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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1982-01-20, Page 2r } g 2 Times -Advocate,' January 20, 1952 February 2 at South Huron Rec Centre Bouton heads Sportsmen's Dinner speakers The • keynote speaker for the ninth annual Exeter Sportsmen's Dinner will be former New York Yankee pitcher Jim Bouton. Bouton who was a 20 game wiener with the Yankees is better kBpwn for his baseball book 'Rall Four" which became a best seller and revealed his Yankee mates were human beings. Bouton retired from baseball in 1970 and became a sportscaster for WABC-TV in New York where he helped Eyewitness News climb from last to first in the ratings. In 1978 Bouton did CELEBRATES 100 YEARS — Mrs. Bertha Bickell celebrated her 100th birthday at the Ritz Lutheran Villa in Mitchell on January 10. She lived in the Kirkton area for many years and is a life member of the Women's Institute of Ontario. first Tuckersmjfh taxes due Marchj5 Tuckersmith Township council moved its 'interim tax billing date ahead three months to March 15, when it met for its first regular meeting of the new year at Vanastra. Fifty percent of a taxpayer's taxes, based on last year's mill rate, will be due at that time. The township is being bill- ed four times a year now rather than twice by the Huron County Board of Education. hence the move • from June 15 to March 15 for an interim tax billing date, which_ Tuckersmith's clerk - treasurer Jack ' McLachlan. estimates will mean saving of about 110.000 in interest charges. The second installment of Tuckersmith taxes will be due as usual Nov. 15, but Vanastra residents may' have to pay more than 50 percent of their taxes at this time because of urban ser- vice charges on the final in- stallment. Council is in - REUPHOLSTER Here's Why! • Complete rebuilding • Urge selection of • Fuality fabrics ree shop -et -Lome • Free pick up and dsIlvery SPECIAL SALK OP FABRICS M. h.... Ira..�orraory M .pet Aoe .1�"eak s s•W poce and sapping . In iSs tor Da4r•yfl.ma U, protects Open Mon. -Sat. until S p.m. • 484 Wharncllffe Rd. S. NATIONAL FURNITURE RESTORERS 227.1173 686-6414 ()11' Ill II)Wt, 1.,111 coII' End of Season Sale Now on Hundreds of quality sweaters for ladies and men at savings up to vestigating the possibility of splitting these charges on the two tax bills. Council also reduced the interest rate it charges on tax arrears to 18 percent per annum as of Jan. 1, from last year's rate of 24 percent, reflecting a decline in the in- terest rate in the interim. Township council are allowed to charge a rate up to two percent above prime. Councillors scheduled a special meeting, from which the press was excluded, where wages for township employees in 1982 were to be determined. c Clerk McLachlan read cor- a respondence from Canada Valve Supply which included a list of maintenance w supplies that should be on hand for the Brucefield b water system. to possibly h prevent a breakdown at odd hours from becoming dif- P ficult to repair. The list in- t volves an estimated cost of c 1501.25. and -council held off a making a decision on the sy matter until technical questions are clarified from ''h the companies involved. ' b Council was unsure of how to respond to a letter from the Van Egmond Founda- tion. which indicated thesale of property between the Van Egmond House and cemetery was imminent and asked for council's final offer. The foundation had planned to use portions of the property for a park, but is having serious cash flow d problems. p At a previous meeting council had expressed in- d terest in the property, but d now wants to know what w residents of the area want. "We can't say no. maybe we h should do, a little more a homework on this," said s councillor Bob Broadfoot. Council wants to know if s Egmondville wants a park, • and if so where itwants it. w something no one had ever done before. He made a comeback to a major league sport after an absence of eight years and gambled everything for a dream. For two years he ate cold hamburgers and rode hot buses in the minors before he was called up by the Atlanta Braves. When the 39 year-old knuckleballer beat the San Francisco Giants 4-1 it was his first major league win since 1970. Now Bouton is writing a sports column distributed to newspapers across the United States. He is also very popular as a college lecturer talking about sports and the media and some of the funny things that happen- ed on the way to becoming a forest ranger. Bouton's approach is new and refreshing. He talks about turning. negative situations to advantage and the creative use of failure as a way to succeed. Hockey will be represented at the February 2 dinner at the South Huron Rec Centre by formes Mon- treal Canadiens great ad- ministrator Sam Polock. From the world of football comes John Preistner of the Hamilton Tiger Cats, John Glassford of Ottawa and Montreal's Glenn Weir who has been here for a number of other dinners. Joe Charbonneau of the Cleveland Indians and Mon- treal Expo Warren Cromar- - tie will be here from major league baseball. One of the premier harness horse owners, trainer and driver Dr. John Hayes will be attendance along with gymnast Kelly Brown and Exeter's own Dave Shaw, from the Kitchener Rangers. The master of ceremonies will be Father Joe Nelligan of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church and he will certainly keepthe program rolling in a humorous way. Tickets are still available from any member of the Ex- eter Lions Club for 830 each, Part of the charge is eligible for income tax deduction. Doug Knowles is ch irman of the Lion. din . r com- mittee. Rec Centre comms tees. told to set '82 priorities Committees of the S Huron Rec Centre Boar Management were advi to set priorities for 1 capital expenditures. Carolyn Merner as beard's finance commit chairperson also advi committees to check w her committee before capital expenditures a made. As the board's Janua meeting progressed Th sday, other \items we referred to capital prioriti Chairman John Py stated that the faciliti committee had gotten price of 81,000 for a garb bin for the centre. He added that the to would pick up garbage at t rec centre three times lae week. The committee felt t board could save money building a bin and eliminating a garbage pic up service. The bin was referred to th facilities. committee f priority assignment. Simon van Dam met wi the board to explain an ide fora 16 foot by 8 foot trop case for the rec centre foye He said the case would c about 81,641 and asked wh the board would be willing t contribute. He added h would contact other sport groups to get contributions Gary Birmingham sai hat since only about half he money needed for capita xpenditure was supplied b own council last year, any money spent -on the trophy ase would have to be set as priority. He suggested other groups be contacted first to find out hat they would contribute. One item of facilities will ypass the 1982 priorities owever. Pym reported that the roblem of too -hot water in he dressing room showers ould be cured by installing n additional water heating stem. Two new 50 -gallon water eaters at a cost of 8'800 could e installed. The heaters outh would be set at a shower d of temperature of 95 degrees sed (F) and the water run 982 directly to the showers. Installation would cost the approximatelx 8600. tee The more he looked into sed the problem, the more ith convinced he became that any the showers will not work as re set up Pym said. He felt the board had no alternative to ry the work as someone could or_ .be hurt by a too -hot shower. re The board passed a motion es. to have the work done. m Rec director Lynne es Farquhar asked if the board a would be interested in age hosting a Lake Huron Zone bantam house league hockey %n tournament. She said the he March 27 and 28 tournament r could be held if an hour of the he precision skate team's ice by time was rescheduled. Gary Birmingham, who is k- also president of the precision skating team said e there would probably be no or problem. But he questioned the (h alternatives to be offered a hr Cemetery at budget up e For the second year in a s row, the Exeter cemetery board ''have requested a d 12,000 increase in the annual of grant from the town. 1 . The board have asked for y' 118,000 this year, compared --- to the 116,000 received last year and 114,000 in 1980. The budget presented .to council this week calls for total expendltures of $59,435, with wages and benefits taking 853,000 of that. Wages in 1981 were 848,924. Heat and insurance are the only other major items at 11,500 each. • The anticipated budget for 1982 is actually down about 11,400 over the actual spent last year, when the board faced added expenses of a new fence, furnace and mower. The board requested that the employee relations committee of council develop a salary range and job description for the cemetery . superintendent position. Council representative Tom Humphreys noted that it is hoped the committee can meet with the incumbent and complete this in three weeks, as the position is being ad; vertised for duties to com- mence in March and the board feels this salary range and job description should be in place prior to in- terviewing. Current superintendent Albert Hummel is retiring next year. At their January 13 meeting, the board also decided to withdraw per- petual care of monuments from the fee schedule because they feel this should be on a contract basis only as no two monuments are the same in respect to size, age, etc. A draft contract will be studied at the next meeting. A summer student will again be hired for ap- proiimately. two weeks to help with planting of flower beds. The superintendent reported that the cemetery now has almost 900 beds. Plans for a new equipment and tool shed to replace an old "lean-to" at an ap- proximate cost of 82,500 have been deferred to later in the year to see if the financial situation will allow con- struction in 1982. groups with ice bookings rvnen then they have signed contracts for specific ice time. Farquhar said she would like to see more compromise on the part of -groups using the arena. "It seems like there's more time spent fighting," she said adding it was frustrating to work with groups which were not co- operating. She suggested the groups concerned could sit down and work out the problems. In other business: The board's personnel and policy committee will be seeking staff input to draw up a job description for Farquhar's position as rec director. The board asked for a request in writing from Exeter Public School principal Jim Chapman for the school to use the rec centre hall for an April science fair. The facilities committee will also be determining capital priority for infra -red gas heaters to be used in the arena stands. The heaters cost 8514 each. What is the problem? Mayor Bruce Shaw thinks there's a problem with local salary policies, but said Monday "our difficulty is we on't know where the roblem is." Salary policies have been ebated several times uring the past year and this eek council had a personnel management specialist offer is services to them to get up total compensation ystem. Lion J. Sharzer of Per- onnel Management Associates, said his services ould result in a system for administering salaries in- cluding accurate job descriptions for all em- ployees, performance re.:view system, organizational charts, job ranking and comprehensive salary and benefit surveys. He indicated it would take about three months to complete such a project, but didn't indicate the cost in- volved for his services. Council made no decision on hiring the consultant. Later in the meeting, Shaw said the consultant could possibly resolve council's problem over salaries once and for all. "Where is the problem?". asked Councillor Gaylen Josephson. "I don't know," Shaw replied."What are we resolving then?" asked Josephson, who sits on the employee relations com- mittee which handles salary matters, job descriptions and evaluations. 0 We will be closing for the season on Jan. 30 Kids today want everything done for them. I told my son he was going to have to shift for Himself. He thought I was giving him a sports car. i ,_moi • E t iytli ng'. on %ale right now al the arbor! 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