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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1982-04-07, Page 1Wan is Huron Hope program bro�den�d to aid At W s y official raunity, the Huron Board at The present nursed, acbpt0il N iM building in Daab- e - Ewen Hope Education .and the Ontario which has been in exVaajjs owned bythe South ursery School at it's new location at J.A.D. McCurdy of Community and for almost 14 years has Huron Association for the Social Services in order to moved seven times and'h 'Mentally Handicapped and School at Huron Park, Don achieve this `opt.'.' now gone full circle back to January 11 of this year the Campbell called for help in On the developmental J.A.D. McCurdy School' at change was made back to widening the scope of the class project Campbell said, Huron Park. McCurdy school. Campbell, executive o school age be or children established nursery was Involved in the official director of tW South Huron identified, but, too severely April �, n 1 and ceremonies uses I01 e Association.fotr the Mentally ha y operated two mornings der DeJonge, pastor of the 1 Christian Reformed Church, Exeter; Don Kenwell, a superintendent with the Huron board of Education, Huron -Middlesex MPP Jack Riddell and Anne Cann, representing the South Huron Association for the Mentally Handicapped. The association was for- med in 1966 and was one of the first of its kind in Ontario. There are now 123 simllar associations in the province. The..teacjNr at the Huron Rope Ntirltery is Fay Blair and bee' assistants are Mary Vinic irid Lucy Foesenek ndicapped for the present week from South Huron MIR programme: Progress School in Exeter. In January is slow but we must be of. 1969 it moved to J.A.D. persistent and work McCurdy school for three diligently to serve the mornings per week and in children who are in great September of that year the need of such a programme," Huron Board of Education woule d proposebe d proangramme ham- t iok over operation of the dicapped children over the children me for senna( age age of six years. Currently In December, 1969 another there are six who qualify for nursery started in the programme and by Crediton and in September of September there could be as the following year it moved many as 13. A minimum of to a building at RR 2, Grand six children is needed to Bend owned by the ,Order of establish a class. the Alhambra. May, 1978 saw a switch of location to the ARC Handicapped suggested the present nursery school population should be divided into two parts. This would be the present half-day nursery for . pre- school children and a full day developmental centre -class for school age chlldren. Cam' II continued, "We need the help of the coin - Aar A CYCLING STUDENT — Don Campbell, executive director of the South Huron Association for the Men- tally Handicapped chats with student Andrea Kikkert at Wednesday's opening of the Huron Hope Nursery School. T -A • hoto A HAPPY CHAT - Student Brenden Walker and Anne Cann of the South Huron Association for the Mentally Handicapped have a face-to-face chat prior to Wednes- day's official opening of the Huron Hope Nursery • School. T -A photo. Plan to reconstruct fire razed structure Reconstruction of • a Crediton building which was heavily damage by fire Wednesday night will start this week. The westerly portion of the Exeter Road Machinery Ltd. building located at the corner of Victoria and William streets has been torn down and a 60 by 17 foot addition will replace it. Fire . which broke out at 11:45 p.m. Wednesday night caused damages of 824,000 to the building and welding equipment and two trailers which were inside. Company president John Nedza told the T -A, "We Exeter student gets appointment Exeter council ratified the appointment of an Exeter student for the Involvement in Municipal Administration Program this summer. Brenda Pinder, com- pleting her first year at the. University of Western Ontario in the social science program, will be joining the town staff from May 3 to September 3. The ministry will pay 75 percent of her weekly salary of 8170.00 plus 818.22 in benefits, leaving the town to cover only 8838 of the cost for the 18, weeks. Brenda, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Pinder, has had summer employment with the Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority and the South Huron rec board in the past and in order to broaden her scope under the Municipal Involvement Program, clerk. Liz Bell said she would be approaching the PUC and other town departments to set up a sharing program while regular staff are on holidays. believe the fire started from a spark which caught in the woodwork after two of our employees left. They were working up to an hour before the fire broke out." Nedza added, "The business- which we started about a yearagoisgoingvery well and we hope con- struction goes along quickly so we can be back In business hopefully In a couple of weeks." The firm manufactures trailers which range in length from 10 to 44 feet. The Crediton fire depart- ment responded quickly to the call and contained the fire to the west side of the building. The Huron Park department was called on for one truckload of water. Crediton fire chief Charlie Browning said about 6,000 gallons of water were used on the blaze. The trailer manufacturing firm is located in the building which was used as a blacksmith shop by the late Joe Bullock for many years. Drivers cope with snowfall Winter driving conditions returned to the area over the weekend, but Exeter OPP investigated only one collision. It occurred on Sunday on Highway 4 at the junction of the Kirkton Road and in- volved vehicles driven by Gerry Reymer, RR 1 Woodham, and Peter Vanderburgt, Huron Park. Damage in the 9:00 a.m. accident was set at 11,900. There were no injuries. Travel on Highway 4 south of Exeter was halted during the afternoon when police closed the highway. Hay seeks dog officer Hay Township council amended their acceptance of the Datars-Miller drain report at their first April meeting, Thursday. The amendments con- cerned relocation of three culverts on the property of Erich Freiter, lot 6, con- One Hundred and .Ninth Year cession 14. Discussion at the • reading of the report, March 15, noted the culverts could Next- one I s f i t' �'1c i n g • .44."4.4,4`14.4444/40.4:"... ...4.1,18"41.44,m4104:44.410 NURSERY SCHOOL OPENS — Huron -Middlesex MPP Jack Riddell, student Allan Hyde, Huron Board of Edticq- tion Superintendent Don Kenwell and Anne Cann of the South Huron Association for the Mentally Handicapped . cut the ribbon to officially y open the Huron Hope Nursery School Wednesday morning. rhes Seryina,South Huron, NorthTMiddlesex be exchanged to move the larger culverts to upstream positions. Freiter had pointed out that cleaning out the drains upstream wouk overload culverts on his property. Following on-site meetings with engineer Bruce Holdsworth, Freiter had decided he did not need one of the culverts and others could be relocated, The amendments also included additional rip -rap to protect sections of the drain banks. Council also noted a six inch header tile should be added to Freiter's drains along the C branch of the Datars-Miller drain. In a separate motion, weedtoteoretexticrgitaples NO The Ontario Environ - Mental Assessment Board has given apreoval for the expansion of Exeter's sewage treatment facilities. The approval ii:elows the board's public hearing on January 12. Approval of the proposed pumping station upgrading, additional lagoon storage, aeration and phosphorous do North Lambtor>� Since 1873 EXETER; ONTARIO, APRIL 7, 1982 curdle removal was made. subject to the submission of satisfactory plans and specifications to the in- stallation of satisfactory underdraia system to Price Per Copy 50 cents bleared for sewer jot prevent lands adjacenitgthe lago oon cella. The leakage from the current cella was reported to the- . bbprd b neighboring farmer Gerald Dearing, and he, along with Dalton Fink- beiner., expressed concern that. there might be seepage from the cells 3 and 4 as a result of the proposed Freiter's four foot by 20 foot culvert. The smaller culvert will be used for a vehicle cross-over of a grassed waterway in place of the larger culvert which is not needed as a cross over on the drain. Reeve Lloyd Mousseau noted the exchange would be arranged between council and Freiter and would not be part of the drain report work. - . Council plans to advertise for a dog licencing officer for the township. Councillor Tony Bedard suggested the township try a new system by simply mailing dog tags to people in the township who previously bought tags. The owners of any dogs caught without a rainfall and added he didn't tag would then be fined. think flooding would have Rasa Fisher noted many been as bad had the pump people would deny been available. ownership of a dog if they He told council that the were facing a fine. floodingdid Councillor Dick Rau added point in the' bud that income from the sale offor the item the the licences was needed to budget which would provide fuads for a surveyam of era pay for damage done by dogsa some and for someone to ad- drains by a TV camera setup Please turn to page 2 that helps find problem areas. F}ecent heavy rainfall resulted in several Exeter homeowners having basements flooded and this week works superintendent Glenn Kells said there were some "old" trouble -spots as well as some new ones. In answer to a question from Councillor Bill Mickle, Kells said he couldn't really answer the question why some new problem areas were encountered, other than to say there was an ex- treme amount of water. In reference to areas where flooded basements have occurred in the past, Kells said a pump broke down .two days before the A-KLONDYKE DEALER - Dealer Jim Pinder doles out the cards during Saturday's Klondyke Days at the South Huron Rec Centre sponsored by the Exeter Lions. WINS LIONS TRIP — Sharon McNeilly was the winner of a trip to Las Vegas at Satur- day's Klondike Days sponsored by the Exeter Lions Club. Above, she is being con- gratulated by Lion president Doug Ellison who is also owner of Ellison Travel and' Tours who provided the trip. In the centre is Lion George Godbolt. T --A photo Still confused regarding lower grant, higher levies Officials from two provin- cial ministries outlined . assessment procedures and the basis for provincial grants to council this week, and while they answered some of the questions raised about Exeter's situation, they failed to allay concerns that the town appears to be getting the short endof the stick in grants and the -Ing end when it comes to paying appor- tionments to other bodies. The matter has been of con- cern to finance committee chairman Bill Mickle for some time and at an earlier Davis picks Exeter gal Janet Ecker, a native of Exeter and a journalism graduate of the University of Western Ontario, was ap- pointed assistant press secretary to Premier William Davis Wednesday. Ms. Ecker, 28, worked for both The Free Press and Ex- eter Times -Advocate while al UWO. She was editor for the T -A Centennial issue in 1973. ' After graduating in 1975, she joined the ministry of consumer and commercial relations as an information officer and has served since 1978 as a media liaison of- ficer and communicationF r advisor to the minister oI d environment. The appointment takes ef- fect in mid-April. • f She is the daughter of Dr. w and Mrs. Don Ecker. u meeting he noted that Ex- eter's share of. provincial Please turn to page 2 grants was declining, while -the portion being paid by the town to the county, school boards- and the Ausable- Bayfield Conservation Authority was increasing. Mickle had explained to council that while the pro- vince announced that grants to municipalities was increas- ing by 10.5 percent this year, Exeter's increase was only 5.3 percent. At the same time, the levy of the Conservation Authority to member municipalities was increasing an average of five percent and Exeter's share was ac- tually increased by 12.7 percent. The finance chairman told the three officials this week that the factors used for grants was actually costing Exeter more money than the increase the province was providing in grants. Ile ex- plained that the reduction in the grants and the increase in the levies was all being paid by local taxpayers. In thanking the assessment "You protected us from get- ting ‘worse, but didn't help us a bit." he said to Charles Godkin, from the ministry of municipal affairs and housing. Also on hand for the session were Ken Fagen and Dave Steep of the regional assess- ment office.. Fagen gave a lengthy eview of the method used to eter►nine equalization fac- ors and noted that his depart- ment only determined the igures and had nothing to do ith the grant system which ses those factors. modification to these cells. At the hearing, design engineer, Steve Burns, in- dicated he was not aware of this seepage; however, he felt that it could be con- trolled by an underdrainage system constructed at the toe of the berm at an ad- ditional cost of ap- pioximately 82,000. Approval of th e expansion was recommended by the board upon the additional condition that an adequate pregiiint of itionitoriteef -" .r-0: f 41 fluent discharge into the mate is set. . Ausable River be in- corporated into the final -Exeter council will review design stage. this year's budget at a "Having considered the special committee' session, evidence brought forth at the Tuesday, and this week hearing, the board is of the finance committee chairman opinion that the expansion of Bill Mickle said some serious the sewage . treatment decisions would be required. facilities proposed in this if members wanted to keep a application, if approved, will reasonable mill rate. system capacity to permit continued mtmicipal growth. The ministry of the.. en- vironment and the ministry of housing have placed a freeze on new subdivision development in Exeter and two= subdivision plans haveti, been turned down in recent years because of insufficient sewage treatment capacity, Budget talk • • adequately provide for the sewage treatment requirements of the Town of Exeter up to and including the design year of 2005." Apart from the concerns of Messrs. Dearing and Fink- beiner, there was no op- position to the proposed expansion of the treatment facilities. The project,- which is expected to cost 81.1 million, has not yet been given final approval by council. The project is being - considered to reduce public health .problems associated with pumping station overflow; improve effluent quality to meet new requirements; and to expand He said the first decision required by members would be to ascertain what level of taxation they think would be acceptable to the ratepayers this year. He indicated he was thinking in terms of main- taining the present rate "and with resolve this goat can be reached." • Tuesday's meeting will be open to the public,•although final approval of the budget is not expected to be made until the next regular meeting on April 19. Clerk Liz Bell advised council that the Huron county levy for Exeter is up 7.6 percent this year or 2.4 mills. BLOOMING PURCHASES - Iry Armstrong and Joe Blommoert buy daffodils from Sorority members Donna Jones and Elaine Bogart. Friday morning. The daffodil sales opened the local Cancer Society campaign. T -A photo Council seeks replacement - Tribute for Pearson Exeter council opened Mon- day with Mayor Bruce Shaw asking members and the gallery to rise to observe a moment's silence for the late Jeff Pearson, former chair- man of the local planning 'board. it was the first time council had met since Pearson died late last month. "He was -an active and en- thusiastic citizen who will be. missed," Shaw commented in regards to the former plann- ing board member. 41e said he was shocked to learn of the t death after returning from a spring break holiday trim to the south. • - \ At their meeting on Thurs- day, the planning board deferred a decision.on appoin- ting a chairman until a future meeting -and requested coun- cil to fill the two vacancies which exist on the board. . The vacancy created by the resignation of former council member Jay Campbell has never been filled. Dorothy Chapman replaced him as a council representative on the board. but she had already been a member ot• the board The only other action taken by the board of their short meeting was to indicate they had no objection to minor .-atiahces being sought by . " slid Adams and Dave Pro.' uty through applications to • the committee of adjustment. Adams wishes to extend his dwelling at :38 John St. E • while Prouty plans to -con- struct a second stores' over his once -storey house at 72 Thomas St. Council voted no objection • to the applications. Monday. 4