1,000 damage caused to the college early Thursday morning. - A fire hose was turned on and some 2,500 gallons of water flooded three floors in the men's dormitory. Michael Alain Turcotte, 189 South Rockwood Ave., Thunder Bay, has been charged and *ill appear in Exeter court on January 9. A St. Marys man is also scheduled to appear on that date to face a charge of pulling a false fire alarm at the Dufferin Hotel in Cen- tralia recently-. Charged is 36 -year-old Gordon William Bieber. Two other area men have been charged with the December 1 theft of •a snowmobile owned by Randy Campbell, RR 1 Exeter. It was taken from the parking lot at the. Hensel] Hotel and found later abandoned in a field. The machine was out of - gas. - Charged with the theft are Robert Whitman Lawrence, 18, Huron Park, and Steven Venner, 20, -Hensel!. They are scheduled to appear in Exeter court on January 9 also. The charges were laid by OPP Constable Bill McIntyre following in- vestigation into the three incidents.• • RESOURCES MANAGER WELCOMED -- During Friday's.annaol meeting of the Ausable`Bayfield Conservation Authority newly appointed rcisources manager Bill Mungall was welcomed. Above, iharter Authority.' member Freeman Hodgins welcomes Bill Mungall. In the 'centre is Exeter rept sentative on the Authority Si Simmons and 1 the right is chairman Roy Westcott. ' . i , T -A photo .He also didn't think council would reconsider structural revamping this year. Tinney said he was a member of the committee which studied reducing council's mem- bership a few years ago and "I feel it isn't the complete answer." Council met again yesterday to establish standing committee$. V SPECIAL AWARDS — Three Candy Stripers at South uron Hospital were honoured Tuesday foi;.lepgthy,ser_vice. Above, Can- dy Striper convener Mary Fisher presents o 400 hour award to Donna Stewart and cops to JanerShapton _and .t.eaore Coates' for completing 300 hours eoch. Trustees consider expenditures to replace vacational equipment Huron County Board of Education trustees didn't want 10 get involved in a tliiy now pay Later scheme Monday night because they were concerned they wouldn't be able to pay later. Trustees were hedgy about hpproving a recom- mendation to set aside about $75,000 to replace outdatedor worn out vocational equipment in the county's high schools. The recommendation. was made by an ad hoc committee set up to in- vestigate complaints from teachers that equipment in vocational classrooms was badly . in- need of repair or replacement. Complaints have been coming to the board for two years and a committee composed of four trustees, high school prin- cipals, school department heads and teachers toured the.classrooms and came up with several recom- mendations far the board. Board member -s recognized the problem and agreed something had to be done 'about ,it hut couldn't agree on its priority`. Some argued that it would be foolish for the board tode- cide now to spend that kind of money on equipment replacement without knowing what impact it would have on other ex- penses in the budget. They felt that if the board made equipment replacement a top priority it may find later - in 1979 that another serious -- problem exists in another subject area and will not be able to deal with the situation because of finan- cial- restrictions. "I agree with she recommendation but I sometimes wonder if we're not making a mistake pouring all this money into all the schools," said Zuri trustee Herb Turkheim. He added that the board could take a look at the problem 'and consider concentrating its efforts on Clinton and Wingham. He said the other shops may be closed allowiffg the board to "do a better job than it is now" by putting that much niore in the two schools. ' The committee wanted the board to recommend to the budget 'committee that 86 per pupil be set aside in 1979 to purchase replacement equipment and . that the money be allocated by principals in each school. It also recommended that 850,000 bre alloted for repair, replacement or additional vocational (tecEipical, com-. mercial, family studies and music 1 equipment in .1979 and that an additional 825,000 be set aside for purchase of eq eent in non -vocational are The committee wanted vocational equipment to include audio - ' visual equipment, furniture, of: (ices, physical education, science and other areas and also wanted the board to meet its high school prin- cipals in the future to discuss budget concerns. The recommendations would require a total ex- pense of 8102,600. Of that 127.600 would be generated by the 86 per pupil formula and the remaining 875,000 would be earmarked by the board. • Committee members, Marion.. Zinn of Ashfield • township. Eugene Frayne, separate school trustee, John Henderson of Seaforth Blease turn to page 3 istrict girl third farm competition Area youths given conditional discharge Six Crediton youths in- volved in mischief incidents on Hallowe'en appeared in Exeter court. Tuesday. for sentencing. having previous- ly pleaded guilty to the charges. All six were given con- ditional discharges and plac- ed on probation.for a period of one year. by Jddge W.G. Cochrane. They were also ordered to make restitution for the damage, which amounted to over 8500. ' They were given one year., to pay. A pre -sentence report in- dicale8.none of the youths had been in any major trou- ble prior to the October 31 incidents. Five of the youths faced' two, charges each. They vete James Ronald Baird and Bryan Geiser. Crediton: • Earl Royal Pfaff. Ervin H. Pfaff and Daniel G. Galloway. all of RR 1. Crediton. • ' The sixth youth. Andrew J. Nedza. faced only -ole' charge. Galloway also pleaded guilty to a third charge read on Tuesday, involving an in- cident on October 31 when a brick was thrown through a soft drink sign. causing damage of 8170.79. The court learned that restitu- tion had been made and Galloway was given' a con- ditional• discharge • with probation. • • An Exeter resident. Christopher Randall Latouf. was given a conditional dis- chargeand placed on.proba= tion for six months after. pleading guilty to. the theft Pjease turn td pagee3 The six coritestants in the Southwestern Ontario Farmer's Daughter contest could be excused if they got cold feet or a case of the shiveitt.during Tuesday's competition. After all, it isn't easy giving a speech, answering judges' questions and milking a cow without your coat on in -winter weather. But the girls managed it with a smile, and at the competition's end 21 -year- old Carolyn Adams of RR 4, Denfield, was crowned winner. Her reign got off to an auspicious beginning when one of the two cows used in the milking portion .of the contest decided to take a bite out of her bouquet -of roses outside city hall. ' The contest, sponsored by Silverwood Dairies Ltd. in recognition of its 75th an- niversary, is open to daughters of dairy farmers throughout Ontario. Carolyn \received 8300. First runner-up was Cheryl Anne , West, 18, .of RR 1, Lakeside, -who received *125 and second runnerwp, Helen Muller, f7, of RR 1 Crediton, received 875. All prizes which are educational scholarships were donated by Silverwood. - The_three wines now will enter tate provincial contest do beheld later this month in Mississauga. To take,pall in the co petition, the girls had to be between 15 and 21, years old, come from a dairy farm, had tb be non-smokerb and write three short essays on being a dairy farmer's daughter and ' living in the country. • During Tuesday's com- petition, the six were required to speak for two minutes on how a farm upbringing -has helped her get high on life without the use of drugs. The three finalists also were asked to ' HELEN MULLLR speak for one minute on the advantages of living in the country-- The ountry--The girls also were judged on their personality , and poise while making the speeches and daringshort conversations with the three judges. During the milking portion they were .required to fill a small glass milk bottle 'with - as much milk as possible in one minute.